The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-06-07


yard in diameter.
Many of the worst laws are drafted
by the best lawyers.
Last year 25,102 patents were applied |
for in Great Britain.
A million matches are used In Europe
every twelve minutes.
The popular belief that May is an un-
lucky month for marriages dates from
Roman times.
II snall's head be cut of and the
animal placed In cool, moist spot
new head will be grown.
The greatest length of the Desert of
Sahara is 3, 100 miles. The greatest
width is 600 miles.
There is law in Germany forbiddIng
restauranters TO serve beer to people
who have eaten fruit.
Balata, the product of tree in Sum-
atra, threatens to become a rival of
India rubber and gutta percha.
One of the pioneers of California is
Wong Zip Kong, who came from Hong
Kong In sailing vessel in 1874.
Sugar cane is mentioned by Strabo
as known in India as early as 1926 B. G.
1t was then used In its raw state.
Man is scientifically defined as forty
FIVE pounds of carbon and nitrogen
dfYused through Ave buckets of water.
The young of several species of ser
penis retreat down the throat of the
mother when pressed by sudden danger.
The Americans are generally agreed
to have surpassed all other nations In
the invention and use of rapid fire guns.
A species of ape, closely resembling
the African gorilla, has been discov-
cred on the Mosquito coast, Nicaragua.
About the thinnest thing In the world
is the film of soap bubble, of which
1t would take 5o,0OO,000 to measure an
inch.
The rice paper tree of China, now
fourishes in Florida, where it was in
troduced as an experiment some years
age.
There are insects which pass several
years in preparatory states of exist
ence, and, finally, when perfect, live
but few hours.
the state of South Carolina made a
net profit of SAL 900 on gross sales OF
S250,000 worth of whisky.
A Roman soldier, in marching order
carried sixty pounds of weight and was
expected to march four miles an hour
for six hours day.
The Oldest architectural ruins In the
world are believed to be the rock-cui
temples of Ipsambul, on the left banl
of the Nile, in Nubia.
DR. Emily A. Bruce declares thal
more women in New England die be
cause of faulty dress than from all con
tageous diseases combined.
The brewers of Louisville, XIV, ar,
thinking of putting in a telephone sys
tenn of their own to connect all tn,
breweries and retail houses.
At Trenton, Wis, a man, while driv
ing one horse and leading another, ha'
his arm broken by sudden jerk of tn
head of the horse he was leading.
A congress of psychologists is pre-
posed for Rome In 1906, and special es
cavatlons laying bare the rest of tn
palaces of the Caesars are suggested a
) an attractive feature.
A phosphate deposite has been di.
covered in Bradley county, Tennessee
, about twenty miles from Chattanooga
The vein, so far as known, is 16 fee
wide and about nine miles long.
The light from the sun reaches tn
earth in seven and one-half minute.
! though the distance Is such that a car
non ball fred from the sun and contin,
ing Its velocity unabated would requir
more than seventeen years to reach tn
earth.
The first aerial voyage was made Sci
TENDER Is, 1888, by sheep, cock an
duck to height Of 1900 feet. Tn
first human traveller through the al
was M. Francois Pilatre de Rozier, VIII
mounted the following month in a ba
loon.
John Willis, a Washington crimina
has won the title of "The Wizard of tn
Cells among the police officials of tina
city. He Is said to be able to unloc
. the door of almost any cell In some my,
tartoua xvttb1,t &ha 4.