The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-04-12

The Armenlans are one of the oldest
races In the world.
Hospital ambulances are now fitted
with pneumatic tires.
Model tenement houses in London paw
handsome dividends.
There are seventy-tix homeopathic
hospitals in this country.
The first British translation OF the
bible was in the Irish tongue.
TIL longest court trial ever taking
place in England lasted 1873 days.
Ia California there is prune orchard
Of over three thousand acres.
In London there Is a fur company
which was established during the reign
of Henry VIII.
The fitness of things is happily illus
rated in the name of Mr.. Chinook Whis-
kers of Oregon.
Buggies of American manufacture are
superseding those of English make in
London and Paris.
Mile. Coralie Brach, dancer at the
Paris Opera, has died leaving $500, 900
earned by dancing.
native of Hawaii, seeing 4 man rid
ing bicycle, said that it must be very
nice TO walk sitting down"
Nevada has sent out $500, 0O0, 900 In
silver and gold, 5000, 100000 of which
came from the Comstock mines.
The longest time during which a note
has remained outside the Bank of En-
gland is III years. 1t was for $l95
Some long leasehold property In
Cheapside, London, sold the other day
at price equal to $50 per superficial
foot.
In Australia the green ants make nests
by bending leaves together and uniting
them with kind of natural glue.
New Jersey sends to market every
year 100000 basket of peaches and
makes over 100000 gallons of apple
jack.
Dresses are made of wooden fiber
which, when spun or otherwise pre-
pared, is scarcely distinguished from
fine silk.
The secretary bird of South Africa
can whip any shape of twice its size and
Stanley says the reptiles crawl away
from this binds shadow in wild fear.
Bismarck has presented all the school
children of Friedrichsrune with china
cups bearing the portrait of the en-
peror as a memento of his ma iesty's re-
cent visit.
collection of books from Napoleon's
library at st. Helena, once the property
OF Jerome Bonaparte, sold at a very low
figure recently at a London auction.
me amount to be distributed in diyi-
bends for the half-year to the share.
holders of the leading English railway
is e. ZOO, 900 less than at this
time last year.
Tweed, as a cloth name, arose from
his'dKe. It's name was twill, but in a
plotted invoice sent to a London mer-
cnant the word looked like tweed and
so 1t came into use.
Inc heart of man struck by 4 New
Jersey Central train at Bound Brook
was found on the cowcatcher of the
locomotive at Allentown, Pa, some
seventy miles distant.
anyone found in the streets of Russia
ii an ineoriated state is imprisoned and
"hen sober is ordered to sweep the
streets for day. Well dressed men
nay be seen sometimes fnI6ll,na th,a
nenial oflice.
Inc surrender of his name by a voung
nan in Delaware who receptIv m,r,,ad
WHO" ana Is hereafter to be known
~ DIS wife's name, has elected consid.
'raoie comment as a quite remarkable
Innovation of a custom thar g -
With age.
An old lady who recently died =,
'toke tlemmming, near Dartmouth
WIN tne Key of her safe In her hand
'nu VINO lived a life of comparative
eoiuslon' owned property worth 5000
w. her relatives have found bidasn
way In her house in vases and i,rs
bout 100000 in cash.
Ale&ander Brownie, of Tumut, New
'outh wales, who has reached the van
laole age OF &c, was lost recen,,,
'niie prospecting in the ranges and
wandered absoIn., "uu