Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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cludes sixty-two warships and forty
four vessels of the merchant marine.
Gold, silver and lead mines are, it
Is said, to be worked extensively in
the bleak district of Innishowen, coun-
ty Of Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the
Atlantic
Three women were among the eighty
nine applicants who recently took the
examination for postal clerks at Buff
falo. The highest grade 1910, was
obtained by Miss Mary Pfann. All Of
the women applicants were successful,
while only 50 per cent of the men
passed.
Mrs. Louise Waterman Carpenter Of
Brookline, Mass, has just passed her
one hundred and second birthday. She
was born at Warwick, r. l., and is q
direct deScendent of Roger Williams,
She is in good health and active enough
to get about unassisted and until three
years ago felt no need for glasses.
Girls have gone in for many Chinese
fashions, such as the mandarin jacket,
the kimOno sleeve and the chrysanthe-
mum embroidery, but the wearing of
i've buttons on the coat or jacket is a
new idea, unknown to the many. The
Chinese wear these five buttons to re-
mind them of the five moral virtues
which were recommended by Confucius.
These are: Humanity, justice, order,
rectitude and prudence.
The Women's Progressive Associa-
lion Of New South Wales has won
what 1t considers great victory. Three
hundred thousand dollars had been
voted to increase the salaries of the
teachers Of the public schools. The
men teachers, If reports are true, tried
to gobble it all up, but the association,
whose members are all voters, thought
the women teachers were entitled to a
share. They fought the point and
Hon.
See Kans-i-to, a Caddo Indian, at.
tracted considerable attention and won
der at the Rock Island depot ON Sat-
urday as he went north on the noon
train from Binger to his home town.
He beats the old German of New York,
Wouter Van Twiller, who was feet
6 inches tall and feet 5 inches
around. This Indian is feet inches
tall and feet 8 inches around. He
is 26 years old and weighs 500 pounds,
-Watonga (Okla.) Herald.
Large or small gamer" asked the
Englishman invited by New Yorker
to go hunting on Land Island, You
don't expect to find lions and tigers on
Long Island, do your" answered the
New Yorker. Hardly" responded the
Briton with laugh, but like spice
Of danger in my hunting" IF that's
the case" answered the other, I'm
your man, all right The last time
went out l shot my brother-in-law In
the leg"
Peat beds in Ireland may yet be
come a valuable asset in the country's
Industrial development other than for
fuel, as it is now claimed upon the au-
thority Of an Austrian experimenter,
the fibres of the remains of the reeds
and grasses of which peat is composed
can be utilized not only for paper max
ing and carpets, but for weaving tho
finest fabrics as well. The claim is put
forth that the fiber is elastic and dur
able and, being nonconductor of heat,
the cloth manufactured from 1t is as
tough as linen and as warm as wooden.
Sir William Ramsay's declaration as
to the probable near achievement of
the transmutation of metals is vivid
instance of the way modern science is
re-eStablishing what only a short time
ago was dismissed as superstition. In
book only fifty years old writer
describes as folly the medical practice
of the middle ages of putting smallpox
patients in a red room, draped with
red hangings, curtains and red bed
clothes. Yet the value of red light in
by smallpox was scientifically discover
ed anew a few years ago by Finsen,
of the violet light rays fame.
One of the most successful hoaxes of
ulSLOEy WAS IAS h1CSAdAASdA NhCHS PAoJ
er with which Baron Kempelen Of
Hungary, astonished Europe about the
year 1860. This was apparently fig
ure controlled by mechanical devices
and which was able, Notwithstanding
the fact that apparently no intelligence
was concerned in its movements and
decisions, generally to beat its human
ntagonists. The cabinet connected
with the automaton appeared entirely
too small to contain a hidden operator
, And yet 1t did conceal man who was
an expert chess player. He was &
, Polish patriot who had lost both o.
: his legs. This man, WOropsky BY
name, was an expert player. Will
E him in the cabinet the rest was easy
For 1,4OO years the Faust legend
the sale of a human soul to a devil
!, has existed. The first recorded hint o
its vitality is given in the sixth cen
fury story of ''Theophilus," That stor!
suited the early Christians in their eff
K forts to stamp out the necromancini
devices of evilly disposed persons prom
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