Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-01
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London funerals cost over S0,O0O,O00
annually.
The commercial marine of Canada
gives employment to some 10000 sail
OrS.
japanese seal fishing company has
been organized by Toxic capitalists
to compete with foreign sealers off the
coast of Japan.
An area of 5000 square miles south
of GO degrees north latitude in Canada
is suitable for the production of all
crops grown in England.
A Chesterville, Me-, couple recently
celebrated their golden wedding in the
very house into which they moved on
their wedding day fifty years before.
Almost the only monument of the Ro-
man dominion in Egypt, the fortress Of
Babylon, at old Cairo, is being torn
down to make way for modern build
ings.
Kildare and Wicklow have been just
ly termed the garden Of Ireland for no.
where is nature more profuse in her
display Of the picturesque and the beau
tiful
footman in an Englism nobleman's
house testified recently that his regular
pay was $3.50 year. He also testified
that his average tips" amounted to
$4,000 year.
Ihe Magma Charta, or great charter,
of English liberties is still preserved
in the British Museum. The impress of
the seal and King Johns name are both
very distinct.
A Kansas district has written con-
tract with teacher to teach the school,
chop the wood, make the fire, sweep
and find the matches for $50 month.
The teacher is woman.
A mass of eels weighing 300 pounds
clogged the water wheel which runs
the electric light plant of Riverhead,
l.. l., the other night, and the town was
In darkness for several hours.
OF the 4,914 seal skins brought into
Port Townsend, Wash, during the sea
son just closed $3.50 were of female
seals, an indication Of the rate at which
the seal herds are being destroyed.
The persons Of African descent in the
United States are classified according
to the degrees of colorcd blood into
G.331 $50 blacks, 9569S9 mulattoes 1885,
135 quadroons and 69,936 octoroons.
A seaweed of the South Pacific often
grows to be thirty or forty inches IN
diameter and 1900 to 2,C00 feet long.
1t has no root in the proper sense, the
nourishment being absorbed from the
water
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms,
where daylight appears, the eyes of
fish get bigger and bigger. Beyond that
depth small-eyed forms set in, with
long feelers developed to supplement
the eyes.
Three times as many American horses
have been sold in England this year as
We're called for in 1894, and their aver. =
age price at the ports of shipment has
been $155. They are used chiefly for
draft in London.
The Bank Of England has 1,160 Of
iicials on its pay roll, which amounts
to about $1,500,000 year, and 1000
clerks If clerk is late three times he
is discharged at once.
There is woman contractor and
quarry operator in Buffalo, who has
supplied stone for some of the most
important structures in the city. She
is the only woman who Is an active
member of the Buffalo Builders EX-
change.
A novel document was filed in the
office of the county recorder at Sedalia,
Mo-. few days ago. 1t is a paper
wherein Mrs. Belle Asher apprentices
her daughter, Letha Asher, 8 years old,
to Mary Jane Love, "to learn the trade
and art of housekeeping.
A thorough test is to- be made in Mari.
on County, Florida, as to the adaptable.
ity of the soil for the profitable cultiva-
tion of tobacco. 1t is estimated that
1000 acres will be planted with to-
bacco seed from Cuba and Sumatra
during the present winter.
NJ. Lebeau has succeeded in obtaining
pure glucnum from the emerald by
heating the precious stone in an electric
furnace until the Silicon Is volatilized.
The residue is combined with hydro
fuoric acid, and after series of puri-
fications gives pure glucinum.
Some people have been making a
count and find that not one of the State
governors in the United States is
Roman Catholic. There are no Roman
Catholics in the Cabinet, none in the
Supreme Court, and there never has
been one in the White House.
A Partisan had the remains of his
brother cremated. The ashes were put
in a leather bag, and sent by rail to his
brothers home. The bag was mislaid,
and a suit has been instituted by the
brother against the railway company
for the value of the dead mans ashes.
A Spanish illustrated comic weekly,
La Tela Cortada c'The Cut Cloth'O IA
printed on cloth the size of an ordinary
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