Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-09
THE WORLDS MINOR NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Odds and Ends From the Four
Quarters of the GlObe-Business
Affairs and Matters-Facts and
Figures, Crimes nnd Accidents.

$500 Spanish New Testaments 10 Santi-
ago, Cuba.
Butter and bacon are declared by a
medical writer to be the most nourishing
of all foods.
The Minneapolis mills now make IA
100000 barrels of -four year and con-
sumo 60,00O,000 bushels of wheat.
Spain was originally formed from If
| Kingdoms, and now has an area of 1885,
ll3 square miles, and population of H.
100000.
The officers of leading London hospi-
tai believe the general increase of cancer
is due to excess in meat eating.
| \ large part of Cuba is occupied by
impenetrable forests, not more than 10
per cent. of the island being under cult
walton.
More than 6OOO 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 a mechanism capable of meas
uring and recording the thousandth part
of second.
The healing of the Lee Metford
wounds is, as rule, very rapid, and good
cases seem, under treatment, to heal in
from to IA days.
1t is estimated that al the gold mined
in California since lS4S could be put into
room II yards long, yards wide and
) % yards high.
Official reports show Lat the rich gold
prospects found in Alaska cover an area
of 100000 square miles, being $50 miles
wide by 600 miles long.
The Colonial Danes of Boston have Of
fered 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 80 cents week, and
sometimes it falls below that.
About one-half the bulk of wheat, rye
oats, pease and beans is starch. OF pota
toes about one-tifth is starch, and OF rice
and corn about three-fourths.
Dr. Norman Kerr, all authority on in
ebriety, says that female drunkenness il
0 increasing, and that out of 5000 cases HI
= found heredity was the cause in hal
: that number.
= A foreign savant has declared that ;
; most prevalent cause of hysteria in WON
: en- is high-heeled shoes, and that If tn
|, Objectionable boots are abandoned tn
; hysteria will cease.
Ill 80 hid rrn Ia
), has made IA wonderful patchwork quilt
the ceNerpiece of which is a lot of blu
bunting from a signal flag saved from tn
battleship Maine.
e In the streets and suburbs of Londo
there are now not only 7l2 fountains fo
g human beings, but 2s6 large troughs fo
o horses and cattle and 40 small trough
Le for sheep and dogs.
It The Salvation army during its las
"self denial week" raised $l65,000
" carry on its work among the lowly an
he neglected This is an increase OF $4O
ne 600 over the amount of last year.
h. A London specialist says the most e.
ne pensive drug is called physostigmine,
o. ounce of which would cost nearly $lOC
ed 600. 1t is prepared from the Calais
H. bean and is used in diseases of the ey
mt The American national anthem, I'll
g Star Spangled Banner" happens to
al English. 1t is better known, as FAR
N, it's tune is concerned, under its origin
he name. 'To Anacreon in Heaven"
SIX Railways represent an enormous ado
ton to public wealth. The value OF t
or, RAILWAYS of all countries is something Iii
5556 millions sterling.
ng TO stop bleeding from the lungs ta
an a teaspoonful, of table salt and swalle
ad it dry. Keep perfectly quiet, in
as cumbent position, until physician
riyes.
In this country last year the numb
of mich cows increased about 20 |
en- cent. and the number of other cattle o,
ON 80 per cent, while the number OF she
lid and swine slightly decreased.
es- The constitution of South Carolina p
ry' vides that jurors must be between t
ry, ages of q and G5, and a new trial "
mi recently granted in a criminal case
to cause one of the jurors was 66 years O
i've Gaust is the smallest republic in
world. 1t has an area OF one mile a
a population of l40 1t has exist
since l64S, and is recognized by b'
VINO Spain and France. 1t is situated on
met fiat top of a mountain in the Pyrent
'ort 1t has president, who is elected by
'seu council of twelve.
'ett Over 100000 acres of land are devo
am to the cultivation of tobacco i'll the wo
William Badenhop, farmer at Nici
son. O., drank glass of carbolie acid
10 whisky and died.
"" An order has been issued Forbid
.r visitors boarding war-ships at the Bro
mod Ign navy yard.
Gen. Blanco is doing all he can to
''''' press hostile feelings toward Amerlc
by the people of Cuba.
he Lieut.. Hobson has been advanced TO
, Grade of naval constructor without
.;on dergoing an examination.
.,o,r A formidable British fleet is assemb
, 70 at Wei Hai-Wei to support the dema
of the British minister in China.