Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-19

than on a bright day, bdt no matter
what the weather is 1t is a poor day
when the trap will not yield fifty spar
rows.
Austria gives prizes to farmers to
encourage them to recover waste lands
and lay them down as pasturage, and
also to erect shelters or stables for
cows in high attitudes. The Importance
OF this may be seen from the statement
that one-quarter OF the total fodder re-
quired for cattle and horses in the EN-
pire Is derived from Alpine districts.
In the front of house in the Fauborg
dc Shaerbuch, in Brussels, there is to
be seen, half buried in plaster, can
non ball which was fired from Dutch
cannon at the period of the revolution
of 1880, and has ever since been per-
mitted to remain. Recently it was de-
termined to restore and refront the
house, and it was decided to make the
repairs without disturbing the cannon
ball.
At Portland, Me-, one of the crew of
hsling schooner went out in dory
to haul up some travis which were set
Off Pemaquid in thirty fathoms of wa
ter The usual number of cod and had
dock were found on the hooks but the
man received one of the biggest sur
prises of his life when he hauled in
torty-pound salmon. What in the world
the big fish was doing out in deep water
no one can explain.
Henry Elliot, who has written numer-
GUS papers on the fur seals of the North
ern Pacific, tells how the Eskimo, with
Il frail skin canoe, when the craft,
heavily laden with furs, had to land its
freight on craven beach, put row
of inflated sealskin floats in front of the
umiak their skin boaO and rolled her
high and dry. Without that precau.
ton the thin skin bottom of their boat
would have been torn.
OF all the varied changes in the Yale
commencement exercises, the most i'm.
portant is the last step which places
the scientific department en- clear
footing with tile academic. The intro
duction Of class day, Il senior prom
enade and high stand scholarship So
ciety are, perhaps, only symbolic, but
they have broken down the last bar
riers which separate the academic from
the scientific departments.
In 1880, Tampa Fla, had 720 inhab.
itants, and in 1894, 15,6sS. Five lines
| of steamers run regularly between
Tampa and New Orleans, Mobile, Ha.
vana, Key West and local ports. Its
hotel property is valued at $3,00O,0OO
The city las twenty-five miles of cleo
trlc car lines, three electric light plants,
about seventy-five cigar factories, and
is supplied with pure spring water
through eighteen miles OF mains, to The
extent Of 100000 gallons daily.
One Of the sections of the Constitu.
tion for Utah provides that the States
Indebtedness shall never exceed $780,.
900. Another forbids the giving OF
loaning of State, county, city or Dor.
ough credit to any business enterprise
Another fixes the salary of the Gov
ernor at $4,000 year. Another pro
vides that trial juries shall consist of
the concurrence of six out of the eight
shall be sufficient for legal verdict.
In Los Angeles, in jewelry store
three-horse power motor Is used in the
cutting of precious stones. The ma
chine worked by the motor is said to
be the only one of the kind in the coun.
try. The stone is held by a quadrant
which is adjusted by a set screw to its
required position on the lap. AS many
rs sixty stones can be cut at one time.
and the method of adjustment Is sc
accurate that in no case would there
be the slightest possibility of over.
grinding.
From the registry of visitors kept at
Stratford-on-Avon, 1t appears in the
past year there have been in round
numbers IA 900 visitors, of whom 1000
We're from the United States. Shaks-
peare's plays were among the first pre-
sented by regular theatrical companies
in the American colonies, and the visit
of Washington Irving to StratforI. with
his charming description of 1t, did more
than has ever been done by any other
single person to turn mems minds to.
ward the quiet old town beside the
Avon.