Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-12
THE EXCHANGE EDITOR.

An electric automobile in France re-
Gently ran 124 miles without recharg-
ing.
During a recent Sunday shower In
Manila 7.39 inches of rain were record
| ed.
Nearly 175 Congregational churches
have adopted the individual commu-
MON cup.
Switzerland's expense for the keeping
of each inmate in the insane asylums IL
S4S year.
German physicians prescribe electric
| light baths administered in mirror
lined boxes.
Nikola Tesla's new laboratory ON
Pixies Peak is long, wooden structure
with big veranda.
Taking all civilized countries, the av-
erage age at which women marry is
said to be twenty-three and q half
years.
| The official records Of Kansas show
that there are sixty-one counties in
that State where there is not a single
| bicycle
Car Nicholas's usual tip for servants
when on visit is IS. The Kaiser usual
ly gives about $3.50 for the same ser
vice.
| Cpou ITeSluenI MChluleyb QeSk IN
the White House lies the old fashioned
Bible given him by his father when he
first went away from his home.
There are 100000 goats in the United
States, 25S.000 in the West Indies
| (where goat mutton is extensively
used), $4,000 in England and 4,500, 900 In
| Spain.
Central Asian railroad managers try
to meet the desires of their public. A
harem car with latticed windows has
been constructed for the Emir of Box
| hara.
| A missionary paper reports that the
| opposition to the Natural Foot Society
in China comes chiefly from the women
who are afraid to go against fashion.
Among the points dwelt on at the re-
| cent tuberculosis congress In Berlin
were the facts that more than 40 per
cent of the printers of Berlin who had
died were phthisical.
A German flsh-breeder named Jaffs
has succeeded. after several fruitless
attempts, in transporting from Colora-
do to Germany the eggs of the purple
trout (salmo purpurata) and raising 4
large brood.
A Whangarel New Zealand) youth
who advertised for wife was amazed
to find among the replies letters from
two of his sisters, with photos inclosed.
In this case the mania for matrimo-
nial alliances seems to have been quite
a family disorder.
When the Queen of Roumania makes
stay at the seaside she delights to
sit on camp-stool in tho middle Of
the sands, gather around her all the
children, and tell them fairy tales OF
her own composition. Most of the fairy
tales of Carmen Sylvia have received
the appreciation of a large circle Of
children before publication.
Thirty years ago the sardines and
young herring in Canadian waters were
sold mostly as fertilizers. In 1897 near
ly million boxes of sardines in oil
were put on the market. The price paid
to fishermen varies extraordinarily ac-
cording to catch, season and year. be-
ing sometimes as low as Sc per hogs
| head and sometimes as high as 500.
John Williams, a young farmer, of
West Union, O., 10 an expert squirrel
hunter, and is also afflicted with SOM
nambulism. Last Saturday morning at
| daybreak he awakened to find himself
| at the edge of a wood half a mile from
home. He was in his night robe. and
was carrying his gun. He had evidently
started off on squirrel hunt.
An extraordinary occurrence hap
pened the other day in Brussels. A
milkwoman with her cart, drawn by
two dogs, was passing through q street
in the center of the city, when of q
sudden the roadway opened and the
cart and dogs disappeared. 1nvesti-
| cations showed that the roadway had
been undermined by rats, which swarm
in the neighborhood.
| Il -
come one of the richest members of
the English royal family. Her marriage
| with the Marquis Of Lorne has not
necessitated the keeping UP of any
great state. and. being childless, her
expenses are comparatively few. On
| marriage she received a dowry Of s15e,-
900, and she had magnificent wedding
| gifts of diamonds, rubies, pearls and
| other jewels. Like the rest Of the
| Queens children, she has an income Of
100000 year.
Rudyard Kipling, according to the
London Chronicle, was taken by Thom-
as Hardy to see a house which the
latter thought would suit Kiplins.
When Mr.. Kipling moved out Of ear
| shot, Mr. Hardy observed to the occu-
pant: II may mention to you that this
| gentleman is no other than Mr. Rud-
| ydTu hlplluB. rs tUdt bOs 5uo re-
| Piled II never heard the name before,
Presently Mr.. Kipling in turn, found
himself alone with the lady, and re-
marked: Possibly you may not be
aware that the gentleman who brought
me here to-day is Mr.. Hardy. the emf
nent author" "Oh, indeed" was the
reply, Il don't know his name"
Once upon time Parties offered to
sell Farmer tin box for $5eo. But
it contains only sawdust!" protested
the farmer, who took seven daily pa
pers. Yes" replied the parties, smiling
| patiently, but with a sucker befns
born every minute, there's going to be
a great demand for sawdust. There's
bound to be a bulge in sawdust sooner
or later" The farmer was much struck
with this theory. and bought the box,
mortgaging his farm to raise the men-
| ey. This fable teaches that with the
common people become 30 exceedingly
intelligent as they now are, methods
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