Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-06
FREELAND, PA, AUGUST 6, 1900
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


pagna bite only from about an hour
before sunset to an hour after sunrise.
Germany is rapidly rising In impor-
tance as a money lending as well as
a money making nation.
Red bananas are coming into the
market again. Very few have been
shipped to the United States during
the past few years.
Native hens In New Zealand in addi-
tion to supplying the communities with
eggs make themselves additionally USE
full by catching rats,
There is S5O,O00,OOO worth of United
States government property, as ap-
praised locally, within the boundaries
Of the Greater New York.
No state except Rhode Island and
Mississippi requires more than one
years residence for citizens. In Min
nesota only four months is required.
A West Australian exploring party
that recently arrived at Oodnadata re-
ported that there had not been a drop
of rain for two years In the region
traversed.
A leading Chicago physician says
that one of the best remedies for in
somnia-and certainly the cheapest
Is to take long trolley ride just be-
fore going to bed.
1t Is estimated that the losses by
business failures In the last ten years
amount to S1,S00,000,000, which is
more than twice the amount of the
country's circulating medium.
1t is one of the risks of soldiers ca
reer that while in time OF peace his
profession Is the healthiest of all when
war comes 1t is transformed at once
into the deadliest of all calllngs.
The original manuscript of the
speech favoring the admission of Kan
sas into the Union made by William
II. Seward has been secured by the
Kansas State Historical society.
The British government Is the owner
of over 25,500 camels. Several thou
sand are used in India to carry stores
md equipment when the regiments are
changing quarters by line of march.
Governor John G. Brady of Alaska
has sent a large number of Alaskan
curiosities to the Children's Aid So
ciety in New York, IN the care of
which organization he was brought
up.
Rhodesia has its civil list and its roy
al grants with other older and more
settled and populated communities.
The late King Lobengula, 1t appears,
left 80 wives as pensioners on the CON-
munity.
Motor cars registered in Paris num-
Der 3,701; the suburbs of Paris, 1919;
In the rest of France, 2,445; in the
whole of Germany, 1,427; in the whole
of England, GOO; in the United States,
less than 300.
Balloons are used for drying linen in
Paris laundries. Bamboo frames are
attached to a captive balloon, and the
clothes are attached to them. The bal
loon makes six ascents daily to a
height of about 100 feet.
According to decision of the Ken
tucky court of appeals, If one annoys a
dog while the animal Is eating and gets
bitten as consequence the victim Is
guilty Of contributory negligence and
cannot recover damages.
William G.. Nash of Weymouth,
Mass, is thought to be the oldest gro
tered the business as an employee in
1881 and having conducted store of
his own for the last G7 years.
1t is said the Duke of Wellington
once declared that there was nothing
so stupid as n gallant officer, and a
correspondent of the London Times
complains that, while the British Off
GERS are as brave as brave can be, they
are mostly stupid.
Although Washington has more
parks in proportion to its size than any
city in the country, until now it has
had no public playground. A reserva-
ton In the southeastern section of the
city has been improved and set aside
MS a playground for the children.
While the Egyptian children no
doubt had as great regard for cats as
the children of today, the parents had
a still higher regard, rising into wor-
ship. So great was this regard that
the cat came to be looked upon as
sacred, and cat worship became a part
of the religion of the race.
In a new apparatus for handling
goods arranged on shelves the upper
half of the shelving is suspended by
means of pulleys and ropes to slide up
in, mn oh ln rtrtth
clutches for Securing the pulleys to re-
volving shafts to raise or lower the
shelves.