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

and it singled out, as an especial object
for its abuse, Col. w. j. Nelson, whose
Office is across the street. For several
days, as the journalist entered or left his
office, he heard from the bird expressions
like these: "Look at old paste-pot"
"Soak his headl sect your hair cutw
When the bird was brought into court
it amused the spectators by screeching,
Johnny, get your gunl"
A REMUNERATIvE business is done by
little steamer which frequently leaves
Victoria, British Columbia, always at
night, with several Chinese passengers
on sometimes five, occasionally
as many as twenty. There are secretly
landed on United States soil, and the
owners of the steamer charge from $50
to $50 per head for this service. The
artful Chinese thus evade our laws, and
come here in almost as large numbers as
before we passed laws to exclude them as
emigrants.
A WATERvILLE (Me) feline has great
fondness for the flesh of birds and in
order to make her quest for the same
successful employs strategem. Evi-
IDENTIFY understanding the birds fondness
for angle worms, she collects number of
the same and buries them in the ground.
She then takes her place in convenient
place of ambush, and when the birds
alight to secure their coveted morsel she
springs from her concealment and pounces
upon them. Many bird thus falls a prey
to pussy's shrewdness.
A MYSTERY of New York is o "Nor-
wegian, thorough cook and house,
keeper, with the best of references as to
character and ability, now out of employ
ment," who has been advertising for a
situation for nearly year. Sometimes
she receives as many as one hundred let
ters a day. Several decoy letters have
been sent to her by newspaper men de-
sirous of penetrating the mystery, but
they have been unsuccessful.
JUST as John Burns, the deputy jailer
at Ashland, Wis, had opened the jaii
doors to take out squad of prisoners, he
dropped dead in chair. The prisoners,
some of whom were held for serious
offenses, thought Burns was merely rest
ing, and made no effort to escape,
although they might easily have got
away. Half an hour later, when the
jailer appeared, the dead deputy seemed
still to be on guard.
A FARMLAND on the farm of Alex.
Sturm, residing two miles south of Hunt
ington, Ind, while moving in a low
meadow, saw q large snake coil itself and
prepare to strike, when the machine cut
it into three pieces. The snake was
measured and found to be six feet and
five inches, having q shell-like covering
over each eye, and gray and yellow spots
along its back. 1t is not known to what
species it belongs.
A MATCHMAKER in Newcastle, England,
recently completed set of three gold
shirt studs, in one of which is watch
that keeps excellent time, the dial being
only three-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter. The three studs are connected
by strip of silver inside the shirt bosom,
and the watch contained in the middle
one is wound up by turning the stud
above. The hands are set by turning the
one below.
THE largest single log of poplar ever
cut in West Virginia was cut few days
ago in Logan. 1t measured 93 feet in
length, 63 inches in diameter, 1000 cubic
feet and 21, 1876 feet board measure. This
log alone is large enough to build good.
sized frame house. 1t will be run out fol-
Cincinnati market on the first water OF
sufficient height in the Guyan River.
john BIGGs, the mail carrier on the
Campbell, N. c., route, delivers his mail
to the offices on foot, walking twenty
four miles one day and thirty-one miles
next day. During year he steps over
9,454 miles, and at this rate would cover
the circuit of the globe in three years, ex-
elusive of Sundays.
A SWARM of butterflies on the noun
tain range near Plainville, CAL, settled
about the springs and moist plains SO
thickly that teamsters report that at times
it is impossible for them to see their
leaders, and that horses are often scared
by the sudden rise of large masses OF
them.
AT Dion, France, a convict under a
sentence of twenty years penal servitude
was permitted to leave his prison and
marry his sweetheart. He returned to
prison after the ceremony, and in two
years time his wife will be able to Join
him in New Caledonia.