Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| 1nly DIV chemists. Inc habit started IN
Draperstown, and claims 7S, S52 slaves.
1t acts thrice as quickly from drunk to
sober as other spirits, and resembles the
opium habit in the resulting moral
paralysis.
AMONG the curiosities of recent will
making IS the bequest of the late Mr..
John Noble, the English millionaire var
nish manufacturer, of an annual income
to his son. Mr.. Wilson Noble, the pre-
sent member of Parliament for Hastings,
with the proviso that $4,000 year
shall at once be struck off if he should
fail to be reelected.
SHEEp-RAIsINe, if one may Judge by
the case of young New York woman, is
rather profitable, after all. Her brother
had somA money invested in sheep in
Utah, and induced his sister to put ST.
800 into the investment with him. This
was two years ago. She sold her share
Of the sheep several weeks ago to her
brother, who was increasing his hold.
ings. She received a check for $3, 500
not bad return on years. invest
ment.
THE most lenient pawnshop in the
world is the Monti di Pieta in Rome, es-
tablished in 1886. Any person who
brings pawn may borrow from $12 to
500 without paying any interest, but all
that is loaned above that is paid at the
rate of 2 per cent. per annum. At the
end of two years, if the pledge be not
redeemed nor interest of the money
paid, the pledge is sold, and the over
plus of the debt is laid by for the owner
4 ,,b IN, hio m 1arnon1 -
within 100 years.
STANLEY has now given up an opinion
which he entertained when he set out in
search of Livingstone. He was then led
to believe by the natives that white or
light colored people would be found
somewhere in central Africa. Several
of the tribes had traditions of the eX-
lstence of such a people there, and DR..
Livingstone himself heard of these tradi-
tions during his African wanderings.
Stanley became convinced during his
recent explorations that there is no
white native race to be found in the
central regions of the Dark Continent.
DIR. ROBERT CoLLYER the famous black
smith preacher, has not forgotten the
trade he learned in his boyhood. Talk
ing to Chicago reporter the other day of
the horseshoe he made just after the big
fire, he said: GA student at Cornell
wrote me offering me 81 200 if I would
make horseshoe. He probably thought
that either did not know how to make
one or would back down, thinking it un-
becoming my dignity. In either case he
was disappointed, for made it and
here the speakers eyes began to twinkle
land don't think it was such bad
piece of workmanship, either. Gould l
make one nowl Let some one offer me
81, 600, and see how quick l would turn
one out"
A FACT which has been recently com
mented upon is that there has been an
almost entire absence of poisoning cases
from aduterated candy, which were so
numerous in former years. This evil at
one time became so serious that an asso-
citation was formed for the distinct pur.
pose of securing the passage of special
statutes in various states making the
adulteration of confectionery with any
substance injurious to health punishable
by heavy fine; and for several years
liberal rewards have been offered by this
association, as well as by its individual
members, for evidence against any
offender sufficient to obtain conviction
under the laws the association assuming
the cost and responsibility of the prose-
cution. In New York and Brooklyn,
according to the Commercial Advertiser,
there are a large number of firms, in
cluding all the large manufacturers of
confectionery, who are pledged to the
prosecution of all offenders against the
special statutes passed by the Legislature
on this subject; and by application to
member of the association any suspect
ed confectionery can at once be analyzed
free of charge.
WHY do benevolent women so seldom
make provision in their wills for the
benefit of their own sex2 asks the New
York Press. Emma Abbott, it saye, was
generous and kindly soul. Her will
was in all respects not unworthy of her
lovable character. The testamentary
disposition of her property was gener.
Gus in bequests to institutions of religion
and charity. Yet this woman, whose
gift of song had brought her wealth.
did not leave one bcqucst for the benefit
of any institution of charity or educa-
tion exclusively for women. Wealthy
Mrs. Fogg recently left 5000, 900 by will,
not to Harvard's annex, where it would
benefit her own sex, but to the main
Harvard College, where its benefciaries
would be young men. OF the S400, 900
that she bequeathed to other educational
institutions not dollar went to wo-
mans college. No doubt these ladies
had right ito do as they would with
their own. But in view of the fact that
there are so many ways in which legacies
of money can be of immense assistance to
the cause of higher female education,
the Press regrets that more wealthy wo-
men do not provide pecuniarily for the
intellectual and moral needs of their
striving sisters.
w. G. HALIGHER, who lives in Salt
Lake City, where he is engaged in min
ing ventures, was formerly for ten years
employed in business which took him up
the Yellowstone, and has had many ex-
periences with the Indians, besides en-
countering Sitting Bull several times.
'When first came in contact with Sit
ting Bull, " said he. "that willy Indian
was a young buck, full of fight, and had
won his place as chief by fighting. He
had quite large band at his back, and
they were roaming up and down the
Yellowstone killing all the woodchop-
pers who were sent out to pile up fuel
for the steamboats, that took supplies up
to Fort Benton. As he got older and
had more influence Sitting Bull became
more like a big general, who planned the
battles, and while they were being ex-