Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-28

pcppcrCOrn rent until the leases TALL
in. Each year fresh leases fall into
his hands, and at the end of 80
years the whole of the property,
VIII is now worth many millions,
will be his entirely.
Norway lost $50, PA persons in
1906 by emigration.
About $50 whales are captured
yearly. Each whale averages 1000
gallons of oil.
There is talk in Germany of
widening the Baltic canal. The
traffic last year on the canal reached
total of 3,ii5 vessels.
A small table that had been many
years in an almshouse at Bristol,
England, was sent recently with
other discarded furniture to an auc-
ton room, where it was recognized
as Chippendale and sold for
1907. so.
Losing ones self on Mont Blanc
will soon be counted among the van
ished industries. In recent years
number of fine refugees have been
built in various parts of the noun
tain by the Alpine clubs of Eng
land, France and other countries
and by private individuals. These
have made it almost impossible for
of average size to be lost in spite
of heavy mists and binding snow
storms caused by sudden changes of
temperature
Ex-Quccn Liluokalani is still
trying to get payment from the
United States for the crown lands
taken from her at the time of the
revolution in Hawaii.
DR.. Howard A. Kelly, professor
of gyneolog in the Johns Hopkins
university, is preparing an illus
trated cylopedia of American med
ical biography, to be issued in sew
cral volumes The work will in
cludc sketches of the careers of
all the medical worthless of the
United States and Canada from
the carlics times TO our own day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer Muir
dock, who many years ago delighted
thcatcr goers on both sides of the
Atlantic, are now quietly passing
the evening of their lives in Bridge
water, Mass. Mr.. Murdoch was
the man who gave Sir Henry Irv-
=. Il. 81,
pushed him rapidly to the front of
the theatrical profession in Eng
land. This was more than halt a
century ago. Mr.. Murdoch was
born in Scotland in 1922 and has
written a number of plays.
At a depth of GO feet the water
of the Dead sea contains twice as
much salt as that on the surface.
The island of Java is losing its
supremacy as a coffee producer.
The crop produced in Sumatra now
almost equals it.
Marmalade, then made only of
ounces, was known in Henry
Wits reign. The word is derived
from ''mermelo' ounce.
Live sponges furnish homes for
oysters, mussels, crabs and other
small animals, which often live in
the sponges their entire lifetime.
Sometimes the creatures grow too
large to get out, remaining until
they die.
The biggest trees in the world
are the mammoth trees of Califor-
MIA One of grove in Tulare
county, according to measurement
made by members of the State Geo.
logical Survey, was shown to be
276 feet high, 100 feet in circum-
ference at base, and 70 feet at a
point II feet above the ground.
Some of the trees are $50 feet high
and IS feet in diameter. Some OF
the largest that have been fcllcd
indicate an age of from 1900 to
2. 500 years.
The highest monolith is the obe-
lisk at Karnak, in Egypt. Karnal
/ is on the east bank of the Nile,
near Luxor, and occupies part Of
the site of ancient Thcbcs. The
4 obclisk is ascribcd to Hatasu, sister
of Pharaoh Thothmes III, whc
reigncd about 1000 B. c. It's whole
length is 12O feet, and it weigh:
400 tons. Its height without ped
estal is 108 feet 10 inches. The
height o. the obclisk in Contra