Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

On an average the letters received
for the German emperor number 600 q
day.
IT is stated that 1000, 900 bonnets
were sold in London during one week
recently.
The University Press at Oxford has
appliances for printing in $50 different
languages
CASHMERE shawls are made of the
hair of diminutive goat found in
Little Tibet
FIFTY pounds $3.50 a year is devoted
to busting books in the library OF the
house of lords.
GEN. MAXIMo GOMEZ has grown a
beard, which he now wears in the
style of Napoleon Ill
VIENNA policemen are required to
understand telegraphy and to be able
to swim and row boat.
ACCORDING to census taken by the
Maine bureau of statistics there are
1877, 252 hens in that state.
No married man in Vienna is al
lowed to go up in balloon without
the formal consent of his wife and
children.
ONE of the most eminent scientists
has lately succeeded in taking no f. w
er than 1000 photographs entirely in
darkness.
For the hide of a full-grown giraffe,
preatly sought after in Africa for whip
and sandal making, the native hunters
get from IS to 80.
UNCLE SAM is now maintaining 147
well-quipped boarding schools for In
dians. There is an average daily at
tendance of "a, 900.
ABOUT 100 years ago the use of starch
for stiffening the frills round the neck
was considered highly prehensible,
if not positively sinful.
IT is said that the ubber tires on a
carriage add % per cent to the dura-
bility of the vehicle and decrease the
cost of repairs 80 per cent
Ina rc Gently discovered Roman tomb
the skeleton of a woman was found
which had complete set of false
teeth, beautifully wrought in pure
gold.
THERE are quite 100 roads of one
kind and another over the Pyrenees
between France and Spain, but only
three of these are passa bic for car
riages.
n JAPANESE admiral receives, by a
recent ordinance, e. 900 silver dollars a
year; vice admiral 1000. while first
class CAPTAINS get 9. 499 and 9, 263 re-
spectively.
Two towns in Kansas. Lost Springs
and Romano, have not an idle man or
boy, or an unoccupied house, or a
dog. Each town has a population of
about 200.
The total length of the streets,
avenues, boulevards, bridges, quays
and thoroughfares of Paris is set down
at about 600 miles, of which 200 are
planted with trees.
ALMA SEGER, of Wichita, Kas, a
pretty schoolteacher, was bitten by
an ant on the face the other day. She
went insane in a few hours and died
shortly afterwards
1HE income Of the emperor of Rus
sia for one day is e., 600, that of the
sultan of Turkey 93, 900, while the
president of the United States only
gets about e26 day.
LAST year the United States govern
ment's profits on money orders amount
ed to $500, 600 When the system first
went into force, in 1865, the govern
1nent lost 81. 600
IL a ton of Dead sea water there are
1S7 pounds of salt; Red sea, 93; Medi-
terranean, 50; Atlantic 81; English
channel, ~; Black sea, 26; Baltic, IS,
and Casnian sea, II.
FROZEN milk is no longer a novelty
in Europe. Milk is taken when fresh
and frozen in bricks of different sizes
and sold by size. The milk is said to
be more hygenic than liquid milk.
IT would be difficult to imagine more
extraordinary digestive powers than
those of the hyena. One of these
beasts has been known to swallow six
large bones whole without crushing
them.
AUSTRALIAN savages eat the green
ants raw. They stamp upon an ant
hill until the ants run up their legs,
when they scrape them off as fast "a
they come up and transfer them to
their mouths.
TIE l5 surviving members of the
Washington Artillery, mustered into
service in 1860 at Newport Ky, and
never mustered out, will present
claims to the state for SlS5, $50 for So
years service.
MOVING staircase will be a novel
feature of the Paris exhibition. 1t
will consist of an endless belt in per-
petual motion, upon which it will be
necessary to step to be transported
from floor to floor
MAI. is delivered in the Philippin
about a mon tn after it is posted in the
United States. The time depends Oh
connections, especially at Hong Kong,