Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


shipped s6.5e1.ooo worth of gold to
Japan.
At the beginning OF the present year
there we're 16S.20S telephones in use
In London.
A 1000. 000-ton hill IN Cincinnati is
being moved three miles to make
railroad fill.
The five great original forests OF the
United States covered 850.000.000 acres
and contained 52.0OO,o0o.0OO feet of
lumber.
Extraordinary traffic on roads in
England is only permitted, nominally,
after those conducting 1t have agreed
to pay for the injury caused.
All of the food served to a guest at
Japanese banquet and not consumed
by him at the time is taken to his
home by the servants Of his host
The figures Of this country's wheat
crop indicate not only a larger home
consumption as result of increased
population. but also larger consump-
ton per capita.
Portrait OF George Washington on
the first half of the reply postal card.
Portrait of Martha Washington on the
second half. Thus the lady has the
last word.-Boston Transcript
For hundreds of years the people of
Saxony have used stoves made OF fire
brick covered with glazed tiles, which
retain and gradually radiate the heat
for hours after the fire has gone out
One of the greatest civic and eco
nomic problems confronting the au
thorities and public servants In the
federal district of Rio Janeiro Is that
of providing homes for the working
classes
Saying that he was born in 1910, a
man named Lacey, who was summoned
at Norwich, England. for picking a
flower in a public garden, pleaded alb
sent-mindedness and the case was dis
missed.
The production of sand and gravel
In the United States in 1908 was 81
21e.O44 short tons, valued at 1920
032, decrease Of 4,635,S74 tons in
quantity and of s1.222,O In value
over 1907.
North Queensland diocese has an
area of 10000 square miles and pop
ulation of 10000, but only fifteen cler.
gymen, said the bishop of London In
a missionary appeal at the church
house. Westminster.
One theatrical manager in New
/ York reserves a box in his house fol-
} clergymen and their families one night
} every week. The rents are shaded
but just how much is known only tC
the manager and his treasurer and tC
the clergyman.
In the borough OF Manhattan ap
proximately 5000 passenger elevators
and 10000 freight elevators are en-
gagged in the daily transportation O.
100000 people. In the six years
1903-190S. more than 1000 of these ma
; chimes were installed.
DR.. Rose Ringgold is the only won
an contract surgeon in the United
States army. When on duty she wears
divided skirt and a uniform coat
She is especially interested in the hos
pital problem of an army in the fielS
and has made study OF the work Of
the Japanese hospital corps in the wa
with Russia.
English ship owners and Argentine
cattle raisers have organized com
pany to ship regular weekly supplies
OF chilled meat from the River Plat,
to London and Manchester Work hal
begun on nine new fifteen-knot refrig
GRAFTON steamers to be added to tn,
vessels already at the disposal of thu
ship owners.
The pay of officers in active servic,
in the army is: Lieutenant general
. s11. 900 a year; major general, sS,000
brigadier general. $4,000; colonel. 81
900; lieutenant colonel, $500; major
$4,000; captain. $1,000; first lieutenant
$4,000, and second lieutenant, S1,7OO
, From colonel down the payment is in
creased every five years.
, The so-called treasure of ST. Pete
at st. Peters in Rome. hitherto no
accessible to the general public, will
hereafter be exposed to view on tn
payment of a small fee. 1t consists o
: several old church vestments, amoni
them the dalmatic worn by Charlie
magne at his coronation. The colleC
ton of vestments is the most complete
in the world and every kind of EN-
broidery is represented.
Joseph Walton OF Darklands, Swad
lincote. Burton. who has just retire,
to spend the evening Of his life In
' house next to that in which he wa
born, has achieved the remarkable rex
ord OF working full time in a coal pi
when close on to 80 years of age. H
has worked as a miner for about seven
: ty years. He remembers the time whel
, GOLFERS worked twelve hours a day 70
. half crown. and he was one of tn