Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-04-30
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


spread from 10000 to 100000 square
feet of canvas.
Mrs. Helen Troy OF Auburn. N. Y.
has been received into full membership
of the Six Nations. She has devoted
the last IA years to study and research
regarding the Iroquois traditions.
1t requires many hands to clothe
the New York women and some women
outside of the city, for there are 96,162
employees in the metropolis working
on women's clothing and their yearly
output is valued at 1921 ,049.2S7.
A junior league of the New York
State Association opposed to Woman
Suffrage has been formed at Albany
with Mrs. N. H. Henry as president.
The membership is said to have reach
ed already the 'neighborhood of one
hundred and to include young women
of every social grade in Albany.
Germany's first complete fotilla OF
turbine torpedo boats was commission
ed last month. 1t consists of IL YES
sells of the newest type built in Vienna,
Germania and Schichau yards. Those
built in the two first-named establish
ments have attained a speed of over
"a knots. Besides, Parsons turbines.
three types of German turbines are
represented in the fiotilla.
In the Complies Rendus OF the Bio
logical Society OF Paris, M. Picard
| gives an account of useful wasp
| found in Senegal and Nigeria. 1t Is
one of the burrowing wasps, and feeds
its larvae on a species OF tsetse fly
In view of the part played by many
species of the latter in spreading dis
ease, this wasp might prove a useful
ally to those who are fighting malaria
in tropical countries.
China now possesses $500 miles OF
railways, of which only 1880 are man
| aged by the Chinese. The management
of the remaining 1870 miles is divided
among six foreign powers, as follows:
Russians manage LOTT miles, Belgians
903 miles, Japanese 702 miles, Ger.
mans 6S4 miles. English COS miles,
and Frenchmen 400 miles. When the
railways now being laid down in China
are finished, the total length of China's
railway system will amount TO 5000
miles.
1t is perhaps worth recalling that
the art of baking loaves came to Eu
rope quite late in history. Flat cakes
were baked even in the earliest times
| but as late as the beginning of the
nineteenth century loaf bread was com
| M rofivalv ,,,lxpomn in MANY nartc ~
the continent. In 1912, for instance
when an English capital ordered
loaves to the value of So in Gothenburg
the baker stipulated for payment in ad
vance on the ground that he would
never be able to sell them in the city
If they vert left on his hands.-Lon
don Chronicle.
Petroleum has been introduced into
> medicine with beneficial results, and
if Paris contemporary be not mis-
informed the properties of petrol are
limitless. 1t is claimed, says the Lon
don Globe, that from the residuals o.
, crude petrol a chemist has succeeded
/ in extracting butter. 1t is said thai
butter can be made from a base Of
nitrogen and carbon, but that the resi-
, duals of petroleum produce these ele
ments in greater proportions even thar
milk 1t is further claimed that thil
5 artificial butter is better than the nat
ural. The color is said to be littl'
darker than that of dairy butter.
Fulwood's Rents. the little HolborI
court leading into Gray's Inn gardens
which will be largely rebuilt, former
ly possessed the privilege of "sanctu
ary," and hence became notoriou
resort for fraudulent debtors and still
more unpleasant characters. Yet thi
dingy dive" can boast of many glor
ious memories. Francis Bacon live.
here In "Fulwood's House" and val
ued his furniture at $50, huge pric
for that period. Here the Whig Gu
and Melbourne and Oates Club met Il
the reign of Charles II. and here stoo,
Squires coffee house, from which sew
eral numbers OF the Spectator wer
Dated Westminster Gazette
"A part of the Nobel prize, whicl
was awarded to Selma Lagerlof, will
be applied" says the Times of Stock
holm, ito the purchase of house o.
the Marbacka estate, where she wa
born. This is situated beautifully nea
the banks of the River MellanfrykaI
its main building being the old home
! stead, which is severely plain in arch
lecture, but large and comfortable.
came into the hands of the famil
! through her grandfather, whe was
regimental clerk. At his death 1t wa
inherited by Erie, whose children wer
born there. Through reverses the ei
= tate passed into the hands of strangers
= from whom the Nobel prize WHINE
will rescue 1t, and her JOY at bein
\ able to do so is shared by her countr,
, men"
|. The demolition is now being pr,
A ceeded with of Nos So, Sc and 81 Fe
a tel lane, three old, gabled building
. which were originally part of tn
d Barnard's inn, which was founded 1
q the fifteenth century. Fetter lane