Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-02-27
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There is a growing demand in En-
gland for human skin leather
The average life of an ocean cable
as at present constructed, is twelve
years.
The French army officers are now all
armed with revolvers, during the wal
OF 1870 they had none.
M. Meissonier is the first paiter ever
raised to the dignity of Grand Cross OF
the Legion of Honor.
King Louis, of Portugal, gave the
copyrights of his literary works to
charitable institutions.
There were over 25O varieties of
chrysanthemums on exhibition at a
flower show at Los Angeles, Cal.
The most interesting exhibition in
Europe next year will be the loan eXhi-
bltion OF tapestry at the Austrian Mu-
suem.
Anson Willesey of Avon, ILL.,, roll
licking blade of 50 years, was married
recently to Susanna Mccoy, Il blushing
maiden of 54.
Prince Louis Napoleon, who was
lately an officer of the Italian Reserves,
has obtained commission as Major in
the Russian army.
Harriet Beecher Stowe recently said
81 wish writers of my life would wait
until l am dead before they publish
their biographies"
Louis Kossuth declares vehemently
that he will not accept Italian or any
other citizenship, but will die as he has
lived, a Hungarian.
John Tyndall, father of the famous
scientist, was Il carpenter by trade. He
Iived in the little town of Carlow
forty-four miles from Dublin, Ireland
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the Wo
man Suffragist, claims Boston as hel
home, but spends nine months in the
year lecturing in various parts of tn,
country.
Miss Amelia b. Edwards says tn,
work of galley slave is not to be com
pared with his or her work who under
takes to extract a guinea from tn
! pocket of Britisher.
Andrew Jackson Pine, who died re
Gently at Harrisburg, Pa, had beel
chief page of the Pennsylvania Hous,
of Representatives for twenty-eigh
years. He became page at the ag
of IA.
Mr.. Lew Rosen is responsible for tn,
rather expressive and suggestive re-
mark that "A. M. Palmer has beer
connected with the stage in New Yorl
almost as long as some of our popular
soubrettes."
Monaco, to which only consuls are
accredited, has big diplomatic corps
in the rest of Europe, and its diplo-
mats display a profusion of gold lace
and titles purely for the honor of serv-
ing the principally gratis.
A wild hog was shot recently at Oak
Hill, Cal, which weighed 500 pounds
1t was snow-white and had tusks six
inches long. A pound of lead was
found in his carcas, the result of efforts
of former hunters to kill him.
The English statistics give notable
decrease in their convict population
during the last twenty years The to-
tai number of convicts under sentence
of penal servitude was 6,405 in july;
twenty years ago it was $50.
King Luis of Portugal did not in all
his reign sign single order for capital
punishment. He had conscientious
scruples against iniicting the death
penalty and so succeeded in making
it practically absolete in his domin-
ions.
The late John I. Smith. the great
Philadelphia typefounder gave to var
ious charities more than $4,000 a
year during the closing years of his
long and useful life. Everything |
have to give away" he said, 'I shall
give away before | die.
A sensible suggestion is made that
the movement to restore the monument
to the memory of Mary Washington,
the mother of the first President, shall
include the purchase of the old house
in which she lived and died. 1t is a
small house at fredericksburg.
Philip McKim, the new steward of
the White House. has given great sat
isfaction to the Harrisons. He under
stands old-fashioned American cookery
better than did Hugo Ziemann, and
can provide the president with better
pies than could the Chicago chef
Lew Wallace says the scene that
moved him most in writing ''Ben Hur''
was the one representing the hero
sleeping on the steps when his mother