The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-05-27
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

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a thousand.
The Royal Academy Of England was
founded In 1T6S The building. In Lon
don. In the Renaissance style was
erected by Smirke in lS6S-69.
Dean Ramsay tells Of an old lady OF
Edinburgh who ordered her maid to
call upon the doctor every morning and
report the latest particulars as TO her
mistress health. always carefully add
ing her compliments At last one day
the girl ARRIVED with. Miss SIS
compliments. and she deed last night
at alcht o'clock"
The idea that the wedding ring
should be worn on the third finger of
tile left hand because''a nerve connects
this finger with the heart" is, says the
writer OF an article In Woman's Life.
of Roman origin. but. oddly enough, Is
not continued on the continent as In
England. for in France. Belgium and
Germany. and most other European ma
tions. the engagement ring" finger Is
the third finger OF the left hand. while
the wedding ring" finger is the third
finger OF the right hand.
DIR. ". A. Evans. Chicago's health
commissioner, does not believe In hav.
ing smoking cars on elevated railroads
or in permitting the use Of tobacco on
the front platforms Of street cars. He
has written letters to the presidents OF
the companies. suggesting that as smok.
ing Is conducive to expectoration. and
as splitting is prejudicial to public
health and a violation Of the city ordl-
nances as well. the easiest way to get
rid Of the splitting evil viii be By abol-
ishing smoking on public co%nyeyances
George f. Parker, in his reminI-
SCIENCES of Mr.. Cleveland in McClure's
Magazine. tells Of the nunf
Der Of gifts sent to a President. After
his first term Mr.. Cleveland insisted on
going through his vast collection. and
in describing the incident Mr.. Parker
says: Upon unlocking the disused
room Into which perhaps ten or twelve
thousand separate articles had been
cast. we might well have thought our
selves In a Photographic warehouse
There must certainly have been be-
tween six and seven thousand photo
graphs"
A business communication in Arabic
recently reached a Manchester firm.
and when translated BY a Syrian In
terpreter proved to contain a request
for the price OF coppering two water
Of certain given Dimensions
The translator was confident OF his YER
sion. but admitted that he had not
known what "water sheep" could be-
For the moment even the heads OF the
firm were puzzled. until It struck some
Dne that this was the nearest synonym
IN the vocabulary OF a pastoral people
Tor hydraulic rams" - Manchester
Guardian
The corner stone Of the Washington
Monument was laid by President Polk. :
July 4. 1S4S. and December 9. 1884. the !
stone was set in position. The 7
foundations are 1864 feet square and Z
g feet s inches deep. The base OF the :
lonument is IS feet ia inches square. q
md the walls Is feet Il inch thick. At I
he JOOfoot mark, where the pyramidal I.
op begins, the shaft Is "a feet 5n Z
inches square and the walls are IS ?
inches thick. The monument Is made q
Z blocks Of marble 2 feet thick, and
Is said there are over 1900 OF them. 7
he height above the ground IL 555 y
eet. y
Revelations concerning the double =
areer Of the Russian terrorist police y
gent, Azeff, recall a story told Of Louis 4,
VIII, King OF France. and Foucbe. q.
no had been at one time Napoleon's
Of police. After the Bourbon
sstoration the King asked Fouche
neither he had set spies over him dur
q the empire. Fouche admitted that
had @Who was the spyY' the King
,ked, and he was informed that It had
zen the Comte de Blacas. How much
d he getT continued the King. two
inbred thousand francs a year, your
~ajesty." "Ah, WELL" said Louis, "he
as honest. then, after ALL had
IT,"
The experiment Of holding services In
e open air, instead Of inside the
urch, Is being attempted by M Of
g Congregational church ministers at 40
The parson In question, ac- sor
to an Australian paper just to we
nd, having in mind the badly ven req
ated condition of many churches and tor
fact that the congregations are not
ways composed Of those who are In ho'
g best Of health, has decided that II the
, people are agreeable the Sunday his
services shall be conducted for lad
3 remainder Of the warm weather Die
the open air. There are, no doubt, res
my people In thls country who would to
e to see this experiment tried over pol
re N hot Sunday evenings-West wit
nster Gazette. He
& young man who prides himself on .ur
ng in the front rank among the yin
ihionable people appeared at one Of Un
uptown restaurants last Saturday anu
when the theater parties as -
and attracted much affeuffou mu'