Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-11-13
fering excruciating pain. Besides being
good hunter he was great pet.

died recently aged n years. The de-
ceased about fifteen years ago conceived
the novel idea of making his tombstone,
and procured piece of slate three by five
feet, cut the apex in the form of cross,
chiselled his name, place of birth,
and thinking he would die between the
years of 1888 and 1890, cut the first three
figures ON the face of the stone but not
dying at that time, he cancelled the last
hgure and substituted and sent the
stone to his lot in the Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Flnlan was buried andhis tombstone
was erected after the filling of his grave.
ONE of the oldest houses now standing
in Main is the famous Sparhawk mansion
at Kittery Point. This sturdy old relic
of colonial days was erected in TAI by
Sir William Pepperel, who presented it
to his daughter upon her marriage with
Col. Sparhawk. 1t is stately old house,
high posted and containing many rooms,
among them parlor 20 by 30 feet. The
original wall paper still remains in good
state of preservation, and the antlers of
deer killed generations ago are still
perched over the doors of the great
hall. The old mansion was formerly ap-
preached througha a fine avenue of arching
elms, but the trees were cut down years
ago by some clodhopper who hadn't an
idea above firewood.
THE opponents of vivisection the
London Daily News correspondent at
Vienna telegraphs) will be disgusted to
hear of an experiment which took place
at the hospital of Professor Strickers
class. A little dog was made insensible,
fastened to a board, and when his heart
had been laid bare, an instrument called
the episcope was applied, which threw
the magnified picture of the dogs heart
on the wall opposite, revealing to the
eyes of all present every movement of the
heart. The experiment lasted half an
hour. According to the professor the
successful demonstration of the move
ments of living heart is of the greatest
value to the student of medicine.
A MAN in Worcester, Mass, has dog
that is only year old and of the Prince
Edward Island breed, and is the constant
companion of his boy, four years of age.
Not long ago the boy got possession of
hatchet which he had been forbidden to
touch and went about hacking things
generally and endangering his own legs.
After watching him short time, the dog
approached, took the hatchet away from
the boy, carried it into the garden and
buried it; and when the child attempted
to dig it up the dog drove him off and
lay down over the buried hatchet, effect
ually preventing the boy from recovering
it.
ALITTLE idiot girl, four years old, was
brought to DR.. Lannelongue, in Paris, and
her case for time puzzled him. She
could neither walk nor stand, and never
smiled nor took notice of anything. The
doctor concluded that the abnormal mar
rowness of the head obstructed the
growth of the brain, and in May last he
made an incision in the centre of the
skull and cut piece Of bone from the
left side of it. The result was marvel
Gus. Within less than month the
child could walk, and she is now quite
bright-playing, smiling, and taking no.
tice of everything around her.
BECAUSE of the great poverty among
the Russian peasants on the Volga it has
become a common occurrence for them
to sell their children. The police officers
of Nizhni-Novgorod were recently mott
fed of such case. On steamer arriv-
ing from Kazan was a Russian boy about
~ years of age under the guardianship
of an Armenian. During the passage
the passengers noticed that the boy
was trying to run away from the guar
dian, and as he was unable to do this,
he attempted to throw himself into the
river. The police, on investigation,
found that the boy had been sold to the
Armenian by his father in Kazan for
twenty roubles. He was released and
returned to his native city.
Miss LIZZIE JOHNSON, of Mariposa,
CAL, while riding horseback from school,
was attacked by large panther that
sprang from tree upon her horse. He
failed to get sufficient footing upon
the animal to injure it in any way, but
frightened it badly. The young girl
saw the beast as her terrified horse rushed
away.
ONE of the shortest names in the
country is possessed by Mr.. Ye, who is
Secretary Of the Corean Legation at
Washington. Mr. Ye has Just been
made happy by the arrival at his home
of little daughter, and the child has
been christened "Washou Ye," which in
English means Washington" This
child is the first born of the Corean
nationality in this country.
AN immense cloud of locusts recently
passed over the city of Allahabad, India.
The stream Of these terrible pests made
its appearance at about $50, and lasted
t. nearly 8 p. m. The sky was overcast
with them, but fortunately they did not
settle at Allahabad, though a good por-
ton of the swarm settled on the fields in
the netghborhood of the Muir village.
The advent of these pests is regarded by
the natives as heralding famine.
A MOST singular accident is reported
from Hungary. During the work at the
Innsbruck electric central station a spider,
which was busily engaged in designs
against the ubiquitous fly, climbed ON
one of the lightning protectors. This
occasioned an earth connection, and an
induction bobbn was damaged by the
breaking of the insulation. The spider,
of course, paid the penalty for intruding
into the primary circuit of 1900 volts,
but in order to prevent future accidents
the lightning protector plates are to be
closed up in glass boxes.
DIR. KoUoHARsKY, professor of medi-
cine in st. Petersburg, completed lee
ture on acids, and then poured some
drops from vial in glass.
Then he said to his class: attention,
young men! In two minutes you will
see man die. Good by to you allr'
He drank the liquid, took out his watch