Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, May 31, 1894, Image 2

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    FREELAND TRIBUNE.
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• MONDAY AND THTKSDAY.
TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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FREELAND, PA., MAY 31, 1894.
What has Congressman Hincs
ever done to deserve a renomina
tion from the Democratic party
The Illinois Federation of Labor
has had a committee examining land
in Merced county, California, on which
to locate tho unemployed families of
Chicago. In two or three cases the
land is offered for practically nothing,
and a member of the committee says
ho is sure tho project will be carried
out. They can locate 310 families on
twenty acre tracts at a figure which,
he says, the company intended to bo
organized by members of tho federa
tion can easily handle. The plan of
dividing each 320 acres into communi
ties around a central group of houses
has been adopted as the best adapted
to conditions.
Congressman "Tom" JohnsoD, the
free trade leader of the house, hns
announced himself as a candidate for
re-election. His district, which takes
in the city of Cleveland, 0., lias a nor
mal Republican majority of about
2,000 and was gerrymandered by the
legislature for the special purpose of
keeping "Tom" out of congress, Viut
he carried it by over 3,000 two years
ago and is confident he can do it again.
Voters, whether they be Democrats
or Republicans, invariably recognize
the value of a representative who has
tho courage to express himself as his
conscience dictates, and as Mr. John
son has shown himself to be one of
that class his chances are considered
bright.
John Quincy Adams, in 1832, said:
The doctrine that duties on imports
seem to cheapen the price of tho arti
cle on which they are levied, seems to
conflict with the first elements of
common sense. The duty constitutes
part Of the price of the whole muss of
tho article on the market. It is sub
stantially paid upon the article of do
mestic manufacture as well as upon
that of foreign production. Upon
one it is a bounty, upon the other a
burden, and tho repeal of the tax
must operate as an equivalent reduc
tion of the prico of the article, wheth
er foreign or domestic. We say so i
long as the importation continues the
duty must be paid by the purchaser
of the article.
Mr. Gladstone has written a letter
to an Italian newspaper in which he
says that tho difficulty in tho way of
t.he settlement of the Irish question
now is that the Irish parlimentary
party is not united. That is non
sense. Tho Irish parlimentary party
was united and stood by bim in the
last great vote he took in the house
of commons. It voted solidly with
him for home rulo and sent the bill to
the lords, who threw it out with
scorn. And what did Mr. Gladstone
do then? Appeal to the country? No;
he resigned and made a lord his suc
cessor as tho premier of England.
Tho plea was that his physical eye
sight was bad. His mental obliquity
was infinitely worse. Ho ran away
from a groat issue. He betrayed the
Irish cause. That will be tho ver
dict of history.— N. }' Recorder.
Both of the Democratic papers at
the county seat declare that Luzerne
county is Democratic by a large
majority if the proper candidates are
nominated by tho party. Upon that
point there is no question, as the
voters have demonstrated their pre
ference for Democratic principles so
often that it should bo unnecessary to
reiterate it. Tho party machinery,
however, for the past few years has
boon in the hands of men who have
not and never will havo the confidence
of the rank and file, and until new
leaders aro substituted or the Demo
cratic votors loose some of their in
dependence, the result of coming
elections will he very uncertain
There aro very few candidates an
nounced this year, as compared with
previous campaigns, but there are
enough in the field. Tho work of
electing tho nominees is going to be
an uphill job, for the voters will not
be particularly enthusiastic for the
top heavy ticket that lias boon slated. I
Tho renoinination of Hines alone will
be sufficient to kill tlie chances of
evory Domocrat who may aspire to
office in Luzerne county, for who will
have the audacity to apologize for his
actions since he was sent to Wash
ington?
See McDonald's J>2.98 chenile curtains.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., May 29, 1894.
Whether freedom really shrieked
when Kosciusko fell is a matter about
which practical folks have doubts, but
no practical working Democrat should
have any doubts about throwing up his
hat and giving three cheers and a tiger
for the Democrats in the house who had j
the moral courage to support the amend- j
ment offered by Representative Enloe,
of Tennessee, to the legislative and i ,
executive appropriation bill, striking out i
the appropriation for salaries, etc., of | (
the most colossal public sham of the age ,
—the civil service commission, a com-
mission which, although authorized with (
the best intentions to make it fair and ,
impartial, has been operated from the
first day of its existence to the present
time as a machine for keeping Republi
cans in ollice. Mr. Enloe has offered
this amendment several times when this
annual appropriation was before the
house, but never until now has he suc
ceeded in getting it adopted, and even
now it is not certain that it will stay
adopted, as the vote—lo9 to 71—was
taken when the house was sitting as a
committee of the whole, and the Repub- I
licans have given notice that they will
call for a separate yea and nay vote on
the amendment when the bill is report
ed back to the house from the committee
on the whole, and they will make a
desperate attempt to get enough Demo
crats to vote with them to defeat the
amendment.
Attorney General Olney, in answer to
a resolution adopted by the senate last
week, asking what action had been taken
against the trust under the act of July 2,
1890, has furnished the record of a suit
begun against the various firms compos
ing the sugar trust, which was dismissed
in the United States court for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania, with costs
I against the government, appealed to tile
circuit court, which affirmed the action
of the district court, and which is now
before the United States supreme court
on appeal. Mr. Olney does not say so,
but it is inferred from his commuuica
i tion and the accompanying documents
that he considers the much-talked about
Sherman anti-trust law a worthless one.
Other people suspicioned as much when
it was first proposed by Mr. Sherman as
a substitute for a more stringent meas
ure proposed by Democratic senators.
The senate committee has concluded
the taking of testimony in the brib
ery case, and it is believed that the re
port will state the belief of the commit
tee to be that ISutz attempted to bribe
Senators Ifunton and Kyle. The com
mittee is now taking testimony concern
ing the sugar trust and its alleged rela
tions with senators.
The house committee on naval affairs
has begun the investigation of the Car
negie armor plate contracts, authorized
by the resolution this week adopted by
the house. It will probably be a long j
one, as it covers all the armor made by
the Carnegie companies from tho begin
ing of their contracts with the govern
ment.
Senator Walsh, of Georgia, was natur
ally very much surprised when he
learned that the Hrotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers regarded his bill against
any stoppage or interference of trains
carrying mails as being aimed against
them, after telling the senate that as a
journeyman printer his sympathies
were and always had been with the la
boring men of this country, of whom he
was proud to be one, he introduced an
amended bill, which he thinks cannot be
possibly misconstrued by anybody. The
title of the bill is "To Protect the
United States Mails," and it provides
that any person who shall rob or attempt
to rob or maliciously obstruct or retard
for the purpose of robbery the passage
of any railroad train on which the mails
are carried shall bo punished by im
prisonment at hard labor not less than
one nor more than twenty years. S.
"Inkliorn" Pleads for Justice.
From the Wilkes-Barrc Telephone.
In previous articles I have given
figures to show that tho coal companies
unfler the prevailing method of dockage
usually deduct from three to seven per
cent, of the coal produced by the miners
each year. In 1887 for instance, the
dockage robbery in all the collieries of
tho first, second and third anthracite
districts, which includes the territory
between Shickshinny and Carbondale,
the miners lost through dockage alone
1,004,213 £ tons of coal. This coal, or the
, bulk of it at least, was sold by the com
j panics at a fraction over $2 per ton, or a
total aggregate of $2,010,400.72, being an
average steal of about SIOO from each
miner employed during the year.
It surely cannot be called anything
else than bare-faced robbery and extor
tion for the coal companies to charge
: $2.75 for a keg containing twenty-five
I pounds of powder which costs them
wholesale only sl, or $1.25 per keg, and
at the same time refuse thier miners tho
. privilege of buying powder from other
I dealers or from the manufacturers. In
' ordinary mining from ten to twelve kegs
of powder is consumed by two men
working two breasts every day in the
month, if they fire from six to seven
blasts each day. Thus it can readily be
seen that on powder alone each miner is
robbed of from sfi to $lO per month,
which goes to swell the other exorbitant
profits realized by the pluck-rne com
pany store system.
For years the miners have borne this
kind of injustice because they are too
helpless to remedy their wrongs. 1' or a
long time particularly since the influx of
cheap foreign labor began, wages have
1 been cut down to a starvation standard.
The working time at the collieries has
been limited to two and three days a
week under the plan of restricting the
market to keep up the price of coal to
to consumers. Meanwhile millions of
people east, west, north and south,
cannot alTord to buy anthracite coal
which is sold in seaboard cities at $0 and
$7 per ton. Hence the consumption of
coal is simply restricted to increase the
profits and annual dividends of the six
or seven great.coal and railroad corpora
tions that control the trade.
I do not desire to be considered an
alarmist, but in view of the great strike
now in progress throughout all the west
ern states where bituminous coal is pro
duced it is only right to call attention to
this matter and condemn the injudicious
policy of the great anthracite mining
corporations, which is at present a men
ace to the welfare and prosperity of the
i entire country. Beyond all question
they are pursuing a course toward the
miners and the public that is certain to
stir up bitterness and strife which will
probably lead to greater scenes of vio
lence and disorder than has ever before
darkened the history of the anthracite
region.
The percentages of profits realized by
the railroads for transporting coal to
market can easily he ieduced 50 per
cent. The services of the army of mid
dlemen employed as sales agents can Vie
dispensed with. Enormous salaries
ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 paid to
railroad presidents and general mana
gers can be cut down one half. The
system at ic robbery of cheating dock
bosses, and pluck-me stores, can be
abolished. And finally, the extravagant
high price of coal can be reduced one
half to consumers, and the consumption
of anthracite coal can thus he increased
to the limit of present productive capa
city of the collieries, if the corporations
will agree to follow a live and let live
policy toward the public from whom at
present they are filching millions of dol
lars annually.
Long Distance Transmission of Steam.
From tho Scientific Aincrioan.
At a recent meeting of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, Eckley
B. Coxe described a method he had used
in carrying steam a long distance. At a
colliery they wished to carry steam to a
water works about 4,500 feet over a hill
from tho boiler plant. A trough was
made by nailing the edges of two boards
together, so that they formed a right
angle. The trough was supported by
two stakes driven in tho ground and
' crossing just beneath tho trough. The
■ pipe was laid in the trough resting on
I cast iron plates, the pipe surrounded by
mineral wool and a similar inverted
' trough placed over the top.
To allow expansions, a bend was made
to one side at the top of the hill, and
then it was turned back to its original
direction. A largo receiver was intro
duced in the pipe at tho pumps. This
was made of three sheets of an old
boiler, and was thirty-four inches in
diameter. This also served as a separ
ator.
As the elevation was 1,800 feet above
the sea, the cold was excessive in the
winter time, but this arrangement has
been in use since 1877, has cost nothing
for maintenance, and has given no
trouble. Mr. Coxe believed that the
secret in carrying steam long distances
to an engine without causing a drop in
the steam pressure was in the use of a
receiver or reservoir.
Suing tlio County for #:iOO.
The Pittston Gazette on Friday com
menced action against the county for a
bill of S3OO, which the publisher, Theo.
Hart, alleges was contracted by the
county by a contract signed with him for
the publication of the annual statement
of tho county auditors in the Gazette.
The commissioners refused payment of
the hill because the controller disap
proved the hill because the contract for
publication was not reduced to writing
and filed immediately with the control
ler, because it was not made with the
lowest bidder, after publication for bids
had been made, and because their cer
tifying it would be contrary to an act of
the legislature, as the expense was
greater than the law allows.
I here are six other papers whose bills
for like amounts were disapproved and
this test case will settle all.
Itlg Coal Operations.
The following contracts have been re
cently awarded: ToC'uyle A ( 0., by Coxe
Bros. A Co., contracts of stripping 250 -
000 cubic yards of surface near Eckley
The same company awarded to C. F
King A Co. the contract for excavating
I 200,000 cubic yards of surface overlying
tho vein at old Buck Mountain. This
colliery was abandoned years ago. At
Honey Brook the Lehigh and Wilkes-
Barro Coal Company gave to Crawford
| A Dugan the contract of uncovering the
1 old Bull Run mine. VanWickle A Co.
has commenced the erection of seven
blocks of houses at Beaver Meadow,
preparatory to opening up an extensive
stripping operation.
\Y all paper, fi cents per double roll, at
A. A. Bachman's. Paper hanging done
at shoit notice.
SIMILAR DESIRES.
Mrs. Mulligan—l'd rather hev the
hull family sick than you!
Mr. Mulligan—So would I! Hallo.
Condition ol' the Coal Trade.
Fro n Saward's Coal Trade Journal.
The anthracite coal trade during the
past week lias shown perhaps a slight
change for the better, in that there has
been a greater demand for certain sizes
of this coal from former soft-coal users,
which demand has taken up the broken
as well as the small steam sizes. This
has befcn particularly noticeable along
the line between the mines and tide
water and even at Philadelphia, which
is so largo a seat of manufactures.
The domestic sizes do not move off with
any particular degree of activity, except
perhaps to the New England ports, and
they are taken there because of the
very favorable prices which are being
made.
In order to meet the enlarged demand
some increase o# the output for the
month of May has been agreed upon,
and the collieries will be run on a basis
of GO per cent, of their capacity. It is
to bo feared that the storms of the re
cent week will keep down the tonnage
during this current week to a certain
extent.
Already there is some discussion as to
the advisability of making an advance
in the price list to date from the Ist of
June; it is the opinion of certain of the
conservative members of the trade that
it is exercising a wise discretion to make
an advance for both the interior and
tidewater tonnage.
Cracked Hi* Skull With a Rat.
John Moran, of Wilkes-Barre was
fatally wounded on Friday night by
"Bud" McGinness, of Kingston, during
a quarrel. Moran's little brother was
playing ball in the street with a number
of other hoys when McGinness, annoyed
by their shouting, took the hat and hall
from tliem.
\ oung Moran began to cry and his
brother coming upon the scone, asked
McGinness to return the bit and ball.
McGinness refused and a few words
passed between them, and then sudden
ly McGinness swung the hat with all his
force and struck Moran over the right ear.
Moran fell unconscious to the ground
and McGinness in the excitement escap
ed. Moran's skull is fractured.
The Krsult Was Satisfactory.
From the Wilkes-Burro Record.
Itail road era and others have been
surprised during the week to see the
large 1). S. & S. engines, four of which
have been laken by the Valley, at the
depot and vicinity. They are monster
locomotives and very powerful. On
Thursday one of the engines was coupled
to a passenger train to see if better time
i could be made up the mountain than
with the Valley engines. The rusult
> was satisfactory.
Well, Let It Re Soon.
1 From the Wontlierly Herald.
1 Tilings seem to he shaping themselves
1 pretty nicely for Hon. Kckley B. Coxe,
and from appearances it will not he long
before the Coxes will control the Valley
and the anthracite coal fields as well.
At least the indications point in that
direction.
SIOO Reward, SIOO.
Tho readers of this paper will bo
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages and that is
catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is tho only
positive cure now known to tho medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu
tional diseaso requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying tho foundation of
the disease, and giving tho patient
strength by building up tho constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers, that they offer one
hundred dollars for any case that it fads
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Cirsoid by druggists, 75c.
Little girl (after waiting some time for
desert), "Grandpa, what do you have
' after dinner?"
Grandpa—"Dyspepsia, my dear."
Little girl—"()1, Wright's Indian
Vegetable Pills will cure that."
Picnics supplied with ice cream, cakes,
candy, etc., at low prices hy Laubaeh.
Fine line of shirt waists, McDonald's.
PLEASURE CALENDAR.
• June 10. —Fourth annual picnic of Divi
sion 20, A. O. 11., at Eckley grove,
i Juno 211.—Picnic of the Feurnots Ath
| letic Association, at Drifton hall park.
' June 23.—Excursion of Young Men's T.
A. B. Society to Glen Onoko. Fare:
: adults, SO cents; children, 50 cents.
1 rain leaves Freeland, 7.30 a. in.;
I Glen Onoko, Gp. m.
1 Examine McDonald's $3 velvet rugs.
Helping Fapa.
A minister'a wife was starting out
for a walk and invited her little daugh
ter to go with her.
"No, mamma, 1 can't," was the very
positive reply.
"Why not?"
"I have to help papa."
"Ilelp papa! In what way?"
"\\ hy, he told me to sit here in this ,
corner and keep quiet while he wrote
his sermon, and 1 don't believe ho is
half done yet."—Washington Star.
Wanted II Ih Name Changed.
"Well, John," said the judge to a
pigtail celestial, "what can I do for
you?"
"Want to gette name changed."
"What's your name now?"
"Sing Sing. No goodoe. Gctto
changed to Walbee Twice."
"To •'Warble Twice?' "
"Yep. All same Sing Sing."—Texas
Siftings.
Sorry Tliroo Tlmc.t.
When a friend who shared our hobby
horse and our ooolcies in childhood
floats off on a European steamship we
arc sorry. When she returns grasp
ing a cane wo suppose she is lame and
arc sorry. When we ask after her poor
foot and find she is only trying to be
a swell wo are sorry again—-this time
for ourselves.—N. Y. Ilerald.
Accepted the Doctrine.
Little Frances' parents have been
discussing reincarnation and the small
maiden has acquired some of its phrase
ology.
"Mamma," she said one day, "my
kitty must have been a pin in a pre
vious state of existence, for I can feel
'em in her claws yet."—Judge.
Something Better.
Mistress—Hubctta, when I was driv
ing In the park the other day, I saw a
nurse allow a policeman to kiss a
child. I hope you never al'ow such a
thing.
Babetta—Non, madame; no polize
man vould think of kcesing ze child
ven 1 vas zero.—Puck.
Siitlßfiod the Harbor's Curiosity.
"Wonder how those old-tiinc barbers
used to pull teeth?" ventured the man
who was shaving.
"They probably did it with a razor
like the one you have on my face."—
Buffalo Express.
A Familiar Dame.
Little Dot—Let us play keep house.
Little Ethel—All wight. You petend
you are a—a lady and lam call In' on
you.
Little Dot—That'll be fun. Now sit
down and ask me how I like my new
girl.—Good News.
Warned in Tlno.
"I've caught you making love to my
wife."
"Well?"
"I'll give you fair warning—I did
did that once, and I've been sorry ever
since."—llullo.
Paid the Wrong Way.
"Do you pay for spring poems?"
asked the poet.
"I do," replied the editor. "Lose six
subscribers every time I publish one."
—Atlanta Constitution.
IT JCTST HAPPENED TIIAT WAY.
IFT NEED THEE I
It may hare boon a mere coincidence,
but Mr. Lush forth will never be con
vinced that his wife didn't set the bot
tle in just that place on purpose.—
Judge.
Jlmmlo'H Perplexity*
I am terribly mlxod about things of late,
My mlml's In a regular garble;
Why in it that agates ain't agato at all,
And marbles aro not made of marblef
Youug People*
A Grave Mistake.
Real Estate Agent—Yes, sir, I can
recommend tho place to you. No ma
laria, chills unknown. Healthiest lo
cality In the stato.
Stranger—Guess we can't do business
—l'm a doctor.—Truth.
Getting Square.
Hotel Clerk—No. 80's curtain got a
flrc from the gas last night.
Proprietor— Um—telegraph to tho
insurance company, and—and charge
No. 80 fifty cents for a fire in his room.
—Puck.
Complimentary.
Mrs. Newoome invited young Mrs.
Smith to step in to dinner.
"Hadn't I better go home and make
myself pretty?" asked Mrs. Smith.
"Oh, no, dear—come just as you arc!"
Colored Schooln in tho South.
Sam Johnsing—ls de 'tendance at do
school party fair?
Miss Johnsing—Some of 'em is aheap
fairer den I is, but mos' of 'em is dark
mulattcrs.—'Texas Sittings.
How It Happened.
Jess—l took off my hat at, the thea
ter last night.
Jack—How did that happen?
Jess—We sat in tho last row, bock.—
N. Y. World.
A NeccßHary Formality.
"They Ray that money Is a drug in
the market."
"\cs, but the trouble is one has to
have a proscription iu order to get it.'*
—Brooklyn Lite.
SPORTING NOTES.
WILLIAM STEIN ITZ, the chess cham
pion, is in New York under medical
treatment for insomnia.
A NATIVE of Hawaii, seeing a man
riding a bicycle, said it must bo very
nice to "walk sitting down."
INSURANCE companies claim that
cycling is more dangerous than travel
ing either by railways or steamships.
THE horse George Frederick, winner
of the English derby in 1874, was sold
for thirty shillings recently in an Eng
lish sale yard.
IN order to furnish sport for a shoot
ing party on his Moravian estate,
Huron liirsch had six thousand partr
ridges transported there in cagos and
liberated.
NEW ZEALAND is bent on preserving
her remarkable wild birds and other i
animals, and has set apart two islands J
on which all hunting and trapping is ;
forbidden.
Foil the first time in the history of
the English university boat races a
married man, Sir Charles Ross, rowed
in one of the crews this year, lie was
married two years ago.
MICHAEL F. DWYER, perhaps the
greatest plunger of the American turf,
laughs at the idea that luck brings
wealth on the race track. Nerve and
good judgment, he says, arc the only
qualities necessary to a gambler's suc
cess.
THERE were 182,270 cycles used for
pleasure solely in France last j'ear,
a fact disclosed through the collection
of the tax imposed on them. The pro
portion of bicycles and tricycles is not
stated. Cycles used by tradesmen for
purely business purposes are exempt
from tho tax.
JUST SCRAPS.
THE notes of the Hank of England
cost exactly one cent each.
THREE out of the first four presidents
of the United States married widows.
THE total inoomo of the Church of
England is about one million dollars a
week.
"END of tho century" years are not
leap years unless divisible by four hun
dred.
BUCKETS of plantain leaves arc made
by the natives of almost every tropical
country.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND men are es
timated to rido in the elevators of
New York city every day.
THE French system of weights is
pretty nigh universal in all countries
other than English speaking.
PHCENIX PARK, Dublin, covers nearly
two thousand acres; Central park, Now
York, eight hundred and sixty-two.
A TON of steel made up into hairpins
when in watches is worth more than
twelve and one-half times the value of
the same weight in pure gold.
OVER THE RAILS Or STEEL.
TIIE largest railroad shops in tho
world are those of tho Big Four at
Bellefontaine, O.
AMERICAN locomotive builders turned
out 1,958 locomotives last year, a de
crease over previous years.
SOME antiquarians claim that there
is proof that the locomotive engine was
known in China two hundred years
ago.
ORDERS for two hundred and fifty lo
comotives and several thousand rail
way carriages have been given by tho
Russian government to Austrian and
Belgian firms, presumably required for
the trans-Siberian railway.
IN order to avoid setting fire to tho
pampas by sparks from its locomotives
the Buenos Ayres Great Southern rail
road has been experimenting success
fully with petroleum as a locomotive
fuel, tho intention being to substitute
petroleum for coal if practicable.
ODDITIES OF NATURE.
MALE mosquitoes do not bite.
THE original inventor of paper was
the wasp.
MOUNT SINAI, in Arabia, is 0,641 feet
in hoight.
THE mummy cats unearthed in Egypt
have red hair.
THE common horse fly Ims 1(1,000
facets on its eyes.
THE kestrel has been known to fly
150 miles an hour.
FEMALE frogs have no voice; only
the males can sing.
A FLEA'S mouth is placed exactly be
tween his fore legs.
THE highest mountain in Europe is
Mount Blanc—is,7B2 feet.
THERE are more muscles in tho tail
of a rat than in a human hand.
GLIMPSES OF EUROPE.
DUTCH country houses arc decorated
with legends.
IN Paris the undertaking business is
monopolized by the city government.
ON some parts of the coast of France
when tho wind is east the mist that
appears, it is said, bears with it a no
ticeable perfume.
VIENNA has entered upon an exten
sive scheme of embellishment, and un
sightly public buildings are to give
place to new ones of artistic design.
IN England the successful lawyer
makes from §75,000 td §IOO,OOO a year
and successful physician §BO,OOO to
§100,000; the average barrister and
medical man, however, does not make
more than §1,200 a year.
WHERE AMERICA LEADS.
A REGULAR organization of one
legged beggars exists in Springfield,
Mo.
TUB new American street letter
boxes are about to bo adopted in Lon
don.
PAPER can bo made from the stand
ing treo in the space of twenty-four
hours.
THE first horse was brought to this
continent in 1518. Now there arc, in
tho Unitod States alone, 14,050,750,
valued at §941,000,000.
THE oldest salvage corps in this coun
try is reported to i>e the Protective so
ciety of Now Bedford, Mass. It was
organized in March, LB9.
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