Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-01-06
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


III
by an Italian In 1899.
Norway has a factory In which "a
900 pounds Of haddock can be turnec
into fish balls In a day.
Though hydrophobia has beer
stamped out of Britain, 1t is still ram
pant In Germany, where every yeal
over $500 dogs and cats afflicted witt
the disease are destroyed.
When the post office was first opened
at Kai-Feng, China, the clerks had q
fight with some of the men who bought
stamps and refused to go away until
the stamps were licked and stuck on
their envelopes for them.
The present wave Of agitation for
the amendment of the British copy
right law is gaining strength from the
discovery that a great-grandson of
Robert Burns Is now making a pre-
carious living as a mender of pots and
pans.
Queensland and Victoria possess
only small ostrich farms, which have
not produced very encouraging results.
In all there are now about two thou
sand ostriches In Australia. The in
fer4or feathers are used at home and
the more valuable ones are exported,
chiefly In Germany.
The French government takes Is per
cent OF all the money staked at the
casinos Of the seaside and other health
resorts on the little horses and other
gambling devices. For the season Of
10000 this percentage amounted to
$943,393, the summer season natural
ly contributing the greater part-over
100000
The duke of Atholl holds part of his |
lands conditionally on his presenting |
a white rose to his sovereign when
honored with a visit. The late Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert once were
his guests at time when these flow
ers were out Of season and the duke I
had much difficulty in obtaining two
roses for the occasion.
The court house at Washington, Ma
son County, Kentucky, in which Uncle
Tom of Uncle Toms Cabin" fame was
sold, was struck by lightning and de
Itroyed on August 13. The building
vas erected in 1894 1t was the sale
If the aged negro at this place that
rave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis
or her story-Green Bag.
One Of the main features of the agri-
ultural exhibition at Allahabad, In
LA, next month will be the tillage
Ield, on which as large as possible .
hoice of plows and other implements
I tillage will be regularly at work, so
hat visitors can see for themselves
be depth and quality of the tilth, and s
he weight and draft of the various
Implements.
About one million persons In the
'orking period of life in the United
tates are on the sick list each year.
he cost of their illness is about ST.
lO,00O,000 a year, Of which at least
le-half Is preyentable. Therefore, the I
'timate, considered low, of the pre- =
entable loss from disease and death in
lis country is $500, ,OOO, .-Profes-
# Irving Fisher.
Henrik Ibsen's posthumous works
I've just been published In Norway. j
1ey consist of collection of verse.
material and sketches of mi
e plots and morals of his plays. as
I'll as the text of the plays as first
the last showing the great
portance Ibsen attributed to careful
aiming of his plays in advance and
thorough revision. Y
Wilfred Stevens, of Shakopee, Minn. -
Inslator in the service of the United N
ates government, has a working W
owledge of twenty-odd languages
can converse is as many dialects
various other tongues as may be
handed OF him. He knows more
lomatic secrets than any official
the government, with the possible -
eption Of the President and the
.retary of State.
Iookworm can certainly be Quickly
quered, malaria more slowly and
sumption most slowly, but almost
completely. Consumption is vir-
lily the same great, sweeping de-
yer in modern cities of science
it was a century ago, say, in Lon -
Indeed, since the great grip cpl MOI
tic Of 1881 consumption seems
Sc than 1t ever was before and the
} epidemic of twenty years ago did
make things any better.-New a
k Press. IA
! the British postoflce savings
K in 1907 there were 1871, ,969 de. n
is, Of the value Of s44,217,2SS. and y
year 1S,379,991 representing s44.-
1872. In 1907, 9,30S,247 withdraw
were made. involving a46,46s.632 pan
last year s,922.169, representing sfLv
I95,4O0 The interest credited to So Sol
sitors In 1908 was sS,772,7 755. as GOO
pared with s3.719,975 In 1907. and wH 5IE
total standing to the credit of de- Out
ors on savings bank account on - :
mber 81, 1908, was e160, 0,64s.214.
Increase Of eS.14S,1S7 in the year.
was the custom one hundred
J ago to purchase British army Estab
MISSIONS for newly born babes. -
rank progressing as opportunity
red One of thesa fortuno4a 4,