Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-18
Interesting Condensations.

Our total exports and imports last
year figured up to 81, 152, 100000.
The London national gallery was
visited last year by AIS, ,346 persons.
In Bolivia II peaks of the Cordilleras
de la Pas rise to over 10000 feet
An Owosso man, who is stone blind,
has just finished reshingling his house.
Ecuador holds the record for vol
canoes. Three of the twenty are active.
Kamshatka has many volcanoes, the
only ones in Russia that are still active.
The new battleship Mikasa, built for
Japan in England, has a tonnage of
5000.
Chicago society is agitated over the
propriety of paying calls by telephone.
Defective eyesight in many instances
is attributed to the surroundings of
city life.
Great quantities of coronation mem
entoes are being shipped to England
from Japan.
Gentle tapping of tambourine is re-
quired to lull the Shah to sleep for his
afternoon nap.
The highest mountains in the world
next to the Himalayas are the Andes
of South America.
Almost the whole Of the crypt of st.
PauPs cathedral, London, is being used
for workshops.
A portrait of Martha Washington
will adorn the eight cent postage stamp
which will be issued next fall.
Four blast furnaces are to be erected
in Cardiff, Wales and four in Middles-
borough by Philadelphia firm.
Parrots are usually vegetarians,
though the Kea parrots of New leland
have developed fondness for sheep.
In addition to the water cure the dry
pepper cure was resorted to recently
at the Girls Industrial home in Della
ware.
A Russian journal runs daily
column which is alleged to be edited by
an ''invisible assistant" from the other
world
So small is a working model of a
steamship made by a mechanic of
Frankfort. Maine that it will go into
a matchbox.
The historic bell cast at st. Peters
burg and sent to the Chicago world S
fair, has been stolen from st. Nladi
mer's Russian church.
The Vulcan Shipbuildng company,
of Stettin, has purchased large piece
of land near Otterndorf, where it will
construct new yard.
A run was made from Pittsburg to
New York-438 miles-without a stop
/ recently, the longest run ofa passenger
train on record.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars was the amount lost recently
at Budapest by one young British
nobleman to another.
Alaskan Indians allege that up the
/ Porcupine river, 800 miles from Port
Yukon, there are two petrified ships
| lying stranded in the mountains.
The fact that the worlds supply OF
corks is much less than the demand has
given rise to a new industry of collect
ing, cleaning and revamping corks.
! Engineers and artificers for the
French navy are to be trained on board
an old transport which has been turned
into navy school ship at Bordeaux.
To protect their trade Irish manufac-
turers have resolved to prosecute any,
one selling Irish roll tobacco which is
not actually manufactured in Ireland.
In Mile End, Old Town, London, 211
per 1000 husbands and 292 per 1,OOC
wives signed the marriage register with
a cross during 1900. Most of them
were foreigners.
A portrait of Captain Clark, who
made the wonderful trip from San
Francisco to Cuba with the battleshir
Oregon, is being painted, to be placed
in the state capitol of Vermont.
Two japanese youths. sent out by
their government to make a practical
Suuuy OF IFdoe, are aJ work IN Lima
Peru, one in a grocer's shop and the
other in silk weaving establishment
Thirty thousand dollars was paid re
Gently for bronze statute of Hercules
at the concluding sale of the Bardint
collection in London. The tota
amount realized by the entire collection
was S22S,64.
Letter to G. s. Allen.
Emporium, Pa.