Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-02-22
BRIEF NENTION.

The Borough election, while quiet,
developed many surprises.
Ask for Ja-ma-ka coffee; the finest
you ever drank for the money; zoe lb.
Days.
The Goodyears have been granted
charter for railroad from Wharton to
Sinnamahoning. Capital stock $780,
| 600.
Potter coui ty voted to repeal their
prohibitory license law by 900 majority.
Coudersport gave "a majority against
repeal, 80 that town will be dry under
the act.
The Ithaca Conservatory Concert
Company at the Presbyterian church
last evening attracted a large and APP
preciative audience. 1t was the finest
musical entertainment ever given in
Emporium.
The chemical works of Quinn &
Sherman, at Straights, Elk county,
were destroyed by fire Sunday night,
involving a loss of $4,000 on which
there was an insurance of $4,000. The
works will be rebuilt at ce.--Smeth-
port Democrat.
Mrs. Dan'l Downey yesterday re-
| ceived a check from the New York
Life Insurance Company for 81, 200 in
payment of the policy on the life of
Olivine Downey. Ten days from date
of filing claim the draft was issued,
| through the promptness of Don NJ.
Larrabee the company's agent.
The Postoflice Department at Wash
ington will soon issue books of two
cent postage stamps. The book will
contain ~ stamps enclosed in covers
with oiled papers between. The books
will be sold for % cents and the gov
ernment will net S. on every thousand
sold.
An old and true saying AYERS that a
wise man changes his mind on proper
occasion, but fool never does; prob
ably because he has no mind to change.
Congressman J. G. Sibley, of Pennsyl-
vania, has demonstrated that he does
not belong to the foolish class. Chicago
| Inter Ocean.
Beware of women who are going
from house to house selling what they
claim to be genuine handmade Irish
lace. An exchange states that the
| orti nj h,,t III,
and machine made. The peddlers tell
a smooth story about their goods and
have succeeded in disposing of a con-
siderable quantity in many places.
"What is home without a news
paper?' asked an exchange, to which
another replied: ''It is place where
old hats are stuffed into broken win
dows; where the wife looks like q bag
of wool with string tied around her
center; where the husband has to-
bacco panorama printed on his shirt
front and the neglected children wipe
their noses on their jacket sleeves"
Did you ever stop to think that an
ordinary pack of playing cards is Il
perfect calandar? There are 80 cards,
representing the number of weeks in
the year; 1865 spots corresponding to
the 365 days in the year; - faced cards,
representing the II months; four suits,
club, spade, heart, diamond, represent
ing the four seasons; 13 cards in each
suit, representing the 13 moons in each
year, and the joker makes up for the
extra day in the year.
The tiger is the most ferocious of all
back. biters. He leaps stealthily upon
the back of a passing animal and sinks
his fangs into the creatures flesh. He
holds on with teeth and claws and con-
tinues the attack until the victim, ex-
hausted and helpless, falls and horribly
dies. The back-biter of the human
species never lets go, either, until the
character that has been assailed is des-
troyed. The tiger is treacherous, mer-
ciless and cowardly i'll its methods.
The human back-biter has similar in
stincts s-Bradford Era.
A Carlisle, Pa, dispatch says that
William Colombo, an Indian graduate
of the Carlisle school ard private in
the 4th United States Cavalry, now
serving in the Philippines, has written
a letter to Maj. Bratt, superintendent
of the school in which he says: "Gen.
Lawton was killed about twenty yards
from where | stood firing at man
who was shooting from a tree, and he
was the very man who killed the Gen
eral. kept firing until he fell from
the tree"
Prospecting for gold on the Barlow
farm, near Genesee, Pa, has assumed
an important and interesting phase
The mine is directly on the line of the
New York and Pennsylvania Railroad,