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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
It Takes Deftness to Mend Gloves.

Every one who has attempted the task
knows that it requires a particularly deft
touch to mend rent in glove success
fully. In the picture of Hilda, the hero
inc Of the Marble Faun, engaged in
mending her gloves, Hawthorne draws
attention to the grace of this peculiarly
feminine task. The best glove members
in the world, unfortunately for this senti-
ment, are men, professional glove-sew-
ers,' who handle the kid and needle with
methodical dexterity. A rip is simple
matter with them; it is in mending a
tear in the kid that they show their skill.
The color of the glove is carefully
matched in silk taffeta or any silk goods
of firm, light quality, and in sewing silk
A piece of the silk is run on the inside
carefully under the rent so as to bring the
edges together, but not so as to show on
the outside of the glove, and the edges
of the kid are then drawn together by
almost invisible stitches, as cloth
mender mends cloth.
Properly rubbed with the finger, the
rent hardly shows if it is not in place
where the stitches are stretched when the
glove is worn. Even this the silk be-
meath tends to prevent. After little
perseverance any one can catch up this
art of glove mending and learn to do the
work with something of the skill of an ex-
pert. A rip in the stitching even may be
"stayed" with bit of silk, where it is
caused by special strain, and may be
kept in this way from breaking oct again.
= New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Chinese Justice.

In China acts of homicide or murder
committed by lunatics are rare in the ex,
treme. In that country the iron hand OF
Justice works inexorably, and the plea
of insanity is not admitted as mitiga-
tion of punishment. In the last Imperial
Gazette laborer was sentenced to death
in the usual manner appointed for the
crime of parricide, while the relatives,
whohad neglected to inform the district
authorities that the man was insane, were
each sentenced to receive a hundred
blows with stick. According to west
ern ideas, this punishment of lunatic i!
cruel; but there can be little doubt thai
the severity adds largely to the protection
of the public, as it is evinced by tn,
rarity of crime by lunatics in China
There are few lunatics so mad as to b.
altogether deficient of self-control, ant
the knowledge possessed by all Chimes
that, whether mad or sane, they will b,
punished for any crimes they may com
init, acts upon all alike as deterrent
London Standard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

numbers. For example, 81 is obtained
by multiplying together the prime num-
bers and IS, and to person of his
temperament, 91 is an unpleasant number.
1 have little doubt that persons so con-
stituted object to living in house bear
ing prime number. The unlucky 19 is,
Of course, such number. Persors who
nourish this strange antipathy are do lbt-
less of strong mathematical turn. They
probably get an unconscious pleasure
from contemplating numbers that easily
separate themselves into whole factors,
and of course miss that pleasure in prime
numbers. To the ordinary man it does
not occur that SO is four times 8, but to
the man of mathematical turn this fact is
ever present. To the unmathematical all
numbers, when casually considered, are
primes, so that true prime numbers pre-
sent to their minds nothing anomalous
New York Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Filling Nail-Holes.

Carpenters and painters have frequent
occasion to fill up nail-holes and other
defects in the woodwork of houses
Putty is the substance relied upon to do
this work, but there are objections to its
use. The Scientific American recommends
this substitute:
Take fine sawdust and mix into thick
paste with glue, pound it into the hole,
and when dry it will make the wood as
good as new.
One correspondent says he has followed
this for thirty years with unvarying sue
cess in repairing bellows, which is the
most severe test known. Often by
frequent attachment of new leather to old
bellows frames the wood becomes so
perforated that there is no space to drive
the nails, and even if there was the re-
naming holes would allow the air to
escape. A treatment with glue and saw
dust paste invariably does the work,
while lead, putty and other remedies
always fail.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
The Gear and His Titles.

The Car of all the Russias has title
that would make him uncomfortable
were there no visions of Nihilists, dyna-
mite and other scary things to disturb
his slumbers. In recent legal document
he appears as: Alexander Ill, by the
grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat
Panrussian, Muscovite, Kievian, Vlad-
vinirian, Novgorodian, Gar of Kasan,
Gar of Astrachan, Polish Gar, Siberian
Car, Gar of Chersonesus, Georgian Ear,
Gosudor of Pskotf and Grand Prince OF
Smolensk, Lithuania, Vollhynia, Peodo-
liza and Finland Prince of Esthonia,
Leivonia and Courtlandt. Grand Com
mander of the Whole Northern Country,
Gosudar of Iberia, Kartalinia, Armenian
Territory and Kabardian land. Heredi-
tary Gosudar of Carcassia and the Hilan-
gida provinces; Norwegian heir apparent
Duke of Schleswig- -Holstein and Olden-
berg, &c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Recovered from the Deep.

Dredging operations now being carried
out at Santander, Spain, have resulted
in the discovery of the well-preserved
wreck of warship of the fifteenth or
sixteenth century. She must have been
in her present place for 400 years and was
partly covered by deposit of sand and
mud Divers have brought up guns
which bear the united arms of CASTLE and
Aragon, the scroll of Isabella or the
crown and initial of Ferdinand. This
ship would appear to have been employed
as transport, and inasmuch as some of
the arms are of French and Italian make
it is supposed that she formed part of the
fortunate expedition against Naples under
Gonzalo de Cordoba. She probably
foundered while entering the port of
Santandar on her return from Italy laden
with trophies and plumber. Among the
coin recovered are some bearing the i'm
age and superscription of Charles VIII.
of France, and others issued by various
contemporary italian States.-[Cham-
bers's Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
The Most Offensive Odor.

Some researches by two German chem
lists have been brought to a close in q
somewhat ludicrous manner. Among
several products obtained by them from
the reaction of sulphureted hydrogen on
acetone was a small quantity of an ex-
tremely volatile body, which seemed to
be monosulphureted acetone, or thioke-
tone. 1t was impossible, no Hever, to OBJ
tain the substance pure on account of its
odor, which makes all other foul smells
sweet by comparison, and entities this
compound-w whatever it is--to rank as the
worst smelling substance known. In the
attempts made to purify the product, with
every precaution to prevent its escape, the
atmosphere about the laboratory was so
infected to distance of at least quar-
ter of mile that a storm of complaint
from the citizens of the town made it
necessary to abandon the investigation.
-[Trenton On. J.) American.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Rain Making.

In certain villages in the Indian cen.
tral provinces learned traveller tells US
that besides the village blacksmith, the
village watchman, and the like, there is
an official termed the Gapogari, whose
duty it is to make rain. AS long as the
seasons are good and the rain descendf
with due frequency, his office is pleas.
ant and lucrative one. 1t is not labor.
ious, and it is obviously the interest O!
all to keep him in good humor. But if,
as sometimes happens, the hot dr.,
weather of April and May is prolonged
through June and July, and week aftel
week the ryot sees his young sproutine
crops whitening beneath the pitiless hol
winds, public feeling is wont to be reused
against the SHINING rain-maker, and he
is led forth and periodically beaten until
he mends his ways and brings down tn,
much-needed showers. New York
Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
A WAVE EGG.
Novel Means Of Pumping Water at q
New Jersey Resort


Underneath the pier of the Bond Wave
Power Company at Ocean Grove, N. j.,
mammoth iron egg floats upon the top
OF the waves. In mild weather the egg
bobs up serenely, rising to height OF
about ID inches above the dead level OF
the sea, but when the weather is rough
and great rollers come rushing in, the
egg rises forcefully upward s feet OF
more. 1t cannot get loose, for it is made
fast to the pier by long, strong arms of
iron. Up from the top of the mammoth
egg rope runs, and after it has passed
over pully, it stretches on shoreward
and at last enters wooden building sit
uated upon the beach. In the building
Is pump, and the rope is in connection
with it. The pump is lifting about 8, 900
gallons of water minute, raising it dis
tances equivalent to the height of the
waves.
The explanation of the apparatus and
the work it is doing is that Mr.. n. O..
Bond, whose namesake the Bond Wave
Power Company is, has successfully COM
pleted an experiment undertaken primar-
lily to determine if it were possible to
make the ocean, by the motion of its
waves, pump enough of itself into Wes-
ley Lake to make that lake a body of salt
water. There are people living in Asbury
Park and Ocean Grove who, considering
that the sources of the waters of Wesley
Lake are in swamp lands, Judge that the
lake is to some extent health -menacing
body of water and they have for some
time wished that it might be salted. Mr..
Bond says that he will have no difficulty
in making Lake Wesley SALT and he ex-
poets to do it this summer. He says that
he is perfectly satisfied that his new
wave machine will not only do the work
which it was especially devised to do,
but he is also assured that it will be
found valuable machine for doing other
things which need to be done economi-
cally.
He says that the machine is strong
enough to work comfortably in the
roughest weather, and that it is built with
an especial view to making it run with
very little supervision. He says that the
wave egg which is in use as the motive
power of the street-sprinkling system at
Ocean Park ran all through the winter OF
16S9-90 without getting out of order, and
that its operations were not in the slight
est interfered with by the great storm OF
last September, which, it will be recalled,
was spoken of as ''the greatest storm fol
thirty years." The wave egg, Mr.. Bond
says, will be as little liable to disarrange-
ment by heavy weather as the wave gate
was.
The new machine may be used where
ever waves rise and fall, and there need
not necessarily be pier to hold 1t to its
work. 1t may be kept in place by piles
quite as we'll as by pier, for, while the
force of great wave is immense, it is
not so exerted upon the egg as to give a
shock, such, for example, as the shock
of cannon ball.
The wave egg may be made as its uses
may demand. The one in operation at
Ocean Grove has major diameter of 10
feet, minor diameter of 7 feet, and its
weight, conjoined with the arms by which
it is fastened to the pier, is about two
tons. The length of the arms is 33 feet.
Il [NewYork Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Long-sightedness of a Detective.

Whitley, the former Chief of the United
States Secret Service, had most invalu-
able gift. He was long-sighted, and
could accurately a written letter at a
distance of thirty feet. have recently
heard of man who has cultivated an
equally valuable accomplishment. He
can sit in room at some distance from a
person writing at desk and tell by the
motion of the hand and pen what the
person is writing. Most any hotel clerk
of experience can read writing upside
down. This will explain the readiness of
the greeting you receive at the hands Of
the hotel clerk, whom you have never
seen betore.-[san Francisco Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
A Curious Antipathy.

Did you ever come across man with
an aversion to prime numbeIsS For the
benefit of those who have forgotten their
mathematics, l will say that prime mum.
bers are those that cannot be produced
by the multiplication together of two or
more whole numbers. 4 man of my ac-
quaintance confesses that he has bitter
dislike to the number Al, for example.
Tho prime digits he finds less open to OBJ
lection, but e3 he dislikes nearly as much
as Al, and he has like repugnance to
II, 81, 81, and in less degree he dislikes
those numbers that arc obtained only by
TIE multiplication together of prime
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
One Good Turn. Etc.

Dying Millionaire have been much
in litigation, always successful, too, and
/ feel that I owe everything to the law.
yers. want them to have all my prop
erty.
Attorney-Ahl You wish me 10
make a will, then, bequeathing-'
Dying misunderstanding off all
my relations, and bequeathing the
money to charitable institutions. -Ne,o
York Weeklu.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
A Warrior Bold.

A lawyer gave dinner party, after
which the gentlemen retired to smoke
md chat. All at once he got up, took
down a sword which formed part of O
trophy, and, brandishing it in the air,
exclaimed: "Ah, gentlemen, / shall
never forget the day when drew this
blade for the first timel"
"Pray, where did you draw itP" said
IN inquiring guest.
AT rattle" was the lawyers re-
ioinder.-Slntmit (N. ~ Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
A Fncf Worth Knowing.

No horse need die of collie If DIR. Tobias's
Venetian Liniment is on hand when first the
animal is attacked; single dose revives an
overheated horse, and puts new life into him.
1t quite cures gals, sprains' oio Sores
scratches, sore throat, etc.
The Derby Condition Powders are used also
BY the best horsemcn in the country. They are
best Ingredients that can be purchased, and
are perfectly innocent. No one has ever used
them but continues their use and recon-
mends them to his friends.
All druggists and saddlers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Children Enjoy

The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing
effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need OF lax
ative and II the father or mother be costive or
bilious the most gratifying results follow its
use,so that 1t is the best family remedy known
and every family should have bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31
Don't read! Don't think
Don't believe Now. are you

Don't believe Now. are you
better?
You women who think that
patent medicines are a hum
bug, and DR.. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription the biggest
humbug of the whole { because
it's best known of all docs
your lack-of-faith cure come /?
It's very easy to don't in
this world. Suspicion always
comes more easily than con-
hdence. But doubt - little
faith never made a sick
woman we'll l. and the "Fa-
vorite Prescription" has cured
thousands of delicate, weak
women, which makes us think
that our Prescription is
better than your don't believe
We're both honest. Let us
come together. You try DR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
If it doesn't do as represented
you get your money again.
Where proofs so easy, car
you afford to doubt? ?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

means of putting down carpets without
the use of tacks has been invented. And yet
some people think that the earth is cooling
down and losing motion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

No soap in the world has eper been initiated
as much as Dobbins's Electric Soap. The mar
are not deceived ~. B. Dobbings PhilaieI
phia and New York. d" is stamped on every har
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

Greek is the language for poetry; French
for love, and Italian for music: but a man
with shirt collar that doesn't fit is the
same helpless being in all.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

FITS stopped free by Dn KLrNE's GREAT
NERVE REsroRER. No Fits after first days
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and trla
bottle free. DR.. Kline. hjl Arch st., Phlla., IA
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

Il. A. Rood, Toledo, Onio says: Halls Ca
tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen
years ago and she has had no return of it. It's
a sure cure" Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

Their. are said to be at least II hundred
thousand acres Of phosphate rock scattered
through the western part of Florida. The
deposits av rage zen feet in depth. and are
rich III phosphate of lime.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

A special detail of troops have completed
the work of setting headstones over the
graves of General Custer's brave band who
ell in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

Dakota has n 1 ,50O-foot well 6 inches in
diamete =, throwing 1000 gallons of water
in a minute. There are in that region wells
5000 feet deep. U31
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

The Irish potato has probably done more
to make this great and glorious country
than the average Congressman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

III woman had as many rights as wrongs,
the world would soon appear to whirl q good
deal faster than it does.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

THE American miss who marries q
loreign count hopes to become "Coun-
less So-and-so." but usually ends with
being a Miss-Fit.-The Merchant
Tr1raIer
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

Little but active-are DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Best Liver Pills made; gen
tie, yet thorough. They regu-
late and invigorate the liver,
stomach and bowels.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-31

II efiiicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp.
cons Eye-water. Druggists sell 1T 25c. per bottle
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28

The Senate then took Ut, tbs bill Of Mr.

The Senate then took up tbs bill Of Mr..
Butler on negro emigration, and Mr.. In
gals addressed the Senate. Among other
things he said that four solutions OF the
problem had been suRgested-emigration
determination, ABSORPTION and disfranchise-
ment. But there was still fifth solution,
which had never been tried, and that solu-
~ appeal to the South to try the expert
ment of justice. Stack your guns, open
your bollot boxes, register your voters,
black and white. and if, after the expert
ment has been fairly and honestly tried, it
appears that the African race is incapable
OF civilization, if it appears that the CON-
plexion burnt upon him by the sun is in
compatible with freedom, 1 will pledge
myself to consult with you about some
measure of solving the race problem. But
until then nothing can be done. The citi-
zenship of the negro must be absolutely
recognized. His right to vote must be ad-
mitted and the ballots cast must be hon.
estly counted. These are the essential
preliminaries, conditions precedent to any
consideration of the Interior and funda-
mental questions of race supremacy or
race equality in the United States, North
and South.
'.Those who freed the slaves ask nothing
more; they will be content with nothing
less. Experiment must be fairly tried
HoUsE-The report Of the committee on
elections in the contested election case OF
Smith VS.. Jackson. from the Fourth Dis
trict of West Virginia, was submitted and
recommitted. 1t declares the contestant
elected and entitled TO the certificate. The
nority report.
The House then went into Committee Of
the Whole on the customs administration
bill.
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
TALK OF THE DAY.

"a counter irritant A ssncy
shop-girl.
Voice from the cage-"The saloon.
he solemnly drawled, ais the house
that Jagg built"
Il do dislike people who say yes
with rising injection to everything
they nearn "Yes?'
If must die" pleaded the turkey,
''let me be buried deceutly. Please
don't eat with your knife!"
Not very busy.-First orange
Hello! What are you doing here?"
Second orange-''Nothing; just look
ing round"
II think We ought to have tho
tuchsia for our national flower"
why SOP" I'VE have great fuchsia
before us"
When politician remarks that he Is
in the hands Of friends 1t can generally
be assumed that his friends hands are
in his pockets
The man who pays the biggest pew
rent here on earth will not always find
The best seat reserved for him in tho
heavenly congregation.
When a young man begins to court
girl with the purpose of reaching the
goal OF matrimony. he generally gets
there by tho "belt" line
Businesslike: Young Sprigg-"Mr.
Bidquick. l am worth so. 600 and I
love your daughter" Mr.. Bidquick
(retired auctioneer) sold"
what are you pouting about John
ny?" "Billy's real mean" Whats
the matter?" II eat all my candy. and
Billy won't give me any OF his"
Nothing half way about him
Brown-"Ifs too bad about Jorgson
drinking SO. He's not half bad
fellow" Jones-"No. He's . whole
one"
Binks-"What pity that Smithers
can't keep sober! just saw him down
tho street" Jiuks-..Loaded for bar,
rs usuale" Binks-.Loaded from bar.
l thought"
A Michigan paper suggests that
John L. Sullivan be turned Into the
ring with 4-year-old bull. John has
certainly never hesitated 70 face q
couple Of horns
Know When 70 Leavs.-'Is your
cat Intelligent" II should say 90!
Sine heard me tell tho cook to have
rabbit stew for lunch. and she hasn't
bcen seen since"
Quite Natural-Mrs. Canaan
Young Mr.. Dolly dotes wildly On our
Amy" Mr.. Gazzam---'Yes my dear.
He is just at the ago when young mGp
SOW their wild dotes"
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
A Big Farming Scheme.

CHEYENNE WELLS, Colo. Jan. %.
An agent for q Chicago syndicate ar
rived last night and went out prospecting
this morning, with view to consummate
one Of tho most gigantic schemes and one
that will enhance the development OF this
county beyond even the Imagination of the
most ssnguine.
Tho enterprise Of this syndics,e is to
purchase . tract Of 1000 or moro acres of
land adjoining . school section and break
the same with steam plow in tho early
spring, for carly fall wheat sowing, which
has boon full demonstrated tho past year
can be raised profitably in this part of
Colorado. Tho doubt that has heretofore
existed - 70 the adaptability of the soil
and climate IL now completely overcome
with fact that wheat can be raised, md
on this basis this enterprising syndi-
cate IL ready 70 commence operations. This
immense wheat farm is to be improved
and beautifed with artesian wells, fino
houses and barns, an abundance Of trees,
well fenced, and every appendage, to vic
with some Of the Ono and productive wheat
farms Of California. This improvement
II 70 bo situated Cheyenne Wells, or that
10 the present intention.
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
Another Denver Murder.

At o'clock Thursday morning R.
L. Scott shot aud instantly killed Nellie
Ryan on the east corner Of Fourteenth and
Champa Streets. Nellie Ryan and her
sister, Agnes, in company with young
girl named Annie Keough, were hurryins
from their home, 1e2O Champa Street, to
the Clinton restaurant on Curtis Street, be.
tween Sixteenth and Seventeeth, where
they were employed in the capacity OF
cooks.
The murder grew out of the fact that last
March while Scott was washing dishes in
the Clinton restaurant, one day he made
an indecent proposal TO Nellie, who gave
him to understand that If he repeated ii
she would report his conduct to the pro
prietor, F. NJ. Clark. He persisted, how
ever, and was discharged. Subsequently
as a result of his indecent behavior Miss
Ryan caused the arrest of Scott, and he
threatened vengeance.