Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

5sth birthday.
Lord Roberts is a possible purchaser
of Nine. PATHS castle.
Great Britain has no distinctive
and exclusive throne.
One person in every thirty-nine in
England and Wales is pauper.
At present each 100000 tons of
coal raised costs one human life.
A fire has been raging in a rich
Pennsylvania coal field for AZ years.
Lions and tigers are too weak in
lung power to run more than half a
mile.
Senior Sagasta heads the new Span
ish cabinet. Gen. Weyler is minister
of war.
The Hindu chronology extends tc
6i74 b. C.; Babylon, 675S b. c.; China,
G157 Il. C..
Professional cyclists made over
100000 in prize money during the
past year.
In Prussia alone, in the ten years
ending 1896, 4O7 school children com
Initted suicide.
Our Indian population is not sliIfui
i'll any line of manufacture save their
own crude Industries.
After having been threatened many
years, the Notifications OF Paris are
at last to be destroyed.
The fastest-fowing river in the
world is the Sutlej, in India. It's de-
scent is 1000 feet in $50 miles.
At Schoenbrunn. the Austrian en-
peror's palace, is the finest collection
of orchids in the world, numbering
$1,000 plants.
y fiber company is preparing to
manufacture gun stocks of fiber, with
view to tightening the weight of the
present rifle.
An Ohio clergyman has adopted
display newspaper advertising as Il
means of increasing the size of his
congregation.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus has written Il
book entitled "Five Years of My Life"
dealing with his Imprisonment on
Devils Island.
Gen. Macarthur has issued a state
ment to the Filipinos, offering to sur
render one prisoner for every gun
given up by the rebels.
The working force of the govern
ment departments in Washington
number 1916, drawing salaries to the
amount of $l6.6 ,5O5.72 per annum.
The censorship is very real thing
in China. There any one who writes
an Objectionable book is punished
and banished for life.
Bombay is an immense city, with
land and sea shipping equal to the
best. II has large commerce and
trade and manufacturing interests.
Its buildings are said to be finest in
India.
The death rate of the world is 67
and the birth rate 70 minute, and
this seemingly light percentage of
gain is sufficient to give net in
crease III population each year of l.
100000.
In the years 1895 and 1899 Germany
held second place in shipbuilding, but,
for various reasons, the shipbuildng
in 1900 has received such an impetus
in the United States that it has placed
Germany third.
The distinction among animals of
requiring least sleep belongs to the
elephant. In spite of its capacity for
hard work, the elephant seldom, if
ever, sleeps more than four, or occa-
sionally five, hours.
The inks of ancient days were
much like black paint, and, on ac-
count of the large quantity of gum
employed in their composition, the
letters stood up in relief on the parch-
ments as though embossed.
Smoking Il pipe of medium size, says
statiStician, Il man blows out of his
mouth every time he fills the bowl
700 smoke clouds. If he smokes four
times a day for twenty years he
blows 20,il0,OO smoke clouds.
The common potato, when decom-
posing, gives light enough to read
by-a light so vivid that once a cellar
at Strasburg was thought to be on
fire when shining with the phosphor-
escence of decomposing potatoes.
The memorial of Queen Victoria.
which has been approved by King Ed
ward, is'to be a monument, the most
prominent feature of which will be a
statue of the queen, to be erected
near Westminster Abbey or Bucking-
hmm palace.
The ten largest German cities are
to-day; Berlin. 1,SS4,345 Inhabitants;
Hamburg, 7OI, 600; Munich, 5O0,0 ,000;
Leipsic, 455.120; Breslau, 422, 49,:
Dresden, 395, 5,349; Cologne, 37O,6S5;
Frankfort, 2S7,s13; Nuremberg, 26O,-
743; Hanover. 234,9s6.