Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-11-11
QufER SToRlES

Dresden has an odd institution, q
municipal newspaper, not like New
York's City Record. but a real journal
printing the news of the day. 1t was
bequeathed to Dresden by DR.. Cunt.
1t has large circulation and is the
chief advertising medium Of the neigh
borhood. Its profits are applied to
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 to
Continental markets. He has besides
a standing order for all the humble
bees he can collect In autumn for ex-
portation to New Zealand. They fer
tilize 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 to inter-
fere. A correspondent of the London
Mail writes that mo English need ap-
ply is common addendum to adver-
tisements In Canada. He attributes
1t to the Yankee leaven" in the Ca
madam population. Probably the rea-
son is a certain lack OF. adaptabiity in
the English character, as compared
with the colonial or the American.
The first electric tramway built in
Japan was the line, eight miles In
length, which was opened in Kioto in
1895. Since then other cities OF i'm
portance have built electric tramways,
and there are now seventeen compa-
MES with an aggregate capital of 49,
100000 yen ($1S,O00,000), whose lines
already opened aggregate 100 miles,
with eighty-fve miles more building.
Most of these companies have not yet
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
Of not less than 10 per cent
A rather curious explanation of the
Irish names among the negroes of the
West Indies does exist Some years
ago a vessel with Irish sailors on
board put into q West Indian port
and boatload of negroes came out to
meet 1t. The sailors were amazed to
hear the negroes talking to each other
In the ancient Gaelic tongue Where
did they acquire the language? The
natural conjecture, of course, was that
the Irish language was taken to the
West Indies by the thousands Of Irish
men and Irish women who were BAN
ished to the West Indies by Cromwell
and sold as slaves to the planters
there. These We're sent chiefly from
guage of the people at the time. That
the exiles left their names and lam
guage in the West India islands In
which they were settled is a probable
theory enough.
In some parts of Europe and Asia
there Is peculiar custom of sailing
newborn babies, according to the Dun
dee Advertiser. When baby is born
among the Armenians of Russia the
nurse takes the infant and covers the
entire skin with very fine salt. This
salt Is left on the baby for three hours
or more, and then the child IL washed
with warm water. In Asia Minor
there Is tribe Of people living in the
mountains who do even worse than
this. They salt their newborn babies
and leave the salt on them for twenty
four hours. The modern Greeks sprin-
kle salt on their babies. This practice
OF sailing babies is an ancient custom.
1t has its rise in superstitution. Of
course. The mothers think that salt
ing insures their children's health and
strength, and that it will keep evil
spirits away from them. Even In
some parts of Germany salt is still
used on the child at birth.