Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-22
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at Athol Mass.
VoTING by machine is gaining in pop
ularity in the east.
MARK TWAIN says Vienna is the
wickedest city on earth.
ABOUT 1000 600 bottles of pickles are
consumed weekly in the United States
THE last issue of the London (Eug.)
directory, it is said, weighs III
pounds.
On an average 200 carrier pigeons
are officially kept in every German
fortress
A LARGE cotton mill will be built at
High Shoals water-power near Uar-
den, n. c.
BRITISH consuls are now required to
send important trade reports and news
by telegraph
A LARGE silk mill is to be built at
Roanoke Rapids, about four miles from
Weldon, n. c.
NEARLY 1000 commercial travellers
lost their positions when the tobacco
trust was formed.
LABOR strikes of most serious char
acter are prevalent at present in sever
al European countries.
THE principal trade of Bradford
Eng, just now is said to be in mercer
lied cotton dress goods.
The Wisconsin legislature has for
hidden the use of living rooms for
manufacturing purposes
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, has joined the
list of cities where the trades unions
will erect labor temple.
QUEEN VICTORIA has seen every
throne in the world vacated at least
once, and some of them several times.
THE greatest number of suicides
take place in the month of June and
IlIS f~,vvsU III the month OF S~,te,.4 %.
ONLY four independent states remain
in Africa They are Abyssinia, Moroc-
co, Liberia and the Orange Free State.
ALL the locomotives on the Santa Fe
railroad in California are run with pc
troleum for fuel. 1t costs about the
same as coal.
VERDI denies that he is writing a
new opera. He says that "Falstaff" is
his last work and that his labor in this
world is over.
The German government has nomi-
mated, and the president has accepted,
Baron August Won Bruc1 as consul at
Havana for Germany.
BEGINNING July /, the employees of
the government printing office at
Washington will receive so cents an
hour, or $4 per day of eight hours.
THE Italian government, for 27 years
has guaranteed to the pope an annual
income of about S175, 600, which he has
steadily refused to accept. The arrears
of this annuity amount now to over
$40 OOO OOO.
The Compania General of Manila,
the largest cigar making concern in
the world, employs over 10000 hands,
and turns out every year 50, 900. 900
cigars, 40 600, 600 cigarettes, and nearly
5000 tons of cut tobacco.
Along the Adriatic sea swallows and
other migratory birds are caught every
year by the hundreds of thousands
and eaten by the Italians who spread
nets, in which as many as 800 to 800 of
the tired birds are caught at once.
The most expensive hat on record
cost 1880 in gold, and was presen ted
to Gen. Grant while in Mexico in 1882.
1t is now on exhibition in the National
museum in Washington-perhap the
finest Mexican sombrero that was ever
made.
THE bill for the Bradley Martin din
ner in New York for S6 persons footed
up $685., of which S53 was olives ca
Ware, celery, radishes and bread, which
shows that the Bradley Martins do
not overlook the little luXurics TO a
dinner.
THE death penalty is rarely enforced
in Germany, Austria, Denmark or
Sweden. In New York II out of u
murderers escape without any punish
ment, and in the United States only
one murder in fifty suffers capital pun
ishmcnt.
MARRIED men, according to a German
investigator, live longer than bachcl.
ors, and are less likely to become in
sane. Another argument for matri-
mony is found in the fact that there
are IS criminals among every 900
bachelors, while among married men
the ratio is only IS per 1000.
NOT the least interesting among the
new occupations for women is that
which has been opened at Vienna
There, in the "gayest city in the
world" is a woman grave digger. Sh,
is the first professional woman grave
digger in civilized Europe
THE microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the com
mon caterpillar has 1000 muscles il
his body, that the drone bees eye
each contain !. 800 mirrors, and tina
the large, prominent eyes of the bril-
liant dragon flies are each furnishe,
with rs 600 polished lenses.