Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-08-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


$120, 600, 900, with an output of 1870, 900
barrels per day. The refining capacity
of the country is 140, 900 barrels per day,
while 10, 900 barrels are consumed as
fuel. A surplus stock is held in tanks
of more than $4,000, 900 barrels.
AT Brussels, the German government
supports nine hundred lace schools for
making the lace to which the city gives
name. Children begin to learn the art
when very young, sometimes not over
five years. Owing to some popularity
of the soil or climate, Brussels has so far
proved to be the only city in which the
precious lace can be made successfully.
Both cotton and linen threads are used
in the manufacture, the former being
spun by hand in dark, damp cellars with
only single ray of light falling on the
hand of the spinner The best of Bra
bant flax is used, and fine, soft cotton
furnishes the filling for flowers and
leaves.
A LONG time ago the distinguished
French astronomer, Flammarlon, ex-
pressed the belief that communication
would be established one day between
the earth and the planet Mars. The idea
seems to have appealed very strongly to
the fancy of an old lady at Pau, who died
the other day after bequeathing legacy
af 100, 900 francs as a reward to the first
scientist who may devise scheme for
successfully accomplishing the feat The
money is to be held IN trust by the Frenc
Institute. 1t is not likely, however, that
messages will be sent to Mars just yet, as
the legacy is only to be payable for ten
years, limit too brief for the most
sanguine experimenter.
AT a recent meeting of the General
Practitioner Alliance in Exeter Hail.
London, mass of testimony was pro-
duced to show that great many well-to-
do persons, in no sense proper recipients
of charity, were getting free treatment
at the hospitals, to the injury of the real
poor and the loss of the medical profes
| sion. In one case q man who had re-
ceived free treatment for long time
proved to be worth $3.50, 900 when he
died, and another flee out-patient at the
Middlesex hospital used to be driven to
the institution in her own carriage,
which she left "around the corner" to
avert suspicion. 1t was alleged also that
certain hospital doctors had accepted
"tips" from prosperous patients, giving
them in return prompter and better at
tendance than was vouchsafed to more
INDECENT sufferers. Other serious abuses
were limited at, and resolutions were
adopted asking for an investigation by
the Committee of the House of Lords ON
Metropolitan Medical Charities.
PEOPLE in the South, particularly in
Louisiana, are much disgusted with the
settler who seeks the ard lands of the
West and then calls on the Federal Gov
ernment for money to make them pro-
ductivc by irrigation. Their contention
is that he would exhibit better claim
to common sense if he would select lands
that did not need irrigation to produce
more abundantly than any territory in
/ the West. The New Orleans New Delta
tells him that in the Opelousas, the At
takapas, and Calcasicu country lying
west of the Teche beyond the Atchafa-
laya bottoms, and extending from the
Gulf nearly to the Red River he cap find
farming district that is superior to any
in the United States. 1t can be bought
for less money than much Western land,
and yields four staple crops year, an
agricultural feat that cannot be per-
formed north of Mason and Dixon's line.
The lands are gently rolling, mainly
prairie, and easily drained. Instead of
clamoring for Federal assistance the
Northern people that are beginning to
settle on them are converting them into
garden spots, and adding to a gratifying
degree to their bank accounts.
THE decorator at work on the White
House will, he says, finish the vcstibule
in 1.-THE style of the American Renais-
sance" The coloring will be ningling
of soft browns and terra Gotta. The
walls will be done in kind of paneiled
effect. Over the mantcl, where there
are portraits of Washington and Lincoln,
there will be medallions of these dis
tinguishcd men modelled in bold and
striking relief. The framework around
the heads and the shield and pair OF
flags over each medallion will also be
in relief. The only decided tints will
be the bright red and blue of the flags.
The ceiling will be in soft shades, and
the graceful turns and curves will con-
verge towards the chandelier in tho
centre. Small gold stars also will be u
feature of the ceiling. Tho style of the
Green Room will be rococo, and the tiat
that gives the room its name will be &C
ccntuated by the pink of tic peach
blow and touches of gilt. The walls,
which will be of color known as
absinthe- green, will be divided into panels
framed in bas-relicf design. The state
dining room will be finished in colonial
designs to conform to its architecture.
The coloring will be a blending of fawr
and golden brown shades. The ceiling
will be bordered in a garden of lanre
leaves, and at each corner there will be
a medallion to represent horn of plenty
ovcr1owiug with fruits and flowers.
CAL1FoRNIAs Coyote Bounty Law, which
was passed last winter for the benefit o.
the sheep-owners, and which went int,
operation ON the Goth of May, is opcrat
ing in manner that is filling the tax
payers and the fruit growers of the Stats
with d;smay 1t provides that for eacf
coyote killed five dollars shall be paid or:t
of the State Treasury to the person pre-
senting the scalp to the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors of each county.
Although only eleven of fifty-four coun-
tics in the State have been heard from,
the claims for bounty aggregated on
July II $40, 800. A banking firm in
Tulsre County, which has not yet re-
ported, has notified the State Comptroller
that it holds claims for 81, 200. Were
all these claims based on the scalps OF
coyotes killed in California the case
would mt he en- scandalous But il has