Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
The Fact Dispenser.

ment in raising sii;sworms.
a lifeboat costs about $3.50 a week
to maintain.
There is one horse for every twenty
persons in England.
Parchment used on the best banjos is
made from wolf skin.
1t Is estimated TINT one crow will de-
stroy 100000 insects every year.
About one German woman in every
twenty-seven works in a factory.
There is not city in the world that
consumes as many frog legs as New
York.
There are only 100000 Britshers in
India-one to every 5000 of the popula-
ton.
AT a meeting of the British cabinet
no official record of any kind Is kept
of the proceedings.
The newest billiard balls are made
of cast steel. They are the same weight
as ivory and cost 81 each.
In Berlin the pawnshop is a royal
and philanthropic institution. Any
profit that is made is spent on charity.
For more than Eve years there has
been a scarcity of rain in Arabia.
In London there is nearly an hour
less daylight at midsummer than in
Glasgow.
In Belgium a new fuel has been in
vented, called 'vesuve," made of peat
and resin.
The number of Spanish now in the
Philippines is less than at any time
during the last fifty years.
Women have. as Il rule, according to
Sir Erasmus Wilson, much coarser hair
than men.
1t is the popular belief that a holly
bush planted near a dwelling protects
the house from lightning
The black iaguar of Central America
will attack man by night or day
whom he finds lying down.
Queen Victoria pays over 81 pound
for her tea, which Is bought at small
shop in the West End of London.
Iaymasters and commissariat Off
cials of the German army receive spe-
cial tyaiuing in examining the quality
Of fo6d supplied to the army.
Tbs copper production of the United
9tatss ID the current year was the
nrgSst ever recorded in single year.
The wool on the back of a sheep is
Z sAsphsf1's barometer. The curlier
the wool the Amer will be the weather.
Japanese workmen are obliged to
waf % their caps and backs an in,
lenbti9p stating their business and
theE employers name.
6ne worm has turned. An invention
hss hesp completed by which the long
eyhstin8 drug store directory can only
y consulted by dropping penny in
a Lot.
Freedom, a paper published in the
EAatppines, has an editorial calling for
the arrest Of bicycle 'seorchers."
The Chicago University had total
S1rollDent last year Of 1853 students,
ANa its enrolment for the regular
seAool ysar Of nine months was 1912.
The whd horse Of Arabia will not ad-
mit tame horse among them, while
The wild horses of South America en-
deavor to decoy domesticated horses
from their masters and seem eager to
welcome them.
Since the beginning of this century
no fewer than fifty-two volcanic isl
apbs have arisen out of the sea. Nine
teen have disappeared and ten are now
Inhabited.
Mdstaches among women are COM
moraer at the present time than they
yasd to be. In Constantinople and
Nkdrid one woman out of every ten
hAs distinct mustache.
A French scientist has made some
plants "artifcially Alpine" by keeping
posing them to the full action Of the
sun during the day.
II is stated on German authority that
100000 glass eyes are made every
year III Germany and Switzerland,
tf.,r
son. 900 annually.
II Is difficult to purchase wildcat
skin worth stutting in Newfoundland,
as the hunter cuts off the snout in or
der to prove his claim to the bounty
offered for the destruction of these
pests.
One million and half of men work
in the coal mines of the world. OF
these Great Britain has $4,000, United
States 100000, Germany 1854 Bel
glum 100000, Russia 44,000. The
worlds miners of metal number 4,000,-
600.
A smokeless coal is promised very
shortly. 1t is made of % per cent. Of
coal dust and per cent. of tar and
caustic lime. The latter mixture forms
bright burning gas, and thus pre-
vents the generation of smoke.
The latest thing in company promot-
ing comes from Paris, where a dog $
cemetery has been fioated with Il capi-
tai of f14,000. The promoters are
ladies'.
The results of recent drilling in Born
go have caused many persons to think
that Borneo will prove to be the rich
est petroleum field in the world
Napoleon Ills last dwelling place
and the scene of his death. Camden
House, Chiselhurst, has been destroyed,
and, with its beautiful grounds, is to
serve as golf links.
Gambling in France is said to have
reached ouch proportions that the gov
ernnent has begun to study the ques-
tiop seriously. 1t is estimated that
half of the suicides in Paris are due
to losses at the races.
In proportion to population, North
Berwick is said to be the wealthiest
town in Scotland. 1t has an annual
value of real property per inhabitant
of about $50.
A new way of blasting rock is to
place cartridge of water in shot