Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-10-07
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


added to the University Of Madrid.
Walter Broadbelt, of Wiliston, Pa,
claims to have hen that last year
laid 247 eggs. Of which ten were dou-
bleyolked.
Neither boiling water nor cold 200
degrees below zero kills the sprout In
some seeds. Professor Becquerel found
three seeds eighty-seyen years. old that
sprouted.
Work Is going on steadily to deep
en- and widen the Suez canal, and ere
long the biggest merchant vessels
with depth Of twelve meters will be
able to use 1t.
F. 8. Weinhold, Of Brookside, Pa,
last season raised on twenty-five acres
about three thousand bushels of ear
corn. Many of the ears were over six
teen inches in length.
For a number Of years Washington
has been far and away the largest
lumber producing State In the Union,
and 1t still Is ahead but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with 1t.
DR.. James Critchton Browne, who Is
the real authority behind most wise
acres and oracles on feeding" says
The meat ration Of the Japs In Man
churla was the largest ever served in
any army"
or the revenue accruing from the
national forests in Colorado 25 per
cent. or 100000, is yearly turned over
to the State by the federal authorities
for use on the public roads and
schools.-Outing.
Helen, aged 6, was telling Mary age
7, Of her plans for the future. Tin
going to be married." she announced
"and have eighteen children" oh"
gasped Mary, her eyes wide with
amazement, you mercenary wretch"
The population of Germany, apart
from immigration and emigration, in
creased by $685. last year. In En-
gland. the births exceeded the deaths
by 393,S21; in Italy, by 357,17S; in
Belgium, by 71,715; in Holland, by
SS.156; in France, by 46,411.
In old Holland, when a couple ap-
piled for divorce, they were locked
up In oneroom, trying -out-cabin,
with one dish and one spoon If, after
month, they had not come to liner
lex they got the writ which was sell
dom asked for after this bundling.
The sign read Children Under Five
Years Of Age Free" The conductor
looked at 1t mournfully. You may
not believe It," said he, but wom-
an with five children, all hers, got on
the car the other day and convinced
me that none of them was old enough
to pay. Somehow, | can't believe it
yet. York Sun.
A news item stating that Guatemala
Is considering putting her monetary
system on a gold basis recalls a poker
story about four players with $1,000
900 (Gautemalan) in the pot, which
the winner exchanged for $500 (Ameri-
can gold), but 1t took him four days
to do 1t, as 500 gold was all the
money changer would part with at
time.
saw In 1857, near hospital. an old
cholera pit which emitted a horrid
stencil as 1t was standing open for the
next corpses. Walls were formed on
three sides Of collins piled one upon
another, and this was right under the
hospital window. There were five thou
sand cholera corpses in eighty pits in
the hospital yard.
The feet Of the Graham & Morton
Company, operating on the southern
part Of Lake Michigan, is being equip
ped with wireless telegraph instru-
each boat and also one at each of the
stations to be established at Chicago,
Holland and Benton Harbor This ser
vice is available for passengers and
also for emergency
One of the greatest works performed
by Americans in Korea was the max
ing of the Korean-English dictionary.
This was done by DR.. J. s. Gale, a
Presbyterian missionary. He began it
in 1892, after four years residence
in the country. and completed it with
In five years. Prior to that there was
no means OF intercommunication be-
tween the foreigners and the natives
except through the Chinese language.
There Is rumor that Hartford.
Conn., intends to make a bid for fame
by establishing an asylum for the
treatment of automobiles that have
been worn out in the service, and that
a society for the prevention of cruelty
to automobiles Is also under considera-
ton. A speed antitoxin and a method
Of injecting common sense into chauf-
feurs might lessen the labors Of the
proposed institutions.-New York
Tribune
DR.. Doche (French army says that
spawning is really the cause OF some
oyster poison in summer. Spawning
oysters are sometimes called milky"
Their Juice looks something like milk.
Doche says this milky Juice holds poi
sons which the oyster throws off in
spawning. He tells Of the violent poi
soning OF a number of soldiers from
eating milky" oysters. Dread OF sum-