Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-02-27

end sister, afrer their release from LIZ
dungeon, drew near and recognized
him and yet dare not approach nearer.
An Americal Amateur recently offer
ed $l2, 900 to the municipality of Genoa
for the violin of Paganini, which is re-
ligiously preserved in the city museum
as memento of Genoa's gifted son.
The instrument was made at Cremona
by Guarneri in 1900. The American
offer was declined.
The old saying that the man who
minds his own business will make
money is not true. Charles Cochrane,
a Canadian, has remained on his farm
Tor fourteen straight years without
leaving it and has not spoken to a
stranger in all that time, and yet he is
poorer than when he began.
The decline of the English tailor in
America is announced by some of the
trade journals, and it would seem that
there is reason for the assertion that
he is no longer as fashionable as an
American tailor 1t has been discov-
cred at last that the conventional En-
glish clothes do not fit him.
Swimming baths are becoming pop
ular additions to English schools. The
school board contends that is quiet as
important for a boy to learn to swim
as for girl to learn the art of cookery,
and claims that the swimming bath
adds to the comfor of the scholars and
assists in the work of education.
From the tabulated returns Just COM
piled in the Office of the state superin-
tendent of public instruction it has
been ascertained that the total number
of trees planted on Arbor Day in the
school districts throughout Massachus-
etts, outside of the cities, was 24,166.
These were all planted on school
grounds.
Gen. Boulanger lives a curious life
on the Island of Jersey. He spends his
time in reading history and talking
politics to his followers He smokes a
vast number of cigarettes and seems in
clined to disobey the commands of his
physicians regarding wine. He is
punctilious as regards to his dress and
always doffs an evening suit for dim
ner.
1t is announced that F. Marion Craw-
ford the novelist, is to become rasi-
dent of Washington, ID. G. Crawford
is very handsome man, in perfect
health, and is known all over Europe
as an accomplished swordsman. He is
good deal above the average height
and keeps his muscles in perfect con-
dition. He will form an attractive ad-
dition to Washington society.
Mr.. Gladstone said in recent adj
dress to a workingmen's organization:
cit was not eXtravagant to say that al
though there were but 1000, 900 people
in the thirteen American colonies at
the time of the American revolt, vet
from among those 100000 of people
there proceeded at that epoch group
of statesmen that might defy the whole
history of the world to beat them in
any one period of time. Such were
the consequences of well-regulated
and masculine freedom"
Capt Christian Emson, fine old
seafaring and shipowning Dane, who
has been in this country nearly seventy
years, died in Ocean county, New Jer-
sey, recently, aged Sc. In the coasting
trade he had accumulated fortune Of
$4,000, 900. He was in the Danish
navy as youth, and remembered the
first Napoleon. II could haf helt him
nit two fingers" he went on to say,
put he had hat full of brains! If
his ampition had peen no pigger than
himself he would not haf failed.
Plucher, not Wellington. vas the man
that failed himr