The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-11-11
AytER SIoNltS

Dresden has an odd institution. q
municipal newspaper. not like New
York's City Record. but q real journal
printing the news Of the day. II was
beQueathed to Dresden by DF. Cunt.
II has q large circulation and IL the
chief advertising medium OF the neigh
borhood Its profits are applied 70
Identifying the city and to charity.
Upon the southern slope Of a ridge
OF hills not far from London an old
man makes a slender living catching
and feeding snails. which he sends 10
Continental markets He has besidea
4 standing order for all the humble
bees he can collect In autumn for ex-
portatiOn to Kew Zealand They fer
ttlizs the clover blossoms In that
South Sea island
The Canadians are said to be more
British than the English themselves.
So they are doubtless in political sen.
timent but In matters OF business
that feeling is never allowed 70 inter
rere. A correspondent OF the London
Mail writes that mo English need ap-
ply" Is = common addendum 10 adver-
usements In Canada. He attributes
Il to the Yankee heaven" Ia the Ca.
madam population. Probably the rea-
son Is certain lack OF adaptability in
the English character, as compared
with the colonial or the American.
The nrst electric tramway built In
Japan was che line, eight miles Ia
length. which was opened In Kloto In
1895, Since then other cities VI Inn
portanes have built electric tramwayS,
and there are now seventeen eOmpA-
MES with an aggregate capital Of 49,
100000 zen Gls.OOO.OOOl. whose liues
already opened aggregate 100 miles.
with eighty ave miles more building.
Most Of these companies have not yet
a very profitable business. but that
the PROFITS will be large Is indicated
by the fact that the electric tramways
Of Toxic already pay annual dividends
" not less than 10 per cent.
A rather curious explaua ton OF the
Irish names among the negroes ot the
West indies does exist Some years
ago a vessel with Irish sailors on
board put into a West Indian port
and boatload Of negroes came out 10
meet H. The sailors were amazed to
hear the negroes talking 10 each other
In the ancient Gaelic tongue Where
did they acquire the language1 The
natural conjecture, Of course. was that
the Irish language was taken 10 the
West indies by the thousands OF lrtah
men and Irish women who were ban.
lshed to the West Indies by Cromwell
and sold as slaves to the planters
there. These were sent chiefly from
ConnRuEht. where Irish was the Ian
guags OF the people at the time. That
the eIiles left their names and Ian
guags In the West India Islands in
which they were settled L. a prObabls
theory enough
In some parts Of Europe and Asia
there Il = peculiar custom Of aaltinR
new born babies. according to the Dun
dee Advertiser. When a baby IL born
among the Armsniana OF Russia the
nurse takes the infant and covers the
entire skin with very hns salt. This
salt ls left on the baby for three hours
or more. and then the child 10 washed
with warm water In Asia Minor
there Is a tribe OF people living Ia the
mountains who do even worse than
this. They salt their new born babies
and Leave the salt on them for twenty.
four hours. The modern Greeks sprin-
kla salt on their babies. This practice
Of sailing babies Ia an ancient custom.
II has lts rise In superstltutiou. Of
course The mothers think that salt
Ing lnsures their chlldron's health and
strength and that Il will keep evil
spirits away from them. Even In
some parts OF Germany salt IA stu
used on the child at birth.