Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-04
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Nearly all tho chickens in the west
orn part Of French Guiana are perfect
ly white.
Reptiles and fishes are not generally
provided with eyelds, these projections
being to them unnecessary.
Alabama has twenty-seven national
banks with combined capital of 3d.
694,000. The State banks number
eleven.
According to the latest school consus
In New York 10000 fewer children were
in attendance ut the schools than n
year ago.
The Bay of Fundy has the highest
tide in the world. 1t rises foot every
five minutes, and sometimes attains q
height of seventy feet.
Only seventy years have elapsed since
the first railway in the world was. fin
ished. During that comparatively brief
period 100000 miles have been con-
structed.
1t will be unlawful to kill quail in
Kentucky for the ensuing two years,
except in November and December, an
act to that effect having passed the
Kentucky Legislature.
Russia and Japan will have the total
eclipse of the sun on Aug. 8 entirely
to themselves, as the line of totality
passes through Nova Zembla, Siberia,
and the Island of Jesse only.
The Argentine Republic consists Of
federation of fourteen States and
nine Territories. The population is not
far short of 100000. For eight months
of 1895 the average monthly shipment
of live cattle was 1000 steers and A.
600 head of sheep.
According to careful research there
are fifty-one anarchist papers publish
ed in Europe and America. One is in
Dutch, ten German, eleven French,
eight Italian, nine Spanish, two Span
ish and Italian, two Portuguese, two
Tzechish and six English.
The original impression that the tolls
on the Baltic canal are too high has
been strengthened by the confession OF
the Secretary of State for the Interior
that the number of ships passing
through the canal does not in the least
answer Government expectations.
A singular Corean hat is great
round mat of straw worn by Il mourn
er The hat is bound down at the
sides so as almost to conceal the head
| and face of the wearer lie carries in
his hand a screen or fan, and when in
bo ol him, In
holds the screen in front of him, so that
| it, together with the hat, completely
conceals him.
A large collection of 1000 stuffed
| birds and many series of bird skeletons
have been bequeathed to the British
museum by the late Henry Seebohm,
| the naturalist. 1t is the most valuable
| gift made to the natural history section
of the museum in II quarter of cen
| tury. Its pathological collection Is
now the largest in the world, consist
ing of 100000 specimens.
1t is said that the quivering of the
| aspens leaves is due to the fact of the
leaf stalk being fat on the sides, and SO
thin about the middle that the slightest
| breath of wind sets all the leaves wag-
ging horizontally. A single leaf pluck
| ed off and taken by the end of the leaf
stalk between the thumb and forelinger
admirably illustrates the popularity Of
the aspen.
A writer, referring to the weather in
London during January, speaks of it as
| follows: 'It seems almost sarcastic
to mention London sunshine, which
amounted to just over seven hours,
about eighteen less than the average,
or less than quarter of an hour per
day. Some districts, were, however,
more favored, Pembroke and Scilly
both recording seven hours sunshine
on two consecutive days. Rain fell on
| twelve days, but only succeeded in pro
| ducing eight-tenths of an inch, consid,
erably less than half the average"
A Pittsburg paper points with pride
to what it calls the shortest will on
record, just probated in that city. 1t
reads as follows: Il hereby give all my
rights, titles and interests in every
thing to Louisa Hoover This will
l
Kennedy, venerable pioneer, and
who ut one time owned and operated
the ferry between Covington and Gin
cnnati, made will that discounts the
Pittsburg will, and it disposed of a
very large estate. This was its Ian.
guage: Il want my good wife to have
my estate" 1t beats the Pttsburg will
in brevity by six words.
An unmarried rancher, A. NJ. Gif-
ford, 63 years old, who has for many
years lived alone on his property near
Union Mills, Ore, was sent to the State
asylum few days ago violently insane.
He was driven crazy by the appalling
lonesomeness of his existence and is
the second solitary rancher committed
to the asylum under such circumstances
from the same county within month.
Such cases are not uncommon in prairie
States like the Dakotas and Nebraska,
| but Ii Is more often the wife of n ranch