Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-11
PA, DECEMBER II, 1901.
BREVITIES.

Sweden spends SIS 100000 year in
coal and has 100000 to 1000, 900 cleo
trical horsepower going to waste. The
government is thinking about utilizing
some of 1t.
Californla's state flower Is the golden
poppy, and one of the professors at
Stanford university has published a
book devoted exclusively to the flower
and its legendary history.
The skin of the musk OK, which is a
denizen of the Barren Grounds" and
the arctic region of Canada, has taken
the place of that of the extinct buf-
falo for sleigh robes. 1t varies in price
from $50 to as low as So for poor ar
ticle.
The industrial depression in Germany
is reaching serious proportions. En-
ployment agencies are deluged with ap-
plicants. From the mining regions
come reports of numerous dsmissals
and reduced work. The same is true
in iron and steel work.
Gigantic water power developments
are projected in the Alps. There are
now in the French Alps forty-eight fac
tories supplied by 100000 horsepower,
electrically generated. Engineers esti
mate that 100000 horsepower is now
running to waste in the Alps.
The royal library at Windsor castle
is about to be enlarged by the inclusion
of a room adjoining hitherto used by
the lord in waiting. This will enable
many thousands more volumes to be
added to the hundred thousand valu-
able works now on the shelves.
So great has become the demand for
American coal in Europe that it has
been decided to build an immense re-
ceiving station for unloading screening
and grading coal in northern France
Rates have been made on French roads
which will drive German coal out of
central Europe
DR.. Bzarro of Corr has published a
that the Adriatic has for more than
thousand years been rising and en-.
croaching on its shores. The lowest
parts Of Trlest are experiencing trou-
bic already, and in course of time Ven
ice will be buried in the mud of the la
COON.
1t is reported from the City of Mex
leo that Senor Sabine Osuna has in
vented an ingenious and yet seemingly
very simple affair styled the "Contador
Rapido Siglo Xxx" twentieth century
rapid calculator). The apparatus, which
resembles the ancient Chinese counting
machine, is for the purpose Of rapid
computation.
New York state has more cows than
Pennsylvania and New Jersey COM
bined and more than any other one
state in the Union, Iowa being second,
Illinois third and Wisconsin fourth.
The entire number of cows in the states
and territories in the exact census fig
ures is 16292,3G0, with a total valua-
ton Of $514,S12, 1O6
The beaver, the staple fur of the
French regime, is now becoming scarce
and its price varies greatly according
to fashion. Even the skin of the in
offensive rabbit has now positive
market value, as it is dressed, clipped
and dyed deep brown, almost black,
and then becomes what is called "elec-
tric SEAL" much in vogue for laAes'
jackets.
The trees now growing on the farm
near Franklin, n. H., where Daniel
Webster was born are to be cut up
into friction matches, a manufacturing
company having paid $500 for the
Standing timber upon it. The legisla-
ture of New Hampshire refused at its
last session to pay $4,000 for the en-
tire farm, though many patriotic citi-
zens of the state petitioned to have it
preserved as perpetual memorial of
New Hampshirc's great son.
An exciting scene was witnessed in
the Romita ring during a bulltight on
bicycles. Two of the chulos placed the
banderillos, or short stnbbing sticks,
into the necks of the bulls. When the
second bull entered the ring, Jose Ba-
surto, maneuvering his bicycle clever
ly, placed the sticks with great daring,
while his cOmrade coolly sat on his
wheel, which was propped to stand
upright in the ring. Luckily the bull
paid no attention to him.