Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


100000 and 100000 children in
America to whom it is required that this
instruction be given.
The Duke of Marlborough, who
married an American lady and therefore
ought to know, says: "The American
woman has natural quickness for ap-
preciating the characters of the men
around her. She takes infinitely more,
trouble and in some respects manifests
greater interest all round than English
women display. The bright, CHEEKY
girl remains gay and carefully dressed
iiiarried woman, who is always trying to
snow herself off quietly, but to the best.
advantage land she understands the art
Pertectiyl among all classes of people.
Inc tendency to nagging and gossip,
mongerlng OF an ill-natured character, is
rarer IN that country than in England"
wELL.kNowN ichthyophagist, O. A..
Grimm, of Moscow, proposed some time.
ago in an article of food for the famished
peasants the hamza, a nutritious sort of
anchovy which abounds in the Black
Sea. AT present the hamza is utilized.
only by one firm of Tifis, which trans
ports it to Constantinople at greut
profit. The Society of the Red Cross.
has appointed commission to inquire,
into the methods of fishing and drying
the hamza. If the commission finds that.
the preparation of the fish for shipment
and healthy food can be had at low
cost, measures will forthwith be taken.
TO follow the suggestion of NJ. Grimm.
some interesting and rather surprising
statistics on the use of the telephone in.
European countries have been collected.
In London, the gratest commercial city
OF the world, only 1.5 persons in 1 900
use the telephone. The telephone is
used most in countries where the SER
vice is owned or controlled by the State.
In Germany, Switzerland, Norway and
Sweden from 100 to 400 persons in every
100000 ofthe population are subscribers.
In Great Britain only So persons in 100,
oo0 use the telephone. In Berlin II,
and in Paris AZ out of every 1000 in
habitants use the telephone.
The purchase of Alaska has already
proved to be pretty good speculation,
goods being exported from that country
last year to the value of over 81 100000
in excess to the price paid to Russia for
the territory, and the resources of the
country seem to be far from fully known
yet. Capt. De Hass, who has Just re-
turned to Tacoma from two years min
ing tour in Alaska, says that u very prof.
table business in canning wild geese
and ducks could be established and car
ried on at the mouth of the Yukon River.
These birds, he SAYS, gather there in
immense numbers in the spring.
One of Bismarck's amusements is pis-
col, ,..ks. e L ..t-I
which in his youth he was expert. The
range at Frledrichsruh is across a small
lake, perhaps a hundred yards in dame
ter, and the Iron Chancellors hand is
still steady enough for him to bark a
squirrel occasionally. A recent visitor
to Fricdrichsruh says that the fallen
Minister, contrary to popular belief, is q
man OF great personal magnetism. He
fascinates his guests, and when they de-
part, it is as if they were under the spell
of a magician. The Princes home-life
is delightful, and when his son, Count
Herbert, and his daughter, Countess
Rantzan, are present, the family gather
ing is most genial.
The Emperor of Japan, to whose sa-
gacity the rapid progress made by the
Land of the Rising Sun is largely due,
is thirty-nine years of age. Born in
1852, Mutsu Hito susceeded his father
in 1867, and was crowned in 1868; q
year later he married the Princess Harm
ko. The Emperor is the 121st of his
race who has ruled the country. He is a
great believer in Western civilization,
and in 1889, he freely granted a consti-
tuition the people, whose representatives
met for the first time in the autumn of
last year. Both the Mikado and his con-
sort are popular, and European travellers
to japan invariably speak in the highest
terms of them.
A MINE manager in Nevada claims to
have invented u gun of remarkably rapid
firing capacity, the implement having
Winchester barrel and stock, with a 10
repeating magazine in the stock. 1t is
trifle heavier than the ordinary Winches-
ter, but its great feature, us claimed is
that the whole fifteen shots may be fred
in one second statement which has
been fully realized in practice. The
shells are thrown out, and at the end of
the firing the gun is as clean as though
only single cartridge had been explo-
ded. 1t is stated that an instantaneous
photograph was taken of the gun in ac-
ton, and, while the exposure was made,
five shells were in the air tossed out by
the inconceivably rapid working of the
gun. AS described, the weapon is one
of extreme simplicity. All that the man
who does the shooting has to do is to fill
the chambers with cartridges. cock the
gun and pull tho trigger as many times
as he means to shoot. The gun is accu-
rate at short or long range.
STATISTICS of fruit shipments the past
year show that California has produced
more valuable crop of fruits and vege-
tables than in any previous year. Of
oranges, no less than 30,000,000 pounds
were shipped, while the total shipments
Of other green fruits amounted to 7S,000,-
600 pounds. Dried fruit shipments
reached the enormous figures of 72,000,-
600 pounds. Raisins furnished 47,000,-
600 pounds against 37,000,000 last year.
Of canned goods, this years shipments
were 7S,000,000 pounds, against, 49,
100000 last year. In everything except
wine and salmon there has been great in
creuse in shipments, showing that the
year is one of the most successful ever
known for farmer and fruit-grower.
Stock is being rapidly taken in the Cape
Horn Steamship Line, started by mer-
cnants in order TO secure lower freight
rates from the East. 1t is expected that
the first steamer will be ready by next