Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-06
Curious Condensatlons.

| SuFlOuS OOHucnSdtIOHSs
In America the Salvation Army has
765 corps and 1888 officers.
An African, who had visited England
described snow as 'rain gone to Sleep"
An estimate of the rice acreage in
Eastern Texas this year places it at 30,-
600 tons.
The highest church steeple in the
world is that of the Cathedral of Ant
werp, 476 feet.
The growth of nails on the left hand
requires eight or ten days longer than
those on the right.
Russian railways are the most dan
gerous in the world. Thirty persons
in every million passengers are either
killed or hurt.
A wideawake American has erected
steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup
, plying churches all over Europe with
genuine Jordan water
| The beds of the immense coal fields
lately discovered in Zululand extend
downward for 45 feet in places, and the
coal is of good quality.
The Incorporate use of tea and coffee
| produces results as real as those of
drunkenness. Total blindness is often
the result of excessive coffee drinking.
There is only one train in the country
that exceeds 80 miles an hour in speed
for 100 miles run, and that Is the EN-
pire State Express. Great Britain has
twenty-five.
Mr.. Wigham of Dublin, the lighting
expert, has invented a paraffine lamp
for the purpose of lighting buoys tits
designed to burn three months without
attention.
The longestlived people have gener-
ally been those who made breakfast the
principal meal of the day. The stom-
ach has more vigor in the morning than
at any other time.
Stockholm, Sweden, has 10000 tele-
phone stations, one for each house.
hold. Those who have no apparatus
of their own pay only % cents for
message within radius of 80 miles.
Belfast has in recent years become
one of the strongest centers of Christian
Endeavor work in the United Kingdom
Ten years ago there was but one soci-
ETY. in Belfast, and, indeed, in all Ire
land. To-day Belfast has more than
seventy.
Political buttons cannot be worn in
Canada during the heat ofthe campaign.
This is due to clause in the Dominion
franchise act which says that no person
shall exhibit any sign of his political
faith after the official nominations are
made.
1t has been ascertained by expert
ments that persons who use the tele-
phone habitually hear better with the
left ear than with the right. The COM
mon practice of the telephone compan-
les is TO place the telephone 80 that it
will be applied to the left ear.
The entry list for this years horse
show, which will be held in Madison
Square Garden, is the largest in the
history of the organization. 1t had l..
300 entries last year, nearly 1,500 this
season and the exhibitors have increas-
ed from 214 to $50.
| The old home of Stonewall Jackson
in Lexington, Va, is now tenement
house, and the dwelling which once
sheltered one family comfortably now
swarms with large number of families
crowded in uncomfortably. The fam
GUS Sunday school in which General
Jackson taught negroes is still flourish
| ing.
There is in the little town of Fort
Lee, just over Hudson, an English wal
nut tree 40 years old which once every
eight or ten years produces fruit quite
as fine as any imported from Southern
Europe. There is no other tree within
radius of 1C0 miles that bears. This
is its fruitful year, and the nuts are ex-
ceptionally fine.
There is really but one place in the
world where violins are made extern
sively. That place is Markneukirchen
with its surrounding villages. There
are altogether about fifteen thousand
people living there who do nothing but
make violins. The inhabitants, from
the little urchin to the old grandfather,
all are engaged in making some part of
the fiddle.
A young woman of Cincinnati, o.,
who acted as bridesmaid at the wedding
of friend, found a thimble in the piece
of BRIDES cake which she ate. This
was regarded as proof that she would
die an old maid. To prove that the
sign was false she agreed to marry the
man to whom she was engaged at once,
and invited all the wedding guests to
be present at her wedding. A minister
was found, and the ceremony was per-
formed within three hours of the time