The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-08

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Women who live in Oats in London
are hnding 1t almost Impossible to EN-
ploy servants, because they are so COM
pletely Isolated from the outside world,
At dinner given by Count Boni de
Castellane In Paris recently, dwarf
cherry trees loaded with fruit were
used for ornament and the cherries for
dessert The cherries, 1t is said, cost
"a each. The trees had been forced In
hothouses.
One OF the most frequent uses to
which the telephone Is put by French
country subscribers Is that Of an alarm
to wake them In the morning. Those
who wish to be aroused at a given hour
have only to advise the telephone ad-
ministratlon the night before Of an
hour at which they wish TO be rung
1 up.
The Land That Swings Like Ham
mock is the name given by Indians to
the territory about San Salvador, Cen
tral America. That city was entirely
destroyed by an earthquake on March
49, 1873 but the people had grown
alarmed and had deserted 1t, so only
five hundred were killed. 1t foudshes
today.
a recent careful count by a COM
potent person places the whole number
Of buffalOes living to-day at Only 1924.
Or. William T. Hornaday says 1t would
have been as easy to count the leaves
In the forest as TO calculate the num-
ber OF buffaloes living at a given time
during the history of the species pre-
vious to 1870.
The towers Of silence" are two tall
towers In Persia, so called by the Par
sees. They never bury the dead, but
leave the body exposed on the top OF
one Of these towers until the sun and
I the rain and the fowls Of the air have
cleaned the bones Of all flesh. Then
the bones are collected and placed In
the other towers.
There is no doubt the first idea of
suspension bridge was suggested to
primitive man by the interlsclng of
tree branches and parasitlcal plants
across rivers. Probably monkeys used
them before men did. In very noun
tanOus countries, such as Thlbet and
Peru, they have apparently been used
since the dawn Of history, possibly
earlier.
/ Hoboken, n. j., is the most densely
populated city In the country, having
slxty-one inhabitants to the acre. At
the opposite extreme, New Orleans has
but two to the acre. Los Angeles, Cal,
and Lynn. Mass, are oddly bracketed
as having the most park space an acre
to every twenty-eight inhabitants. Jer.
sey City has but an acre to every IL, p.
4SS inhabitants.
Boston is the richest per capita city
In the country and spends the most per
capita. IL her wealth was evenly
distributed every inhabitant would
have S1,942 worth OF property. OF
course, in aggregates New York is far
ahead of all the rest, having valua-
zion on a one hundred per cent basis
of 1875. l14,370, or enough to pay the
national debt four times over, with a
comfortable ba.AHce OF $3OO,0OO,OOO
Tacoma has the largest per capita debt
In the country, $l15.74.
1t is well-known fact that the en-
tire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the
rate Of two feet a century from Cape
Cod to Cape Hatteras. If 1t can sink
that fast, 1t certainly has no very solid
underpinning, and some day the props
may let go all at once. and where will
New York be? Vast tracts of Holland
are already far below the surface Of
he sea, and the waves are kept out
With the great dikes, and science says
that Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
I'll the southern coast of the Baltic Sea
ire sinking steadily. The entire cont
nent Of Atalanta has gone down under
he waves. Why should not other con-
tinents follow?