The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-02-06
A lIght-haired servian is in disgrace


A llght-haired Servian is in disgrace.
The estimated population OF Brazil
Is within 100000 of 20,000,000.
1t Is possible to read by the light
emitted by half-dozen Jamaican fire
flies.
Brazil has no middle class. There
are but two classes there-the rich and
the poor.
The oyster will not flourish in water
which contains less than thlrty-seyen
parts of salt to every thousand.
OF the 443,069 recruits enrolled In
the Russian army in 1905, Hi, 100 could
read and write, 9,245 could only read
the remaining 260015 were totally illit-
crate.
An old Georgia colored man having
told the Judge that he had "been in
three wars" was asked to name them,
when he replied: II wuz a cook in de
Confedrit war an after freedom broke
out / wuz married two times!"
Garden City, Letchworth Hertz, Eng
land, Is to have central cooking hall
for cooks and domestics, all the tenants
to share the expense, the object being
to save wives the worry and expense
Of preparing meals, and to give ser
wants greater freedom and new dignity.
The comedians supposed to be broad
Iu h1,rnnrntto IN fu1r traVaatiaa are pith-
er made up as Irishmen with green
whlskers or Germans verging on imbe-
cility. In France the stage butt Is a
caricature Of the English globe trotter !;
In Germany, a freak imitation of our
depictlons Of "Uncle Sam."-Travel
Magazine.
The Rev. #. Robert Bunker, who,
with his wife and five children, has
been In Zambesi, East Africa, for sew
enteen years, has returned to America.
His home ls in Minnesota. He, with
other missionaries, translated Chin
du," which Is the native tongue Of
Zambesl, and made dictionaries and
'uany transcripts of religious works.
For the study of animal psychology
new chair has been founded In con-
nection with the Natural History Mu-
scum at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
1t will be under the direction of M.
Pierre Hachet-Souplet, who will seek
to establish an intellectual graduation
of the animals that are dOmestlcated
as we'll as the wild. Their passions,
their hatreds, their Joys, their sorrows,
will all be studied thoroughly.
Conan Doyle's Hound Of the Basker-
gllle," "fearsome ANIMAL" is said to
have Its origin In the legends Of packs
Of spectral hounds which are popular
In various parts OF England and Wales.
In the north of England these apparl-
tlons are known as "Gabriel's hounds y
In Devon, the "Wlsk," "Yest," or
Heath hounds;" In Wales, "Cron
Annwn," or "Cwn Wybir," and in Corn
wall, the Devils Dandy dogs" They
are supposed to be evil spirits hunting
the souls Of the dead.
The statement was recently made In
the Canadian House OF Parliament that
sum of money equivalent to more
than $17,000,OO0 was lying Idle In Great
Britain ready to be spent in the exten-
sion and Improvement of the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway, but that 1t was
impossible to proceed with the work be-
cause of the scarcity Of labor. This
was used as an argument In favor of
the introduction Of Aslatlc labor. 1t Is
said that many Industries are at a
standstlll for the same reason.
Watches get tired out just the same
MS people," said methodlcal man who
worries II his tlmepiece isn't right up
to scratch. Every little while my watch
would stop running with Its usual reg
ularlty and lose about half an hour in
day. l took IL to the jeweler once
or twice, but 1t still had these spells.
One day found out accidentally that
It was just tired. IL l lay 1t away
somewhere for a day or two when Ii
gets one of those losing fits and then
wind lt3ip again 1t Will keep perfect
time. All II seems to need Is little
rest."r-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
John ID. Archbold the other John
d. of the Standard OH Company, and
the active working principal, is about
five feet three inches In height but his
head is big enough for a sevcn-footer.
II is n remarkable head, physically
speaking, and when Archbold was on
the witness stand the newspaper car
toonists properly nccentuated his phren-
ologlcal bumps Once he leaped from
the chair and snatched pencil from n
cartoonlst's fingers. Like the other
John d., this one has pet college, the
Syracuse university, to which he has
contributed more than million dol
lars.