Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-06-04
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



now be done from the chauffeur's seat. |
The maximum wage OF brakemen |
on English railways has just been
fixed at $7.7S a week
Peanut cake seems to be supplant-
ing cotton seed cake as the preferred
food for Swedish cattle.
Vacuum suction combs are now In
use in stables to curry horses. An
electrically driven fan produces the
necessary vacuum.
height of more than twenty feet. The
price of the product is and . cents
= pound at the plantation
The wireless apparatus on the Gu
nard liner Caronia is the most power
full of any In steamship service. hav-
ing a radius of 1900 miles.
A new windmill apparatus for gen.
Grating electricity for farm use has
been perfected In England. A storage
battery supplies the current when the
wind is not blowing.
At one of the most important gro
ceries in Hamburg they think they
are doing we'll to dispose Of thirty
to forty pounds a month of sweet po-
tatoes to resident Americans.
That people will eat elephant meat
with a relish has been proved by
butcher in Frankfort-on-the-Mai to
his own profit and without the knowl-
edge of his customers. This enter
prising tradesman learned that . VI
cious elephant was to be killed and
made a bargain for the carcass. With
IN few days that elephant was trans
formed into $500 pounds Of sausage
meat and every pound was disposed of
at a good price.
1t was year ago that the London
post office directory contained for the
first time among the list Of trades
"aeroplane manufacturers" There was
only one then, but now six are emu
merated under that heading. Subsid-
larry trades are springing up. Two
firms announce themselves as aero
plane engine manufacturers, two are
aeroplane fabric makers and there Is
one propeller maker, as we'll as q
provider of "aeroplane timber and
bends"
Whitefeld. one Of the founders Of
Methodism. who died In ITO, was a
strenuous preacher. His usual pro-
gram was forty hours solid speaking
each week, and this to congregations
measured In thousands, but he often
spoke sixty hours a week. This was
not all. For after his labors, instead
Of taking rest, he was engaged In Of
fering up prayers and intercessions or
in singing hymns, as his manner was,
in every house to which he was In
vited."
Is a woman ever justified in pol
soning her husband? The question IL
: suggested by a recent incident in
Servia. Sara Chumitch seems to have
had an undesirable husband, for he
was a notorious and implacable usurer
At the moment when he was about t.
ruin several families who were IN
debt his wife interviewed and poisoned
him. Next day she received a letter
of gratitude, signed by hundreds o.
, citizens. She was acquitted by tn,
, jury and left the court amid cheering
5 crowds.
Says the Pelin and Tien-Tsin Times
: "a novel sort of crime was discov
cred by the Tien-Tsin police when ,
portly native was arrested and asket
to explain his embonpoint. He had
: thieves bag around his waist, fillet
with dead cats to the number OF seven
| One of them, very fine specimen o
the tortoise shell, was still quite warm
In a smaller bag was found the lure
. It consisted of bits of dried fish treated
with some deadly poison. The maj
= was sent up to the yamen, where h
!, received thirty blows and one month
d Imprisonment"
!, Ernesto Nathan, Mayor of Rome
4 who declined on several occasions +
| accept a decoration from King Victo
Emmanuel, was finally forced by
clever ruse on the part of the kin
to take the grand cross of the crow
= of Italy. Nathan was making a ca
| at the Quirinal, and when about I
|, depart was asked to take from tn
queen a little parcel to his wife. Th
box contained the decoration, whic
the mayor was compelled to accep
n. and by virtue of which he became
= member Of the small fraternity {
. which his sovereign is the head
J Although the use of telephones 1
2 mines is not of recent origin, the a,
vantages are, perhaps, hardly reall
appreciated until they have once bee
. tried. Probably at no time in the hi
tory Of mining has there been srea
. or demonstration of the great need
- telephones in mines than at the Che
ry coal mine disaster. How many mol
lives could have been saved had til
mine been fully equipped with tel
phones is entirely problematical, b,
It IL certain that the number woul
have been greater had opportunii
y been afforded for communication
t~ya.r fha reccuerc and the enfor, M