Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

J. Pierpont Morgan says poker is
n wicked game.
Less than half the people struck by
lightning are killed.
The son of Count Boni De Castel-
lane has been named Jay.
The record aurora borealis lasted
for a week in August, 1853.
Annie Laurie was arraigned in a
Buffalo court for drunkenness.
Mr.. Edison has turned his attention
to aerila navigation in earnest.
1t cost over $4,000 to police the
British house of parliament last year.
John jolly is the name of a farmer
living in Happy Hollow, near Pleas
anton, Mo.
a portrait of Rear Admiral Clark, of
Oregon fame. is to be placed in the
capitol of Vermont.
Atlanta, Ga, is talking of erecting
an auditorium and music hall that will
seat 10000 persons.
England is going to coin pound
pieces in gold. They will be about ,he
size of our $40 coins.
Regensburg, Germany, is to enjoy
the novelty of convention of guitar
players in September.
The Chinese regard as sacred paper
that is either printed or written upon
in their own language.
Farmers are offering high wagea in
Iowa. At Fertile one man is paying
$47.50, and $45 is freely offered.
Great Britain and Japan have en-
tered into an agreement whereby they
mutually guarantee Korea's independ-
ence
Lord Acton who died recently in
London. had the finest private library
IL England, consisting of over 10000
volumes.
\ new theater is to be built in
Paris for the purpose OF teaching
French actors the proper stage use of
English.
A gentleman named Styles is in jail
at Port Gibson Miss, for having seven
Styles of wives at one and at the
same time.
Soldiers from the North and East
who fought in the war against Spain
have filed thousands OF applications
for pensions.
Coal miners in Holland are better
paid and work shorter hours than men
employed in any similar industry in
that country
The biggest petition ever presented
TO the English Parliament was the
Chartists' petition in lS48. 1t bore
5,70600O signatures.
Or. II. II. Furness, the Shakesperean
scholar. possesses a pair of buff gaunt-
lets, embroidered in gold, once worn
by William Shakespeare.
The king of Spain ana Presid mt
Loubet are to meet at Toulouse in the
near future to review The Sixteenth
and Seventeenth army corps.
AttorneyGcncral Knox and Senator
Spooner will go TO Paris in short
time to 80 thoroughly into the matter
OF title in the Panama canal.
Rev. Dr. Theodore l.. Cuyler, Of
Brooklyn, has just completed the man.
uscript Of his volume to be entitled
'Rocolloctions Of a Long Life"
Mrs. Ida Bclmar Camp. Of Cairo
Mich, has the largest private collea.
.tion of cacti in this country She has
been able to produce many new yaric.
ties.
Johann Gottfriad Gale who, on Sep.
trmbcr %, 1916. discovered the planet
Neptune, is still living and recently
celebrated his uiuetieth birthday IN
Totsdam.
The NiIe mud, which renders Egypt
a habitable country. Is said to bear a
striking resemblance TO that which
every season Is brought down by uac
Missouri
Senator Hoar has for many years
lived In Washington boarding houses
aud hotels hut has Eow purchased "a
comfortable though modes, house and
will live in a.
Charles TOauyson "A grandson Jl
tn late poet laureate. won distinction
a. Cambridge university this year uia
father was the late Lionel Twuysou
thiri SON Of the poet
Thomas Garland. Of Now York. IS
the sole survivor og th" sldewusci
steamship Arctic. which went down
with 500 persons iu 1854 on Cap.
Race. ne is SIS years DID,
Tho steamship interests lu Montreal
win make vigorous protest AGAINST
the sHhsifz.us of the Canadian ia.
rhc railway O. uu pas Hs.r aud
freight line across che Atlantic
GamHuro Is tnr yellow sap of Il rr.a
which EIuWs Boa Siam. aua raH SIENNA
is fhe natural .HrfH uum sienna
when burnt II haramsa burnt sienna
Turkey rrd a maIe frm tle Indian
madden plant