The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-11-12

Conversation In good form of excl
clse for those afflicted with heart dis
ease.
or the a0l sorts Of birds found Il
Great Britain. only 14O are resident
all the year around
II find great many more crimes
traceanle to gambling and betting thar
10 drinking" said the recorder at tn'
old Bailey. London
Experiments are being made with
new machinery on the Chilean nitrate
fields which are expected TO decrease
the cost of production 80 per cent.
According TO DR.. Sven Hedin. the
Swedish explorer. the famous Asiatic
river, Brahmaputra, rises from an
enormous glacier in the northernmost
HimaIaya mountains.
The aggregate production Of anthra-
cite ana bituminous coal In 1907 fell
but little short Of half billion tons;
in exact figures the product was 4S0,-
S50,042 tons OF 1000 pounds.
A Danish expedition has gone TO
Greenland to put the 10000 Eskimos.
who live on the southwest coast, in the
way of earning a better living 1t IS
hoped to open new branches OF indus
ny for them
The electric furnace is capable Of
attaining heat of 1900 degrees This
Is fearful temperature and win melt
almost everything solid known to man.
In comparison with this heat. a 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 5. 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 S125,0OO.-
coo, has been carried out on frontage
almost Identical with Montreal harbor.
upon which only S10O00,O00 has been
spent so far.
The Pan-Ameriean route from New
York to Buenos Ayres is 1O.4OO miles
From New York TO the southern bor-
der of Mexico Is S,7OO miles. and these
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 little more than 5000 miles
Cor the future
In the production Of soft coal Boz
hemia at present occupies the second
place among the countries and princi-
palities Of Europe, Germany standing
first The total output OF Bohemia.
which was 1925 tons in 1866,
amounted to 2O075.S30 tons in 1906.
or an increase Of twenty fold OF hard
noal Bohemia furnished In 1906 a little
,ver one-third of the whole production
If Austria. its output amounting to
L73s.034 tons. of which 1921 per cent
we're consumed in Bohemia itself
We have found that thin spots in
,ur ruhbers can be mended at home by
applying cement dissolved in chloro-
or1n. Keep the bottle containing the
ement tightly corked and apply with
mucilage brush as quickly as posi-
lie that IT may not harden. We used
ubber darn for an actual hole. Cut a
iece Of the rubber the right size. {
asten f with a few stitches over the
ole. and brush with the cement. Both {
inds Of rubber may be obtained from '
dealer in dentists supplies.-Har-
er's Bazaar. In
The japanese were acquainted with
'on from very early times. a sword I
nat was used by one OF the ancestors
7 the present Emperor. about 500 b. c
: according to the Engineering Maya
ne is still in existence Later. when ,
le great civil war broke out In the 4
xth century, swordsmiths and armor- b
niths came to occupy a prominent Il
ace. From this time on down to o
,out 300 years ago no noticeable prog b
s. has been made. At the beginning V
the seventeenth century all branches a
industry began to prosper. The de- o.
and for iron instruments increased
I'd the scarcity Of iron supply began Il
be felt. b
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