The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON contains l9 600 miles of gas pipe.
FREEMAsoNRY was introduced into this country
in'17SO.
Texas lost oy the war in round numbers $780,
600, 900. s,f
SEvEN-E1GHTHs of the teachers in the public |
schools of Massachusetts, are females.
JOHN sLIDELL is reported to be one of the rich |
est men in Paris to-day.
A MONTHLY magazine. called the Radical, pub- |
lished in Boston, urges crusade against what it
calls "Bible worship"
O'LEARY, gazing in astonisbment upon an ele-
phant in menagerie, asked the keeper-"What
kind of baste is that attn hay with his tail ?'
A MAN in Montreal swelled up and died from
applying coal oil to a bruise. He said he felt all
atire.
THE Radicals are in favor of permitting black
men to vote, but are Mortified at the proposition
to confer the elective franchise upon white women
The falls of Niagara on the American side has
gone back about $50 feet within two weeks, in
consequence ofthe fall of huge masses of rock.
DURING the month of December, the P. T. Co.'S
boats on the Willamette river, Ogn., cleared a net
profit Of $4,000.
In the breach Of promise case of Virgins vs..
Russell, in New York City, in which the injured
lady sued for $l00, 900, verdict of 5000 was given.
TIE Berlin correspondent of the London Review
says Bismark averages bottle of brandy every
day.
The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. World
says Louis Napoleon intends to abdcate his throne
Oh the closing of the great French Exhibition.
THE latest style of bonnet that has appeared in
Paris is twine string with diamond set in the
top. ass
A POOR little girl in the Fourth Ward, New
York, as she was dying said ''She was glad she
was going to die, because now her brothers and
sisters would have enough to eat y
Mr.. HoRACEtB. PRoCToR, a smart colored man,
had q handsome vote for Mayor of Lowell, and
yet the Radical papers of that city do not even
mention his name.
To CURE the toothache, pulverize equal parts of
salt and alum, take as much cotton as will fill the
tooth, dampen it, put in the mixture, and place it
in the tooth.
A WESTERN paper says they have preachers out
there of the stern.whee Species who are exceed.
ingly light in the head, but keep up a prodigious
racket in the rear"
POURING cold water on the face and head de-
stroys the effect of narcotic poison. girl pOis-
oned with laudanum in England was saved in this
way, after all other remedies had failed.
We require four things of woman-that virtue
dwell in her heart, thatimodesty play on her brow
that sweetness flow on her lips, and industry Occu-
py her hands.
"MY friend" said doctor to an Irish patient
"be composed. we must all die once" ''An' it's
that vexes me-" replied Pat; ''if it wor NOR than
onct, I'd be aisy in my mind"
In peeling onions, put a large needle in the
mouth, half in and half out. The needle attracts
the oily juice of the bulb, and any number may
be peeled without affecting the eyes.
LETTER to the African Times says: The deatE
/ 0f Kinp 0UOw Daddy of A0nanirn was the sigma
for the sacrificing OF some thirtyive or forty meT
and women connected with his household.
THERE are 485 900 Catholics in New York city
25 900 of whom are regular church attendants
The total includes $4,000 young men between tn
ages of Is and 80 years.
The Atlanta Intelligencer denies that the sub
ject of repudiation is being agitated in Georgia
and declares that the people of that State vii
never repudiate their honest debts, their credit
their moral manhood, or their self-respect.
A PERSON who has taken pains to examine tn
records, states that in 1864, the blOodiest year
the war, there were 200 more of accidental death
of citizens Of Massachusetts,, than Of Massachu
sets soldiers killed in battle.
THE Catholic Church in the United States
said TO have g. ,884 churches and ehapes, "a theo
logical seminaries and l404 academies and schools
containing 900 pupils. The Catholic popuIf
ton of the United States is estimated from 600
600 to 5 900, 600.
I Young lady of Quincy, H.. died, to all ap
pcarance, lately, and was inferred in tomb
More than twentyfonr hours after somebody hear
) faint moan in the vault, and opening it and tn
cofin found the person alive, and she is now raE
f IDLY recovering.
NOTICING the recent public burning of the Coz
stitution of the United States, in the streets
Joliet. Illinois. by mob of the Radicals OF ths
place, amid great cheering. the Springfield Regis
ter says 1T wasn't worth while to burn the poo
old document; it wasn't in their way"
A DELAWARE correspondent OF the Norfolk VI
ginian saws: "The largest and most dangerol
: political organization the South has to conten
against is the Methodist Episcopal Church North.
All churches are dangerous when they becom
political.
!, 1T is stated that in Vermont one couple out
every eleven that are married subsequently, gets
i, divorce. When it is known that there are man
t more applications for divorces than arc granted
D the amount of matrimonial felicity in that Sta
' cannot be regarded as very great.
$ JOHN ". STEELE who in 1864, at the age
t twenty became heir to the celebrated McCilntoe
d farm on Oil Creek. Pa, (Which then yielded a
e income of 81 900 per day. and 100000 IN read
money, has become miserable pauper, and u
farm has been sold to pay the taxes.
I QUAINT writer says 81 have seen women {
n delicate tina: they were afraid to ride tor lear
2 the horses running away; afraid to sail for fe
the boat might upset afraid to walk tor fear II
I dew might fall bnt never saw one afraid TO
n married, which is Tar more riskfnl than all thr'
q nut together"