Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-05
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In New York City there were $780,
100000 paid in interest and dividends
In January.
The clearances from japanese ports
to foreign countries are about 10000
vessels year.
In the northern hemisphere there are
$500 stars plainly visible to the naked
eye; In the southern, 1900 stars.
A missionary in the Hudson Bay
territory travels In a box which Is
strapped to the back of hardy native
Within a year England will have
hfty-two submarine boats. while France
will have eighty-two, Russia has TWEEN
ty-nine, japan ten.
At depth Of slxty-six feet the water
of the Dead Sea is twice as salt as 1t
is on the surface, and at 1000 feet
three times as salt.
England's potato crop averages over
six tons an acre. Russia grows barely
two tons to the acre, and Italy little
over one and three-fourths tons
1t is not uncommon nowadays to
lengthen great lake vessels. In doing
30 they are cut In two, pulled apart,
and the new part built in the middle.
The daughter of Grand Duke Peter
Nicolavitch of Russia Is fourteen years
old. She speaks Servian, italian and
French, and Is thought the cleverest
royal schoolgirl in Europe.
There are between ten thousand and
eleven thousand professional thieves In
New York City, and several hundred
thousand amateurs who only steal
when opportunities are offered.
Twenty-Five years ago a Voluntary
Street Ambulance Association was
formed in Vienna. That year Its SER
vices were required two thousand
times; last year nearly 10000 times.
Israel Munson Spelman, Harvard's
Oldest living graduate, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday on December 80. He
Ia a graduate of the class Of '36. He
was at one time president Of the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad.
When a man 80 sinks his own iden-
tity that all thought of self is banished,
and only the object Of devotion re-
mains, he understands how to love.
Ones country, children, ideas and
ideals can be loved in this fashion, but
not a woman.-Le Figaro.
In the counties of Matagorda, Whar-
ton and ,Brazoria, Texas, are 10000
acres Of red cedar from which Is cut
and shipped the wood Of which pencils
are made. Much of the wood Is ex-
ported to Germany after being cut into
strips. 1t is a very profitable Texas
industry.
Observing in the tropics how the In
tense heat Of the sun accelerated the
healing Of wounds and burns, French
physician, DR.. Asbeck, used the heat of
ordinary fire in Ave hundred cases Of
burns and wounds, after putting on
the usual dressing, and with uniform
success.
The Chinese know how to tell the
time Of day by the appearance Of
cats eyes. The pupils Of a cats eyes
become gradually narrower up to ~
o'clock noon, when they are scarcely
perceptible lines, drawn perpendicu-
larry across the eye. After that the
dilation recommences.
New York City bought Union Square
Park In 1888 for $116,061. Madison
Square in 1s47 for $69,952, Tompkins
Square in 1884 for $9s,S59 and Wash
Ington Square In 1927 for $7797o.
These four downtown parks costing
1851, 1892, are now, at ruling real estate
prices, worth $25,OO0,0O0.
Nathan Hawk, a veteran of the Mex
lean War and the man who, In 1S4S,
nrst brought East news Of the Cali
fornis gold discoveries, is a hale and
hearty citizen OF Folsom, Cal. Mr..
hawk, who y now eighV-twO years old,