Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-02
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

Australia Will next year celebrate
greai century yacht regatta.
Seven feet six inches is the greatest
height known to be cleared by horse.
There are 256 railway stations with
in six mile radius of st. Paurs cathe-
dral, London.
One hundred yards las been run in
10 seconds, but 80 yards never COW
cred in seconds.
The Abyssinian war medal is the
smallest war decoration issued during
Queen Victoria's reign.
The loss through drought in western
Queensland during the last seven years
has been about f7,600,00o.
Cigarettes are smoked almost exclu-
sively in Germany, Austria and Greece
and generally throughout Europe.
The old Russian city of Riga will
celebrate next year the seven hun
dredth anniversary of its foundation.
The old fashioned idea of bloodlet-
ting as universal remedy still pre-
walls in the Polish settlement of Chi
cago.
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of Canada settles all questions as to
the correct spelling of geographic
names in the Dominion.
Sierra Leone is probably stocked
with the greatest variety of big game,
the sport to be Obtained being ele-
plants, hippopotami and deer.
China has not yet learned to it's full
extent the use of the check and the
bank of deposit, the money order or
the bank draft in her mercantile trans
actions.
The number of journals devoted to
automobolism is now decreasing. The
endeavor of enterprsing publishers to
'get in on the ground floor" resulted in
an oversupply.
There are at the present time at
least 100000 bicycles in use in the
world, and it is calculated that the
number is increasing at the rate of
100000 year
Among the many new wrinkles to be
found in the more modern of the great
apartment houses Is the mail shoot,
used just as in the modern tall office
building, but not so conspicuously
placed.
In proportion to its size Switzerland
has more hotels than any other country
in the world. No fewer than LOO hos
telries are on the list, and the receipts
of the hotel keepers amount to SO, 5,000-
600 year.
One of the sparse population of Juan
Fernandez, Alexander Selkirk's island,
is a Swede who leads a hermit's life.
He hardly speaks to his neighbors, and
garden and by fishing.
Because Sophie Seraphin refused to
marry Frank Senovitz of Branford,
Conn, he not only wanted those pres
ents back, but tried to have her make
good $500 he had spent in railroad
fares to and from her home.
1t has been observed that artesian
wells have daily period of ebb and
flow as well as the ocean tides, only
the process is reversed. The time of
greatest flow of an artesian well is the
period of low tide in the ocean.
1t has been found necessary to eX-
clude push cart men from the narrow
alleys they call streets in the down
town business district of New York, as
there is seldom room for push cart and
wagon to pass on the same thorough
fare"
French papers are chuckling over an
alleged feat of Admiral Gervais dur
in, OF hn
fleet He is said to have slipped
through the straits of Gibraltar at
night without being noticed by British
observers on the rock.
On the 1st of July, 1900, the price of
salt in Germany was advanced from 8
marks to SO marks ($1.90 to 5000
per 120 pounds. The salt mines of the
country are owned and operated by the
government. The increase is attributed
to the rise in the price of labor
Under orders from the interior de-
partment hundreds of miles of wire
fence is being taken down in Oklaho
ma, and cattlemen who put up the
fence without any authority whatever
are making loud complaints. The fence
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hire.
Russia knows what famine is in spite
of her pretentious empire. She has one
on an average every 10 or ~ years.
The enormous majority of her peasants
live on rye flour made into the famous
"black bread" When the rye crop
failed in 1891, some 27,000000 people
were affected by it.
Women can now vote in New Zea-
land and South Australia. They will
probably be allowed to do so at the
next elections in West Australia and
Queensland and have been promised
the franchise in New South Wales. In
Victoria the government is opposed
but gradually weakening.
The average number of children per
family in European countries is lowest
in France, with 3.03; Switzerland. 3.94
Austria and Belgium, 4.05; England,