Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-11-21
FREELAND, Pa, NOVEMBER 81, 1902.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Paris has 1916 factories.

Iarls mas l,oIO factories.
4 diet of garlic Is wonderful aid to
the complexion.
Tho car Of Russia has established
ten hour working day.
\ man should weigh twenty-slx
pounds for every foot Of his height.
Tho most valuable byproduct pro
ducpd on the farm is the sklmmilk.
Whitewash made Of quicklime and
wood ashes will destroy moss on tiles.
The number of laborers required to
cultivate the tea crop of India is &C.,
coo.
Two roots and the trunk of a fossil
ford, England.
The standard of height in the British
army is greater than in any other
army in the world.
There are sixty-fve steamers on the
Swiss lakes. The largest can trans
port l,200 passengers.
The median age of the white popula-
tion in the last census year was 23.4
and of the colored 1871 years.
During the last ten years 275 acci-
dents, involving 301 deaths, have oc-
cured to people climbing the Alps.
The income of the Suez canal last
year was $40, 100000, being dues from
5000 vessels which passed through it.
Fifty thousand Christmas postcards
designed and printed in London have
been ordered for sale on the continent
twenty-five survivors of the eruption
at st. Pierre, Martinique, are adver-
tised as an attraction at a circus in
Berlin.
The motto 'Dieu ct Mon Droit' was
first assumed by Edward III. Of Eng
land when he took the title of king of
France.
DIR. Heinz, professor of therapeutics
of the University of Erslangen, advises
long, deep and quick breathing for cur
ing seaSicEness.
Cleburnc, a town in Texas, possesses
years old. The animal has no teeth and
is unable to new.
Twenty-Five thousand black silk
handkerchiefs have been ordered by
the British admiralty for the navy
from Macclesfeld firm.
The whole number of Seminole Indi-
ans, as shown by census just taken
is but 339. Nearly all of them are in
the Florida everglades.
The greatest number of complete Bi-
bles ever issued in one year-viz $780,
706-was sent out in 1901 by the Brit
ish Foreign Bible society.
There are $500 window glass pots in
the country but owing to the limited
number of skilled workmen it is only
possible to operate 2,300 pots.
y Spanish ducat belonging to the pc
Rod of Philip ". of Spain, 1921 to
1925, has been found by Mashona-
land volunteer near Mafeking.
A portable seat for messenger boys
has been invented. A tired lad carries
1t concealed beneath his coat when not
in use, but it will usually be in use.
Germany sold Russia nearly 100000
worth of plows last year. The plow in
use in that country has wheels at the
Dtin UP, 50 IL uOeS nOl nave 10 De uelu.
Since June more than $4,000 British
officers and men have left South Afri-
ca. This is believed to constitute a
worlds record in the transport of
troops.
The agricultural returns of Great
Britain for 1902 show that the total
under crops and grass was 32,3S7, ,765
acres, decrease of 29,4S0 compared
with 1901.
AS thanks Offering for his good
health Pope Leo Mi. proposes TO
erect home for the aged poor in his
native town Of Carpineto, Perugia, at
IA cost of 100000.
Judge NJ. NJ. Sheldon of Macon, Mo-,
married young couple recently and
left out the word "obey" in the cere-
mony. In order to make sure that
both parties should be aware of the
omission he called attention to it.