Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-05-20
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The Servians look upon light hair
with marked disfavor.
The average snowfall in the vicinity
Of New York is seven feet.
A mans beard Is generally heavier
on the right side of his face.
The latest storm doors for large
business places are revolved by electric
motors.
In 1862 a duty was imposed on ne
groes imported Into New Netherland
to work on their Bouweries."
The chief publishing centers Of Ger
many are Berlin, Leipsic, Vienna,
Stuttgart, Munich, in the order here
named.
An electric wagon with a platform
supported by strong telescope tower,
Is used In New York city for trimming
and repairing the street lamps sns-
pended high above the thoroughfares.
The August meteors, according to a
leading astronomer, form a stream so
broad that the earth, though it travels
faster than eighteen miles second
takes seven weeks to cross it.
In Japan about 90 per cent of the
males of school age attend the educa'
tional establishments and 93 per cent
of the females. In Mexico only 16 per
cent Of the population can read and
write.
The Tuilleres hydro-electric works,
the largest of the kind in France, Is
nearly completed. 1t is built on the
river Dordogne, where nine 2.7OOhorse
power turbines produce $4,000 electri-
cal horse power
The Michigan Central will electrify
its terminals at Detroit and the main
line as far as Ypsianti, thirty miles
west Of the city. Electricity will be
obtained from the water power of the
Huron river at Cheslea, Mich.
Edison, who has not done much In
the way of improving the telephone
for some time, is now working on a
new transmiter, which is very sensitive
and enables conversation to be carried
on with greater ease and less liability
of error.
Manitoba became a province In 1870,
Its population was 62,26O In 1881, 1872
5O6 in 1891 and 255,211 in 1901. The
value Of Manitoba's harvest last year
was a little short Of S7O0OO,OOO. The
census Of 1908 gave Winnipeg, Its cap
ital city, a population of $4,000. There
is nothing wild in guess that its pres
ent population is not far from 10000.
servians in their good nature and
elers of the Irish peasantry. They are
hospltabe to strangers their patriot
ism Is vehement, almost qutxotic, and
they take great interest in politics.
Many Of the domestics in the towns
and cities come from abroad as the
Servian girl is too independent for do
mestic service.
London ladies stimulated by the
Olympic games of last summer have
taken to the foils, and fencing Is now
the fashion. Indeed. an official Of the
Sword Club holds that fencing Is like
~ to have an even wider vogue among
women than among men. Many women
prominent in the social world are act
lively interesting themselves in the
fois and there seems every likelihood
that something approaching craze may
be started In the fencing world during
the coming season.
Boston women established the first
playground in 1902. Last year there
were eight, and nearly $1,000 was eX-
pended, or about 81 for each child a
very cheap price for the amount OF
good obtained. The Playground League
Is the name of the society Of the play
ground boys themselves. who wear
buttons, and discipline all bad boys,
thus making the government easy
enough for those in charge. Not the
least important result of the play
grounds in that city Is said to be that
involved in the self-government.
In the year 1894 William Patterson,
founder Of the Bank Of Scotland, con-
ceived the grand project of planting on
the Isthmus of Darien a British colony
which, in his own words, SHOULD Sc
cure for Great Britain the keys Of the
universe, enabling their possessors to
give laws to both oceans and to become
the arbiters Of the commercial world
This colony was actually founded at n
place still known as Puerto Escoces,
but its people were subsequently forced
by the Spaniards to evacuate and re-
turn to Scotland.
A suggestion that shoe repairing, or
cobbling be made a part of the manual
training activities In the ungraded
schools and In the Parental School of
Baltimore has been made to the au-
thorities, but the Sun of that city sees
no merit in the scheme. 1t says
'SThat class Of boys who would profit
by learning the trade have, as a rule,
only a few years to devote to school,
and those few years had best be de-
voted to learning how to read, write
and cipher, with such other practical
and necessary elementary studies as
their time will permit"
Having raised 100000 to duplicate
Andrew Carnegie's gift and having re-