Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-04-21
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A Halifax oarsman has invented q
machine for keeping In trim In the
winter. 1t il sled with a rowing
seat With the aid OF steel lodged oars
he rows over the ice at great speed.
A native Indian ruler owns a must
cal bed. The weight OF the body sets
the works IN motion, and its plays half
an hour, while life-sized figures of
Grecian maidens at its head and foot
finger stringsd instruments. Fans are
waved by a concealed motor, which
keeps them going the whole night
long.
A story Is told OF q man who, cross
ing distant used coal Geld late at
night, fell into An apparently bottom
less pit and saved himself only by
Srasping a projecting beam. There he
chung with great difficulty all night,
only to find when day dawned that his
feet were only four inches from the
bottom.
DO you throw away yeur old ealen-
darsf A Paris statistican has diseov-
cred that ii is a mistake to do 30. and
being OF an economical turn of mind,
has discovered further that calendars
for 1900 will serve equally well for
1905. As rule, OF course, a calendar
Is only Of use eleven years later, and
leap year upsets this calculation pref
~ often. But as 1900 was allotted se5
days only, instead OF 500, the days Of
the 1905 week At exactly those Of
1900.
M. Fallieres, the newly elected
French president, was born in Mezin
There is church dating from the
ninth century in the little city. Against
its walls once nestled the smithy and
home Of a blacksmith. 1t was in that
house, for his grandfather was the
smith. that the president was born.
The property was sold to the church
in 1872, but the smithy was carried
away and set up again, stone for
stone. In the outskirts OF Mezin, where
II still stands.
An interview with the Sultan Of
Turkey has its amusing side. That
monarch IL not supposed oficislly to
know any language but his own. An
interpreter thunders his majesty's
questions at the visitor, then cringes
with awe as he listens to the words
of his royal master. The contrast is
close to the ridiculous. At the con-
clusion Of the interview the Sultan
rises and says quietly In the visitors
language or in French: Now that our
business is over, will you join me in
my study and have a cup or coffee p
The hghtest OF European crowns is
the state crown OF Great Britain,
which was made for Queen Victoria.
Although 1t only weighs two pounds
and seven ounces, its value is f300, 900
One enormous sapphire came from the
zgnst OF Edward the Confessor. In
the Popes treasure house are two
crowns which are valued at f4O0, 600
One OF them was the gift OF Napoleon
to Plus VII. and contains the larg
est emerald in the world The other
the gift OF Queen Isabella OF Spain e
to Plus VII. and contains the larry
worth 100000.
An emigrsnt's outft, Including
COW. was In forward car of a Kan
sas train, the emigrant himself bcln:
in the caboose. The train was max
ing average time when the man sud
denly exclaimed, while looking out o.
the caboose window: why. there |,
my cow" pointing to an animal tina
stood grazing beside the track. Tn,
trainmen told him he must be mis-
taken, but he insisted that he wa
right, and finally succeeded in havini
the train stopped. Going forward
the door Of the car was found open an,
the COW gone. 1t was not injured Ii
/ the least by the fall from the train
, and was grazing within a minute afte
, the time 1t struck the ground.