Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-08-13
CURRENT TOPICS.


Music treatment for insanity is be
Ing officially tested by New York city.
A wellequipped sanitarium will soon
be travelling through Egypt in a tent.
A room in which soiled-clothes or
shoes become moldy is too damp for
health
There are in use in the United States
1,6iO,22O railway cars and Al ,22S loco
motives.
At Canterbury cathedral there are
always about forty workmen engaged
in the structure.
Birmingham sewage works are the
largest in the world, after those of
Paris and Berlin.
Locked-out knitting girls of Dover,
N. j., have organized a cooperative
knitting mill company.
Ashantee is one continuous forest.
with small clearings, where native viii
lages have been built
The most powerful automobile ever
built is the Gobron-Brille racing car,
having 100 horsepower.
Brooks statute of Gladstone has
been placed in Westminster abbey,
near that of Beaconsfield.
The first life insurance company was
started in London in 1893 and another
In 100. Neither was successful.
Permanent salvage corps to render
aid in case of accident are about to be
organized by the Swiss Alpine clubs.
In the ten city churches admins
tered by the Glasgow corporation,
4,943 sittings out of $3.50 are unlet.
NJ Paul B. du Chaillu, whose dis
c2Tery of the gorilla made him famous,
has only left G1O0, as shown by his
will
BallOOnists who ascended about 10,-
600 feet in Europe the other day found
a temperature of 81 degrees below
zero.
Artemiev, a Russian electrician, has
invented a pliable coat of mail which
effectively protects against current of
$50 900 volts.
Galileo's first telescope was made
from part of lead water pipe, in each
end of which he cemented common
spectacle glasses.
In America alone 10000 automobiles
will be placed on the market during
the present year which will only sup
ply half the demand.
From Liverpool to Yokohama by the
transcanada route will be about $3.50
miles. By New York and San Fran
cisco it is 12,00S miles.
DF fe.
believed to carry more insurance than
any other man, his policies amounting
to more than $2,5OO,OOO
Six torpedo boats have been ordered
to Brest to chase porpoises away from
the coast, where they have done much
damage among the sardines.
The Korean government has ordered
that all Koreans without regard to
rank or class, should not wear clothes
except of a blue or dark color.
There are probably 1000 women in
the United States to-day who make
their living as insurance solicitors.
The idea is becoming very popular.
In 1870 the German people barely
exceeded 4O,OOCOOO; in 1885 they had
risen TO nearly ~ ,OU',OOO, anu III IJVV
the census returns gave 56,345,014.
German students at Geneva have
collected ell for the guides who res
cued seven of their compatriots from
a dangerous situation on Mont Blanc.
The South Chicago plant of the Hi
nois Steel Company one day last week
turned out 1894 tons of steel rails,
breaking the worlds record, which had
been LIP tons for a days work.
George Lincoln Burr, head of the de-
partment of medieval history at Cor
nell university, is touring New Eng
land towns on bicycle for the pur-
pose of studying early American his
tory.
Tobacco has been smuggled into
France from Belgium on a motor car
covered with sailcloth to hide its ap-
pearance and number. A rope stretch
ed across the road frustrated a second
attempt.
In the body of horse that died sud
denly at Newport (Yorks) the veterin-
airy surgeon who made a post-mortem
examination discovered three large
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a cricket bat.
Municipal corporations in England
have incurred debts aggregating ST.
$50, 600 600 on socialistic lines. They
own gas works. street railways, docks,
markets, dwellings, race courses, dat
ries and hotels.
Irish women can boast of having
/ twins more frequently than any other
women in the world. Twins are born
in Dublin about once in every 80 births,
as against a general world average of
| one in eighty.
A large number of japanese are find
ing their way into the rice-grOwing
regions of Louisiana and Texas. The
/ japanese rice farmers understand the
business better than Americans, and
they make the business pay better.
Statistics show that in fifty years
/ the average height Of British men has
risen an inch. The present average
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