Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


BILLIARD TABLES are hereafter to be used
in the British army, and 100000 in gold has
recently been appropriated by Parliament to
supply these tables to the army officers in the
various barracks throughout the world. The
arguments used in Parliament for the appro-
priation were that British officers were very
badly paid and, therefore, ought to have the
means of amusement afforded them as a relax
alton from their arduous duties, and prevent
them from seeking excitement and recreation
at other places, and in more objectionable ways
than likely to originate from billiards.
A GENIUS possessed of very inquiring dis
position has been making calculation Of what
it costs the people of the United States to in
dulge in litigation, keep dogs and support min
listers by the year. The following is the result
arrived at :. Fees paid lawyers, $85,000,000 ;
costs of criminals, $12,000,0O0; dogs, $10000,-
600; ministers, $6,000,000. If this estimate
is correct the Americans pay $29, 100000 more
for the privilege Of quarreling, and $4,O00,000
more to maintain the beligerent canine family
than it costs to listen to the gospel of peace,
either under the old or new dispensation.
'SAY, Boss, where's / gwine to sleep?" in
utlired stalwart freedman of the oyerseer,
after he had been six weeks on the plantation.
'tSleep! why, where in thunder have you been
sleeping, since | hired you +" Well, boss, rs
been sleepin' on top Nv sick Niger since is
been here; but he's got well now and won't
stand dat kind Nv dem foolishness no longer
A whole cabin was immediately awarded him.
CARL SCHURz advises the Germans to aban-
don the Republican party in State and local
elections because Of its bigotry and intoler-
ance, and the terrorism attending the execu-
ton Of its excise and Maine laws in New York
and Massachusetts" and which is being fast
Sened upon Iowa, Wisconsin, and other States
of the West.
In VIEW Of the extraordinary expenditures
required to keep the Indian tribes in subec
ton, and the cost per head of destroying those
who will not maintain friendly relations with
economy, that the entire race be boarded and
lodged at frst-class hotels
THEY are to have q monastery at Dubuque,
Iowa. The building will be Of stone and very
elegant The Dubuque Herald says that The
design, if carried out, will give Dubuque a.
monastery something like the grand old struc-
lures Of Italy
PENCIL writing may be fixed almost as in
delibly as ink by passing the moistened tongue
over it. Even breathing slowly over the lines
after writing renders them much less liable to
erasure than when not subjected to that pro-
cess.
TIE Princess Alice, of Hesse, Queen Vic
toria's second daughter. is said to live very I'M
happily with her husband, who, according to
common rumor, treats her with shameful bru-
tality. A divorce is said to be on the taps.
DURING the Revolution, Washington said he
was afraid to march his little army through
Chester county, Pennsylvania, because OF the
Tories. That is now one of the very strongest
Radical counties in the State.
AN Ohio piper gives the names of three
prominent Radicals who have committed sui
eide during the past year-an example which |
the entire Radical party is following with
certainty of success.
THERE is one single fact which one may op
pose to all the wit and argument Of infdelity, |
viz That no man ever repented on his death
bed of being christian.
KANSAS claims to beat the world on corn
stalks. The Lawrence journal reports seeing
one IL feet high, and has heard of another Of
twenty-one feet
An exchange says that there is negro in
Virginia who has turned white. Poor fellow /
he won't be noticed now by his friends in
Congress-
s" 1 HE pOrGfa1CS OF IHOludS II. Seymour anu /
Isaac Toucey have been returned to their for
mer places IN the Senate chamber at Hartford,
Connecticut.
TIE statement that it is necessary to stick
q two-cent stamp on every egg you set to hatch,
has been officially denied by the Secretary of
the Treasury
A YOUNG man was put in Jail in Virginia,
short time ago, for the crime of suggesting in
public that one of the registrars was not
gentleman.
A PUZZLED chap wants to know whether
the waterfall holds the bonnet on, or the bonnet
holds the waterfall on. Will anybody tell ?
LANGLEY's new San francisco Directory
estimates the population of that city at one
hundred and thirty-one thousand
EIGHTEEN new bridges have been built
across the Seine during the reign of Napoleon
III, at cost Of about $5,000,O00
A VIRGINIA paper says An old Petersburg
lady, aged seventy six, has cut FIVE teeth and
three more are coming.
Mr.. Aston, of New York, owns real estate
valued at $65,0OO, 600