Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-03-20
Judge Cooley and the Ticket ScaTper.

A railroad ticket agent yesterday,
in commenting upon the indiscriminate
cutting by brokers, told this: Judge
Cooley has way of rounding up the
scalpers that puts stop to their opera
tions in short order He does not wait
for the railroads to bring in evidence
against them, but just goes out on a
still hunt by himself and generally
goes home with his bag full. The last
time he was in Chicago he dropped in
sort of incidentally upon one of the
most obnoxious of the brotherhood and
brought him into camp in manner
which gave the other scalpers cold feet
for month.
"What can / get ticket to New
York for?" said he, leaning confiden-
TALLY over the counter and tipping q
wink to the man behind.
Seventeen" replied the broker
briskly.
"Can't you do any better than that ?"
responded Judge Cooley persuasively.
Well, the broker thought that he could,
and finally arranged to give the Judge
four tickets way down below the legal
rate
well, bring them around to my room
at the Grand Pacific tonight" said
the Judge, 81 havn't the full amount
with me-" So at the appointed hour
the broker appeared at the rooms of
the Judge. The Judge received him
kindly. Hold up your right hand"
said he casually. The broker did SO
with some amusement. "Now," con-
tinued the Judge, "do you swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth ?"
"I'll be d if do anything of the
kind" said the broker, as his express
ion changed to blank amazement, and
his hand dropped like shot.
"Oh, l guess you WILL" returned
Judge Cooley with q careless drawl;
"here's my friend, the United States
Marshal, sitting by my side, and you
will be given over to his custody if you
don't So, now, sit down in that chair
and tell Judge Cooley, of the Inter-
state Commission, all about those tick
cts you offered to sell him below the
legal rate this afternoon. l want to
know exactly how much each road got
for them and your commission"
The broker fell in limp heap in the
chair, and before he had left the room
the Interstate Commerce Committee
had exacted some information which
struck the brokers all in heap the
day after.----Miraneapolis Tribune.
PROF. MoLBIUs has proved, as lately
stated to the Berlin Physiological Soci-
ETY., that the anatomical arrangements
of the flying fins and muscles make
flight impossible. The fish simply
shoots up out of the water when fright
ened, and is carried along by the wind,
The buzzing of the fins, which has been
urged as proof of real flight, is pro-
duced when strong current of air
strikes the fins of even dead fish, and
the rising over the crest of wave or
the bulwarks of a ship is explained by
the ascending currents of air produced
whenever strong horizontal wind
strikes an elevated object like the wave
or ship.
"CHANGE of climate is what you
need" said high-priced physician,
after he had listened to all the details
of the patients case. "Change of eli
mate I" exclaimed the patient, in sur
prise. "Why, man alive, I've never had
ANYTHING else. I've lived right here in
New Eegland all my life."
In a catalogue of Mexican meteor1tes
prepared by M. Antonio del Castillo,
one mass is mentioned which was
broken up and fell in widely dispersed
fragments, portions being found in
three places at the angles of triangle
whose two longer sides were some
fifty-five miles and thirty-fve miles.
In one of these places two plates were
discovered about $50 yards apart, hav-
ing evidently formed one huge plate,
weighing more than eighty tons, which
broke near the ground.
AN English doctor reports over thirty
cases of headache and facial neuralgia
cured by snuffing powdered salt up the
nose.
The censure of ignorance is about all