Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY


Mrs. Margaret Zane Wicher wsg
chosen county clerk In Salt Lake corn
ty. Utah, this year on the Republicans
ticket.
The handkerchief of the French SOL
der has printed on 1t certain sanitary
rules desirable to observe during *
campaign.
The following is the shortest sentences
containing all the letters of the alpha
bet: Pack my box with Ave dozen Iiq-
uor jugs.-Home Notes.
South Dakota is congratulating her
self on the greatest gold year In her
history. The report of the state mine
inspector, filed with the governor,
shows the states gold production for
the last year to have been s7.460,O00.
Missouri is the greatest tobacco pro-
ducing state. The quantity of the weed
produced during the fiscal year which
ended June 80 last. was 71.212,21Z
pounds, 100000 pounds more than
was produced by North Carolina, which
comes next.
There are now 667 women students
in the University of Glasgow. This is
said TO be the largest number on rec
ord. Queen Margaret College is the
, women's hall, which is presided over
by Miss Galloway. LID, and janet
Spens, NJ. A.
About 10000 fox skins are sold out OK
Maine every year. Very few of the sly
animals are shot. Many are killed by
the use of poisoned bait while hun
dreds Of others are killed in drives,
known as the New Hampshire meth
od"-Fur News.
A New York woman shopper who Is
> fond of figures has estimated that the
time lost by customers each day In one
a of the large department stores in wait
n Ing for their change Is equal to the
: average time of labor for one person
g for seventy days.
This year 1854 women registered In
y Boston to vote for school committee
Twenty-nine years ago, when the priv
y ilege of voting at these elections was
first granted to women, only 900 regis
y tered, and for the. following nine years
:, the average was only little over 1000
;, Motorists who suffer with cold hands
lief by using a steering wheel provides
with electric heat. An English inven-
. ton describes a steering Wheel with =
= core that carries two electrically-heat-
!. ed coils insulated one from the other
:, and from the outer rim.
s. Sir william Wallace, the British resi-
d dent-general of northern Nigeria, has
J. reported to the home government that
It cannibal tribes owning hundreds OK
& thousands Of horses In Nigeria are be-
N ing subdued by peaceful means, and
N that their country contains perhaps the
s. richest tin and copper fields in the
g. world.
\ Booker T. Washington was born near
Hale's Ford, Va, about 1853. His
~ mother was slave IN the Burroughs
- family where she was known as Jane
Burroughs. Her husband lived ON 9
~ neighboring plantation. Booker Wash
lv ington was educated at Hampton Insti
, tute. Virginia, where he graduated In
in 1878. He taught there until he was BE
lected head of Tuskegee Institute
which he organized.
Miss Harriet S. Hayward, of Brock
OF ton, Mass, Is the first woman to b
Oh elected by county In Massachusetts
.or to preside at county teachers associa
ton. She is the primary supervisor o
IN schools in Brockton, and the Plymouth
County Teachers Association. owe
B. which she was selected 10 preside, 1
er- one OF the largest in the state. Tn
meeting is said to have been the bes
'Js ever held.
When the Cloughey County Dowr
,, Ireland) lIfeboat went to the assistanc
OF the French bark Croisette. whic
had been driven ashore on a submerge
reef, the men refused to leave the ves
. sci without a little half-breed fox tel
rler The animal was eventually foun
and rescued amid the cheers of th
barks crew, who were then brougt
ashore in the lifeboat and hospitabl
housed by the villagers.
FOR The Ligue Rationale Aerienne n
for Gently received from Commandant DO
ord fuss the offer of prize of f40O for II
ror first kite of French construction capi
BILE of lifting a man to the height
ord 200 meters, and Of maintaining him
est. the air for a period Of at least OF
ion hour. 1t is interesting to see that a
ex- tention is thus again directed to Il
lish use OF kites, which would appear
4. have been somewhat neglected owing
the success Of the apparatus Of the ae
oplane type.
yes A Daniel has come to judgment
am the Vermont Legislature with bin l
ner- tended to guard newspapers again
ton takers" 1t makes the giving Of fsl
itch news to a newspaper with intent to
hen ceive punishable by fine ranging fro
ing IS to $50 for each offense. I'VE ho
that the Vermont lawmakers win 10
at no time in making the bill a statute
: of saws the Boston Transcript Its G
g.,