The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-03-17

soap mul az Calcutta
"A The town OF Bangkok Is larrel
"A afioat. the houses being built on raft
~ N bamboo.
k Oriental dye-makers obtain fort,
r ihades of yellow from the shell a
,e he pomegranats.
n india has a rice crop this season Of
IS s2sSS.s4s short tons. 1.10s.1ls mors
han last season.
Each American Fourth Of July costs
/. approximately, 500 lives. with injuries
% 1000 other merrymakers.
/ In Vancouver. q. c.. turpentins IA
aow being obtained from r~esinous
! woods by an electrical process Of dis
dllatlon-
|, Tho pineapple Is proving the most
important and valuable OF all the
ruits In Formosa. A single Arm had
a output OF $4,000 tons last year.
There are In Great Britain $4,000
holdings Of over one acre. Of which
~ per rent are under atty acres.
whereas only sh per cent are over
300 acres
or late there has been an extrordk !
aary development OF service In ina
lew. modern fast ships between South
America and ports In England. Ger
many and Italy.
One kind Of Mexican pineapple
znown as the cayenne. Is entirely
rec from spfnes. and the resh il much
nora tender and Juicy. These cost
ip to rs cents apiece. and the demand
: far ahead OF the supply. (,
The city of Los Angeles has solved
ne pole nuisance to a large extent By l
providing a joint pole COMMITTEES.
whose object is to eliminate unnecez I
sary poles and cause the various com Z
panies to run their lines on the same a
poles- Ths COMMITTEES has been at work e
'or two years. and 10000 poles are now a
used jointly BY the dinsrsni d
i
Ihis worlds most powerful search v
ishf IS now part OF the equipment Of d
connecticut OF the United States y
avy. The great mirror Is I'VE feet In
iamster and was made for the govern a
lent In Germany. The searchlixhe d.
III throw such a powerful stream OF vi
sht that It win be able to detect a sfi
or torpedo boat at q dis 81
nee OF ten miles. wi
Later information on the results ~ 40
Shackleton's expedition Ia IN
10 Antarctic revealed much thar wa. Sr'
Y discussed In the preliminary dis X
'fches- IL Is now brought out plain In
mat the south magnetic pole. ike Fei
. north magnetic pole. shifts its Do J
The discovery win enable gao apr
aphers to revise the magnetic charta ar
d this wn render navigation safer riS
That the German government h. mo
YES ships OF war will be much bfx u7
: In the future Ia shown By thu an
OF the Kaiser Wilhelm
ial. which Is 70 be deepened AZ once ~ !
thirty-six feet. with provision for n"'
sr deepening. II necessary. to forty.
feet The width OF the canal Is 10 nini
doubled The new dimensions az the
locks win considerably exceed ro
Sc at Panama. Inc
ux,,e. o.. shor
Ing az Rochester. recently had a.,
d to say for people who 10 about -
lie highways on foot. Addressing So,
grand jury, he declared: The AN -
obIe Is an Institution which Ia. J
. to stay. But the pedestrian w.aN
hrst He has certain dennes 49,
tA One OF these Is that he must
'rotected in travelling on the pub
highways Careless. reckless ana s
NAL operation OF automobiles must ,NNA
long
the n
4su experiments that tho u
recently been at Macon. Ga
IS been found that a nns grade
per can be made from pulp ur~
from the okra stem. and a plant A Pc
taking paper from this source In
to be erected in that city at an Inc
date Okra Is easily grown in sFosef
outhern States. and could be pro posed
In large quantities as a paper countf
plant The plant is an hsrb rux1n'
sins to the mallow family. gsnus World
Its botanical nams Is hfbis up TIL
machfl
By scientists bring out =
Interesting fact that the Amsrf- 49,
'llegs athlete Of today Is q much 10Y
man than his father was. and
lstantly growing. The average
Of the Yals athlete to-day IL an II
nd = half more than II was favs
ago; he 10 twenty-five pounds p
: with three inches more chat ~
'msnf and forty-two cubic
mors lung capacity; thu aver. ~"1.
ight Of the Yais athlstss Is nov
- inches, and their weight
17o-s pounds. Al an ersmfn. 81
Harvard athletes Professor ssr n.n
und that they were an inch tan 1919
from four TO i've pounds s
thsz were the students Of 'nx -
Tsars ago. IAs
rAcisI a
Bishop Of London made soma ssousntI
statements when he prssid- e-s~nnc~s,
thu ANIMAL rnaoffno 20 -