Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Yankee genius has left untried
few materials which might be available
for the purpose Ut pen making. Among
the inventions patented have been pens
made of hickory and other kinds OF
flexible wood found III our forests.
AS division of time. the week has
been used in the east from immemorial
ages. 1t does not seem to be q natural
division of time. though several periods
of animal economy. such as the incr-
baton of eggs. correspond with weeks.
One of the most famous log chutes
in the west, at La Crande. Ore, Is to be
cut up for cortlwood. all the timber i'm
mediately tributary to it having been
cut away. The chute is 1H miles
long from top to bottom. and during
its period of use more than 100000
feet of logs have coasted through 1t
down the mountain side.
A German statistician finds that
the most unlucky day of the week. SO
lar as accidents to human beings are
concerned. is not Friday. but Monday;
1914 per cent. of all accidents occur
Mondays; 1917 per cent. Tuesdays;
1881 per cent. Wednesdays; 1873 per
cent. Thursdays; 1888 per cent. Fri
days; the same per cent. Saturdays,
and $50 per cent. Sundays.
"A Geneva clock maker has per-
fected and patented an application Of
the monograph to the old-fashiOned
repeater, whose springs and hammers
have been replaced by II disk Of vulcan
| lied india rubber. AS the point moves
over the surface. it clnits articulated
sounds. indicating the hour. being an
exact reproduction of the human voice,
which can be heard in an adjoining
| room.
| Monaghan pheasants have been
successfully introduced for game pur-
poses in various parts OF Oregon and
Washington in the last few wears, and
now an attempt rs being made To prop
agate them for the same purpose In
California. A number have been i'm
ported into Santa Clara county from
Oregon, and lettuce seed is to be planted
by the mountain springs to provide
food for them. They are protected by
statute for three years.
Councilman Towle. of Oakland. Cal.
recently introduced and engineered
to a second reading an ordinance com
polling all bathrrs within the city linn
it's of that town to tic up their head
in n sack while bathing. The ordi
nance provided that all bathers mus
wear "a SHIRT or jersey covering the EN-
tire upper part of the body except thu
arms" The ordinance passed to tn
printers. and it was the Often-abuset
intelligent composltor who discovered
that il it passed the council ever.
bather in Oakland would be compellet
by law to bag his head.
; Gangs of "sklnners." men VIII
. slaughter deer wholesale solely for tn
hides, are again ut work in the noun
} tains of Curry county. Ore. huntin
party Just returned from that regio
} relate that it was not unusual to com
across a dozen or more carcasses Of dee
= in the course Of a day. left to rot by tn
law violators. 1t is estimated tha
more than 700 deer have been killed
e that section this summer solely fc
, their hides. The "skinners" find
: ready sale for the hides. and make niue
). money at the wretched business.
. The San Francisco Examiner say
J there is one curious fact respecting til
. animal creation with which one wi
: never become acquainted II he depend
I on his textbooks for information.
is this: No living representative OF Il
animal kingdom has more than ~
I toes. digits or claws to each foot. har
y or limb. The horse is the type of on
toed creation. the camel Of the tw
toed, the rhinocerous Of the three-tos
e and the hippopotamus Of the four-to'
E animal life. The elephant and hu
g dreds of other animals belonging
II different orders belong to the gre
g five-toed tribe.