Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-11-02
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/ 1t Is said that American tourist
r spend million dollars day in Eu
rope
Two OF the big department stores Of
: Chicago are now owned and controlled
; by women.
Fully one-third of the land In Great
Britain Is owned by members of the
House Of Lords.
All males who sell newspapers in
the streets Of Moscow are compelled
to appear In uniform.
The dolphin Is the swiftest fish. For
short distances 1t can swim at the rate
OF twenty-five miles an hour.
Not every one knows what flower is
meant by the pimpernel in the famous
lines:
The white lake blossom fell into the lake,
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea.
Every year a layer Of the entire sea,
fourteen feet thick, Is taken up into
the clouds; the winds bear their bur-
den into the land, and the water comes
down in rain upon the fields, to flow
back through rivers.
Plants with white blossoms have a
larger proportion Of fragrant species
than any others; next comes red then
yellow and blue; after which and in
the same order, may be reckoned vio-
let green, orange, brown and black.
A typical South African household,
described by Olive Schreiner, had an
English father, a half Dutch mother |
with French name, a Scotch gov
erness, Zulu cook, Hottentot house
maid and Kafiir stable boy, while
the little girl who waited at table was
a Basuto.
1t Is pretty English wild flower Of
the primrose family. and commonly
known as poor mans weather glass"
because its petals are so sensitive to
that they droop before the
coming rain. Garden burnet is some
times confounded with this English
plant, because it is called by the
French "pimpernele." But the pim-
oernel which "dozed on the lea" is
slightly poisonous, acrid plant, not at
III suitable in a salad.
The battle of the herrings was the
'omlcal name given to a fight between
IN English force and French de-
achment not far from Orleans in 1929.
The English were conveying large
uantity Of supplies, mainly herrings,
or 1t was Lent, to the army that was t
esieg1ng Orleans. The English had v
lXteen hundred men, the French six
housand. The former repulsed the
ssailants and saved the herrings. % 3
he battle was named in honor of the
upplies. a
A mementO of the kaiser's recent
lslt to Morocco is splendid full 81
lood negro Of gigantic stature whom III
lie Emperor brought home with MIN
ON Tangier. The negro was selected
'r the Imperial Guards on account Of ?
s great size. "Othello" was desienat- AZ it
as tambourine player, but as he had
zen used to flowing Arab attire. he
~" ~'N's W .iC luUIt, ana StlIl
orse to his jinglng hand instrument. ha
lth which he publicly raped the co
ndmaster on the head during his
st performance. The Moor has now tol
en- withdrawn from the band. and br
Emperor is pondering what to do sic
tn his black diamond
Some recently invented chrono- AS
Geographic cameras by Lucien Ball "n'
Paris take successive pictures at
es Of from one thousand to two on
'usand per second. The source of ~!
ut is the spark of an induction coil INA
fch. 1t is calculated. endures only a'e
)ut one twomillionth of a second
that with improved mechanism the T,
'cessive images could be taken at n lear
more rapid rate than is now en- siap
yed. Six hundred images per sec Cart
|, however, suffice to show clearly ton
moving wings of a dragon-fy. and men! men
h eleven hundred or twelve hum suri,
q images per second, sharp pictures m, ,ah
e been obtained of bees and house and
) in flight .op
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