Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-09-21

liable to fine of fifty dollars or imprisonment
WHY'S prosy preacher like the middle of
wheel Because the fellows around him
get tired. M 3Y8 sk 1.i q
THE State of Alabama is capable of sup;
porting 100000 people. It has iron, c goa
and marble in abundance.
>, A BALL struck a little boy in the eye last
week Strange to say, the bGs0t lmmedlately
came out of his mouth sas8
"A RECENT census of GalFeston,. Texas,
shows the population to be q, 00tl--an increase
of over $50 per cent within years aavTSE
ONE of the most notorious bandits in Italy
is said to be Giuseppe Morinee, alias Joseph
Morrow formerly a New York ToWdy.
4MA, why is postage stamp like bad
scholar!'' al can't tell, my son: why is itYl'
because it gets licked and put in a corner"
ID AN AFRICAN lady entered the depot at Lam
caster, Ohio, and wishing to, have her baggage
checked, asked the agent, Is you de gemman
what mails de trunk8!'' Ts7e. s1s,1T.
THE Sentinel, paper published in Trenton,
New Jersey, speaking ofCongFess says: Pour
barrel of tartar emetic into hell and it could
not vOmit up a more abandoned SCI" l#I 3I il
THE gold fever has broken out in the fvicin-
ity of Scranton, pennsylvania. Collaborating
quartz has been discovered which yields upon
assay from fifty to sixty dollars ton. .as
AMoNG the cooperative movements lately
reported, is a furniture store In Cincinnati,
with a capital of 100000 and employing
900 men, most of whom are shareholders.
In BELFAST, Maine, the other day,sa sailor
received a letter, written in, that city, which
had been going around the world nine years IN
pursuit of him, and had not before caught up
IAN ARTICI,Ein. a. London magazine. dilates
Ondthe palatable quality of steaks from lions
and tigers It is not certain about lions, but it
Eissaid thatthos who Eight the tiger rarely
get their steaks
WE ARE curious to know how many feet in
female Arithmetic GO to make mile because
wesnever met with q lady5ye whose shoes, to
big for her" 7'A''4 go
IS yAjFoREIGN rnechanieian has made a pin for
a.necktie, the head of which is a very small
piece of lnalachite, containing musical box,
which plays with marvellous beauty a number.
of modern italian operate airs.
.aILLUsTRATBDs with cuts, said a n1ischiev-
GUS young urchin, as. he drew his knife, across
the leaves Of his grammar. illustrated with
cuts" repeated the school-teaehery as he laid
hisrattan upon the urchin's back. 70 FL
I THE time required for train to run thro'
the Mount Gems tunnel, when completed, will
be from one-half to three-quarters of anhOur,
aand It is thought that passengers may possibly
prefer the outside route to such a lengthy i'm
murement.
ACCORDING to GENERAL Howard,s Official
report (he is chief of the negro Abureau), the
negroes have decreased in number, Since their
so-called freedom, 1,309,OO0 If the euAite ne
grO6s had decreased in the same way there
bo fnTf has
BOY who asked q Boston police officer for
shelter in the station house, said: 'See, Cap'n,
first my father died, and my mother married
again; and then my mother, died, and my father
married again; and somehow or other Idont
seem to have no parents at all, nor no home,
nOrrno nothing" 1891 3 xaK yigo oHebI
- a BUTTING match occurred in Lynchburg,
9 Vaa!, recently, Between certain William Goat
1and negro boy, which attracted q crowd Of
spectators. The negro, having the hardest
head, came off first best in the tilt, butting
William off his legs several times, until he
finally reiterated sdiscoinftted from the field.
40 ONE day Mrs Partirgton's attention was
attracted by the dulcet tones of a street min
8 strel, who was grinding out :. Fishers Horn
AeBipe'' on hand organ at furious rate, while
his monkey kept time to the music. 'sDear
mel exclaimed Mrs. p, show finely he plays
and how much his little dancing brother
looks like him R'ak16sns .rmnTT s.
al MAN died lately in Hartford, Conn, who :
during the last month of his life became drop
steal, and so great was the pressure of water
that toward the last actually oOzed out of the
pores of the skin all over his body, SO that for
the week preceding his death tOySelswere con
stantly sWathed about him to absorb the trick
ling streams that issued from his over distend-
ed Skin at every breath Which escaI ed him.
:, HENRY GwINN, a colored man who married
"a white lady in Boston a few months ago and
attempted to lecture, but failed to interest his
audiences, has g0Heaback to his old home in
Georgia. Last week, says % Georgia paper OF
August, he was in Anguish and made an ad-
dress in which he advised the c0lored men to
vote with their old masters. This SO lncensed
them that the police had to interfere to save.
him from Violence S ssrsss4u1eta esasia s
"a WRITER in the INDEPENDENTLY speaking
s1i0f Butler. says: = Make best you can OF it,
it'sa terrible face, that of Buffers; 1T looks
like pirate's-a strong. SUBSCRIPTIONS cruel
face. The low, wide Forehead, the crossed.
= eyes, the hatchefy Roman nose, the thin lips
make q combination powerful and pitiless. AS
+ d politician, Butler is 0yer-reaehing, selfish,
& and will eontentwith no less than the highest
6ina the political game" ls sa2asssLs 5a +,
A COMPANY has just been formed in France,
: with q capital of 100000 francs, to search
for three, Spanish galleoHs which were sunk