The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-07-30
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Concrete is made from the refuse OF
/ soap mill at Calcutta.
The town of Bangkok is largely
lfloat, the houses being built on RATS
If bamboo.
Oriental dye-makers obtain forty
Ihades Of yellow from the shell Of
The pomegranate.
India has a rice crop this season Of
,2,33S,949 short tons, 1,1O3,116 more
than last season.
Each American Fourth of July costs,
approximately, 500 lives, with injuries
% 1000 other merrymakers.
In Vancouver, B. c., turpentine IL
low being obtained from resinous
woods by an electrical process Of dis
.illation.
The pineapple is proving the most
important and valuable of all the
fruits in Formosa. A single firm had
IN output of $4,000 tons last year.
There are in Great Britain $4,000
holdings Of over one acre, of which
81 per cent are under fifty acres,
whereas only 31a per cent are over
300 acres.
OF late there has been an extrordS~
nary development of service in fine,
aew, modern fast ships between South
America and ports In England, Ger
many and Italy.
One kind of Mexican pineapple:
known as the cayenne, is entirely
tree from spines, and the flesh Is much
more tender and Juicy. These cost
up to IS cents apiece, and the demand
Is far ahead of the supply.
The city of Los Angeles has solved
the pole nuisance to a large extent by
providing joint pole committee,
whose object is to eliminate unneces~
sary poles and cause the various com
panies to run their lines on the same
poles. The committee has been at work
for two years, and 10000 poles are now
being used jointly by the different
companies.
This worlds most powerful search
light is now part of the equipment OF
the Connecticut of the United States
navy. The great mirror Is FIVE feet Ia,
diameter and was made for the govern
ment in Germany. The searchlight
will throw such powerful stream OF
light that 1t will be able to detect a.
submarine or torpedo boat at a dis.
lance Of ten miles.
Later information on the results or
Lieutenant Shackleton's expedition to-
the Antarctic revealed much that was
not discussed in the preliminary dis
patches. 1t Is now brought out plain
ly that the south magnetic pole, like
the north magnetic pole, shifts It's po~
Eition. The discovery will enable geo.
graphers to revise the magnetic charta.
and this will render navigation safer.
That the German government be-
lieves ships of war will be much big
ger In the future Is shown by the en-
largement of the Kaiser Wilhelm
canal, which is to be deepened at once,
to thirty-six feet, with provision for
later deepening, II necessary, to forty
six feet The width of the canal IL TO-
be doubled The new dimensions OF
the locks will considerably exceed
those at Panama.
Justice Clark, of the Supreme Court.
sitting at Rochester recently had o..
word to cay for people who 60 about
public highways on foot. Addressing;
the grand jury, he declared: 1.-THE aus-
tomobile Is an institution which haes
come to stay. But the pedestrian wsas
here first. He has certain definssn
rights. One of these is that he mswa
be protected In travelling on the uub.-
lie highways. Careless, reckless ands
criminal operation of automobiles mxsa
be stopped"
From extended experiments that
have recently been made at Macon, Ga.
1t has been found that a fine GRADE
OF paper can be made from pulp pYe-
pared from the okra stem, and a plant
for making paper from this source iD
likely to be erected In that city at an
early date Okra is easily grown irs
the Southern States, and could be pro-
duced In large quantities as a paper
making plant. The plant Is an herb
belonging to the mallow family, genuss
hibiscus It's botanical name IL hibss..
Gus esculentus
| Measurements by scientists bring QUO
the interesting fact that the Anerb-
can college athlete of to-day Is q much
larger man than his father was, and
Is constantly growing. The average
height of the Yale athlete to-day 10 am
Inch and half more than it was two
years ago; he is twenty-five poundr
heavier with three inches more chest
development and forty-two cubic
Inches more lung capacity; the aver
age height Of the Yale athletes ia now
feet 90 inches. and their weight
exactly 170.5 pounds. At an examine
ton Of Harvard athletes Professor sars
gent found that they were an inch tall.
or and from four to i've pounde
heavier than were the students OK
thirty years ago.