Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-26

hardware paints, soap, perfumery and
glassware are needed at Karachi, In
dia.
BY a royal decree Sweden has pro-
hibited the use Of potatoes or other
edible roots for the manufacture of
coffee substitutes.
nese policeman in San Diego, Cal He
was appointed special policeman to
serve without compensation.
Bangor, Me-, was visited one night
by such flight of moths that the
sidewalks in places were covered with
them to the depth of an inch.
1t was by means of their well devel-
oped organization that the Germans
were able to get most of the valuable
trade of the Caucasus region.
Austin, Tex has a plant which runs
at full capacity each day, turning out
oakoal. which Is made from the city
garbage. waste paper old shoes, rags.
and is said to burn as long and to give
off as much heat as the best bitumin-
GUS lump coal, besides relieving the city
of all waste material
A Pittsfield (Mass) man. who plant
ed a war garden alongside a trolley
line, planted potatoes first, but the
quack grass crowded the seed potatoes
out of the ground; then he planted
squash seeds, but the vines spread over
the track and We're ruined by the pass
ing cars, and last he tried cabbages,
but the woodchucks got them.
In the recent far eastern athletic
games held in Toxic the sprinters were
largely equipped with more or less
modern track pumps. although some
of them went to the starting post
pearing sneakers" The distance run
ners were invariably equipped with
soft footgear. Some of them ran bare
footed, and others seemingly wore
heavy socks.
1t Is said that the largest flower in
the world grows on the island of Min
danao. far up the Parag mountain
$500 feet above the level of the sea-
The natives call 1t Bolo. Its full blown
blossom is considerably more than
three feet in diameter and weighs %
pounds. The flower was first found in
Sumatra, and was called Rafflesia
Schadenburgia, in honor Of it's dis
coverer.
A writer in the Frankfurter Zeitung
of August %, 1917, states that the spin
ming and weaving industries in Ger
many in the last six months have been
more active than formerly. Many new
textiles have been produced from arti-
ftcial fibers that hitherto have been
regarded as worthless. Paper Is find
ing an ever-increasing use in the man
ufacture of clothing. The activity of
the artificial-silk industry has caused
such demand for operatives that the
labor market is not able to meet the
situation.
The French navy having recently
adopted the use of standard or zone
time at sea, the photographic service
of the French ministry Of marine has
just issued a large chart of the world,
on the Mercator projection, showing
the limits Of the standard hour zones
on both land and sea, together with
other pertinent information. The land
areas in which standard time is used
are indicated by red tinting for the
eVen-numbered zones beginning with
zone 0, in which Greenwich time is
used, and blue for the odd-numbered
zones. Violet tinting is used in the
case of countries such as British India.
Nigeria, British East Africa and Vene-
zuela, in which the legal time is in
termediate between that of two stand
ard meridians. Countries not using
zone time are tinted yellow. and in
case they use a uniform official time
the difference between such time and
that of Greenwich is indicated, also
the location of the observatory, II any,
from which the time Is taken.--Scien-
tific American.
Two pairs OF twins form four of the
five Strickland boys of Houston, Tex,
now troopers in the First Texas cav
airy. They are: Tate, 10; Oscar, %;
Ohio. rs; Glen. 10 and Claude, 81.
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