Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-14
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of the world.
Greater New York has population
of $4,000 colored people
Over 100000 people in London live
In singleroom tenements.
The amount paid in pensions since
the civil war is S3,134271 ,548.
At a cost of $32,0OO.OOO a large cen
trail railway station, with 80 tracks is
to be built in Leipzig.
The latest cure for nervous diseases,
according to Swiss doctor, is tea
made with melted snow.
The ease with which radium can
be administered locally. as for in
stance in the nose or throat, is an in
valuable advantage.
While off the Newfoundland banks
the North German Lloyd line Hanno-
yer passed an iceberg on which were
six large polar bears.
The German army sergeant who
was charged with squirting ink at la
dies in the streets has been sentenced
to one years Imprisonment.
The 1903 prune crop of France is
estimated at 21,O0O,OOO pounds, an in
crease of 100000 pounds over the
crop of the preceding year.
Austria has the largest duck farm
and the largest incubator in the world.
The incubator has a capacity of II 400
ducks eggs and 14,SOO hens eggs.
On TIE east coast of Lake Tchad, in
Central Africa. a tree has been dis
covered, the wood of which is of less
specific gravity than cork wood.
Liabilities 100000 assets nil, is the
balance sheet of a Russian army Off.
Ger who had latterly managed 20
squander annually close on $125O00.
The French government has under
consideration the construction of a
palace in the Avenue de Trocadero as
residence for royal visitors to Paris.
The number of orange trees of
bearing age" in Florida on June l.,
1900 as given by the United States
census, was 2552,542; the number in
California was 5.64S,714.
At the Dorotheum, Viennas great
auction room. a lioness, described as
seven and half months old, of beau
tiful form and without blemish," was
sold for G1G-the highest bid
Frank Schmidt, of Jersey City. has
made tea kettle about tn size of a
pea with a capacity of two drops of
water, and an alcohol lamp CORE
spondingly small, out of half of a cent
1t is stated that, while gold coin re-
mains in circulation in st. Petersburg
and Moscow, it has almost disap-
peared from ordinary trade channels
throughout the remainder of the en-
lire.
Bourke (Victoria) has been visited
by plague of mosquitoes. So great
was the number that tne lamps were
extinguished and for the remainder
of the night the town was in absolute
darkness
Additional proof of the enormous
change in French journalism in recent
years is seen in the fact that the Petit
Partisan now comes out as a l2-page
paper. Ten years ago it was a little
four-page sheet.
Kansas harvests more wheat thar
any other state in the union. In its
county raises less than 100000 bush
els. Sumner county has a record of
6,S12, 102 bushels.
Every man, woman and child in the
United States took, on an average, G3
rides on the street cars last year, ac-
cording to recent report of the cen
sus bureau. That was 81 rides more
than they had taken in 1899.
1t is thought by those interested in
the sale in London of the original
manuscript of Miltons paradise
Lost that the offer of $25O,OOO for
the work is made by ]. Pierpont Nor
gan.
President Schurman, of Cornell SAYS
the students day ought to be divided
as follows: Ten hours study, two
hours for meals, three hours for ath-
letics, one hour for recreation and the
remaining eight hours for sleep.
Morris Williams, of Wilkesbarre.
Pa who has just been made president
of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. started
work in the mines as a breaker bov.
and has risen through all grades until
he now has charge of 10000 men.
All the pallbearers at the funeral of
Jessica Ormand, an old colorcd
many" of Atlanta, Ga, who died the
other day, were white men who had
known her when she was slave
Several CT these had been nursed by
her in their infancy
Lydia Wiedelman, Of Calumet
Mich, is champion fat girl; only 1G
years old, she tips the scales at SG5
pounds. Ever since her birth her
growth in weight has beer remark.
able, but she has gained most in the