Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-06
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Conversation is a good form Of exer-
else for those afflicted with heart dis
ease.
OF the 1871 sorts of birds found in
Great Britain, only 40 are residents
ell the year around.
lt"I ind great many more crimes
traceable to gambling and betting than
to drinking" said the recorder at the
Old Bailey, London.
Experiments are being made with
new machinery on the Chilean nitrate
fields which are expected to decrease
the cost of production so per cent
According to DIR. Sven Hedin, the
Swedish explorer, the famous Asiatic
river, Brahmaputra, rises from an
enormous glacier in the northernmost
Himalaya mountains.
The aggregate production of anthra-
cite and bituminous coal In 1907 fell
but little short Of half billion tons ;
in exact figures the product was $780,
450,042 tons of 1900 pounds.
A Danish expedition has gone to
Greenland to put the 10000 Eskimos,
who live on the southwest coast, in the
way Of earning better living. 1t Is
hoped to open new branches of indus
try for them.
The electric furnace Is capable OF
attaining heat Of 1900 degrees. This
is fearful temperature and will melt
almost everything solid known to man
In comparison with this heat, redhot
iron bar would be called cold.
Being unable to agree on the name
OF either Bryan or Taft for their four.
year-old son because the wife is Re
publican and the husband a Democrat
Mr.. and Mrs. s. A. Johnson, Of Polk
City, Iowa, named the boy Jennings
Howard Johnson.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
The port Of Liverpool, undoubtedly
the best planned and best equipped OF
British ports, and upon which there
has been an expenditure of 1925, 600,
600, has been carried out on frontage
almost identical with Montreal harbor
upon which only $1O,O0O,O00 has beer
spent so far.
The Pan-American route from New
York to Buenos Ayres is 1O,4OO miles
From New York to the southern Dor
der Of Mexico Is 300 miles, and thesC
points are now connected by rail. From
the southern border Of Mexico to Bue
nos Ayres is $500 miles, and Of this
distance $500 miles is of railways
over which trains are running, while
there is an additional 400 miles under
actual contract construction. This
leaves a little more than 1900 mile:
Tor the future.
In the production Of soft coal Bo
hernia at present occupies the second
place among the countries and prInci
palities of Europe, Germany standing
first. The total output of Bohemia
which was 942,S36 tons in 1866
amounted to 20,O75.S30 tons in 1906
or an increase of twenty fold. OF hard
coal Bohemia furnished in 1906 little
over one-third of the whole production
Of Austria, its output amounting Nc
4,73S,034 tons, Of which 1921 per cent
we're consumed in Bohemia itself.
We have found that thin spots in
our rubbers can be mended at home by
applying a cement dissolved In chloro
form. Keep the bottle containing the
cement tightly corked and apply with
a mucilage brush as quickly as posi-
BILE that it may not harden. We used
rubber darn for an actual hole Cut a
piece of the rubber the right size
fasten 1t with a few stitches over the
hole, and brush with the cement. Both
kinds Of rubber may be obtained from
dealer in dentists supplies.-Har.
per's Bazaar.
The japanese were acquainted with
iron from very early times. A sword
that was used by one of the ancestors
Of the present Emperor, about 800 B.
c.. according to the Engineering Maya
zine, is still In existence. Later, when
the great civil war broke out in the
sixth century, swordsmiths and armor-
smiths came to occupy prominent
place. From this time on down to
about 300 years ago no noticeable prog
ress has been made. At the beginning
Of the seventeenth century all branches
of industry began to prosper. The de-
mand for iron instruments Increased
and the scarcity Of iron supply began
to be felt