The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-04-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
News Gathered From the Old World
and the New.
: Russian railroads have wcmen's
smoking cars
Liverpool, England. has in its list Of
city employees an Official rat-catcher,
The Newfoundland council has APP
proved bill to give the government
guarantee 10 bank notes
The Boston Society for the Proven
tion Of Cruelty to Animals gives weekly
lectures % coachmsn on the proper way
to treat dumb animals
Dr.. Ida E Richardson. Of Philadel-
phia, is one Of the most successful
woman physicians Of the country, her
income being estimated AT $4,000 u
year.
H b Plant, the well known Florida
railroad magnate, made the hearts of
the Sisters of the Sacred Heart glad AT
Tampa recently by liberal gifts Of
money.
A rural South Carolina paper tells of
An icicle thirty feet long and a yard
wide that formed ON q windmill in
York county during the reoen, cold
spell
Mrs Mozette, of Jackson county.
Michigan, an inmate of the county
almshonse, is los wears old and glories
in the assertion that she is las mean a
woman rs God ever put breath into"
d. V. Talent. mail carrier between
Rutherforrieon and Columbus, n. G.,
walks rwenty-seven miles each day,
carrying the mailbag ON his shoulders
bis compensation is $500 year.
The natives Of interior Madagascar
defend themselves against the advance
Of the French soldiers by removing all
food frum the line of march and refus-
ing to furnish supplies at any price.
San Antonio, Tex, councils have
passed an ordinance which prohibits
physicians from charging more than 81
q visit Ii was passed at the solicita-
ton Of the leading physicians of the
city.
j. NJ Barrie, the novelist, opened
his literary career by writing leading
articles for Nottingham paper. Da-
vid Christie Murray commenced his
journalistic career On the staff Of
Birmingham paper.
A naval drydock, large enough 10
receive any vessel of our feet, is near
ly ready for use at Port Royal, 5. C.,
and two others of equal size will soon
be completed at Brooklyn and ON the
Pacific side of Puget Sound.
1t is said that when the United States
government moved TO Washington in
the year 1900 the property was all car
ried In seven boxes, while the chief ex-
ecutlve got lost in the woods in the
nelghborhood Of Washington.
In two years Austria has obtained
through the Rothschilds two-rhirds of
the gas, 900, 900 in gold it is boarding
In order TO adopt the single standard,
and Of the amount secured this year
ga, 900, 900 is in American eagles.
The citizens of Dedham, Mass. cele- .
DRAFTED in memorial hall with great eclat
the other night the 250th anniversary
of the establishment Of its free public
school, which school, it is claimed, was
the first one established in the world.
Twenty-seven war vessels were added
to the British navy last year. exclusive
OF 1--WE torpedo boats, at a cost Of about
sl2, 900, 900. The record for 1895 will
go even beyond this England is en-
larging her navy with even more Zeal
than ever before.
Although American steel rails are
lower than ever before in the history Of
the trade, and terms are easier than in
all probability they ever will be again.
there is still profit of more than 25 Der
cent to the manufacturer at the lowest
prices recently quoted.
James Chandler, Of Lyon county,
Ky, Is 10 years old, and has forty
and thirty eight great
He lives near the farm
on which his grandfather settled iO9
years ago, and has never been away
from home more than ten DAYS at a
time. A
A Boston manufacturing company
recently celebrated half a century of
existence by making a distribution Of
fund Of $50, 900 among its employees
on the basis Of Is for each year Of ser
vice. Some Of the employees have been
in the service 80 long that their salaries
reached $3.50 each.
Massachusetts, has been fighting that
dangerous insect, the gypsy moth, with
appropriations, and finds that
hey grow larger every year. 1t is
question now whether the bug will not
prove more costly to the state than the
doosac tunnel, which represents an
,utlay, on the installment plan, of
SEQ, 900, 900.
Some time ago the city Of Lawrence, =
Mass. discovered that its death rate ,
rom typhoid fever was higher than :
hat from the same disease in any other /,
own in New England After an in :
Of the cause the water sup a
lily Of the place was filtered through A
and, and the mortality from the disease
las fallen from 43 to s in six months.
Word comes to this country from
that Pastor H. p. Holser,
he American representative Of the Sew
nth Day Adventists in Central Europe
nd the director Of their publishing
Ouse in Basic, is now undergoing a