Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-03-23

Pagan superstitions survive in some
parts of Scotland. Visitors to the
sacred well of st. Maebruka, in Loeb
Maree, Rossshire, perpetuate ancient
Druidical rites when they drive nails
and copper coins into an oak tree as
votive offering, and when they kneel
before the oak.
There is probably in all the world
only one town built of glass, and that
Is to be found near Yellowstone Park.
The glass is not artificial, but natural,
being formed by ages of volcanic ac-
tion. 1t is dark green or black in hue,
but in every other respect resembles
the artificial prodnct.
There is a sort of clearing house for
inventors in a first floor fiat in Madison
avenue, New York City. According to
the tenants in this abode Of genius they
have made fish tail which is to run
"fin steamers" in three days across the
Atlantic, and have discovered perpet-
ual motion and a system Of sending
pictures and letters in second and a
half from one hemisphere to the other.
John Starns, of Concord, N. c.,
dreamed the other night that his wife,
who has been dead for twenty-seven
years, came to the side of his bed and
told him that he would find gold In n
certain spot on his farm. The next
morning he went out to look, and the
first thing he picked up was a four
ounce nugget. Later his son discov-
cred that there was regularly out
cropping of gold-bearing quartz at the
place, with signs Of gold mine be-
meath.
Russian papers give particulars OF
an extraordinary religious community
in Kieff, whose chief tenet Is idleness.
They are known as the Malevantchfna,
from the name of their founder, Cor
RADIO Malevaning, who was released
from a lunatic asylum in 1877 and
straightaway began to propagate his
strange sect. Basing themselves upon
the parable of the lilies, which "toil
not, neither do they spin," the Male
vantchina reject all work except that
of the household, wear coarse, sombre
garments and restrict themselves to q
diet of bread and cheap fruits.
On the rivers of Cashmere are thou
sands Of floating gardens, formed by
long sedges which are woven togethe:
in the form of gigantic mat. These
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are woven on the river or lake banks
while their roots are still growing in
the slime underneath. The required
amount of earth is then put upon the
mat, the stalks are cut and the mat
becomes a floating garden. They are
usually about twenty by fifty yards in
extent. A dishonest Cashmiri will
sometimes tow his neighbours garden
away from its moorings. and sell the
produce of the others toll
"The strangest, most contrary wood
in the world is redwood, which grows
on the Pacific Coast" says Popular
Mechanics. "It will sink like stone;
1t will float like 4 cork. 1t Is soft and
will cut like cheese; it is hard, fllnty
and brittle. Boards twelve inches
wide and ten feet long have been
easily split, while other specimens
were so crooked, they could hardly lie
still. Some redwood will defy rot for
forty years, while some will decay in
few months. Some will lose three
fifths of its green weight in drying.
and some will not lose any weight. 1t
is found straight grained, or it may
vie with rosewood mahogany or
French walnut for beauty Of figure.
Name any quality in redwood, and Its
opposite can easily be found"
Japanese Shops.