Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


DISTINGUISHED German professor recent
" announced that if drop of human blood
was placed under a microscope capable OF
nlagnifying twenty million times larger, it
would show all the kinds of animals that ever
have existed, or now exist on the earth. In
the blood of healthy person the animals are
quiet; in that of q sick person they hight.
From this he draws the conclusion that man
has within him all the elements from which the
universe was created. He further says that II
q dead cat was flung in pool OF water and
left to deconlpose, the drops of water would
show, when under microscope, all the anil
mails belonging to the cat species.
A NASTY bird, by the name Of Jay, who
edits filthy Mongrel sheet at Newton, N j.,
saws he had rather sit on jury with eleven
niggers. and all of the blacklist kind, in rid
AUGUST and the windows closed and the key
holes stopped, and each niger with an old he
skunk in his arms, before he would sit On q
Jury with the whitest and decentest Of these
Democrats"
"DD y6u see the man 2" Yes, sir, seed
him ~ Was he a white man z" Don't
know, sir p ado you tell us you saw the man,
and can't say whether he was white OF blaekl'
Eyes, sir, / seed him; but dares so many
white felIers calm demselves niggers round
here, can't tell one from toders'
a You've man named Regan DID in Albany,
n. Y, recently from having mole or wart on
his face cut by a razor while being shaved. The
wart was on the left cheek, and, while the
whole right side was paralyzed, the left arm
and leg became rigid, and the face turned over
the left shoulder.
ooncist;nnr Of tho 4xuo
heads and sixteen offsprings- eleven boys and
five girls-from the neghborhood of Belfast,
Ireland, passed through Indianapolis recently,
en- cute for the West The youngest child
was six months, and the oldest but twenty -one
years old.
THE Detroit Post says that the Freedmen's
Bureau has succeeded admirably in its real
object of teaching the negro self reliance"
The negro may have learned to rely upon
himself, but we fear that nobody else will ever
be able to rely on him.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD has organized the
Electrical Brake Company of America 1t
is claimed that railway train, running forty
four miles an hour, can be stopped by electric
1ty in between City and one hundred yards.
AN Irish emigrant. hearing the sunset gun
at Portsmouth, asked a sailor, whats that?''
set exclaimed Pat; and does the sun 90
down in this country with such bang as that!''
GEORGE w. KENDALL predicts that the
first negro vote will be the heaviest ever count
ed. He thinks that the negroes will not con-
tinue to take an interest in politics after the
novelty of voting has passed away.
HAVE the jury agreed YETI" asked the
Judge of a Court attache whom he met on the
stairs with bucket in his hand eyes," re-
piled Patrick, +" they have agreed to sind out
for half gallon"
THE Nation says John Adams once remarked
to Mr.. Sparks, looking at the portrait of Wash
ington, "That old wooden-head got good deal
of his reputation by knowing how to hold his
tongue
= I WISH you would pay little attention to
what am saying, sir" roared an irate lawyer
at an exasperated witness. "Well, | am pay
ing as little as can" was the calm reply.
FoRNEY complained of the filth that is
thrown at him. and Prentice suggests that it
makes very little difference whether the filth
is thrown at Forney or Forney at the filth,
Mr.. GEORGE DoBsoN, of Ohio, who has
lost Sl2 ,O0e in cotton planting in Mississippi
says, the negro may fight n6bly,' but he
dom work worth d-n.'''
WHEN Lord Sidfnouth one day said, My
brains are gone to the dogs this morning" his
trends at once calculated, poor dogsp'
THE Boston Post compares the Republican
party to a pawnbrokers shop, full of unre-
deemed pledges.
In some of our American cities, says. the
New York Times, manned soldiers have taken
to organ grinding.
An asylum for Inebriates to cost $35O,0O0
is to be built on Wards Island, New York.
The Register Generals report states that
London has this year 1882 372 Inhabitants
A LIVERPOOL artist has succeeded in q mn.
chine that takes fifty photographs at once.
WAS it the egg or the chicken that first made
its appearance on the terrestrial globe?
PIN has as much head as a great MANY