The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-09-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

! has fewer than 800 foreign

Canton has fewer than 800 forelg
residents.
Trained falcons to carry ~dispatche
In time Of war have been tested In tn
Russian army. Their speed is fou
times as great as that of carrier pig
cons.
If the real estate of Manhattan
Island were divided equally betweel
$ its inhabitants each individual woul'
o own 5000 worth, according to the as
i sessed value.
: Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing
. number of prominent scientists a
Vienna on the subject of food anC
l Nourishment," declared that the reason
J so many men begin to get fat immedi
! ately after they have married is be
> cause their wives give them their favor
lite dishes on every possible OCCASION
london Standard.
vegetable milk" Is used In Japan
1t Is made from the sofa bean. The
liquid is exactly like cows milk in ap-
pearance, and in taste can hardly be
distinguished from 1t. To make 1t the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
In water. Some sugar and phosphate
Of potassium are added, and 1t is boiled
down till 1t has the consistency of con-
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison ParSman, of EN-
porla. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing In Chile. He brought the seed
to America, and In the late seventies
he went to Emporia to live. He sowed
alfalfa In a farm which he bought and
the plant prospered. 1t was slow in
gaining popularity In Kansas, but Is
now one of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
by law to take a weekly half-holiday,
and there must be no Sinking the obli-
cation. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
~half-holiday, remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear of 1t and the proprie-
tor of the hotel had to appear in court,
where he was convicted ana punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen d. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals of the Confederate army. They
are Gen. A. P. Stewart, ranking lieu
teaant-general Of the Co~nfederacy, of
Biloxi, Miss, and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his elghty-sixth birthday
anniversary on October 7 last. Gen
eral Buckner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer In 1896. He was
aighty-fve on April 1 last.
The German Emperor has a web.
equipped pottery which brings him in
$4,000 a year. The King of Wurtem-
berg owns two large hotels which yield
him a yearly income of some $4,000.
The King Of SaXony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Nielsen, and the
Regent of Llppe Detmoid runs a large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs. The King of Servia
Is said to own a barber shop AID an
apothecary shop, In addition to which
heholds an agency for motor cars.
l once had a cat that did a rather
remarkable rafting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the caves of a low
dat stable roof, and caught one In the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob, how
ever, not satisfied with the one, grasped
it firmly in his mouth, and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
fell to the ground with one rat still
IN his mouth and the other in his paws,
nd promptly killed them both.-The
Scotsman.
A strange story comes from n OF
he Balkan states, where commercial
morality is still in its infancy. At a
'ecent banquet given at the house of
he prime minister a distinguished dip
omat complained to his host that the
Minister of Justice, next to whom he
vas sitting, had taken his watch. The
)rime minister said "Ah, he shouldn't
lave done that. I will get 1t bach for
-ou." Sure enough, toward the end OF
he evening the watch was returned to
is owner. And what did he say?"
.sked the guest. "Sh-h! He does not
now l have got it back" said the
Observation-Disclosures Record
Instances of desertion from the arm,
a Mexico are very rare and for the
of reasons" said Senior Jose de
Ilnaldez, of Nueva Leon. "The reason
les In the almost sure capture of the
and the certainty that he viii
ct not one but numerous ~floggings on
is bare back. These lashings are lone
A the presence of the comrades of the
and when the men see how
reat is the suffering Of the miserable
who tried In vain to quit his
obligations, they are forced
/, conclude that 1t is better to stick to
ne army than undergo such 4 terrible
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