Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-01
FREELAND, PA, APRIL 1, 1908,
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Local government in the British me
trppois costs about "a 4s per inhabit-
ant annually.
The question Of alien immigration is
now far more serious In London than it
ever was in California.
Belfast paid nearly 100000 less duty
on whisky and f1O6094 more duty on
tobacco last year than in 1901.
For riding bicycle after being
warned canon named Stampa has
been suspended by the bishop Of AS
sisi, Italy.
That the gas engine, large or small, is
developed to an efficiency at which 1t
can rival the steam engine In reliability
is now admitted.
A pressure recorder attached to the
rowlock of the racing shell will here
after be used to determine the work
done by each oarsman.
Sir Ernest Cassel, who gave $1,0OO,-
600 for tuberculosis research, has Of
fered to give 100000 toward the study
and investigation Of ophthalmia in
Egypt.
The electrical development of the city
of Bangkok during the last ten years
has been wonderful. The Siam Electric
company, limited, has capital Of
$S0O,O00
Having in error been entered in the
baptismal register as a male, a young
girl named Gabrielle Bervier at Brest
was In the drawing of lots recently
drawn as conscript.
The Aleuts are rapidly dying off since
civilization has led to changes in their
habits and clothing. The vices of our
civilization destroy every aboriginal
people exposed to them.
Every piece of ground in South AZ
rica containing the graves Of soldiers
who fell In the war has been taken
over and is to be maintained by the
British war department.
The current market price of liquid
air In Berlin, where a company has
been formed for Its production and
sale, is SO cents per liter, or nearly
one and three-quarter pints.
From facts gathered in the last six
months the remarkable condition is re-
vealed of the existence of more child
labor In New York city than In all the
states of the south combined.
During a lull in his duties as a col
lecting agent the kaiser has turned his
attention to domestic science and ex-
PEELED from the royal palace all the pet
animals and birds. His royal highness
surmised that they might entertain mi
crobes.
Gera, in Saxony, has been the scene
of a singular ''strike." The doctors re-
fused to treat patients belonging to sick
clubs because the societies sought to
reduce their fees New physicians from
Berlin have now left the strikers with
out patients.
Dr.. Brung Hassenstein, one of the
leading map drawers of the world, died
recently at Gotha. He worked for the
Perthes publications for many years.
He is best known for the great ten
sheet map of Africa and for his edition
in collaboration with Menke of the
Spruner historical atlas.
The exodus of Scandinavian emf
grants to the United States continues
to be the greatest in twenty years. The
hard times at home and the more
stringent laws for the conscription of
soldiers, together with the reported
prosperity In America, are responsible
for the universal movement.
Stephen Jeans, an English authority,
computes the cost of manufacturing
hematite iron at the greatest steel CEN
ters of the world as follows: West
Cumberland, England, $15.65 ton;
Westphalia, Germany, $3.50 ton;
Pittsburg, $9.57 a ton. At Sydney,
N. S., the cost Is $7.45 a ton.
In many country villages and isolat-
ed sections of the New England and
the middle states women still may be
found who earn living by spinning
and knitting wool and by weaving and
knitting rag carpets and rugs. There is
quite revival in demand now for nice
ly made rugs In some localities.
The managers of the Paris Metropoli-
tan Underground railway have been
persuaded by lovers of dogs to consider
the question of providing special cars
on their trains In which dogs and their
owners can travel together instead of
the dogs being separated from their
masters or mistresses, as at present Is
necessary.