Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-11-26
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be vaccinated with plague serum.
Spain exports 80 800 tons of cork an
nualy, valued at about $4,000 900,
There are no poorhouses in Servia.
Even the poorest people owE property.
Albinos are found among all races
of mankind and among animals and
plants.
Readings from the Bible are now be-
ing given in Berlin by professional re-
citers.
The ministry is the only one of the
learned professions that is not now
overcrowded.
Wages paid street car men in the
United States annually amount to
more than sSS,0O0,OO
For more than 100 years the males
of the royal family of Great Britain
have been Freemasons.
Mrs. E. p. Tilton and Miss Emeine
Perrin, of Aldora Ia twins. recently
celebrated their 92d birthday
J. w. Ryder, of Davenport. England
"a years of age, asserts that he saw
Napoleon Bonaparte in 1915 at Ply
mouth.
The new British Blue Book gives the
average weekly wages of Is skilled
trades at s1050 in London and S1S.75
in New York.
Nine. Patti has bequeathed her
1arynx (when she shall have done with
it,, to the museum of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons.
A. B. Seizer, of San Francisco, has
brought suit for divorce against his
wife, because the spirits told him she
no longer loved him.
Gen. A. w. Greely, United States
army, chief signal officer, is endeavor
ing to have cable established from
Sitka Alaska, to Valdez
Prince Khilkoff, the cars minister
of railroads, looks more like an Ameri-
can than Russian. He has the true
Yankee energy and push.
An economic census of the town of
York, Eng, showed that $4,000 out of
the 10000 inhabitants live habitually
below the starvation line
The $2.142, ,2O7 worth of Platinum ex-
tracted in the Gorotiagodat ski district
of Russia last year is practically the
worlds supply of that metal.
Mrs. w. C. Endcott, widow of ex-
Secretary of War Endicott and mother
in-law Of Joseph Chamberlain. is home
from a long stay in England.
The London county council now
makes GG9,000 a year from tramways
Leeds corporation secures from a sim
-
Sir Edward Frey, the famous Eng
isa geologist, declared that 45O ,0O0,-
900 of years must have lapsed since
the existence of life on the globe.
Prof Charles M. Bristol. of the Col
1ege of New York university. has re-
turned from the Bermudas with fine
collection of beautiful tropical fishes.
An organized effort is being made
in British Guiana to re-establish the
cotton industry which fourished in
the colony during the days of slave
labor.
The new Austro-Russian program of
reforms in Macedonia has been unfa-
vorably received by some of the other
powers, and is generally considered
unWCrkable
A committee has now been formed
an Paris to erect a public monument
to the memory of the carrier pigeons
taat rendered such signal services dur
ing the siege of Paris.
Hiram S. Cronk, only surviving pen
sioner Of the war of 1912, was born at
Frankfort, Herkimer county, ~ Y,
April 10, 1900, and is. therefore, 103
years and 6 months old.
The oldest ship in the world. the
mail schooner Vigilant running into
st. CroiX, f w. l., although now under
the French flag, was built of Essex
oak at Essex, Mass, in 1902
Dario Campana, a young Italian of
Leghorn, has tried successfully a new
system of wireless telegraphy in which
the earth is used for the transmission
of waves
Alexander Blackley, the pastel artist,
whose death is announced at the age
of SS, was the first artist whose work
was reproduced in color in an illus.
trated newspaper.
In order to prevent the extinction of
the chamois in the Swiss Alps, law
has been passed in Grisonos, Switzer.
land, prohibiting the shooting of
chamois on the mountains. A real
chamois skin is now worth $50.
The report of the Mannheim cham.
Der of commerce speaks of the scarci.
ty of the meat supply and the greatly
1essened consumption of beef and
pork. owing to their high prices fore,
ing the working classes to eat horse
flesh.