Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-19
BREVITIES.

Manufacturers of birch beer have
been detected cutting down birch trees
in Van COrtlandt park, New York, to
get the bark to flavor the liquor with.
A brisk trade In fox skins is spring
ing up between France and Italy. The
latter last year exported 1000, mostly
from about Rome. Foxes are plentiful
in Italy.
There Is considerable money In the
lakes in the shape of meat. In the
Lake Erie fisheries 3,72S men are en-
ployed and $2,719,654 capital Last
years catch was valued at 81, $50, 800.
1t is reported on high authority that
the petroleum industries of Roumanla
have made great progress of late and
that If transportation becomes cheaper
and better this country will be a for
midable competitor of America and
Russia.
Until the middle of the last century
cavalry deployments were by two right
angle turns, and when the diagonal
march was adopted instead of making
the diagonal by half turn of each
horse the movement was by the whole
troop or unit.
Kaffir beer is made from Indian corn,
which is worked into a pulp with
wooden stampers. Sufficient sugar and
water are added, and the climate does
the rest. When the beer is ready, ev-
cry hut will receive its share. and
certain quantity will be put aside for
the beer drink" sorry but gigantic
kind of feast
The British Women's Emigration So
ciety offers free passage to Western
Australia and profitable places when
they have arrived there to good, strong
domestic servants. But it advises
servants who are seeking light places,
with no scrubbing, regular evening
out, as well as all day Sundays, to bide
by the mother country.
NM. Desgrez and Balthazard state
that they have discovered method of
regenerating air in confined spaces.
They have submitted to the Academy
of Sciences aluminium diving dresses
weighing % pounds. They state that
the diver can move in this suit for
hours under water without drawing air
from the surface. The principal regen-
Grating agent seems to be sodium diox-
ide
Extending from north to south, Indo-
China covers ii degrees, necessarily in
cluding n wide variety of climate. In
the southern provinces the year is dl-
vided into two seasons, wet and dry.
In Tonkin and Anam the four western
1a
that the heat attains an intensity un-
known in Europe and the climate is so
facilitating as to unfit Europeans for
manual labor.
In England a lamppost has been in
troduced which combines a fire hy-
drant, tap and fire alarm box. The hy-
drant can be used for fire alarm pur-
poses, filling water carts and for street
flushing, while the small tap can be
used by an individual for domestic wa
ter supply. There is a water meter and
siphon at the bottom, by which the wa
ter is shut off from the hydrant, thus
preventing it from freezing.
Over the greater part of the New
England coast the supply of clans has
suddenly diminished to an extent
which has become alarming. Exten-
sive areas which four or five years ago
produced great numbers of clans are
now practically barren. The explana-
tion is simply that the demand has in
creased at such a rate that too large
number of the natural seed clans
have been removed, and extinction sud
denly follows.
Members of the building trades, ar
chitects, builders and influential citi-
Zens in New York city have organized
the Work Together club. The object
is ito promote harmonious relations be-
tween employers and employees by
bringing about reforms directly affect
ing the building trades. This organiza-
tion will from time to time make ap-
peals for the Endorsement of measures
for the protection of workmen engaged
in the construction and alteration of
buildings"
Sunday Is a great day for poor peo-
pie, and not extremely poor people Ell
ther, for indulging In street car rides.
Not so very many years ago it was i'm
possible for man in moderate circum-
stances, one who could not afford to
hire vehicle and take his family out
for an airing on a lovely afternoon Ell
ther on pay day or any day, to have
that pleasure. Now he can take the
whole family equipment, including the
cook and nurse maid, on country ex-
cursion that will cost him a trifle COM
pared with the same expense quarter
of century ago.