Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-01-31
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feet 5A inches.
Eleven Indian languages are still
spoken in MeXico.
An American bank has been organ
lied in Rotterdam, Holland.
Great Britain is shipping firewood
from Victoria, Australia, for the use
OF her troops in China.
One authority on botany estimates
that over $4,000 species of plants are
now known and classified.
The golden eagle has great
strength. 1t lifts and carries off with
ease q weight of 50 pounds.
Ten million eight hundred thou
sand English people live in the coun-
try; over 100000 in towns.
The Chinese are essentially cotton
consumers, the majority of the peo-
pie dressing in clothes of that fabric.
Window plants in Germany are
often watered with cold tea or coffee.
The effects are said to be beneficial.
The war in South Africa has doom
ed the Highland kilt as fighting
dress, and it will now survive as pa
rade uniform only.
The population of Indian in 1891
amounted to 2SS,000,OOO; at a very
moderate estimate now it may be put
down at 300,00O,000.
The great pipe organ to be used
in the temple of music at the Pan
American exposition was built to or
der at cost of $4,000.
In Devonshire the cycle has been
applied to butter making. a man sits
on his bicycle, pedals, and, by means
of chain, turns the churn.
The first British medal was given
to Capt. Wyard, of the Adventure,
in 1850 for beating three Dutch ships
Oft Harwich. 1t was worth $50.
The tube of IA twelve-inch gun has
fifty spiral grooves inside, which
cause the shot to revolve seventy-five
times per second as it rushes through
the air.
The crust of the earth under Japan
must be comparatively thin, Judging
by the numhec of earthquake shocks
in that country. They average 500
a year.
The Salvation army has received a
gold medal at the Paris exposition
for its American exhibit, showing it's
method in reclaiming the fallen and
outcast.
The marquis of Salisbury keeps
about seventy indoor servants, not
counting dependents of a higher
class, such as private secretaries, Ii
brarians and chaplains.
In Paris all artists must have rest
ed quietly in their graves for ten
years before their handiwork in the
shape of pictures can be hung on the
walls of the Louvre gallery.
In a ton of Dead sea water there
are 1S7 pounds of salt; Red sea- %;
Mediterranean, So; Atlantic, 81; En-
gIish channel, ~; Black sea, 26; Bal
tic, Is, and Caspian sea, II.
A Cleveland rheumatic, who could
barely walk, took to his heels and
ran like a deer when he was held up
by footpads, and since then claims
that he is free of his malady.
ItdllShOk Is IL CltS VI NdleTS. III Is
an Indo-Chinese Venice. More people
live in floating homes on the Menam,
''the Nile of SIAM" and the many
canals than in permanent buildings.
In Borneo and Labuan postage
stamps to the value of 100000 were
sold last year, though the postage
on the mails from those two coun-
4 4
1t is the collectors who buy the
stamps.
Naturalists say lion always places
it's head near the ground when roar
ing. The beasts probably do so on
the principle that the earth, being
Il conductor of sound, the other lion
or animal he is roaring at can not
fail to hear him.
China has still the old-fashioned
system of letter-carrying. Letter
shops are to be found in every town.
If he has letter to send, the China
man goes to a letter shop and bar
gains with the keeper thereof. He
pays two-thirds of the cost, leaving
the receiver to pay the rest on de-
livery.
The locust is one of the greatest
pests man has to deal with. He is
always hungry and lays waste every
place he travels over. Of the $1,000
600 square miles covering the surface
of the earth, 40,000,000 are more OF
less subject to the scourge of this in
sect with the giant appetite.