Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

Sand newspapers.
There are 5000 Smiths in the Kan
sas City directory.
In China trades and professions are
hereditary i'll families
Senior Isidora Sowsino, Chill, has
fortune of $70,Oo0OO0.
The combined fortunes of the
Rothschilds is about 100000. 900.
j. b. Robinson, South Africa, has
fortune estimated at $400,000,0G0.
A strike of grave-dggers is the Ia
test thing in Philadelphia labor cir
cles.
Holland has nine miles of canal for
miles in all.
In the Republic of Mexico there
nre spoken the languages of eleven
Indian tribes.
The state of Tennessee has made
arrangements to take up $4,000 of
its Indebtedness.
The worlds railway mileage is 440,-
OOO OF this 23O,5OO is in America,
North and South.
The purest Chinese is spoken at
Nanlln, and is called the language
of The mandarins."
Cinnamon plow with crooked stick
with a steel point fastered to it, The
motive power is a water buffalo.
There is a man I'm New Orleans who
exchanges new neckties for old ones,
which he renovates and sells at good
profit.
If the world he divided into land
and water hemispheres, London is the
center of the land and New Zealand
of the water.
The steeple of the Cathedral of Ant
werp is 476 feet in height, which
makes it the highest church stceple
in the world.
The Live Oak rice plantation. in
Louisiana, was sold TO the North
American Rice Co., of New York, for
over $1,0o0,00O.
Rev. DR.. l.. Marrill Miller. eX-moder-
ntor of the presbyterian synod of New
York. celebrated the fiftieth year of
his ministry in that church.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. a man who is there SEN
fenced to death waits TWO wears be-
fore the execution of the sentence.
1t is strange fact that the right
hand, which is more sensitive to touch
than the left, is less sensitive than
the latter TO the effect of heat or
cold
Signor Crispi is reported to he in
negotiation with firm of publishers
for the simultaneous publication of
his memoirs in four different Ian
guages.
Miss Charlotte Crabtree ("Lotta')
the famous actress of the past gener-
alton, is visiting the scenes of her
childhood and her early stage tri-
umphs in California.
The Congo is one of the widest wa
terways OH the globe, if not the fin
est. 1t is 25 miles across in parts. so
that the vessels may pass one another
and yet he out of sight.
4 goId-weighing machine in the
United States mint is so sensitive
that postage stamp dropped on the
scale will turn the index on the dial
a distance of six inches.
Nine. Adeline Patti says in a recent
interview that no one who wishes to
retain the freshness, sweetness and
power OF her voice should sing in op-
era more than three times a week.
Walter b. Stevens, Washington cor
respondent of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, has been chosen to the
important position of secretary OF
the st. Louis worlds fair corporation.
Mrs. j. Y. Sammon, has presented
land to the value of $4,000 to the
University of Chicago. The university
viii at once erect a building upon the
land, the plans being now under way.
President Loubet is probably the
most guarded of all living rulers. a
large flying guard of policemen in
plain clothes" having Just been
formed to accompany him wherever
he goes.
George w. Carroll, of Beaumont.
Tex, made rich by the oil discoveries.
has given 100000 to Baylor university.
in Waco, Tex, to erect science build
ing, and has promised more if the
sum given is insufficient.
Baron Kentaro Keneko. Japan's new
minister of justice, is one of the best
frglish scholars in the empire. He is
forty-seccn years old and graduate
of Harvard college. His legal train
ing he acquired in Japan.
The Austrian parliament is proba-
lily the only body of its kind to have
a member whose real business is that
of Il waiter. This is Carl Mitterma yer
who, when elected, was so employed
in a small Vienna restaurant.