Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-21

greater in winter than in summer.
Australia has more unemployed area
in proportion to population than any
other country.
Rhode Island received its name from |
what was supposed to be a resem-
plance In contour to the Island OF |
Rhodes In the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh, wife Of the
late president of Princeton Upiver-
sity, has just celebrated her ninety
second birthday. ]. W. Alexander has
just finished a portrait OF Mrs. Mo
Gosh, which he has given to the uni
versity.
Among the 100000 working wom-
en- In this country there are nearly a
million widows are nearly 100000
married women whose husbands have
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100000 divorced women are among
the wage earners,
Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
Of Women. have made successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been "sneaked through" the Denver
board of aldermen to permit the feed
ing OF brewery swirl to mich cows.
Mrs. Chapman Gait PREDICTED In st.
James Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come ''as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow" 1t
is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
| GoA L. ~ I'll oI
and has had no experience Of our Eng
lish sunrises.-London Globe.
The Prussian government is to Issue
= loan, the proceeds of which are to
be used for the construction and equip
ment OF new branch line railroads.
One line of. the road is to have elee-
trio traction, for which s476000 is set
aside. The total amount to be expend-
ed under this loan bill ia s55. 1853. 900.
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
the principal products of Manchuria.
The prices of these during the last
season have been higher than ever be-
fore, but how much OF this is due to
the ability of Japan, gold standard
country. to pay more In silver, because
silver has been cheap. can not be posi-
lively stated.
The Korean grass used In the manu-
facture of grass cloth is grown very
: thickly and Is usually cut the second
or third year after planting the roots.
! The grass reaches height of four to
: five feet, and with a proper start and
under favorable conditions yields, 1t is
: roughly estimated, about 5000 pounds
to an acre.
. Hitherto skulls OF prehistoric men
| have been said to resemble those OF
great apes. but now comes a distin-
} guished French anthropologist and de-
: clares that one which has recently
been discovered is almost an exact re-
5 plica of that of Bismarck. Does this
9 mean that prehistoric men had superb
= cranial development or 1t is Gaelic
. fling at IN. lie Bismarck7"-New York
Tribune.
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, su
j perior-general of the Missionary Sisters
D of the Sacred Heart, has just returned
S to this country from Brazil, where she
f recently opened college for the high
+ er education of women. This is the
e fifty-eighth institution established by
e the order in twenty-seven years. The
institutions include colleges, schools
e hospitals and orphan asylums.
n An electrically wired tablecloth
r upon which ornamental electric ligh
= fixtures diffuse illumination the mo
?, ment they are set down. is one of tn,
It latest and most interesting illuminat
e ing devices designed In England, say
Popular Mechanics To the uninitiat
e ed the ability to get light by sim
% ply placing a fixture on the table Il
r nothing less than extraordinary, bu
!. the explanation is simple.
d Recent exploration of the Athabas
) ca Mackenzie region shows that 1t con
II tains many valuable fur-bearing ami
mails, and 1t appears also to be tn
IS home OF the last wild remnant of tn
n American bison family. The herds o
a bison are not numerous. and they ar
y being rapidly exterminated by wolves
The Canadian musk OK also inhabit
this region. and in the spring, whel
the rivers and springs escape from tn
v frost, great fiocks Of birds. includin
10 most of the migratory game birds O
k America. resort thither to breed
: What might be called a talbot
- watch has just been made by a watch
:, maker of Locle, Switzerland, says tn
London Globe. The thickness is sal
IT, to be only three millimeters, so,
Is meter being only thirty-nine inches
one can estimate the thickness of tn
le watch. Taking the case and glass
Ia found the works occupy spac
ID 10 millimeters. The spring is half
ne millimeter. What makes this achieve
!. ment of the Locle matchmaker NOR
extraordinary is that 1t is asserte
h. that the watch keeps time. varyin
only five. seconds in twenty-four hour
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