Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

greater In winter than IN summer.
Australia has more unemployed area
In proportion to population than any
other country.
Rhode Island received Its name from
what was supposed to be a resem-
plance in contour to the Island OF
Rhodes in the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh, wife OF the
late president OF Princeton Univer-
sity, has just celebrated her ninety
second birthday. j. w. Alexander has
Just finished portrait of Mrs. NC
Gosh, which he has given to the uni
versity.
Among the 100000 working wom-
en- in this country there are nearly
million widows are nearly 100000
married women whose husbands have
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100000 divorced women are among
the wage earners.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
Of Women, have made successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been "sneaked through" the Denver
board of aldermen to permit the feed
ing of brewery swill to milch cows.
Mrs Chapman Gait prdlcted In st.
James Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come 'as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow" 1t
is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
man Gait Is. from the United States,
and has had no experience Of our Eng
lish sunrises.-London Globe.
The Prussian government is to issue
a loan, the proceeds Of which are to
be used for the construction and equip
ment Of new branch line railroads.
One line Of the road Is to have cleo
trio traction, for which s476,000 is set
aside The total amount to be expend-
ed under this loan bill is $55, $4,000.
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
the principal products Of Manchuria.
season have been higher than ever be.
fore, but how much Of this Is due to
the ability of Japan, gold standard
country, to pay more In silver, because
silver has been cheap can not be posi-
lively stated.
The Korean grass used in the manu-
facture of grass cloth Is grown very
thickly and is usually cut the second
or third year after planting the roots.
The grass reaches height of four to
five feet, and with a proper start and
under favorable conditions yields, 1t Is
roughly estimated, about 5000 pounds
to an acre.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men
have been said to resemble those OF
great apes, but now comes a distin-
guished French anthropologist and de-
clares that one which has recently
been discovered Is almost an exact re-
plica of that of Bismarck. Does this
mean that prehistoric men had superb
cranial development, or it is Gaelic
fling at M le Bismarck? New York
Tribune.
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, su-
perior-general Of the Missionary Sisters
of the Sacred Heart, has just returned
to this country from Brazil, where she
recently opened college for the high
er education of women. This is the
fifty-eighth institution established by
the order in twenty seven years. The
institutions include colleges, schools,
hospitals and orphan asylums.
An electrically wired tablecloth,
upon which ornamental electric light
fixtures diffuse illumination the mo-
ment they are set down, Is one of the
latest and most. interesting illuminat-
ing devices designed in England, says
Popular Mechanics To the uninitiat-
ed the ability to get light by SIM
ply placing a fixture on the table Is
nothing less than extraordinary, but
the explanation is simple.
Recent exploration of the Athabas-
ca-Mackenzie region shows that 1t con-
tains many valuable fur-bearing ami
mails, and 1t appears also to be the
home of the last wild remnant of the
American bison family. The herds of
bison are not numerous, and they are
being rapidly exterminated by wolves.
The Canadian musk OK also inhabits
this region, and in the spring, when
the rivers and springs escape from the
frost, great flocks of birds, including
most of the migratory game birds of
America, resort thither to breed
What might be called a tabloid
watch has just been made by watch
maker of Locle, Switzerland, says the
London Globe. The thickness Is said
to be only three millimeters, so,
meter being only thirty-nine inches,
one can estimate the thickness of the
watch. Taking the case and a glass it
is found the works occupy space
| 10 millimeters. The spring Is half a
millimeter. What makes this achieve
| ment of the Locle matchmaker more
extraordinary Is that 1t Is asserted
that the watch keeps time, varying
only FIVE seconds In twenty-four hours.
The Philadelphia Press has won the
first round in its fight to abolish toll
roads and toll gates in Pennsylvania.
A legislative commission has been ap-
pointed to investigate the whole sub
ject and report to the next legislature