Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

where except heaven, and as universe
provider OF everything except happi
ness"
WHEN Little Johnny Abbott, aget
eight, of Battle Creek, Mich, dreams, h,
devotes his whole attention to the vision,
of Morpheus. A few nights ago h,
dreamed that he was out West shaving
whole tribes of savages. In his night
clothes he arose, crept to the roof, slid tc
the ground, and walked thirty rods in the
wet grass before he awoke.
THE savants and historians of Italy are
now deeply interesting themselves in the
question of Columbus real birthplace.
Five or six places besides Genoa claim
the honor, and among them is Bettola.
III Is reported that proofs have lately
been discovered establishing Bettola s
claim, and that the town will erect Il
monument to Columbus at once, and in
tends to send an envoy to the World s
Fair with these proofs and other his
torical documents of interest.
Mr.. S. II. WILLIAMS of Chicago is the
author of a novel plan for promoting the
interests of the Worlds Fair. He pro-
poses that the Commission shall strike off
several million stamps and supply every
druggist and railroad agent in the United
States with a quantity of them, together
with little blank books having "World's S
Fair" printed on the cover. Any one
applying may have book, and he or she
will be invited to buy the stamps, of u
denomination of 5 to 30 cents EACH and
place them in the book. The Worlds
Fair management is to redeem the stamps.
Any one purchasing 500 worth of
stamps will receive 500 80 in cash and
an admission ticket. In other words, the
Exposition Company would constitute it
self savings bank, paying, however,
no interest.
THE impovershment of Europe seems
to be strangely balanced by increasing
wealth in this country, and as the re-
sources of the Old World are exhausted
those of the new are increased or made
apparent. Our bountiful harvcsts are
supplying Europes deficiency, and Just
as Great Britain is figuring on the proba-
BILE exhaustion of her coal fields, dis
coveries of immense supplies of that fuel
hib Ill AluShu.
Miner, of the schooner Henry Dennis,
brought to Seattle few days ago some
specimens of excellent coal from Unger
Island, in the Schumagin group, Alaska
The coal is similar TO cannel coal, and is
pronounced to be of tirst-class quality.
The Baldwin locomotive works of Phil
adelphia have just completed for the
t,n a.. Z L.,
largest compound locomotive in the world.
The weight of the engine is 135, 900
pounds, exclusive of the tender. 1t has
three pairs of driving wheels sixty-two
inches in diameter. The weight on these
wheels, which is the measure of the power
of the locomotive, is 107 900 pounds. Its
length is 56 feet, and height 16 feet. 1t
is expected that this engine can be run at
saving of from 80 10 40 per cent. over
the same size single expansion engine.
But after all, the Eres new locomotive
will not appear so big when the Baldwin
Company has constructed, for the same
company, five new ones, which ara to
weigh 177,OO0 pounds each.
UNLESS there is some mistake in the |
figures, the wealth of the city of London |
during the last ten years has increased at |
an astonishing rate. According to the |
City Press, the profits assessed to income
tax under Schedule ID in 1880 were |
about e39 900 ,000 while in 1SS9-90 they |
were e70,0O0,000 That is, the profits |
have almost doubled in ten years. This |
result in greater part is due to general
growth of prosperity, and the tendency .
shown by the great profit-bearing busi-
ness to Capitalization. Every great pro-
vincial house finds it necessary to havea
branch in London, and London branches |
tend to become trunks. 1t is suggested,
ALSO that the increased vigilance of the
revenue officials may have something to
do with the matter.
SAYS an American dentist, who is p ao-
ticing in Mexico: 81 am getting rich,
and any good American dentist who will
come here and stay can do likewise. |
made $4,000 the first year, and have
done considerably better right along
since that time. get from 800 to $3.50
for full set of teeth on rubber. The
same thing in the States costs you S15.
Whenever administer gas charge $40
ioi llb puiiius5 VI tooiii, anu "icii u
number are pulled | charge $40 for the
first tooth and So for all succeeding ones
For Jerking out tooth without gas |
charge 50, and in the United States you
would only get 80 cents for this work.
AS to filings, they range from So up
ward and gold filings cost from $15 up
into the hundreds, according to the size
Of the cavity and to the size Of the bank
account of the man who has his teeth
filed. | always get $500 for making
set of teeth on gold, and all other busi-
ness is done ut proportionate rates. |
know Of many dentists who are making
who charge more than | do. often
make 81 900 a month, but dentists in tho
City of Mexico make more, and | know
of man there gets $50 tooth for
any kind of II filling, and who came to
Mexico from South America, where he
made $40 900 in single year"
The sessions of the Railway Mail
at Washington have
oeen so fruitful that it is proposed to
iold similar conference every year.
The deliberations have led to the simpIi-
ication of matters at the departments,
md Il general Improvement in the matter
IF handling the mail as it flies across tho
There are about $500 postal l
clerks under these eleven division super {
d 'ided as follows: Boston i
district 475, New York 720, Washington
,55, Atlanta 425, Cincinnati / ,01O, Chi
,ago 92O, st. Louis $50, San Francisco ,
rs, Cleveland 600, st, Paul 400, and {
Fort Worth 800. The superintendents {
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