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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1894
Page
2
The Freeland Tribune issues subscription rates and notices about payment dates, alongside miscellaneous items including taxes on New Yorkers and a British army interest in Australian rabbit meat as reported by the American Agriculturist. Names include Grover Cleveland and W. W. Astor with tax figures mentioned.
The article notes a survival of an old courtship method involving abducting an intended wife as a courtship gimmick. It mentions a California promoter planning an electric railway through mountains to Yosemite Valley with water power for lighting and transport. About 4900 tourists visit Yosemite yearly paying $33 for the stage ride. French statesmen led by M. Sevile seek to bring American homestead ideas to France though no direct French term exists. a bill in the Chamber of Deputies redefines home stead ideas.
In old times a man carried an organ strapped to his back with an upright stand attached, a familiar sight. Now the musical piano on wheels has largely supplanted the organ, making even louder noise and becoming the common street instrument.
To France the telephone is used on many railroad main lines. A portion of the Vinconner Railway uses a novel system where a signal on the telephone instrument allows the operator to connect telegraph wires with verbal communication. The large Australian railways support full telephones that can connect with telegraph wires without interrupting telegraphic communications.
New York and Boston together have ten miles less paved streets than Chicago. Philadelphia has forty miles more than New York and St Louis combined. The pavement question shifts from wear and pressure to street cleaning, say New York Sun students of municipal administration.
The article details a German pigeon service with 600 birds at Strasburg and Metz, 1003 at Thorn, plus carriers at Mainz Cologne Tiel and Danzig. It notes the system connects military HQs and interior towns, funded around $9000 yearly, and cites 1870 Paris siege as proof of usefulness. Russia reportedly maintains 8000 birds on the Polish frontier with $10000 yearly, while France spends about twice as much.
The article describes naval discipline and the brig, detailing bread and water confinement, court-martial risks for overlong liberty, and the sailors’ tricks to smuggle liquor aboard. It covers molasses jug smuggling, tampering with guards, and improvised contraband drinks aboard ships, reflecting harsh penance and clever evasion.
A New York Sun report describes a shipboard ruse where sailors extract alcohol from shellac using a marline spike break in, strain it into cups, and mix with lime juice to create a “starboard cocktail” on state occasions.
A collection of maxims on time, honesty, jealousy, courage, and judgment. It notes that life is finite and unreliable, echoes that truth requires listening to both sides, and warns against quick judgments, reminding readers that fault-finding often reflects laziness and bias.
A tiny chatelaine dictionary, about the size of a postage stamp, contains 15 000 words with meanings. Sold in silver or gold cases with a magnifying glass, it is worn on chatelaines and carried like a stamp or locket, gaining rapid sale for its novelty and utility. Detroit Free Press reports brisk demand among Indies and gentlemen alike.
A Logansport family story recounts William Michaels and Tod 18, noting grandfather Henry Neber who died recently left fourteen children. Each child fathered fourteen more, totaling 196 grandchildren and 857 great grandchildren, with 567 descendants to the fourth generation. Five hundred fifty three were present at the funeral, described by the Chicago Times as a record gathering.
The Washington Olympian reports a curious fish exhibition in the city. The specimen stretches five feet yet measures only a few inches around its body with a tapering tail. Caught at Oyster Bay it is said to be an oyster crushing eel evidenced by a solid bone roof in its upper jaw and a similar surface in the lower mouth.
A young boy writes a list of curious questions to a mentor, asking why the sky is blue why peas grow in shells and many other wonderings about nature language and society. He hopes to learn from books and guidance and promises more questions after addressing these.
A collage of children’s verse and anecdotes features Elsie asking grasshoppers about their dressmaking, a moral about boys and bad language, a pennywise craft on making a bouncing ball, a dramatic geyser escape in Montana, and simple science tricks for evening entertainment. Includes notes on a camel’s limited domestication and a Scribner's companion piece.
Mrs Elliott of Delaware County New York descended stairs with a lamp in each hand and the pancake turner held in her mouth. She fell as the handle pierced her neck and the blade was cut off to remove the implement. She is recovering. The wheat market remark closes the item.
A collage of cartoon captions and jokes from various papers. Snappy lines on romance, civility, and daily life feature a picnic youth, a caterpillar metaphor, and quips about debt, manners, and modern manners. Notable bits include a waiter’s wit and a college-bound son’s handshake jab.
A fragment from a New York weekly notes a parsonage purchase plan distant in town with a high price expected and a delay until new chimes are installed. The piece shifts to a tale of two ladies and a bleak health prognosis, then to a New Hampshire village store serving many roles and a Browning inquiry. It also mentions folding beds transforming into a washstand and dressing case, then a Buffalo club anecdote about Shakespeare and a Scottish reaction to a crown remark.
A clay idol unearthed in the envelope dunes near Tangier shows a large open mouth small eyes and a high brow. The figure resembles Aztec era idols linked to a god named Nipe and sparks speculation of Phoenician and Tudian contact with Central America, per the New York Times.
A Detroit Free Press report describes a simple photon meter devised by a Russian inventor. The pamphlet consists of twenty four pages with progressively darker tints from gray to nearly black. Readability at a fixed distance supposedly measures room illumination or eye power.
A Langholm housewife washed children’s collars and hung them on a garden hedge to bleach. The missing items were later found forming part of a thrush nest’s foundation in an ash tree cleft in a nearby wood, as reported by the Glasgow Times.
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