Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10
JOB PRINTING.
CURRENT TOPICS.


PRoTEsTANTs in France only number
rather less than two per cent. of the
population.
THE spoken language of China is not
written and the written language is
not spoken.
JEWELS TO the amount of $50. 900, 00I
have been imported into this country
in the last 25 years.
TIE basin of the st. Lawrence river
covers 100000 square miles, of which
100000 are in Canada.
PROF PROCTOR asserts that 100. 100000
people lived and died in America be-
fore Columbus discovery.
THE number of cigarettes made in
North Carolina last year was %, $4,000
less than the year before.
N Hungary there are thousands of
villages and hundreds of small towns
without doctor within ten miles.
SOME wonderful stalactite caves have
recently been discovered eight miles
from Krugersdorp. in the Transvaal.
THE japanese dentists perform all
their operations in tooth drawing with
the thumb and forefnger of one hand.
THIRTY years ago there were only
two dozen explosive compounds
known to chemists; now there are over
1000.
y CUBIC foot of newly fallen snow
weighs five and a half pounds, and has
Il times the bulk of an equal weight Of
water.
TIE BARRIERS in Cuba make you get
up and wash your own face after a
shave, as they did in this country so
years ago.
THERE are in circulation in China at
the present time coins bearing the
names of emperors who lived 1000
years ago.
A TEMPERANCE association composed
of members of the Six Nations is doing
much to check intcmpcrance among
the Indians.
MAJ. GEN. MILES has issued an order
that volunteers in the hospital corps
whose regiments have been mustered
out may be discharged if they 50 re-
quest.
THE smallest man who ever lived was
the dwarf Bebe, born in France in
174O. He was just 20 inches tall and
eight pounds in weight when full
grown.
TIE cost of the worlds wars since
the Crimean war has been Sl2, 2G5, 000,-
900, or enough to give a couple of SOW
ereigns to every man, woman and child
on the globe.
AMONG the Tartars. if the wife is i'll
treated, she complains to the magis-
trate, who attended by the principal
people, accompanies her to the house
and pronounces divorce.
RUSSIA has fewer newspapers (only
about 300 in proportion to its inhabit-
ants than any other European country.
Germany has seven times, France five
times and England four times as many.
THE largest tree in the eastern hem
isphere, if not in the world, is a mon
stcr chestnut standing at the foot of
Mt. Aetna. The circumference of the
main trunk at 90 feet from the ground
is 2l2 feet.
A PARLIAMENTARY paper just issued
tates that the number of cases in which
coroner's juries in London found that
death was caused by starvation or ac-
celcrated by privation during the year
1897 was Al.
IT is the opinion of G. Godfrey Gu
mel, scientist, that a deficiency of
salt is the cause of apopleXy, diphtheria
and other diseases He has reached
this conclusion after long study ex-
tending through 20 years.
THE profit from a single whale that
is captured is very large. One about
fifty feet long weighs 10000 pounds
and will give so, 600 pounds of blubber.
from which $4,000 pounds of train oil
can be made, and 3, 600 pounds of whale
bone.
A GOOD cry is beneficial to a woman
Crying does not consist merely in the
shedding of tears. but includes so gen
eral and widespread an action Of the
muscles that the whole body is con-
vulsed and the blood pressure on the
brain is much reduced.
THE fact is noted that the collar of
the Golden Fleece which has just been
conferred upon NJ. Felix Faure was the
one which had belonged to Bismarck.
1t is also said that the one now worn
by King IIumbcrt once adorned the
shoulders of Christopher Columbus.
NEW telegraph instrument, known
as Morse watch, has been put on
the market. Outwardly it looks like
an ordinary timepiecc, but in reality,
it is transmitting and receiving
telegraph instrument, Il key and
sounder inclosed in an ordinary watch
case.
THE first American locomotive for
England has just been finished by the
Baldwin locomotive works, says Eugi-
nccring News. 1t is a double cnder,
intended to run between Barnstaple
and Lynton, the latter place being Il
sea resort about Is miles from Barn
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