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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Virginia possesses the greatest mag
nesium mines in the world.
The eyes of birds that fly by night
are generally about double the size Of
day birds.
The Bertillon system for identifying
criminals by measurements has been
adopted by the New York City Police
Board.
If human dwellings, were constructed
on the same proportionate scale as the
ant-hills of Africa we should be living
in houses mile high.
An odd observation of Gilbert
White, confirmed by recent writers,
is that pheasant cocks invariably crow.
as if in answer to challenge, at the
sound of artillery or thunder.
1t is evident, according to the
American Machinist, that wheels con-
structed on the principle of the bicycle
wheel are not suited for use in ordinary
three and four wheel vehicles since
they are planned to sustain vertical
stress only, and are altogether I'M
fitted for lateral strain such as other
vehicles are subjected to.
A Frenchman has invented record
ing attachment for the piano, for the
use of composers, by which each key,
when struck, leaves u mark on a strip
of slowly-moving paper. By means of
this contrivance improved music may
be transcribed and feeting ideas
caught that, perhaps, it would be i'm
possible for the composer to recall
and commit to paper.
Plateau, Belgian experimenter,
throws doubt on the assumption that
insects are strongly attracted by
bright and contrasted colors in flow
ers. Snowy dahlias, hidden beneath
leaves and colored paper seemed to
be visited by bees and butterflies
quite as often as the exposed flowers.
1t is concluded that perception of
odors is the insects chief guide.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company finds that its ele ctric loco
motives are more expen sive than those
driven by steam, the former costing
thirty-eight cents per engine mile,
while the cost of the latter is but
twenty-three cents. However, as in
all other respects the use of electricity
in the tunnel has given far more salts
faction than that of steam, the former
will be continued.
Usually skeletons of prehistoric
peoples are found near the surface.
Except in the high mounds OF the
Mississippi valley they are seldom
more buried than ten feet deep. So
it is interesting to note that an ex-
cellently preserved skeleton was found
at Atlantic Highlands, N. j., twenty
two feet below the present surface,
accompanied by pipe, tomahawk,
drinking cup, shells and other articles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
A Chance for Students

The managing committee of the
American School of Classical Studies
in Rome, will offer for the year 1896 81
three fellowships, as follows: A fell
lowship of 5000, established by the
managing committee; fellowship of
5000, given by the Archaeological insti-
tute of America; a fellowship of $500
for the study of Christian archaeology.
contributed by friends Of the school.
The holders of these fellowships will
be enrolled as regular members of the
school and will be required to pursue
their studies, under the supervision of
the directors of the school, for the full
school year of ten months, beginning
Oct. Is, 1896. The fellowships are open
to bachelors of arts of American col
leges.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

In Australia they are exploiting n
whale cure for rheumatism, which is
said to be effective, though disagree
able. 1t was discovered by drunken
man, relates the New York Press, who
was staggering along the beach near
the whaling station Mt Twofold Bay,
and who, seeing dead whale cut open,
took header into tho decomposing
blubber. 1t took two hours for HIM
to work his way out, and he was then
not only sober, but cured of his rheu-
matism. Now. they say, a hotel has
been built in the neighboring town of
Eden, where rheumatic patients wait
for the arrival of whale in order to
take blubber baths.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Now cures for consumption continue
to be proposed, notes the Pathfinder.
None has so far proveda specific cure,
invariably successful or exclusively
acc cepted. Consumption appears to bo
the worst enemy of mans health in
this day, and it is probably increas-
ing. 1t is these serious considera-
tions that are urging 1cientists to
study more closely the pathology of
the lungs. Nature abhors unhealth
and as soon as we learn how to make
the conditions right it will be as easy
to reform n pair of lungs as to set a
broken arm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
Salt i'm History.

The necessity for salt among aborig.
inal races must have been paramount,
for nature Graves it. Salts of soda are
to be found in all animal and vogeta-
bic substances man uses, but it does
not seem to be SO assimilable as sodic
chloride. Primitive Americans were
certainly fortunate, because sources
Of salt far away from the seaboard are
fairly numerous. The work of procur.
ing salt must have fallen in large
measure on women. There was Mex
lean goddess who was honored US tho
salt giver. Bancroft, in his Azteo
studies, tolls how an Aztec king kept
the Tlascalas without salt for years,
until they acknowledged his sover-
eighty.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23


carry 50-pound sack of flour. Stoop-
ing down and catching medium-sized
man by the back of the coat collar with
his teeth. he lifted him from the ground
and walked across the street with him
with as much ease as the average man
would carry meerschaum pipe in his
mouth. He never wears a hat except
when he comes to town, as he fears 1t
will shorten his hair, and his shoes are
always out at the toes, his feet being
too long for any readymade pair. Sans
employer has a standing wager of 500
that he (Sam) can pull more than any
team of horses in the surrounding coun-
try. His real name is Sam Williams
He was given the name of Sam Satan
when he was a boy on account of his
many mischievous pranks, and he Is
now known by that name and no other.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
SATAN IN HARNESS.
A Giant Georgia Negro Does the Work
of a Mule.

II
of Mule,
"Satan at last in harness" should not
be construed as meaning that thccloven
hoof individual who figures most con-
spicuously in Dante's Inferno has been
suddenly halted in his travels to and
fro on this earth. The Satan here re-
ferred to is Sam Satan, giant negro.
of Dougherty County, Georgia, who al
lowed himself to be hitched to plow
and did the work of his deceased mule.
Sam had owned mouse-colored mule
for n number of years, but hard work
bad hurried it to the bone factory, and
money was not plentiful with Sam, and
just how he should do the plowing in
his field worried him very much. He
saw nothing else to do but to take the
mules place in the harness, and let his
wife do the driving. For one whole
summer Sam assumed the role of a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
Proof Positive.

A Scotsman who wanted to learn
what profession he would have his son
enter, put him into room with
theological work, an apple and six.
penny piece. If he found him when
he returned reading the book, he 1n-
tended to make a clergyman of him
If eating the apple, farmer, and if
interested in the money, banker.
When he did return he found the
boy sitting on the book, with the six,
pence in his pocket, and the apple al.
most devoured.
''That settles it," said the keen
Scotsman, 'the lads born lawyer, |
can easily see. San Francisco Ex-
amiper,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

A State organization of the school
boards of Minnesota has been formed.
There are similar organizations in Hi.
rois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas and
Pennsylvania, and National conven.
tion, the first, will be held in Buffalo
this year, in connection with the Ma
tional Teachers Association. The
purpose in the organization of these
State associations of school boards is
to gather and exchange opinions and
decisions. Without such organiza.
tion, it is argued, school boards are
independent bodies, each acting upon
its own best judgment, and knowing
little or nothing of the methods of
other boards. School teachers and
superintendent have their conven-
tions and exchange of ideas, and it is
equally desirable that members OF
school boards should have an oppor-
tunity of educsting themselves for
their duties
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Only one lighthouse in ninety miles
from Sandy Hook to Atlantic CITY,
and several boats, including the liner
st. Louis, have lately run on the
beach in that stretch, exclaims the
New York Dispatch. Only one light.
house for the Long Island shore ap.
proach to Sandy Hood for sixty miles
and over, where numerous wrecks are
beached and strew the coast every
year. Is the approach to the greatest
hurbor i'll tho world properly pro-
tected considering the dangerous
sands waiting to hold any craft unfor-
tunnte enough to get ashore and con-
sidering the enormous tonnage and its
value that has to reach this port by
running the gauntlet of the Jersey and
Long Island sands?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
HERO.

merly been IN island; but the Gov.
ernment had built dike-locally
called the "cut-otf the head of
the slough, which turned the water
into the main channel; and the rich,
low ground between them and the
shore road was where they planted
their garden.
There were three of them, John
Lane, his wife and their Fred, not
counting Hero; but Hero was SO large
and clumsy that he might have been
counted for q dozen. Whenever
he camo into the house the
dishes on the table we're in imminent
danger from the majestic sweep of his
huge, b1shy tail; and as this SO wor-
ried .Fred's mother for dishes were
costly and hard to get Fred kept him
out of doors most of the time, except
on cold nights in the winter. Then
Hero was allowed to come into tho
house, but was promptly made to 90
under Fred's bed, in order, as Mr..
Lane would say, that there might be
room enough left to turn in.
Mr.. Lane was raftsman, and had
worked Tor years around the old saw
mill that stood on the river bank q
mile above their little home. As the
mill ran only when the river was cpen
and free of ice, it was very difficult to
make his scanty earnings last through
the winter. 1t was Fred's work dur
ing the summer months to gather the
tph i
the mill. His father had built mar
row staging for him, which extended
out over the water; and by means of
long pole, having sharp iron hook
on the end, he could catch hold of
and secure any pieces that foated
near him.
Hero would sit on the bank and
grayely watch the proceedings; until
one day when Fred missed his mark
and fine, large block escaped him,
the dog graveiy rose, plunged into the
water and brought the block back to
the pile.
When Fred had recounted this feat,
his father built the staging wide
enough for two; and thereafter Hero
sedately stationed himself beside his
little master. Whenever large block
drifted past beyond Fred's reach, he
pointed it out to Hero, who would
swim for it and drag it ashore in his
huge mouth, with an air of: "There,
now did that all myself |" and then
gravely return again to his seat at the
end of the narrow staging. In this
way the pile grew rapidly, and before
the mill shut down they had more thar
enough for the winter.
AS Fred piledsthe last of it against
the house he laughIngiy said to hii
mother: II think old Hero has eernec
the right to stay in the house all hC
wants to, and to sing as loud as be
pleases when Daddy plays his fiddle
If it hadn't been for Hero, that pill,
would have been about half as large.
Hero looked as if he fully understood
it all, and, as Fred's mother said
"really smiled"
The winter was unusually long ant
severe, and it was quite late in tn,
Z spring before the ice moved out. TheI
the heavy rains set in, and for two
& "Cthb GuOlc Who hituOSb IL COuJlnuu
downpour. The river rose alarmingly
and then seemed to settle trihe; still
it worried Mr.. Lane, for he said th,
{ house was too old to bear the strair
should the water reach the foundation
Fred had great sport sending Hero
out for all sorts of things that foated
by; and then one morning, to his sor
, row. he saw his staging swept away
The river again rose rapidly, ant
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
Peculiar Way TO Grind Out n Living.

There is man with an Office on
West Twenty-eighth street who is
grinding out living in n peculiar
way. He conducts bure eau of nomen.
oiature. His specially is to name
titles for all sorts of plays. OF course,
he must reod the plays first. Many
authors who are unable to conceive an
appropriate title for their plays go to
this individual for catchy name. tt
the play is success he generally gets
a handsome bonus in addition to his
fee. He has been in the business for
seven years, and he says only two of
the plays which he named have gone
under. r.-New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Buffalo Bill is said, in Farm, Field
ana Fireside, to be the best known
American citizen. In Germany he is
looked upon as general, in France,
England and ireland as the most
prominent Presidential candidate, and
Ill Spain and Italy as cabinet officer
taking n tour for his health. The
members of the Wild West Show nre
looked upon as tho courtiers in his
train-typical American gentlemen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Music is published very cheaply.
The cost of 100 ,copies is only about
$40, if the cover of the music is plain.
There were 10000 musical compost.
tions turned out from American
presses last year. Hardly more than
dozen songs were n popular success.
Tbs need not deter the musically am.
bltious, who can, If they find the
proper place, become composers
"while you wait. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

1t is the announced purpose of An
drew Carnegie to make of Pittsburg
the cart centre" of America, by an
annual "salon" exhibition after the
manner of the Paris Salon. To induce
the worlds artists to send pictures for
exhibition he has decided to give
$50, 900 q year for the purchase of
prize winners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
"JOCK."
The Shepherd Collie Which Saved
Twenty five Horses.


When Mr.. Leicht, of the Paepcke-
Letcht Lumber Company, paid $25 for
Jock, Scotch collie, he little-thought
the dog would pay for itself a hundred
times over and save property worth
$4,000. Such, however, is the fact, and
had it not been for the sagacity of Jock
twenty-five horses belonging to Mr..
Leichts firm would have lost their
lives in the fire which partially destroy
ed Its lumber-yard on Tuesday night.
The horses We're in a stable in the rear
OF the building in which the fire was
discovered, and though the night
watchman cut their halters they would
not leave the building. Jock seemed
to understand the situation, and, rush
ing into the stalls, drove the animals
out one by one. He barked and bit at
the heels of the frightened animals,
and did better work than score of
men. One of the animals after he was
outside ran back into the burning sta
Bile and was followed by Jock. But the
efforts of the dog were of no avail; the
horse was fire mad" and was burned
to death.
Jock Is four years old and Is the
nightly companion of Watchman
Arndt. The dog discovered the fire
and by barking attracted the atten-
tion of the watchman. When his work
of rescue was complete he took up a
position by the yard gate, and neither
streams of water nor showers of sparks
would dislodge him from his place.
Jock is of pure Scotch breed, and, ac-
cordinS to his owner, Tuesday nights
occurrence was not the first exhibition
Of intelligence above the ordinary. Sev-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Julius Howe has peculiar deposit
on his farm in East Brookfield, Mass.
1t covers about an acre and lies at the
bottom of ravine in bog. 1t Is
about one and one-half feet thick and
is twelve inches below the surface. 1t
has been analyzed and found to con-
sist of the petrified shells or bodies of
minute flies or beetles. Upon being
burned 1t crumbles into n white pow
der, valuable for securing metal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

mule, and did the work in mastery
manner that created Jealousy among
the mules of the county.
Satan is seven feet tall and as strong
as an OK, and has the reputation of be-
ing the Samson of Georgia. One of his
feats that attracted especial attention
was where he picked up four men, each
weighing about $50 pounds. Putting
one on each shoulder and taking one on
each arm, he walked off down the street
as easily as an ordinary man would
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Chicago is very much afraid that
Canada might invade her, in case of
trouble with England, and is loudly
demanding Il big share of the cash ap-
propriated for fortifcations. What's
the matter with the brick battleship,
Illinois? asks the New Orleans
Picayune,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Eugene V. Debs was invited by the
Chicago University students to ad-
dress them, but the faculty wouldn't
allow it. They think Debs is dan.
gerous man, explains the New England
Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

The Chicago Inter-Ocean says:
'The civilization that can photograph
the invisible should not despair of
finding out what is the real cause and
practical cure of crime"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

Marshall Yamagata, of Japan, thinks
that this is the most wonderful coun-
try under the sun, and says that it is
the only Nation in the world that does
not need IN army.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
knowledge and Observation,

A field naturalist is one who supple
ments the knowledge acquainted by
study, by actual observation. The term
implies acquaintance with the habits
of animals, as well as with their anat-
omy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23
"JoCK," THE SHEPHERD COLLIE.

eral times he has driven suspicious
characters away from the yards, and
woe to the tramp who tries to turn
lumber pile into a lodging housc.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

No man is really unlucky unless ne
can make train late by going to the
depot to wait for 1t.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

ChiefJustice Judd, of Hawaii, hopes
for Union with the United States
the island republic to become either q
."Federal District or Territory"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

HEY lived in
n little two
roomed cab
IN on the
bank of the
Missi ssippi.
L h Q rising
ground which
t h ey occu-
pied had for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-23

When Mr.. Lane arrived at the mill
he joined in the difficult labor of pol
ing such logs as they could secure into
the comparatively still waters of a
little bayou and mooring them se-
curely. The men worked like Troians !;
but, strive as they might, thousands
of feet OF valuable timber were swept
away. By ones and twos and dozens
the great logs were whirled beyond
their grasp; and when daylight broke,
shout arose, and was repeated
hoarsely from man to man: 'The cut
offs broken open"
"Run, Lane !" the foreman shouted !;
"drop il and run for your cabin !"
But John Lane needed no such
spur. At the first intimation of the
break, he had dropped his pole and
raced away down the shore road.
"He'll need help, men," the fore
man said. "Joe Hart, you and Chap
man join him. Better to lose the
whole log jam than mates woman
and youngster."
Lane, in his haste, had thought OF
nothing, hoping only to fhd the house
standing; but Joe Hart thoughtfully
went into the mill and came out bear.
ing two coils of rope.
''l'm thinkun we'll need 'um," he
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-02-06
Has a Cog Slipped.

Mr. Brule, sitting in his cell in the Storey
county jail is trying to figure out the differ.
ence between his case and Collins, but so
far he has been unable to do So He fails to
see why he, for simply carrying some money
to Langevin, is to suffer Imprisonment
while the director general of the whole cur
ruption business and the instigator of all the
rascality in the case is still walking about
town unarrested.
Mr.. Brule has still to learn the difference
between poor devil with no pull and a
man who has done so much dirty work for
the rich and kept tag on all the frailities for
years. Coffin has the whip hand on certain
escape the penalty of his act in the Heney
trial, but can keep right on corruptiug wit
nesses and debauching jures in any other
case in which he is engaged. 1t is clear
case of "The Government be d" and no
man can say him nay.
The affidavit filed by U. s. Attorney Jones
is destined to become a white elephant on
somebody's hands before long.
The Appeal suggests that the U. s. Gov.
eminent send some agents out here from
Warrington and perhaps they can find cut
what causes this peculiar inertia in the ma
chinery of justice. There's cog slipped
somewhere. Carson Appeal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-02-06
Yuba Fire.

For the third time in its recent history,
the hosting works at the Yuba mine was
threatened with destruction by FIRE yester-
day evening. A strong cold wind had just
set in from the north, when about 6:l5 the
fire bell sounded. Smoke was seen issuing
from the northeast corner OF the building.
As quickly as possible half dozen made
the steep ascent and by that time the
flames had mounted the side of the building
clear to the roof some twenty feet high and
the utter destruction Of the works seemed
certain. Fortunately sufficient steam was
on to operate the pump and stream was
turned on which soon had the flames under
control
The IRE appears to have started on the
outside midway between the corner of the
building and the east door aud is generally
believed to have come from the ash pit, the
source of danger which caused the threat
ened destruction of the premises four weeks
ago. The day shift had left at $50 and no
one was in or around the place when the
fire was first observed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-02-06
The Local Newspaper.

Assist your local papers in their efforts to
disseminate information concerning the re.
sources OF the county, says Jim Townsend
in the Bodie Index. Do not be small about
it. Don't run away with the absurd notion
that when You pay newspaper little
money for services rendered, you are doing
an act of charity or that the money SO ex.
pended has irretrievably 'gone up the
aume." II you entertain this fallacy you
are away off your commercial and social nut.
The local newspaper is lever that moves
great deal sometimes. When man has no
immediate use for it he is apt to speak
slightingly Of it, but when he has an ak to
grind be suddenly changes his tune and is
disposed to hob mob with the editor and
propitiate the devil. A newspaper does a
vast amount of work for which it is never
paid, and many little favor is granted
which is not adequately appreciated. Anx-
iety to get something into the local paper
is not infrequently exceeded by desire to
to keep something out. On such occasions
the paper is deemed to have an influence
and the editor worth cuzzening up to.