Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-01-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

There are about 5000 women stenog-
raphers in Pittsburg.
A German has invented an electric
sand pump for cleaning stone buildings.
The largest church in the world Is
st. Peters, at Rome, accommodating
$4,000 persons.
Theatrical stage employees have
ninety local unions and more than
4,00o members.
Galway, Ireland, wants to be made
the home terminal port Of the proposed
new Canadian mail route.
The Women's Butchers union at the
Chicago stockyards has 600 members.
st. Louis has a similar union.
General Jouberts silver fitted jaunt-
Ing car, which was captured in South
Africa, is now at Woolwich arsenal.
There are about $4,000 convicts in
the prisons of England, whose main
tenance costs about S3,000,000 year.
Clusters of filberts containing twen-
ty-nine separate nuts have been
plucked at Templecombe, Somerset
England.
Copper in certain druggists supplies
has been traced to copper rivets used In
the driving belts of the manufacturing
machinery.
Broad Suffolk, England, lady and
her husband landed $3.50 roach be-
tween-t them.
About 100000 tons of freight are
annually carried ON the Ohio river,
which has a length of 1000 miles from
Pittsburg to Cairo.
A belief in witchcraft still prevails
in parts of Lancashire, England; also
in the Isle of Man and still more
strongly in the Hebrides.
1t is announced that the British mu-
scum has purchased the ten pound
aerolite which fell recently at Crum-
lin, County Antrim, Ireland.
Authorities of British Columbia have
established travelling libraries for the
benefit Of the numerous lumber and
mining camps in that province.
Endeavors are being made to amalga-
hldtt llAC -AhSli anu o"i
Alpine clubs for the purpose of secur-
ing more control over the guides.
In a cemetery in Middlebury, VT, is
a stone erected by widow to her low
ing husband bearing this inscription
"Rest in peace-until we meet again"
Six monster apples gathered at Pull
ham, Norfolk, England, measured thir-
teen inches in circumference and
weighed together three pounds and
two ounces.
Turkish women do not come into con-
troll of their private fortunes until
after marriage. After that they can
dispose of one-third of it without the
husbands consent.
The most prominent Austrian trade
union, the Gewerbe Verein of Lower
Austria, has decided to send a deputa-
tion to the United States in 1904 to
visit the st. Louis exposition.
The Russian naval estimates for 1903
call for the expenditure of 104,417,7Sl
rubles as compared with 9S,31S,9S4
rubles in 1902. OF this sum 40, 1896
rubles are for new construction and re-
pairs.
The premier of New South Wales
has been urged by a deputation of la
dies to institute the curfew bell, pro-
hibit the employment of barmaids and
prevent the sale of cigarettes to young
children.
At present the proportion of working
time is smaller in Britain than in any
other nation. The assertion is true alike
In respect of agriculture, of industry, of
shopkeeping, of commerce and of the
professions.
The white marked tussock moth is
native of North America. 1t ranges the
territory east of the Rocky mountains
and attacks almost every variety of
shade, fruit and ornamental trees, with
the exception of the conifers.
A soldier named Meyerhofer has been
sentenced at>Zurich by the Swiss mill
tary authorities to three months at
hard labor for refusing to obey orders.
The soldier refused to serve on Sat
urday as it was the Jewish Sabbath.