The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-15


miles was done. 1t had occupied six
hours, and the boat in that time had
carried its passengers from region of
winter, with its ice and snow, into
vines.
MISSING LINKS.
Mammoth comes to us from one of the
Siberian dialects.
splendid series of photographs of
Brooks comet has been obtained.
Persons of weak intellect are apt to
succumb to acute diseases of every kind
Puss, the common name for cat, is a
corruption of the Persian word pers, 4
cat.
Blankets were invented by Thomas
Blanket, who made them at Bristol In
1910.
Connecticut has 10000 farms. The
tobacco product in 1880 was IA, 900, 900
pounds.
Arizona is fifth in silver, eighth in
sheep and live stock and ninth in gold
product.
Massachusetts is first In fisheries, sec
ond In commerce, third in manufactures
and printing.
Jefferson suggested the plan of deci-
NAL coinage in 1885, and it was adopted
by congress.
Tobacco and warehouse receipts is
sued after it was stored were once both
used in Virginia as money.
Georgia's superior criminal court has
discontinued the kissing of the Bible in
the administration of oaths.
Texas Is first in cattle and cotton,
second in sugar, sheep and mules,
seventh in cows, eighth in hogs.
DR.. H. X Carroll estimates that of
population of 90, 622 $50 In the United
States sc, 992 900 are Christians.
The supreme court of Kansas has de-
cided that Mrs. Lease is still the legal
head of the state board of charities.
In the sixthteenth and seventeenth
centuries nearly all the rulers of Europe
were bitten by the alchemist's mania
KIP Van Wrinkle" has been on the
stage for sixty-ive years. The first
play was produced at Albany May g.
1928.
The number of medical women in
Great Britain is now 1856, and of these
twenty have become members of the
British Medical Association.
The total value of the crops of the
United States during 1892 is estimated
at 50, 900, 000,000 of which the largest
item is $3.50, 10000 worth of hay.
The supreme court of Washington
holds that solicitation to commit adult
cry is no part of the act of adultery
itself, and cannot be held to be an at
tempt.
Mrs. William Seidentopf of Council
Bluns, Christian scientist, spread rat
poison like butter on piece of bread
and ate 1t to show that poisons would
not affect her. Death soon followed.
Professor Bell, the inventor of the
telephone, has been graphing with
aerial locomotion in Nova Scotia, and.
like all other experimenters ia that
science, he is very hopeful of success.
South Carolina farm products exceed
100000 annually, S14, 900 being
cotton. About 10000, 900 pounds of rice
are raised. Gold is mined at sixto
places in paying quantities in the state.
Kentucky is the foremost state in the
production of hemp, and has been known
to produce $4,000 tons in a wear. II
produces nearly two-thirds of the Amer.
lean tobacco crop, growing Ia 1889
$50, oOo, 900 pounds.
Duluth company has purchased $50
900 worth of bar placer ground on the
upper Columbia, within fifteen miles of
Kettle Falls, Wash, and will begin
dredging early IN the spring, using a
Bucyrus amalgamating outfit.
Snohomisa county, Washington. ia
paying experts $40 day, and NAV do
so for months, to find out what use h, a
been made of thousands of dollars of
public funds which have disappearsa
from the treasury without visible re-.