Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS,


store to make a purchase, and as l had
always done at home sampled one of the
varieties piled on the counter And what
do you think found? Cayenne pepper
At first | supposed it was some candy
sampled two other piles that looked
tempting and from which, had they
pleased me, should have purchased, 1
found that cayenne pepper was in each
piece. In order to stop customers eat
ing candy they don't pay for, said my
companion. I tell you was mad; and
when l thought of the way in this
country, where one is asked to sample
everything unknown before buying, 1
told the clerk l didn't want the cara
mels. l understand some one is trying
to annex Canada to the United States.
Well, my uncle is United States Sena-
tor, and I shall tell him that unless he
prevents such thing shall go to Europe
and marry French prince. l under
stand that they are cheap now."
ALL New York has nothing mere for
eign than the tea wharves of South street.
Tea comes in at these wharves in great
full-rigged ships, and is unloaded for
ooJs Wy dOLcuS VI dCtlNc ultu. IL COIntS
out Of the holds In the familiar cubical
tea boxes, covered with coarse mating,
and wound about with strips of tough
cane. The mating is lettered in English,
but every tenth box is damaged, and the
teamsters refuse to take it until it has
been repaired. Two or three carpenters
are on hand to make repairs, and to them
the damaged boxes are turned over.
When the English h-lettered mating is
stripped off one sees the queer figures
and gay colors Of China or Japan. The
repairing means merely deft mailing up
of the broken boxes. Each box with its
contents weighs about sixty pounds. Of
this from forty eight to fifty pounds is
tea and the remainder packing, which
includes mating, box and tea lead. The
whole wharf is redolent of tea, and stand
ing about among the workmen are the
tea importers, their black worsted CON
cealed by logg, cool, clean linen busters.
The Siberian Cossack, Dmetree Piesh-
koff, who started November 7th to ride
from Blagoviechensk, in Eastern Siberia
to St. Petersburg, a distance of 5,400
miles, on the same horse, has successfully
accomplished his remarkable feat. Cap
tain Pjeshkoff belongs to a Cossack
regiment, and his horse is of the rough
Cossack breed, thirteen years old, light
gray in color and rather understood
Neither horse nor rider seems to have
suffered seriously from the long trip,
which was attended by no very unusual
adventures, considering the wild section
of country traversed. The horse sub
sisted on oats and hay, and quenched his
thirst with snow. 1t was noted that the
animals appetite increased with the
journey, and that he ate nearly three
times as much toward the close of the
trip as he did at the start
ELEoTRIo1Ty is now used to reduce
the dangers of professional target shoot
ing. In such sport the man who remains
out in the field, and with "brush"
daubed with white paint indicates how
far each shooter has missed the BULBS
eye, occupies post of danger. He has
often been bored through the body with
q shot as accurate as cowboys by some
excited amateur who couldn't ordinarily
come within a rod of the target. The
electric target dispenses with his services.
1t is so arranged with batteries and cleo
trio wires that the position of each bull
let as it strikes the target is registered
on similar board at the firing end of
the range Electricity is invading every
line of human activity.
THE law, making it misdemeanor
for person to attempt to take his or her
own life, went into effect in New York
September, 1881. Prior to that time the
average number of suicides in New York
| pitu 1El If ic or ha 10 of
215 per year, but the number of unsuc-
cessful attempts has fallen off. The law
was not, it should be explained, directed
against those who commit suicide, but
rather against those who attempt suicide
and fail in the endeavor. The average
rate of suicide is higher in Berlin, St.
Petersburg, Paris, and Stockholm than
it is in New York city. 1t is smaller in
New York than in London, Rome, Dub
lin, Madrid, Liverpool, and Naples.
THERE has been strike of children
employed In the sugar beet fields of Sax
ony. The children near Brachwitz quit
work because their employers refused to
raise their wages from twelve to twenty
five cents per day. In Langenbogen the
children demanded an advance from five
to ten cents per day. All the children
were accustomed to attending school
from O'Clock in the morning till noon,
and to working without cessation from
to z o'clock in the afternoon. They were
compelled to be in the fields, rain OF
shine, throughout the six hours.
THE camp-meeting seems to flourish in
India. At recent one held in Chan
dousi, northern India, it is said there
were 1900 people in camp on the
ground, beside the people who came and
went. On the last day, in the afternoon
the congregation numbered from 5000
to 1000 people, who remained for two
hours while four preachers spoke, beside
the singing. These religious meetings
surpassed anything ever seen in this part
of India before. In one day 236 differ.
ent persons were forward for prayers
ILLUSTRATIVE of the growth of the CO.
operative idea the Carpenters Brother
hood of Philadelphia have projected an
!: extensive cooperation scheme. Their
plan is said to be an arrangement by
!, which the building trades, including
everything from stone-masons to fres-
coers, shall form one grand organization
employin thirty thousand men. This
organization will make ontracts, erect
buildings, employ workmen and divide
the profits among themselves.
THE largest railway system in the
world is in England. The London and
Northwestern Railway Company is can.
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