The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-10-08
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY

ought l05,O00,OO0.
A color resembling pewter may be
ven to brass by boiling the casting In
cream Of tartar solution containing
small amount OF chloride Of tin
Orders have been posted in the shops
the Pennsylvania railroad system
tohibfting swearing among the men
lille at work. The penalty will be an
hferced vacation.
1t is said that the method Of produc
bg an9sthesia by means Of electricity,
isevvered by Professor LIE Due Of
antes, France, Is applicable to the
Rlnless execution CT criminals.
The aluminium books for the blind
ow being printed In Edinburgh are Of
hin sheets embossed In the usual way.
they are easier to read than paper
ooks, do not soil and are practically
sdestructible Their expensiyeness is
beir drawback.
Representative Burlelgh Of Maine Is
ne of the few members of the House
those biography omits the familiar SEN
ence: studied law at the 49, Uni
ersity" He is real newspaper man,
he publisher Of the Kennebec Journal,
md has been governor and state treas
Irer of his state.
Mrs. Boorman Wells, the ''suf-
fragette," said at a women's luncheon
In New York. you may ridicule us
as on please, but when we get the suf-
frage in London we shan't abuse it as
some of your Colorado women do. l
heard two Denver men talking at din
ner the other night. Hello said the
first, here's Philadelphia genius who
has invented buttonless underwear.
oh, that's nothing, said the second,
I've worn 1t ever since my wife got
a vote"
Father Ehrle, the director Of The
Vatican library, has been appointed
member of the Academic des Inscrip-
lions which is one Of the five academies
that make up the famous Institut de
France, and the one that presides over
history, archaeology and ancient Orien-
tai languages. Father Ehrle is a Ger
man and a Jesuit He is said to be
the living authority on the care Of
books and on the preservation and re-
storation Of old manuscripts.
The "Priory" at Bicester, near Ok
ford, England, which, as its name in
dicates, occupies the site Of a former
religious house, has quite lately been
purchased by the Community of Olive
tan Benedictine nuns, who, having been
expelled from their house in Normandy,
sought refuge in Bicester some five
years ago. They had the happiness re-
Gently of celebrating a religious pro
fession therein-the first that has taken
place there since the Reformation.
For. centuries Europe has enjoyed a
monopoly on cathedrals, the highest ex-
ponents Of Christian architecture. Dur
ing the last few years, however, nearly
a dozen beautiful structures have been
in course of erection or have been COM
pleted in the United States, and the
time may come when the whole land
will be dotted with these masterpieces
of art. One of these, now building at
st St Paul, under the direction of Arch
bishop ireland, viii be one Of the finest
in this country.
Aerial letter boxes have been placed
In all large tenement houses and apart
ment buildings in Budapest, Hungary.
When the postman enters the hall on
the first floor Of a building he places
the letters in the boxes allotted to the
different families. a spring is then
pressed and electricity does the rest. |
The boxes are shot up to the floor re-
1uired. where they remain until |
emptied, or until the postman comes
again and brings them down by touch |
ng another spring.
Before leaving Christchurch for the
Antarctic regions, says the Westmin- /
,ter Gazette, Captain Schackleton. the |
of the latst British south /
polar expedition, was duly sworn in as
postmaster OF hile I4uN dAu tAS oSN- I
4nth Land. He has been authorized by
the postmaster general Of New Zealand |
to open an Office in that most southerly
If the Kings dominions, to issue
stamps and transmit mails as oppor-
.unitv offers. These south polar stamps /
viii doubtless be priced by philatelists
and other lovers OF curios.
Investigating the effect ofcompresseu
mir on health, two British engineers
nave shown that a pressure Of ninety /
-wo pounds a square inch-more than /
Xix atmosphere be endured with 1
,ut unpleasant results. The pressure /
must be taken off at a uniform rate, |
at least twenty minutes being
allowed for each fifteen pounds of re-
luction, and capillary circulation in
he body must be kept up by muscular
exercise during compression. Slight
temporary neuralgia pain In the arms
vas the only i'll effect of the great
pressure.
The Rev. Dr. r. S. Macarthur OF
Calvary Baptist Church, New York,
said at dinner, apropos Of interna
ionaI marriages: "Some of these mar
,iages are, from every point of view,