The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1904-11-24

All the soldiers In the army Of Ar
gentena are forced to play football.
10 Is said to train them to bear the
hardships Of battle.
The iiIpeIial canal In China IL the
longest In the world and connects no
fewer than IL cities IN the course OF
It's 800 miles.
ot all the bugs the potato long ~
one tie Guatemalan ant will not par
take OF. The art will eat erassbop-
pcrs and most other insects.
The hygiene institute OF Hamburg
claims to have discovered a serum for
hay fever which has already cured
over u hupdred eases
The most powerful dredge in the
/ world is thai used by the Susquchan-
ma Iron company at Buffalo to dig 4
through solid rock an inland harboI. /
The criminal code OF China has
been revised and 'slicing 10 death"
/ has Deen done away with. II Is said I
/ that all forms Of torture will soon be
abolished.
/ Satan owns In fee simple one land
ed estate IN Finland IL having been
wIlled to bin by Is deceased owner,
Lara IIuilarienc. Repeated attempts
to break the will have failed.
The eye OF jcllyiIsh Is SO primitive
that we can hardly say whether 1t
sees or feels. That Is, when float
ing jellyllsh begins TO sink below the
surface OF the water as the shadow Of
an advancing ship falls upon 1t, 1t
Is probably affected by the sensation
OF darkness, but perhaps the pressure
OF the onrushlng wave has something
to do with 1t.
American railways handle about
si2 900 900, eco worth Of grain a year.
There are 800 American education
al and philanthro institutions In
the Turkish empire.
More than one third of this
] countfy's export trade has been In
! the two great crops wheat and cot
I ton,
One hundred million bushels Of
grain are sent every year to the mills
Of Duluth and Minneapolis.
In 1896 American immigration into
2 Canada amounted to only "A people,
. and In 1903 Ii amounted to 1880
: people.
Near Bombay city there Is sewage
. farm septic tank SYSTEM which
2 yields 10 tons OF grass and vegetables
Q an acre.
2 Canada IL capable OF furnishing
. more than the 200, 900, 900 bushels OF
= wheat which Britain has to import
= every year.
- The Chinese government is to re-
n ceive f300 thousand for all the
Chinese coolies shipped to the South
African mines.
A Danish electrician named Paul
sen Is credited with having success
fully attempted u curious feat. II
Is said that he has been able to OPP
crate the keyboard of u typewriter al
Liza distance without any visible con
nectlon between II and the instru
3 ment at hand. 1t Is added that h,
has also discovered "A new kind OF
"elcctric wave whose existence ha.
l been suspected, but which has nevel
4 until now been revealed.
The French psychologist Fcre ha'
made experiments which show that
l the process of digestion diminishe'
the capacity for muscular work full,
one half As regards the effects o
stimulants like tobacco add alcohol
he has found that while they dinin
lsh fatigue, the effect never last
more than 10 minutes and Is followe,
by IA greater degree of fatigue than
would have existed II they had no
been INDUCED In.
The deepest sounding ever mad,
by any vessel was by the Unitet
States ship Nero while on the Homo
i lulu.Manih cable survey with appar
atus borrowed from the Albatrss
When near Guam the Nero got 5, ~
fath0ms, or 3,6lt feet, only 90 fee
less than six miles. Ii Mount Ever
- est, the highest mountain on earth
were set down Ia this hole 1t wou
have above its summit depth @
2,6is feet, or nearly half a mile c
Us water