The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-15
Curious Facts.

The last leap year was 1904 This year is leap
year. but 1900 was not. Leap year is year contain
ing 366 days 1t is every fourth year, which leaps
over day more than common year, day being
added to February except years Invisible by 100, of
which only those divisble by 400 are leap years.
The Rev. T. F. de lie Roi, well-1nown Stats
tcan is authority for the statement that in the CEN
fury recently closed $4,000 Jews were baptized in
missions-a very good percentage in total OF TO-
100000. The percentage is 1 to 40, whereas that
of heather converts is 1 in 300 In England, the
continent of Europe and in the United States $50
Hebrews are now preaching the gospel to Gentle
congregations themselves having once been of the
ancient faith"
Occupying an isolated position the moors about
five or six miles above Penzance in Cornwall Eng,
is peculiar trio of stones. They arranged in a
straight line the two outside being about four
feet high and upright while the centre is little
lower but much wider In the last mentioned, says
The Strand Magazine, there is round hole large
enough to admit man passing through This pile
is known as the "Menan-to" or "Holed Stone" Pop
ular tradition states that anyone crawling through
the hole in the centre stone will be forever immune
from rheumatism and allied complaints In times
gone by the country people used to take their children
to the "Holed Stone" and pass them through.
A new finishing machine for wooden and worsted
goods, in which the cloth is drawn over rolls COW
cred with finely ground glass, is described by The
Textile World Record Boston, November) Says
this magazine: "The pressure is applied by pneu-
matte device which enables the energy of the
chine to be regulated very closely The millions of
small glass crystals act on the thread in a manner
that can be otherwise duplicated, and the result
is uniform, smooth, polished surface with very
thick nap"
Peter A. Foley, the lightning taker of Portland,
is the most wonderful telegraph operator in the
world says the Lewiston Journal Foley is totally
deaf an affection which ordinarily would be supposed
to make telegraphy utter impossbility to him,
but since he became deaf eight years ago Foley has
developed what may be called sixth sense and by
touch and sight he can detect the finest movements
of the instrument and correctly interpret them His
system is part and parcel of telegraphy and
by means of the sense of touch i'll his finger tips he
takes messages transmitted from the ends of the
continent. He read message by watching the
sounder With his left forehnger placed lightly on
the sounder, he by his wonderful of touch
take message as accurately any in the
office.
That candy containing chloroform is now manu-
featured in considerable quantity was asserted in an
address by Sir James Crichton Browne before re-
cent meeting of the British Sanitary Inspectors
Association at Llandudno, Wales Say, the London
correspondent of The Dietetic and Hygienic Ga
zette: "Such sweets are made in the form of
lozenges and labeled licorce, nseed, or cholro-
dyne lozenges, and are swallowed in large quantities