Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-21
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A Halifax oarsman has invented q
machine for keeping In trim in the
winter. It 10 . sled with q rowing
seat. With the aid Of steel-sdsed oars
he rows over the Ice at great speed.
A native Indian ruler owns q. must
cal bed. The weight Of the body sets
the works in motion, and its plays half
an hour, while life-sixed figures Of
Grecian maidens at its head and foot
finger stringed instruments. Fans are
waved BY q concealed motor, which
keeps them going the whole night
long.
A story 10 told Of a man who. cross
ing distant used coal field late at
night, fell into an apparently bottom
less pit and saved himself only BY
grasping 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 your old calen.
dars1 A Paris statistican has discov.
cred that 1t Is a mistake to do 80, 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
10 only Of use eleven years later, and
leap year upsets this calculation pref
ty often. But as 1900 was allotted 385
days only, instead Of 800, the days Of
the 1905 week at exactly those Of
1900.
NJ. Fallieres. the newly elected
French president, was born in Mezin.
There IL a church dating from the
ninth century In the little city. Against
Its walls once nestled the smithy and
home Of blacksmith. II 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 carted
away and set up again. stone for
stone. in the outskirts Of Mezin, where
, It still stands.
An interview with the Sultan Of
! Turkey has its amusing side. That
. monarch Is not supposed officially 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 10 over. will you join me in
my study and have cup Of coffee?
! The lightest 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 $500, 900.
One enormous sapphire came from the
signet Of Edward the Confessor. In
the Pope's treasure house are two
crowns which are valued at f4OO,O 900.
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 to
to Plus VII. and contains the larg-
worth 100000.
' An emigrants outfit, including a
cow, was in a forward car Of a Kan
sas train, the emigrant himself bein;
In the caboose. The train was MAX
ing average time when the man sud
denly exclaimed. while looking out Of
the caboose window: "Why, there Is
my cow" pointing to an animal that
stood grazing beside the track. The
trainmen told him he must be mis-
taken. but he insisted that he was
right. and finally succeeded In having
the train stopped. Going forward,
the door Of the car was found open and
the COW gone. 1t was not injured In
the least by the fall from the train.
and was grasing within q minute after
the time 1t struck the ground.