Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-04-23
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW


will be experimental with In the upper
part of New York City.
The next international congress for
the discussion of appliances for refrig-
Grating will be held in Vienna in 1910.
Professor Huebner, of Berlin, strong
~ recommends buttermilk as a diet for
Infants, especially in cases of intestinal
disturbance.
A beautiful triple rainbow has been
seen at Smolensk, Russia, the air at
the time being filled with very fine and
powdery snow.
The number of telephones In the
whole world is estimated at 0,50O,0O0,
of which 100000 are said to be in use
la America, and 100000 in Europe.
Europeans are beginning to realize
the hygienic value of high buildings,
With elevators which lift people into
the dust-free, sunlit, higher regions.
1t has been shown in Switzerland,
where 1000 persons annually die of
cancer, that the tendency to that dis
case Is less in regions free from goitre.
Stated in brief, railroad gross earn.
ings in the calendar year 1908 fell,
roughly, 100000 below the total OF
the gross earnings for the calendar
year 1907 Financial Chronicle.
Large shipments Of cherries are sent
from Europe to this country, simply
preserved In brine, to escape the high
duty on fruits preserved in sugar. They
are then made into "Maraschino" cher,
ries.
A paint is soon to be placed on the
market to indicate excessive heat in
machine parts. Red when cool, it be
comes black when heated. MercuriC
iodide and cupic oxide are two of the
ingredients.
A scientific periodical calls attention
to the fact that not only water color
but oil paintings Of the last half cen
fury seem doomed to fade, entirely
and that typewriter documents will Ill
timately be blank paper.
Asbestos Is found In the island Of
Cyprus, and a company organized II
1906, obtaining a concession in the isl
and, began to open mine early II
1907. Up to the end of that year 1,0O(
tons of asbestos were mined.
The fire loss in the United States
and Canada for the month of January
amounted to $22,735,OOO. This wal
seven millions below the January losl
III 1908 and two millions under thu
January loss in 1907; but 1t was ex
ceeded only three times in the MONTH!
fire losses Of last year.
Thece was a time when Ohio wal
noted for its forest products; last yea
1t yielded only 100000 feet Of the 40,
25G. $4,000 feet of lumber cut in thu
country. Pennsylvania, which used t.
lead in this industry. now ranks a.
eighth among the States; Washington
coming first and Louisiana second.
The New York city department o
finance has made public a statement o
the funded Indebtedness of the munich
pnlity down to November so, 1908. A
that time there was a funded debt out
standing of 1874. 1906 1S9 and a tempo
rary debt of $02.37s,200, making
combined gross Indebtedness of 1886
4S4, $50.
w. A. Graham Clerk, a special agen
of the bureau of Manufactures, and a
expert In textiles, has been assigned t
investigate market conditions in Lati
American countries. He will first vlsi
New York, Providence, Pawtucket
Boston and other points in New En-
gland, and confer with manufacturer
of cotton goods and others interested
The Royal Photographic Society, Q
England, has been annoyed by the r.
fusal of the National Portrait Caller
to exhibit photographs and has decit
ed to establish a national gallery Q
Photographic portraiture. The schem
has met with enthusiastic support fror
all those interested in the photograph
art A large number of photograph
has been received and the gallery wi
be thrown open to the public at Gel
tain periods In the near future.
Cutting the finger nails appears
have been the most indispensable SCI
vice the ancient Roman barber render
ed to his patrons. Martial, chatting
fop who had tried to dodge the barbe
by using plasters to remove his beart
asks triumphantly: "How are you g
ing to manage about your nailsT An
the miser in PlautuS collects the pa
ings Of his nails from the barber
make something out of them, appa
emily never dreaming that he cOul
save money by cutting them himself.
A dramatic critic and his wife haV
aisle seats at the opening Of a certai
Broadway theater. The mascot Of Il
house, a fine big Maltese cat, alwaJ
works hard at his Job opening night
paradlng up and down the aisle an
surveying the show from various pOln
on the floor. Early in the season Mr.
Dramatic Critic and the cat discovere
that they were afinities, and now ever
, opening night the mascot spends I
least two acts sleeping placidly in Mr.
Dramatic Critics lap.-New York Su
"I used to be surprised" said a cler