Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

counterfeting She received a patent
| for the idea and the process, and is going
to Washington to assert claim against
| the Government for the use of her in
vention, which, she says, it began FIVE
or six years before her patent rights ex-
pired.
| The three great Indian chiefs of the
| Northwest Joseph, Moses and Lot-ar-
rived in Portland, Ore, recently TO visit
the exposition there, and created a stir
among the pioneers who had met the red
warriors in earlier days. OF recent years
these grim chiettains have been turning
their scalping knives into pruning hooks.
Lot in particular has made farmers of his
people, and done much to promote in
dustry among his tribe Joseph is the
chief whose strategy and skill kept his
small army from being annihilated by
the United States and volunteer troops.
lT is reported that an enormous amount
of timber has been stolen from public
lands in Wisconsin and Minnesota fully
20,O0O,000 feet within the last three
years-and II Government post is to o'be
established to prevent further raids The
grants to railroads of alternate sections
have led to the opening and settlement
of vast superficies, which would else have
remained in state of nature; but, while
the railroads have disposed of their land
or money, the Government, to a con-
siderable extent, has held on and been
the prey of the completed roads and
timber-thieves at large.
WACO, Tex, has an immense bath
house that draws its water from an
artesian well / so feet deep. In the
pool, that holds 80 900 gallons and is
refilled every two hours, the people of
both sexes disport themselves in bathing
costumes. The floor slopes from q depth
of two to a depth of twelve feet, so that
children are able to splash in the water
at one end of the pool while expert
swimmers take plunge at the other
| The flow of water from the well is a mil
lion gallons day, and it has natural
temperature of liz degrees Fahrenheit
In addition to the natatorium there are
! the usual hot and cold private baths.
The water used is said to be of volcanic
origin, and the Waco boomers are
already predicting that their city will
become u second Hot Springs.
JAPANESE pheasants are being domes-
ticated in California. They are choicer
game birds for eating than the grouse,
and, being wary, make excellent sport.
There is no bird like them for breeding,
three broods a year being not uncommon.
Some time ago twenty pairs of pheasants
We're turned out in Oregon, and now they
fairly swarm in that State. The Fish
and Game Commissioners are doing the
work in California. Last autumn five
pairs of pheasants were liberated in the
brush on tho Rancho del Paso and O
number of Hocks have been seen there
this season. They are ut present pro-
tected by law, but in another year the
hunters will be allowed to flush them
that is to say, if they can be found out.
side of Mr.. Haggins' ranch where the
! shooting is intended for his friends only
IT is now proposed to connect Sweden
and Denmark by Il tunnel through the
= Oeresund. Through, not under it, huge
iron pipe, big enough for passenger
trains to run in, is to be laid from Elsi-
more to Helsingborg, two English miles,
on hollow iron pillars filled with concrete
1t is proposed to so balance the weight
of the pipe with the displaced mass OF
water that the pillars will have scarcely
any burden to carry. The tunnel is to
be laid so deep as to be secure from the
action of the waves and out of the reach
of the biggest ships. One danger will
remain however, against which the skill
of the engineers can provide no protec-
tion-the peril from sinking wreck.
Should such a one strike the tunnel it
would be all up with it and with anything
that happened to be en- route between
the two coasts in an instant. The cost of
the tunnel is put at S4,000,000 or there
abouts.
THE London Lancet denounces as false
the theory that abundant hair is q sign
of bodily or mental strength in man. 1t
says that despite the Samson precedent
the Chinese are mostly bald, yet they
form the most enduring of races. The
average madhouse furnishes proof that
long and thick hair is not sign of intel
lectuality. The easily wheedled Esau was
hairy, while the mighty Caesar was bald.
''Long- g-haired men are generally weak and
fanatical, and men with scant hair are
the philosophers and statesmen and sol
diers of the world" it concludes, though
of course to this rule there are many ex-
ceptons. We suspect, facetiously adds
the New York Tribune, that the Lancet
will soon have an enormous circulation
in bald headed circles, while on the other
hand those of its readers who have plenty
of hair will promptly write to "stop their
paper.
"FARMING pays in the West, and
farming doesn't pay in the West, F." said a
man from South Dakota. " In ten years
l have made $4,000 farming, starting
with nothing. Men all around me have
starved to death, or pretty near it. One
thing is certain. Big farming doesn't
pay. There's Dalrymple, whose place
is not far from mine. He tried farming
on large scale so, 900 acres, | believe,
He was "a good farmer, too. He had real
executive ability, fine organization.
He had tremendous advantage in get
ting most of his machinery for nothing.
Eve known the agents of reaper and
mower factory to put sixty machines on
Dalrymple's farm without charging him
u cent, simply for the advertisement.
Yet Dalrymple has not made any money.
| don't know why it is, unless a large
farm cannot make use OF the small econ
omes which make a small farm self-sus-
taining-the eggs, the butter, the garden,
the women's work in kitchen and round
about"
SPEAKING of Labrador, correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger says: "There
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