Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-02
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Ga, in Argyle. is possessed OF tho
shortest name in Great Britain.
The population Of the island OF BON.
bay is twice that Of Scotland and Ire
land.
The number Of cattle destroyed by
wild beasts In India last year exceeded
$4,000
The best cork comes from Algeria
There are 100000 acres of cork forest
In that country.
In the army OF the Haltlen republic
chairs are provided for the use OF sen
tries while on duty.
A caterpillar In the course of a
month will devour six hundred times
its own weight In food.
During the last three years $3.50
ex-soldiers have found permanent EN-
ployment in Great Britain.
The largest flour mill In the British
empire is in Montreal. II turns out
5000 barrels Of flour day.
While grass will not grow in certain
parts of Africa, these localities are the
richest in towering plants.
A shop in strasburg, called THE
Sign of the Stag" has been occupied
as a chemists buiness for 700 years.
At Strohbeck, Prusslan saxony,
chess is n part OF the regular school
curriculum and every boy and girl car
rios "a hoa Ri and mon
The wine cellars Of Spain are filed
with alcohol vapor, as much as half an
ounce of absolute alcohol being found
in six cubic feet of air.
The automobile has taken a strong
hold In Peru. Lima is to have a service
OF automobile omnlbuses, each design
ed to carry thirty passengers.
The richest, the most populous and
the most prosperous part Of India is
TO be found in the basins OF the Indus
the Gauges and the Lower Brahma-
putra.
Horses are cheap In South Morocco.
Recently one was sold In Mogador by
auction for Az pesetas. The animal
will be used to turn grinding stone
In a mill.
Frau Prielle, who at one time was
the most popular Of all the actresses
attached to the Royal Opera House,
BudaPesth, has gone mad, in conse-
quence, 1t is said, OF reading Edgar
Allan Poe's stories.
Tan-car trains draxvu nv nm aIactric
locomotive, are to run on the twenty
mile track between Los Angeles and
the Pacific Ocean shore. Thus the Los
Angeles Pacific Company will be able
to handle 100000 passengers daily.
The Southern Pacific Company is TO
begin the experiment OF educating its
own mechanics. Orders have been re-
ceived from headquarters to begin the
erection Of building on the railroad
grounds at Sparks, New, for the pur-
pose.
George Maybell and Ira Hoeye, once
friends and partners In business, met
In the street In Fresno, Cal, the other
day, after not having seen each other
for twenty-five years, and at once be-
gan to fight over 50 that one owed the
other.
IL has been shown that small crys-
tails, having the luster, hardness, gray
ity and index OF refraction of diamond
can be obtained by heating In the cleo
trio are pulverlzed carbon on a spiral
OF iron WIRE the heating taking place
In hydrogen and under great pressure
300 atmospheres.
The Nome Nugget charges govern
ment officers with using illegal meth
DDS and taking advantage OF their po-
sition to possess themselves Of many
valuable claims which are obtained by
relocating. IL prints tables comparing
the number OF claims held by govern
ment omcers and their relatives or as
sistants, and those held by the lead
Ing mining and business men OF Nome
and vicinity.
Probably the first iron railroad
bridge was built on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad at Manayunk
by Richard b. Osborne. chief engineer,
In 1915. 1t was a double-track through
bridge. OF thirty-four feet clear span,
OF the Howe truss type, with cast iron
chord and web braces, the bottom
chord and vertical web members being
Of wrought iron. This bridge was fol-
lowed by several others Of the same
type-Sclentlfc American.
In the far North, and particularly
along the ocean coast, birds are fire.
quently storm driven and lose their
bearings. so that many OF them are
lost at sea. They keep floating in the
air aimlessly, striving to live. until
exhaustion compels them to drop into
the waves. which engulf them. There
10 a well authenticated case on record
OF an ocean liner bringing into New
York on a winters day a large white
owl which had dropped to one OF the
forward spars in an exhausted condi-
ton more than eight hundred miles
of the coast Of Newfoundland.
PERILS OF THE BUSY ANT.