The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


beds and the coal area is said to be
larger than that of Pennsylvania.
A Scottish highlander who owns a
sheep farm in the mountainous dis
trict of California is in the habit of
almost daily playing his bagpipes all
over the ground. The skirling has
had the happy effect of soaring eagles
out of the locality, in which birds
of prey had formerly done consider
able damage by carrying off lambs.
In each bee hive are number of
nursing bees, who do not go out to
gather honey, but look after their
eggs and young, and a certain lot are
always told off to ventilate the hive
These stand close to the entrance
and fan strongly with their wings.
The farmers Of the San Joaquin val
ley in California utilize the largest
machines in the world for harvest.
ing and thrashing thcic wlcat crops.
These machines are combined har-
yesters, that cut, thrash, clean, sack
and dump the grain on Tie ground
ready to be stored. The traction
engines which operates them are Of
fifty horse power.
A crow hatchery, the only one in
the world, has been established at
Brookvil1e, Pa. The crows eggs are
hatched in an incubator, and when
the birds are eight weeks old they
are guillotined. The heads sell for
25 cents each, and are used as adorn-
ments for bonnets.
An implement to be added to the
soldiers kit, which can be used as
spade, pick-ax or saw, and also as n
shield protection from bullets, has
been invented by the Earl Of We
myss. 1t is said that the contrivance
is to be adopted by the British army.
A single firm of chair makers in
Buckinghamshire, England, will turn
out many gross weekly. Five thous-
anu Wtlt liduc lol ZIG AlSAdHut
palace in six days; 5000 for the Cry
tai palace. The record order is 10000
chairs finished and delivered within
few weeks to the order of Moody
and Sankey.
Angry Politician-See here, I've a
good notion to have you arrested for
libel. What do you mean by pic
turing me as you have? Cartoonist
But the pictures look like you. An
CRY Politician know it does.
know it does. But do l look like
man who likes to look at HIMSELF
Baltimore American.
Aluminium has been one of the com
ing metals for long time, but at
last it has arrived. 1t is now get
| ting largely into the arts and utili-
ties. It's range is all the way from
Il picture frame to a frying pan.
A recent traveller in South Africa
tells of Benedictine nuns who have
undertaken not only to build their
houses, but even to the manufacture
of their bricks. These devoted women
have already made over 100000 bricks
with their own hands.
j. M. Barrie's story of how tele
graph editor received a dispatch that
the Zulust, had taken umbrage,'
headed the news Capture of Um
bragg by the Zulus," had taken um
BRACE" headed in the west. Shortly
after the anti-Semitic riots in Aus
tria, slight shock of earthquake was
felt in the vicinity of Vienna, and q
cable dispatch put it tersely that
there had been Seismic disturb
ances" near the capital. He head
ed the item "Down with the Jews -
The Argonaut.
The police officials of Salina, Kan
sas, were made the victims of a sense
less hoax one day last week, when q
stranger called at headquarters and
related circumstantial story O1
how he had been robbed of forty
dollar bill. Every policeman ir
town was furnished with description
of the alleged thief, and a whole day
was spent in looking for him before il
dawned upon any of the sleuths that
there was not such thing as q
forty-dollar bill. By this time the
joker had disappeared from Salina
Pearls are being found in great
quantities in the Black river and st
Francis rivers, in southwest Missouri
A Pouular Bluff fisherman found the
first gem in an ordinary mussel which
he picked up on a shoal in Blacl
river. He sold the gem to st
Louis jeweler for $125, and since ther
hundreds of people have flocked tt
the river to engage in pearl fishing
Many valuable gems have been found
Ptomaines are the products of pu
trefaction. They are alike developed
in the putrefaction of vegetables ant
animal matter All ptomaineS are no