Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-21

Elephant Hotel, of Suspension Bridge.
A forfeit has been posted and the bal
ance is to be deposited by Mardh 1.
MRs. EDWARD D. JONES, wife of a
former well-known business man Of
Pittsburg, who died recently near Balti-
more, was quite character, though a
very retired aud refined lady. She had
mortal fear of railroads and of the
ocean, and never would accompany her
husband on any of his pleasure or busi-
ness trips, only taking two lengthy rail-
road journeys in her life. One was
shortly after her marriage, when she was
badly hurt in an accident. 1t was ten
years before Mr.. Jones could persuade
her to take another, and her fears were
iuily vindicated by general smash-up,
IN which, fortunately, though her head
was caught between q seat and the side
OF car, she was not hurt. That set
tied the cars for her. Mr.. Jones has
peen prominent insurance man in Lon
don Tor years, but Mrs. Jones has always
stoutly refused to visit his present abode.
When Mr.. Jones wanted chat with
Mrs. Jones, he just took the first boat.
and little trip of 5000 miles.
II SEE report of the peculiar conduct
of a child after being bitten by cat"
said DIR. j. w. Thudfeld at the Lacede
Hotel in st. Louis. "The child is said
to move stealthily about the house, to.
NEW and to do other things like COM
mon Tabby. For my part believe the.
statement is purely Imaginative. 1t
comes from the idea that one affected
with hydrophobia initiates dog. That
is common delusion with as little foun-
dation as other delusions 1t is true that
person sometimes seems to bark, but
what is called bark is due to an intense
pain of the throat and the difficulty Of
speaking. The same cause produces the
dislike of all kinds of liquid-a dislike
which the public in general imagine is
confined to water. This is the true theory
about hydrophobia upon which so much
Ignorance at present prevails"
PARIsIAN burglars have just covered
themselves with glory, from profess
sional standpoint, and accomplished what
1t is safe to say is the greatest achieve
ment ever reached in their line. They
succeeded in stealing an entire house
with all its contents. A. NJ. Collin, a
building contractor, erected on lot of
ground near Blue Jassint, two-story
wooden house covered with zinc, in which
he placed considerable quantity of
valuable building materials, tools, etc.
One night gang drove up with horses
and wagons, stopped before the building,
took it entirely to pieces and carried off
the whole establishment without being
interfered with.
there is bearskin on exhibition in
Hudson's gun store that takes the cake,
says the Portland Oregonlan. 1t is nine
and one-half feet in length and eight
and one-half feet across in the widest
place. The bear that wore this skin
was a grizzly, and he lived in far-off
Alaska. Judging from the size of the
skin he must have been as large as two
ordinary COWS, and could not have
weighed less that $500 pounds. 1t is
by far the largest bearskin that has ever
been seen in Portland and even old bear
hunters who are told of its Dimensions
shake their heads in an incredulous man
ner until they see it with their own
eyes.
THERE recently died in England the
man to whom the English language is
indebted for the verb "to burke" In the
year 1927 this man, whose name was
Burke, discovered way to make lazy
and congenial livelihood by killing peo-
pie and selling their bodies to physicians
for dissection. The practice was kept up
until stopped by the hand Of law. There
upon the word "burking" came into use
to denote killing for mercenary motives
and, metaphorically, all political as
saults upon character. The word has
had sufficient life to get into the dction-
aries, and Burke will be handed down to
an unlovely but eternal fame.
A UNIoE marriage ceremony has Just
been performed in Baltimore. Tho ser
vice was the Episcopal. The groom was
deaf mute, but the bride was able to
talk. The officiating clergyman was
deaf. The groom's answers were spelt
out in the deaf mute alphabet. He is
painter and has done very creditable
work. The minister, by the way, was
the Rev. j. NJ. Koehler, of Philadelphia,
who presides over church of deaf mutes
in that city, though his pastorate ex-
tends over Pennsylvania, Delaware, New
Jersey and Maryland. Though deaf, he
speaks well.
Mrs. GARCIA, of New Yo-k, the other
day, saw u man dash out of the hallway of
her house. She ran out after him and
saw him running up the street. In the
area was big Newfoundland dog, the
property of neighbor. Catch him,
Charlie" she cried, and Charlie was after
him like shot, and presently had him by
the coat-tail, and there he staid until
police officer came along, when Charlie
released his hold and quietly accompanied
the prisoner to the station house. When
he saw the man properly locked up he re-
turned home.
In Berlin there appears to be little
reverence for the dead. The old cholera
churchyard of 1881, which afterward be-
came cemetary for the poor, has long
been neglected, though there have been
funerals there during the last ten years.
The place is now TO be changed. In the
lower part of the charchyard, where a
new church is to be built, the graves
have been opened, and the skeletons and
remains of cofiins taken out, to be buried
in a general grave higher up, where it is
intended to make public garden.
The German Kaiser is said to be extra
vagantly fond of white, especially of
white trousers. The late Governor
Hovey, of Indiana, had similar liking
for white-a liking that extended even to
the use of white rose extract as his favor
iteperfume. His linen was always i'm
macculate in its glossiness, and he used
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