Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-07-03
MISSING LINKS.
The St. Marks Railroad in Florida

The ST. Marks Railroad in Florida is
reported to have a lady conductor.
A shingle nail was found in per-
fectly fresh egg recently by farmer
near Niles, Mich.
Nine knots made in black woolen
thread formerly served as a charm in
the case of a sprain.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Alabama, declares itself op-
posed to female suffrage.
A big oil find has created excitement
at Gallup, N. NJ. 1t is asserted that
the oil 'runs in rivulets" in many
places.
There is in Berlin one drinking sa-
loon for every 112 inhabitants, but at
Heidelberg there is oneto every eighty
seven.
Shawnee county, Kansas, claiming
population of 10000, has not one
criminal case on her court docket, it is
said.
A prominent citizen of Fresno, Cal,
has started a 'possum farm. He has
procured car load of the animals
from Missouri.
Cherry county, Nebraska, with an
area larger than several Eastern States,
hasn't a practicing physician within
its borders.
A negress is reported to be living
near Sandersonville, Ga, who has
four generations of descendants. Her
age is said to be ninety-nine years.
An alum mine has been discovered
in Utah. 1t yields so to 80 per cent
pure alum, which can be extracted by
simply placing the crude material in
boiling water.
st. Simon's Island, Ga, holds the
championship in one particular at
least Some chap has stolen whole
house, 39x36, and moved it off without
the owners finding it out.
"Let me eat the mince pies of ma
ton and | care not who sings its songs
or makes its laws" says Ben Butler,
and it is the most sensible thing he has
said in ten long years.
A grizzly bear that weighed LOO
pounds was killed at Big Horn Basin,
Wyo. T., short time ago. One hun
dred and nine shots were fired from
nine rifles before the brute was killed.
A poe is allowed heap of license;
but when Mrs. Kershan, of Cairo,
threw hot water on a neighbor who
made fun of her rhymes, the Judge
said that license had gone beyond the
limit.
Persons sending postal cards who
write upon the address side of them
sin haste,n or other words uuconnect-
ed with their delivery, subject them to
letter postage, and they are held as un-
mailable.
The Philadelphia woman who died
of tight lacing was an old maid, home
| ly, and angular, and never had beau.
And yet she said she laced to please
the men. All men should chip in for a
monument to her.
A Sioux chief named Lame Wolf says
that Bill Cody is the biggest coward of
a white man that ever rode over the
plains, and William says he will have
the blood of that Lame Wolf before the
violets bloom again.
An agent for the Rothschilds has
purchased for nominal sum a newly
discovered gold mine in the Batapolis
district in Mexico. Advance rumors
say that there is $4,000, 900 worth OF
gold waiting to be uncovered.
Some one called upon the people of
Poughkeepsie to spell the name of the
town as they pronounce it-Pkepsy.
But it is safe to say that the citizens
would rather die than give up a single
letter of the dear old name.
A new dynamo with capacity to
run eight incandescent lights has been
invented by Vermont electrician. 1t
has some novel features, one being a
slow current obviating all danger,
while one light can be cut off without
eifecting the others on the same cir
cult
A London paper says that the art of
the goldsmith is disappearing, owing
to the cheapness of diamonds. The
value of jewelry now depends upon
the precious stones it contains, rather
than upon the beauty of workmanship.
Since "Little Lord Fauntleroy,n the
play, has been success, no less than
fifty stage-struck children have offered
themselves to play the part of the
hoio hno ohe ihahdSeI says tnaJ nosU
OF them were thoroughly competent
for the part.
A thief at Dubuque stole barrel of
eggs. but because the warrant did not
specify that they were hens eggs in
stead of goose or bird or alligator eggs
he was turned loose and allowed to 90
Law and common sense were always
strangers.
A diamond owned in Buffalo, and
known as the Buffalo GEN." weighs
60 carats, and is supposed to be the
largest in the United States. 1t is
supposed to be about the size of an
almond, and before cutting weighed
So carats. 1t was bought in Amster-
dam for $4,000.
WLo. J,l.z W.