The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-01
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


contest BY throwing baseball 1872 feel
O inches
complete silk plant from the worms
on the trees TO the looms. will be a fea
ture OF Japans exhibit at the Alaska
Yul1onPacific exposition at Seattle.
Nearly all the vines In Europe wer.
killed by frost IN s9l and s93 one mid
summers day. 1888, IN England. there
WAS a frost 50 severe that It destroyed
fruits.
AS the result OF a shock sustained
through falling into a copper OF boiling
water. boy named George Herbert
Foster. aged II. living at spalding. who
was practically dumb. has partly re-
gained bis power OF speech.
Hollow Horn Bear. chief OF all the
Sioux. Is the first living man 10 have
his portrait on the national currency.
He made a great speech IN Congress in
1889. and as he is a good-looking speci-
men OF his race his picture WIS engraY-
ed on both the 50 and $50 bills.
There is coach dog belonging 10 one
OF the car barns uptown that takes a
constitutional when they let him out
He runs ahead OF the Broadway car
from the barn 10 the Battery, returning
with the car. That satisfies him. Then
he returns 10 the barn and loafs dur
ing the rest Of the aay.-New York
Press.
Capt Archibald Wiliineham Butt. the
new military aid az the White House, is
me tennis player and has already be-
come a member o. President Rooserelt's
tennis cabinet" He played his first
game ms partner with his eminent chief.
matched against the French ambassa-
dor. ~ Jusscrand. and Postmaster Cen
eral Meyer
The swasfika Is the oldest known
symbol. having SIS origin IN the cross
and circle The swnsfika Is now held
in common acs.piation TO be significant
% good luck Investigation Of the rec
ords Of every known race has revealed
traces OF the swastlka. The symbol
WAS early introduced into India. appar-
enly IN connection with sun worship.
Breaking into houses where funerals
have Just taken place aud pinndering
them is spoken OF by the Berllner Tage-
blaft as the latest trick OF the thieves
Of that city. while this may be a new
form % criminaiiiy IN Berlin. says the
writer. Il Is really only an Imitation
Of an Incident described IN Dion Cas-
sius a. having taken place 200 years
before Christ
Il have heard a good many stories
illustrating thrift remarked a Bronx
resident. 'but the ianiior OF some new
sicam.heaied fats told me one that beat
them all. on sundays the tenants have
a great many visitors. and the janitor
discovered that these visitors paid the
tenants cents each for the privilege
81 taking a hot bath; ; cents II they
did not bring their own toweis-New
York sun.
Emerson was a notable sufferer from
the sagarics OF memory. liis biographer
relates that be met him one day in
Boston. apparently az loss Tor some
thing. and asked him where he was
going. TO dine" said Emerson. with
a very old and dear friend. I know
where she lives. bot hope she won't
ask me her name and then he pro-
ceeded 20 describe her rs ~the mother
OF the wife Of the young man-the tall
man-who speaks 80 well. and 80 on.
until his interlocutor guessed TO whom
he was referring.
II Is estimated ihat the total pro-
duciion Of sugar throughout the world |
Is about 100000 tons per annum or
this quantity nine.tenths are afforded |
BY the sugar cane. e5.00O.000 tons OF
which are required to produce the above
81 cane sugar. The average
OF saccharlne matter In the ripe West
Indian sugar cane is from Is to q per
cent. OF which only $ per cent is avail
able TO commerce. The total value Of
the sugar IN the cane. II Il could be ex-
tracted. would be about $4,000, 600.
but one-half is lost In The process OF
The Japanese have no use for but
IONS. buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose OF fastening. and
furnishes artistic possibilities seemingly
without end. The Japanese have hum
dreds OF knots Some are as old as
the time when history was recorded by
a series OF knots just as It was in
China and Peru before the invention OF
writing There are dozens OF knots in
common and ceremonial usage. and
thcse every Japanese child can tie. To
name but a few. there are plum-blos-
sons. cherry blossoms, iris. chrysanthe-
mum and pinetrce knots Also there
IRE Fujiyama knots, turtle and stork
Knots, the "old MANS which is easy
% tie; the "old woman's." which is DIFF
icult. and many others.
DR.. Paul Carus. the editor OF the
Open Court, refers to belief which
prevailed in the Middle Ages that the
'acuity OF prophetic dreams wasa sixth
'ense, which was outwardly Indicated
" the possession OF six fingers or toes.
l,lx, N eoa r.shinr critic may have dis