Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A single human hair will support
four ounces without breaking.
| The Congo river has at one place
eighty-two waterfalls within a dis
tance of 154 miles.
At recent civil service examination
for promotion in the New York fire
department every candidate failed, in
cluding Richard Crokers nephew.
Until recently sea shells and cocoa
nut shells were current coin of the
realm in Siam, $50 of the former be-
ing change for one of the latter.
The sparrow exterminators in Bos-
ton have destroyed 1,100 nests on the
common in two days. The pubic gar
den and small parks are next to be at
tackled.
A -year-old West Sullivan (Me)
girl, while looking through a book,
came to picture OF a skeleton. Run
ming to her mother she cried: "Oh,
mamma. See! Here's a man God be-
| gun and never finished"
The tube of a 12-inch gun, which Is
used in some warships, has fifty spiral
grooves inside, which cause the shot
to revolve at the rate of seventy-five
times per second as 1t rushes through
the air
A correspondent of one of the Bos-
ton papers vigorously suggests that "a
little OF the money that will be needed
to exterminate the sparrows be ex-
pended in buying chloride of lime to
sprinkle in the halls and corridors uf
the seat Of our city government
A woman in Ottawa. Ks, recently
received from her son in Manila, a
package which was wrapped in brown
paper. She was about to lay this paper
away as souvenir when she discov-
cred that 1t bore the printed card of
an Ottawa merchant 1t had made the
round trip to Manila.
Berlin has struck a blow at the Ger
mans right to amuse himself as he
pleases All cafe chantants are to be
closed at II o'clock. at which hour the
audience will be turned out regardless
OF whether they may have finished
their beer or not Detectives in plain
clothes will watch the performances
and stop them IL they should become
too lively.
A man who has been gathering gum
In the Megantic region of Maine tells
of most remarkable deer yard, which
begins mile northwest of Mt. Abram
and extends six miles in one direction.
He was gathering gum when he dis
covered what he thought to be an or
dinary deer yard, but soon found 1t to
be mammoth one. He counted no less
than ninety deer bucks and does, and
the former had shed their horns, CIV
ing parts of the yard the appearance
of bone yard.
An Auburn (Me.) man came home
few nights ago to find his wife
standing in rocking chair with
broom in her hand. while the cat
played with mouse on the floor.
Whenver she started to get down out
of the chair the cat would let the
mouse go, and she was glad to hasten
back to a place of safety. When her
husband came to the rescue she had
been balancing in the rocking chair
for about an hour.
In one of the lower counties of Ken
lucky recently a ragged, disreputable
tramp stole pair of oxen and sold
them. shrewd young lawyer under
took his defence and when the case
was called well dressed, clean shaw
en-, good looking man took his place in
the dock. The change was so great
that none of the men who had seen
him WITH the oxen were able to COM
pletely iSentify him, and he was ac-
quilted.
Here are few names taken at ram
dom from the delinquent tax list of
Hawaii for 1898. as printed in one of
the Honolulu papers: Alapaki, Bila
Alapai, All Kui. All You, C. ]. Ah Fat.
Boo Sau Tong, Bow Din. Dol, AK Goo
1okepa, Ellen Kahaunaela, Lukia Ka-
holoholo, Leihulu Keohokalole, Kaha-
kumakalani, Not At and b. So. The
ks take up three columns of space,
being three times as numerous as the
delinquents under any other letter.
The wisdom of the injunction Don't
be clam" Is illustrated afresh in the
news from the Shrewsbury river.
where 1t Is said that the CLAIMS, though
fat and juicy, open their mouths and
die almost Immediately on being taken
out of the water. This peculiar state
of affairs Is said to be due to the fact
that the heavy and constant firing of
big guns at the Sandy Hook ordnance
proving grounds produces a sort of
hysteria or nervous prostration in the
bivalves.
woman evangelist Is converting
many sinners in Missouri. In one of
her addresses the other day she said:
There Is man in this house who is
untrue to his wife! l am going to
throw this hymnbook at him!" She
raised the book as IL she was going
to throw it, and every man but one in
the house ducked his head to avoid the
book. Then she bistered the dodgers
and lauded the one true man. 1t was
afterward learned that he was deaf
and dumb.