Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

of the clock somebody somewhere in the
world is dying. Deaths among the
whole human family average over sixty
minute. To a man contemplating life
insurance such fact is apt to strike
home with startling force. Or, viewed
in another light, it may shake his con-
fidence in the idea that long life is a COM
mon thing, to know that out OF every
one hundred men only six reach the age
of sixty-five, and not more than one in
five hundred lives to see his eighty-fifth
year. Right in this connection comes the
interesting fact that there is enough life
insurance now in force in the regular
American companies to give every man,
woman and child in the entire world two
dollars apiece. The worlds population
is about /, 500, 900, 900, and the companies
in question carry over So, 600, 600, 600 in
surance, only it happens to be on selected
lives, averaging SO, 900 each to one mil
lion policy holders. Facts like these
ought to be full of fructifying thought to
the insured and bestir them to help make
up the second million policy owners"
WHEN the United States Supreme
Court rendered its now famous opinion
in the Iowa prohibition case, it announced
that liquor in original packages was be-
yond the reach of State control, but it did
not define an original package. The
phrase has just been judicially construed
by United States Judge Foster, at
Topeka, Kan. He holds that when
bottles of whiskey put up in pasteboard
covering are packed and shipped in a
wooden box, the original package is the
box and not the bottles. Consequently,
while the agent is free under the decision
of the Supreme Court to sell the box with
its contents, he cannot, without becom-
ing liable to the State law, break the
packages and sell the liquor by the
bottle. That, in the opinion of the New
York Herald, seems to be logical
distinction, but it cannot suppress the
bottle traffic. To make original pack
ages of bottled liquors it is only necessary
to ship in bottles not packed in boxes,
cases or other coverings.
THE S3 industries which figure in the
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Re-
port for 1890 are carried on by %, 294
partners, of which 26,521 are males and
1,760 are females, 13 being estates The
percentage of female partnership is 6.22.
In round Numbers one out of sixteen
partners engaged in Bay State manufac-
turing and mechanical industries is
woman. Her partnership is limited to 48
industries. The two industries in which
woman partnership exceeds 40 per cent.
are clothing and hair work. Of the whole
number of stockholders in the 83 indus
tries of the State 30,733 are male and
1,572 are female, 426 corporations, trus-
tees, etc. Thus it is seen that while
women are not numerous as partners they
are as stockholders. Perhaps the do.
mestic partnership suffices in most cases.
In go of the S3 industries the male stock
holders predominate. In polishing and
dresses-as might be expected-the
woman stockholder is in the ascendency.
A COMPANY has been established in
New York City to guarantee depositors
in national, State and savings banks and
trust companies against loss by reason of
the suspension or failure of such institu-
tions in which those guaranteed may
have their deposits. In case of the sus-
pension or failure of such an institution
in which the party guaranteed has money
on deposit, the company upon receiving
evidence of that fact and u transfer of
the claim with power of attorney to col
lect, pays the full amount due the
guaranteed by the insolvent institution.
The rates are as follows: For any amount
not exceeding $500, 81 per year; for any
amount not exceeding $500, S1.50 per
year; for any amount not exceeding
$1,000, $3.50 per year; and $3.50 for
every additional $1,000 guaranteed. 1t
is New Jersey institution and has been
incorporated less than year.
IT is the habit of naval officers to rep
resent carelessly that the common sailor
on United States ships is a hapless
wretch, whose time is divided between
debauches ashore and the dungeon on
shipboard. When pinned down to the
facts, however, those officers who come
most closely in contact with Jack freely
admit that he has vastly improved within
the last twenty years. In earlier days
many an executive officer made il rule
to grant "liberty" to the sailors only once
in six months. On these occasions they
went ashore in droves, and most of them
came back in sorry plight to take their
as much liberty as the officers, and abuse
it no more than the latter. The sailor who
comes back from his outing "drunk and
dirty" as the plain-spoken tar puts it, is
the exception rather than the rule.
IL the stories of missionaries be true
we may expect soon TO hear of as ghastly
horrors of starvation in Japan as were
reported from North China last year.
The rice crop has been failure in many
parts of Japan, and as this is the sole
stay of large part of the rural popula-
tion the result is misery of which for
eigner can form little idea. The great
trouble in all Oriental countries is that
no arrangements are made to meet
famine, the people with full stomachs
having precious little sympathy with
those whose stomachs are empty. Then,
too, the japanese, like the Chinese, pre-
fer to see Europeans supply their starving
poor rather than to contribute from their
own abundance. Both races are firm
believers in the adage that charity begins
and ends at home.
BY the wonderful discovery of an Italian
astronomer, Schiaparelli, it seems that
both Venus and Mercury turn but once
on their axes during revolution around
the sun. In the case of the former this
fact means that in the beautiful planet
the people-if there be people there-are
either In perpetual sunshine or eternal
midnight. 1t is supposed that the long
equatorial day is more tolerable by the
heavy clouds that cover the face of thu
planet. The atmosphere is known to b,
ope-third denser than that of the earth
The poles themselves and a small trac
adjacent are intensely cold, but an equable