Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-06-19
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.



have 10000 telephones.
A left-handed high school girl out In
the State of Washington has won in a
contest by throwing a baseball 1872 feet
inches.
A complete silk plant from the worms
on the trees to the looms. will be fea-
ture Of Japan's exhibit at the Alaska
YukonPacific exposition at Seattle.
Nearly all the vines in Europe were
killed by frost In S91 and 1913 one mid
summers day, 1893, in England, there
was frost so severe that it destroyed
| fruits.
AS the result of shock sustained
through falling into copper of boiling
water, boy named George Herbert
Foster. aged II, living at Spalding, who
was practically dumb, has partly re-
gained his power of speech.
| Hollow Horn Bear, chief OF all the
Sioux, is the first living man to have
his portrait on the national currency.
He made great speech in Congress in
1889, and as he is good-looking speci-
|
ed on both the So and $50 bills.
There is a coach dog belonging to 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 to the Battery, returning
with the car. That satisfies him. Then
he returns to the barn and loafs dur
ing the rest of the day.-New York
Press.
Capt Archibald Willingham Butt, the
new military aid at the White House, is
fine tennis player and has already be-
come a member of President Roosevelt's
tennis cabinet" He played his first
, game SIS partner with his eminent chief,
matched against the French ambassa-
dor, NJ. Jusserand, and Postmaster Cen
eral Meyer.
The swastika Is the oldest known
, and circle. The swastika is now held
2 In common acceptation to be significant
of good luck. Investigation of the rec
ords of every known race has revealed
traces Of the swastika. The symbol
was early introduced into India. appar-
emily in connection with sun worship.
/ Breaking into houses where funerals
q have just taken place and plundering
a them is spoken Of by the Berliner Tage-
: blatt as the latest trick OF the thieves
= Of that city. While this may be a new
r, form Of criminality in Berlin, says the
d writer, 1t is really only an imitation
: of an incident described In Dion Cas-
sius as having taken place $500 years
before Christ.
8 Il have heard good many stories
Illustrating thrift" remarked a Bronx
. resident, ''but the janitor of some new
= Steam-heated flats told me one that beat
n them all. On Sundays the tenants have
D great many visitors, and the janitor
t discovered that these visitors paid the
v tenants 2 cents each for the privilege
of taking a hot bath cents II they
did not bring their own towels-New
York Sun
Emerson was a notable sufferer from
q the vagaries of memory. his biographei
@ relates that he met him one day IL
y Boston, apparently at loss for some
d thing, and asked him where he wal
e going. ITO dine" said Emerson, witt
/ a very old and dear friend. l know
where she lives. but L hope she won
ask me her NAME" and then he pro
ceeded to describe her as "the mother
Of the wife of the young man-the tai
man-who speaks so WELL" and so on
until his interlocutor guessed to whom
he was referring.
1t is estimated that the total pro
duction Of sugar throughout the worl,
is about 100000 tons per annum o
this quantity nine-tehths are afforded
by the sugar cane. 25,00000O tons o
which are required to produce the aboy,
quantity of cane sugar. The averag
of saccharine matter in the ripe Yves
Indian sugar cane is from IS to 81 pc
cent, of which only 8 per cent is avail
able to commerce. The total value o
the sugar in the cane, II it could be ex
tracted, would be about $230,00000C
but one-half is lost In the process o
manufa cture.
The japanese nave no use Tor but
IONS. buckles or hooks and eyes. Cor,
serves every purpose Of fastening, ant
furnishes artistic possibilities seemingl,
without end. The Japanese have hun
dreds Of knots. Some are as old a
the time when history was recorded b.
series of knots. just as it was 4
China and Peru before the invention o
writing. There are dozens of knots 4
common and ceremonial usage, an
these every Japanese child can tie. II
name but a few, there are plum-blos
SONS, cherry blossoms. Iris, chrysanthe
mum and pinetree knots. Also Their
are Fujiyama knots, turtle and stor
knots, the "old mans" which is cas-
to tie; the "old woman's." which is dii
icult, and many Others.
DIR. Paul Carus, the editor OF tn
Z a. IL a.