Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

A MANILA cigar company has O,OOe
employees.
NEGRO oyster shuckers at Norfolk
have organized.
WOMEN are not permitted to be pho
tographed in China.
BUCKINGHAMsHIRE, England, reports
plague of frogs.
THE second city of the British empire
in size is Calcutta.
THE German army includes more
than 10, 900 military musicians.
Frogs and toads are gifted with re-
markabiy acute sense of hearing.
GEN. LAwToN, in a recent interview,
declared himself total aDstainer.
The copper mines of upper Michigan
are now giving employment to Is, sol
men.
CHICAGO has the smallest bonded in
debtedness of any large city in this
country.
HERR KRUPP, the gunmaller, has the
largest income of any manufactures in
Europe.
THE assessed valuation of property
in South Carolina has increased S3, GOO,-
900 over last year.
THE first Hebrew congregation in
the Hawaiian islands has just been
formed at Honolulu.
IN all the capitals of Europe, except
London, some theaters are kept up by
government support.
THE baroness Hirsch has given about
500 OOO 900 toward charity since the
death of her husband.
IN Dublin a fine system of electric
trans makes it easy for any one to get
about from place to place.
GERMANY now has an air ship that
will lift ten tons and remain in the air
for several days if required.
THE University of Pennsylvania is
about to confer the degree of Ii. d..
on President Diaz of Mexico.
A. A. POPE, who made himself a
millionaire out of manufacturing bicy-
cles, never learned to ride a wheel.
THE whole of the trade in cheap hos
iery in Cuba is in the hands of the
Germ an and Catalan manufacturers.
EVERY boy in Germany, from the
crown prince to the meanest subject,
is obliged to learn some useful trade.
WAsmNGToN fremen are provided
with portable telephones, which may
be connected with any fire-alarm box.
A NATURAL soap mine and paint
mine are two of the latest curiosities
which have been discovered in British
Columbia.
AMERICAN condensed milk is gaining
foothold in the Asiatic markets 1t
is rapidly planting the German
product in Japan.
A RECENT investigation has shown
that more than half the families OF
Stuttgart have only one or two rooms
that can be heated.
EDWARD HALT, 81, escaped from
prison at Canandaigua, \. Y, by
soeezing through a hole seven and a
half inches square.
THE marriage of Miss Cecil Miles,
daughter of the general of the army
and Mrs. Miles, to Col Reber, U. ). A,
will occur in January.
BOTTLES of perfume, still fresh, jars
of pomade that had not lost its fra
GRANGE, have been recovered from Her
culaneum and Pompeii.
THERE are altogether 334 parks wei
stocked with deer in the different coun
ties of England, and red deer are
found in about thirty-one.
BALTIMORE is said to contain the
largest Negro population of any city ir
the world. The coming census is eX
pected to show at least 125, 900.
CHEAP chemical dyes threaten tc
ruin the great indigo industry OF Be
har. India, where hundreds of thou
sands of families have found employ
ment.
A wELL-KNowN specialist on ear dis
eases has made the announcement tina
half the deafness prevalent at th'
present time can be traced to the prac
tice of boxing the ears Of children
ALL the emery used in the worlt
comes from the little island of NaXos
near Greece. As it is one of the hard
est substances known, ordinary quar-
ryinp tools can not be used to cut i
out.
THE military household of the cza
is composed of 9S officers of variou
ranks. So Of whom belong to the arm
and Is to the navy. Nineteen mem Der
Of the royal family are Included in tn
list.
NATURAL gas conveyed III Ddul 90
tubes was utilized in China years age
and one of their writers mention
boxes which repeated the sounds O
persons voices that were dead-a mi
chine sim lar to the photograph.
PAPER shingles nave oren introduce
into Japan by an enterpr sing IoNy
firm as substitutes for the wooden art
Gle. The new idea is slab of thict
tarred paste board, more easily MAJ
aged than ordinary shingles an
costing only half as much.