Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-05-28
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

fortably 100000 persons in the New
York hotels at one time.
Candidates for the profession of
teaching in Canada receive a special
course of training at government ex-
pense.
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 100 feet to $50 feet high, and
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 s261, O49,2 S7.
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 fiotilla 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 1otilla.
In the Complies Rendus OF the Bio
gives an account of a 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 $3.50 are man.
aged by the Chinese. The management
of the remaining 1870 miles is divided
among six foreign powers, as follows:
Russians manage 1,077 miles, Belgians
903 miles, japanese 702 miles, Ger.
mans 684 miles, English sos miles,
and Frenchmen 400 miles. When the
railways now being laid down in China
are finished, the total length of Chinas
railway system will amount TO 5000
miles.
II 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.
paratiyely unknown IN many parts OF
the continent In 1912, for instance,
when an English capital ordered
lOayes to the value OF s. I'm G0thenbure
the baker stipulated for payment In ad.
vance on the ground that he would
never be able TO sell them An the city
n they vert left on his hands.-Lon.
don Chronicle.
Petroleum has been introduced into
medicine with beneficial results, AND
IL a Paris contemporary be not mis-
informed the properties Of petrol are
limitleas. II Is claimed, says the Ion.
don Globe, that from the reslduals Of
crude petrol a chemist has succeeded
in extracting butter ~ n said thai
butter can De made from q base Oi
nitrogen and carbon, bat that me rest
duale Of petroleum produce these ele
ments in greater proportions even than
milk. Al rs further claimed fAaf ms
artificial butter IS better than ihe mar
uIal. Tho color is said ~ le a litle
darker chan that of dairy butter
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