Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-19
FREELAND, PA, DEoEMBEB 10, 1902.
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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British soldiers deposited f30660 last
year In military savings banks.
Five hundred and thlrtytwo tons of
cigarettes were exported last year from
Egypt.
Great quantities Of cheap American
cigarettes are being smoked by natives
in India.
Lectures on advertising are being
given twice week In the Commercial
college at Prague.
Coke, a byproduct in the manufac-
ture of gas, has increased POO per cent
in price In five years.
Over $4,000 rabbits have been trapped
during the past year in the municipal
rabbit warren at Torquay.
The only way to tell birdseye maple
tree is to cut it. There are no outward
signs by which one can Judge.
There are 4,33S one room tenements
at Plymouth occupied by families con-
sisting in some cases Of eight persons.
Overworked seamstresses in Berlin
are to benefit by legacy of $250,000
left by a German bookseller named
Balm.
As the hay crop in Lapland has been
total failure, the peasants are slaugh-
tering their cattle, entire carcasses be-
ing sold for as little as SIS.
A French statistician estimates the
number Of cows in the civilized world
at 63,SS0,000 and the amount of butter
they yield at 2,640, 900 tons year.
Six thousand cartridges, several r.
fes and number of pompom and IF
teen FOUNDER shells have been dug up
near Klerksdorp western Transvaal.'
First class briquettes are sold in Ber-
lin and Germany generally for $3.17
ton and this is the highest price known
since they became an article of COM
merce.
Five thousand dollars has been paid
for the drinking glass used by the late
empress of Austria while taking the
waters ut ungen-Schwalbach, near
Wiesbaden.
Six employees of a Barrow England
engineering firm have received prizes
ranging from So to $50 for suggestions
tending to the more economical produc-
ton of work.
Recent legislation in some of the
peach states compels the removal of
the pink tarlatan netting which does
SO much to give an attractive color to
the green and unripe fruit and fool the
buyer.
The National museum at Belgrade
has come into possession of a collection
Of 6S,0OO Roman copper coins recently
unearthed near Servian village. The
oldest of them were In the time Of Car
acalla.
Experiments conducted in California
and recently reported to the Botanical
Society of America indicate that bees
are active agents in the spread of pear
blight at the period when the trees are
in bloom.
Seventy sepulchral urns containing
old coin and other relics dating from
the Augustan epoch have been discov
cred at Aquileia, the ancient Roman
tower near Triest which was destroyed
by Attila.
Treasury figures show deposits in the
banks and trust concerns of the coun-
try aggregating $500, 100000 or about
sos per capita. The total of available
cash In the country Is something more
than $1,000, 100000, or less than $50 per
capita.
English firms are trying to secure
market for soap in India, but up to the
present time that country has remained
practically soapless. Indeed, through
out Hindustan soap Is regarded as
rather n curiosity and rarely If ever
kept in stock by the native storekeeper.
Hannibal, Mo-, has Tower Of Babel.
Fourteen languages are spoken at the
cement plant there. Among the work
wen are Austrians, Poles, Spaniards,
Italians, Roumanians, Slavs, Greeks,
Hungarians, Russians, Frenchmen,
Germans, Irishmen, Cinnamon and
Americans.
Germany Is gradually dismantling
her old time fortresses. The old fortifl-
cations of Mainz and of Cologne have
been torn down, and now it is the turn
of Ulm, in whose old tower the capitu-
lation of 1905 took place. Part Of the
walls of Metz have disappeared, and
at Thionville they are tearing down
Eauban's famous ramparts.
CASToRIA.
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