Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

Wade Hampton at one time owned
1900 slaves.
The ivory market shows signs of n
steady decrease.
A few days ago Michael Davitt cels-
brated his seth birthday.
Total population of Greenland at the
end of 1901 was 11,127 persons.
Clinton Mass.) master builders
have granted an eighthour day.
Capt Fritz Honig, the noted German
writer on military affairs, is dead
The Bog of Allen the biggest in
Ireland is, in places, II feet deep.
The amount of French capital in
vested in China exceeds 100000. 900.
A Philadelphia female book-keeper
has confessed to embezzling $4,000.
Methuens defeat. it is reckoned.
means about $1000O,0O0 loss to Eng
land.
In Welsh ping-pong is know as ping
pongyddiaeth and the devotees as
ping-pongwr.
Plans are being prepared for tenn
porary executive building to be erected
on the White House grounds.
In order that a rainbow may be pro-
duced, the sun must not be more than
AZ degrees above the horizon.
No known land animal has naturally
poisonous flesh. There are. however,
several fish whose flesh Is deadly.
The total fruit and vegetable pack
in in
cases, against 1856. .602 cases in 1900
The German Shakespeare society has
elected Dr.. White, the American am.
bassador at Berlin an honorary mem.
ber
The corn crop of Austria in 1901 has
been officially estimated as equiva-
lent to 1885, 500 bushels of 5G pounds
each.
An inquiry to the tongue is repaired
by nature with more rapidity than is
the case with any other part of the
system.
Champagne was invented about 240
years ago by a monk named Perignon,
at the Abbey of st. Peter, Hautvilliers,
in France.
agitation against the chain-making
work done in the State Reformatory at
Jeffersonville.
A Connecticut schoomaster thrash.
ed forty-nine scholars in one day, and
the Nutmeg state papers are Dragging
that he broke the record.
Rats have been Fostering the Mt
-,
trian Alps, 1928 feet above sea level.
The officials are killing hundreds of
them every month.
DR. Leyds is organizing a demonstra-
tion for coronation day. The Cont
mental and American pro-Boers are to
show tl1Gir feelings by displaying Boer
flags and sending kilograms to Mr.
SKTuger.
The Canadian government has ap-
proprated $4,000 to cHtld a barbed.
wire fence along the boundary be-
tween Montana and the Dominion, eX'
tending from st. Mary's Lake to the
Sweet Grass hills.
Horses, mules and donkeys go load.
ed to market in Turkey, but the road
old sacks: and thousands of turkeys,
which may be bought at cents apiece,
feed on the dropping grain.
1t is estimated that there are fewer
than 10000 wild elephants left in all
the countries on the globe and that
five of these will be killed off where
one is born. 1t is matttcc:.' III only a
few years when the last one must go
Mrs. U, S, Gran. has been shown
the designs SUBMITTED for the German
memorial six of which are to be Sc,
]ectsu, and she was so we'll pleased
with them that she expressed the wish
that they could all be preserved in
marble.
In order to illustrate the growth Of
the shoemaking industry the Lynn
(Mass.) Historical society is fitting VI
shoemaker's shop that will be an
exact reproduction of the kind known
to the Oldest inhabitants in thei
younger days.
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Horton, of Salem
Mass, owner of the famous Interna
tional Doll Collection, which has
earned nearly $25,0O0 for charity, ha
just received, from the queen of Ro
mania, a doll with which the quee
once played.
The vice president of the BostoT
and Albany railroad, who has been eX
perimenting with a view to securing {
smokeless locomotive engine, says
that the experiments have been sue
nj nd OF
will be fitted with the device.