The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-03-08

MISSING LINKS.
Southey said that good hook deserved |
to be called the liquor of life.
One pound of sleeps wool is capable
Of producing one yard of cloth.
Chicago is the prairie city, from the
fairness of the land surrounding it.
Salt Lake City is the Mormon city,
from the character of its population.
Rochester, N. Y, is the acqueduct
city, from its bountiful water supply.
Burlington, Iowa, is called the orch
ard city, from the abundance of fruit
trees.
Q is the letter o with a tall Hence
its name, which comes from the French
queu, tail.
If man were to leap as far In FRO
portion to his size as a flea, he could
jump seventy-six miles.
Warren Antill, of Henry county, New
York, has house on wheels and trac-
tion engine to haul it when he wants to
move.
The Third cavalry rode $4,000 miles
last year on the border, one company,
Troop G, mpllshing eighty-fve miles
In one day.
Many young girls are employed as
porters in Switzerland, carrying the
baggage of travellers up and down the
steep mountain paths.
There are ffty-two canals in the
United States. Having total length
of 4,46s miles. China alone excels this
country in its canal mileage.
The amount OF six produced by each
spider is so small that Reaumur COM
putes that GA 522 would be required to
prodcce pound of thread.
The Kingston (Ont) school GARD has
adopted a system by which it will pro-
vide, free to the pupils, paper, pens,
pencils and scribbling books.
In Japan man can live like a gen
tleman on $500 year. This sum will
employ two servants, pay the rent of
house and supply plenty of food
The Alaskans often have eating
matches at which great nu nbers of the
villagers compete. The one who eats
the most is considered the biggest man.
Among the Kondeh people, who live
on Lake Nyassa in Africa, the fay orite
form of suicide is to enter the water
and allow ones self to be 'devoured by
crocodile.
Three good washes are received by
an Abyssinian during his clreer-at
birth, on his marriage morn and at his
death. AT all other times he shuns
soap and water.
Missourian died at "A who had
never been, outside of the state, never
was shaved in barber shop aud never
eaten at hotel and was never Ill until
just before his death.
BY the use of an electric doormat
Just invented a storekeeper or house
keeper can leave the door open with
safety. When visitor steps upon the
mat an electric bell rings.
The public lands of Wyoming are
estim ated at 63,000,0 900 acres. Of this
only 100000 acres are said to be IT.
rigable or agricultural land. The re-
mainder is all grazing land.
East Greenwich, England, has the
largest gasometer in the world. When
full 1t contains - 600, 900 cubic feet of
gas. 1t is $50 feet high and 800 feet in
diameter and cost 100000
AT G'ipg esbnrg. Sweden, power from
a waterfall is transmitted by electricity
along copper wire TO mines eight miles
away, where it runs motors aud sup
plies arc and incandescent lamps.
AT depth OF 1000 feet In the famous
Comstock mine. at Virginia City,
New, the waters that trickle from the
sides, roof and bottom have a uniform
temperature of 10 degrees Fahren-
heit.
A mail carrier up In oxford county,
Maine, when his team was stuck In the
snow recant1v horroyad n bandela1 ,od