The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-25
BRIEF MENTION.

Aston women have 81, 600, 900 in jewels.
Federation OF Labor lecturers get $40 a
week.
sicoliau sulphur deposits employ $4,000
men.
Cucumbers were originally troi ical vege-
tables
There are $50 900 suicides yearly and in.
creasing.
Apples cost 30 cents a dozen at Houston.
Texas.
The Oldest known poem is the song Of
Miriam.
Tramps are perfectly unknown in New
Zealand.
Palm leaves on the Amazon grow Thirty
inches long,
The giraffe has "A tongue almost eighteen
inches long.
Ninety-one per cent OF the farmers in Utah
own their farms.
Thirty-two Thousand varieties OF goods
are made from wool
In 1859 Boneili devised m, thod of using
electricity in weaving.
We have s25, 900, 900 invested in theman-
uiacture of spool cotton.
The value Of the output OF chemical works
in 1893 was SIG Oh ,633
Ninety-seven out Of every hundred Arctic
explorers have returned alive
The thread of a silkwoim is one one-thou
sandrh OF an inch in diameter
Worth recently made for Persian belle n
gown which cost the wearer SD 900.
Henry w., OF France, has eat ague" or
trembling whenever a cat is in sight
The plate glass plants of the United
States have II capital OF S12, 0OO, 900,
An etomologist estimates that there are
100000 varieties of insects in the world.
Votaire was afraid to sleep in the dark.
and invariably woke if a candle went out.
Shigakan, Osaka, claims to have a dwarf
36 years old who is only II inches in hight.
Edison Brush and Sawyer Systems in 177S
1t is said that hiccough is often cured nv
swallowing n teas[ oonfu of baking soda.
dry.
Dynamo machines were in 1878 ordered
by the British government for the Lizard
lights
Coal is dearer in Sonth Africa than anv
other part OF the world; it is cheapest in
China.
Iwo-thlrds OF the gold now is use in the.
world was discovered within the past ffty
years.
In $500 census showed that Uncle sam
had over $3.50, 600 invested in cotton loc-
tories
Each year the people OF Paris eat an aver
age OF 81 900 horses. 800 donkcxs and 40
mules
Many ancient records have been preserved
on bricks, tiles and tables of various sul-
stances.
Ine superstition concerning the finding of
ahorseshoe dates back to the thirteenth
century.
The number of sheep owned Mt nros.nt IN
the United States is estimated at abon+ 10
100000 "'o"' 10
priehteh carpets wipe them wit h warm
water IN which has been poured a few icons
OF ammonia. ops
one or Two tablespoonfuls of amme min,
auoed TO pail OF water will clean windows
better than soap.
Illinois leads the states in the produet,on
oi nay fer acre, the figures being one and
one one-half tons '"'
III lzo' teacher in Florence had his borsa
burned and built new residelc bv n;no.
Two volumes of Cicero.
The first public library in mod, IN Ernon
was founded by Nicholas Niceoli. Forentino
IN the fifteenth century. ''"''
Only one person in fifteen have no, ,oo
Wv. .a',, 'u'ger percentage OF defectivon IS pre-
VaiIlng among the blends.
lhe instrument which accurately moo.,..
Instance TO the one-ten-thoustndtb mart a.
second is called chronograpb
~ ~ estimated that on our alobe Whit,
rlnaDlted by 100000 human be;nos ~
are '9'o33 900 deaths every year. ''''''
i"e emperor Hadrain, when diving con.
posed mat beautiful address To H. -,
winch rope translated into English.
IA south America they boast af - hoo,,o
o"u' averages a foot in length and nm,
"eS fourteen inches from tip to tin. Yer
u, mapu year there is an average a, { 90
murders murders committed in The United So. NV
lou es"'hangings and 200 lynchiDga ''''
me revolution cost the peonle IS ~,
country sl35,193, 703. The ,rar sn'S
WIN Great Britain cost us slo7, 1853 GOA '
- 'uue 1901 OF new fallen snow weighs s,.
"nu one-hah pounds ON an aserape ana
water. 0f''' "e'ght OF
nc eirth is now nearer the sun tho,
a ~ o'ner season OF the year. the cola -;
suns rays. OIL the
"nen smarty' tell you that o,,m;.
= 'ne hghtest OF metals refer him - "'"
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