Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-09-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


women.
A woMAN's hair is said to begin to
turn gray at 35.
FIVE per cent. of all Europeans are
trained soldiers.
SOME New York boiler-scalers enjoy
the eight-hour day.
CINCINNATI is TO have a co-operative
antitrust distillery.
THE cemeteries in and around Lon
don cover . 600 acres.
PARCHMENT used on the best banjocs
is made from wolf skin.
OF a thousand persons only one
reaches the age of 100 years.
THE proportion of married persons
to single ones is as rs u 1000.
The Congo region exports about
8, 600, 600 walking sticks year.
THE combined population of Europe
and America is about 500, 600, 600
TALL persons have the advantage of
greater longevity than short ones.
The number of summer hotels in the
United States is estimated at %, 900.
THERE are $50, 600 persons in Lon
don vino never enter a place of wor-
ship.
The church of Notre Dame du Port,
at Clermont, France, was built in the
year 1895.
PERSONS born in spring have a more
robust constitution than those born at
other seasons.
OWING to the dry, cold atmosphere,
nota single infectious disease is known
in Greenland.
FRANK II. BURFoRD, a 15-year-old
boy has been admitted to the bar in
Guthrie, Ok. T.
AT Wardbury, Norway, the longest
day lasts from May 81 to July % with
out interruption.
A FEW weeks ago the Krupp factory
turned out its twenty large
gun for European armies
Mrs. RICHARD p BLAND is collecting
material for u life of her late husband,
the famous congressman.
THE first automobile club of Ger
many has just been organized, and the
d uke of Ratibor is the president.
AN English statistician declares that
crime, considered in decennial periods,
bears n constant relation to the popu-
lation.
WILLIAM BADGE has resigned his po-
sition as conductor on the Maine Cen
trail railroad after so years service as
railroad man.
DR. MAX BRENER, of Buffalo, has
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honor for saving the life of a
French seaman.
The population of the South African
republic consi is of 63, 600 Beers, 81, 600
other whites, called Uitlanders and
500 600 Kaffirs and Zulus.
The skeleton of a mastodon was dis
closed in digging ditch on the farm
of f. w. Schaefer, one mile west of
Newburgh, n. Y, recently.
TIE erratc actions of church clock
at Harborne, England, were traced to a
swarm of bees that had deposited hon
ey in the machinery and dial.
A SINGLE foundry in New Jersey, it
is said, casts annually IS, 900 bells for
the farmers and a bout 4, 600 for schools,
churches, engine houses, etc.
WHEN the prince of Wales was boy
the book that most took his fancy was
Robinson Crusoe," and even now it
amuses him greatly to read chapter.
SCIENTISTS are recommending the
electric lignt bath. 1t is free from the
axhausting effects of Turkish baths
and is soothing to sore muscles and
joints.
TABLE manners differ greatly with
different nationalities. The Russians
follow the old Arabian habit of pre-
ferring natures weapons to either
knife or fork.
THE giraffe was thought to be nearly
extinct, but Maj. Makes, a British ex
plorer, has found great herds of them
along the Sobat river. a tributary O
the White Nile.
The largest mass of pure rock salt IL
the world lies under the province o
Galicia, Hungary. 1t is known to o'
500 miles long 20 miles broad and 25'
feet in thickness.
The house of commons has met OF
Sunday II times, on various occasions
when urgency demanded it. The frs
time was in the reign of Edward Ill.
the last at the death of George ii.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN has joined tn
army of inventors He has invented
contrivance to be fixed to carriages s.
that the horses can be instantly un
voked and the carriage set free in tn
event Of the animals taking fright.
TWENTY centuries before the brit
of Watt, Nero of Alexandria describe
machines whose motive power wa
steam. He also invented a doubl
force pump, used as a fire engine, an
Anticipated the modern turbine whee
by machine he called ''neolpile."