Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22
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profit out of its post offices.
SMAILPoX is the most infectious dis
ease. Then comes measles.
GEN Mills wife is John Sher
mans niece. The general has power
1ul friends.
OVER 100 persons disappear in Lon
don every year without leaving the
slightest trace behind.
SPAIN is in position to take the
head Of the line in the cZar's universal
disarmament condition.
A TIlsT-CLAss locomotive carries
from three to five tons of coal and
from :. .0C0 to 5000 gallons of water.
MARK TWAIN is now living in a cas-
tie near Vienna, which he has taken
for the summer for himself and family.
COMMODORE ALBERT KAUTz has been
selected TO command the Pacific squad
ron upon the retirement of Rr. Adm.
Miller.
The present population of the United
States exceeds that of Germany by
about $4,000. 600, and that of Great
Britain by "a, 600, 600.
EMILE ZoLA is to come here next
month. He will deliver lectures on
art, on literature and on The Pris-
oner at Devils Island"
IL India elephants ever 10 and up &c
% years of age are deemed best in
purchase and will generally work we'll
until they are so years old.
On his arrival in Boston the other
day Richmond Hovey, the poet, was
first hisscd as a Spaniard and then
checred as a returned rough rider.
The cost OF keeping UP the drink
ing fountains and cattle troughs in
London is SIS, 800 per annum. y single
trough in a busy thOroughfare costs
$3.50.
IT costs 90 cents day to feed a
soldier, according to war depart
ment figures, counting tran sportation
of provisions. This would be $50, $40 a
day.
GEN. SKATER comes home minus IS
rounds, and he admits that ne could
afford to spare it. He is still a good
sized man, of considerab ble theft, as
they say.
A RATTLE for Bibles takes place
every year in the parish church of st.
Ives, in Huntingdonshire. Eng. This
quaint custom has been observed for
200 years.
THE French minister of justice has
appointed six men to examine the Sc
cTet papers in the Dreyfus case, and
the reopening of the case depends on
their decision.
IN Mexico everything and every body
pays a direct tax from the street por-
ter to the largest mercantile establish
ment, and the stamp tax for documents
is equally lucrative.
SWEDEN is the latest country to lay
claim to the ancestry of Adm. George
Dewey. Canada insists that the par
ents Of Adm. Sampson were reared by
the Lady OF the SHOWS"
DR. JOHN s. GRIFFIN, who died in
Los Angeles, Cal, the other day, was
veteran of the Mexican war, a pio-
neer physician of Cali fornia and the
founder of east Los Angeles.
THERE are supposed to be nearly So
600 DENTISTS practicing upon people S
teeth in the world. A dentists case of
instruments nowadays contains be-
tween 300 and 400 instruments.
Primo SvIAToPoLK MIRsKY. who re-
Gently died at St Peters burg. became
ma jor-general at the age of 30 and
sia has been engaged since the Crlmean
war.
NINE. ALBANI. who has been making
a tour through South Africa, is de-
lighted with that country. When she
visited the De Beers compound at KIM
berly recently 5000 Zulus danced and
sang for her.
CONSIDERABLE trouble was tly
caused in a Chicago court, when Mr..
J.. Il. Barnes, a prominent lawyer OF
that city, brought suit against a
butcher because his meat caused
Notwithstanding ingue-colisteritis
WHEN the snake sheds his skin.
which occurs .requently-as often as
every four or five weeks-the skin Of
the eye comes off with the rest. Trans
lucent in most parts. the skin over the
snakes eye is perfectly transparent
MARX TWAIN writes that it feels SO
good to be out of debt that | have can.
celed a number of lecture engagement Is
in Australia. | have no respect for q
man who goes about robbng the pub
lie on the platform unless he is in
debt"
A PRIZE hog, weighing 1924 pounds,
has been raised by Z. w Williams, Of
Neigs county. Tenn. Here are its di-
mensions: Height, feet inches; di-
ameter feet; length, 10 feet . inches
1t is considered the largest hog in the
world.
The late Adm. Kirkland's opinion Oh
newspaper men was summed up while
he was in San Francisco in this way;
If you are caught taking picture,
anywhere in the navy yard you'll be
arrested, but l suppose you'll take
them anyhow"