Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-04-27
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According to French and Swiss ply
sicians, 1t is dangerous for elderly and
weak persons to visit the higher alti-
tudes of the Alps. They assert that for
such persons to do so is to Invite cere-
bral apoplexy. cardiac LESSONS and pull
monary embolism.
BY a police order now In operation
In Paris laundries must disinfect all
garments as soon as they are received.
Clothes must be conveyed to the laun-
dries In hermeticaly sealed bags and,
on their arrival, be scalded in an anti
septic solution. The work people are
to wear special clothes, which also are
to be disinfected.
With the assistance of the Danish
government a scientific station for the
study Of the life of the arctic region
Is to be established on the southern
coast of the island of Disco, in Danish
Greenland. The biological laboratory
will contain a full installment of appar-
atus for research, and Investigators
from other countries will be welcomed
to pursue their studies there. 1t is
Intended to have the station in readi-
expenses are to be paid partly by the
government and partly by A. Holck of
Copenhagen.
The recent discussions concerning the
, decimal system Of weights and meas
| ures render more interesting a curious
= paragraph reprinted In the Journal des
n Debats, from Its issue Of the same date
q Aug. %, 1906 when Napoleon l. was a
! the height Of his power. 1t states thai
N there were two dlals on the principa
building of the Tuilleries, one counting
O the hours by IL and the other by 10
>. Taking advantage of the need for re
, pairs, the dial divided into 10 hour
:. was destroyed, since as the paragraph
goes on to say, 1t had served for nj
T. purpose except to show to what poin
:. the mania for innovation was capabl
Of mounting In opposition to the settle
habits of all times and all peoples"
- Darwin relates that the Gauchos Q
7 the American pampas live for month
b on the fat meat of the oxen they watc
over. The Eskimos can get along yer
>. well by eating from five pounds to 81
pounds a day OF reindeer, or seal
"a flesh, so long as 1t is not too lean, br
II contains due proportion of fat. Say
- the author Of "Diet and Dietetics
"Some men obliged to live a very II
l, tigulng life, the trappers and hunter
Of the pampas of America and Siberia
steppes, the inhabitants OF very col
!. climates, the fishermen living on Il
banks of the frozen sea, can eat almo
exclusively, without suffering from
enormous quantities Of meat or ifs
>, but ON two conditions-that the ind
- vidual subjected to this diet lead
70 very active life in the open air"
I'd According to the views Of Philip
Champault, the odyssey of Homer
,v really valuable record OF ANGLE
by geographical knowledge. Mr.. Char
a. paut shows that Homer's description
OF the land of the Cyclops, the land
the Pheacians, the Isle Of Gree, al
so forth, correspond in a remarkat
manner with places surrounding t
'nr Bay of Naples. The great staring EYE
formed by the extinct craters OF
,ou Phlegraan Fields suggested Polypl
- mus and his one-eyed race. One Of
."e most striking OF the typographical i'd.
~ tifications suggested by Mr.. Champal
~ ~ Is that Of the floating shield" seen
-. Ulysses. From a point northwest
10 Ischla identified as the island
ga Pheacians) one sees rising from
u'e water a remarkable rounded hill, wh,
outlines even to the moldng Of
ore edge, perfectly resemble those Of
De great shield of the ancient Greek p
lne tern, floating on the waves.