The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-07-11
S0NE UNIQUE TOWNS.
ONE IS PEOPLED ONLY BY
MURDERERS.
Two Whose Inhabitants Are Fur
r7;slled Everything Free.
Another Supported
by Dolls.

by Dolls.
The most undisputed record among
towns is held by Huddlersfeld, York
shire. It owns itself. Beginning life
in a model dwelling owned by the
town. the Young workman 'goes to
his work in a municipal tram. lie gets
his GAS or electric light from the city (;
his wife hires her gas stove from the
city, purchases her provisions iron
the city market and sends the week
washing to the municipal washerwo-
man. Their children play in the city
marks. their dust bin is cleared out by
the city authorities and their letters are
COLLECTED by tram, the property OF the
town. If they are i'll they are remoV'
ed to the town hospital If they are
nnlnckv in financial matters they find
a home in the municipal clearinghouse
and when they die, rich or poor, they
are buried by the town in a cemetery
owned by the town.
Bristol stands alone in the number
of its charitable Institutions, taklne
into consideration the number OF Its
inhabitants. The donations to the
Muller orphanage far exceed 81, 900
1t is the boast of Brlstol's inhabitants
of the greater amount of the above
sum.
On the other hand, the city of Arte-
ma, in Italy, claims the undisputeo
record of having no man among III
inhabitants who has not either com
mitted murder or tried TO do so. FOl
Two centuries the Italian authorities
have ignored its existence, and whel
any criminal succeeds in escaping t.
Artena he is lett alone. AS such way
farers reach the town they are asked
what crime they dave committed, ano
should they not be able to give clean
proof that they have really committed
some offense in the eyes of the Law
they are not allowed to enter. Some
criminal, seeing the humorous SIDE o
this, surreptitiously posted the follow
ing: sit is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of needle than fol
an innocent man to enter Artena.
A recent traveller in Bavaria writes
.'We entered the town of Nuremberg
It is the birth place of the doll. The
archives say that the first dolls which
were made after the likeness of mel
were made in Nuremberg 1000 years
ago. From that date to the present
day every working man, woman and
child, save those who cater t.
the want of the inhabitants, spends
life making dolls. The whole town
lives upon dolls, rates and every kind
of tax being paid by the price of dolly
freedom Oyer 30,000,00 dolls are ex
ported yearly.
There are two towns in Switzerland
holding undisputed records. The
municipal authorities of Braunlingel
are so rich that not only do they re
quire the inhabitants to nay no rate
of taxes, but supply free grazing
ground to every family for one COW.
Even here their generosity finds no.
enough scope, and Jan. 2 every yeal
they present every resident with two
pence, CARLOAD of wood and SIX
printed invitation cards, which the re
cipient is requested to send to any
friends of unblemished character liv-
ing elsewhere, asking them to pack W
their goods and come and live IL
Braunlingen. If they accept tie in
vitation, and their note to that effect
is received among the first two hun
dred. the town pays for their journey
and extras up to the amount of e3,
The money is raised from the rents OF
hous es which were formerly owned
by Swiss nobleman, whose pet object
in life was to build town. London