Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-04
HERE AND THERE

A faith-healing sect in Hawaii has
just celebrated its semi-centenary.
Italian restaurants are multiplying
: in London with amazing rapidity.
A score Of people in Paris FISH in
the river for corks as a means Of
livelihood.
One Partisan earns a living by
sl1imming the sein of the grease he
finds on the surface.
A Partisan called Father Cock
roach" makes his living by ridding
houses of cockroaches.
More than five-eighths of the area
of Vienna is covered by woods, vine
yards, parks and gar lens.
The first piece of genuine mechan
ism the modern world saw, a clock,
was the invention of a Moor
The Japanese word of parting is
not so long" or see you later" but
"sayonaro"-"if 1t must be So"
A hybrid fowl, the offspring of
wild English pheasant cock and
guinea men. recently died on farm
near Palatine, N. ].
Lombard street, in London, took its
name from the Lombard merchants
who, coming from the Italian republics
of Genoa, Lucca Florence and Venice
settled in London in the reign of Ed |
ward l.
An ingenius use has been found for
the discarded wood blocks with which |
the London streets are paved Several |
toy manufacturers are now purchasing |
all these blocks which are not dam
aged in the process of being torn up
for the purpose of making cheap toys
out of them.
Intestines of sea lions are slit and
stitched together to form hooded
coats, which are superior to India
rubber as waterproof garments. Wal.
rus intestines are made into sails for
boats by the Eskimos of Northwest.
ern America.
The chemist Laudn. in Sweden,
has discovered a large and rich de- r
posit of uranium, and is keeping the
spot a strict secret. This radioactive
substance has been found to exist in ?
large quantities in many of
the mining districts of Portugal. >
The rife of Kit Carson. the great =
western hunter, scout and explorer is
preserved. At the time of
Kit Carson's death he left mis- rife to
Montezuma lodge A. F. and A. NJ. d
'f santa Fe, N. M, in whose charge J'
c has remained ever since. D
Japan has more than 2OOO news.
papers; ten years ago not one. Japan
'an boast of greater number of
newspapers than either Austria or 81
taly, or more than Spain and Russia "a
AIKEN together, and twice as MANY as
ire printed on the whole continent of
Asia. 10
When a native lady enters Japan- tn
se railway carriages she slips her feet ci
rom her tiny shoes, stands upon the :
eat and then sits demurely with her =
eet doubled beneath her A moment ]
i'er she lights cigarette or her little Z
lpe' which nolds just tobacco enough 4
produce two good whiffs of smoke. !
TO preserve the features of the dead i
Is proposed by Russian to embalm I
'rpses by casting AROUND them
lHa mass of glass The inventor of !
lis process hopes that some dav ve 4
III have a large museum filed with
ie perfectly preserved bodies of the ]
eat men Of their time for future I
'nerations to gaze upon.
Norway has established a state ]
orhlngman's bank, which is to loan I
oney at low interest for the MIR. 4
ase OF workingmens homesteads of
&c ana quarter to five acres and ]
{ erection OF houses thereon AZ q Z
81 not to exceed $S04. The interast
a'se Is three and one-half or four :
Oe"'' ana the refunding is to occu. i
'ty-two years. ]
Unul forty years ago an English
Oh was practically unknown in I
pan the only foreign literature
'dled was the Chinese. and the erst
isuage to be taught in the schools -
S Dutch, Now, while English is The -
st common among the people and r.
studied by all the high school puniIs I
rman and French are favored cen.
lily by scholars and physicians !
ne Onerokee Advocate is one of I f,
Oldest aud most remarkable news.
'ers IN the United States. It is the
''a' organ OF the Cherokee nation I
Is published at TahleQuah at the 1
IONS expense. 1t is a hve-coumn
o weekly half OF which Is printad I