Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


Partisan cabmen are prevented from
smoking when driving.
The Glasgow exposition has closed
with profit of $40U, 900.
1nirty-seven thousand girls attend
cooking schools in London.
The date for the coronation of King
Edward has been set for June %.
A penitent has just sent $lS699 to
the government conscience fund"
Greenland is one of the very few
countries where infectious diseases
arc unknown.
In Arkansas vast belts of forest
lands still lie untouched by the ak of
the woodman.
Frances annual consumption of
wheat Cncluding seed wheat) is 346,-
23G000 bushels.
About 10000 persons are employed
in the postal department of Great
Britain and Ireland.
Charleston will let the colored folks
attend her exposition on the same
terms as the whites.
A Philadelphia bank teller contract
ed smallpox by handling money that
passed over the counter.
Vienna has a school for walters with
three years course. Among the
subjects taught is French.
About 100000 trees are planted each
year by the school children of Sweden,
under the guidance of their teachers.
At Salta in Argentina, li:t of boys
and girls who have failed to attend
school is published in the newspapers.
The annual report of the controller
of the currency shows big increase
in the authorized capital of national
banks.
Scotch whisky is now being manu-
factured in New York and exported in
large quantities to South and Central
America.
The total sales at the art galleries
of the Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo amounted to les:s than $4,000, for
q pictures.
Since 1871 Japan has built nearly
10000 elementary schools, providing
room for 4000,0O0 pupils, one-fourth of
whom are girls.
The chacks which pass through the
London clearing house in six weeks
are more than equal in amount to all
the coin of the world
DR.. Daniel Freeman, of Beatrice,
Neb., owns and occupies the first farm
given away by the United States gov
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The camel path which for centuries
has formed the only connection be-
tween Jerusalem and Nablus (Sychem)
has at last been made into a carriage
road nearly 20 feet wide.
Among the pets of the sultan of
Morocco are seven lions. These he
permits to range the cOurtyards of the
palace at night, to act as guards to
the royal harem.
The Charlestonians are calling their
exposition grounds and buildings the
Ivory City on the banks of the Ashley.
The work of preparation is rapidly
nearing completion.
An automobile is being built in New
York that will make 70 miles an hour
on a level road. The next and most
difficult task will be to find level
road 70 miles in length
Indian caste rules necessitate the
employment of extensive retinues
During the recent official tour of The
viceroy, Lord CurZon, he had to carry
with him train of $50 native ser
wants.
Abraham Simmer, of Waverly, Ia.
has given his handsome home and sur
rounding grounds of ten acres to the
Sisters of Mercy of Dubuque, to be
used for the establishment of hos
pital.
Rev. DR.. Daniel ]. Hauer, who died
in Hanover, Pa, recently, was be
lieved to be the Oldest clergyman iT
the United States. He was SO years
old, and had been a Lutheran minister
for Is years.
SO valuable is coal in the PonchamI
coal fields of France that it pays t.
mine coal at q depth of 3,313 feet. A
steel cable, weighing seven tons ant
nearly mile long is used. The Goa
is brought up in trains of six cars.
1t takes 5000 unloaded bees to max,
a pound that is, when the bee leave!
its hive in search of honey it weigh!
only the 5O00th part of pound Whel
it returns, however from the fields ant
flowers, it is three times that heavy.
Dr. Labordi has communicated t,
the French academy information abou
a new writing instrument for th
blind, which will enable them to reat
correctly what is written and will prob
ably supersede the Braille system alto
gether.