The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-19
THINGS YOU NAY NOT Know


| city Of New York. An edition Of 1,OOO,-
GOO copies is printed twice every year
to meet the demands of subscribers to
10000 telephones which are in use In
that city and its suburbs.
In nine months Of the current year
10000 aliens came to this country and
$4,000 foreign-born people went back
to Europe. During the similar period
Of last year there arrived in America
1,135,OOO aliens, while those who de-
parted from these shores numbered
only $4,000.
A curious insect has arrived from
Brazil at the South Kensington Mu-
scum, In London. 1t is beetle. At
Its head CLEANS red ruby lamp, and
. eleven green lights glow forth from
each side Of the little creature. These
peculiarities have earned it the name
Of the railway beetle"
Last year New York City spent $780,
100000 on its public schools; Chicago,
$23.00O.OOO; Boston more than $1O-
100000; Philadelphia little more
than $6.0OO,OOO. Though Philadelphia
is the third city in population in the
United States, 1t stood thirty-fourth in
per capita expenditure on schools
OF the total oil production of tho
world in 1907. the United States is cred
tied with over GO per cent. Russia pro-
duced 231a per cent and all countries
combined outside of these about 81 per
cent. The total production of the world
was estimated at 262,212,3OO barrels
in 1907. The production of the United
States was 166.O95, 1885 and of Russia
81 $50, 1874 barrels.
The Indian population of New York
State is as follows the figures being
for the year 1905, the latest obtainable,
taken by the several reservations: AL
legheny, 1866: Cattaraugus, 1,472; Onei-
da, 104; Onondaga, 525; st. Regis,
1,2O6; Tonawanda, SOB; Tuscarora, 8S4
The total Of 5000 is but four less than
was shown by the Indian census of
1892.
During the last season the Pennsyi-
vania Railroad Company set out 3O3,-
O30 trees, including pines, larches,
spruce and hardwoods. In its nursery
it set out $4,000 forest seedlings for
future transplanting and planted 900
bushels of red oak acorns, from which
100000 seedlings are now growing. 1t
also planted a large quantity Of black
walnut, chestnut and hickory, prac-
tically all of which have given COM
plete termination.
The pear Is really more hardy thai
the apple, and needs less cosseting.
There are trees still standing near
Monroe, in the State Of Michigan,
which were planted by the French set
tiers before Penn founded Philadelphia.
Pear trees can be kept in good and
bearing condition for 300 years, and
apples for at least $50 years. have
one apple tree 115 years old, and its
annual fruitage is as perfect as it was
sixty years ago.. P. Powell, in Out.
ing.
Represented graphically, the United
States now consumes yearly a roll Of
white paper $50 feet high and 377 feet
in diameter. From the top of such a
roll of'paper one can peer down in i'm
aginatiOn on the tower of the new
Singer building in New York. 1t would
weigh, all told, about 100000 tons,
and to produce it would have required
some $S,SOO.OOO worth of rags, some
$7,4OO,0OO worth of old or waste paper
and some $20,S00,0OO worth of wood
pulp, to say nothing of other essentials.
Boston Transcript.
Collins said that after the publica.
ton Of ''The Woman in White" lady
came to him and said: "The great
failure Of your book is your villain.
Excuse me If I say you do not really
know a villain. Your Count Fosco Is
very poor one, and when next you
want character Of that description
trust that you will not disdain to come
to me. l know villain; the man Is
alive and constantly under my gaze.
In fact, he is my own husband" The
lady was the wife Of Edward Bulwer
Lytton.-From Hall Gaines MY
Story"
According to Messrs. Henriet and
Bonyssy ozone is produced by the ultra
violet rays Of the sun in the upper
atmosphere and the amount contained
in the air near the ground increases
when air currents descend from the
upper regions Sometimes, also, it in
creases during rains. 1t has been OBJ
served that there Is a reduction Of the
proportion Of carbonic acid in the air
when the amount of ozone increases,
This Is regarded as an indirect effect
due to diluti6n of the lower air by
the purer air descending from above
Youths Companion.
When Commodore Decatur was
blockaded at the mouth Of a Connecti-
cut river, the Thames, during the war
of lSl2-14, the rumor was circulated
on shore that he lacked flannel for the
manufacture Of cartridges for his cam
non. Thereupon patriotic resident
o the town Of Groton, Mother" Bailey.
gained access to Decatur's ship. inter
Viewed the commodore and verified the