Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-03-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The boring of the Simplon tunnel is
half done.
One thousand five hundred and thir-
teen novels were published in England
last year.
Florida produced last year but 600
tons of phosphate against nearly 1,000,.
600 in 1890.
The Monte Carlo Casino made $4,500,
900 last year, of which $2,500,0o0 was
clear profit.
.Iapan's foreign trade has in thirty
years increased from less than dollar
to nearly 81 per capita per annuIn.
A small grass seed which had germi-
mated while in patients eye has just
been removed by japanese oculist.
A special commission has been ap-
pointed In France to codify the laws
concerning working class legislation.
Five gold beds have been discovered
in the western states of America by
means Of an electrical ''divining rod"
The Paris-Yienna automobile race,
under auspices similar to those of the
Paris Berlin race Of 1901, will be held
in July.
Realty sales in the city of London
during 1901 We're f5,553, ,09S, comparing
with f4,934,76 in 1900 and fG290,314
in 1899.
In memory of the late Miss Kate
Greenaway it is proposed to endow a
cot in one Of the children's hospitals in
London.
Copper money in France is to be
gradually replaced this year by alu-
minimum bronze pennies of a pale yell
low color.
According to official central market
statistics recently issued, 800 tons of
snails were sold in Paris during the
year 1901.
Thirty million stamps bearing King
Edwards portrait were placed on sale
in the postoffices throughout England
on New Years day.
Belgium has place where alcoholic
drinks are sold for every SO persons.
Prussia one for $50, Austria for 220,
Russia for 991 and Norway for $1,000.
A country laborer of Brescia while
cleaning an eel discovered in its stom-
ach a large black pearl, which has been
purchased by Milan jeweler for ST.
800.
Prizes amounting to 100000, it is
said, will be offered in the grand inter-
national airship race which the Paris
Aero club is organizing for next sum
mcr.
Twenty years ago a few foreigners
had ventured the risk of life incident
TO a landing in Korea, but today its
capital has an American street railway
plant.
Husbands in Luneburg, Prussia,
must be home at II O'clock at night or
pay fine of about $3.50, half of which
i;oes to the complainant, who is usual
" the wife.
Since the establishment of the gam
ing tables land on the Riviera fifty
miles from Monaco which was former.
ly only worth $25 an acre has been
sold for $4,000 an acre.
The pope Is stated to have refused
the application for permission to settle
III ihOiIc " IllCu ny StNtldl
of the religious congregations expelled
from France under the new law.
Quails are becoming SO scarce in Eu-
rope that France and Germany have
Joined in prohibiting the killing of the
birds and even the transport of dead
quails across their respective terrific
ries.
DIR. Warre, head master of Eton, pro
poses to build classic ship, probably
on the model of Roman or Grecian
trireme, and to moor it in the Thames
opposite the houses of parliament dur
ing coronation week.
King Leopold of Belgium has been
consulted as to the construction of
road from Ostend to the French from
tier to be reserved exclusively for mo-
tor car racing. Efforts are to be made
in France to have the road continued
to Paris.
NJ. Hamard, the French sculptor, has
just completed in Paris the model of a
statue of Marshal Rochambeau to be
presented to the city of Washington as
companion statue of Lafayette. 1t
will be ready to send to the United
States in April.
The Bengal chamber of commerce is
protesting against the proposed Aus
tralian prohibition Of colored labor on
mail steamers on the ground that the
interests of the Indian companies ana
of 10000 Indian seamen and tiremen
are thereby grayely imperiled.