Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-12
OF Gen IERAL INTEREST.

"A HOPE (Me.) physician has lived
for eighty years on a strict bread-and-
milk diet. neN or having occasion TO try
bis own prescriptions.
"A farmer of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County. Cal, pulled beet the
other day tn at weighed one hundred
and ffty-.out pounds. IL was seven
feet long.
About A. ID. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves. and two hundred
years after Nhey were multiplied by
printing The Chinese furnish books to
each other fot next to nothing.
1T Is weal-known that whales can
remain long time under water. hut
exact data as 10 the time have been
rather lacking. In his northern traV-
cis DIR. kuckenthal. of Jena. recently
observed tha harpooned white whale
/ continued under water forty-hve min
utes.
/ Recent observations OF the waters
| OF Great salt lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists In the lake
are erroneous. No fsh or other large
form OF animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered fact
from the abundance of animal exist
ences-
The testimony OF medical experts
has lately been discredited in England
by reason OF the diametrical views taken
by distinguished physicians and sur
geons when testifying in murder trials.
1t Is said that "one point only Is de-
termined by this evidence, and that is
that the phi Ssicians have no clearly de-
fined and fixed scientific basis on which
to found their opinions"
In Bowling Green, Ky, there Is Q
very sagacipus dog. The other morning
horse was left standing hitched to Z
buggy, and while its owner was In al
adjacent place of business the anirna
took frigh, and ran away. He was go
ing at brI,akneck speed, when the dol
, saw him. Jumped the fence, headed tn
horse, grabbed the line in his moutl
and held him fast until the owner o
!, the beast came mp and relieved him.
1t Is little singular, with all ou
h mutual benefit societies, that a mutua
n dowry sodiety was never established
. Imagine the effect upon the matrimonia
o market OF thousand young women dt
v voting ten cents a week, fixed PEI
4 centage 10 be given TO those who al
n married within the year. The Rnxior
r and aimlGss could not then become
drug in the market Something OF tn
= kind Is in vogue in Europe, whore 1t
5 stipulated that beneficiary must haN
"A been a n nember OF the society for fly
4 years bef, ire reaping dot
X i'm Algeria every girl born of nati'
70 parents is tattooed on her for
e head between the eyebrows al
"a Just at the root OF the nose with
h cross formed of several straight lin
* of smal stars running close
in Rether These tattoo marks arc dal
10 blue color Algerian women are al
" considerably tattooed on the backs
le their hands, their forearms and chest
~ as well as ON their shoulders, the
wrists bring especially adorned wi
n drawings representing bracelets al
~ flowers strung together. As a rul
g. women are the operators, aud il is pri
W cipally Oh children between the ages
seven an eight that they have TO g
ye ercise Ia eir art They use sometimes
ld needle. but more frequently a Barba
IA fg-tree thorn. They employ kohl as
y. coloring substance. 1t is q kind OF Il
w powder made from sulphur of antimon
ky which N also in great request by t
Algerian women for the purpose Of fa'
naintfnN