Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-16
BREVITlES.

The tea pills, fourteen to the ounce,
of Caucasus grower are simply COM
pressed tea in convenient form for
travellers.
The leading industries of California
are in close rivalry as to annual prod
uct. Sugar and slaughtering each pro-
luce about $15,000000, while lumber
Hour and fruits each show about $13,-
100000
During the past year not a single
ease of smallpox has occurred among
the staff of the London smallpox hos
pitfalls, indicating that careful revacci-
nation is an absolute safeguard against
that disease.
Several of the smaller British tobac-
co manufacturers outside the English
trust have been forced to suspend
work by the keenness of the competi-
ton between the American and Brit
ish syndicates.
Pigmentophagus is name which
has been applied by NJ. Metchnikoff, a
bacteriologst, to certain micro-organ-
ing pigments of the hair and are the
cause of badness.
During the last twenty years the con-
sumption of eggs has enormously in
creased in Great Britain and now rep
resents annually an estimated sum of
f13,000,000, f5,500000 of which goes to
foreign importers.
Tho D,ir Of NJ p;
Willard of Paris is magnificent gyro-
scope, the revolving toy popular some
years ago. The wheel is twenty-five
feet in diameter, and the power is
from gasoline motor.
Chinatown, San Francisco, has four
dailies printed in its own language.
The types are 11,00O in number. Set
ting 1000 characters is a days work,
which takes twelve hours of walking
about in the typeroom.
The sugar syndicate of Spain. which
embraces all manufactures of that
commodity for three years will limit
the output to $4,000 tons, dividing that
quantity between the manufacturers in
proportion to their respective capacity.
Three electric furnaces are to be
built in Tennessee, each with an eight
thousand horsepower electric plant.
They will be Independent of the steel
trust, but will work in harmony with
other electrical plants which are pro-
jected in tie south and west.
The silver coins of Hawaii are being
retired as fast as they are received by
the federal and territorial officials in
the course of their public business.
These coins were all minted in 1888
They amount to S1,000000, of which
sum about 100000 is still in circula-
tion.
The ascent of the Weisshorn by a
young Englishman named Ryan, only
eighteen years old, has created a great
deal of interest in Switzerland. He
was accompanied by three guides. 1t
was so cold at the great height that
the champagne they had brought with
them froze solid, and they had to eat it
instead of drinking it.
Iceland is about to obtain home rule
King Christian of Denmark has called
for an extraordinary meeting of the
althng to consider a reform of the con-
sttution. A plan to be submitted is
the appointment of a minister for Ice
land, who shall be acquainted with
Icelandic and shall reside at Reikjayik
instead of Copenhagen.
The last forest of Paris is about to
disappear. 1t is situated at 40 Rue
st. Gervais and is composed of oaks
81, .I,,I ,,tt
of impenetrable creepers. 1t is partly
on slope and partly in a ravine,
through which a small stream flows.
The YieuX Paris commission has de-
clned to reclaim this curious an
tiquity.
If all the petroleum produced last
year in the United States was put in
standard barrels and the barrels placed
in a row touching each other, the line
would completely belt the earth
Enough coal was produced to give
three and a half tons to every one of
The 7G,OOO,000 persons in the United
States and enough gold to give every
American gold dollar.
L is proposed to erect in connection
with the old st. Paul's Episcopal
church, Edinburgh, Scotland, a chapel
rs memorial to Dr. Seabury, the first
Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, who
attended services there when he was a
student in Edinburgh. Bishops Pot
ter of New York and Brewster of Con-
necticut have issued an appeal to
American Episcopalians for subscrip-
tlons.