The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-05-14
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Tame snakes are used in Morocco TO
clear houses OF rats and mice.
A Sicllan tribunal sentenced a noted
forger to Imprisonment for $50 years.
The Seven star Inn at Manchester.
England, boasts Of having been IL
censed for $50 years.
In 1881 the London birth rate aver
aged 322 thousand. 1t steadily de-
clined TO 2S5 in 1892.
A man turns 10000 spadefuls OF
earth in digging an acre and moves In
all a weight Of $50 tons.
The Russian governments revenue
from the liquor trade this year will
reach about 35S,OOO,OO0
The Swiss Alpine Club has within
the last four years spent $4,000 in
building refuge huts on various noun
tains
Diamonds have been found recently
near Pretoria. but it is considered
doubtful whether it would pay to open
mines.
In the schools OF RhenIsh Prussia a
change OF stockings and shoes IS pro-
vided for the use in school Of children
who arrive with wet feet.
An old gentleman in Australia broke
Off the engagement between his daugh-
ter and young man because the
young man led the thirteenth trump at
whist
Taxes are paid on 5000 dogs In Ber-
lin. In addition to these there are
2,163 dogs. 22l belonging to blind and
deaf people. 2,65l used for drawing
small carts and us belonging to the
Kaiser.
Don't bury NE on Thursday were
the dying words Of John Penn, an Eng
lish member OF Parliament There Is
a little girl opposite who Is going to be
married on that day. and 1t would be
grewsOme."
The smallest conscript. at the latest
drawing for service in the French
army. was Joannes Chabaud, OF Yer
piIliere. His height Is two feet eleven
inches and he weighs sixty seven and
one-half pounds. HIS age IS twenty
one.
There are at present over 100000
Jews in Russia. 1t Is estimated that
since the Laws OF May" more than
10000 OF them have been driven out
OF the villages and compelled to In |
crease the oYercrovdlaS in the ghettos |
Of the city.
The archlYist Of Montecassino has |
just discovered in that famous abbey /
a parchment containing historical mat /
ter Of Importance hitherto unknown.
and bearing upon the period Of the
struggle between Gregory VII. and |
Henry ".
According 10 statistics compiled in
Havana, Cuba exported baied leaf to
bacco 10 the value OF $l2.OOOOJO and
cigars to the same value. America took
more than onehaIf Of the tobacco In
bales, and received less than one
fourth Of the cigars.
The London Daily News wants TO
know whether the Napoleon statue in
Washington will represent the Corsl.
can In his uniform as a general Of the
republic or in the uniform he designed
for himself when the pear was ripe"
and he overturned the republic in 1894.
japanese postage stamps are rated
as the most artistic in the world.
There is q great demand for them in
London at present The first stamps
were issued in 1871. There are few
rare ones, the highest price ever
known to have been paid for one being
$50.
The japanese women are as active
and strong as the men. An English
writer on physical culture suggests
that this may account for the Jap's
courage In war. After he has settled
Slls domestic problems with a wife a.
muscular and agile az himself war
has no terrors for him.
Boston. Mass, Is called the City n,
Notions from the amount Of Yankeo
notions manufactured there. The citv
was nrst called the Hub Of the Uni.
verse By oliver Wendell Holmes. who
WiShed to convey the idea that the