The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Paris latest innovation in street
lighting is OIL lamps. They are not
the sort of lamps used 100 years aga
when the cry was "aristocrats la
lanterne,'' but enormous structures
that give out 900 candle power each.
The Bible is still the most popular
of all books. During the year 1899,
the American Bible society issued
1,4O6,SOO copies in So different Ian
guages. In the 81 years of the So
ciety's existence it has issued e.
369,9O6 copies.
A sugar plantation in Cuba near
the town of Fergus, is 10000 acres in
extent. 1t employs 1,5O0 persons,
and on it there are two forts, thirty
miles of railroad belonged to the
place, three steam railroad locomo-
tives, many homes for the WA.
pie and the natives. a big sugar fac
tory and a river, which floats lighters
loaded with sugar from the plantation
docks to the ships ON the coast.
The largest grape growing region
in the world is not the champagne
district of France, nor the sunny val
ley of southern California, for west
ern New York owns the title by vir-
tue of $4,000 acres now given over
to grape culture.
fure for 1000 frances, and now it is
the property of lady, who desires
the strictest incognita to be kept, and
who paid 5000 francs for it,
Experienced patent medicine men
admit the impossibility of predicting
when the turning point will be reach
ed in booming any new remedy. The
amount sunk in exploiting two art-
cles before returns come in may vary
100000. In my opinion the name
has a great deal to do with getting
"a demand started. If it is hard to
remember or hard to pronounce it is
undoubtedly serious handicap, and,
on the contrary, Il catchy, simple title
just odd enough to stick to ones
memory, is in itself an advertisement
worth thousands of dollars.
Occasionally interesting bits of
philOlOgy come up in the police court.
Thus not long ago a farm laborer in
England was sued for damages be-
cause he had thrown up his job af-
ter accepting aries" Any good die
tionary should tell what aries are,
but not one in the court room seemed
to know about the word or the Gus
tom. In the north country speech
"arles" are earnest money, the equiv
lent or the Queens shilling" which
the recruit takes when he enlists. 1t
is supposed that the word comes
from the Norman French.-Spring.
field Republican.
Among the tales of a traveller
brought home by certain Buffalo
tourists is one which they decalre
true in every particular, of CONVEX.
ester, N. Y, overheard from neigh
boring deck chair on the steamer
Let's see," said No. /; who is the
poet laureatte now?' why, Tenny-
son." said No. 2, the we'll informed,
who knew everything. And the one
before him was-lets see; what was
his Nance No could not recall
the name instantly, but she got it at
last. "Oh, John Greenleaf Whittier.
He was the poet laureate before Ten
nyson.'-Buffalo Commercial
If there is one sight little more
frequent than all others IN the streets
of Galveston it is the section of tin
roof varying from square yard to
dozen square yards yards. If there
is roof in the city which was not
damaged it has not been reported.
For tin roofs the hurricane seems to
have had a special fondness. 1t rollei
up the fragments and deposited them
in queer places sure enough. The
houses of Galveston abound in porch
es, or verandas, or, as the popular
name here is, galleries. 1t was the
ambition of the hurricane to leave
at least one curled and battered Sec
ton of tin roofing on each gallery in
the city.-Correspondent st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.