Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-08-14

all DOUBT as to the truth OF nl5 StateueHts.
A few days ago Mr.. Pierce obtained two
hair snakes as he called them, and ex-
hlbited them to several persons here,
whose opinions appear to be evenly divid-
ed MS to whether they are species OF
water snake or really produced by a horse
hair. 1t requires about three months to
develop the snakes, Mr.. Pierce says.
CHARLES E. HERRrNeToN went fishing
in Barnegat Bay. He was using an
eight-ounce split bamboo rod and line
rugged with two hooks. He had landed
a number of fish, ranging from one to
one and half pounds in weight, and in
at least one instance two at the same
time. Suddenly his line went through
the water with startling swish, and in
trice the slender bamboo was buckled
into loop. After good bit of master
ful play, the catch was brought along
side and lifted into the boat. Then, to
the astonishment of everybody, it was
discovered that the catch was not one
fish but three-three fish on two hooks.
One of the hooks had passed through the
gill of one fish and been seized by a sec
ond fish. Thus two were captured by
one hook. All three were weakfish, and
big fellows at that.
A REMARKABLE specimen, writes the
London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, has recently been added to the
museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
1t is that of a portion of mans skull
from the internal surface of which is pro-
jecting an inch of the blade of pocket
knife. There is some history of an injury
having been received year before the
mans death, but nothing more than this
is known to account for the presence of
the piece of metal. No symptoms were
manifested during life pointing to the
remarkable condition of things which
was casually discovered after death, and
for upward of twelve months the man
was living with an inch of steel in his
skull and in close contact with the brain.
The knife blade had presumably been
forcibly thrust through the bone and had
broken off short. The man died of
phthisis quite independently of the in
jury he had received.
THE schooner Mary E. Anderson has
sailed from San Francisco for Crescent
City on treasure-hunting expedition to
secure 50, 900, 900 that lies at TIE bottom
of the Pacific in the wreck of the ill-fated
Brother Jonathan, which was lost many
years ago on the coast, somewhere in the
vicinity of Crescent CITY. The expedi-
tion has been got up by Peter Gee, awell-
known capitalist of San Francisco. Two
divers and complete diving apparatus
were engaged. The Brother Jonathan
piled between San Francisco and the
! North until she was lost about fourteen
years ago. She was bound for Victoria,
and her commander and a large number
of passengers perished with her. 1t was
known that she had considerable treasure
on board, and several expeditions similar
to that of the Mary E. Anderson have
been made, but the position of the wreck
was never located.
A DISPATCH to the Chicago Inter Oceau
from Melbourne, Fla, says: "Turtle
hunting is now in order. The immense
sea turtles come out during moonlight
nights to deposit their eggs in the sand.
While engaged in that duty they do not
allow themselves to be at all disconnected
by spectators. They may make as many
remarks as they choose, complimentary
or otherwise, one may climb onto her
broad back, but the turtle keeps right at
work until she has deposited from 100 to
150 round, soft-shell eggs then she COW
ers them up in the warm sand, and
slowly and laboriously waddles back to
the water. Two ladies climbed onto the
back of one the other night, and rode
down to the waters edge, when they
very unceremoniously climbed off and
left the turtle to pursue her way alone
into the depths of the ocean.
THERE exist in the Canton province
of China different kinds of sisterhoods,
such as "All Pure" sistcrhoods, "Never-
to-be-married" sisterhoods, etc. Each
sisterhood consists of about ten young
maidens, who swear VOWS to heaven never
to get married, as they regard marriages
as something horrid, believing that their
married lives would be miserable and
unholy. A sad case lately happened. A
band of young maidens ended their eX-
istence in this world by drowning in the
| Dragon River because one of them was
to be forced by her parents to be mar
ried. She was engaged in her childhood
before she joined this sisterhood When
the preparations for the marriage were
completed she reported the matter to the
sisterhood, and they all agreed to drown
themselves, which they did.
GEORGE BURDIcK, of Charlestown
Beach, is famous along the Rhode Island
shore as a rough-and- marksman.
Wild geese and ducks are his game, and
he bags great numbers of them each sea-
son. Strolling along the roaring beach
short time ago he espied flock of ducks
in one of the many little salt ponds, and
crept through the tall bay berry bushes
into range. He fired one barrel of his
ten-bore into the flock on the water and
killed eight of them; then, when they
! got up, he knocked over eight more with
/ the other barrel. Every one of the six
teen ducks was killed almost instantly.
A SINGULAR birthmark is to be seen
on a colored woman employed near Ath-
ems Ala, on the Darlington plantation.
Her left ear is shaped like bunch of
grapes, and pendant from the side of her
head by filament of flesh. presenting
most remarkable appearance. Her hear
ing on that side is, of course, very defect
i've; but otherwise she suffers no incon-
venience from her peculiar mark, which
she attributes to witch's malice. When
in health the oblong balls of flesh which
represent the grapes are firm and plump,
but are shrivelcd by sickness.
A REGULARITY of Havana is the man.
ner of delivering milk to customers.
Those who have been out driving in the
suburbs have seen cows being driven by
one or two natives. The first COW bore
on her horns from two to three tin pint
and quart cups. The first idea is that
the people must be going to picnic, and