Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

refugees.
The island of Sakhalin, the great
penal colony of Russia, has splendid
forests of fir and pine.
All the vacancies in the naval med
ical service are now filled for the first
time since the civil war.
For quarter of century no new
houses have been built in the Sussex
Nngland) village of Slindon.
A Chinese official In Shanghai re-
Gently entertained a number of foreign
officials to a dinner of 126 courses.
A Harrisburg man on his deathbed
recently directed the payment Of a
board bill of thirty years standing.
The suicide death rate in European
armies far exceeds the rate of the
country to which the army belongs.
Popular Mechanics declares that
there are American firms that make
pure fruit jellies" out of old boot legs.
North America is credited with twen-
ty volcanoes, Central America with
twenty-five and South America with
thirty-seven.
100000 lost and starving dogs have
been cared for at the home in Batter
sea, England.
There has been erected in the works
of the Bethlehem Steel company a
steam hammer four stories high which
strikes blow of 125 tons.
If all the land in the United States
| MI tn1 In,
its area would equal the British isles,
Holland and Belgium combined.
North Of England ironmongers are
making money by loaning machines to
thrifty housewives who wish to turn
supply of oranges into marmalade.
Professor Horatio w. Parker of Yale
has accepted the task of furnishing an
oratorio for solos, chorus and orchestra
for the Norwich (England) musical fes-
tiyal next fall.
The finest example of weaving in the
world is said to be the panama hats
manufactured In Jipijapa pronounced
HippyhappD, in the province of Monte
cristi, Ecuador.
Only n few years ago British vessels
predominated in Bilbao harbor. Out of
the seventy-five vessels in the port the
other day, however, only eighteen few
the British flag.
In connection with the increase of
the Maryland national guard provided
for by the legislature an order has been
issued for the establishment of a reg
ular hospital corps.
Canada has sent q veterinary quar-
antiue officer to England to apply the
tuberculosis test to all cattle over six
months ole intended for export to the
Dominion for breeding purposes.
About 40 per cent Of the men en-
ployed In the Minnesota mines are
Finlanders, another 40 per cent Hun
garians, about 8 per cent Italians, and
the rest are divided among Americans,
Germans, French, Scotch, Welsh and
Cornish.
Cooperation of the army and navy
in educational matters is inferred by
| the removal of the medical school ut
the Brooklyn navy yard to Washing
ton, where it will be used in teaching
young officers Immediately after they
enter Tue SerNlce.
Heaton Park, Lord Wilton's well
known seat near Manchester, England,
has been sold to the corporation of
that city for f230,000. The greater
part of the estate will be made into a
park, and the outlying portions will be
developed for building purposes.
The actors at the Theatre Francals,
Paris, have new grievance. They
complain that the stylish clothes they
have to wear when they appear In
modern plays cause heavy drain up
on their salaries, and they ask for an
indemnity similar to that allowed to
the actresses attached to the theater.
At Budapest the wooden pavement
Of a whole street has just been stolen
in broad daylight and in full view of
the police. The thief appeared in the
forenoon with gang of laborers,
whom he ordered to pull up the pave
ment, which he sold forthwith,
promptly decamping with the pro-
ceeds.
Professor Mohn of Christianla hav-
ing discovered that at the Lofoten is
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in waters whose temperature is al
ways between and 5 degrees above
the freezing point, Norwegian fisher
men now make use of the thermome-
ter as recognized means of detecting
the presence of the fish.
OF the 400 inscribed clay slabs found
in the ruins of Babylon by the eXpedi-
tlon sent out by the German Oriental
society but two have yet been deci-
phered one explaining the Babylonian
cuneiform characters and the other
containing the litany chanted by the
singers of the temple of Esagila on the
return of the god Marduk to his sane
tuary.
A. X. Blundell of Wanganui, New
Zealand, has the skull of bullock
which has curious ingrowth of the
horns. The left horn penetrates AZ
inches into the head through hole