Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-10-01
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about two miles.
Cne-third of the college graduates
now are women.
The latest move is the shipment OF
California oranges to Japan.
A parasite, the natural enemy of the
mosquito, has been discovered.
The total income Of all American
farmers last year was about $500.
100000
The hottest day in Paris this year
the temperature rose to S9.6 deg. in
the shade.
The first English hymn book used in
public worship was by Isaac Watts
about 17l5.
The importations of pig tin last year
were $4,000, 900 pounds. against 1000,
600 in 1890
There are 500 Chinese students in
the colleges Of Japan and 500 more
are to be sent.
At the burial of South London
man six dogs, draped in black, FOL
lowed the cortege.
The income tax returns show that
citizens of Great Britain have invested
abroad $3.50, ,540,5OO.
The Kongo state sells abroad annu
ally over $l3000,00O worth and buys
less than $5,O00000 worth.
The medical schools of Nashville
Tenn, graduate more doctors than
those of Berlin, Germany.
A London paper gives away the Sc
cret that Irishwomen's native shawla
are wholly made in Scotland.
Some Chicago burglars used an acid
in order to take only real silver from
house they had broken into.
Juvenile crime in France has de
creased by 80 per cent. among boys
and AZ per cent. among girls since
1881.
More than one-fourth of the inhabi
tants of Newfoundland are engaged in
catching and curing fish for liveIi
hood.
Two German Alpinists, climbing
near Innsbruck, have died suddenly
owing to the exertion affecting weak
hearts.
A drop of blood whic, might hang
from the point Of a needle contains
about 100000 red nattened cor
puscles.
State lotteries in Holland are to be
gradually diminished during the next
Is years, when they will be abolished
entirely.
Not more than $500 persons in Par
is have capital as much as $780, 900
and nearly one third of those are for
eigners.
Scotland not only leads in pure bret
cattle, but by daily quotations on tho
London market leads on prime bee
likewise.
All foreigners not authorized to re
side in Spain are to be expelled under
a new government order with regard
to anarchists.
The secretary of the treasury re
ceived few days ago in an envelope
postmarEed Boston, a conscience con
tribution of $500.
1t requires the labor of about 10.
100000 men and women for nine
months of the year to harvest all the
crops of tle world.
On the body of a Russian who sho
a letter saying that he was a convic
escaped from Siberia.
At the University of Upsala, Swe
den, an exhibition of English schoo
books and English teaching methods
will be opened shortly.
Maude Brown, IS years old. o.
Washington, Ind, is the only female
mailcarrier in the United States. She
does not wear a uniform.
According to the exports if takes
ten pounds Of milk to make a poun(
of cheese and % pounds of milk t.
make a pound of butter
Two Italian government officials
have been arrested at Moona, on Aus
trian territory, in the act of makinG
sketches of the Notifications.
30 to the Massachusetts bu
a,atistics there are 3,459 law
IN that state, 5,497 physicians anG
surgeons and 9,737 clergymen
The navy watch gives England the
supremacy Of the seas costs $155 900.
900 a year, or a little more than the
United States pays in pensions.
In 1870 the German people barely
exceeded 100000; in 1885 they haG
risen to nearly 47,O0000O. and in 1906
the census return gave 5G,345, ,0l4.
The growth of the nails is more
rapid in children than in adults, and
slOwest in the aged. 1t goes on more
rapidly in summer than in winter.
The postmaster general of England
has declined a proposal to establish
penny postage system between
Great Britain and the United States.