Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-02-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

1T IlNeFpOOl LHS population Is Oo,oZo
to the square mile.
The United States imports a mil
lien Holsters a year.
Detached bits of human skin live
from two to ten days.
An elevated railroad is to connect
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Hot cakes and cider are the usual
fare at Christmas eve in Devonshire
The average age of the men in the
British navy is between 26 and 27
years.
the sale of postage stamps in the
United Kingdom amounts to 377 5OO,-
600 yearly.
Samuel Smiles. the author, has just
celebrated his Goth birthday. He is
still in fair health.
An Englishman has invented a
brick-laying machine which lays and
mortars the bricks.
Brussels has a church clock wound
by atmospheric expansion induced by
the heat of the sun.
In Finland reindeer are worth only
about $3.50 a head. A reindeer can
travel about 130 miles a day.
II the earth were equally divided
among its inhabitants each persons
share would be about 23h acres.
For the first time since the Reforma-
tion a peal of bells was rung in g
Catholic church in Londonderry last
Christmas day.
Coffee has been cultivated in Vene-
now that much-talkedof country 5
chief commercial product.
John S. Bilby of Mitman. Mo-, Is
said to be the largest individual land
owner in the United States. He owns
100000 acres located in seven states.
Rev. Peter H. Goldsmith has just
been installed pastor Of the old First
church of Salem, Mass, the first Con
gregational church organized in the
new world.
There is but one dentist in Madagas-
car and he is a native. The United
States consul at Tamatave says there
is good opening there for an Ameri.
can dentist.
Every native and naturalized citizen
in Denmark over 60 years old and un.
able to support himself or family re
ceives a pension varying from $3.50
to $3.50 per month.
Australia could do with 100000 Brit
fish wives. Canada with 10000 and
the Cape with 10000. There are said
to be nearly ,OOO, 900 too many women
in the British isles.
Miss Kate Grindrod, full-blooded
Wyandotte Indian, who was educated
at the Carlisle Indian school, is one
of the most successful professional
nurses in Philadelphia.
Jacob Judy. of Bloomington, H., en-
Joys the distinction of having voted
for 20 presidents of the United States
His first vote was cast for John Quin
cy Adams, in 1924. He is 80 years old
NJ. Galacobini discovered a comet q
few nights since from the observatory
of Nice, France. 1t is on a straight
line between the stars Sirius and
Procyon, near the constellation of Or
Ion.
Colorado's building at the Worlds
Fair will undoubtedly be made a per
manent structure. and will remain as
monument to the enterprise as wei
as the resources of the centennia
state.
Dr. Gustav a. Andreen, president ot
Augustana college, at Rock Island, III.
has sailed for Sweden. where he goes
TO accept s29 900 gift from Swedish
educators and business men TO Angus
tana college.
Silk is obtained from the shell fst
known as the pima which is found il
the Mediterranean. This shell fist
has the power Of spinning viscid sill
which in Sicily is made into regular
and very handsome fabric.
The highest three mountains in Tho
United States. not including Alaska
are Mt. Whitney. California. 1885
feet: Blanca Peak, Colorado. IA 4Gt
feet. and Cerro Balco, New Mexico
Il 2G9 feet. II is claimed that NJ
Rainier Washington, Is li500 feet high
DR. LeurrauX. a Brussels physician
announces the success Of his serum
for the cure Of wdooping cough. tn,
serum rs injected under the skin oi
the abdomen, and a cure rs performe,
in ten days, whereas the disease ram
six 10 eight weeks
Taxes are paid on $4,000 dogs n
pcrlin. In addition 90 thls numbo
mere are 2.1G3 Watchdog 22l dog
belonging to blind and deaf people
2G52 dogs used for drawing SINAI
carts and ms belonging "a the kuise
or 90 members Of foreign embassies.