Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

Italians who sought to move her by
bringing sick babies in their arms to
prove that they must have work. what
ever the state of the departments treas
ury. Miss Westover is woman of much
executive ability. When no one was
there to attend to it, she would herself
measure dump-cart's capacity. She is
young, handsome, and is one of New
York's four women notaries.
GREEN HOWELL, an old colored man
of Midwife, Ca, is only partly black,
though ll-blooded negro. He has
white circles around his eyes and mouth
ind his neck is almost entirely white.
The forehead and top of his head are so
white that it gives him the appearance of
being bald-headed. In reply to ques-
tions Green said that he had been turn
ing white for five or six years. The
skin on his body and legs now is almost
entirely white. He said there is no
feeling in the change and no pain about
it, except that when he is in the sun the
white skin blisters. Green is over fifty
years old. The white skin exposed to
view is as clear and healthy looking as
that of Caucasian.
THE criminal courts in Glatz have con
demned Breslau shoemaker to two
months Imprisonment for 'lnsult OF
majesty" because he retained his seat at
public meeting while three cheers were
given the emperor. The Judge who gave
the sentence explained that the shoe
maker might have escaped with lighter
penalty had he not aggravated his origi-
nal offence by placing his thumb to his
nose and wiggling his four fingers" when
reproached with disloyalty by his friends
in the meeting.
In dry well recently found in an old
house at Chichester, England, were found
great number of iron implements. The
principal specimen is carpenters plane
of quite modern type, although unques-
tionably more than 1900 years old, three
or four axes, retaining their fine cutting
edges and still quite serviceable, num-
Der of chisels and gouges of all shapes
and sizes, hammers, adzes, saws, files,
etc.
A WIDOW who lost her husband at
Kent, England, two years ago has, since
her widowhood, removed to Portsmouth,
bhSu W iliSiiSdle, anu idIcl W LiNci Pooi'
Each time she sought the necessary per
mission from the authorities, dug up her
former partner and carried HIM with her,
putting the old coffin inside the new one
on each resurrection.
A MAN who has been annoyed for years
by the fact that one side of his mustache
grows about twice as fast as the other
side, claims to have found an explanation
in the circumstance that he sits all day
at his desk with one side of his face
turned to window, the light from which
stimulates the growth of the hair on that
side of his face.
A wELL-KNowN lady of 94 living in
Omaha, Neb., went to an undertaker's
shop the other day, and, after leisurely
examining his stock, picked out coffin,
which she had sent to her residence. She
said she intended it for use at her own
funeral. She is said to be in good health
and entirely sane.
ONE of the largest hogs in America, if
not, in fact, the largest hog in the world
was reared by a Junction City Ras.
man. The length was 8 feet and 0
inches; girth of neck, 81 feet; girth of
center of body, feet; width across the
hips, 80 inches; weight, 1852 pounds.
ANIMALS are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima, Peru, and it frequently
happens that COW passes her whole life
on roof, being taken there as calf
and brought down finally as fresh beef.