The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-08
Curious Facts.


house which is shown to tourists today is the
where he died. The real house ended by being a
pigsty AT the utmost there still exists at St. Hell
ena willow tree planted by Napoleon but that is
not certain
A wax from the rata palm of Madagascar is ex-
peced to prove substitute for beeswax The leaves
of the palm are beaten to small fragraments on a
mat and then boiled the obtained being
collected and kneaded into small cakes The mater
ial is being tested for bottng purposes photograph
cylinders, etc.
In the Bible the word Lord is found 1858 times,
and the word Jehovah 6s55 times and the word
reverend but once, and that is in the ninth
of the 111th Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117th
Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible. The ninth
verse of the eighth chapter of Esther is the longest
verse, and the thirty-hfth verse of the eleventh
chapter of St. John is the shortest In the 107th
Psalm four verses are alike. No names words
with than six syllables found in the Bible
The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and the nine
teenth chapter of Second Kings are alike. The
word girl occurs but in the Bible, and that is
in the third of the third chapter of Joel
There are found in both books of the Bible 1885,,
483 letters 773,693 words 31,373 verses 1189 chap
tiers, and sxty-Sx books
"a plan has been suggested by a retired naval
officer" says Shipping Illustrated (New York;,
whereby powerful search-light could be installed
on the Isles of Shoals off the Piscataqua River mouth
This he, says, would light up the coast from East
port to Cape Cod, and prove of incalculable value
to the Navy Department But why stop at a search
light the rays of which would reach only to East
port or the tip of Cape Cod? Would it not be
much more economical to set up one which would
light to Cape Race and Cape Hatteras and thus elm
mate the great expense of maintaining lighthouses,
while even vessels under way could money by
extinguishing their lights? 1t is some consolation
to reflect that the father of this wonderful scheme
halls from an inland state, but it would be sat
is factory to learn that he was from the u. S. A.
rather than the i. S. n"
Regarding the use of white clothing FOR the tropics
which has been adopted in imitation of native GUS
tom, L. w. Sambon in an article quoted in The
Medical Times New York, December), says that
although it is doubtless wise to follow the dictates
of long experience, the whites, who borrow this
custom from the natives, do not realize that the
latter are already protected by natural armor
of pigment which is impervious to the harmful
actnic rays. He goes on to say: The native,
having to fear these rays, dresses IN white,
which by rejecting them, keeps him comfortably
cool White is for comfort, but health demands
lining pigment. To avoid the additional weight and
thickness of several layers of cloth, Sambon sug-
gests Fabric composed of white and coored
threads to produSe warp or outer
surface of white and wool or inner surface of
black, red or orange. Such cloth, with heat-re-
fecting outer surface and apaque inner lining,
should meet all the requirements of comfort and pro-
lection for tropical USE"