Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

HERE are more eVlctlOnS Tor non
payment of rents in New York and
Brooklyn in one year, says Judge of the
latter city, than in Ireland in two wears.
THE Philadelphia Record suggests a
fruitful subject for speculation in an ar
ticle in which it gives the names and ad-
dresses of more than 200 women of Phila-
delphia most of them Young, who
mysteriously disappeared last year.
THE Brazilian government has failed
to obtain recognition by Germany,
Spain, Austria and Russia. At st. Pet
ersburg the Gar has announced that
nothing would induce him to recognize
the republic during the lifetime of Dom
Pedro.
DUELING continues very frequently in
Italy. During the. last twelve months
1859 duels were fought and fifty of the
combatants succumbed. Some of the
duelists were wounded several times in
the same conflict, for 3, 901 wounds were
inflicted and over one thousand of these
were serious.
IT is believed that thirty strangers per
week arrive in New York to purchase
counterfeit money of sharpers, and while
each and every one of them is swindled,
1t IS only about one out of every hundred
who makes a complaint His own guilt
forbids, and he goes home q swindled
and wiser man.
ACCORDING to statistics recently sent
out from Washington, the internal rev.
enue receipts have increased nearly II
per cent. over those of the previous fiscal
year. The annual increase in population
Is about 2i per cent. Inasmuch as the
internal revenue is largely derived from
spirituous liquors the exhibit gives very
fair indication of the progress of the
national thirst.
In all probability, the most enviable
community in the world is that in the
village of Klingenberg, on the Main, in
Germany. Instead of paying taxes as
ordinary mortals, the citizens of King
enberg received each $50 marks from the
income of several factories owned by the
town. The division was made after the
expenses of administration had been paid
by money from the same source.
SMALLPOX has practically disappeared
from the British Isles, only one death
having been registered from this disease
in England and Wales for the three
months ending with September last.
During the same period 50 deaths from
smallpox were recorded in Venice; 53 in
st. Petersburg; 1S in Paris II in Vienna;
10 in Brussels; in Turin; in Prague;
and large number in Madrid.
VIcE-PREsIDENT MoRToN's country
home at Rhinecliff, N. Y, is provided
with two hundred and fifty incandescent
lamps. An interesting feature is the
wiring of the house in such q manner
that should any window or door be tam
pered with by burglars, special auto.
matte switching device will throw into
circuit number of lights, thus giving
the nocturnal intruder bright and
warm welcome.
THE Young Womens Christian Tenn
perance Unions of the larger cities will
give special attention this year to "Col-
lege Settlements" plan by which
refined and well-to-do women take up
their residence for a time in the most
undesirable quarters Of the city, there
to give an object-lesson in clcanly
healthful home-life. Such Settlements
in New York and Chicago are telling
visibly upon the ''slums' by which they
are surrounded.
THAT precious relic of the old world,
the Egyptian obelisk, in Central Park,
absolutely refuses to be naturalizcd, says
the New York Mail and Express. The
spirit of serfdom was doubtless 50 in.
grained into it that at this late day it
simply could not be reformed. This is
why the Board of Aldermen voted $2,-
800 to get it new coat of wax The
old coat has worn away, and the prospect
of eastcrly storms threatened the old
veterans life. What pity this antique
party isn't put under covert
SUPERINTENDENTs of factories would
do well to regard attentively the regime
which exists in wool spinning mill in
Norway. All the unmarried hands, both
male and female, are engaged for fixed
yearly salary aud get board and lodging
at the works. There is a large kitchen
and large dining room; where the en-
ployer and employed dine together. The
owners wife herself superintends the
cooking. The bedrooms and the other
apartments are roomy and well ventilated,
the women sleep in one end of the build
ing and the men in the other. They all
look healthy and fresh, and very unlike
ordinary factory hands.
ACCORDING to functionary of the Car
in New York city, it is mistake to sup
pose that his Majesty is not aware of the
attacks made in foreign countries upon
his policy. He says: "1here is no Gov
ernment in Europe that hears the voice
of mankind more quickly than Russia
The Gar recently thanked the American
Minister in st. Petersburg for expressing
approval of his tolerant disposition. He
has prohibited the flogging of women
on account of the foreign outcry against
it. There is no doubt that he has been
made angry by the English and Amer-
can remonstrances against his treatment
of the Jews, but there are forces that
prevent him from changing his anti
Semitic policy. He heeds some foreign
protests and disregards others, but he
knows of them all, as can be found out
by anybody who reads the Official Mes
senger."
A PEASANT physician named Rieger, of
Glogau, in Silcsia, announces cure for
diphtheria which an agent of the EN-
peror has examined and reported very
fsvorably upon. 1t is thought to be
mixture of extracts from two or three
common weeds and an oil. The salve
resulting from the mixture is lique6ed,
and applied with brush to the interior
of the throat. The remedy was discov-
cred by Rieger's father, a shepherd. 1t
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