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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
Age Of Fish Uniim iei.

"The age of fish is almost unlimil
cd" observed an official OF the FsI
Commission, in reply to question:
"Professor Baird devoted grent deal
OF time 20 the question as to the length
of life OF fish,, and hs found that the
o, dinnry carp, if not interfere with,
would live five hundrc wears. In hii
writings on the subject he stated lhn
there is now living iii the noyal
Aquarium, in Russia, several cart
that are known to be over six hundred
years old, and that lie had ascerttin;J
in number of cases that villa e5 ligf
to be over two hundred ycGrs old. \
gentleman in Baltimore has had IN
ordinary gold fish for SIXTY thr'e
years, and his father informed hirr
that he had purchased it o9er forty
years before it came into his pos .c..
sion. Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
LIFE AND LOVE.

Life and Love at the crossroads met,
Out for a holiday;
Cried Love. "Sweet Life thy cares forget
'Tis Love who bids thee stay,
Come, journey on without regret,
Through summer hours Away"
A rose-white blur against the sky,
Crab-apple blossoms blow;
The drifting swallows homeward fly
To April slopes aglow;
And Life and Love in laughter vic
As on their way they so.
Pans pipes sigh meath crescent moon,
Like cobwebs float and stray;
Night moths seek the white flowers soon,
'Tis the dafrodil month of May;
And the pilgrims sing a merry tune,
They are comrades true for aye.
To June's rose-hidden portals led
Glad Love his comrade true;
"Now we must part" was all Life said,
'And fare alone. for who
Finds Love and June and roses red,
Has lived his day-adIeur'-
Nancy NJ. Waddle. in Ladies' Home Journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

arm was still around her when he
looked into her face and saw that she
was looking up into his. Something
in her eyes prompted him to draw her
close to him and say, very tenderly:
Sweetheart, l como from the
North, but J. love Southern girl.
Don't you think that she can love
Northern man just little-if he IS
not Yankee?"
She studied the arrangement of his
necktie closely, and then transferred
her scrutiny to his watch chain. But
evidently she was not thinking of
either. for when she spoke, she asked:
'Illinois people aren't Yankees?"
"Certainly not!' he replied with
conviction. "They are a long way
from Yankeedom. More than thou
sand miles" She examined the neck
tie again. looked into his eyes for q
moment, then over his shoulder, off
into the rain.
katherine" he said, softly, "Do
you love me?"
She turned her head slowly until
their eyes met. A wave OF color
rushed into her cheeks, and she mur-
mered faintly--"Yes."
"And you will be my wife?"
With perhaps sudden thought of
her surroundings, and of a stormy
day thirty years before, she replied ::
'I---I surrender"
The rain, rs il to hide the scene
from any possible observer, fell more
heavily for moment. Then it ceased
altogether, and soon the sun shone
through from blue sky where the
gray clouds had parted. ST Louis
Renublic
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
The Feigning of Death by Animals.

The habit of feigning death for the
sake of protection can be observed
among many of tho lower animals
animals which differ widely in family,
genus and species, Indeed, this habit
is TO be observed in creatures micro
scopic in size and OF exceedingly low
organization, as well as those us high
in the scale OF animal life as man him
self; for even man does not hesitate
ON occasions to avail himself OF this
natural subterfueo when he thinks it
will aid in the preservation of his life.
With the aid of the microscope ono
can observe and study the natural his
tory of tho minute animal world,
which otherwise would remain Il closed
and unread volume. This instrument
has shown me, beyond cnyii, that crea-
lures as low in the scale as actino.
phryans, very minute, microscopic
animalcules, practice death-feigning
when surprised by an enemy from
which they cannot otherwise escape.
Thus | have repeatedly seen actiuo-
phryans fold their delicate, hNir-like
legs or ella and sink to the bottom of
their miniature lake IA drop OF water)
when approached by IL waterlouse,
which preys upon them. They re-
main to all, appearances absolutely
without life until the water-louse
swims away, when they unfold their
ella and go back to their feeding
grounds-n bit of water weed or moss,
or decayed wood. -Lippincotl's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

The President of the indianapolis
Und.) Street Railroad has made esti-
mates which puts the loss to his COM
pany from the riding of wheels at
$4,000 year. Eight thousand five
hundred licenses for bicycles have
been taken out in Indianapolis, and
he figures that ono.fourth of these
wheelmen would otherwise use the
street car twice a day. That would
net the company $4,000 year, and
the new riders which are now learning
would easily increase tho amount to
$4,000.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

The new High School building MT
Medford, Mass, is poin ted to as an ex-
ample of what may be dor in an edu-
cational line as to interior decora-
tions. In the twenty-seven rooms of
the building there are 172 works Of
art of different kinds, most of them
being large photo, engravings, whilo
there are also busts, bas relefs and
other articles OF beauty and value.
The busts and pictures are all careful
ly grouped and arranged, each room
being given separate subject or class
OF subjects, and these subjects being
carefully graded upward in harmony
with the progress of the pupils. In
the halls and on the staircases tho
same general plan has been carried
out with regard to famous natural OBJ.
jects. Those of our own country are
found on the lower floors, and those OF
other countries higher up, the idea
being to ground the pupil thoroughly
in the knowledge OF his native land
before taking him abroad for that OF
other countries. Most of the engrav.
ings are of famous paintings or other
works of art, SO that while carrying
the main idea of presenting an author
or statesman, they also give the pupil
q general knowledge of the work OF
famous artists of different eras. These
decorations are valued ut $21O0, and
were presented to the school by tho
alumni,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
THE TIP TILTED HAT.

Tho tip-tilted hat is likely to de-
atroy many reputation for beauty, as
few women apparently study profile
effects in the mirror. Along with the
tooth aud the nail brush the use of
the hand-glass ought to be obligatory
Then would we be spared the sight of
passc women possessed of scrawny
necks dragging their scanty locks to the
top OF their heads and surmounting
the tiny knot with millinery struc-
ture which accentuates the hollowness
of their cheeks and the unsymmetry of
their noses. But to return to the hat
thrust over the eyes, exceptional will
be she whose good looks can withstand
the coiifure arrangement necessary for
the proper adjustment of this new
millinery angle. A painstaking study
of hand.clnss reflections is recon-
mended to even the pretty girl if she
wishes to retain her belloship. Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
GOSSIP.

Grown Princess Stephanie of Austria
is cyclist.
In society circles there is quite fad
now OF making the musical programme
an elaborate feature ut weddings.
In Norway new law has been passed
which makes girls ineligible for ma
trimony until they ore proficient in
knitting, baking and spinning.
The last census shows that we have
1875 women preachers, 209 lawyers
and 4555 doctors and surgeons. But
in oil these numbers there are few who
were college women.
The Princess Victoria of Wales is an
ardent wheelwoman, rs also are the
Duke of York. the Duchess of Fife,
the Princess Louise, Marchioness of
Lorne, and the Princess Henry of Bat
tenberg.
In literature the list of the unwed
is long. 1t includes "Ouido," Jean
Ingelow, Rosa Gary, Edith Thomas,
Sarah Orne Jewetb, Mary Wilkins,
Grace Denis Litchheld, Edna Lyall
and dozens more.
Ouida's hands and feet are said to
be perfect in shape and proportion.
To keep her feet from being comfort.
ed by unatural pressure on the bones,
she always wears, summer and winter
alike, open bucllled shoes.
The Empress Frederick will proba-
bly, spend II considerable part of the
next two years in England. 1t is pos
sible that she may become the tenant
of Ditton Park, the Duke of Buc-
cleuch's place near Windsor.
The Trustees of Smith College,
Northampton, Mass, have decided to
celebrate the one hundredth birthday
anniversary of Sophia Smith, the
founder of the college. The anniver-
sary of her birth comes August 27.
Every Friday morning the Dutchess
d'Uzes dresses herself in very common
clothes and goes to cancer hospital,
where she spends the day in the oc-
cupation of nurse, relieving one of
the attendants, who gets holiday.
The Empress of Austria's villa at
Corfu, which was built six years ago,
and which cost more than 81, 500, GOO,
is to be sold. The Empress has not
spent six months in Corfu since the
villa was finished, but declares herself
to be tired of the place.
A collection of 1000 books, all relat,
ing to women, that has been accumu-
lated by Colonel Higginson of Boston,
is to be presented to Radcliffe College.
The books are not to be separated,
but will be placed and kept in IN al
cove apart from other books.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward says that wo.
men have been hampered heretofore
as writer's of fiction, owing to the fact
that they could not travel and explore
without escorts. She expects great
things of women in literature now that
the old preiudices are passing away.
The ex-Ewpress Eugene, who is
still engaged on her memoirs, uses q
penholder that is set with diamonds.
This was employed by the fourteen
representatives in signing the treaty
of the peace OF Paris in 1856, and was
presented to the ex- Express us me.
mento.
The decay of the fine art of needle
work is one of tho accepted conditions
of the moment. AS to preserve that
which was, but is threatened not to
be, is much affected pursuit just
now, some one of the many women's
clubs should turn its attention to this
matter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
NORA PERRY's CAREER.

It appears that Nora Perry made
her first stroke of fortune through q
Washington newspaper. She had
written her poem, "Tying Her Bonnet
Under Her Chin" and submitted it to
tho Atlantic Monthly. 1t was "de.
ciined with thanks" but friend in
Washington interested himself in get
ting it printed in one of the news
papers there, from which it was widely
copied. About year after its first
appearance in print, one of the editors
OF the Atlantic said to George Sum
ner, who was n stanch believer in the
young poets future: 'If Nora Perry
would write Us as good a poem as
Tying Her Bonnet Under Her Chin,
We would pay her $40 for it," good
price for verse of that length at that
time. Sumner wrote of this to Sena-
tor Anthony, of Rhode Island, adding:
$50 you see, dear Senator, the market
price of bonnet" This letter Senator
Anthony gave Miss Perry, and she al
ways kept 1t among her souvenirs.
The result of this offer was that "After
bhe Bali" was sent to the Atlantic and
accepted; and that poem became the
best known of Miss Perry's verse. -
New York Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

The statistics of the British Homo
Secretary show that in the first three
months of this year there were three
fatal accidents and twelve serious
bicycling accidents in the streets of
London. During the same period
there were 31S summonses issued for
rash or reckless riding. In two cases
only wero the persons injured women.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The "Ayer" in stocks often turns
out to be q "header. Puck.

The "Ayer" in stocks often turns
out to be ''header. Puck.
This is the month of pink and rose,
When balmy breezes sigh,
And children turn the garden hose
On every passer-by.
A man. often spends all his money
trying to get something for nothing.
Puck.
In learning TO ride bicycle, ono
notices the scenery is very striking
Adams Freeman.
The difference between frmness and
obstinacy is merely matter of SEX
Adams Freeman.
To roam the bosky woods at will,
To fish beside the brook,
Will fill your soul with Joy until
1t comes your turn to cook.
Judge.
The man who bites off more than
he can chew is not SO numerous rs he
who swallows more than he can digest
Life.
OF people meant everything they
said the complications would bs near-
ly as great as if they said everything
they meant.-Life.
She-"Why is it that some men aro
so calm and cool when they propose?"
Probably they are not expecting to
be accepted. Life.
The path of duty maybe leads
To self-apployal, but
The human mind will still! attempt
To find shorter cut
Detroit News.
Such Candor: A certain Professor,
on being asked what he knew upon
particular subject, replied: "Nothing;
[ have not even lectured upon ii, sir. =
--Tit-Bits.
Beneath bushel 10 not hido
Your lamps eiiulgeut light,
But put 1t on your bike aud rido
Forth in the darksome night
-Pittsburg News.
"Was Bridget pleased when you
showed her how 10 shell peas with tho
clothes wringer?" ."No; she's mad
because we haven't lawn mower foe
to string beans with. - Chicago
Record.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-" kind OF
a dress do you call that red affair Mr..
Styles had on today" Mrs. Grim
sonbeak-" That's It calling gown.
"Well, goodness knows, it looks loud
enough to call. "-Yonkors Stateman.
Mrs. White-"How is your wife,
Mr.. Brown" Brown, pointing to
where his wife sits in the next room,
at work on his coat)-",5h's sew.
SOW" Mrs. White-"Oh, l see; sho
is mending sure enough. boston
Transcript.
r' An lrishmGn meeting another asked
what had become OF their old nc
quaintance, Patrick Murphy: "Arrah,
now, dearaa honey" answered the 9th.
or, "Poor Pat was condemned to DO
hanged, but he saved his life by dyinS
in prison. "-Tit-Bits.
He-"Did that Miss Flyr5 receive
many proposals last season at Ryo
Beach?" She-"Many? Wig, re.
ceiving proposals got to bo hnbit
with her. In a shortti she coulda'5
hear soda water bottle pop without
exclaiming, This is so sudden = -
Chicago Post.
Sound Advice: Borrowall (happen.
ing in)-"That's n iino Machine OF
yours, Ferguson. Some day I'll como
around and take it out for littio
spin. BY the way, what kind OF b.
cycle would you advise me to ride?'
Ferguson-"rd advise you to rido
one OF your own. "-Chicaao Tribune.
"Hello," sail the mnhatma, as ho
met tho elemental i'll tho astral,
"What are you up to to-day" "Ot,
just knocking around" replied the
elemental. CLOVIS things III rhio.
et?" swell, we're having just to
same kind OF spring we had j0JJ yeur4
ago-wet and backward. SO long
Minneapolis Jourpni
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

A New York publisher, in his an.
nouncement of new book, prints in
parallel columns all the good things,
and all the bad things that the critics
have said about it. Sometimes the
bad things do more to sell book than
the good things.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
rain water till every trace of the soap

ram water TIL every trace OF the soap
is removed.
Friction is a good tonic for any skin
and will give it the healthy glow that
ought to be the ambition of its owner.
A thorough rubbing OF the face every
night and the constant use of q rough
towel in drying it are very stimulating.
Pallor is no more to be desired than
tan, and if the summer girl is SO dis
posed she can achieve happy medium.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
ELEVEN TONS OF WEDDING PRESENTS.

Princess Henriette's (of Belgium)
wedding clothes and presents, which
were sent after her from Brussels to
Neuilly, where her husbands (the Duo
de Vendomel villa is, filled ITO boxes
and weighed eleven tons.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

The development of the trained
nurse system, although of recent ORR
gin, has assumed such wide proper
tions as to be National, if not uni
versal, in character.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

Methodism, if statistics can be re-
lied on, is decreasing in England. The
latest census shows over 1000 fewer
members than the year before.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

j. de Barth Shorb, who dio1 at T.o.
Angeles, Cal, the ether day, Was one
of the best known viticuituriets II
the world. He leaves among 1t, q
propertr vineyard of 1850 acr.s.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
There are living at the present time
eleven ex-Governors of Vermont.

Omaha courts have sent thieving
County Clerk to Jail for nineteen years
at hard labor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16
A TENNESSEE LOVE STORY.

HEY called her the
Daughter of the
Confederncy in
that Southern city.
She has Il daughter
of her own now, who
should, of course,
b o called t h e
Granddaughter OF
the Confederacy,
That, however. is
The evening times., 1896-03-03

THERE'LL be no deviar
l tion from our usual
HIGH standard of quality
in the stock of wearables we
are preparing for Spring
wear, but the reverse-a bet
'tering where there's a
chance for Improvement, a
-choicer selection of styles
and fabrics, newer designs
and best workmanship will
all tend to make this, as in
the past, the ideal shopping
place for Mems and Boys
.Wearables of every descrip-
tion.
In the meantime, if there
is anything needed III VIM
ter weight Clothes, Fur
nishings, Hats, or Shoes,
you can buy them at mere
shreds of their original
prices.
The evening times., 1896-03-03
CoIored Y. NJ. c. A. Fair.

The most successful night of the colored
Y. NJ. c. A. fair was that OF yesterday,
as a large number of well-known society
people graccd the occasion with their pres
cnce. Among those noticed were Mrs. DR..
SIiadd and children, Miss Shepard, MessTs.
Wyatt Archer, Whitefield Mckinley, Sur
geon in Chief Williams OF Freedmen's Hos
pital and many others. Among the fortu-
nate persons who drew articles through
the paddle stands are Miss Mabel Smith,
Mr.. Wyatt Archer, Prof. George William
Cook, Miss Dunlap. Mrs. DR.. Clayton, Mrs.
Ida Bailey, DR.. Williams, who drew every
time he purchased paddles; Mr.. Louis Cor
nish and Mrs. Waring.
The evening times., 1896-03-03
HOTEL BANCROFT FAILURE.

Assignment A to George w. Drew for
Benefit of Creditors.
Lucretia N. Minear, proprietress the Ho-
tel Bancroft, corner of Eighteenth and II
streets northwest. made an assignment TO-
day for the benefit of her creditors. George
W. Drew Is the assignee.
The assets include all of the furniture,
siiverware, china and upholstery of the
hotel, and are estimated at SIG 200. The
property is subject however. to several
deeds of trust. aggregating $500.
The liabilities are divided between almost
two scores of creditors, and approximate
$4,000. Among the largest creditors are:
John ]. MCGEE, No. So Center Market,
$4,000; Clara c. Boudinot. Indian Terri
tory, 50 900; John T Morgan, N o. 81 Four
and-a-half street. So 800. and Warde P.
Winchel, New York, 81 1000.
The evening times., 1896-03-03
Three Small Robperles Reporte

Burglars entered the house of Mary End
crs. No. 9o2 Seventh street northwest, by
breaking the glass in the show window, and
stold a number OF shirts, neCkties and
gloves. n
Internal Revenue OFFICER whaley report
I'd today to the detective office that
sncakthief stole his overccGt.
Edward F. Byrnes OF No. 9 c street north
west reported that he lost pccketbook
yesterday containing $1l0.
The evening times., 1896-03-03
Booths

newand wonderful remedy HYOMEIand
Booths Pocket Inhaler Outfit are In the
line OF recent scientific research and
have achieved marvellous success. Every
first-class druggist now carries 1t in
stock-make the slow ones get it for sou.
1t is the Australian "Dry Air. treat
ment and definitely cures Asthma,
Catarrh, Bronchitis and similar dis
eases. 1t is home treatment, may
be carried in the
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1896-12-08
G6tuets.

-Sael |, 4. Nop. Cine goIi,ei.
Qtaire, bic iid oramatii6 bebanoeln
lleBe, ma6te bier pisl bon Ii6 reoen.
Dor elniaen WOnaten bate ii6 trob
oes unaufbOrliden 8eeennetters Elm
In9eitellter zines inourItielen @tabliI.
lsments aus benz Staube 9ema6t uno
omar - CUR Si6erung ieiner 3utunft
= nit elmer beoeItenoen 8eloiumme.
Man feBte Die pOlisei in Yepegung
uno bofte namentli6 in Sem Oort oes
6lli9ti9en babbaft 81 peroen. So9
mas fein Serltano oss @ertdnoi9en
ltebt, oaB iibt in GinTalt Elm tinoli6
8eniitb, uilo oiesmal mar es cine 9eQs
nerln in Sunnis, ppr Der Ii6 Der 1ieb
III einem &aheebauie oaislbit als v8raf
bon paris" 9erlrte, aber trob oieIes
riltOtratiI6en Sitels benz Wdo6en
lebr betannt unb iebr biir0erli9 por-
tam, aliO oaB lie ibn 9leib als Stamm,
9alt elmer &leinbasler @rtbibaIt an.
reoete, worauf Der Serbliiffte iit Der.
rletb uno nun alleroin9s bur6 tonfulas
RIDES Ginl6reiten 5u Der @bre 9e,
lan9t, pom Staate Stunts amtli6 be-
9riibt uno nit oiplomatii6er Seoleis
tun9 nah Der S6wei3 estOrtirt All tuers
ben, mo- sr ieiner YeItrafuns sutsessns
Iiebt.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1896-12-08
oufG6ren uuo einem unoercn einper=
leibt peroen.
MtHouri.

- Ser plottoeuti9e Grocer Soln
Srainbuhl bate, Die 10 piele anoere
@%iumobner, bon Dem 9rDBen S6aB ges
bort, tpel9cn Die gelmpnter Yolttut'
iaenrQuber Dor nunmebr 35 S0brea
auf Der 6luat uniueit g t.. SOiepb
%DerbOr9en botten uno Der lid ouf an=
nGberno $50, 900 in Gplo belief.
&r0inbubl bat nun in aler StiQe our6
mebrere Grbeiter Na69rabun9en an
einem 9rOBen Sii0el noroWeItli6 bon
Der Staot9ren3e pOrncbmen laiien, auf
8rllno bon S%anotarten uno geri6ten
ilber Den oamoli9en Iufentbaltsort Der
&duber. 9ieie Nad9rabun9en bat er
leBt pI0Blib einltelen l0lIen uno es
beibt all0emein, Dab er ben S9aB ge=
funOen babe, ObtpObl er aus 9uten
@riinoen oies nOtiirlib per 6Deiqt.
Siaie gnIi6t miro o0Ourh beItGrtt,
o0B bic 9lrbeiter bel ibrer GntI0iun8
Gin GrtrO=O rauI8elo erbielten lno Oob
&ratnbubl ibnen Qe0eniiber nod Dor
weni9en Sagen 9eGuBert b0ben ioll, bic
glrbeit merOe nod ein paar Wtonnte
o0llern. SAon wieoerDolt limb, allein
tets per9ebIid, NaGforidunsen nU4
lenem S4aB 0ngeitclt pOroen.