The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-05-06


per cent greater than that Of lass
year.
Japan makes 10000 to 10000 bicy-
Giles yearly and also imports 10000.
besides separate parts enough 10 make
5OoO0. The country now has 100000
In use. mostly for business purposes
The demand for tires is 200 pairs
daily. two-thirds OF which are TN
ported
Census returns In India show some
remarkably candid statements In Al
lahabad thirty-hye citizens described
themselves IS ~nen who rob with
threats Of violence" There were TWEEN
iy-fve hereditary thieves" There
were nine professional false wit
nesses."
New York fee skaters are to enjoy
their sports 300 feet IN the air when
the latest rink is completed on the roof
Of an Office building on the corner OF
Broadway and Twenty-third street AS
the building viii not be completed until
May ]. the skaters viii have to walt
until next winter.
Canadians are accommodating money
at much faster rate than the banks
and business men can proftably invest
IL there. The Ottawa October bank
statement showed a decrease OF 1884,
100000 IN home loans In one year ana
an increase Of 100000 IN the loans
made abroad. says a consular report
Regents OF the University Of Mime
sofa have ordained that all contracts
with members OF the faculty shall ex-
pire when teachers reach their sixty
fifth birthday Next June. It is said
half a dozen old gentlemen win call
the class roll for the last time unless
they have before followed the example
Of their president DIR. Nortbrop. and
sent In their designations
Booker T. Washington, in an ad-
dress to negroes at Montgomery. Ala
recently. said: Since the emancipa-
ton proclamation By Abraham Lincoln
there has been no benefit conferred
upon the negroes OF the South equal to
that conferred by the closing up OF
the barrooms throughout these South
ern States. and we should show our
gratitude by seeing TO II IN every way
possible that we help the officials en-
force the Temperance law and that We
do not patronize the blind tigers and
other institutions which are likely TO
spring up in defiance Of law"
Mira MiIlicent Garrett Fawcetf is the
only woman who has ever been asked
to address the University Debating
Society at Oxford AT the request OF
the students she took woman suffrage
as her subject At the end Of her
speech a resolution IN favor Of woman
suffrage was pat and lost by a ma
fority OF sixteen. There 10 rumor
that AIRS. Julia Ward Howe win In
the near future receive a similar In
vitatfon from Harvard Those who
pretend to be informed assert that
Harvard's majority against woman
suffrage would be many times greater
than Oxford's.
Prof Kirsopp Lake. who holds thu
chair OF New Testament exezesis IN
the University Of Leyden. has complet-
ed the work OF photographIng the
',Codex Sinaiticus" one OF the three
oldest New Testament manuscripts
The manuscript. which is written on
vellum In capital letters. four columns
OF writing to the page. was discoveries
by Tischendorf In a monastery on
Mount Athos some sixty years arp
and Is surpassed In age only by the
Vatican manuscript The third OF
these vel.um manuscripts Of the New
Testament is the -Codex AlexandrInus
in the British Museum
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
mayor OF Eldeburgh. England. gave
dinner recently to forty councillors and
other guests. She was the only woman
and she wore black dress,
with widows cap and diamonds Re
plying to the toast. ~Aldeburgh's Pros
perity." she said that during her year
Of Office she would try her best to
prove good. motherly housekeeper to
the town. She declared that nothing
could be done by talking. but a great
deal By the councillors agreeing to take
action and work together for the good
II the town. She hoped to better the
roads and to make the town more at
tractive 10 visitors
The bishop OF Durham. England. la
nents the fact that very formidable.
iegree OF English Christian life Ia the
neglect and isolation Of the Lords day
has set In. and blames ''the pernicious
:ustom Of the weekend The very
lay" he says. when the charities OF
home should be in their strength, when
he family should meet with special
devotion for home worship. and should !.
Ilso meet. family amidst other fami-
les In the church which is the center
4 the surrounding religious life-lifs
n which the family should have a re-
ponsfole parts now too often the
lay for separation. Incidence. irrespon-
ibie acknowledgement
To Columbia University belongs the
redlt Of offering the first course de