Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
CURRENT TOPICS.


New YoRK's police department en-
ploys Z, 400 persons
THE engines of frst-class man-of-
war cost about S700, 600.
PHYSICIANS carriages have the right
of way in the streets of Berlin.
THE number of children and youth
in the United States is 81. OS2 472.
A COLOSSAL statue of Gladstone is to
be erected in Black burn, England.
THE brooklyn bridge has contracted
AZ feet since it was opened to the
public.
IN Russia people must marry before
so or not at all, and may marry only
i've times.
The prince of Wales's breakfast
never varies. 1t consists of tea, toast
and one egg.
THE czar is considering the advisa-
bility of abolishing exile to Siberia as
a punishment.
WoULD-BE Columbuses will be glad
to learn that onc-tenth of the world is
still uneXplored.
The Siberian railway already has so
refrigerator cars for taking butter to
the Russian cities
THE first advertisements ever known
were placed on the doors of st. Pauls
cathedral, London.
GERMANY makes an excellent brand
of scotch" whisky, which finds a
ready sale in India.
WHEN first known to the Romans
silk was so dear that it was sold weight
for weight with gold.
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permitted to marry without the special
consent of the government.
THE maximum weight of freight To-
comotives is now 21S, 600 pounds, against
100, pounds Is years ago.
IN some eastern city a proposition
has been made to fumigate all the
books in the public library.
AN offer of S23, 900 for three orchids
exhibited at the Antwerp horticultural
show has been refused by the owner of
the flowers.
The men and women of today are
nearly two inches taller than their an
cestors. This is no doubt owing to the
growth of athletics.
The coal production of Great Britain
amounts to 100, 600, 600 tons year, of
France to 2S, 600, 900 tons.
IL Hayti there is sunshine almost
every day in the year. Even during
the rainy season the rain seldom falls
until late in the afternoon.
IT is said that one pound of butter
gives a working force equal to that of
five pounds of beef, nine pounds of po-
tatoes or II pounds of milk.
Four thousand five hundred dollars
was the cost of the cake provided at
the wedding of John Jacob Astor to
Miss Willing, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. CHoATE, wife of the ambassa-
dor in London, is in Paris, where she
has bought some of the most exquisite
court gowns made in that city.
Ir has been found that in bald people
the growth of the hair is stimulated,
and its color changed, by the judicious
application of electric current.
AT present England sells Colon bia
nearly 20 per cent. of the cotton cloth
used by the latter, and the United
States only about II per cent.
The shepherds of Germany predict
the weather by observing the wool on
the backs of their sheep When it is
very curly fine weather will prevail.
DURING the past year the exports of
watches from Switzerland amounted to
over S13, 600, 600. The watches went to
almost all parts of the civilized world.
ALEXANDER BEAUBEIN, the first white
child born in Chicago and a son of
Gen. John Baptiste Bcaubein, has just
celebrated his golden wedding at his
home in that city.
AN Atchison society woman has talk
en- down the picture of "Washington
Crossing the Delaware" in her best
room and replaced it with Funston
Crossing the Bagbag."
A CLUB has been formed in Peoria,
Ill, with 80 charter members, all
pledged to marry none but widows.
There is no age limit or other require
ments in regard to the widows.
DANIEL NJ. BURNS. named by the
governor of California as United States
senator to fill the vacancy left by the
legislatures failure to elect. is a man
great wealth, mostly made in mines.
THE Emperor William, despite the
fact that he has only one arm with
which he can shoot is nevertheless
quite one of the finest shots in Europe
Last year he brought down S97 head of
game while attending the court differ
ent shooting parties.
TIE largest loaves of bread baked in
the world are those of France and
Italy. The pipe" bread of Italy is
baked in loavcs two or three feet long
while in France the loaves are made in
the shape of very long rolls, four feet
or five feet in length, and in many cases
six feet