The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

A HANDFUL Of common sense is worth bush el
Of learning.
i JOHN Mitchell. The eminent Irish patriot, is
leditorof the Richmond (Ya) Dispatch.
i Twenty-Five farms have been sold in one sec
ton OF Alabama for the low price of 81 per acre.
WHAT is the difference between summer dress
i ia winter and an extracted tooth One is too
thin and the other tooth out. s6I 6lig
i AN exchange advises gentlemen not to part their
hair behind, for hair parted in that way reveals
a soft place in the head" m
i A HOME for the destitute and superanuated Cath
olic 2lergymen is to be established in Ellington,
Connecticut.
the full dress of native lady OF Colombo is a
hair pin and garter.
/ FIVE HUNDRED dollars is offered for an Ameri
can silver dollar of 1904 if in good state of pre-
servation. The Alta California has the notice.
THE Louisville Democrat truly and concisely
observes that Government too Strong for rebel.
lion is too strong for the freedom Of the people.
SoME of the wealthy men of Jackson county,
Oregon, headed by Jas. T. Glenn, very enter
prsing citizen, have organized tO build wooIen
factory IN that county 81
| TAKE piece of thick tarred cable about ff-
teen inches in length, cut it carefully in two with
sharp knife, and then try and chewthe ends to.
gether. You can try as long as you like. Il vtP
| AT Morissville, Pa, is an epitaph on one Sam
Mclaughlin, with the addenda s II all the lead
ing politicians and priests go to heaven, want to
get off at some other station"
| A blacksmith was requested to bring suit for
slander. He declined doing so, saying he could
go into his shop and hammer out better charac.
ler than all the Courts in the State could give him.
! ANEGRo on trial before the Mayor of Lynch,
burg, for striking another negro, gave as an ex-
euse the fact that the negro lie struck belonged to
the 'old issue" Gree before the war), and there
fore tried to impose on him. s-e 81.
The following il going the rounds as a domestic
drama: Scene |. Mother in the cellar splitting
wood. Scene 2. Daughter in the parlor singing
to Clarence Fitz Noodle the pathetic ballad Of
"who shall care for mother nowr' N 8l.sstgo
/ A DIsLoYAL Kentucky paper remarks that If
Congress will enact a code which conipels me-
gro mead when he is sleeping in achair, to fall
forward ike white man s. instead OF back, as it
lever will, then we may begin to talk of the pracs
tical success OF the Civil Rights Law.
AGAssIz says man lived on this earth 10000
years ago, and DR.. Barrett, of Middletown, Conn.
says that man trod the Connecticut Valley 80 900
years ago, but that he was of entirely different
rage from oprs, which, be says, is anew and dis.
itlnct creation. Eeee434 6g.f s
WHAT we want,in natural abilities may gener-
ally be made up in industry, as dwarf may keep
pace with giant it he but moves his legs little
faster. mother" said the Spartan boy going to
battle, 'smy sword is too short" add step to
IT," was the reply. l
The following were the votes polIed during the
recent elections in the large cities New York,
,585 Philadelphia, l02.500; Brooklyn, 4S,9l9;
Cincinnati and Hamilton county, 40, ,448; Balti-
more 81 900; ST. Louis. 2I ,l85 Chicago, 20, ,946
Boston and Suffolk county, H. $50.
Thirty EIGHT years ago, an Indian woman rode
on horseback from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara,
using a piece of grape vine as a switch. Upon
reaching her destination she stuck her switch into
the ground. It took root, and sixty barrels Of
wine were made last season from its fruit.
The Pope has addressed an invitation to the
Bishops of the Catholic world to assemble in Rome
in the month of June, 1857, to celebrate the
eighteenth century Of the nartyrdom of the Apos.
ties Peter and Paul, and the canonization of sew
eral martyrs, confessors and virgins.
We give herewith what is sad to be certain
cure for the troublesome customers corns Scrape
a piece of common chalk, put small portion of
it upon the corn and bind it with linen rag. Re.
peat the application for few days and you will
find the corn come of like shell and perfectly
cured. The cuie is simple and eficacious.
I AN EDITOR in Alabama having read an article in
Halls Journal OF Health, advising that husband
and wife should sleep in separate rooms, says
DR.. Hall can sleep wnen and where he chooses.
but for himself, he intends to sleep where he can
defend his wife against the rats, and all other noe
turnal foes, as long as he has one to defend. bsl
TT sometimes becomes desirable to test a piece
of gliding. Gold leaf or plate may be known
from gold colored alloy by the following test
Take a solution of common chloride of copper and
apply drop to the gliding if it isgold, no effect
will be discernabe; if it is gold alloy or any
other brass imitation a brown stain will instantly
be observable.
THE best thing for hurn, says an exchange, is
the following, and every family ought to know it
and try it Z: As soon as possible after the burn,
throw little green tea into hot water; let it
steep. Stir up an Indian meal poultice. Spread
The tea leaves or the poultice put it on the burn
or seaId, which ever it may be. If burnt with
POWDER it will take the powder out, and the skin
will be as clear as ever.
THE Chicago Tribune brings to the surface the
fact that the New England States, with popula
ton of little over three millions, have National
Bank currency of over $l06 ,O0O,O 900 the Western
States with population of nine and half mill |
lions, have only $53 900 900, and New York, with
n nopuIation greater than all the New England !
States has only $68 100000. This is another way
remarks the Madison Union, in which chat thrv-
ing population Of Yankees have absorbed the
benefits of the business of the country.
THAT well known statician, Hon. Samuel B. Rug.
giles, made remarkable statements i'll his speech at
the Cyrus Field banquet the other night Speak
ing of our railroads, he said they cost larger sum
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