Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-06-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

New York pipe calkers get So for
eight hours.
Georgia and Alabama have fine
wheat crops.
The population of Oklahoma is
something over 100000.
A contract is 20 be let soon for 90
600 spindle cotton mill at Columbus,
Ga.
Mrs. VIM. Neill, of Augusta, Ga, has
mockinghird which she has taught
to talk.
flour war is on in Chattanooga,
and prices have been cut fifty cents
a barrel.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Missis-
sippi delta.
On the 40 square miles of London's
area, it is said 1000 tons of SCOT set
ties yearly
The Chattanooga opera house is to
be remodeled and made a ground
floor theatcr
There are 10000 more exhibitors
at the present Paris fair than there
were in 1889.
Portland is the largest prison in
England. Nearly 1000 convicts are
located there.
The annual production of jute fab
RIGS in Germany now amounts to SILL
100000 in value.
New Orleans has an ice war, and ice
is sold at eight cents a hundred
pounds at the factory
Joseph Quong. a Chinese laundry
man, is a candidate for a seat in the
city council of Toledo, o.
For some years the Nova Scotia
government had expended about $25,-
900 yearly upon agriculture.
Queen Victoria never removes from
her hand the three rings connected
with her courtship and marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs, Joseph Schofeld, of
New Canaan, CT. have been married
sixty years-the record for the state.
Russia's war debt has been wiped
out. In eight years the remaining
total, 742,OOO,OOO rubles, has been paid
oil.
Nine important British steamship
companies earned in 1899 a net profit
of $4,96G,OoO, against S4.743,0OO in
1898.
Henry james, the novelist, has
turned mountain climber and will try
his prowess this summer in the Swiss
Alps.
Tarantulas are being raised in Aus
tralia for their webs, which are being
used in making threads for war bal
looms.
new substitute for celluloid re.
sembIing horn in appearance is now
manufactured under the name of
mariod.
Since pigs We're introduced into the
New Hebrides the natives, it is said
have come to regard human food as
second hest.
: The English peeraee is divided into
dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and
barons, and the spiritual peerage
into archbishops and bishops.
Russian count and French
prince are among the prisoners cap
tured by the British and now enjoy
ing the sea air of st. Helena.
Charles A. Towne, nominated for
the vice presidency by the populists
at Sioux City, is AZ years old-two
years older than Mr.. Bryan. He was
born in Michigan. and all his fore
fathers on both sides were repub-
hcans.
During the czars recent visit to
Moscow his sanction was obtained
to the project for the erection of a
=; -.
Grafton of the serfs nearly forty
years ago. Only half the money has
as yet been collected.
From Manila to Australia is "lille
going down a river, for one is out of
sight of land only two days" The
voyage lasts twenty-one days, but the
course is through the South Sea
islands, which accounts for its resem-
blance to river nagigation.
1he French authorities controlling
the athletic events to be held in con-
nection with Paris exposition have
announced that, as a concession to
Americas desire to eliminate Sunday
games, the sports which were sched-
uled to begin Sunday, July 15, will
instead commence Saturday, July IA,
the great French national holiday,
and will continue on the following
Tuesday and Thursday. The finals,
in which Americans are entered, will
be put ahead, and the games will con
clude on Saturday, if possible
Two persons named William McKin-
ley are on Uncle Sans payroll, One
draws IA salary of $4,166 month as
president, and the other 500 Il month
as engineer in the Louisville custom
house.