Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-21
QUEER SToRpB

Throughout the world about 3 per
/ cent of people gain their living direct
ly from the sea.
Paris has one acre OF park for every
fifteen persons; Liverpool, one for ev-
cry one thousand.
Rome has water supply of 200
100000 gallons a day; London only
16O,0O0,0OO. and Paris 90,0000O0.
The children of the poor in Japan
are nearly always labeled, in case they
should stray away from their homes
while their mothers are engaged on do
nestle duties.
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton had the
first ice cream in the city of Washing
ton. She used to tell with amusement
of the delight with which President
Andrew Jackson first tasted it.
Dealers in charcoal in Havana are
said never to have yellow fever, while
in lay circles it is advised always to
have it about during its prevalence
because of its absorbing properties, it
is presumed.
Near the famous Stony Cave, in the
Catskills, there is a smaller cave in
which ice exists all the year round.
This locality is locally known as the
Notch, and is walled in on all sides by
steep mountains, some of which are
more than three thousand feet high.
In Denmark there are companies
which insure women who have fear
of becoming old maids. They pay
stated sums every year. and should
they marry before they are 40, what
they have paid in goes to the less for
tunate. After they are 40, they re
ceive pensions for life.
Havana's bread carts are usually two
legged; that is, bread is carried about
the streets in large, shallow baskets,
borne on top of mems heads. 1t is
served in sticks as long as a baseball
bat, or in small loaves or pones. one of
which is supposed to serve for the
morning meal of an ordinary citizen.
The most crooked railway in the
world is one from Boswell to Friedens,
Pa, the airline distance being five
miles. The road doubles on itself four
times, and at one point, after making
a loop Of about five miles. the road
comes back to within three hundred
feet of itself on grade fifty feet
lower.
In 1889 Harriet Martineau visited
the United States, and reported seven
occupations only open to women
teaching. needlework, keeping board
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ting, bookkeeping and household SER
vice. Now there are about four hun
dred occupations in which women are
employed.
Professor Mohn of Christiania hay
ing discovered that at the Lofoten ISL
ands cod are invariably to be found in
waters whose temperature Is always
between four and five degrees above
the freezing point, Norwegian fisher
men now make use of the thermometer
as recognized means of detecting the
presence of the fish.
A scientist once put an automatic
music-box on the lawn and spent many
hours watching the robins, blue tits
and other birds gathering about it. A
look1ng-glasS put up where the birds
can see themselves in 1t is also very
attractive, while a combination of a
musical box and a looking glass please
the birds more than anything else one
could put out for their amusement.
Physicists have concluded that the
earth in It's motion does not drag the
ether along with it, and thus each body
on the earth's surface, in virtue of its
motion with the earth, is traversed by
q stream of ether. The question thus
arises: Does light travel through such
a body with the same speed along the
stream Of ether as it does against it or
across it? The experiments of Michel
son and Morley in America lead to an
Affirmative answer for air. Lord Ray
leigh, in England, has obtained the
same answer as to liquids, and is now
engaged on a research in respect to
the phenomena relating to solids.
Man or Mountain.
Clifford b. Hildreth is the proprietor