Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-01-25
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Seven hundred British subjects are
born at sea every year.
A speck of gold weighing the mil
lionth part of a grain may easily be
seen by the naked eye.
Four hours hard thinking exhausts
the ordinary person as much as ten
hours of manual labor.
In Cairo at the present time there
Is an endowment expressly for the
lodging and feeding of homeless cats.
John Burns is said to have the best
working library of any member of the
English House of Parliament
There are 100000 children in Rus
sia between the ages of 6 and IA re-
ceivlng absolutely no education.
Blight of the tea plants caused by
the bite of mosquitoes is causing much
alarm among the tea planters in In
dia.
NJ. Sardou, the celebrated French
iramatlst, studied medicine as a youth,
but he never liked the idea of settling
down as a practitionsg
The Cars sister, the Grand Duchess
Olga, is intensely democratic. She is
especially fond of Americans, saying
they are "the only people worth cult
waiting"
The largest lightning conductor in
the world is on the Lugspite weather
station, in Bavaria. 1t runs down the
mountainside for three and a half
miles to a lake.
DIR. Charles A. Eastman, the noted
indian author, has completed a revi-
sion of Indian names on the Sioux al
otment roll, and has given new sur
names to 2S,2OO Indians in the Sioux
nation after four years Of continuous
labor.
Lions are plentiful in Portuguese
East Africa, and that region is para
disc for hunters of big game. In some
sections the authorities offer reward
for each lions head brought in, and
they permit the hunter TO keep the
skin.
An out-of-the-way profession for @
woman is that of dinner-taster. She
IS a product Of Partisan refinement, and
spends a portion of each day visiting
houses and tasting dishes. She sug
gests improvements, and shows Tho
,ook new ways of preparing foods.
To keep the plague OF rabbits from
J destroying the pastoral industries o.
Australia, 1852 miles of public anC
private rabbit-netted fences have beer
erected, at a cost of 100000 Queens
! land alone spends $4O( 600 a year IL
erecting and maintaining fences Il
keep out bunny"
Many old houses in Holland have
special door which is never opene,
save on special occasions-when Their
, Is a marriage or death in the family
The bride and bridegroom enter by thi
ioor, and 1t is then nailed or barred
2 up until a death occurs, when it
? opened, and the body is removed b.
this exit.
The Emperor of Germany believes i
being sufficiently represented even O
7 visiting card. His cards are the larg
est In use In Europe, and can almos
vie with those used by the mandarin
Of China. They measure no less tina
six inches in length and four in widtl
On the upper line is the single wor
" wilhelm" and below are the word
"Deutscher Kaiser and Koenig vo
q Preussen."
q The alligators are getting bad {
Greenville and are even taking tn
pools of the Baptist churches as place
II Of refuge. A fve-foot alligator Wa
D, found In the pool of the Bapth
! church. The saurian was discoyere
by a plumber who waded into the po
for the purpose of repairing a lea
and he was scared out Of a year
growth, as well as clear out of the w
r ter.-Greenville Is. c. Democrat.
Grasshoppers are regarded as ma
cots In Italy. where there is a regul;