The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-06-17
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY


was made In Paris Ia 1874
OF the b88 locomotives In Roumanla
427 use petroleum for fuel
Electrically heated plates. operates
BY levers, are the principal feature Il
new clothes pressing device.
Il In new electric device for dryfn,
the hair with an air blast Resistance
can be switched In for heating the sir
A French engineer has invented 70
tary rudder by which he says yes
sci OF any size may be turned In III
own length.
4 An Italian physician has discovered
that carrots act as an intestinal anti
septic. and will cure many forms Of
digestive disorders.
A species of ant in Australia builds
its nests along a north and south lIns
so accurately that a traveller may d.
rect his course by their aid.
In connection with the extermlna.
ton OF rats from Honolulu. an official
OF the Marine Hospital Service is pre-
pairing 10 develop a breed Of cats OF
high rat-catching ability.
Hamburg is the only one OF the three
leading seaports on the northern coast
Of Europe which shows an increase in
business during the first eight months
Of this year as compared with 1907.
A young professor OF mathematics.
immense at mathematics and games.
dangerous at chess. capable OF Haydn
on the violin, once said 10 me, after
listening TO some chat on books: Eyes I;
I must take up literature" as though
saying: Il was rather forgetting lit
erature. However. I've polished on all
these other things. III have shy at
literature now."-T. P.'s Weekly.
w Kyuin Wellington Koo. a Chinese.
has been chosen to edit the Daily Spec
tator at Columbia University. 1t is
said to be the first time that q Chi
nese student has been placed at the
head OF an American college paper.
Editor Koo. who Is only twenty-five
years old. is slender chap and is
known throughout the university as
master OF pure English. He speaks with.
out accent. knows more about Ameri-
can politics than the average American.
is a debafer OF wonderful ability, and
one OF the most popular men In the uni
yersity.
Sam Shubert used 20 tell this: "A
rustic came to Buffalo and bought
ticket for the theater. Through blum
derlng about the doors be found him
self in the adjoining billiard saloon
Seeing novel performance going on.
with big crowd witnessing the sane.
be settled himself In a chair and Pc
tienly watched the play for an hour
or two. Having safiated his appetite
he left the room. and going out IN the
street was asked If the show was over.
'over7 oh. mo- be replied: it's a-goin'
on yet. They are knockin' away like all
the world In thar
A French medical man advises PEG
pie TO drink buftermilk for long life. |
He says that the Tactic acid attacks
and dissolves every sort of earthly de-
posit in the blood vessels, keeping the |
veins and arteries so supple and free
running that there can be no clogging
up: and hence there is no deposit or
rhalky matter around the joints, or OF |
poisonous waste in the muscles. 1t Is
the sfifrening and hardening OF the
blood vessels which bring on old age
Buttermilk is likely to postpone 1t ten
Or twenty years II freely drunk. A
quart day should be the minimum.
he maximum according to taste and
Out In Burmah and the far East.
where sandalwood is worth its weight
n silver. the pestiferous ant is valu-
Ible assistant TO the loggers OF the pre-
.ious timber. The hard and fragrant
alone has value. but as the
rec grows this valuable heart is over
aid by soft and worthless layer,
ormlng two-thirds OF the trunk. When
tree is felled and cut into lengths the
oggers let the timber lie. AT once the
nts begin work upon the soft wood.
which is sappy and sweet enough to
ttract them. In few weehs-less
han month In the case of the largest
utts-the ants deliver the heartwood
rec of all worthless sap wood
Post.
An English scientist gives some inter
sting figures regarding the occurrence
nd distribution OF radium In the
arth. The total amount of radium In
he ocean Is reckoned to be 10000 tons.
the sediments accommodating
, the sea, it is found that those most |
owly formed exhibit the greatest IA
lo-activity. II all the deposits In the '
"a were as rich In radlum as the gso- Q
Igerina oooEe the total amount OF this {
ement in them would be 1000, 900 {
,ns. With regard to the rate OF '
aange of uranium, by which radium =
produced, 1t is calculated that the c
mount present in the earth 100000 c
ears ago was only ! per cent more /
ian now. {
Though Turk Is allowed four d
fven he rarely has more than one u