Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-14
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

A dealer in artificial limbs estimates
;hat 100000 Englishmen have lost one
or both legs.
In Mexico schoolteachers usually
have cigar In their mouth. Even
criminals before the bar are allowed
to smoke.
Common laborers in Spain get from
30 to 40 cents per day in the larger
towns and from 20 to 80 cents In the
:ural districts.
An Egyptian contemporary says: "Our
whole island is now girdled with golf
courses. All the world is no longer n
stage, but golf Inks
The British museum authors cata-
logue Is now completed after 20 years
labor and has cost 100000. 1t con-
sists of 400 volumes and 70 supple
ments.
The eruption of vesuvius is gradual
ly increasing in intensity, and the au-
thorlties are taking the usual precau-
tions to prevent imprudent tourists
from approaching too near the crater.
An Australian volunteer is carrying
u III LID DIdlll, lulDtuueu IOO
deeply to allow of extraction, and he
declares that but for the knowledge of
the fact he never felt better in his life.
In England during the past few
years. it is claimed, 140,320 farm la
borers have been displaced by ma
chinery, while the making of the lat
ter, it is asserted, required only the
In hnp pf A Gl0 20
Kerschdorf near Heidelberg, has a
lively 31-year-old blacksmith and
churchwarden who recently climbed
to the top Of the church steeple and
tied new rope to the bell after the
younger men in the village had refused
to risk themselves.
Comfort powders are beautiful little
stanzas or verses Of courage and good
cheer, written on small papers and roll
ed up like powdered medicines. One is
to be unrolled, read and enjoyed each
morning. Each one is mystery until
It's turn comes. And the surprise is
part of the pleasure.
The Hambledon cricket legend,
which makes England's national game
thhN ITO llSt Ill tnt llllle SuGIty VIZ
lage scarcely more than 100 years ago.
has long since been exploded The
game was played by the vikings and is
certainly Identical also with the "club
ball' of the fourteenth century
Switzerland has not until now been
noted as n center for steel production,
though her engineers have long held a
hiuh In ha
Recently, however, n company has
been formed to work the great deposits
in the Bernese Oberland, where there
are many million tons of ore available
averaging 80 per cent Of iron.
About all that Chinese gentleman
wants to practice the profession of
medicine Is to declare himself n doctor
and go to work curing or killing people,
as the case may be, at the rate of about
2 cents per visit. If a patient persists
in dying in spite of the drugs and in
carnations presented by his Celestial
physician, it is no fault of the doctor.
South Carolina negroes have started
new industry by the hand picking of
phosphate rock. During the summer
they anchor boats on the Coosaw riv-
er, which is from II to 25 feet deep,
and dive for the fertlizlng rock, some
times bringing up fragment weighing
100 pounds. The phosphate from the
river bed Is the most valuable known.
People in Honolulu indulge in a bev-
erage known as "swipes" 1t is the ma
| tive beer of Hawaii and is dangerous
concoction. The principal articles used
in its manufacture are sugar, corn
| pineapple root and Chinese ginger,
bran, Irish potatoes and sliced pineap-
pies. 1t is fermented after standing
four or five days, and then it is ready
! for use.
Beds are comparatively scarce in
Russia, and many well to do houses
are still unprovided with them. Peas
ants sleep on the tops of their ovens,
middle class people and servants roll
themselves up in sheepskins and lay
| down near stoves. soldiers rest upon
wooden cots without bedding. and it Is
only within the last few years that
students In schools have been allowed
| beds
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registered over 100000 strangers who
had visited the city. Vienna. which
formerly had more visitors than Ber-
lin, counted only a few over 100000
| in 1899 and was surpassed by Munich
with 100000 Dresden had over half
a million visitors, Hamburg, Leipsic
and Zurich each about 100000 and
Stuttgart. Basel and Dusseldorf each
over quarter of million.
Passengers on far western railroads
are being advised to carry guns with
them and not to slumber at night.
There Is no telling when lone "holder
up" may begin operations in a sleeping
car. If one good, wide awake man
with his wits, accompanied by first
class six shooter, about him should as
sert himself, the highwayman would
not be apt to leave the train unless he