The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-09-10
|IHE WORLDS MINOR NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
ODDS ana EnAs From fhe Fens
Quarters ~ the Gsobc-Busfness
Affairs ana aaatfers-Faeas sna
Figures, Crfmes nnd Aeefaenas.

The Minneapolis mills now make ~,
100000 baETeas Of hour a year and con
sumo OOOOOOOO bushels Of wheat.
Spain was originally formed from n
Kingdoms, and ROW has IN area Of 1885,
iI5 square miles, and . population Of III
10000.
The officers Of leading London hospi'
al believe the general increase Of cancer
b due to excess In meat eating.
a large part Of Cuba i occupied BY
inPenetrable forests. not more than II
per cent. Of the island being under cult.
satlon.
More than COCO species OF plants arc
cultivated, and most Of these have been
broken up into varied forms by the hand
Of man
The matchmaker, Lobner, Of Berlin, has
perfected mechanism capable Of meas.
nring and recording the thOusandth part
Of second.
The healing Of the Lee-Metford
wounds Ia, as rule, very rapid, and good
cases seem, under treatment, TO heal in
from 70 IA days.
II - estimated that al the gold mined
IN California since lS4B could be put into
q room IL yards long, Q yards wide and
) % yards nigh
Ofieial reports show Tat the rich gold
prospects, found in Alaska cover an area
Of 100000 square miles, being lSO miles
wide BY coo miles long.
The Colonial DANES Of Boston have Of
Tered prize Of $3.50 for the picture that
best embodies the spirit Of the colonial
Or provincial periods.
Millions Of men in India live. marry
and rear apparently healthy children
upon an income OF 30 cents a week. and
sometimes II falls below that
About Onehalf the bulk Of wheat, rye,
eats, Pease and beans is starch. OF Pota-
toes about one-tifth il starch, and Of rice
and corn about three-fourths.
DIR. Norman Kerr, an authority on in.
ebriety, says that female drunkenness is
Increasing, and that out OF 5000 cases he
found heredity was the cause in half
that number.
A foreign savant has declared that .
most prevalent cause OF hysteria in won-
en- Is high-heeled Shoes and that If the
Questionable boots are abandoned the
hysteTia viii cease.
Mira B. A. Cortheii OF Milbridges Ne,
has made q wonderful patchwork quilt,
the centeEPiece of which is a lot of blue
bunting from a signal flag saved from the
batfieship Maine.
In the streets and suburbs OF London
there are now not only III fountains for
human beings but 2s6 large tronghs fo'
horses and cattle and 40 small trOughs
Tor sheep and dogs
The Salvation army during its last
self denial week raised $l6SJ0Oo 20
carry ON its work among the lowiy and
neglected This Is an increase Of S4o.-
OOO over the amount OF last year.
A London specialist says the most ex-
pensiNe drug Is called physossigmine, an
ounce OF which would cost nearly $780,
600. II is prepared from the CaiAbar
bean and Is used IN diseases OF the eye.
The American national anthem. The
Star Spangled Banner, happens to be
English. 1t is better known, As far as
its tune Is concerned. under it's original
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