Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-01-29
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM,

There are about 1900 square miles
of coal fields in England
The revenues from the Prussian In
come tax in 1907 were $59,5OO,OO0
The first submarine boat was tried In
Plymouth Harbor, England, in 1774.
The postal business Of the world is
increasing at the rate Of Z per cent per
annum
The British railways In 1907 are re-.
ported to have had total length OF
2S,1o1 miles
Substantially one-third of the entire
Industrial capital of Brazil is invested
In cotton mills
| Efforts are being made In Brazil to
stimulate the consumption in Europe
and America of Paraguayan tea, known,
also as yerba mate.
| A lighthouse of bamboo, which is in
use in Japan, is said to have great
power of resisting the waves, and does
not rot like ordinary wood.
According to Sir William Crookes.
the noted English scientist, by 1881 tho
worlds supply of wheat will be unequal
to the increase in population
The National Council of French
Women, which has membership Of
more than $4,000, has been circulating
a monster petition in favor of woman
suffrage.
By Japanese florist there has been
discovered marvellous rose The color
! is delicate pink when the plant is In
the shade, but becomes crimson when
exposed to the sun.
1t is not unusual sight in England
to see a motor bus belonging to one
city running with load of excursions
lists around the streets Of another town
twenty or thirty miles distant.
In proportion to the population, the
little kingdom of Belgium probably can
claim the greatest number of organiza,
lions advocating woman suffrage. An
the last count they numbered 1913.
Miss Clara NJ. Howard has been APP
pointed to the international fellowship
founded by the Society Of American
Women In London. She is instructor
In rhetoric and composition at Welles~
ley College.
i An Austrian journal tells of a plant;
called Parkid blglobosa, recently dis.
covered In Africa, which produces
, fruit containing 20 per cent reducing
sugar, which puts 1t in the first rank
, of sugar-produclng plants.
One Of the papers handed in at the
: examination of students training for
employment as teachers described Oil.
yer Cromwell as "a man with coarse
features and having large. red nose
with deep religious convictions ba>
meath"
The Queen of Swaziland, in Africa.
when last seen by white people, was
clad in regal robe of OK hide, rather
the worse for wear. To this simple
garment were added bangles for her
: wrists and ankles. She sat on the pail
ace floor and took snuff continually,
wrapping around her shoulders an.
opera cloak of bright green and purple,
the diplomatic gift Of an English no.
bleman.
The Oldest structure in the world
originally built for a railway station
is the now dlsused L. g. N. depot in
n Lexington. 1t was begun in 1888 From
I the northwest corner of the building
n the first passenger railway car west OF
4 the Alleghenies started on It's daily rum
: to Frankfort. 1t has been used for
G almost three-quarters of century, and
J. stands as landmark to remind the
e present generation of the old order OF
c things in Lexington and central Ken.
s tucky.-Lexington (Ky.) Herald.
r The case of the cure of Leonie L@.
d vogue at the shrine of Lourdes has been
published In Italy with the sworn med
J zeal certificates. Mile. Leveuue is a
/ school teacher and, according to the
) announcement, had suffered from an
e liberation for fifteen months, growing
t weaker after each surgical treatment.
e She was finally taken to Lourdes, when
d too weak for further medical expert
menting and, when alone IN her room
" at the hotel, was suddenly cured. Mile.
# Leveque has returned to her school
d teaching.
e An italian journalist is said to have
e discovered the Bible which was used
r by the Emperor Napoleon during his
a exile on the island of Elba 1t is Of a
le common type, illustrated with large
wood engravings, and bears ON the back
10 the latter IN" surmounted by the i'm
u perial crown. 1t was found in the
Chapel of the Madonna, on the island
of Elba, and near which the Emperor
stayed for seventeen days at the begin
N ming of his exile. 1t possesses interest
d from the fact that the Emperor has I'M
If derlined many passages bearing on his
Y, state Of mind at the time.
Every family in England possesses al
least one "weak-minded" member-this
is the opinion of an editorial writer
in the Hospital, London medical mag.
azine The remark is ELECTED by a re
IN cent report of the commissioners in
+ lunacy, which shows that, although the
d, number of insane patients in British