Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

a auffalo civil engineer has hssn
,ooktn4 Niagara Falls over. and his con
elusion il that IL is good for three mil'
lion years. -,
-our word .'bntleF' comes from IN
old English word. botefer, man who
has charge OF tho bother. The chiei
ha,ler Of Pharoah, mentioned In the
pible an officer OF high rank, was more
properly cup-bearer to the king.
IT l. one OF the wonders OF the world
tbat a Young lady can sit around the
house ali day with piece OF red flannel
wrapped around her throat, nursing hes
influenza, and in the evening dress up
10 see her bean. the heaithiest woman
IN existence. Texas siftings.
In sinking artesian wells In the
Desert OF Sahara, water-bearing strata
has been reached at depth OF 25e feet
AZ which a steady flow OF about 5t00u
Gallons per minute has been obtained
This water is brackish and unfit for
drinking. but 1t answers very well Tor
irrigation.
The destruction Of human life by
our railways Is attaining truly alarming
nronortions. According TO the estimate
of the interstate commerce commissions
ers the mortality from this cause IN
SINGLE year Is as high as 1888, while for
the same period the number OF persons
injured in railroad accidents reaches
27. s9s. OF course great proportion In
both classes Is made up OF railway en-
ployes.
The human family to-day consists OF
about /, i,45O, 900, 900 individuals. In
Asia. where man was first planted,
there are now about 800. 900, 600; on an
average. 100 TO the square mile. In
Europe there are 320, 100000, averaging
100 to the square mile. In Africa there
are i0.O00, 900. In America, North and
South, .here are 1l0,000,000, relatively
,binly scattered. In the islands, large
and small. probably lO,00o,0O0. The ex-
tremes of the white and black are as
five 70 three, the remaining 700, 600, ,0Oe
being intermediate brown and tawny-
A very valuable reflector for the
light of the incandescent lamp Is now
being used. 1t consists of conical
globe of fine flint glass, rounded and
frosted at the base, the upper sides be-
ing of clear glass, rounded and frosted
at the base, covered by hand with bur
nished silver in such way that it viii
never tarnish or oxidize. The convex
base is of frosted glass, which so breaks
up the rays that, although the mass OF
light proceeding from it is considerably
more than twice as powerful and bright
as that coming from the Extraordinarily.
it is not only less dazzling. but 1t is
absolutely soft and pleasant to the eyes.
AT grocery store in Belfast, Mass.
recently, while quite number of per-
sons were gathered therein, the pro-
prietor got them to guessing on various
things, finally coming to pea beans. A
number of guesses were made as to how
many were in bushel. The most reck-
less person III The party guessed as high
as fifty thousand From that there
were various othef estimates of a
smaller number. We'll, SIR said the
grocer, there are one hundred and
nineteen thousand" of course no one
would believe him until he explained
that there were sixty 10 half ounce.
and proved it. Then how many bank
notes will it take to weigh as much as a
silver dollar?" he said. Zone hundred,''
''seventy-five," three hundred.' cried
out several. Not right said the
grocer, Just twenty-five" which he
illustrated and proved.