The Western news., 1909-03-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



ticket.
The handkerchief of the French sol
der has printed on it certain sanitary
rules desirable to observe during Il
campaign.
The following is the shortest sentence
containing all the letters of the alpha
bet: Pack my box with Ave dozen liz.
uor jugs.-HOme Notes.
South Dakota is congratulating her
self ON the greatest gold year in her
history. The report of the state mine
inspector, filed with the governor,
shows the states gold production for
the last year to have been $7,460,OOO.
Missouri is the greatest tobacco pro-
ducing state. The quantity Of the weed
produced during the fiscal year which
ended June 30 last, was 71,212,212
pounds, 100000 pounds more than
was produced by North Carolina, which
comes next.
There are now 667 women students
in the University Of Glasgow. This is
said to be the largest number on rec
ord. Queen Margaret College is the
women's hall, which is presided over
by Miss Galloway, LID, and Janet
Spens, NJ. A.
About $4,000 fox skins are sold out Of
Maine every year. Very few of the sly
animals are shot. Many are killed by
the use of poisoned bait, while hun
dreds of others are killed in drives,
known as the New Hampshire meth
| od."-Fur News.
A New York woman shopper who In
| fond of figures has estimated that the
! time lost by customers each day in one
Of the large department stores in wait
| ing for their change is equal to the
average time Of labor for one person.
for seventy days.
This year 1864 women registered In
| Boston to vote for school committee.
Twenty whine years ago, when the priv
| ilege of voting at these elections was
| first granted to women, only 900 regis
tered, and for the following nine years
| the average was only little over 1000
Motorists who suffer with cold handy
while driving their ears may have re-
| lief by using a steering wheel provided
with electric heat. An English inven-
ton describes steering wheei with q
core that carries two electrically heat
ed coils insulated one from the other
and from the euter rim.
Sir william Wallace, the British resi-
| of ho0
reported to the home government that
cannibal tribes owning hundreds OF
thousands Of horses in Nigeria are be-
| ing subdued by peaceful means, and
that their country contains perhaps the
richest TIN and copper fields In the
world.
Booker r. Washington was born near
Hale's Ford, Va, about 1859. His
| mother was a slave in the Burroughs
, family, where she was known as Jane
Burroughs Her husband lived on
neighboring plantation. Booker Wash
ington was educated at Hampton Insti-~
! tute, Virginia, where he graduated In
! 1875. He taught there until he was Sc
/ lected head of Tuskegee Institute
which he organized.
Miss Harriet S. Hayward, of Brock
| ton, Mass, is the first woman to be
! elected by n county In Massachusetts
to preside at county teachers associa~
ton. She Is the primary supervisor or
schools in BrOckton and the Plymouth
| County Teachers Association. over
| chA ta1 % 10 lex
one of the largest in the state. The
meeting is said to have been the best.
ever held.
When the Cloughey County Down
Ireland) llfeboat went to the assistance
of the French bark Croisette, which
had been driven ashore on a submerged
reef, the men refused to leave the yes
sci without a little haff-breed fox ter
rler. The animal was eventually found
and rescued amid the cheers OF the
bark's crew, who were then brought
ashore in the Meboat and Hospitality
housed by the villagers
The Ligue Rationale Aerienne re-
Gently received from COmmandant Dol
fuss the offer Of prize Of f400 for thee
first kite of French construction capa'-
BILE of lifting man to the height Of
200 meters, and Of maintaining him iT
the air for a period Of at least one
hour. 1t is interesting to see that at
tention is thus again directed to the
use of kites, which would appear to-
have been somewhat neglected owing to-
the success Of the apparatus of the aer.
oplane type.
Daniel has come to judgment In
the Vermont Legislature with a bill in
; tended to guard newspapers against
"fakers" 1t makes the giving Of false
news to newspaper with intent to de-
, ceive punishable by fine ranging from
, SIS to 500 for each offense. "We hope
that the Vermont lawmakers will lose
no time in making the bill a statute"
says the Boston Transcript. "Its en-