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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
SCALING HERRINGS.
The Work is Performed in a Some.
what Peculiar Manner.

A peculiar feature of the smoked her
ring industry in this country is the method
by which the fish are scaled. Enormous
quantities of them are captured in weirs
and gill-nets and the catch thrown into
boats. When load has been secured
the fisherman "treads them out" by
walking briskly back and forth through
the mass of squirming objects at the bot
tom of the boat. The motion of the fish
upon each other and also the contact
with the feet and legs of the ''treader"
quickly removes the scales. In the
course of half an hour u skillful opera
tor will thus scale four or five hogsheads
of the fish
Another method consists in using
piece of board about foot long and four
or five inches in width, which is securely
fastened to long handle. This is thrust
into the center of the mass and moved
briskly about until by continued stirring
the scales are moved in an incredibly
short time. The work must be done
while the fish are fresh, as otherwise the
scales become set and can only be taken
off with great difficulty.
Care is exercised in both processes, as
if not Systematically done, many of the
catch will be only partially sealed, and
if stirred about or "trod out" for too long
time the flesh will be soft or bruised,
in which case the catch will be less sal
able, and if the skin is broken, abso-
lutely worthless.
After scaling they are washed and
salted in tubs, barrels orhogsheads; then
strung on sticks, from twenty-five to
thirty five being placed on each, accord
ing to their size. The next step consists
in re-washing, to remove all the blood
and dirt that has accumulated, and the
strings are then laid on frames in the
open-air to drain and also to harden and
dry the gill-covers. This being accom-
plished they are taken to the smoke
house, properly arranged, the fires started
and the smoking begins
Several kinds of wood are used for
this purpose in different countries, white
birch being preferred in France, while
in England, Scotland and Holland oak
chips and sawdust are considered the
best. In this country pine logs that have
been soaked in salt water are selected, as
the salt renders the wood less infamma-
bic and it also gives off a greater volume
of smoke.
Some of the curers, when the smoking
process is nearly completed, build fire
with oak logs for the purpose of giving
higher or brighter color to the fish. As
matter of fact, however, the woods
make little or no difference, the chief
idea being to get kind that will burn
slowly and at the same time yield a suffi-
cient amount of smoke to cure the fish,
and at the same time burn 80 slowly that
there is no possibility of scorching them.
Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
Large.

The largest railway depot in the world
is at Birmingham, England. 1t covers
eleven acres.
An army of locusts ten miles wide re.
Gently swept over the Punjab in India. II
occupied five days in passing.
The highest trestle on the line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad is that across
the Corsican defile, Missoula, Mont, 30C
feet above the gorge below.
Gladwin county, Michigan, boasts OF
having the largest frame barn in the
world. 1t is 1876 feet long, 30 feet wide,
and in its construction 100000 feet OF
lumber were used.
The biggest horse in the world is now
the pride and glory of Detroit. The
noble brute is 81 hands high, weighs
1855 pounds, andis possessed Of remark.
able intelligence.
The largest lighthouse lens in this
country measures fifteen feet in height
and eleven and half in width the inter
nal diameter, or "bull's eye," being eight
feet eight inches.
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate of $2,000,009 per acre; some in
London for what would net $1,000, ,00C
per acre, and some in New York for G
sum equal to $S,o00,000 per acre.
The British debt is so large that if il
were divided into 81 notes they would
completely cover the State of Ohio three
times over. If paid in penny pieces, and
each penny piled one above the other, ii
would make seven columns of copper
reaching TO the moon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
The Diamond Duke.

The Diamond Duke was q nickname
given Charles Frederick William Angus
tus, Duke of Brunswick in the present
century, who was driven out of his do
minions by his people in 1881 and who
died in exile few years ago. He was
undoubtedly crazy, and manifested his
mental alteration in several peculiar
ways. He thought e e,erybody was try
ing to rob him, and his house in Paris was
constructed like fortress. No one was
admitted save his intimates, and some
times his freakish temper denied even
them. lilo converted large part of his
wealth into diamonds, which he kept in
strong boxes, secured in cellars and
guarded with more precautions than are
taken by most banks. The underground
rooms where he kept his riches were ac-
cessible by secret staircases, the doors of
which, when discovered, could be opened
only by knowledge of the numerous
combination locks with which thew were
fastened. His valuable papers and most
preciousj jewels were keptin large chest
at the head of his bed, and by touching a
button the box and its contents descend
ed into we'll 150 feet deep. During the
last years of his life he spent his time
either in fondling his diamonds or in
selecting his costume for the evening.
Bewigged, powdered and painted he went
out in the afternoon for his drive, then,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

fall in default of mothers warm wings.
The floor is well sanded and the run"
outside is made of sandy soil itself.
Here the fedglings learn to scratch in an
amateur sort of way. Not for a liveli-
hood-they are too well provided with
food for that-but from natural in
stinct.
The food for the first three days is
pinhead oatmeal Then there follows a
weeks diet of old-fashioned johnny cake,
baked hard for two hours in a slow oven,
ground fine and fed dry. ltis composed
of corn meal, wheat bran and ground
beef scrap. After this their rations are
those of the older fowl, a mixture of corn
meal, wheat bran, bone meal scrap and
ground charcoal. In the winter chopped
cabbage is added to make up for their
loss of other green foods.
The chick hospital hangs on the wall
near by. 1t is a big cage divided into
four wards, or rather compartments,
where the fedglings can receive especial
care and warmth. Medicine is seldom
necessary. The weighing machine is
but few feet off This, too, is a cage,
the flooring resting Immediately on the
scat.
The chicks promotion to the secondary
brooding house depends mainly upon the
weather. 1t is ordinarily a matter of
three or four weeks. The secondary
brooding house has twenty rooms, each
5xS, and open air "runs of fifty-two
feet, separated from each other and the
outside world by screens of wire netting
higher than mans head. Fifty chicks
are placed in each room instead of one
hundred, which is the rule in the other
houses. Here the young fowl first feels
the responsibilities of life. He is de-
prived of artificial heat and now has u
broad field to run and scratch in.
But the poultry village is yet incom-
plete. There is feed and cook shop, a
bantom house, building for Surplus
birds, half dozen small breeding
houses, with large yards attached, and
the duck buildings down ON the edge of
Quogue Bay, with duck pond that is
veritable Southern Sea close at hand
The ducks, however, are omnipresent
They have large yard all to themselves
in the midst of the poultry's domains,
and in the heat of the day it is pretty
picture, a flock of fifty or more of
glossy, glistening white, huddled in the
shade of an upright bough arbor of pale
brown, with the sparse green grass of the
sandy soil as frame.
They are quite unconscious of their
end, of course. And yet the chopping
block stands in that very yard. They
have been driven up from the waters
edge especially for decapitation. The
season of the markets has now come
upon them and from fifty to hundred
are killed each week. But this is but Il
drop in the bucket for duck yard pro-
ducing two or three thousand year
New York Telegram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
TASTED Fifty Days.

Alexander Jacques, who undertook to
fast for fifty days at the Royal Aquar-
ium, London, England, completed his
task. Although during the last week
his condition caused much uneasiness to
Drs. Robin and Whitmarsh who watched
him throughout, Mr.. Jacques succeeded
in abstaining from food. The bulletin
issued gave his temperature as 100 and
during the last night he was only able to
sleep for two hours. This was owing to
renewed attacks of gout and to excite
ment. He still maintained n cheerful
condition and spent the early part of the
morning in attending to his correspond
ence and talking with those about him.
The bulletin issued at noon the last day
stated that during the past twenty four
hours Mr.. Jacques had lost two pounds.
leaving his weight at ia pounds four
ounces, his total loss being twenty eight
pounds four ounces. His pulse registered
sixty-four, his respiration "a and his tenn
perature 9S.S. During the previous day
he drank thirty -four ounces of fluid.
AT the commencement of the fast the
aquaran authorities issued over 1000
invitations available at any time, day or
night, during the fifty days to the meli-
cal men of London. The last afternoon
large number of English and foreign
physicians visited Jacques, one of whom,
DR.. Henrik G. Peterson, u Norwegian,
practicing in America, tested the strength
of the fasting mans grip on the dynamo
meter before he partook of food, with the
result that it was said to be equal to
seventy four pounds. As the time ap-
preached for the completion of the fast
the reception-room in which Jacques has
remained during the whole of the time
became crowded with spectators.
Jacques, who had been smoking cigar
cites during the latter part of the after
noon, appeared to be rather excited. The
cheering of the audience at o'clock an
nounced that the fast was over.
Mr.. Davis, who has been the fasting
mans lecturer throughout the whole of
the time, said that NJ. Jacques had ac-
complished the most stupendous fast ever
known, and it has proved the great value
of his herbal powder, the secret of which
he alone possessed. His contention was
that armies campaigning through hos
tile country, or if men suffered shipwreck
or met with an accident where food was
not procurable, the powder would proba-
bly, be the means Of sustaining life until
help or succor came. jacques had been
watched night and day by doctors and by
members of the press, and he hoped that
he had now proved to the public without
doubt that he was in possession of a
secret which must prove beneficial in all
cases of emergency. jacques then rose
and carried Kennedy, the mesmerist,
twice across the room, and Immediately
afterward partook of his first meal, which
consisted of chicken broth, fish and
grapes Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
EdisOn's Latest Device.

Thomas A. Edison, the electrician,
claims to have just perfected "a new sys.
TEN which he can apply to any street
Car and which will revolutionize rapid
transit. The prince of electricians said
he would not explain at present his plans
or details, but that he had Just finished
the tests; that they were grand success
and that the North American Company
is going to use the system. 1t is a trolley
system only the rails are used and there
is 10 slot. 1t is not storage battery
system either.
MIR. Edison said that by the time the
Broadway Company got through digging
and ditching, his system would be in op.
Grafton in some other city at much less
expense, and it will give more satisfac.
tory results. He said, too, that he could
pave the old Broadway line and change a
block each night, and no one would have
been the wiser until his system was in
complete working order-[New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

Occasionally the good missionaries
to the Indians in the far West have
little joke among themselves at the
expense of their converts. Said an
Episcopal clergyman To MS Presby-
terian friend
zone of you. converts was up he.
fore a magistrate recently charged
with intoXication, and the latter said,
'Uncas, you ought to be ashamed OF
yourself; you are Christian and
should know better Ino Christian,
Mr.. Judge, said the Indian. 'Uncas
only Presbyterian.
"Tnat reminds me-" responded the
Presbyterian; IL was at your Santee
mission, not long ago. and called or
tile Episcopal minister in charge and
while we were talking the door opened
and in stumbled top-heayy Siou.
chief with, 'How, preacher, how! ]
come to see you (hic) and two or three
other good churchmen with me-
i New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

strala, in the form of the green branchts
of eucalyptus. The reputation of the
eucalyptus as an absorbent of malaria,
and as an antidote in fever-cases is welt
established, and for some time its effect
as Il disinfectant in sick chambers has
been carefully watched.
DIR. Curgenven states, after twelve
months trial, that in cases of scarlet
fever, if the branches be placed under
the bed, the bedding undergoes thorough
disinfection, the volatile vapor pene-
trating and saturating the mattresses and
every other article in the room. The
vapor is also said to have beneficial
effect upon phthisical patients, acting
not only as an antiseptic, but as a seda-
tive, and to some extent, as hypnotic.
II Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
China's Postal System.

A writer in Shanghai newspaper re.
Gently, describing the Chinese postal sys.
tenn, observes that China has never con-
sidered the conveyance of the correspond
ence of the people as a necessary function
of government. This is provided for by
postal establishments, which are to be
found in every town of any size, and Eu.
ropeans in the interior who have to use
them report favorably of the system and
rcpose considerable confidence in it. Ii
offers some advantages even over West
ern postal systems. All letters carried
are practically registered and the con-
tents insured to tho full value without
extra fee, and great latitude is allowed in
regard TO weight. Letters need not be
stamped beforehand; the rule is to keep
current accounts with customers, which
are settled monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

AH ODeT
your sufferings from Catarrh.
That is, if you SO about it in the
right way.
There are plenty of wrong ways,
that perhaps you've found out.
They may relieve for time, but
they don't cure.
Worse yet, they may drive the
disease to the lungs. You can't
afford to experiment.
But there is right way, and
sure way, that does cure. Thou
sands of otherwise hopeless cases
have proved it. It's with Dr. Sagc's
Catarrh Remedy. By its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
worst chronic cases. Catarrhal
Headache, "Cold in the Head -
everything catarrhal in its nature,
is cured as if by magic.
It's a way so sure that the pro-
prietors of DR.. Sage's Remedy
offer, in good faith, $500 for a
case of Catarrh which they can
not cure.
If it's sure enough for them to
make the offer, it's sure enough
for you to make the trial
They risk $500. ', hat do you
risk
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
A Plague of Spiders.

Millions of small red spiders have
attacked the fruit orchards in and around
the town of Lodi, Cal The pest is far
worse than plague of locusts. The
spiders first made their appearance i'm
mediately after u season of very hot
weather. The ground is red with the
insects, and great damage to crops is the
result.
In size the spiders are almost infinite
sinai, but there are millions and billions
of them. They cover the ground with a
thin web. They seem to attack the cas-
tern side of the trees, where the foliage
is thickest, the most. They lay their
eggs all over the leaves, and when the
eggs begin to hatch the juice of the leaf
begins to disappear. The body of the
leaf is not injured, that is, no holes are
eaten in it, but the young spiders seem
to draw the juice out. ii. o. Williams,
who is n prominent fruit grower at Lodi,
said in an interview recently:
81 have examined the spider eggs
under the microscope and could see hun
dreds of them ON leaf. The spiders
themselves are not hard to kill, but it
seems almost impossible to destroy the
eggs. The insects multiply very rapidly.
l have tried Paris green and patented
wash on the trees, but the stuff did not
seem to affect the eggs, for they hatched
just the same. tried lime water few
days, and that seemed to kill some of the
eggs, but was afraid of getting the mix
ture too strong and injuring the trees.
Spiders are the natural enemy of almond
trees, but out our way they seem to at
tack everything. They are even des-
troying tho peanut vines of a neighbor
Of mine. have twenty acres of almonds
that they have already ruined completely.
Il New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

From fraud and imposition the genuine med
iciDes of DIR. X. " Pierce are now sold only
through druggists, authorized as agents. The !.
are the cheapest medicines to use, as well as
the best, because in every case UOtt pan OHiy
for The O. od uget. The money is refunded II
they ever fail to benefit or cure.
Being sold on this pCcltidr plan of value
received or no pay" the prices of the genuine
guaranteed medicines always have been, are,
and always will be, as follows:
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the
remedy for all diseases arising from II torpid
liver or impure blood, 81 per loitle
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription uhe rem
edy for female weaknesses and derange-
ments), Il per bottle.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets (the original
and best Liver Pills. q cts per vial.
DR.. Sage's Catarrn Remedy,
o. Gus. per OOttlo.
Suspicion naturally and righ fully attaches
to any medicines purporting to be DIR. Pierce's,
when offered at any other prices than those
above given.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

Remember, Mr.. Young Mechanic,
that the mechanic who studies and
thinks, who seeks good society, who
is cleanly in person, who is self-reliant,
industrious, obliging and courteous,
is the mechanic who is bound to ris,
in his profession. Remember, also.
the reverse, that the mechanic who
never studies or thinks, who seeks
low associates and INDUCES in vicious
designations, who is slovenly, slouchy
and unpleasant in person, who is
sfhiftless and loaferish, discontinued,
discourteous and disobliging, is the
future inhabitant of the gutter, the
groggery, the almshonse, and the
prison, and the future occupant Of
the pauper grave in the potter's field.
Which way are you taking at the
start?-L Iron Industry Gazette.
AT a recent wedding, as the newly
married pair were marching down the
hn .F,t
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

The high position attained and the universal
acceptance and approval If the pleasant liquid
fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excel
lent laxative known, illustrate the value tf
the qualities on which its success is based and
are abundantly gratifying to the California
Fig Syrup Company.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

DR.. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure IL a hoon
20 children who are attacke with cruup ut
mailed on receip! of 50 cts. Address A. Z.
Ahxsie. Buffalo. N Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
A Sweet.Smelling Disinfectant.

A very pretty form of disinfectant is
being introduced to sick rooms in Au-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

The Bank of Paris is said to have offered
Ru sia loan of 600. 100000 at four per
cent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

The Russian language is to be taught in
oil OF the Japanese schools. U44
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

Birmin CHAM, England, has the largest rail
road depot
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

Turkish soldiers are said to be very poor
marksmen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
GRATIFYING no ALI.

President Harrison draws his SALARY
monthly in checks Tor 81, 166 CT.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

Switzerland yearly receives about S25,-
600, 900 from foreign tourists
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

President Barillas has asked Congress to
restore capital punishment in Guatemala.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29
August
Flower

l have been af1lict-
Biiiousness, "ed with biliousness
o.,u land constipation
Oons''pa''on'" for fifteen years;
c+o,,scb first one and then
another prepara-
Pains. ton was suggested
" tome and tried but
to no purpose. At last friend
recommended August Flower.
"took it according to directions and
its effects were wonderful, reliev-
ing me of those disagreeable
stomach pains which I had been
troubled with SO long. Words
cannot describe the admiration
in which l hold your Angus,
Flower-it has given me a new
lease OF life, which before was
burden. Such q medicine is ben,
efaction to humanity, and its good
"qu alities and
wonderful mer- jesse Barker,
90 its S ould be
made known to Printer,
Everyone suffer HumboIdt
ing with dyspep-
"sia or biliousness Kansas. g
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, ,Woodbury,N.J
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-29

AT a recent wedding, as the newly
married pair were marching down the
aisle, the organist played Coward
Christian soldier, marching to the
utn
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FONT Ca, not,e maitre. G. NEST
Agal, mails le Pontiac ma declare
quill v%ieiIdrait lui meme trouyer r.
procureur...
IL Sc vantait. II ne yiendra
pas; settlement II y a envoye Roch
a SD place.
Comment, vous croyez que
c'est lui...
-Pa'hlen ca creve les yenx.
III lui aura fait la lecon. ct Rocl
est tres capable IL bien joiner sou
role. lie ptocurenr Va l'6conter
aEec attention. tn ppux le %ctoire.
Lenverra t il en- prison Lancera
{ ii I'M mendat colitre lie hnsSar,l.
ami des mobiles Je men sails rien.
mais je sni> sur qu'aujoui.h il y
aura du nonyeau ct que notre
afaire est Ell hon chemin, Car lie
braconnier nest pas venn pour DIES
nrunes ct l'iutelet de son a>socie
Pontiac est lie meme que le notre.
-A'ors, nous n'aurlons plus
qua nous croiser les bras.
CONNIE tn dis, men petit. lie
vent southr pour nous l~aiSsons lie
sonfhtr. Ce soir, i'irai fumer nne
pipe chez ce cher ptocurenr qni
vent bien me recevOir dams limit
mite ct IN adsnettre a t'honneur de
falre son Jacquet. C'est un yrai
magistrat, celui la ct dc Ia bonnie
ecole. Ii he Va paa encore au cafe,
q du prfinge; mails mons
Enlrons par METRE an pas les
bourgeois darcy ct. en- attendant,
ma societe lni %sufit. Qnand j.
pense qie ce vieux reacfiounaire
de president ne me renaait pas
mon salut, du temps gu lie me
crOyais encore ohlige de le salner
t-..mais ie M e1abatle. ..reypnonS q
notre a%ffhire. Ce soir done. ie
saurai 81 on ponrsuit au criminel IT
1e poserai des jalons pour le process
civil. Virns me voir demain matln
ct ie te donnerai de bonnes nouyel
lea. Mails 81 tn ten vas cOucher a
Grandchamp, pas IN mot Il
coheritiprs. ST on Savait que TAI
lie ministere public dams ma manchp,
Ga ferait %jaser.
-Jene leur dirai fien. lis sont
trop betes. Eft jaime autant que
vous ne me %preseuliez pas q yotre
ami he %Procnrerr. Ca lfanrait Gene
ct moi aussi. Mails, c'est egai. Je
%donnerais bien un petit ecu pour
6tra cache dams son cabinet 4 cette
heure. J'entendrais ce que va lni
Jaboter cette cauaille de Roch.
IL doit 6tre deja u la sellette,
car il est monte au pas accelere, ct
iln'avait qua faire lie tour de la
sous prefecture. Nous avons assez
traine nos gn6tres lei. File, mon
gars, ct doris sur les denx GRIZZLIES,
tn n'anras rien perdu pour atten-
Dire.
Maitre Vaurinet etait IN fin
matois ct il await devIn6 bien des
chooses, mails il Sc trompait u IN