Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

AdIlou AOO'OOO,OOO are petSdulS.
Out of every million letters that pass
through the postoffice 1t is calculated |
that only one goes astray.
The book having the largest circula
ton is the telephone directory of the
city Of New York. An edition Of 1.0O0,-
600 copies is printed twice every year
to meet the demands of subscribers to
100000 telephones which are in use in
that city and it's suburbs.
In nine months of the current year
10000 aliens came to this country and
$4,000 foreign-born people went back
to Europe. During the similar period
of last year there arrived in America
1,135,0O0 aliens, while those who de-
parted from these shores numbered
only 100000.
A curious insect has arrived from
Brazil at the South Kensington Mu-
scum, In London. 1t Is a beetle. At
its head CLEANS a red ruby lamp, and
eleven green lights glow forth from
each side Of the little creature. These
Of the railway beetle"
Last year New York City spent $685.
100000 on its public schools; Chicago,
$23,000,OO0; Boston more than $780,
100000; Philadelphia a little more
than $6,000,OOO Though Philadelphia
is the third city in population in the
United States, it stood thirty-fOurth in
per capita expenditure on schools.
OF the total oil production of the
world in 1907, the United States is cred
tied with over GO per cent. Russia pro-
duced 2315 per cent and all countries
combined outside of these about 81 per
cent. The total production of the world
was estimated at 262,212,300 barrels
in 1907. The production of the United
States was 166,095,33 and Of Russia
81, $50, 734 barrels.
The Indian population Of New York
State is as follows, the figures being
for the year 1905, the latest obtainable,
taken by the several reservations: AL
legheny, 1866; Cattaraugus, 1,472; Onei-
da, 104; Onondaga, 525; st. Regis,
1905; Tonawanda, SOB; Tuscarora, 3S4.
The total of 5000 is but four less than
was shown by the Indian census Of
1892.
During the last season the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company set out $685.
030 trees, including pines, larches,
spruce and hardwoods. In its nursery
it set out $4,000 forest seedlings for
future transplanting and planted 222
bushels Of red oak acorns, from which
; 100000 seedlings are now growing. 1t
also planted a large quantity of black
walnut, chestnut and hickory, prac-
tically all Of which have given COM
plete termination.
The pear is really more hardy thai
the apple, and needs less cossettng
There are trees still standing near
Monroe, in the State of Michigan,
which were planted by the French set
tiers before Penn founded Philadelphia
: Pear trees can be kept in good and
. bearing condition for 300 years, and
apples for at least 100 years. have
one apple tree 115 years old, and Its
annual fruitage is as perfect as it was
sixty years ago.. P. Powell, in Out
, ing.
Represented graphically, the United
States now consumes yearly roll Of
= white paper $50 feet high and BIT fee
in diameter. From the top of such
roll of paper one can peer down In i'm
}, agination on the tower of the new
Singer building in New York. 1t would
weigh, all told, about 100000 tons
: and to produce it would have required
some $S,S0O.OO0 worth of rags, SOM
$7,4OO,OOO worth of old or waste pape
and some $20,S00,O00 worth of WOO
pulp, to say nothing of other essentials
Boston Transcript.
Collins said that after the publica
y ton Of "The Woman in White a lad,
came to him and said: "The grea
Excuse me if say you do not reall,
know a villain. Your Count FOsco
a very poor one, and when next yo
o want a character of that description
T. trust that you will not disdain to com
i to me. 1 know villain; the man
b alive and constantly under my gazC
In fact, he is my own husband" TIL
" lady was the wife of Edward Bulwe
o Lytton.-From Hall Gaines IN
Story"
According to Messrs. Henriet an
Bonyssy ozone is produced by the ultr'
.. violet rays Of the sun in the uppe
m atmosphere and the amount containe
IN In the air near the ground increase
when air currents descend from tt
. upper regions Sometimes, also, 1t Il
al creases during rains. 1t has been o.
h. served that there Is reduction of tt
proportion Of carbonic acid In the a
when the amount of ozone increase
"a This is regarded as an indirect effe
IN due to dilution of the lower air
ly the purer air descending from above
a Youths Companion.
OF When Commodore Decatur wi
ed blockaded at the mouth Of Connec
cut river, the Thames, during the w
of 1924, the rumor was circulate
en- ON shore that he lacked flannel for t