The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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pidoe W give the 1EQlan CITY Ol DCIuA
electric lighting and street car service.
| Oysters are wild animals, according
to a Queensland judge, who held that
there was no penalty for stealing them.
Mexico is destined to become prom
lnent factor as producer Of refined
petroleum. New wells are belrg con-
stantly discovered.
| Europe is growing steadily colder, nc
COZ ding to bevy Of French Scientists
who have been comparing records for
rumber of years back.
Although but few miles from the
mouth Of the river Thames, noted for
Its fogs, the atmosphere of Horne bay,
England, is rarely obscured.
A Kansas carpenter has patented "a
device to be attached to saw to blow
away the sawdust. A piston, struck by
the wood being sawed, sends a current
OF air through curved tube.
Miss Anna Pritchett of Louisville
KY, has been appointed to the chair Of
economics at Wellesley College She
has just passed her twenty-fifth birth
day and is the youngest member of the
faculty.
New York City's smallest borough
has the largest population. Manhattan,
with Its 14,O3S acres. has population
OF 2,25O,OO, and Queens, the largest 5or-
ough, with S2,S63 acres has a pop Ia
ton Of 224,OOO.
Taking the building operations Of
this whole country into consideration
6O.SS per cent were for wooden struc-
lures and 39.12h per cent for fre-re-
sisting buildings, but the cost Of the
latter amounts to 1857 per cent of the
total.
Six gates weighing 10000 pounds
each will be used at the Roosevelt dam
In connection with the Salt River prof.
ect being erected by the United Sta 3
bear a total maximum pressure of So.
600 pounds.
Naturally, San Francisco leads the
list In the increased building operation
statistics. The total number Of build.
Ing permits issued In San Franchise
during 1907 was 1926 for buildings to
cost $91, 502,2 an increase Of 1862 per
cent over the building in 1906
Count Sergius White is not only no
longer at the helm of the Russian gov
eminent, but stands almost alone even
In the council of the empire. Neverthe-
less strong feeling prevails that Count
Whites day lie not done, but that he
will be recalled in the first emergency.
Scotch laboring man, who had mar
r1ed a rich widow, exceptional for her
pla1nness, was accosted by his employ
er. well, Thomas" he said, 81 hear
you are married. What sort of wife
have you got?" "Well, SIR" was the
response, shes the Creators haudi.
work, but 1 Gamma say she's His mas.
terpiece."
The railways of Great Britain have
$4,000, 277,9 1868 paid up capital. Their
net earnings In 1907 amounted to $2l9,.
379,S21 out Of $591 AGA G75 gross earn
ings The trackage is %, 1O1 miles over
which were carried last year 4O7,71O.
600 tons of minerals and 1O9,261, 0OO
tons Of merchandise. The passengers
numbered 1,26O,117,OOO.
: Charles A. Keath, who holds one OF
the American Rhodes scholarships, re-
Gently returned to Philadelphia to join
the st. Louis baseball team of the
American League. He has put III one
year at Oxford and has two more
ahead Of him. Keath said the only prac.
tice he could get at Oxford had been
with other American Rhodes men.
A shortage Of 1900 school teachers
is reported in Oklahoma. The cause is
) said to be the small salaries Of women
: teachers. The club women declare that
if the salaries Of the women teachers
were made to equal those Of the men
, the shortage would cease to exist. In
the meantime women out of employ
nlent are looking to Oklahoma fos
places.
+, "Woman's place at the Universit,
4. Of Berlin" says the Tageblatt of that
city, "has already become an important
one, although her rights have not yst
been fully recognized there. According
to the latest report, 40 women were en-
tered at the largest high school last
summer and 1913 attended the winter
l session. Degrees were conferred OF
twelve; ten in medicine and two IL
philosophy"
= There was a suburban woman whOst
house, one summer, was overrun with
moths. A tramp told her that, In re
, turn for square meal. he would give
+ her an infallible moth cure She SCI
square meal before the tramp, he de
voured it, then he said: "All We neeG
to do, ma'am, is to hang your moth
filed clothes and carpets and thing.
on a line and beat 'em with stick
Good-by to yer moths then" "Wil
that kill them?" asked the lady Yes
, If ye hit EN-" said the tramp.
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