The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-02-24
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


Taxicabs have displaced the ham
SONS OF London TO very great extent.
A hive which contains 10000 bees
in February has 5000 in March,
10000 In April and from 10000 in
May.
Every winter more and more WON
en- are going north TO camp In the pine
woods and to hunt moose and deer
during the snowy season.
Although the first American patent
for metal pen was granted Balti-
MORGAN in 1910. 1t was half century
later that the industry began to -four
isb-
The number OF marriages in the
county OF London last year was the
lowest per thousand OF the population
on record The number was 3S,209.
and the rate 1873 thousand, which
compares with IL thousand in the
previous year.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, at a dinner in
New York, interrupted with a With
cisn a chorus Of voices praising the
oratorical powers Of the suffragettes-
How true 1t is" said DR.. Abbott,
that, as Keats said, thing Of beauty
may be jaw forever"
Leon Flint. of Norway, has sold his
pet bear to people living in West Vir-
ginia- The shipping crate Bore thu
words: My name is Jennie ! have
been in captivity since l was year
old and am quite tame. Please give
me drink" 1t was shipped by the
Canadian Express. and needless to
say win be taken care of.-Lewiston
(Me.) Journal
The death has just taken place at
Lennoxtown Of Andrew Robertson,
who 1t is stated held the record for
the longest employment under the
same firm in Scotland He commenced
work in 1890 as a tier boy to calico
block printer in the firm OF R Dalglish
Falconer Co. He filed various posts
during the course of seyenty-nins
years. and latterly was color mixer
London Globe.
II is estimated that the loss 20 the
State from forest fires in ,fassachu
sets in 1909 amounts to s236.47s
There were 1881 different fires, and
the number OF acres burned over was
42,808. Analysing these figures. ths
State forester finds that the careless
smoker who persists in the habit when
in woodlands or passing through thu
country during the dry time is the
greatest menace to future forestry In
Massachusetts,.
A certain local candidate was ad
dressing a small bunch Of farmers at 1
district schoolhouse in the western
part of Columbia County a week or S.
ago. While he was in the midst o
telling them how bad he wanted TIL
office, tall. hungry-looking fellow ros'
up in the back of the house and said
'Tf you git elected I'll move" AL
you'll have to do" returned the quick
witted candidate, is to throw gourd
full of water on the fire and call you
dog."-Lake City (Fla) Index
1t is proposed to hold an interna
| tional congress to take steps to pre-
| serve all marine mammals, including
| seals. sea lions, walruses, sea elephant
and whales. Some of these animal
are almost extinct. and it is necessar.
to take some immediate steps to car
for them and to protect them from tn
1 - 10 h~rn nr fha-
will be wiped out entirely. 1t is sal
that the Japanese are the worst offend
ers in the onslaughts upon the valua
BILE animals, for they seem to recos
nize no laws in their work of destrus
ton
Fifty years ago an American natul
alist, Dana, discovered on the surfac
of the sea a little animal Of so singr
lar a character that he named it -mor
| striIla." It is small custaeean. aki
| To the cyclops so common in pond.
But. while the latter are furnishe
with all that is necessary to captur
| and digest their food. the monstrili
has neither apparatus for seizing pre-
nor any digestive tube. 1t is richl
provided with muscles. nervous systeI
and organs Of sense; 1t lacks only whs
Is necessary to prolong life by alimel
tation. The monstrilla is doome'
therefore. to natural death.-Harper
Weekly.
Uncle Sans campaign for NOR
-uplift" among his vast army Of L
dian wards has been chiefly significaI
because OF the almost total suppressio
of the sale and use OF -firewatei
among the braves. and the consequeI
. diminution Of warlike outbreaks on Il
reservations Washington oficia
evinced much interest in the report I
Assistant Indian Commissioner Abbo
that seven hundred Navajo Indiar
went recently to their white fathel
superintendent and. surrendering a
enormous stock Of gambling paraphe
! MALTA, enrolled thenr names alongsic
those OF the simple life" exponent
These gambling devices OF varied sor
and descriptions we're shipped here ar
have been placed on exhibition wit
the immense collection of relics al
trophies at the Indian bureau--Was
ington Star.
, Gordon castle is an immense bull
ing. with huge square tower. and
frontage OF six hundred feet The ga
dens are deliberately laid out and Il
? park contains large herds Of fallow al
roe deer. The Spey flows through Il
} domain and affords some OF the be
. salmon fishing in Scotland The duke