The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-08-12

soap mill at Calcutta
The town OF Bangkok Is larsely
.aoat tbs houses belng built on rats
II bamboo.
or,su,al dyemakers obtain forty
,hades Of yellow from the Sheh Ok
he pomegranate.
India has a rice crop this season 0t
. sss s4s short tons, i.ios.lls more
han last season.
Each American Fourth OF July eVpss.
,nproximately, 500 lives. With injuries
. 4 600 other merrymakers-
IN Vancouver. b. C.. tuFpensine -
row being obtained from resinoaa
goods by an electrical process OF ga
.iilation.
The pineapple Is proving the most
mnortant and valuable OF All Ehs
,ruits in Formosa. A single arm haa
an OUTPUT OF $4,000 tons last year
There are in Great Britain 10000
holdings Of over one acre. Of ~hica
n Der cent are uHder nifty acres.
xhereas only sls per cent are over
100 acres
OF late there has besa an extFoFdF
nary development Of service 10 hns.
lew modern fast ships between South
America and ports Ia England. Ger
many and Italy.
one kind Of Mexican pineapple.
known as the cayenne. Is satirelY
tree from spines. and The nssh u naaeh
more tender and isIey. These eost
% TO Is eents apiece. and the dessiAAa
Is fAr ahead o. the sepeiy'
The city OF Los Angeles has sslvesi
the pole nuisance 70 a large sAsehs ~
providing 4 joint pole COMMITTEES.
whose object Is 70 elimlaais uansers'
sary poles and cause the various COM
panles TO run their lines on the same
poles. The committee has oesn ~ Nof&
tor two years. and 10000 poles ars nos
being used iola,iy By the alrsFsas
companies
This worlds most powerful ssarea,
light Is now part 81 tbs e4uipsncts o.
the conneetleat % the gnitst States
navy. The great mirror Il ave ters "a
diameter and MAS made Cor the govern.
lnent 10 Germany Ths ssarehiisht
viii throw such a powerful ssssara q
light that 4 will b. able 70 detect q
submarine Or torpedo boat al : Dis
lance Of ten miles,
Later infoFmafi6n Ga the results u
Lieutenant shaekislou'a expedition 20
the Antarctic revealed much thar wss
nes discussed ia the preliminary dis.
patches Il Ia n0a brought oat pisln.
~ tina, the south magnetic pole. like
the north magnetic pole. shifts ia %.
sltion. The discovery Nili enable $40.
graphers 10 rrylsc ms magnetic charts.
and this viii render navigation hassr
That the German government b..
lievcs ships OF var wili b. much biz.
ser IN the future Is shown By tbs ca.
larssment OF the Kaiser Wilhelm
canal. which u 70 Be- dscpsaed a. ouea
10 thirtysix feet. with provision for >
later deepening. n accessory. to forty.
sir feet The width o. the canal Il 70
Be doubled Tho new dlmensloas %
the locks win considerably excrsd
those al Panama
Justice Clark. Of the Supreme Court.
sitting at Rochester. recently had
word to say for people who 70 about
public highways on foot Addressing
the grand Jury. he declared: The Aa.
tomoblie Is an institution which has
come 10 stay. fIut the pedestrian waa
here frtt lie has certain defined
rights. One Of these il that he must
be protected In travelling on the pub
Tic highways Careless. reckless and
criminal operation Of automobiles must
be stopped
From extended experiments that
have recently been made at Macon. Ca.
1t has been found that fine grade
OF paper can be made from pulp pre-.
pared from the okra stem. and a plant
for making paper from this source Ia
likely to be erected In that city ~ an
early date. okra "a easily grown In
the Southern States. and could be pro
duced in large quantities as paper
making plant The plant is an hertz
belonging 10 the maIlow family. geans
hibiscus. Its botanical name ia hibis.
Gus escuientus
Measurements by scientists bring out
the interesting fact that the Amerf.
can college athlete Of to-day IL much
larger man than his father was. and
Ia constantly growing. The average
height of the Yale athlete today IL an
inch and half more than Il was fve
years ago; he ia twenty-five pounds
heavier with three inches more chest
development and forty.two cubic
inches more lung capacity: the aver.
age height OF the Yale athletes is now
5 feet 90 inches. and their weight
exactly i70.5 pounds. AT an examina-
ton OF Harvard athletes Professor sar~
gent found that they were an inch tall.
err and from four to Eve pounds
heavier than were the students OF
thirty years ago.
The Bishop OF London made some
striking statements when he presid.
ed over the annual meeting OF the Lon.