Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-06
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The Rothschilds have an $1S, 1000
clock.
Umbrellas are made of vanished
paper.
The canvas-back duck is the sub.
lect of poem of praise by Maryland
man.
No parental care ever falls to the
lot of single member of the insect
tribe.
Kentucky courts have decided that
gas companies cannot collect rent for
their gas meters.
Bananas are so plentiful in Martin
ique, West Indies, that big bunch
may be bought for cent.
Commercial travellers arc now al
lowed to take samples into Russia
without paying duty on them.
1t is stated by the attendants at ZOO
logical gardens that no ape will sleep
fiat on his back, as adult man often
does.
The name Munich is derived from
the fact that the monks owned the
property on which the town now
stands.
In 1888 the Dutch lost the vessel
Antoinetta, an Indiaman, and with
her sank SO, 900, besides jewels
of great value.
The Church of England boasts among
its clergy one Eskimo. The clergy
man in question is Rev. Robert Glib.
bons, and his parish is Parrsboro,
Nova Scotia.
Peter Cooper's engine, the Tom
Thumb, weighed about ton; the
wheels were two and half feet in di-
amter, and the smokestack looked like
q big "putty blower"
A comrade of Edwin Libby Post, G.
A. R., of Rockmann, Me-, has made
with his knife 100000 toothpicks
within the last three years and sold
them for the benefit of the post.
The first use of gus in a place of
public amusement was in the Lyceum
Theatre in London in 1903. 1t was
begun rs an experiment, and for
time was discontinued because the
audience complained of the odor.
A preacher named John Smith died
suddenly in the pulpit in the midst OF
his sermon at Penshar, England. Ex-
actly forty years before to day an
other preacher, also named John
Smith, died suddenly in the same
pulpit.
A novel alarm letter box has been
invented. The principle is to let
householders know when letters have
been dropped in, their weight releas-
ing catch which allows short spring
to uncoil and set vibrating hammer
to ring bell.
The pigmies of Central Africa arc
supposed to be the remains of an an
cient race which once occupied the
whole of tropical Africa and Southern
Asia. They have lost their original
language and history, and only rem
nants of their nun bers remain.
Minnie Chew is woman highway
robber serving term in the Ohio
Penitentiary at Columbus by wild
screaming and wilder talking at night
she has made the keepers SO angry
that they now keep her chained up in
her cell, with halter tied in her
mouth to insure silence.
The winter days in Sweden are only
six hours long. In the northern part
of the peninsula the sun does not rise
once for two months. This is made
up for, however, by the sunny sum
mer. In the north the sun does not
set for weeks and weeks, an endless
day. The most glorious sight of oil
the northland is the midnight sun.
A political agent in England re-
Gently sent the following protest to an
elector: "To Mr.. X. Y. Z.-Take no.
tice that I object to your name being
retained on the list of the ownership
electors Of the county, and ground
my objection on the fact that you are
dead" The document was addressed
to the dead man and opened by his
widow.