Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-02-10
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South Africa is to enter rres
making world it having bss. IS Il
that kind Of grass which 49, b P;
makes an excellent grade ofpss.. con
lsh manufacturers are alreads 4. for
up mills there.
The South American negroas ~
queer way of decorating Tie ns' GU
their dead friends 1t is fha 80
down there to make q bords 90
the grave Of the medicine ho,4s. :"
during the dead ones last nina. :,
A blind man named Green X. Is q
curious defense at Briminehsm SeeC
land, to charge Of smashlno
glass window worth Els. Ia ~
blind, he said, for seven ye,r =
the night in question, he cried 4. s.
Sistance to cross the road. but +. ear
came. Then he heard some Al. md
distance and struck at what Sc,
when he could see, TO be board 0OO
rounding waste ground he Va, +. mr.
lshed when he heard the WA. OOO
broken glass. The jury acquitted OO OC
and he was discharged. mr.
Near Pontefract, France ,. gre
banker who has a museum Of Old AZ ON
They are from old houses castle 10 Q
abbeys that have some historic M AL
est Quite lately he bid $1,000 Il 81 ling
for the door through which durlnr WI
French revolution, Marie Antoine ~
Charlotte COrday, Danton and RI, Of
spierre passed to the guiIlotine Pee
Of his doors is said to have shut
Charles IL. from his Roundhesd ia
Duers, and 1t bears marks Of b.l g,
ing ram. A collection Of ancient VIZ z
ercocks is also one Of this mans :,
sessions.
A feature Of low street life IN IA - 70
is the "kuisha," or moxa doctor tiol
applies small pads, made Of ced ist'
dried herbs, to the skin, then sslt.
them alight, the ensuing blisten 81 :.
supposed to be most effective asau
for various ailments. Among tie
tors remedies, too, are rhinocero
warranted a sure cure for tighmen
the chest, crashing of the teeth
depression Of spirits, and "furidas
popular remedy for coughs and g
which Is said to expel the devils
promote circulation; while musk
are prescribed as an infallible cure
every Ill. from a red nose to sela
ness. III
An engineer named Knorr, G. hil'
man who has become a natural tV
Russian, built four of the great brde az :
on the Trans-Siberian railway, lnaa a. :
ing the big Yenisel and Obi bridge mc
which cost, respectively, $2,S5OOOO "a ID
100000. They were great engines aria
ing feats, and brought him internals 90 e
al fame in his profession. But he va
pursued by a curious fatality. vii ~ 81
er in ''T. A. T." says: He bad ll
daughters, who were famous In Rus "a {
for their beauty, and whom be Ove for
dearly. Just after his first bridge VA able
completed one Of them died; and E7
each of his three succeeding bridge 49,
was built, another died. BE would m =
build fifth bridge. it
Discipline is severe in the Gemn ped
army, and the treatment Of private ~
Is sometimes unjustifable. At Desar i a,
a sergeant who had been drinking ic 9
excess insulted two young women W. Fan
were escorted by a couple Of men
the ranks. The privates protested Z on ~,
the minor officer, who drew his sword -
and attacked Them in his drunkenns IS
wounding one of the girls. In the q
fray which followed the sergeant
disarmed and felled to the floor.
three were put on trial. The sergea
was sentenced to prison for avg
months, while the unfortunate private
were condemned to Eve years behna
the bar at hard labor, were dismis
rom the service and were depr
Of their civil rights. Service as 4 n p 5
vate in an army so regulated canno1
a cause Of pride in time Of peace.
ParkmGn's Deed OF Justice 10
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