Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-08-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| Des Moines have become so FAR lmDueu
with the Edward Bellamy idea OF CO.
operation that they have formed colony,
and hope to found a community near
Lake Charles.
IT is estimated that nearly one-half OF
the next House of Representatives will be
composed of new men. The causes
which operate to this result are primarily
desire ON the part of the sitting mem
bers to drop out of public life, and,
secondly, failure to secure re-nomina-
ton or victory at the polls.
AFRICA has now at work within her
borders 10 American, 12 British, and
~ Continental missionary societies.
There are more than 700 ordained mis-
slonaries, and more than 1000 native
preachers. 1t is estimated that there are,
both white and native, about 175, 900
communicants, and 800, 900 adherents.
THE latest move in cooperation is a
proposal by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company to interest its hands in the en-
terprise by selling each of them one or
more shares on credit. In France this
form of cooperation has been common
Tor quarter OF century or more, ana 1t
has occasionally been quite successful.
/ IL uCNCI DttI tIltu Ou lullIOuuS.
AN eight wheeled railroad church has
just been finished at Titles, in the fac
tory of the Transcaucasian Railway
Company, for use along the line. 1t is
surmounted by cross at one end and a
chime of three bells at the other end.
1t has apartments for the priest and sit
tlngs for seventy persons. The altar is
of carved oak and all the furniture was
manufactured at st. Petersburg.
THE search light is about to be intro
duced on an extensive scale by inland
lake steamers. The navigation ON the
lakes is rendered very dangerous by the
large number of shoals and narrow pas
sages, the only indications of which are
stakes and buoys which are often most
difficult to locate. With the aid of
the search lamp these can be seen so dis
tinctly that night navigation will, in
future, be deprived of much of its
uncertainty and danger.
THE magnitude of the Finnish nation
is brought into notice by the beginning
of its end ut the hands of the Russian
Government. Finland has heretofore
, enjoyed practical Independence in the
management of her own affairs. The
native press, and Finland has twenty
, SIX newspapers of her own, has been
wholly free in dealing with Finnish mat
tiers, but now there comes warning, the
first ever known, to the Helsingfors
, Hufvudstadbladet that advocating its
peoples rights, even in the most sober
manner, must stop. Finland must ex-
pect to lose all her ancient privileges.
u THE rapid extension of Russias rail.
road system through Siberia to the
e Pacific coast, and the menace it conveys
toward Chinese interests, at last has
aroused the Celestials from their conser
vatism. 1t reported that China intends
a to borrow $45, 900, 900 in this country
for railroad purposes, and that in adj
dition to the road projected from Pekir
southward, others will be laid out in
Manchooria to offset the designs of Rus
STA. The appearance of danger evidently
C has alarmed the Chinese, and from present
prospects the empire soon will be engaged
actively in railroad construction.
= THE Germans are losing no opportunity
to enlist in their service any expert il
African work whom they can secure
!, Their latest acquisition is Captain Casati
!. the Italian explorer and Emin's comrade
!. who after he has visited his friends il
u Italy, will help Emin to look after somt
of Germany's interests in Africa. Ger
., many has, within the past few years, los
more tirst-rate explorers in Africa thar
!, any other nation. The list includes sucl
n famous men as Nachtigal, Flegel, Wolf
Pogge, Tappenbeck, Juelcke and Others
and the loss of these men has been Sc
we're blow to German enterprise, for i
has not been found easy to replace them
ACCORDING to recent accounts, the ma
tives of the Chin Mountains, in Asia
must be unique. Their dwellings hav,
c no furniture; they have no laws, no re
ligion and no government except al
incomplete village system. Medica
science and surgery are absolutely un
known. Their habits are repulsive
Certain tribes are confirmed drunkards
!. consuming great quantities of beer whicl
= they brew by themselves. They, how
= ever, display remarkable mechanical in
u genuity, constructing wonderful bridge
:. on the cantilever principle. In SOM
!, tribes the sole arms are small knives anC
y bows and arrows. They are skilful ar
! ! chers, killing tigers and bears at eight,
yards. The women of all the tribes havt
>. their faces hideously tattoed to preven
;, y their being carried off by the Burmans.
!, GOVERNOR Waterman, of California
4 has sent to the Department of the Interio
), an emphatic protest against the destruc
, tion of the Big Trees in Tulare County
a which will be wrought if the districts
: covered by the suspended surveys are
opened to entry. Interest in the preser
4 walton of these magnificent trees ought
a not to be confined to that State These
!, are the noblest trees on the continent
i and the preservation of the last clumps
!. remaining under Government control i.
=, matter of National concern. Secretary
= Noble, we earnestly hope, will find i
! practicable to comply with Governor
y, Waterman's request and to close tempo
! rarily the section in Tulare County wher,
:, the giant trees are found. Congress car
i, be depended upon to enact Legislation
=, another year by which these grand work.
!, of nature will be permanently safe
,, guarded.
n AT the celebration of the quarter
centennial of the Salvation Army in Lon
don, England, recently, General Bootl
said: The Army is at work in 35 differen
countries, and has nearly 5000 corps ant
ID over 5000 officers, and its strength i
i, growing daily. There are also S5 slun
e. officers, 1873 officers engaged in rescu
ID work, 30 rescue homes, 65 food officer
Al and 10 food depots. Two Thousand
v. women passed through the homes il
ENGLAND duriuo loot yoor. M, o,,o.o r.c .,