The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-03-04
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

me area covered by the natlona
capitol is 153,i12 square feet.
The last edition Of the New oYr
telephone book weighed 1000 tons.
Under ordinary circumstances. tn
life Of wooden boat is four times tina
Of steel.
Another woman has been elected t
the Colorado Legislature. About
dozen women have served there befor,
her
In the matter Of drinking" muset
the philosopher with the impressionisti,
nese, "be sure you are right and yot
won't get a head. "-Philadelphla Rec
ord
One OF the most destructive as wei
as one of the most offensive pests thai
allict the planters OF India is the rec
cotton bug. The insect has been report
ed as cotton pest from every part OF
the country. Its presence Is detected
by the offensive odor
Hithereto the population Of japanese
towns of the empire as a whole has
been estimated from the official records
Of births and deaths and other docll-
ments, but IT has now been arranged
to make a municipal house to house in
yestigation, commencing at Kobe.
Guam, which is one of the most unin-
wiling of our. possessions, will be
equipped with an experimental station
through the means of which Its re
sources viii be Investigated and en-
couraged. DR.. W. H. Evans, of the
office of experiment stations, has visited
the island and selected site for the
station at Agana. The station will be
conducted under the Immediate super
vision of the Office, with II. l.. " Coste-
noble as an agent in charge
Lord Lyyeden Is an ardent peerage
reformer and tells this anecdote: A
famous statesman Of the nineteenth
century was called upon to visit his son
In prison. He bitterly reproached him,
remarking: Here am |, having worked
my way up from a middle class home
to great position, and when l die
you will be the greatest BLACKBOARD in
the peerage.n The son listened quietly,
and then replied, with terrible irony:
Yes-when you de-
1t Is customary In Spain when an
infant first begins TO notice things to
place before 1t a silver coin, a sword,
a silver cross, book and some fruit.
The object to which the child stretches
his hand indicates. according to accept
ed belief his future vocation The coin
is for commerce, the sword for the
army, the cross and the book respec-
lively point to the church and the law
or learning, while the fruit denotes a
farmer or landowner.-The English
man.
The Woman Suffrage Association OF
New Jersey recently celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of Lucy Stone letting
her household goods. including her
baby's cradle be sold for taxes in Or
lnge as a protest against taxation with
out representation. The suffragists say
that this was the first instance In the
world of woman refusing to pay taxes
FOR this reason. Since then there have
been many similar Instances The last
md most notable perhaps was the case
If Lady Steel, who let her goods be sold
1t auction In Edinburg, Scotland.
Lowry is a man with a moderate In
ONE and one child, whom he is already
ending to a French master, who Is ae-
TO be paid every Monday. Re
emily Lowry sent Henry to his lesson
Without the usual bank note. That
venlng the father looked over the boys
exercise, and this is what he found
henry doing his best to put into Paris
an French: 81 have no money. The
Teek is up. Have you no money? Has
our father no money? l need money
What is the day of the week? The day
t the week is Monday. Does your IA
her know the day of the week."
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is getting r
lore eloquent as her years increase. her
riends declare. She is now nearly 1
inety. and the other day at reception
lven her in Boston made what her
,iendS say was the finest speech of
er life She said that when she be-
an to talk about woman suffrage she
ever know when to stop. at was my 4
BOD fortune to get interested in the
iffrage question about the time the
egro men obtained their freedom" :
RS. Howe said. "Then for the first
me saw the whole of one sex gov
ned by the whole of the other This
emed to me an intolerable tyranny l
'uldn't help but think that after we
I'd held the door open for the negro
2 might at least have been allowed
go In with him"
A scheme is being arranged for the
OBJECTION of the manlike apes In the
srman colonies of equatorial Africa.
Is proposed In the first place that the
ootlng of these creatures should be
richly prohibited and steps taken 70.
elr protection. In connection with
is Ii is proposed to establish In the
.meroons a special reserve for the
una of the equatorial forest generally
lis reserve would Include geological