The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-14

Curious Facts.

The popularity about the February just passed is
that it had five Saturdays. This only happen in
leap year and only every seventh leap year at that
So will not have another February with five Sat
urdays in it until 1886, twentyeght years hence.
The oldest yew tree not only in Scotland, but in
Europe grows at Fortngal in Perthshre. Accord
ing scientific calculation of its age by the late
Sir r. Christson, it is at least we'll 5000 years.
If Sir Roberts estimate is correct the Fortingal yew
must have been of "goody size" at the time when
King Solomon reigned over Israel
Following his recovery from attack of typhoid
fever, Calvin Myers of Dover, Delaware, twenty
eight years DID, is Haunting a crop of vivid red hair
where raven locks adorned his head. Myers
recovered from long siege of typhoid, in which he
was close to death for time. Soon his hair re-
markedly black, began to show tnges of red. Now
it is brilliant red, and to more vivid
hue each day. Physicians who have examined Myers
admit the change battles them, and that they at
a loss to explain the hrsute notifications in con-
necton with the attack of typhoid fever.
The National forest reserve in Nevada now reaches
the enormous total of S,528,479 acres. The total
acreage of the State, including water surface, is
something over 100000. Therefore the forest re-
serve comprises more than one acre in every ten.
The last reserve formed the Las Vegas National
Forest locally known as Sheep Mountains. 1t
ers an area of 19584O acres and is the eighth to be
formed in the State. In addition to this the Sec
rotary of the Interior has announced the withdrawal
of 616,451 acres in White Pine and Nye counties,
to be added to the National forest reserve making
a total of over 100000 that will have been
withdrawn in a short time
A hen that has given the local Young Ladies'
Anti Tobacco League terrible shock is owned by
Bert Miller an attorney of Youngstown Ohio, who,
in his spare moments putters around with poultry
yard The hen which Mr.. Miller has named Carrie
Nation, is a tobacco fend She won't lay eggs I'M
less she is given pill of finecut chewing tobacco
every day. Mr. Miller has tried to fool Carrie"
with imitation tobacco, but it's go. No tobacco,
no eggs, is her motto. Many people have
ined Carrie but outside of her appetite for tobacco
she has no other abnormal characteristics
At one of the big automobile factories encircling
Paris or on the quiet road around Longchamps race
course the candidates for the expert mechanic di-
poma will be lined up in front of row of ma
chimes each one of which has the same secret maady
On the word of command each expert will rush to
the machine reserved Tor MIN ana endeaVor 10 get
it going in the shortest possible time. In series
the magnetos will be tempered with; in another
clutches will meet tender care in third the car
bureters will have been specially disarranged;
fourth heat will test the ability of the men to change
a number of bursted tires. Thus tests will succeed
one another until only the best left to COM
pete in the finals Five francs head will be charged
as entrance fee in order to keep out the joyous in
diyiduas more anxious to obtain halliday vacation
from their employers than to compete in the compe