The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-28


than Indiana It's population in 1900 was substantially
the same as that of Illinois, Portugal having $685.
267 to the 4, 824,55O of Illinois, The population of
Illinois is now estimated to be 5,59O,oOO
+
Senior Firmn Arrudi, native of Salient in the
Spanish Pyrenees, is feet, inches tall Naturally
most of these big fellows go about the world ex-
hibiting themselves that ordinary mortas may won
der and incidentally pay for their wonderment, Sen
or Arrud made tour of South America, where he
made in one year than $3,OO0 He was wiser
than many freaks of nature, however, and after ac
cumuating his money! he returned to his native vii
lage where he went into retired life, married, and
is living on the interest of his earnings
With a record of birth every three and one
half minutes New York gives pledge to perptuate
its population, especially since deaths occur only at
a rate of one every five and one-thrd minutes With
this ratio the permanency of New Yorks population
would be assured without the assistance of foreign
immigration. According to the same table of vital
statistics marriage takes place every eight and
one-third minutes which, even considering the size
of the city, should quiet the complaints against the
selfish bachelors.
German military authorities are experimenting
with device by which the location of troops using
smokeless powder may be easily discovered By this
device it proposed to survey the landscape through
pale red glasses The flash of smokeess powder
appears strong in red light, while ordinary objects
are dinmed By furnishing field glasses with the
device in question, which is provided with screens
of the proper tint, the position of concealed marks
men can be detected.
Parafhn was at first a useless by-product of the oil
refnerieS, but now has thousand uses. Besides
the use of paran for candles, 100000 blocks OF re-
fined parafin sold every year for an inln1ty OF
purposes. A liberal arrangement with a chewing
gum maker gave him the foundation for million
dollar fortune. Parafin applied to Cleopatra,s
Needle in Central Park when the surface OF the ODE
1sk began to scale off, and it stopped It, Stone
fronts of houses are protected the same way an ap-
p1ication every three four years being sufficient to
prevent disintegraton Parain is made into colored
crayons, which will stick glass as well as paper
Parafin is used in aundries to whten the clothes
and in polishing the Surface Of starched pieces 1t
is used for sealing canned fruits anything put
I'D in bottles by home folks manufacturers druggists
or chemists It is used generally substitute for
beeswax ta11ow and sealing and for insulating
wires.
Although the use of concrete, cement stone and
iron has grown to enormous proportions, the last
reports of the United States Geological Survey on
building operations for the year 1907 do not indicate
that these materials will suppant lumber in construc-
tion. It was discovered that in forty-nine OF the
leading cities of the country SO per cent. OF the
was of wood. This percentage may
be representative of the building industry in the
larger Cities but dealers declare that it does in
,lude the large quantities of lumber used in dwell
ngs, stores and other buildings in the towns and
villages scattered over the country which were not