Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Copper and wire sheets are now
produced direct from crude metal by
one process.
Asbestos of reported good quality
exists In large quantity in Rajputana
and in Afghanistan, and native COM
pany has been formed to work the de-
posits and manufacture the product.
About six hundred patents are
granted each year to British women
upon inventions. ranging from articles
distinctively feminine in nature to
motors, railroad cars, flying machines
and wireless telegraphy
Brazil is offering an alluring field
to the American makers of patent
medicines, as against the standard
proprietary medicines there exists no
prejudice on the part of Brazilian
doctors or their patients.
The proportion OF felonies relating
to property to the population in the
police area Of London has risen stead
lily OF recent years In 1907 1t was
1883 to each thousand OF the populay
ton. higher figure than in any year
since 1895.
The population of the state of Vera
Cruz may be approximately put down
at 100000. Every settlement. vii
lage, town and city is provided With
private and public educational instf
tutions for the elementary education
of the people.
Professor Beniamina RinAldi pub
| - ~ "a
Milan an interesting statistical study
OF elementary education in Italy.
School teachers are the worst pAid
public servants In Italy. Their pay
averages from 81 to 46 cents day,
Every metal is believed by Gruttins.
. German chemist, to have It's pecu.
liar odor, which he regards rs a case
GUS transformation product. He haR'
made some of the Odors perceptible
for a few moments at intervals by
heating the metals to 122 degrees
Fahrenheit,
Sturgeon are much scarcer now In,
the lower Amur River than formerly,
owing to the fact that they are caught
contrary to law, with dragnets ana
, during the spawning season. Sturv
geon Weighing from 100 to 100 pounds
= were once caught in quantities, but
are uncommon now, the average
. weight being between thirty-slx and
forty pounds.
a A skirt steak is not exactly q piece
de resistance, or a fiirtatious piece. az
a some thoughtless stiles may think
Il but Is quite another piece, the cheap
4 est piece OF a steer. II Is q piece Of
the diaphragm. or midrih, between
IA lungs and bowels, and makes good
4 steak, stew or sausage, having the
q. great advantage of being absolutely
10 fresh, being too cheap to be kept in
In storage.
1t 1t is reported that a syndicate pros
lS pecting $50 miles south Of suez on
the Red Sea coast, has struck oil, the
gusher giving increasing quantities
daily. and indicating large reserves
Of The well has been properly capped
le pending storage arrangements. Tht
70 possibility OF cheap supply Of fuel Il
at discovery of the greatest import
IN ance to Egypt. and its geographical
10 DOSlIlOn buOulu NA1NONSA
n va liable to the British navy.
he Three principal gauges of line arr
ke used on the various railways In thu
I'm commonwealth OF Australia. The mos
YET common gauge, S15 feet, Is used OF
CO about 1000 miles Of line, scattered
ri over Ave OF the states. The feet ant
I'M 3 inch gauge is second in Importance
mel he Inc
re only in New South Wales, third. will
3D. 3,472 miles Of line. There are ais
an so miles of 219 feet gauge. and thre
he miles of Q feet gauge. StandardizG
De- tion has been proposed. but no actiol
has been taken.
er, Cleanliness was not a fad In tn
OF middle ages. King Edward Nv. OF Ell
ly, gland was supplied with a barber I
led shave him once week, and III som
ace necessary" to wash his head and fee
One medieval laundress was given &
ron little to wash that the washing bi
,ch OF a ducal establishment came to 4
shilling ($9.60) a year. Four shirt
ga was considered a large allowance {
nd linen for Lord Howard, and a poiI
, n is made Of the fact that Master How
life ard was actually given a shirt to 4
to college, with.
bod Separate schools for tubercular chi
you dren may be established In Philade
phia in the near future. The ne
school code specifically prescribes thu
children suffering from tuberculos
sne can not be admitted into the publ
ANU schools, and at the same time pr
am vides for the compulsory attendant
Jan of all children between the ages
heF 6 and 16 years. 1t is the opinion
an the educational ofhcials that the on
Ii'e' solution Of the problem is to set asst
special schools for the use of Il
.gei tubercular pupils.-The' Medical Jou
nal.
I'd Stromboli in pouring out streams
city lava, is playing a most unusual pa
says the London Chronicle. For I
remarkable character OF this aolii
vii isle is that It vomits flame persistei
" and cinders spasmodically T
Mr.. lighthouse OF the Mediterranean b