Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-18
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


left-handed high school girl ont in
the State of Washington has won in a
contest by throwing a baseball 1872 feet
6 inches.
A complete silk plant from the worms
on the trees to the looms, will be a fea-
lure or Japan's exhibit at the Alaska.
1ukonPacific exposition at Seattle.
Nearly all the vines in Europe were
Killed by frost in S91 and 1913. one mid
summers day, 1888, in England. there
was frost SO severe that it DESTROYED
! fruits
AS the result of shock sustained
through falling into copper of boiling
water, boy named George Herbert
Foster, aged II, living at Spalding, who
was practically dumb, has partly re-
gained his power of speech.
Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all the
Sioux, is the first living man to have
his portrait on the national currency
lie made great speech in Congress in
1883, and as he is a good-looking speci-
men OF his race his picture was engray-
ed on both the So and 500 bills.
There is coach dog belonging to one
OF the car barns uptown that takes a
constitutional when they let him out.
he runs ahead Of the Broadway car
from the barn to the Battery, returning
with the car. That satisfies him. Then
ne returns to the barn and loafs dur
Ing the rest of the day.-New York
Press.
Capt. Archibald Willipgham Butt, the
new military aid at the White House. is
a fine tennis player and has already be-
come member of President Roosevelts
tennis cabinet" He played his first
game as partner with his eminent chief.
matched against the French ambassa-
! dor, NJ. Jusserand and Postmaster Cen
eral Meyer
The swastika is the oldest known
symbol, having its origin in the cross
and circle. The swastika is now held
IN common acceptation to be significant
Of good luck. Investigation of the rec
0rds of every known race has revealed
traces of the swastika. The symbol
was early introduced into India, appar-
emily in connection with sun worship.
Breaking into houses where funerals
have just taken place and plundering
them is spoken of by the Berllner Tage-
blatt as the latest trick of the thieves
of that city, While this may be a new
form of criminality in Berlin, says the
writer, it is really only an imitation
of an incident described in Dion Cas-
sius as having taken place $500 years
before Christ.
i have heard a good many stories
illustrating thrift" remarked a Bronx
resident but the janitor Of some new
steam-heated flats told me one that beat
them all. On Sundays the tenants have
a great many visitors, and the janitor
discovered that these visitors paid the
tenants cents each for the privilege
of taking q hot bath; cents if they
did not bring their own toweIs-New
York Sun.
Emerson was a notable sufferer from
the vagaries of memory. his biographer
relates that he met him one day in
Boston, apparently at a loss for some
thing, and asked him where he was
going. TO dine" said Emerson, with
very old and dear friend l know
where she lives, but l hope she won't
ask me her name" and then he pro-
ceeded to describe her as "the mother
Of q 70 nf fho ha to1l
man-who speaks so WELL" and so on,
until his interlocutor guessed to whom
he was referring.
1t is estimated that the total pro-
duction Of sugar throughout the world
is about 100000 tons per annum OF
this quantity nine-tenths are afforded
by the sugar cane, 2J.000,000 tons Of
which are required to produce the above
quantity of cane sugar. The average
of saccharine matter in the ripe West
Indian sugar cane is from Is to q per
cent, of which only 8 per cent is avail
able to commerce. The total value of
the sugar In the cane, if it could be eX-
tracted, would be about $230,000,00G,
but one-half is lost iT the process Of
manufacture.
The japanese have no use for but
IONS, buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose Of fastening, and
furnishes artistic possibilities seemingly
without end. The japanese have hun
dreds of knots. Some are as old as
the time when history was recorded by
a series of knots, just as it was in
China and Peru before the invention of
writing. There are dozens of knots in
common and ceremonial usage, and
these every japanese child can tie. To
name but few, there are plum-blos- |
SONS, cherry blossoms, iris, chrysanthe- |
mum and pinetree knots. Also there |
are Fujiyama knots, turtle and stork
knots, the "old MANS" which is easy |
to tie; the "old woman's," which is diff |
fcult, and many others.
DR.. Paul Carus, the editor Of the
Open Court, refers to a belief which |
prevailed in the Middle Ages that the
faculty of prophetic dreams was a sixth |
sense. which was outwardly indicated |
by the possession Of six fingers or toes.
Only a searching critic may have dis
covered that Pope Sixtus ". is repre-