Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-09-24
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III htsi 'Nhllui al Di OuuItS.
Two millions of London's inhabit.
ants never go to church.
Statistics show that 29,47O bodies
were cremated in France last year.
In the city of New York there are
only 737,477 white persons born of ma
tive parents.
The ministry is the only one of the
learned professions that is not now
oyer-crowded.
Japan imported last year $1.474,O0O
worth OF watches, four-tifths of them
from Switzerland.
For ten years the average yield of
corn III Iowa has been approximately
80 bushels to the acre
Rome has water supply of 100000.
600 gallons a day. London only 100.
0O0.0OO and Paris 90,0OO,0OO.
A tumbler combination lock for post
office boxes has been invented for
those prone to lose their keys.
During the last fiscal year one in
every 401 railway employees was
killed. and one in every "a injured.
en- between Dover and Calais by the
new turbine steamer Queen recently.
Bangor (Me) man has two tons of
honey for the market this year. He
has 81 colonies of busy bees working
for him.
In Servia there is a soldier for ev-
cry % inhabitants; in the United
20 i- fr,- 4 in,
habtants.
Seventy-seven per cent. of the wom-
en- and but 62 per cent. of the men tax
ing the civil service examination are
able to pass ii.
Connecticut claims more success
than ever this year in raising shade.
grown tobacco from Cuban, Sumatra
and Florida seed.
Abraham Lincoln, the oldest male
survivor of the Lincolns from whom
descended the president, is living at
Lacy Springs, Va
In Persia, India and China the lower
classes still live, as a rule, together
with their animals in. the same dark
and unventilated huts.
IL,
to recent statistics, pneumonia has
now superseded pulmonary tuberculo-
sis as the cause of the greatest NOR
tality.
Motor cars-attention, terrible
curye"-was the notice posted by a
French mayor wishing to prevent mo-
tor cars from going at a high speed
through his village.
Five hundred farmers around Rock
well la, formed a trust with 5000
capital for marketing their products.
Last year at an expense of $4,000 they
did business of 100000 without los
ing a dollar.
The Americans and English, al
though they consume twice as much
sugar as the French and Germans,
have much better teeth. The Ameri.
can dentist, however, ranks first in all
countries.
Tie preserving plants are now moved
on cars to where the ties are delivered
to the railway. In retorts holding 500
ties each the sap is forced from the
pores in the ties and salt solution put
in its stead.
From the professional schools of the
United States there were graduated
last year: In theology, 1885; in law
1856; in medicine, 5,472; in dentistry,
2,311; in pharmacy, 1873; in veter-
mary medicine, 100.
C-Ume Hanai, a japanese woman
who has just served a 16-year SEN
tence, for murder, has gone on the
stage at Osaka for the purpose of Civ
Ing her earnings to fund for the
construction of a temple
In England alone the volume of CO.
operative business has grown, in the
last 40 years, more than 40 times as
fast as England's international trade;
100 times as fast as her manufactures
and 130 times as fast as the popula-
ton.
Partisan street lamps will in future
bear various colored signs. A green
light will Indicate tramway stopping
place, blue a fire station, red with
white inscriptions the police offices
and the Geneva red cross an ambu-
lance station.
Municipal development of water.
gas, electricity, street railways, mar.
kets, baths and cemeteries in Noting
ham, England, mas showed an average
annual net profit of $15S,O0O for the
last four years. The money is applied
to the reduction of taxes.
Mrs. J.. S. Fox, of Chetopa, Kan, is
exhibiting a peculiar chicken. 1t has
two wings where they should be, and
two more at the extreme end of its
body. 1t also has four legs. The front
half of the chicken is plymouth rock and
FhA rear half buff cochin.