The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-28

posted an average of % cents: 73O an
average of a. cents: 973 an average of Il
cents; 194 averaged 70 cents; 6Oi averaged
$.lS. and 357 averaged S2.3S week.
The introduction of electric motor power
does not seem, writes william II. Curtis,
to affect either the volume or value Of
the hay crop. In 1897 the acreage was
larger and the yield was better, although
prices were not as high, and the total
value was S39S O60, ,647. The hay field, with
one exception, Is the richest source OF our
national wealth, richer than the coal or
iron mines or the lumber forests or any
other product Of the soil or the factory
with the exception Of corn. The value Of
the wheat crop in 1898 was 1892 30 and
the value of the corn crop was Sj52, 2,02j, i2S.
Last years hay crop of the United States
was worth one-third more than all the
gold the world produced and twice as
much as the silver. The total product OF
all the mines in the United states last
year reached SSl0,O5O O23, which is only
double the value OF the product of the
hay fields
Tn the Philippines. according to the Chi
cago News, the law which relates to the
property of married people is entirely IN
favor Of the wife. Any property a BRIDE
may posses is Eever by any chance set
tied upon the husband, and If he is poor
and she well off, he can only become Mt
most an administrator of her possessions.
After death, unless she has executed
deed in her husbands favor under a aw-
yers eye, the property goes to her chill
dren and blood relations, but none to her
husband. A married woman retains her
maiden name and adds to it that of her
husband with the prefix de" and the
children bear the names CT both parents.
The husband symbolically endows the
bride with all his worldly possessions af-
ter marriage. In fact, it is clearly a case
in the Philippines of whats your is mine
and what's mine is my own" as far as
women folk are concerned.
A report Of the trade between Mexico
and the United States for last year has
been issued. Mexico's exports to the
United States were as follows: Coal, LIZ
coo tons, valued at 1920 900; tobacco, $4,000
pounds, valued at S2Sj,OOO; raw sugar,
100000 pounds, valued at $l4700. Imports
from the United States for the same
period were as follows: Coal, $4,000 tons,
valued at $l,lO0,OO0; tobacco, 1,I50,000
pounds, valued at $4,000; refined sugar,
3i0, 900 pounds, valued at $1,000. During
last year Mexico exported to the United
States 3O,6OO,OOO pounds of coffee, a small
amount compared with the SOo,0OO,0O0
pounds of coffee consumed in the United
States last year. but the expectation of
coffee. coal tobacco and sugar to the
\ United States is a new industry and this
trade is expected to grow.
DR.. Francis A. Harris, of Boston, has
raised an interesting point in law and
morals by suing for damages a dealer in
birds and pets whom he charges with
| having sold to his wife an Angora kitten
| that was inflicted with consumption,
| thereby exposing his family to the dam
ger of contagion. Pets like Angora cats,
| he says, very often spread disease, and
| he has no doubt that child or person not
in good health who might have played
with his wife's late pet would have con-
| tracted the disease. He considers the
selling of an animal under the circum-
| stances to be very serious matter. In
| this case he also sees an explanation of
| mysterious cases of disease, where the
friends of the stricken ones find them
selves unable to tell where it was con-
| tracted.
| Wester.I advices tell of a new cloud on
| the matrimonial horizon. The Bachelor
| Girls association of Michigan has de-
! termined to extend its field of operation.
| An effort will be made within the next
| sixty days to effect organizations in
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois,
! Wisconsin and Missouri. 1t is proposed
| to organize societies in every town and
city with binding oaths pledging members
not to entertain proposals of marriage
| until the age of 80 years has been reached
and stipulating qualifications for men who
| seek marriage with the members. The
promoters of the movement believe that
the divorce evil may be partially Grad
| icated by such an organization.
Visitors to the Omaha exposition who
| while there, inspected the Grant Smelling
cOmpany's plant the largest establish
ment of it's kind in the world. which daily
turns out several cubic yards of refined
gold and silver, will be interested in the
Denver dispatch, which says that the
head of that company, Ex-Governor
James 3. Grant, lifelong Democrat, has
announced in emphatic terms that he Is
no longer a supporter of Bryan or thC
free coinage of silver, and will hereafter
train under the banner of William Nc
Kinley.
At Fort Scott, Kan, the other day the
Presbyterians and the MethCdists had al
old-fashioned spelling match, with 32 or
each side. One by one the contestants
were spelled down until only two Pres
byterians and one Methodist remained
Then the master gave out the wore
"ptsan," and all three missed ii, leaving
q victory for neither side. Ptlsan is de
fined in the dictionary as a mucilaginou'
decoction used as drink, and II is no
20 be expected that Presbyterians anC
Methodists would know much about such
drinks.
Ground oyster shells were given by tn,
mediaevab doctors to children suffering
from ricketts, and scrofula. Now it ap
pears that they were right. The she'll
contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sulphur man
ganese, magnesia, flour, bromide, phos
poric acid and iodine, all excellent TO
feeble children They say that if grow
ing children We're to take powdered oyste
shells in their food the teeth would be i'm
proved.
Athens, O., has n domino game in prog
ress that probably has no equal in tn
world. A gentleman and his two son
started this Sc me several years since
and it is not finished yet First one an,
then the other has been I'm the lead, unIi
now the score OF one of the sons is l52,Oi;
the score of the other son li3,025, ami tn
father brings up the rear with liSOl9.
Base ba1l Is taking Santiago by storm
At the second game, played last week be
tween a Cuban and an American pickle
nine 1900 spectators, including mem
bcrs of the best native families, attended
II may cheer the patriotic feelings u
our readers TO record that the American
won by the suggestive score of l6 TO l.
THE SUPERIOR COURT.