Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-25
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


worth s12,000,000, or about an eighth
Of that in the United States.
Gas motors for pumping water are
gradually putting the old fashioned
Dutch windmills out of business in Hol-
land.
Pekin has had British, French. Ger
man and Japanese banks since 1902,
and is now likely to have an American
bank, also.
The British ProtectOrate of northern
Nigeria, Africa, has an area Of 100000
square miles, and a population OF at
least 100000. Railways are being
built there.
Consul Charles NJ. Freeman of Du.
range City, Mexico, writes that nearly
all Of the engineers. conductors, master
mechanics, station agents and chief
officers Of Mexican railroads are Amer.
leans. Few openings exist, though. for
Americans in the mercantile line.
Trade Of the United States with the
Republic of Panama in the last five
years amounted to about $4,000, 900.
OF this total, 100000, speaking In
round terms, represented the value of
the imports from Panama, and $50, 0OO,-
900, still speaking in round terms, was
the value OF merchandise exported to
Panama.
The District of Columbia comprises
an area of 69,245 square miles. The
| Government ooncfSfc of two oiviIioY,
commissioners appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate, and
one army engineer officer, detailed by
the secretary of war, the three constl-
tuting the board of commissioners for
three years.
Turkey is to have a new national
bank on the credit foncier system, with
headquarters at Constantinople. Its
starting capital is to be $4,000, 900,
with the right to increase to $5o,0OO,-
0O0 The capital, $15,OO0,OO0. of the
present Credit Foncier, may be in
creased to $1OOOO0,OOO. The concession
for the new bank is for ninety-nine
years, and 1t will have branches In all
the large cities Of the empire.-Con.
sular Reports.
Some queer advertisements appear in
the Australian papers. Here is one
from a recent issue of the Sydney
Morning Herald: "Wanted-Some
kind person to adopt young gentleman
absolutely homeless and deserted; pres
ent boarding house just sold out; guar
anteed harmless. Please be quick" II
reads like a Joke, but people, as a rule,
do not pay advertisement rates for the
publication of their Decentralization
don Chronicle.
Brazil grows several kinds OF Eng
lish potatoes as well as the sweet po-
tato. Our English potatoes are of va
rious colors, red. white, violet and
yellow. The violet colored potato is
the most nutritious, but the white po-
tato, which contains a large quantity
of starchy matter is best for the man
ufacture of starch and for the fatten-
ing of pigs. When the raising of pigs
is more developed the cultivation Of the
sweet potato will also be greatly In
| CIGdttu.-ll LlOlle Qu OuU. Mo JdutlIO
The necessity of the rotation of crops
is well recognized among modern farm
ers, and now 1t appears that In India
nature is seen practicing the same
thing in the forests. The soil becom-
ing exhausted after a long period OF
one kind of forest, seedlings Of another
species gradually replace the old trees
) as they die out. On the Indian soil
J the deodar tree has been observed tax
ing the place of the blue pine, pine and
; oak slowly exchange places and spruce
and silver fir have been noted grad
ually extending into a forest Of falling
oaks
South Boston boasts the most modern
type Of portable schoolhouse, which has
Just been put into commission. The
building may be taken apart and sci
up with less difficulty and at less ex,
pense than the older types, because 1t Il
lighter and because of the use Of bolts
Instead Of screws and nails In its con.
struction. The material is California
redwood and the building, which is
twenty by forty-two feet, is designed
to accommodate forty-five pupils. The
lighting, heating and ventilatlng sys
TENS are excellent. The cost was
81 200.
/, The Bureau OF Statistics announces
that In 1878 the number of pairs OF
boots and shoes exported from the
United States was but 351, 900; In 1888
564, 900; In 1898, 1907, 900, and in 1908
6.552,o0o. The value of these exporta,
lions In 1873 was $46S, 900: In 1888
s665. 900; In 1898, s1,S17.OO0, and In
1908, s11.470.000 The United King
dom sends abroad more shoes than the
United States, the number OF pairs hay
Ing reached 9,442. 298 during the last
fiscal year; but they had. value OF
; only S9,930, 1856, or s1.05 per pair, while
those exported from this country aver
aged s1.S4 per pair.
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