Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-03-22
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Wheat costs $4 bushel in Cape
Town. Livery teams hire for So
day.
In small hotels in Russia each guest
is expected to find his own bed cloth
ing.
Massachusetts has 116 street rail
way companies, controlling 1892
miles.
The Christian Endeavor society is
represented i'll every country in the
world.
The world annually produces some
cheese.
Artificial flowers, mixed with the
real ones, are used for table decora-
tions.
The Stonewall jackson Memorial
association has been incorporated in
Virginia.
Twenty thousand people have been
vaccinated in Savannah during the
past two months.
The will of Thomas y. Dowd of
Malvern, Kan, bequeaths $1O,5OO to
that town for a free library.
Philadelphia has forty-one wards
and two branches of the city council.
Chicago has thirty-fve wards.
The military rule is that five times
the number of an entrenched enemy
are required to dislodge the latter
The Transvaal was an unknown
land, so far as European knowledge
or influences were, prior to the year
1890.
To mobilize the entire force of the
Boer army when war was declared
took but II kilograms from Gen. Jou-
bert.
London is II miles broad one way
and II the other, and every year sees
about 20 miles OF new streets added
to it.
India rubber heels on shoes, de-
creasing the fatigue of marching, will
be adopted, it is said, by the French
army.
movement is on foot in Hamburg
TO unite the various scientific insti-
tutes in the city into a sort of uni
versity.
Cavalry cover four miles an hour
when walking, nine miles an hour
when trotting, fifteen miles an hour
galloping.
An automobile omnibus service has
been established on the Isle of Man,
between the various towns and sum
mer resorts.
Barring the Egyptians, the ancient
Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been
the greatest pyramid builders the
world ever saw.
Horses in their wild state live to
the age of thirty-six normally, being
still fairly fresh and hearty at that
age in the desert
The ancient plow of India, costing
perhaps IS cents, pulled by oxen, is
used in thetzcountry still. Few i'm
plements are employed.
A Chicago company proposes to fur
nish electric light and trolley power
for San Juan, Porto Rico, and all the
country for miles around.
Increased attention is being paid
to tobacco culture in Georgia, and the
article is being protitably grown in
many counties of the state.
Miss Mona Clarke, one of the few
women engravers in this country, oc-
cupies a lucrative position with
wholesale house in Chicago.
The number of timber RATS on all
the rivers of European Russia is said
to be more than 10000 yearly, with a
total of about 25,000000 logs.
Prof. ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins
university, has been elected an hon
orary member of the Swedish acad-
emy of sciences of Stockholm
Mr.. Rhodes fits out the tattered
prisoners of Kimberley with new suits
and transforms them into clean and
respectable members of society.
There are over 100 gold mines in the
immediate vicinity of Johannesberg,
stretching out on all sides of the city.
The monthly output of the mines was
fifteen tons of gold.
The multiplication of new COM
pounds in organic chemistry is some
thing appalling. In 1888 the total
number of carbon compounds record
ed was 10000, but newly revised list
by DR.. NJ. NJ. Richter enumerates not
less than $1,000. And the end seems
yet far off.
The deepest ocean temperatures
ever recorded were taken aboard the
Pacific submarine telegraph survey
sh ip Nero recently. At Il depth of
5,O7O fathoms temperature of 35.9
degrees was recorded. and at 5,101
fathoms So degree. The deepest pre-
vious casts were made by the British
survey ship Penguin.
1t is said that there are over 70 ,OOO,-
600 golf balls used each year in the
United States, American players be-
ing particularly prodigal in their use
The majority of the golf balls come
from England. They are difficult to
manufacture, slight differences in
the composition interfering with
their usefulness.