Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-02-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| A FRENCH statistician calculates that
| the aggregate wealth held by millionaires
| in civilized countries amounts to about
| $5, 900, 900, 900, the entire number of
| millionaires to be about $50, of whom
| $50 are in Great Britain, 200 in the Uni
| ted States, 100 in South America, 100 in
| Germany, IS in France, so in Russia, so
in India and 1875 in other countries.
| The finest garnets and nearly all the
| peridotes found in the United States are
obtained in the Navajo Nation, in the
northwestern part of New Mexico and the
northeastern part of Arizona, where they
are collected from ant hills and scorpion
nests by Indians and by the soldiers
stationed ut adjacent forts. Generally
these gems are traded for stores by the
Indians at Gallup, Fort Defiance, Fort
| Wlngate, etc., whence they are sent to
large cities in the East in parcels weigh
ing from half an ounce to 30 pounds or 40
pounds. these garnets, which are locally
known as Arizonia and New Mexico
rubies, are the finest in the world, rival
ing those from the Cape of Good Hope.
Fine gems weighing from two to three
carats each and upward when cut are.
not uncommon.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, in the
Editors Drawer of Harper's Magazine,
proposes novel plan by which life may
be inverted, and most of the ills which
now affict mankind may be avoided.
"This plan," he says, ''has more to.
recommend it than most others for re-
moving poverty and equalizing con-
ditions. We should all start rich. and
the dying off of those who would never
attain youth would amply provide for
tunes for those born old. Crime would
be less also; for while there would,
doubtless, be some old sinners, the GRIM
inal class, which is very largely under
thirty, would be- much smaller than it is
now. Juvenile depravity would pro-
portionaly disappear, as not more peo-
! pie would reach homage than now reach
over-age. And the great advantage of
the scheme, one that would indeed trans
form the world, is that women would al
ways be growing younger"
The first land which has undertaken
the legal registration of hypnotism is
Belgium. A few days ago the Legisla-
lature adopted law which, in all proba-
bility, will serve as model for the legis-
lative action of other countries. 1t de-
clares that any one who exhibits publicly
person hypnotized by himself or others
will be punished by Imprisonment rang
ing from two weeks to six months, and
be fined from s. to 5000; that any one
not in possession of a physicians diploma
who hypnotizes person under 20 years
of age, or not in the full possession of
his faculties, will be punished by i'm
| prisonment and fine, whether the subject
be exhibited or not; and that any one
who allows hypnotized person to sign
document or paper, whatever its
nature, with the object of fraud, will be
punished by Imprisonment. The same
penalty threatens person who attempts
to use document signed by one while
hypnotized. The people of Belgium
have welcomed the adoption of the new
law.
SIR EDWARD REEDS plan for construct
ing railway across the British Channel
is to lay two mammoth tubes of steel
plate and concrete, twenty feet in
diameter. The tubes would be made in
lengths, and when two lengths were
completed they would be joined together
in a parellel fifty feet apart and foated
out into the Channel to be attached to
the completed length. All the work is
to be done above water. Thus, the end
of the completed tube is to be kept afoat
until fresh length is joined on. Then
that will be allowed to sink, and the last
attached part will form the end of the
completed part. This plan has already
been practised with success in America
in carrying the pipe, forty inches in
diameter, for waterworks a long dis
tance across body Of salt water. In
that case the engineer in charge invented
q joint which remained tight as the COM
pleted tube first hung in a curve, and
afterward adjusted itself to the bottom
on which it came to lie.
THE plans for the projected Protest
ant Episcopal Cathedral of ST. John the
Divine, in New York, have finally been
adopted. The cathedral will be built in
the form of cross. The total external
length will be 500 feet The width across
the front, 100 feet; width across the
transepts, 290 feet; height of central
spire, 425 feet from the floor of Cathedral;
from level of city, 525 feet. The width
of front towers will be 81 feet, and their
height 240 feet. Width of four hanking
towers, 43 feet; height, 100 feet; total
exterior diameter of central tower, 116
feet interior diameter, SO feet height
of vauting, 230 feet; depth of chancel,
120 feet; width of nave and chancel to
centers of piers, 60 feet; length Of nave,
180 feet; width from vestibule, 81 feet;
height of nave vaults, 105 feet; height
of chancel vaults, 115 feet height of
front gables, 155 feet. The cathedral
will stand on the highest, or nearly the
highest, ground in Manhattan Island,
and its first floor will be fully 100 feet
above the level of the city.
THE Chicago Tribune, which thinks
that the wife of Columbus has been
neglected, gives this sketch of her:
columbus was married in 1470, or
thereabouts, to q Miss Palestrello, of
Lisbon, whose father had distinguished
himself as a navigator. A part of Miss
Palestrelo's marriage dover was great
collection of valuable charts, journals
and important memoranda From child
hood she had displayed wonderful enthu-
siasm on the subject, partaking to
marked degree of the speculative and ad-
venturesome ideas and schemes in the
line Of geographical discovery for which
Lisbon was the headquarters. She pos
sessed fine education, and was widely
known as brainy, brilliant woman, who
was constantly urging her husband on in
the patti which finally brought him to the
wonderful goal with which we are SO
familiar. While girl Miss Palestrello