The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-04-07
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

d for their living.
IS Seven years ago there were two
n thousand students in China. and il
d 1907 there were 1882.
: In the last ten years $4,000 peopls
+ have emigrated from England and be
: come Canadian farmers.
In the rural districts Of England and
! Wales the death rate is about 20 Der
, cent lower than in the urban districts.
Twenty tons OF ostrich feathers val.
ued at more than 100000. were re-.
} Gently carried by the Mauretania to
New York.
The Koh-i-noor diamond originally
J weighed eight hundred karats, but bv
successive cuttings has been reduced
to 106 karats.
At the end OF the last fiscal year I'm
the United States 278 life-saving sta
lions had been established, OF which
more than two hundred were on the
Atlantic and gulf coasts, sixty-one on
the coasts OF the Great Lakes. seven
teen on the Pacific coast and one on
the Ohio River at Louisville, KY. Mora
than six hundred persons are number
ed In the crews and there were 82s
disasters in which the service took an
active part.
According TO report section OF the
amphitheater In King Arthur's round
table field In Monmouthshire, England
mas been partially exhumed. Tho
Archaeological Society has made five
excavations around the walls and the
searchers found the main entrance
the sand which formed the bed of the
arena, and corner stone. From in.
scripttons on the stone they trace the
date OF the theater back to 110.A n
or eighteen hundred years.
At the Court Theater at Darmstad,
Christmas play in five acts. entitled
"Bonifacius," was performed a few
weeks ago. The plot is laid in the !.
Black Forest; the time the eighth cen.
fury. The subject treated is the con-
version of the heather by st. Boni.
face. The play was well received and
1t now becomes known that the author
on the bills as e. Mann, is the grand
duke OF Hesse, who is hailed by the
German press as the latest recruit IN
the ranks of royal dramatists.
The year 1909 will always be re.
as the year in which the 81.
fort to maintain finished steel nricas
collapsed, but in the light OF the his
tory since made 1t will be well to re-
member that the year Is also conspicu.
Gus as witnessing a healthy and rea-
sonable reaction toward fair prices
with an absolutely open market but
with spirit OF fairness. and good will
the trade which never be-
ore existed under similar outward
'onditions.-Iron Trade Review.
There is no incident of Christmas
'enevolence within our knowledge OF
uch far-reaching scope for future
FOOD as the gift of Henry Phipps to
he University OF Pennsylvania in fur
hersnce OF his plans for the study.
reatment and prevention of tubercu-
0sls. Mr., Phipps, who has now ex-
ended 100000 with a view to the
xtlrpation Of this most destructive of
1aladies, has made sure of the future
nectiveness of his object by putting
s direction in charge of capable in
[itution already organized to make
ne most competent use of the weao-
rs placed in its hands.-Philadelph
ecord.
Nearly one million new farms have
cen created in the United States dur.
lg the last ten years. In the last ten
ears the total number of farms has
creased 18 per cent. In the older
-ates, from Ohio eastward, there has
zen going on for twenty years a ten
'ncy toward the amalgamation of
rms distant from market into larger
'ldings. On the other hand, this sec
IN has witnessed the cutting up into
1aller sizes of many farms nearer to
arket. There are now almost three
mes as many farms as in 1870, and
unprecedented increase in the value
farm lands and live stock.-Ameri-
n Agriculturist.
In India such surnames as these are
'quent: Tilak Ga caste mark on the
Piyari (beloved), Chh
'uri (six little shells), Tonga Ia
ve). Kurbani (sacrifice), Mott
earD, Suraj (sun), Kharg (sword),
Ii (strong), Phul (flower), Bahadur
raye). There sometimes they give
'ir children bad names SO that evil
rits will pass them by and not
IN them, thinking they are worth
s-as Bhikari (beggar), Bhangi
avanger), Chuha (rat), Gobar (cow
lg). know a high caste family
lost several children in infancy.
en the fourth was born they called
Bhangi, and he lived. They at
'ute his life to the name they gave
l-Muzaffarpur Christian Advocate.
ONE people believe that the banana
the original forbidden fruit OF
garden OF Eden. In any case, 1t is
OF the curiosities of the vegetable
sdom, being not tree, a palm,
D. shrub. vegetable o ran herb,
herbaceous plant with the status
tree. Although it sometimes at
S height of thirty feet. there is
woody fiber in any part of its struc-
, and the punches growing on the
II banana plant are often heavier
the stalk which supports them.
oener plant gives such a quantity
poo TO the acre as the banana; II
is forty-four times more by weight
the potato and 1873 times more
wheat. Moreover. no insect will
* II, and 1t is always Immune
disease of any kind.