Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-14

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The thinnest and toughest leather
Is made from frogs skin.
Out Of every one thousand letters
used in writing English E occurs 1871
times. T is the next most frequently
used.
Yellow Is far the most permanent
Of any color In flowers. 1t is the only
one not affected by sulphurous acid
fumes
In Italy you can tell where tie
peasant women come from ~ ~ S.-e
Of their earrings. The southerntis
wear the longest.
Neither in France nor in AusiIia
are children ever permitted to be re-
ceived into warehouses;. They are
boarded out with peasant families.
The highest clouds reach ten miles
above our heads. They are the white,
feathery forms which We see on a
clear day. Although apparently mo-
tionless, they travel from seventy five
to ninety miles an hour.
Certain butterflies have marked
doors, some good, some bad. DR.. Il. A.
tDixey, British entomologist, men,
tons white butterfly of England
that has the fragrant scent of lemon
verbena, and has noted many species
In Africa with such OdOrs as those of
chocolate, vanilla and various flowers.
The agreeable Odors belong to males,
being charm to attract females. The
offensive odors, shared by both sexes,
are protective, repelling enemies.
There is being exhibited IN Liver.
pool prodiglous egg, that of tall,
figbtIess bird-the EpyOrnis maxi.
mus-which formerly Inhabited the
island of Madagascar. The eggs of
this immense creature are nearly a
yard In circumference and a foot In
length, and their cubical contents.
roughly speaking, are equal to six os.
trich eggs, or $50 hens eggs, or sixty
thousand humming birds eggs, or two
gallons of water. The market price
ranges from f35 to EGO, only twenty
known specimens being in existence.
Having personally eaten some hun.
dreds of species Of caterpillars," says
NJ. Dagin, French entOmologist,
raw, broiled, boiled, fried, roasted
and hashed, find most of these pleas
ant to taste, light and digestible." But
tile despised cockroach of our kitchen
IL what NJ. Dagin wakes most en-.
tl;usiastic over. POUNDED In a NOR.
tar, put through a sieve and poured
into beef stock, these creatures make
a soup preferable to bisque." Never.
thciess, Chinese proverb runs to the
effect, "If your stomach is delicate,
abstain from the cockroach!"
The tortoise is great sleeper. One
was a domestic pet in an English
house, and when his time for hiber.
mating came he selected a corner OF
the dim coal cellar for his winter
quarters. A new cook was engaged
soon after who knew nothing of tor.
toises. In few months the tortoise
woke up and sailed forth. Screams
soon broke the kitchens calm. On
entering that department the lady Of
the house found the cook gazing In
awestruck wonder, and exclaiming, as
with unsteady hand she pointed to
tue tortoise: "My conscience! Look
at the stone which I've broken the
coal wi a. winter!"
At the cuose of a banquet given by
the Maharajah of Gwailor to the
Prince of Wales a centerpiece in the
form of a temple and decorated with
electric lamps and flowers was hoist.
cd to the ceiling by pulleys, and re
vealed perfect model railway on the
table underneath. The locomotive and
train was eight feet long, and car.
ried decanters, cigars, cigarettes and
matches. The train was started by
closing an electrical circuit. AS long
as this was closed by spring the
train moved, but the lifting of a de.
canter or box of cigars resting on the
spring allowed 1t to act, thus breaking
the circuit and stopping the train.