Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-01-07
FREELAND, PA, JANUARY :, 1903.
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Boycotting originated in Ireland
twenty-five years ago.
NJ. Yushin, the Russian tenor, has in
sured his voice for $500.
Germany, England, France and Italy
supply Canada with rubber balls.
Most of the steel pens used in Canada
are made in Birmingham, England.
Public gambling is likely to be abol-
ished in Switzerland at an early date.
There is pigeon at Blnfield, Berks,
England, which is averred to be twen-
ty-seven years old.
Yarmouth England corporation has
ordered 10000 pictorial posters to be
used in advertising the town.
A pearl fisher of Western Australia
named Broome has found pearl whose
value Is estimated at $4,000.
At Festinlog, north Wales, the guard
ians have subscribed to provide piano
for their workhouse (almshouse).
Ninety thousand pounds of snails
reach Paris daily. They come from
Burgundy and Provence principally.
Within three and half years eighty
two trusts have been formed having
an aggregate capital of $4,31S,005, GAG.
Porto Rico is to have a revenue cut
ter to coast around the island and care
for her harbors, as is done in this coun-
try.
Seattle's exports to Japan are now
about $5,000,000 per annum, which is
oil hnt civ
ago.
The district of St. Etienne, France,
has produced annually for the past
five years over $17, 100000 worth of
ribbons.
Several attempts have been made
American capitalists to form trust of
the breweries in Mexico.
A French statistician estimates the
number of cows in the civilized world
as Sc, $4,000 and the amount of butter
they yield at 2,640,000 tons a year.
After leaving Calcutta practically at
the same time five large vessels carry
ing close on 100000 bales of jute re-
Gently arrived together at Dundee.
According to the United States con-
sui general in Montreal, Germany
makes the best lead pencils, but the
United States the best rubber erasers.
Nearly all the shoes sold in Russia
are manufactured by one firm in St.
Petersburg, which is one of the most
prosperous stock companies in the
world.
Two monster vegetables, a turnip
weighing twenty-three pounds and n
cabbage weighing fifteen pounds, have
been grown at Foulmere, Cambridge
SHIRE England.
Although the author of a book on
the finances of Turkey has been deco
rated by the sultan for his work, the
Turkish press censor has prohibited
the sale of the volume in Turkey.
-Four immense steamers are to be
built by the Hartman railroad inter
ests to ply between Portland, Ore, and
oriental ports. They are to cost be-
tween 100000 and $3,000,000 each.
1t is reported from Coburg, Germany,
that cheap substitute has been found
for celluloid. 1t has been derived by
dissolvng sixteen parts of glacial ace
tic acid, is parts of the bitter cellulois
and adding five parts of gelatin.
California ranks sixth as an onion
producing state, according to the cen
sus reports, having 2,207 acres that
yielded 514,S59 bushels, worth $780,
6T1. New York takes first place, with
an acreage of 6,033, producing 2,177,-
271 bushels.
Haiphong is a city of 10000 inhab-
itants, the first port and the second
city of Tonquin. The population Of
Tonquin is about 6,S00,000, among
whom are $500 Europeans. The CAPT
tai of Tonquin, Hanoi, has a popula-
tion of 10000.
Officials of the census office say it is
probable that force of 600 employees
will he retained in that office until after
the manufacturers census Is taken in
1905. The act of congress creating the
permanent census provides that the
cotton statistics shall be gathered each
year.