Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-27
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


grown rapluly In the last QecaQe.
Babylon's inhabitants frequented IL
braries seventeen centuries before
Christ.
Under the new law for buildings in
New York city the number of dark
rooms in tenements have been reduced
from 100000 to 1O1,117. Let there be
light" is the motto of the board of
inspection.
OF the 1,467 foreigners at the col
Ieges of the United States, 460 hail
from North America, 458 from Asia,
S13 from Europe, only 154 from South
America, Ga from Australia and IS
from Africa.
The United States has more (22,244.
446) dairy cows than any other coun-
try in the world; more horses, 23,000,-
$50; more mules, 4,O56,399; more
swine, 57.976.361, and Except British
India) more cattle, 73,246,573.
In Belfast breach of promise case
the man, farmer, won. He agreed to
marry a spinster if she could raise
$500. She was able to get together
only $500, so the farmer called it off,
despite the fact that he had ordered
the clergyman to be on hand to marry
them. The judge said that the promise
to marry was conditional, and the con.
dition had not been fulfilled.
Robert Wynne, the former United
States consul-general in London, In
tends to resume newspaper work in
the British capital. Before Mr.. Wynne
became postmaster-general of the Unit
ed States he had long and brilliant
journalistic career, being also presi.
dent of the Gridiron Club at Washing.
ton. He is intimately acquainted at
first hand with London and its celebri'
ties.
There is an old superstition that II
a spider settles on ones clothes it is
a sign that he will shortly receive
money. when spider is found upon
our clothes" says an old writer, we
used to say, some money is coming
toward us. The moral is this: Such
who initiate the industry of that con.
temptible creature may, by Gods bless.
ing, weave themselves into wealth and
procure plentiful estate"
To get rock for the Moreno dam in
southern California, one of the biggest
blasting operations on record has just
been successfully carried out. Describ
ing the feat, the Engineering Record
says that a tunnel 1875 feet long was
first driven into the face of the gran
lite. In this chamber was placed $3.50
pounds of powder and dynamite. This
was exploded by electric fuses and dis
lodged 10000 cubic yards of rock.
Blue books have a reputation fol
typographical accuracy almost equal
to that of the famous Clarendon Press
which is said to offer a guinea reward
for the detection of a single printers
error In the editions of the Holy Scrip
lures. A Cancel note just received
from the kings printers shows the re
markable anxiety to insure correctness
1t informs us that in chart attached
to the ARMY Medical Report of 1908
there is misplaced dot. Can this ex
ample of minute corrigenda be beaten
London Chronicle.
In Belgium a prisoner has turned
the old trick and escaped through the
prison window hospital. The prince Of
rogues weighed 800 pounds and found
himself too large to pass through his
cell window. so he played sick and
"soldiered" around until they put him
into the prison hospital He ate moth
ing to speak of for fifty days, and be
came so thin that he easily squeezed
through a window of the Chronic
ward, having at odd times sawr
through the bars. Once through the
window friends below helped him tc
the ground and took him in an auto
The cutting blowpipe, of which sc
many surprising things have been re
ported, has recently been improved IL
France in way to render 1t more gen
orally useful. Two inf1ammable gases
must be employed. One is required t.
keep the metal at a high temperature
The other Is oxygen to concentrate &C
ton by oxidation along the line Of
the cut. For heating, either coal gas
acetylene or hydrogen is employed, but
as there Is sometimes difficulty in pro
curing a supply of those gases the new
blowpipe is arranged to use instead
the ordinary gasoline employed by mo
florists.
The charge that bees are destructive
to the fruit on the tree is not borne
out by the facts. Their tongues are
formed exclusively for the extraction
of sweet juices, and their mandibles
are unable to pierce the skin of a fruit
Grapes have been taken intact from
the interior of a hive in which they
had been allowed to remain four days
A grape which had been smeared with
honey was licked clean, but was moi
injured. The bees inserted theiI
tongues in pinholes made in the Skin
Of a grape, and extracted some Of the
juice, but they were unable to enlarge
the holes.
Writing about the family of King
Albert of Belgium, a Berlin CORE