Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-01-21
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throughout the world about
cent OF people gain their Twin, A.. pei
ly from the sea. eC'
Paris has one acre OF park for or.
nrteen persons; Liverpool, one %,
cry one thousand. W
Rome has a water SUNNY -, a..
100000 gallons a day; London ~
1oo'oOO'OOO, and Paris 90,OOO,OO0
The children of the poor in Inv.
are nearly always labeled, in case tho-
should stray away from their bon,n,
while their mothers are engaged on do
nestle duties. wv
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton had n.
nrst ice cream in the city of Wasb,rn
ton. She used to tell with amuseman,
of the delight with which Preside.
Andrew Jackson first tasted 1t
Dealers In charcoal in Havana a..
said never to have yellow fever. wb,,a
In lay circles 1t is advised ALWAYS n
have it about during its prevalence
because of its absorbing properties !,
Is presumed.
Near the famous Stony Cave, in thu
Catskills, there Is a smaller cave IN
which ice exists all the year round
This locality is locally known Az tho
Notch, and Is walled in on all sides hv
steep mountains, some of which ara
more than three thousand feet high
In Denmark there are companies
which insure women who have fear
OF becoming old maids. They nav
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. It Ia
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 a grade fifty feet
lower.
In 1889 Harriet Martineau visited
the United States, and reported seven
occupations only open to women
teaching needlework, keeping board.
ers, working In the factories, typeset-
ting, bookkeeping and household ser
vice. Now there are about four hun
dred occupations in which women are
employed.
Professor Mohn of Christiania hav.
ing discovered that at the Lofoten Isl.
ands cod are invariably to be found In
waters whose temperature Is always
between four and Eve degrees above
the freezing point, Norwegian fisher
men now make use Of the THERMOMETERS
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 1t. A
looking glass put up where the birds
can see themselves in 1t Is also very
attractive, while a combination OF a
musical box and looking glass please
the birds more than anything else one
could put out for their amusement
Physicists have concluded that the
earth in its motion does not drag the
ether along with it, and thus each body
on the earth's surface, in virtue OF I'D
motion with the earth, Is traversed Dy
a stream Of ether. The question thus
arises Does light travel through sucn
! a body with the same speed along tne
stream Of ether as 1t does against 1T OF
across it2 The experiments Of Michel'
son and Morley in America lead to an
Affirmative answer for air. Lord Kay
leigh, in England, has obtained uho
same answer as to liquids, and is no"
engaged on a research in respect
the phenomena relating to solids.
Man or Mountain.
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