The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-06-23
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



The maximum wage Of brakemen
on English railways has just been
fixed at sz.78 a week.
Peanut cake seems to be supDlant
ing cotton seed cake as the preferred
food for Swedish cattle.
Vacuum suction combs are now ia
nae in stables 70 curry horses An
electrically driven fan produces the
necessary vacuum.
In Liberia coffee trees attain q
height Of more than twenty feet The
price Of the product Is 5 and cents
. pound at the plantation.
The wireless apparatus on tie Gu
nard liner caronia is the most power
ful Of any in steamship service. hav-
ing a radius Of loo miles
i 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 well to dispose Of thirty
70 forty pounds a month Of sweet 20
tatoes to resident Americans.
That people win eat elephant meat
with a relish has been proved BY
butcher IN Frankforton-the-1ia Main. to
his own profit and without the knowl-
edge Of his customers. This enter
prising tradesman learned that q "
clous elephant was TO be killed and
made 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 good price.
II was a year ago that the London
post ofice directory contained for the
first time among the list o. trades
aeroDlane 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
aeroDlane fabric makers and there IS
one propeller maker, as well as a
provider Of ~aeroplahe timber and
bends"
Whiteneld. one Of the founders or
Methodism. who died in 1770. vas .
strenuous preacher. His usual pro
gram was forty hours solid speaking
each week. and this 10 congregations
measured IN thousands. but he often
spoke sixty hours a week This was
not all For after bis iabors. instead
OF taking rest. be was engaged IN Of
fering up prayers and intercessions or
n singing hymns. as his manner was,
IN every house to which he was IN
vited"
Is a woman ever justified In vol-
soning her husbandg The question II
suggested by a recent incident ID
Servia. Sara Chumitch seems to haze
had an undesirable husband, FOR he
was notorious and implacable usurer.
At the moment when he was about TO
ruin several families who we're in
debt his wife interviewed and poisoned
him. Next day she received a letter
Of gratitude. signed by hundreds Of
citizens. She was acquitted By the
jury and left the court amid cheering
crowds.
Says the Pekin and Tien-Tsin Times
"A novel sort Of crime was discov-
cred BY the Tien-Tsin police when
portly native was arrested and asked
10 explain HIS embonpoint He had q
thieves bag around his waist. filed
with dead cats to the number Of seven.
One Of them. a very fine specimen Of
the tortoise shell. was still quite warm.
In a smaller bag was found the lure,
Il consisted Of bits OF dried ish treated
with some deadly poison The man
was sent up to the yamen. where he
received thirty blows and one months
imprisonment"
Ernesto Nathan. Mayor Of Rome.
who declined on several occasions to
accept a decoration from King Victor
Emmanuel. was finally forced By =
clever ruse on the part OF the king
70 take the grand cross Of the crown
OF Italy. Nathan was making a cali
at the Quirinal. and when about 70
depart was asked to take from the
queen a little parcel to his wife. The
box contained the decoration. which
the mayor was compelled to accept
and BY virtue OF which he became a
member Of the small fraternity q
which his sovereign is the head.
Although the use OF telephones IN
mines Is not OF recent origin. the al
rantages are. perhaps. hardly really
until they have once been
tried. Probably at no time in the his
tory cf mining has there been a great
" demonstration Of the great need OF
telephones In mines than at the Cher
y coal mine disaster. How many more
ives could have been saved had tho
nine been fully equipped with tele-
,hones is entirely prohlematical. bur
[ Is certain that the number would
lave been greater had opportunity
,een Afforded for communication be-
ween the rescuers and the entombed
Philadelphia Record.
Employees OF the Krupp works can
asily be distinguished. even when at
Ired in their Sunday best Every