The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-03-03


A ten-year-old Glove tree win pro-
duce about twenty pounds annually.
The dated sandwich Is an innovation
in the railroad station restaurant
service.
1 The number of foreign students In
/ the United States is constantly In
creasins.
Nine OF the eighteen expeditions in
search OF the south pole have been of
English origin
OF all European countries. only Hol-
land has lower rate of infant NOR
tally than Great Britain.
When telegraphs were first employed
the speed of transmission was only
four to five words minute.
A Cincinnati man has patented an
electric air heater for BARRIERS use.
compressed air passing through a cyl
inder containing resistance coil.
From eight Thousand to ten thou
sand coal slack and pitch briquettes
are manufactured and consumed In the
city of Belfast, Ireland. each year.
A building which. 1t is believed,
holds the record In this country in
antiquity as a Presbyterian church
is still standing at Southampton. Long
Island. Its erection was begun In
1907 and it was dedicated as church
in 170S.
Bendigo, Australia, has started a re-
form movement to stop the Ginning
and striking OF all-night public clocks.
the city being moved thereto by Nine.
Melba. The prima donna passed a
sleepless night in Bendigo owing to
the din of clocks and she has threat
ened never to visit the city again.
The complaint has been discussed by
the Bendigo city council and 1t was
night to 6 a. m.
Switzerland has total population
of $500, 900 and there are 1884 peri
odicals in the country, or one publica-
ton to every 2.715 persons. or the
publications giving special attention
to news and politics, 472 are printed
in German. 101 In French, 81 in Ital-
ian and but one in Romansch The
religious publications include so Ger
man Protestant, 40 French Protestant,
"a Catholic. Missions, 2 Jewish and
8 Free Thought. The Swiss newspa-
pers have limited telegraph service.
as compared with newspapers in other
countries. but they are, as a rule. well
edited.-Consular Report.
At thErty-three Napoleon was en-
peror of France; Phil Sheridan rode
on a foaming steed twenty miles,
seized his retreating army and. hurl-
ing 1t upon EARLY, snatched victory
out of the jaws of defeat, sending
him, with his hosts, flying up the
valley of the Shenandoah; Wolfe
scaled the Heights of Abraham at Que
bee, dispossessed the French of their
possessions in Canada and gave two
provinces to England; Correggio had
produced his three world-renowned pic
lures, THE Assumption of the vir-
gin" 'Ecce Homo" and 1.-THE Penitent
George Stephenson made
his first LOCOMOTIVES; Edison had har-
messed electricity to the uses of man;
Gray wrote his "Elegy"; Poe his "Ra-
ven." and Thomas Jefferson the Dec
laration of Independence"
A fine cure for the whooping cough
Is made of offerings of hair, in Sunder-
land. The best way there is to shave
the crown of the head and hang the
hair on a bush, or small tree, prefer
ably, and as the birds or wind carry
away the hair, the cough will dis
appear. A still more potent remedy
for whooping cough is had in the
Northumberland idea, which is that
the cough can be cured by putting the
head of a live trout in the patients
mouth and letting the fish breathe
into the latter. A still more strenuous
way is to pass a hairy caterpillar
through the mouth, after which the
worm is to be put into small bag
and tied around the victims neck.
The cough ceases when the caterpil-
lar gives up this earthly life. The
whooping cough is not so bad after
all, is it?-Chicago Tribune.
There Is no city on earth where the
tip system is more deeply rooted than
In Paris; and yet If we are to be-
ieve M. Jabosynat, secretary of the
chambre Syndicate Ouvriere des Ii
nonadiers, the cafe and restaurant
HdileiS ueSiTe HOlnlnS Delter tnan to
zee the abolition of the pourboire.
When that day arrives" he says, "our
will realize the necessity of
themselves together for the
purpose of obtaining a fixed salary
rom their employers. To-day we re-
eiye no salary, only the pourboire.
md not always that. Some employ
rs, finding that we make too much,
Ieduct as much as 40. so and even 60
'er cent OF our tips. 1 could tell you
# one cafe where eighteen employees
Iand over to the house over e2,4O0
year. Most employees are paid for
we others pay for the privi-
ege."-The Caterer.
The statistics of trade and industry
Or the year recently closed, made pub
c by the Canadian government. shows
hat Canada has recovered in strik-
ng manner from rAe depression of
wo years ago. The bank clearings
cached the enormous total of $685.
s4,S6S. an increase of 20 per cent
yer 1908. while the new buildings
rected during the season approximate
50,oOo,000, gain of $50, 600. 900 over
lie preceding year. During the year