Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

The highest waterfall in the world
is in MeXico-97S feet
Augusta, Ca. plumbers have struck
for 81 day of eight hours.
Spain is overrun with bandits, who
loot converts and churches.
Women clerks at Denver, Col, have
formed a permanent organization.
King Edward likes to have Ameri-
can women present at his dinners.
VIM. c. Lawrence. who was fire.
man in Boston since 1882, has just
died.
Female house servants command
from SIS to $40 a month in South At
rica.
w. Nelson, of Paterson n. j.. owns
the manuscript Of Poe's poem, THE
Bells"
German exports to the United States
Increased $14,S7S,77O during 1902 over
the year 1901.
Newspaper writer's in many of the
large cities are organizing under char
ters from the international Typograph-
ical union.
No child. young girl or woman can
be employed more than 90 hours a
week in Canada, and the law is strict
Iy enforced.
An enormous sunfish, weighing Cne
and one-half hundredweight. has been
left stranded by the tide at Blakeney,
Norfolk, Eng.
Titans long missing Mary Magda-
len is thought to have been found in
the possession of Robert Jarvis, of
RoXbury, Mass.
There are more than 10000 work
men employed in the Portsmouth
GngO navy yard. The wages amount
to $4,000 weekly.
Navy men are subscribing for a
monument Cat Erie, Pa to the late
Capt. Charles V. Gridley, of the Olym.
pia and Manila bay.
1t has been decided to establish
stations and on all passenger trains
on Italian railroads.
Oregon labor unions are preparing
child labor, eight-hour and other labor
measures for consideration by the leg
islature this session.
An odd candy box is an elephant sit
ting clumsily on its launches and
smoking a pipe. The head lifts off to
receive the bonbons.
Eighteen miles is the distance at
which the new $4,000 candle power
light on the Bass rock in the firth ol
Forth, will be visible.
Robert Scott, waiter at a Cleve
land hotel, has served the guests al
one Of the tables Of the establishment
continuously for "a years
The st. Petersburg police have dis
covered gang Of thieves recruited
from young men moving in the highest
circles in Russian society.
In the restaurants Of Germany veni
son is as cheap and as abundant as
beef. Great pains are taken to pre-
serve and improve the deer.
Justin Mccarthy has just passed hi,
72d birthday. He has apparently aban
coned novel writing and is devotinl
himself exclusively to history.
The daughter of the sheriff at One
onta, Ala, freed two prisoners, on,
charged with murder and the other ac
cused Of minor offense and elopeC
with the latter
The only considerable fields Of an
thracite coal aside from that Of Penn
sylyania are those Of China. which
however, are vast in comparison witt
Pennsylvania.
Senator Mason introduced a bill pro
yiding for the appointment OF reccly
Crs for coal mines whenever the fail
ure to operate becomes "A detrimeut T.
the public welfare
John r. McViCar, Of Boston. tn
white child born north Of the Arctl
circle has just celebrated his golde
wedding anniversary. lie was chrl.
tened by Sir John Franklin.
The owners Of number Of skyscrl
pcrs I'm New York city have bee
forced 10 purchase ground adjoInin
them TO prevent their IIaht and "a.
being cut on Boy other tain buildings
A rather appropriate sulphur mate
safe ls iu the shape of head Inton,
ga 90 represent uis Satanic Majesty
Ile has very red face. and from ou
Of a small black can prutuIe th
horns usually awarded 90 this gentle
man
Prof UaI. iu q recent number
tho Astronomical journal has dHto
mined tHe ua. uf fHu rims OF sufur
o. that ul tHn planet Ba uua t1 lUI
The mu ~ Titan it# a.a.#t atfe
lfn. H u Hlt Of saturn ua aUs q
1900,