Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-02-05
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


celebration.
The worlds supply OF tin was In, >
creased 1858 tons last year, Of which
more than half came from the Straitl
Settlements.
Practically all the important coal
mining states have inspection laws
designed to prevent death and disaster
among the mine workers.
Several French schools are using
machines which suck dust from the
leaves OF books, spray them with dis
infectant, and dry them with hot air.
At Tourcoing, France, five couples
of working people celebrated their
golden wedding the other day. Great
festivities were provided for the occa,
sion by the municipal authorities.
Wild boars still abound In a region
which can be reached by railway In
two hours from Smyrna. Near Sam
SCUM some sportsmen have shot as
many as fifty wild boars in a single
year.
One of the requests for patent re
ceived In the patent office of Germany
was for a device for making ones own
matches, With the aid of It, any one
can, by five hours work, save 8 or
centsl
Signs are not wanting to assure any
one that every year single chrysan.
themums are steadily gaining In favor,
mainly, OF course, with those whose
aim is to grow plants for general dec
Grafton and for supplying cut blooms
for their own table. Single blossoms,
fortunately, are not criticised by the
home grower as to the size, as their
beauty cannot be thus measured
Gardening Illustrated
The government is going into the
hotel business, having agreed, through
Its insular branch in the Philippines
to take 100000 at par of the bonds
to provide money for a new hotel al
Manila, which, with Its working CAPT
tai, Is to represent an investment OF
s450,000. When the Philippines have
q centennial, or some other big cele.
bration, will the insular government
put up its hotel rates on the visiting
public?-New York Press.
The new marriage law now under
consideration in Victoria, Australia,
has as its object the prevention OF
clandestine marriages. 1t provides that
no clergyman shall perform the cere.
mony unless the couple applying shall
have obtained license. An exception
is made, however, for reasons un.
known, in the case of Quakers, who
are not obliged to come before the mar.
rying authority armed with a permit
One of the latest ideas for killing
rats is trap into which the animal
walks, attracted by an electric light
and a display of food. Once in he
kills him in fifty or sixty seconds. The
apparatus can be so arranged that the
electrocuted animal itself signals It's
fate to any desired place, advising the
J Waterman by an electric bell or the
: lighting of an electric lamp that there
} Is dead rat to be removed
Music batons we're first used In
: England about 1920. 1t was not until
ten or twelve years later, however
that the baton came into general use
A German conductor who welded one
; produced such wonderful results with
: his orchestra that it was thought there
must be some magic power in the
baton, and 1t consequently became
popular with conductors all over tn,
country. Before the advent of the
Daton time was kept by the first violin
list or by the pianist.
What is regarded as the most an
Client coin In the world is one tina
was discovered a few years ago by
, German archeologist during his ex
: plorations in north Syria. 1t is a coir
Of pure silver, bearing a perfect Ara
mean description Of Panammu Bal
: Rerub, king of Schamol. who reigneC
300 years B. G. Up to the time thi
!, ooin was found the Lydians had al
. ways been regarded as the inventor
!, Of money, but this new find shove,
:, that the Semitic Arameans, who livel
two centuries before the Lydians, ar
he Oldest known coiners of money
In 1S46, under Louis Philippe. Their
we're eight thousand doctors in France
n In 1891 the number had reached III
T. teen thousand. In the space of forty
l. ave years, 1886 to 1891. the humble
q had almost doubled, the yearly II
crease being 155. In the decade TO
l lowing this period the augmentation
given at two hundred, and sine
l. 1901 the increase has been much grea
u Or. And the number of students a
the medical schools and the univers
ties continues to grow. The numbe
70 enrolled on January 10, 1906, wa
v 1907, and a year later 7,649, an II
n crease Of 142. In 1908 and in 1909 th
q. numbers were S,265 and 9,246, or 81
and 597 In excess of 1906.-Le Revu
e For some time past efforts have bee