The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-09-16


A proposition Is being considered 70
harness f.
Tests show that the wind movement
OF fifteen miles an hour against the
side OF a building will force 1856 cubic
feet OF air through q on~e-sixteenth'
inch creyiee In an hour.
The largest movable bridge yet
built IN Asia is a double leaf roller
lift AFFAIR. with an opening two nun
dred feet wide. erected By a Chicago
company for a railroad in Burma.
The Ragman Rolls were a series
Of documents recording the progress
OF Edward ]. through Scotland In
1896. with the names OF the mobiles
and others who did homage % him.
Tectorium. a substitute for glass, Is
prepared b. applying a yarnish TO a
finely meshed iron wire fabric. The
yarnlsh consists principally Of good
linseed oil. in which the vertically
hanging wire fabric Is repeatedly DIP
ped up to as many as twelve times
A tank car OF 1853 barrels Of cotton
seed OIL recently shipped from Ken
lucky for the seacoast Canning Com
pany Is said to have arrived AZ East
port this week Ia good condition. This
being the FIRST attempt 20 ship OIL east
In other than barrel packages. the ex-
pertinent was awaited with much IN
terest.-Kennebec Journal.
The Paris critic. Martin. once only
had taken his chocolate Ia a place
other than the Cafe Foy. and be then
found Il not good This happened Al
the Regenee. and the young woman Al
the desk TO whom he expressed his
d~ispieasure. said: You are the only
one 10 complain. All OF the gentle
men OF the court who come here md
Il good" They also say. perhaps,
that you are pretty" he replied. slow
~.
Years ago Mark Twain. who has re-
Gently celebrated his seyenfy-third
birthday. used 10 be fond Of telling
this story: Al the dinner table one
ddy there was a party OF guests. for
whom Mark was doing his best In the
way OF entertaining. A lady turned
10 the daughter OF the hnmorisf, then
a little girl. and said: Your father
Is a very funny man" Yes" re-
sponded the child. when We have com
pany.
A little girl Who had a live bantam
presented 10 her was disappointed al
the smallness Of the first egg laid BY
The bird. Her ideal egg was that Of
the ostrich. a specimen OF which vas
on a table IN The drzwing-room One
day the ostrich's egg was missing from
its accustomed place. Il Eas subse'
queuuy found near the SPOT where the
bantam nesfed. and on Il was stuck a
piece Of paper with the words: Some
thing like this. please. Keep on try.
ing"
In recent years the most prosperous
city In Germany has been Nuremberg,
where the consumption OF fresh meat
for 1908 was more than ss.000.0 600
pounds. This va an annual per cap.
tia consumption OF a fraction over i2i
pounds. or about onethird OF a pound
a day for man. woman and child. The
population o. Nuremberg Is largely OF
the wageeArninK class. In many OF
the manufacturing towns OF England
the working people do not eat beef
| once a week.
Breaking away from the time hon
ored program OF essays and reciia.
lions. the graduating class Of the os'
wexo tN. Y.) high school decided upon
A novel plan OF celebrating the com
menccment season The students some
time ago set about raising funds to
take The entire class on-a Sightseeing
trip 10 Washington. which was all the
graduation festivities they had. As
one paper puts II. They propose 10
learn how the government Is run. in
stead OF telling how Il should be-.
Sausage has even from very early
times been a popular table dclicacy.
Aristophanes was familiar with IT, In
Roman days the sausages OF Lucania
were in high esteem. They we're made
| from pork n h a OF the stone
pine. naxored with bay leaves and
other things more familiar. Bologna
was celebrated for its sausages long
before the German sausage had even
thought Of invading the rest Of the
world. and until quite lately It was
commonly called In England a polo
n.y."
In the United States the great po-
tato state Is New York. With $1,000.
600 bushels; in 1907. Michigan follows
with $1,000. 900; then Pennsylvania
and wisconsin with about $4,000. goo
each; Maine. 100000 o Minnesota
and Illinois about fourteen each;
| Iowa and Ohio, twelve each; New Jer.
seq, eight to nine; Indiana, Missouri,
Colorado. California and Nebraska
about seven. The rest run from
washington aud Kansas. with six each.
down to Montana and Texas. with
from two and a half to three.
Judge strout. OF the Bucks County
(Pa.) court. was placed in an embar-
rassing position while presiding at a
gambling trial recently. In charging