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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Over $50, 900 species of animals have
been described by naturalists up to the
present date.
The new British army magazine rifle
will throw bullet to distance of
over 1000 yards.
The law in England now compels
every case of lead poisoning to be re-
ported at once to the authorities.
A recently opened guano cave in
Georgia was found to be inhabited by
great swarms of white flies having yell
low legs and pale pink eyes.
1t is said that woman's voice can
be heard in balloon at height of
two miles, while mans voice cannot
be heard at greater height than one
mile.
Lawson TAFT, the we'll known Bir-
mingham doctor, has designed an in
strument whereby the electric current
is applied for the surgical arrest of
bleeding.
The fifty-six largest towns of Austria
have an aggregate population of g.
536, 900. The death rate in 1895 varied
from 1.22 per cent. at Weinberge to
3.67 per cent. at Teschen.
The wearing of corsets has been pro-
hibited in the electrical department of
California High School. The steels
we're found to have an effect on the in
struments, and in consequence delicate
experiments were found impossible.
President Octave Chanute, of the
American Society of Civil Engineers,
has offered a special prize OF 500 for
the best monograph on the kite, Civ
ing full theory of it's mechanics and
stability, with quantitative computa-
tions appended.
1t has been discovered after numer-
Gus experiments that dark hair is
much stronger than a light one. One
dark hair can carry weight of 113
grammes, while light colored hair
will break if weight of rs grammes
is hung from it.
A trial of what is known in electri-
cal science as 1.-THE third rail system"
was made recently near Boston, with
the result that an open electric car,
in the teeth of breeze blowing fif-
teen miles an hour, ran several miles
at the rate of eighty miles an hour.
The Proctor Memorial Association
contemplate erecting an international
observatory on San Miguel Mountain,
California, with telescope constructed
on new principle, with magnifying
power four times greater than the new
Yerkes lens recently set up in Chicago
or the 36inch lens in the famous Lick
observatory, The lens is to be built
on the sectional plan, the invention of
Louis Gathmann, OF Chicago. The
site for the observatory has been dona-
ted by Mr.. Isham.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
He Saved His Child.

The Brooklyn Times tells of the
narrow escape from drowning of a
little daughter of Mr.. Rankin, o
builder of Brooklyn, in mill dam at
Huntington, L. l. Mr.. Rankin took
his wife, daughter and woman friend
out rowing. Unconscious OF danger,
Mr.. Rankin allowed the boat to drift
along directly toward the mill race.
Mrs. Rankin heard the sound of the
rushing water, and remarked to her
husband that there might be danger
near at hand. He quieted her fears
and took up the oars to row along
faster, when the bow of the boat
reached into the current which shot
across the opening of the sluiceway.
Instantly the boat was whirled about
in way that nearly upset it, and in
spite OF the efforts of Rankin TO hold
on to the corner of the stone wall, the
boat was drawn under the bridge
toward the gates. Realizing that
nothing could prevent the boat from
being turned over when it struck the
gates Rankin told the others to seize
hold of the gates and hold on.
When the boat struck it was upset,
and all were thrown into the water.
Mr.. Rankin and the ladies succeeded
in catching hold OF the gates, but the
child missed, and was swept out of
sight. She had been carried under
the gates.
The distracted father was preparing
to dive into the tideway to look for his
child when he struck his foot against
a moving object under the gates. He
let go and was carried down. He
found the girl held under water by
her hair, which had caught in the
woodwork of the gates. He seized
hold of her braid and tore it loose,
and the tide swept them out into the
mill pond. Rankin is an expert swim
mer, and after being carried out into
the pond some distance he managed
to get out of the tideway and brought
the half drowned child to the shore.
He then assisted the ladies to the
bridge above the gates. They were
nearly exhausted and could not have
held on much longer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

The skill of japanese juggler is
illustrated by recent incident at a
japanese dinner, where one of them
was employed to entertain the COM
pany. foreign guest determined to
have no optical delusions about what
the jugSler did.
Henever let his glances be distracted,
and was not once off his guard. Motto
ing this, the old juggler played to him
entirely. An immense porcelain vase
was brought in and set in the middle
OF the room, and the juggler, crawling
up, let himself down into it slowly.
The skeptic then sat for half an
hour without taking his eyes from the
vase, which he had first been con-
vinced was sound and firm and stood
on no trap door.
After this prolonged watch, the rest
of the company assailed him with
laughter and ieers, and pointed to his
side, where the old juggler was seated
tanning himself, and had been SO
seated for some minutes. London
Tit Bits,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

hailed the ship, asking for lifebuoy
to be thrown to him; at the Same
moment the master, Captain Gunson,
called all hands to man boat. The
first mate, Mr.. Whistler, who had
been asleep in his berth, ran on deck
and heard Pochln's hail. Calling to
the boatswain to heave him lifebuoy,
he at once sprang overheard, secured
the lifebuoy which was thrown to
him, and succeeded in reaching
Pochln. This poor man was already
on the point of sinking, but with the
help of the lifebuoy Whistler was able
to keep him up.
Meanwhile, considerable delay had
occurred in the dispatch of the boat
for one thing, her lashings had been
secured very firmly for the passage
round Cape Horn. and when she was
launched so many men crowded into
her that she capsized, which says
much for the popularity of Whistler.
The boat was soon righted, however,
and dispatched in search of the third
mate and two seamen. All this time
the two men in the water were rapidly
becoming exhausted, and they had
made up their minds to abandon the
lifebuoy and strike out side by side
for the ship, when they were confront
ed by new, weird danger.
An immense albatross swept down
majestically on Pochin and Whistler,
aud, after lowering round close to
their heads, alighted on the water just
beyond arms length. There the great
bird remained, staring them in the
face and only waiting until they had
become little more exhausted. In
few minutes, however, the boat
reached the spot, and it's crew drew
their perishing shipmates out of the
water. Directly they were lifted into
the boat both men became insensible,
and Whistler was dellrious for some
time afterward. Amazing as it may
seem, the two men had remained in
the pierclngly cold water for upward
of forty minutes. The expectant al.
batross was greatly disappointed at
the turn events had taken, and had to
be driven off with boathook. 1t was
remarkable fact that the attack of
this bird contributed not little to
the saving of the lives OF both Whist
Ter anG Pochin. This was because
their vigorous efforts to beat off the
bird materially helped to keep their
blood in circulation, thereby averting
the fatal cramp. Strand Mag azine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

This inventor may not get monu-
ment in this generation, but in years
to come the new women will be called
upon to subscribe the money that will
in enduring bronze commemorate the
virtues of the man who removed from
their husbands lives the great bug
bear of making fire in the cold range
or the chilly or draughty CRATE, says
the New York journal. The new fire.
lighting fan does away with the
treachel Gus kindling that gayly burns
out and leaves no impression upon the
stubborn coal.
1t Is simple mechanical contriv-
ance this "fan," shaped as its name.
1t tits close to the stove front or the
CRATE. Within its sheet-iron walls is
main spring and clock wheels to
work it. 1t is wound up by turning a
handle at the side and set going or
stopped by lever.
When the apparatus is to be used a
small quantity OF paraffine oil is
poured into cavity in the blow pipe,
which is filed with asbestos fiber.
When the fiber is thoroughly soaked a
light is applied, and the fan set to
going, thus forcing from the outlet
into the CRATE an oxidizing flame
which quickly spreads through and
thoroughly lgnites the coal with which
the CRATE has already been filed. The
machine is also used for blowing up q
dead fire, the spring being wound up,
and the fan set in motion for from
three to ten minutes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

Most extraordinary are the details
of the gallant action for which an
Albert medal of the first class was
conferred on Thomas Averett Whist
Ter, first mate of the ship Ennerdale,
of Liverpool.
Early in the morning of December
IT, 1885, when the Ennerdale was
rounding Cape Horn, an apprentice
named Duncan McCallum was sent
alott to loose the skysail. The Enner.
dale, 1 should mention, was one of
Messrs. j. D. Newton's Dale Line of
steamers.
Presently, as the Captain was de-
scending from the poop, he saw heavy
body strike the main rigging little
above the bulwark, and rebound into
the sea. That "heavy body" was Nc
Callum, and the ship being almost
under full sail at the time, he was car
ried rapidly astern.
Immediately after this tragic occur
renee, H. s. Pochin, an able seaman,
leaped overheard after the apprentice,
but the latter sank before Pochin
could reach him. All things con-
sidered, the rescuer's position was now
pretty serious, and fearing lest he
should be seized with cramp before a
boat could come to his assistance he
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
A Sailors Battle With a Shark.

A short time ago the Italian Govern
ment sent torpedo boat to n bay near
Genoa, to blow up wreck which him
dered navigation. Arriving there, the
first thing the Captain saw was a
tremendous shark, and realized that
operations could not safely be COM
menced SO long as the shark was pres
ent. So he fired rifle at the fish,
but only slightly wounded it.
Then sailor. named Giuseppe Ro-
mano, stepped forward and offered to
kill it. Having obtained permission
to do SO, he jumped into the sea and,
armed with nothing but dagger,
swan straight toward the monster fish.
For fifteen minutes the battle ra ged,
happily ending with the victory of the
reckless sailor. Fourteen times he
sank his dagger deep inte the body of
his vicious, antagonist, and then clam
bered on deck again, wholly unharmed.
The Government rewarded Romano
with medal for bravery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

Possibly one of the reasons for the
low prices of wheat the past few years,
suggests the American Cultivator, is
that SO many substitutes have been
found for it as human food. We still
use a great deal of wheat, but in cities
,especially y wheaton bread is less the
staff of life that it used to be. The
use of oat meal has increased, and it
daily forms part of the nutritive
ration, and very good nutrition it is,
too. We use far more fruit than
formerly, and also more potatoes.
The latter are not so good in nutri-
ton as wheat, and for this reason
their increased use is not for our ad-
vantage in health and strength. Like
all other starchy foods, potatoes are
difficult to digest, and should only be
eaten in moderation, except by those
whose digestion is strong.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

The offer by Marshall Field, Of
Chicago, of $2,OOO,O 900 as an endow-
ment of the Field Columbian Museum
is a reminder to the World that in the
matter of gifts and bequests for public
purposes Chicago has in recent years
rather taken the lead from New York.
APART from the direct gifts of Rookie
feller, we believe that Chicago Uni
versity has received a much larger
aggregate of endowment from Chicago
citizens that our Columbia College has
received in the same time from the
citizens of New York. This is not as
it should be"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

DIR. Hopkins, of the agricultural ex-
pertinent station at Morgantown, W.
Va, who has given the subject much
study, says there is great danger of
the early destruction of the OHIO as a
navigable highway, and along with it
the Potomac, James and Tennessee
Rivers. To save these rivers, repre-.
senting 1000 miles in the aggregate.
it is necessary to save the forests in
n small part of Pennsylvania and
Maryland, and considerable
part of West Virginia and Yir.
ginia. From the estimates given by
DIR. Hopkins it appears that an area
of about l, 200, 900 acres should be re-
served if we hope to save to posterity
these immensely valuable highways of
commerce.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

Some things are very funny, but not
half as funny ss other things. For
example, relates the New York Herald,
two men tried to break out of State
Prison in Maine recently. One ofthem,
James Buchanan by name, was unsuc-
cessful. He didn't have the push and
genius of MS namesake. The other
was called Oliver Cromwell, and of
course he got away, just as the great
Oliver would have done under like
circumstances. There are some little
men with big names and some really
great men with names as common as
Brown or Robinson.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
FASHION NOTES.

White duck portfolios, with clasps
OF sterling silver, are the latest nov
city.
Dainty rose bowls are seen in green
or red and white combinations of cut
glass.
A primrose bedroom is q dainty
apartment seen recently in country
house.
A new yelling is of pale pink with
black dots. Its effect on the face is
startling.
Once it was her bonnet that con-
cerned the woman traveller, now it is
her bicycle.
White dresses are fashionable; In
deed, 1t Is many year since white
has been in such favor.
Lace is used even on crash gowns,
an incongruous combination that il
only sanctioned for its oddity.
A novel use for lace is the making
OF full plaitings of straight-edged in
seftions, which are employed both as
edgings for dounces and for founda-
tion skirts.
The craze for wearing white kid
gloves on all occasions is now over, and
people of good taste and style now
wear the pale shades of straw, pearl
gray, or mastic. White gloves make
the hand look large, and give the effect
OF those worn at village wedding.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

John Hardy, the inventor of the
vacuum brake, died in Vienna recently.
He was born at Gatehead, England,
and spent his early years as an appren-
tice to locksmith. He subsequently
worked under the renowned George
Stevenson. At the age of twenty-one
he left England for France. In 1860
he went to Austria to assume an i'm.
portant railroad position. He brought
out his invention in 1878.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
A Pet Shark,

G. W. Fife, of Tacoma, Wash, has
a curious pet tied up to his boathouse
by chain cable. The collar is not
passed around the pets neck, as might
be supposed, but is about its tail. Mr..
Fife was on the bay. off Tacoma, in a
boat when he saw a shark, and he har-
pooned it and towed it to the pier.
The shark was not seriously injured,
so he passed the collar around its tail,
fastening the chain to the pier. The
creature is now feeding heartily, and
seems accustomed to its stern fasten.
ing.-Sportsman's Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
WOMEN TO BE PROUD OF.

The two American women who have
received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from German universities
this year are Miss Georgiana Lee Nor
rell and Miss Alice Luce. Miss Nor
rell is graduate of Vassar, and be-
fore going to Germany was teacher
in the Girls High School in Brooklyn.
She was the first woman at Heidelberg
admitted to the English lectures, and
she won her degree by translating a
poem from the Auchinleck manuscript
in Edinburgh from Middle English
into German and editing it. Miss
Luce is the fourth woman upon whom
Gottingen has bestowed a DOCTORS de-
gree. Wellesley was her alma mater,
and between her graduation and her
term at Gottingen she spent two years
in the study of philology at Leipzig.
New York Independent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

The State Assessors of Maine are
making their annual tour of the wild
lands. 1t is said the lands are SO wild
that in some sections the valuation
has not gone up four cents an acre in
forty years. The trees are so thick
that they choke each others growth.
Maine's forests have only had their
edges trimmed by the lumber con-
sumers in their rage for decreasing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
A NEW GEM,

Within the past twenty years a
new and very beautiful stone has been
introduced in jewelry. 1t is the green
garnet, sometimes called the "Uralian
emerald" being found in the Ural
Mountains. George F. Kunz, the
gem expert, says of it.: SIT varies in
color from yellowish green to an in
tense emerald color, and has such q
power OF refracting light that it shows
a distinct fire like the diamond of
zircon, and in the evening has almost
the appearance of o green diamond. 4"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

Since the first importation of
draught horses from America by deal
ers to Hamburg, over year ago, fully
10000 American horses have arrived
in Germany. They have given such
thorough satisfaction that dealers
from Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and
other points have become enough in
terested to import themselves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
SHALL WE WEAR EARRINGS AGAIN?

---~-N-N--'N'O
The statement that earrings are
again coming into fashion has brought
the subject o. piercing the ears to the
attention OF physicians, and has
evoked good deal of comment on the
future of this practice. For reasons
too scientific for ordinary discussion,
so the doctors tell us, the conditions
OF the system OF the human family has
grown more susceptible within the
past few leaves, and numbers of cases
OF blood-poisoning from piercing the
ears have been reported. Whether
this will restrain anybody from wear
ing earrings is question that it is
hardly worth while to discuss. Battle
and murder and sudden death have no
terrors for people who desire to follow
the fashion.
What pity it is that some one could
not set the fashion for goodness, clean
illness, amiability and health, and have
1t followed with such eagerness as that
bestowed upon some senseless and silly
fad 1t would be of infinite advan-
tage to the human family if such could
be the case.
AS to the subject of earrings, they
are positively unbecoming to the ma
iority of women. Besides, the ears
get drawn out of shape and their sym
metry is entirely destroyed. This,
however, counts for nothing, and it is
too much to expect that any impress
sion will be made on the rank and file
of women by the statement that they
may lose their lives from blood poison
ing If they set out to follow this re-
viyed fad.-New York Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
Great Rritain'S Shipg.

The number of vessels which en-
tered the ports of Great Britain last
year was 349, $50, and their total tom
mage was over 100000 OF these
ships 357,2S9 were sailing under the
British flag, and no less than 217, 029
were steamers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
The Palestine Railway.

It is proposed to extend the railway
between Jerusalem and Jaffa to Port
Said, distance of about 220 miles
from the former city. This would ad-
NIT of tourists now passing through
the Suez Canal visiting the early
scenes of the Christian religion with
out delaY.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

Within the last eighteen months the
Spanish Generals have reported to the
home Government something like &c.
600 decisive victories, AYERS the At
lantic Constitution. AS a matter of
fact, however, not a single decisive
victory has been achieved.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

The Paris Academy of Science has
lately revised Huxley's table on the
"chemical composition of man." The
new analysis shows that there are 100
grains of iron-not sufficient to make
ten-penny nail, much less plow
share-in the average mans body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

An English paper has discovered
that Cleopatra was a cyclist, Tor did
not Antony advise her: "Of Caesar
seek your honor, with your safety?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31
SAND PIES IN PLACE OF MUD PIES.


"They will play in the dirt!" ex-
claimed Mortified mother to her fine
lady callers, when two neatly dressed
young hopefuls came into the recep-
tion room with mud -bedaubed hands
and dresses q perfect sight from the
dirt ground into them. "Of course
they will, responded the daintiest of
the callers. "Mine have a mania for
dirt that is appalling; but had sew
eral loads of clean, white sand put in
our scrap of back yard, and the de-
light of it to my babies is worth wit
Messing. l can put their pretty white
dresses on them and send them to that
sand pile, knowing that all I will have
to do to make them presentabIe is to
shake them down little and empty
their shoes. OF course they are not
permitted to have water after they are
freshly dressed. Just try my plan.
New Orleans Picayune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

black velvet ribbon. This cape is
very pretty when the material used is
white broadcloth, and the trimming
can, Of course, be varied. Gold braid
gives it very stylish air, New York
Mail and Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-31

In every school in Paris there is
restaurant where free meals are served
to the children who are too poor to
pay for them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-01-16
Kansas Woman Puts Poison IN
Food and Kills Her Fam
lily Of Eight.
Then Completes the Work Of
Destruction by Hanging
= Herself.
Poverty and the Illness Of Her
Husband Causes Of the
{. Tragedy.

81. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. ia terrible
tragedy is reported here as having oc-
CURED at Marysville, Kan. On . farm
six miles south Of Marysv1Qe lived
Joseph Hildebrant, his wife and family
Of eight children, ranging from . to IA
years of age. Hildebrant is at Kansas
City being treated in a hospital. Dur
ing the forenoon his wife, becoming de-
spondent, administered poison to the
children and seven have died. The
other is not expected to live. Then she
completed the work of destruction by
hanging herself to rafter.,
The cause of the tragedy was poverty.
Mrs. Hildebrant had become despond-
emit on account of the ailment Of her
husband, and it is supposed her mind
became affected.
Put Poison in the Food.
Shortly after the children had fin
ished breakfast all were taken i'll, and
in a short time four of them were dead.
The mother refused to go after medical
attendance and did not arouse the
neighbors. Finally one of the neigh
bors came in, and, seeing the situa-
ton, went after help. When he re-
turned he found three more of the
children dead and the mother missing.
A search was at once made, which re-
suited in finding Mrs. Hildebrandt in
the barn dead, where she was suspended
by rope around her neck. The eighth
and only child left was alive at late
hour, but its death was momentarily
expected.