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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

The well that prompted Samuel Wood
worth to write 1.-The Old Oaken Bucket"
is still kept in good condition at Scituate,
Mass.
The lord chancellor of England, on
retiring from office, has pension of
$4,000 year for life whether his term
of office has been long or short.
Mayalipuram, India, is graced with
seven of the most remarkable temples in
the world, each of these unique temples
of worship having been fashioned from
solid granite powders.
The knitted woolen sweater worn by
athletes and others who must guard
against sudden cold when warm with
exercise is the almost exact counterpart
of the outer garment worn by Dutch
fishermen on the coast of Holland.
The hill near Jerusalem where the
crucifxion occurred is formed of lime
stone. The shores of the Dead sea are
lined with pumice stone showered out of
some volcano that destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank be-
meath the waters of the Dead sea.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
RAILROAD JOTTiNGS.

The Philadelphia and Reading an
nounces that Swartwood station on the
Buffalo division of the Lehigh Valley
road has been discontinued.
Secretary of State Rice has issued a
certificate authorizing the Jersey Cen
tral railroad to do business in New York
state under sections 10 and 16 of the gen
eral corporation law.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is now building at its shops at Altoona
cars for the transportation of the 124
and 65-ton guns which will be sent to
to the Chicago exposition by the Krupps,
of Germany.
The Pullman Palace Car company has
made contracts with the Little Rock
and Memphis for period of twenty-five
years from May 2, 1892; Western New
York and Pennsylvania, for period o.
twenty-five years from the same date
Chesapeake and Ohio, extended for pc
riod of fifteen years from Jan. l, 1892.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
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BRIsToL'S WESTERN MAIL.
What Came of Printing an Interesting
Item About Spinsters.

! What Came of Printing Interesting
Item About Spinsters.
Communications have lately been
| pouring in in extraordinary numbers
upon the two youths who act respec
lively as postmaster and postmaster's
clerk at the postoffice in Bristol. These
missives were from many lone bachelors
in the far west, desiring the postal off
cials to procure for them the names and
addresses, and, if possible, without re-
gard to cost, the photographs of some
of the many maidens of whom these
same bachelors understand the popula-
ton of the town is chiefly composed.
A story concerning the astounding
numbers of maidens of an uncertain age
who resided ON a certain street and with
in the canfines of one short square in
Bristol had appeared in The Record, and
the cause of the influx was at once ex-
planned. This article had been circu-
lated far and near, and had been copied
from one paper to another until the fame
of that Bristol square was widespread.
Many lone bachelor, sitting partner
less by some western hearth, devoured
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grew upon him that he could stand it no
longer, but poured forth his desires for
a wife to comfort that loneliness to the
Bristol postmaster.
The Bristol postoffice is modest in
stitution, and was at first so embarrassed
by these appeals that it knew not what
to do, but finally, rehecting upon the
wretchedness of those lone western
bachelors, its large heart so overflowed
with sympathy that it bethought itself
of taking the matter in hand. Upon
consideration it was decided to post the
letters in some place not conspicuous,
but where the searching eye of the Bris-
tol spinster would perchance light upon
them.
For some time after the posting of
these letters the Bristol maidens had
much need of stamps, ETC., and dropped
in at the postoffice for every mail. In
the course of a few weeks there was
such an increase in the western mail
coming to Bristol that an additional bag
had to be provided for its accommoda-
ton. At mail time a continuous line of
bashful spinsters from the street in
question was observed entering with ex-
pectant faces and issuing with either
bushes or with sighs.
The residents of Bristol know not how
to account for the presence of such in
Vulnerable hosts of minated maidens,
unless it be that the buildings on the
street-in so many cases resembling,
with their porticoes and friezes, the Tenn
pie of Diana-have inspired in the fe-
male Bristol breast q desire to follow
the chaste goddess example, but soon
evidently this condition of affairs may
be Observation-Disclosures Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
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CHATS ABOUT MEN.

Baron Hirsch is about to distribute
another lump of 100000 among English
charities.
Whitelaw Reid is the heaviest tax
payer in the town of Harrison, West
chester county, N. Y.
Sir Julian Pauncefote is not only a
musician of considerably ability, but has
published number of original compo-
sitions.
Chief Justice Peters, of Maine, recent
ly completed the seventeen year of his
age, and reports himself in excellent
physical condition.
1t is rumored that William A. Slater,
of Norwich, Conn, the cotton manu-
facturer, is to have a steam yacht (which
is to eclipse anything now afoat."
Secretary Foster is the thirty-frst
secretary of state and six of his thirty
predecessors became president-Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Van Buren and Buchanan.
Rev. William J. Potter, for thirty
three years pastor of the Unitarian
church at New Bedford, Mass, has re-
signed, and his congregation has voted
to pay him $4,000 year for five years.
Major Virginius Freeman, one of the
best known civil engineers in the south,
died recently at Norfolk. He built the
Norfolk and Virginia Beach road and at
one time was chief engineer in the United
States navy.
Dom Sebastian, the new superior gen
eral of the Order of the Trappists, is a
Frenchman who formerly served as
captain in the Pontifcal zouaves and
fought with distinction in the army of
his own country during the campaign
of 1870,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
THE FASHIONS.

Mixed silk and wool fabrics that are
repped from selvage to selvage are in
great favor.
Round and slightly pointed waists
with corselets, girdles and bretelles are
still in high vogue.
Venetian velours is soft thick cloth
with velvet finish. 1t is used for jack
cts, capes and portions of winter gowns.
Some of the autumn bonnets are
trimmed with ribbons of ottoman silk
in rich stripes, or with uncut velvet with
grounds of the most exquisitely varying
shades.
Box plated, coronet and gathered
skirt backs are all popular, and the
fashion of trimming each OF the gored
seams all the way from belt to hem on
the front and sides is gaining ground.
Nothing could be handsomer than the
empire and directoire long coats and
cloaks made ready for winter wear.
Some are of cloth, others of Russian
velours, and the richest of plain and
ribbed velvet in combination.
Overdresses have appeared among the
latest inportations from abroad. One
arrangement shows very close bell
skirt, with six breadths (ungored and
either open on the sides or down the i'm.
mediate 'front.' falling over the bell un
derskirt. New York Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
STAGE GLINTS.

Over $50, 900 people witnessed cali
Bahia" during its long run in Chicago.
Bernhardt's season under Mr.. Abbey
in Europe is said to have exceeded all
expectations of success.
Robert Downing and company are re-
hearsing new play entitled Richard
the Lion Hearted" to be produced for
the first time in Toronto.
Jennie A. Eustace, the widow of the
"Aabama" company, has clever paper
in The North American for November on
"Objections to Theatrical Life"
Manager A. F. Hartz cabled to Paris
offering Paderewski 100000 to appear
next season as Adrian Karie, the mu-
sician, in Edwin Milton Royle's
Friends" A feature of the play is a
piano recital incidental to the story.
In Omaha recently Clara Morris pro-
duced a new emotional play called
CLAIRE" an adaptation from the Ger
man by herself. The new piece is said
to have made a success and is to be con.
tinued as the chief feature of her roper
tory this season.
E. S. Willard will open his New York
engagement at the Star theater on Nov.
21, under A. M. Palmer's engagement,
supported by Marie Burroughs, Louis
Mason, Royce Carleton, Mamie Grad
dock, and other well known players,
in "The Middleman."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
Pound q Petriiied standin,, Forest.

f. B. Schemerhorn, geologisS, who re-
Gently discovered the great glaciers in
Idaho county, has found a fossil forest
in the center of Custer county. In the
same locality he has discovered the pet
rified bones of Il now extinct race of men
and animals, which will be sent to Chi
cago.
The forest covers an area of four
square miles, and the condition of the
ground shows that at one time an enor-
nous flow of clay, which worked in from
the northwest, buried the tree trunks to
a great depth. This clay has turned to
stone, and no one can ascertain its true
depth without going to great expense.
All the trees in this forest have their
tops broken off and stand from ten to
forty feet above the ground, averaging
about twenty-eighJ to the acre. Schem-
erhorn took the exact measurement of
some of the trees, and found them to
average twelve feet in diameter ON top
and sixteen feet in diameter at the sur
face of the ground.
How far the trunk reached through
the clay stone to the soil he had no
means of ascertaining. A branch which
had become detached from tree and
was lying about sixteen feet from it was
three feet in diameter. From the size
of the trees and their branches Mr..
Schemerhorn thinks they are a species of
redwood, such as is found in California,
and attributes their fossilization to the
clay, which, bearing large part of
mineral, and presumably coming from
some volcano soon turned the living
trees into monuments of stone.-Idaho
Cor. San Francisco Examiner.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
A Cow Inside of u Log.

Owen Clancy, Of Summit, missed a
very valuable COW last week and spent
several days looking for her without
finding any trace of her whereabouts,
and had about concluded that she had
been stolen when one of his children
discovered the animal not over fifty
yards from the house. She had wandered
into hollow cedar log, presumably to
get into the shade, and in pushing her
way for fifty feet into the log she passed
through place where it had splintered
in falling, with the splinters headed in
the direction she was going.
OF course when she attempted to back
out her exit was effectually blocked, the
splinters having sprung back. And there
she was, as securely confined as any pris-
oner in the penitentiary. When discov-
cred there she had been imprisoned for
five days.
Mr.. Clancy had to cut the log in
front of her before she could be taken
out, nothing the worse for her expert
ence except for her enforced fast. The
COW weighs about 1,500 pounds, so the
size of the cedar timber in that "neck
of the woods" can be imagined. d.-Elmira
On. W Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
PROF. VENO is HERE.
An Account of the Wonderful Work He
Did at Nanticoke.

Last night, at Smoulter's hall, Veno,
the wonder-worker, created quite SEN
sation. The hall was crowded, and
many were unable to gain accommoda-
ton. About half past eight, an old man
named Smith, living at 20 Seal alpingtown,
this city, who was severely crippled
from rheumatism and unable to work
hobbled on the stage as best he could
with stout cane in his hand for sup
port. This man has been treated by
several doctors but failed to get cure,
Where physicians fail, Neno succeeds,
for in about half an hour the old man
re-appeared on the platform without his
cane. jumping and leaping for joy at the
sudden change. The man showed him
self free from pain and stiffness, and
walked home without his cane.
Michael Ptak, from Centre street, Ply
mouth, also appeared on the stage to tell
the people about the miraculous cure
that had been wrought on him by Veno.
lie had been completely crippled for
three years, and for nine months could not
work or walk about. 1t is now three
weeks since Neno treated him and last
night he showed himself to be able to
walk as free and as easy as any man. He
felt much stronger and able to work.
lie was unstinted i'll his praises of the
man who brought him back to health
and strength after so many physicians
had failed. Before Neno's iniment and
medicine were applied to him he was not
able to raise his right arm or stoop to
put on his boots, but is now able to do
both as freely and easily as he ever did,
and has no further use for his crutches
since Neno's very first treatment.
Noah Davis, at present living near
Providence, but formerly of Nanticoke,
was cured by Veno of sciatic rheumatism
about six weeks ago and is now working
every day. Many others in the neigh
borhood have been cured. Some of the
cures seem almost impossible, but facts
are hard to deny and seeing is believing.
Neno has certainly shown himself to be
one of the greatest healing, wonder
workers of the present age. He stays in
Nanticoke until Saturday Nantjcoke
Duly Neecs.
Prof. Neno will be at the Cottage hotel
hall, Freeland, during this week. His
first lecture will be given this evening,
and all are cordially invited to hear
him. Admission is free.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Mrs. Manak, one of the Eskimos at the
Eskimo village at the Chicago Worlds
fair, gave birth to daughter, who was
christened Columbia Susan.
francesca Paolo Nuchetti, the celehrat-
ed Abruzzi painter, is painting at Rome
a large picture Of st. Dominic, which he
intends for the Chicago exhibition.
"What America Owes to Women" is
the title of a book which Mrs. Lydia
Hoyt Farmer is preparing for the wom-
ans department of the Worlds fair.
dorado Taft has placed his two groups
before the main entrance to the Horti-
cultural building, of which "The Sleep
of the Flowers" is said to be graceful
and even poetic.
ASioux squaw, living near San Diego
Cal, will exhibit in the Woman's build
ing at the Worlds fair dress of deer
skins, richly embroidered with sixteen
pounds of beads. She worked for two
years in making the garment.
Mrs. John A. Logan proposes to ask
the managers of the Worlds fair tc
make an appropriation for bringing ovel
from Scotland suitable tenant for the
Burns cottage in the person of the po-
cts great-granddaughter, Miss Jean Ar.
moar Burns Brown.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Carrie F. Cochrane, of Nashua,
N. H., has been appointed notary pub
lie.
One of the new bellies of England is a
Miss Fraser, WHO'S described as straw
berry blond.
The Baroness James Rothschild is re-
ported to possess the finest collection of
fans in Europe.
Miss Ella Bradley publishes small
paper at New Orleans in the interests of
colored women, hoping to raise their
standard and give them a chance to eX-
press their own opinions.
Miss Frances Willard, the prohibition
lecturer, strongly advocates Jean Inge-
low for poet laureate of England, al
though she evinces no hope that such
will be the queen's-or Mr.. Gladstone S
choice.
Mile. Rose L'Ouverture, grand
daughter and the only living descendant
of the great Haytian soldier, lives in the
village of Soirac, France. She is sixty
nine years old and dependent upon an
annual pension of ,552 francs paid her
by the government.
Miss Helen M. Gould, daughter of the
great tinancier, is worth in her own
right no one knows how many millions.
She spends more on her charities than
on her dress, which, for the street, is
simplicity itself. She seldom is seen a
any brilliant gatherings. At the opera
she wears pretty, but not striking gowns
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05

"The largest organ in the world' has
an unfortunate habit of spreading itself
over great surface. 1t is in Boston, in
Harlem, in dozen other European
cities, in Garden City, in Brooklyn, in
Chicago. Possibly we may have it some
time in New York. The great Harlem
organ has sixty stops and 4,OSs pipes.
Fifteen of these stops and 1908 of the
pipes are in the echo organ. 1t takes so
much strength to play this organ that
the organist is said to be completely ex-
hausted after a performance.
The organ in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
mas llO stops and 4 ,448 pipes. The organ
IN the Chicago Auditorium has 100 speak
ing stops and enough mechanical acces-
sorles and pedal movements to bring the
number to 176, and 1924 pipes, besides
slxty-nlne bells. The echo organ alone
has 84s pipes. York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05

L have had some personal experience
in the drowning or being drowned bust
ness. st. Paul was thrice wrecked;
was thrice drowned. | want to record
for the benefit of those who feel like
making the experiment that death did
not come to me as 'the gentle friend" "
but rather as ''the grisly terror" From
such an experience heaven forefend me
evermore.
The events of my life most surely did
come up before me, like a swiftly NOV
ing panorama, with awful vividness and
startling reality. | did not call them
up; they came; they thronged; they op-
pressed they overwhelmed me. | will
carry the remembrance thereof to my
grave.
| was never hanged, though perhaps |
should have been, but | was three times
"drowned"-once beneath the ice when
skating, once in the ocean, so completely
that the first attempt at resuscitation
was abandoned, when it occurred to
some persevering friend to try again,
with the happy result that | am still a
living, breathing, sentient being.
The terrors of death have to my mind
always been one of the great deterrents
of sin, and he that robs death of its
frown is plucking out one of the sharp
est stings of sin. Besides, will not the
Suicide club delight to learn for certain
the pleasant and painless" road to
death! have long believed that virtue
only can make the bed of death ''soft as
downy pinions are. Cor. New York
Sun
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
TURF TOPICS.

Tanmany won more money than any
other American 3-year-old this year.
Ormonde, the famous English race
horse, has been bought for $50 600, and
will be taken to California for breeding
purposes.
The Santa Anita weanlings are twenty
nine in number, and a recent visitor
says that if size and conformation go for
anything they are grand lot.
Pierre Lorillard is accused of playing
a foxy game with Locohatchee with an
eye on the early handicaps of 1898. The
colts quarter crack is said to be myth.
Montana is certainly most fat and
stale. He cannot race little bit any
more, and the best thing they can do
with him is to put him away until next
season.
Pierre Lorillard will send Trainer
John Higgins to England to buy some
serviceable handicap and stake horses
for him, being unable to find what he
wants in this country.
English turfmen are excited over the
prospects of a match between the Duke
of Westminster's colt Orme and Baron
Hirsch's filly La Fleche. If made the
match will be for $50, 900 side.
An eastern authority says that
Snapper" Garrison will go to Eng
land next spring to ride for the English
branch of Marcus Daly's stable. His
contract calls for $4,000 and expenses.
1t is said that the $4,000 G.. w. John
son has been fired. DIR. Knapp, how
ever, had DR.. Sheppard examine the leg
before the Brown sale, and his opinion
was that if fired it would stand train
ing. So the doctor bought with his
eyes open.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
a Great Boon to London Mechanics.


Nearly 600 young men and women have
applied for membership in the splendid
new Polytechnic in the Borough road.
The big institution must prove the great
est boon to the densely packed district
III the midst of which it stands. 1t does
ones heart good III going over the build
ing to see the way in which Mr. Edric
Bayley and Mr.. Evan Spicer, l.. G. c.,
and other south London philanthropists
have combined the usual "poly" fea-
tures-gymnasium, swimming bath, lab
oratories, carpenters shops, photograph
lc studies, and so on, with excellently
equipped rooms for laundry work and
plain sewing.
AT small cost the mems and women's
clubrooms have been given an exceed
ingly refined and attractive appearance.
For deposit of five shillings, to cover
breakages, the young chemists are to be
provided with bench and cupboard
full of requisites, which is wonderful in
its completeness. In every department,
III fact, the same thoroughness is appar-
ent. Even the music class rooms have
double doors.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05
POINTED FACTS.

America produced 10,000,00O barrels
of salt last year.
In Japan every child is taught to work
with both hands.
Cigar stubs bring about shilling a
pound in London.
The Swedish mile is II ,666 yards long,
and the Vienna post mile is S,266 yards.
There is room for just five more dead
in the poets corner" of Westminster
abbey.
The oldest church in America is that
of San Miguel, in Santa Fe, N. NJ. 1t
was built in 1545.
In 1841 each individual consumed thir-
teen ounces of tobacco; in 1891 he con-
sumed twenty-six ounces.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-05

There is large factory at a small
town near Chicago employing about 100
to $50 workers, which is wholly given
over to the manufacture of useful arti-
cles from waste animal blood. At GER
tain seasons of the year this unique fac
tory uses from 10000 to $1,000 gallons
of fresh blood per day. 1t is first con-
verted into thin sheets by evaporation
and certain chemical processes, and aft
erward worked up into variety of use
full articles, such as combs, buttons, ear
rings, belt clasps, bracelets, etc Tons
of these articles are sent to AN parts of
the world every year from this "bloody''
Sucker State manufactory.-St. Louis
Republic.