Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-03-01
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

New EnSand is said to furnish bet
ter workeS in mills and factories thar
any other section of the country.
Mexico purchased over S300,00(
worth Of United States furniture tht
first nine months of the past year.
One hundred years ago it took q
month to cross the Atlantic. Now the
trip is made between two Sundays.
Chicago has big cooperative board
ing house, where it is reported the
members get good meals at IL cents
each.
In 1900 there was not cooking stove
in the United States. Now we are be
ginning to cook without fire by the aid
Of electricity.
The statement was made before the
Ethical society of st. Louis at recent
meeting that the city pays 100000 a
year more for police protection than it
does for school privileges.
An official return, made as the result
of statements respecting the French ar
my reserve, shows a deficiency in the
reserve infantry alone of 1900 lieuten-
ants and sublieutenants and 500 cap
tains.
AS illustrating the cumulative force
of the . cent piece 1t is shown that the
total income of the "a street railway
companies operating in Pennsylvania
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1900, was $24,447,1S1.
A report of Frank H. Hitchcock,
chief of the division of foreign markets
in the agricultural department at
Washington, says that while butter is
the most valuable export of the Danes
"they import a good deal of butter of
the cheaper sort from the United
States"
The new Indian lands that are to be
opened for settlement are said to com
pose one of the richest tracts in the
world. The Apache, Comanche, Kiowa
and Wichita reservations, which are to
be opened. contain about 100000
acres of land. of which two-thirds is
available to white settlers.
Old time pawnbrokers in New York
are to meet increased competition from
the Provident Loan society, which was
a pet scheme of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt A third branch of the soci
ETY. is about to be opened. this time in
the Tenderloin district, richest of all
fields for the pawnbroker.
In order to see how fast a buzzard
really could fly good specimen of the
tribe was shipped from Charleston to
New York and there released at an ap-
pointed hour. 1t was expected that the
bird would take day at least on the
trip home, but the buzzard fooled the
experts and got there in four hours.
Silk ribbons were used in the court of
Victoria to hold newspaper clippings
designed for the royal perusal She
never saw the papers in their original
state. They were carefully perused by
an official, who cut out what he thought
would please her, pinned the clippings
on the ribbons and laid them on her ia.
BILE.
Central America is the tramps' Nee.
ca. There are many "hoboes' who
drift down there and none who come
back. In Nicaragua or Costa Rica, for
example, all they have to do Is to mar
ry native wife and settle down In
some little banana or cocoanut grove In
the interior to life OF peace and no
work.
Leading architects desire to have
their profession given the same stand
ing as that of lawyers and doctors. No
man can practice law until he has been
admitted to the bar or medicine until
he has passed required examination
and received a certificate. But anybody
can call himself an architect whether
he Is qualified or not.
Oregon has been known as the Web.
foot State. During the rainy season
the precipitation is so constant and
heavy that it is humorously said the
climate OF that state is best appreciated
by animals having webbed feet. 1t is
also called the Beaver State, from the
former abundance of these animals
along its water courses.
An experiment farm is to be started
200 miles from Manila by the United
States Philippine commission for the
purpose of ascertalning what seeds and
plants from this country can be sue
cessfully cultivated on the far eastern
islands. Tile University of California
will send from Its experiment stations
the required seeds and plants.
Along the line of the recent inven-
tions is process for spinning. paper
into fine thread which cannot only be
used for sewing, but out of which
very beautiful fabric can be woven.
Specimens of tablecloths and napkins
made by this process were exhibited re-
Gently which compared very well in ap-
pearance with the fine articles of linen.
An old porter at the City hotel in JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, stepped into that hos.
telry after the close OF the war to re-
fresh himself with drink. He placed
his rife in corner, took his drink, en-
gag'd In conversation with the proprie.
tor OF the hotel and was given employ
ment Immediately. He has been an