The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-05-05
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New York has German population
Of 100000 and Chicago has 100000.
The twenty-five largest London the
atcrs seat 2S.60O people and earn $780,
600 a night
England gets about s5.0oo,0oo worth
Of now gold from Africa every month
and $7,500,0O0 worth out of Australia
Miss Vida Goldstein. the woman
candidate In Victoria for a seat in the
Commonwealth Senate. was not elect
ed, but she received 81 900 votes.
The annual loss from the burning of
buildings in the United States is about
$135. 100000. not including cost of in
surance and the appliances for fire pro-
lection.
A bore put down at Cessnock, near
Maitland, in New South Wales, recent
ly penetrated, at depth of 260 feet.
seam of coal twenty-seven feet in
thickness.
In a divinity essay written by an
English schoolboy appeared the follow
ing passage: 80 he sed unto Moses.
Come forth; but become fifth and lost |
the jobb- Moral, Git up urly."
Mr.. Chamberlain is said TO be re-
markably proficient political stage
manager. approaching and knowing
the value OF dramatic entrance quite
as well as Sir Henry Irving or Mr.
Beerbohm Tree.
tod 81, Z, |
of dust elected from the Soufriere vol
cano in st. Vincent have fallen on the
island of Barbados The dust, contrary
to expectation. has been found TO have /:
no fertilizing value.
Public revenue of Great Britain
from April 1. 1903, to the latest date I
at hand amounted to s227. $40. 765. de- 1
crease of $3S.O04. 795 from last year. G
were $500. 73S. 2o5. a fall /
ing on of S191. 714.365 from last year. I
The value of exports to the United L
States from Panama In the fiscal year q
1908 amounted to s19S.342, of which c
$50. 767 was the value of hides, S49.- e
IA India rubber. s27,sO5 cocobolo nuts. q
I16.59s ivory nuts. s13.372 deer skins tt
md $6.9oS coffee s.
Photographic records of Emperor IL
Williams voice. on metal matrices, .
phonetic archives that are to be kept a.
L Harvard University. and in the Con- u
,ressional Library and the National Il
duseum at Washington. y"
The Russian government has elabor-
ted statutes on general life insurance -
y the state. The business Is to be -
ntrusted to the governmental savings -
anks. All kinds of policies will be y,
sued and the insured will participate ~
4 the profits of the business. -
Cobra George Salem. an Egyptian, an
Tho entered the Missouri University ~
,st fall and is taking the four-year 90
purse In agriculture. is so well pleased IN,
18th his work that he has succeeded In ~
several Of his friends In on
gypt and Turkey to come and take hr
milar course In some American col no
sc. ou
In commemoration of the Indian oy
rincess Pocahontas. who died at tho
ravesend, England, when about to fol-
I'll to Virginia with her husband In ind
;16. St Georges Church. in Mapping.
to have a pulpit made Of wood uss
ought from Virginia. Pocahontas is on
1ried in the chancel of St Georges ME
hurch. rea
The Greco Roman chariot in the tau
Museum Of Art. New sui
ork. one Of the new exhibits. has eI- TIM
ted great interest among artists and pla
Its preservation was yea
lie to the fact that it was buried by hig
e ashes Of Vesuyius. Many other bee
easures were found in the same etc
ighborhood, some of which Baron low
bought and presented to Low,
e Louvre. The chariot IL question is a J
'o-wheeled and is perhaps the rarest the
the world Sur
Feb. 10 was the centennial of the
e Of steam traction on railroads. 1t
Is only fiye-ton moving engine run
ng over the Merthyr Tydfl course %
J inventor was Richard Trevithic, a
rnishman. 1t could draw fifteen tons &c
a rate OF five miles an hour 1t had -
eightinch cylinder and toothed ''
reels. which caught in notched rails
helped 1t over hard places in the ~
ok. Only few trips were made by
for the experiment was not COM nc
rcially profitable. ~. soi
A ENT HAS DEVEl OpED FARlv tne