Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Up to Sept. 8, Sydney, Australia, had
shipped $685.. 900 worth of gold to
Japan.
At the beginning OF the present year
there were 16S,2oS telephones in use
In London.
A 2,000,OO0-ton hill in Cincinnati is
being moved three miles to make a
railroad fill.
The i've great original forests of the
United States covered $50, 000, 900 acres
and contained $4,000, 100000 feet of
lumber.
Extraordinary traffic on roads in
England is only permitted, nominally,
after those conducting it have agreed
to pay for the injury caused.
All of the food served to a guest at
q 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 a result of increased
population, but also a 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 abb
sent-mindedness and the case was dis
missed.
The production of sand and gravel
in the United States in 1908 was 81
216,044 short tons, valued at $13,270,-
0S2, a decrease Of 4,635,874 tons in
quantity and Of $1,222,oS7 in value
over 1907.
North Queensland diocese has an
area Of 10000 square miles and a 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 for
clergymen and their families one night
every week. The rents are shaded.
but just how much is known only to
the manager and his treasurer and to
the clergyman.
In the borough of Manhattan ap-
proximately 5000 passenger elevators
and 10000 freight elevators are en-
gagged in the daily transportation of
100000 people. In the six years,
1So3-190S, more than 1000 of these ma
chimes were installed.
DR.. Rose Ringgold is the only wom-
an contract surgeon in the United
States army. When on duty she wears
a divided skirt and a uniform coat.
She is especially interested in the hos
pital problem Of an army in the field
and has made a study of the work of
the japanese hospital corps In the war
with Russia.
English ship owners and Argentine
cattle raisers have organized a COM
Dany to ship regular weekly supplies
Of chilled meat from the River Plate
to London and Manchester. Work has
begun on nine new Hfteen-knot refrig-
Grafton steamers to be added to the.
vessels already at the disposal Of the
ship owners.
The pay OF officers in active service
In the army is: Lieutenant general,
t11,O00 year; major general, $4,000;
general, $4,000; colonel, 81.
900; lieutenant colonel, $500; major,
$4,000; captain. &2.4Oo; first lieutenant.
$4,000, and second lieutenant, $1,7OO.
From colonel down the payment II in
creased every FIVE years.
The so-called treasure OF st. Peter
at St Peters in Rome, hitherto not
accessible to the general public, will
be exposed to view on the
payment of small fee. 1t consists Of
several old church vestments, among
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 retired
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