Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-29
BRIEF nENTION.

Go to the opera house this Thurs
day. evening and enjoy the A. o. H.
dance and supper.
Nearly ten per cent. of all the people
in the United States reside in the State
of New York. The total population of
the country is 1926, ,22O. That of New
York State is 7,26s,O09
An automobile hearse leading fun
eral procession in Chicago, the other
day, ran away and arrived at the cem-
terry ten minutes ahead ofthe mourners,
with the officiating clergyman a good
third.-Pittsburg News.
A Washington, D. c., dispatch says:
Representative and Mrs. Sibley and
Miss Sibley have arrived here from
Franklin and are at the Shoreham.
During the coming week they expect
to resume possession of their home on
Vermont avenue.
The Port Allegany high school foot
ball team will line up against the EN-
porium eleven at the fair grounds next
Thursday, a game having been arrang-
ed for that date. The admission will
be TWENTY-FIVE cents. The boys will be
around with tickets tomorrow and you
should encourage and help them out
Port Allegany Reporter.
Mr.. Sibley's great speech, ga Demo-
crat Who Flopped; Why Did He Flop?''
was one of the great hits of the cam
paign, and was directly instrumental in
turning to Mckinley the votes of many
Democrats who hated Bryan and Bry-
anism, and who otherwise would not
have voted at all. So says the Ameri-
can Economist, weekly publication OF
New York.
A Wllkesbarre woman woke up the
other night just in time to see thief
run from her hen house with bag of
fowls. She found the next morning
that she was five chickens short, but at
the same time discovered on the floor
of the henhouse $500 in bills, wrapped
in handkerchief, which the thief must
have lost in his haste to be off.-Ex.
Telling what they would do, if they
had their lives to live over again, is one
of the favorite pastimes of many men,
some OF whom are not yet too old to
score touchdown and kick a goal,
were they to devote more of their time
to action and less to coagitation. And
another pastime of many men is giving
the younger ones an abundance of ad-
wise, much of which they could, were
they 80 inclined, utilize to good advan-
tage themselves.
Several married ladies were compar-
ing the smart traits of their respective
offsprings the other day. One said her
little girl talked when she was year
old, another that her little boy could
say "papa' and ''mama" when he was
10 months old. An old bachelor who
was in the next room trying to read
then gracefully "chipped i'm and said
that wasn't anything very wonderful.
He had read in the Bible that Job
cursed the day he was born. That set
tied it and the ladies adjourned .-Ex.
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a merchant in this day is bound to ad-
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