Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-04-27
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the drought of 1S97-9s. Yet the colony
thrives.
w. V. SMITH, of Florencs, Kan,
claims to have the longest whiskers il
the world.
A LITTLE girl of Bridgeton, n. j.,
swallowed her chewing gum and il
killed her.
A PLYMOUTH (Mass.) sexton was killed
by lightning while ringing the church
bell for services
HOTEL chambermaids are unknown
in Mexico. Men make the beds and
keep the rooms in order.
TwENTY-THREE new cotton mills are
under way, or projected, in various
parts of the southern states.
HYENAs always fight kneeling, the
shank of the foreleg being the most
vulnerable part of their body.
An English scientist has calculated
that a human opens and closes his eyes
no fewer than f. 900, 600 per year.
AMONG recent attempts at joking in
London papers is one which refers to
Lady Curzon as 1.-The Letter of India"
RUDYARD KIPLING. has never been
much of a reader, and what books he
does read are devoted mainly to his
tory.
RICHARD MANsFIELD's share of the
receipts for 20 weeks playing of "Cy-
rano de Bergerac" is said to amount to
S12O, 600
THE Chinese pronounce their dow
ager empress the most beautiful wom-
an whom the celestial kingdom has
ever known.
THERE are millions of the inhabit-
ants of the Philippine islands who
never knew the dominion of Spain and
never saw a Spaniard.
CHICoPEE, Mass, which had II, 900 pop
ulation in $780, is the only city in that
state which is without newspaper,
either weekly or daily.
Mrs. MILES, wife of the general, is
niece of Senator Sherman, between
whom and her there has always exist
ed the warmest sympathy.
OF the 500, 600 half-cent pieces put In
circulation years ago not one has been
returned to the government for coinage
or is held by the treasury.
The highest income received by any
chorister in Europe or America is that
of S4, 500 year paid to Miss Clementina
de We're for her services as leading So
prano in DR.. Paxton's church in New
York.
A WELL KNOWN professor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ear than
with both. 1t takes the full compile
ment however, to hear the alarm clock
at $3.50 am.
EGYPTIAN boats more than 4, 500 years
old have been exhumed from the banks
of the Nile in perfectly good condi-
ton. They are of cedar, and float as
jauntily as if they had been padded
but yesterday.
THE silk worm vast introduced into
Europe by two monks engaged as mis-
sionaries in China, who obtained a
quantity of silk worms eggs, which
they concealed in hollow cane, and
conveyed in safety to Constan tinople
in 552
The pope is the only ruler of the
vatican who has ever strolled down Pail
Mall 1t was early in his career, when
he was simply Monsignor Pecci He
was mentioned in the London papers
as having attended a reception of the
queen.
THE human system can endure heat
of 212 deg, the boiling point of water,
because the skin is bad conductor
and because the perspiration cools the
body. Men have withstood without
injury a heat of 500 deg. for several
minutes.
IN 1903 John Jacob Astor bought two
pieces of farm land on the side of New
York city and paid for them S23, O00
They are now worth about So, 900, 000
while the Astor family has collected in
these 95 years some $40, O0O 900 of rents
from them.
Two Californians have devised an
improved satchel clasp, having the two
clamps usually placed on either side of
the lock connected with the central
sliding catch by rods, in order that the
movement of the central catch may OPP
crate the clasps.
ASBESTOS is found in nearly parts
of the globe, but there is probably no
product of inorganic nature about
which there is so much popular mys-
terry. The principal claim for this re-
markable product is that it can n ot be
consumed by fire.
IN {" new "hiih"l UidP Ihc ChBe IL
formed of wire, with chute in the
bottom made of wires woven into a
tube, with the lower ends of the wires
bent back and sharpened to to prevent
the rodent from backing out when it
once starts to enter.
A CANADIAN has designed an insect
shield for trees which is made of slip of
metal of circular shape, with the lower
edge bent to cut into the bark of the
tree and the top formed into a faring
hood with a suitable filing between
4he shield and the tree.