Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

The best house coal costs $3.50 a tor
in England.
About 4,475,OOO persons are EN-
ployed in the worlds mines.
Texas has a permanent school fund
amounting to nearly $SOOO,0O0.
The weekly mail to the English army
in South Africa is 100000 letters.
Dogs are being trained for ambu
lance service in the Prussian army.
The final census returns show that
the population of India is 294 ,2GG7O1
Pueblo Indians have proved good la
borers on Colorado beet sugar fields
Switzerland has ZOO hotels-seven
times as many for its size as England
About 100000 larks a year are sent
from the continent to the London mar
Eets.
1t is estimated that 767, ,63G, 200 tons
CT coal were mined the world over in
1900.
A cows hide produces 80 pounds of
leather, and that of a horse about IS
pounds.
Three-fourths of the people of Cuba
depend for livelihood upon the su,
gar crop.
Adyices from Mexico state that scar
city of labor is retarding railroad con-
Etruction.
Mayor Carter II. Harrison of Chica-
go, recently completed his forty-sec-
ond year.
The manufacture of sugar in Italy
now suftices for two-thirds of the nat
ural consumption.
Mails were first sent by railway in
1880 between Liverpool and Man
chester, in England.
England is going to coin 2 pound
pieces in gold. They will be about the
size of our $40 coins.
A man, walking day and night with
out resting, would take 42S days to
journey round the world.
London's fashion papers predict that
bell-crowned hats of straw will be
worn there next summer.
One hundred and twenty-one women
are employed in English tobacco fac
tories to every hundred men.
Before becoming a policeman in vi
emma man must be able TO swim, row
and send a telegraphic message.
In some OF the cantons of Switzer-
land all the dead, rich as well as poor,
are buried at the public expense.
Destruction of germ-bearing mos
quitues is said to have largely relieved
Havana from yellow fever visita-u.s
The hardest wood in the world is
not ebony, but cocus, which is much
used for making flutes and other sim
liar instruments.
tomb has been discovered in the
Forum at Rome that is supposed to be
older than the traditional date of the
foundation OF the city.
The Pacific cable steamer Anglia
has reached Doubtless bay, New ZeA-
land, thus completing the Australia
New Zealand link of the cable.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, now IS
years OF age, intends to look at King
Edward Wis coronation procession
out of the same windows from which
she looked on Queen Victoria's GA
years ago.
The Vatican is not a single build
ing, but an accumulation of buildings.
stretching over an area of thirteen and
one-half acres. They We're begun
about the year 800 and have grown
gradually.
In the Gulf Of Mexico there is an
island where the beaches change color
twice daily with the tides. When un-
covered the sands are purple. but the
intlowing tide speedily transforms
them to gold.
The cable steamer Faraday has
finished laying a cable between the
Azore islands and Ireland for the Com
mercial Gable company. completing
fourth line of cable of that company
between the United States and Eng
land.
The pay of the British soldier, which
was formerly less than % cents a day
in time of peace and but 80 cents in
time of war, has recently been ad-
vanced in order to get volunteers for
the Transvaal to $1.25 a day, with
keep.
In the neighborhood of the recent
subway explosion in New York there
are more physicians than in any other
part of the city, and hundreds of them
were available for emergency duty
within three minutes after the dyna-
mite went off.
The late Empress Frederick, of Ger
many, in her will beQueathed to the
German associations in England and
elsewhere a gold inkstand, studded
with precious stones. Each of the
German associations has recently re-
ppivnd this bpuupSt