Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11

by half-clad women and led by the
| largest and strongest dame in the village,
! The recent performance of this ceremony
has served to bring it to the attention
of curious world.
NAMING race-horse in New Zealand
was made the occasion of grand ceremo-
ny lately In the Otago district The
owner invited many guests to assemble
In the dining hall of a neighboring hotel,
and the colt was ridden into the hotel,
where a little child named the budding
racer, pouring champagne over its head,
while the assembly cheered vociferously.
The colt, however, objected to the
proceedings. He plunged about so that
he upset the table, scattering all the
preparations for the feast and gave q Sc
we're kick in the face to one of the chief
guests.
THE temple of th, w. G. T. U. being
erected at Chicago is to cost 800, 900
and to be thirteen stories in height. The
magnificent audience room on the first
floor will be known as Willard Hail. in
honor of the President of the society,
and will be lined with marble, upon
which will be inscribed the names of
noble women, and memorial windows and
busts of the women who have lived and
labored for the cause Of temperance will
form its decorations.
Miss LAURA BURNS, of Martinsville,
Ind, is probably the only woman in the
United States whose natural hair has at
tanned length of seven feet. 1t is very
heavy, and of light brown color. The
lady is we'll known in that city, and
the truth of the statement is attested
to by many of her friends. The lady is
8 feet inches high, and when standing
erect her hair reaches the floor and forms
a trail almost two feet in length.
A MARINE curiosity is on exhibition at
Astoria, Oregon. 1t consists of an Or
dinary scaweed some twenty feet in
length, and at the lower end the cluster
of roots have firm hold of an aggrega-
tion of marine shells several pounds in
weight. These shells are occupied by
curious inhabitant that has beak that
resembles a chickens, only it is divided
perpendicularly instead of horizontally.
CAIRO, ILL.,, boys are doing a whole
sale business in sparrows. The birds
iiiahO q ioooo AL All oll ChlihhCJ Ill ah
abandoned house. The boys have Sc
cured a net, and after the birds go to
roost at night they spread the net over
the chimney's top. Every morning they
have from so to 200 sparrows, for which
they get II cents per head bounty.
A FAMILY of the name of Moore, liv.
ing near Columbus, Ind, has n peculiar
and distinguishing family mark running
through three generations. At reunion
of twenty-seven persons, which repre-
sented the three generations, nineteen
had six toes on each foot.
In Habersham Park, Ca, is curious
grapevine. About i've feet from the
ground, from a large live oak, there pro-
trudes grapevine about one inch in
diameter. The tree is perfectly solid,
and no roots to the grapevine can be
seen.
A BERNEvALD Dome County, Wis.,
man swallowed large darning needle
and went to doctor to have it removed.
The doctor made him sneeze, and on the
third attempt the needle came and stuck
into pin cushion ON the doctors table.
A Wn.LIAMspoRT QMich.) man whose
well ran dry found that the roots of a
willow had grown distance of twenty
four feet, coiled up on the bottom in a
solid mass and were carrying all the
water into the foliage.
A sToNEMAsoN at Buckjen, Germany,
made bet that he could get his nails
trimmed and pared by a passing train.
The mason lost the bet and all his fin
gers.