The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-03-09
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The town Of Lovelocks, in Nevada,
ran SO short of fuel one day that resi-
dents had to pull down some of their
buildings and burn the materials. The
mercury was 80 degrees below.
The heat developed by the firing of
heavy guns is remarkable. During
some recent tests a gun that had been
fred seventy-five times melted solder
placed upon the case, indicating
temperature of 900 degrees #.
The longest bridge in the world is
that crossing the Danube, at Czerna-
voda, with length of 12,7O5 feet; fol-
lowed next by the Galveston bay bridge
In Texas, with II, 1877 feet. The Firth
of Forth bridge, near Queenspring, in
Scotland, ranks eighth, and the Brook
Ign bridge ninth. The worlds three
largest bridge spans are those Of the
Niagara bridge, the Rhine bridge near
Bonn, and the Rhine bridge near Dus-
seldorf.
Making little wire cages for grass
hoppers is regular business in Italy.
The insect Is regarded as lucky, and
If one can be kept alive in the cage
for month 1t Is believed that the year
will be prosperous. The superstition
arose from this incident A cardinal
of the Medici family invited a bishop
to dine with him in his garden. The
cardinal handed the bishop glass of
wine. A grasshopper fell from tree
into the wine, and the bishop did not
drink 1t. The wine was afterwards
found to have been poisoned.
The woodcock has been known to
carry away her young when threaten
ed with danger. She places them on
her spread feet, pressing them between
the toes and the breast. A naturalist
says many woodcocks also carry theil
young down to marshy grounds in the
evening, returning before dawn. In
fact, they have no means of feeding
their young except by carrying then
to their food, for they cannot convey
their food to them. The nests are
usually in dry, heathery woods, ant
the young birds require plenty Of mois
ture.
There Is a law on the statute book
Of England designed for the protection
Of the prosecuted male sex which NJ
man has ever had the courage to in
woke. 1t was passed during the reigI
of Queen Elizabeth, when Parliamen
solemnly enacted that "any woman
who, from that date would deceive O.
cajole into matrimony any of the sub
jects Of her majesty, by the use o
false hair or any other thing false il
connection with her body, or by tn
use Of paints or cosmetics, would b.
punished as for fraud and deceit, witt
intent to cause HARM"
A remarkable story of life saving b,
a dog Is told at Innsbruck. Two per
sons were ascending Mount Stipc
which has an, altitude OF about 6,1O
feet. Near the top a dog attracte,
their attention by his plaintive erie
and his obvious efforts to induce Their
to follow him. The two travellers too
the road indicated by the dog. TIL
animal kept in front, and led ther
to a narrow ravine, at the bottom O
which they found Herr Bugoot, profes
sor In the Lycee Of Lubbock, lying dar
geroasly injured by a fall Will
searching for neurological specimens
Both legs were fractured.
A Frenchman found way of beat
ing the game at Monte Carlo. He wen
to a roulette table and threw dow
upon the red $3.50 in notes pinne
together. Black turned up, but befor
the croupier could gather in the note
the Frenchman snatched them up an
made a rush for the door, exclaimin
, dramatically as he passed out: IN
children's bread? Never, never
: There was burst Of laughter frol
the astonished spectators, and gruff e,
, CARNATIONS from the officials; but the
, did not follow him, and he was ALLOW
[ ed to go free with the money. TT
plan. unfortunately, would work onl
once. 1t has not sufficient continuit
to make system"