Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-10-20
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


men millionaires.
Wood fibers are strongest near the
center of the limb or tree trunk.
The salary of lieutenant general of
the United States army is 1900.
Sleeping sickness has been known in
West Africa for one hundred years.
In Norway the average length of life
is greater than in any other country.
Russia is establishing numerous
wireless stations over it's great terri
tory.
An electric machine has been made
to wash and purify the air in any
room.
1t is estimated that 60,O00-horse pow
er can be easily developed from the
st. Lawrence river.
An Alabama man, ninety-seven years
Of age, says he has eaten hot biscuits
regularly all his life.
The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her
ring season has yielded SOO,000,0O0 her
rings. which sold for $5.OOO,OOO.
Formaldehyde is used In meat ex-
ported to England, and the government
Is making investigations as to its eff
feet on the health of consumers.
Yale students are teaching more than
one hundred New Haven boys in
classes under the direction of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Rice stands first In the list of Slams
agricultural products. The average
yearly export of rice for the last five
years has amounted to 94S,3S9 tons.
The Belgian minister of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Congo to study sleeping
sickness and to seek means to cure it,.
Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie is chairman
of the committee which proposes to
build woman's clubhouse in Brook
Ign at a cost of 100000. At a mass
meeting held the other day in the
chapel of Packer institute stock sub
scriptions to the amount of $4,000
were received. The largest single con-
tribution was that of the Brooklyn
Women's Club, which guaranteed
$500. The building will not be start
ed until the committee has the full
100000.
One of the marvels of the age Is the
extreme cheapness of ocean carriage
The modern tramp steamer could car
ry her cargo one thousand miles fol-
Cd ton and make a profit of 10 pei
cent. A modern tramp steamer could
leave England and go around the world
by the two capes, and even then carry
cargo at 92 IS ton. These are mar
velous figures, and they show to what
extent the world is indebted to the
carrying trade.-Cassiers Magazine
for May.
The population of southern Califor
mia, according to Colonel Drake, who
is the worlds foremost statistician IL
such matters, can not fail, in a very
short time, to exceed twenty million
souls, for there is human breed there
which multiplies with the miraculous
rapidity of Belgian hares. When Lont
Beach had population of only littl,
in few months, from the smalles
beginnings, more than nine hundred
real estate agents.
AS a specimen of how practical thu
Japanese are with their knowledge o
western science and determination tt
deal with disease, they have levied
tax on every household to produce tw,
rats every month. A fine is imposed
If the rats are not caught and pro
duced at the time of inspection
!, Every rat is examined. and If fount
to be plague infected the house from
which 1t came is to be thorough.
cleaned and disinfected. Twice yea
every house and shop has to disgorg
}, all its effects and be completely cleane,
), out. The things only go back ate
sanitary inspection.-Java Times.
Perhaps the reason the English ar
) so far behind in flying is because the
= worked the whole thing out long age
, and are sick and tired of it, for Johl
y Milton, In Britain to the Conquest,
!. says that the youth King Harold, las
of the Saxons, strangely aspiring, ha
made and fitted wings to his hand
D and feet With these, on the top of
tower, spread out to gather air, h
?, flew more than furlong; but, tn
wind being too high, he came fiuttei
5, ing to the ground, manning all hi
limbs yet so conceited was he of hi
: art that the cause of his fall wa
attributed to the want of a TAIL a
birds have. which he forgot to max,
|; At the banquet given in her homo
!. after the Nobel prize had been aware
ed TO her Miss Selma Lagerlof, tn