Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-02-07
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worth of beer year.
Tho worlds product of silk is 3s,-
32S,S@S pounds annually.
Kiddville, Right Angie and Log
Lick are Kentucky post olives.
The engines of first-class British
man-of-war cost about 9175,O00.
Nineteen hundred should really be
1904 Christ was born 1904 years ago.
Five pounds of oats give a horse as
much nourishment as ten pounds of
hay.
The worlds coffee crop is 100000
tons. America drinks one-third of
this.
Comic opera is over hundred years
old. The tragic, in a way, has always
existed
For twenty years Mrs. Jane West
over was the town barber of Marl-
borough, CT.
There are about 3O.oOO,OOO acres
of unoccupied public lands yet re-
manning in Montana.
In 1901, 100000 newspapers were
issued monthly. This has grown to
over 100000 day
The apartments of deceased kings
of Italy are left absolutely .untouch-
ed for two generations.
The United States government
spends more than $10OOO,O00 a year
in maintaining the Indiana.
Ireland sends annually $4,000 tons
of cggs-some 640.000O 1000 in round
numbers-to England alone.
Everything that has value in En-
gland is insured against loss. Even
race meetings are insured.
Two Sedgwick county (Kan.) farm
ers will buy n pair of elephants, to
be used on their wheat fields.
The first lucifer match was sold in
1929, but striking matches were made
in Nuremburg as long ago as 1477.
twenty-five thousand tons of locust
beans are grown year in Cyprus
most of which go to Scotland to make
whisky.
Thirty years ago there were only
about twenty-five explosive com
pounds known. Now there are more
than LOO.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is said
to be about to apply for leave of
absence in order to spend the spring
in Europe.
Four night watchmen of the Gil
christ glassworks, at Elmer, n. j.,
have recently seen ghosts and have
quit their positions.
"a,
rate as light-1SG,0OO miles "a second
Through wire electricity moves at
only 10000 miles a second.
Charles Quincy Hillebrand, the new
congressman from the Sixth Ohio
district, was once professional base
bail player, and good one.
Ohio's cities and towns gained 1885,
o21 in population during the last ten
years, or 792 more than the increase
in the rest of the entire state.
Gov. Gregory, of Rhode Island, is
one of the prime movers in plan
to have erected in Providence
Statue of Gen. Nathaniel Green.
Fifteen hundred millions of acres
of Australia are yet undisposed of
s00,o00,00O acres of unsettled lands.
Lady Curzon is encouraging her
husband, the viceroy of India, in the
steps he has taken for the preser-
vation of India's ancient monuments
The new forts of Dover, England
are to have six nine-inch wire-wound
- guns, having an effective range of
eleven miles. They are nearly forty
feet long.
The rivers of the Emerald Isle have
generally a dark Color owing to the
fact that most of them at some point
in their course flow through peat
marshes or beds, which impart a
dark hue to the water.
Swiss steamboat companies, to
avoid disputes as to the age of chill
dren, have established measurement
rules. Children under feet in
in length ride free, children under
feet 4 inches and dogs pay half
fare.
Rev. Father NJ. C. O'Brien, the new
ly appointed Roman Catholic bishop
of Maine is widely known in edu-
'o'tphai ShSi'a as an dulnolltJ upon
the various dialects of the American
Indian, of whom he has made a life
long study.
Miss Laura ID. Gill, A. B., of North
ampton, Mass, who will be remem-
bered as one of the first volunteer
nurses in the Spanish-American war,
and who was in charge of the first
Red Cross auxiliary detachment, has
been elected dean of Barnard college.