Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

PROF. DoREAUS once placed linen hand
kerchief in the explosive condition. Of gun cot
ton, and threw it into the wash. Bridget wash
ed, dried and sprinkled it ready tor ironing,
without suspicion of its character. The mo-
lDent she placed the hot iron upon it, the hand
kerchief vanished into thin air, nearly fright
ening the poor girl out of her senses. Had this
occurred an age ago, the Professor would have
passed for limb of Satan"
CURRAN was one day engaged in legal ar
gument. His colleague; standing behind him,
was a tall, laak, and lean man, who had orr
ginallY intended to- take orders. The judge
remarked that the case before him involved
question of ecclesiastical law; and on hear
ing this Curran responded Then l can refer
your lordship to high authority behind me,
who was once intended for the church, though
in my opinion he was filter for the steeple."
The st. Louis Democrat claims for that city
population of 100000, and says that it has
$4,000 voters ON the registry list. A large
number of the white males over 81 years Of
age were DISTINGUISHED.
WENDELL PHILLIPS says that Gen. Grant
is either fool or a rebeln He says that at
home, Wilson, Sumner and the rest OUT Rad
ical'' him, but they are too tame when they get
to Congress-
HAWTHORNE once said, after speaking of
the Mississippi Valley :: After all, we Yam
kees are but fringe on the garment of the
West"
THE New Orleans Times, PicGyune and Cres-
cent, it is reported, have received an adm0ni-
tiOn from Gen Sheridan not to indulge in de-
nunciation of the Reconstruction law.
THE owner of weolen mill in Austria, re-
marriage Of his daughter, her veil was acct
dentally torn in two.
THE Board of Education of Troy, New York,
by vote Oft too, has refused to rescind the
rule denying TO colored children right Of adj,
mission to the High School
THERE are now thirteen cotton factories in
operation in Tennessee, worth nearly milaien
# dollars, and employing ever nine hundred
operatives.
A PRINTER in Texas, whose son. happened
to be fat little fellow, named him Bcevies
Fulface Jones.
EXCITED Frenchman at Niagara Fails "Ah,
dis is de- grand spectakel! Supaarb Magni-
fque By Gar! He is come down frst-rate !"
THE Catholic churches in the diocese ofPhil-
adelphia have sent $58,000 to the aid Of the
Pope.
THE first gold discovered in the United
States, was found in Cabaprus county, North
Carolina, in 1899
THERE are said to be seven Congregational
churches in Providence, Rhode Island, without
pastors.
a CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL, to be the largest
in America. and to cost $4,000 900, will be
built in St. Louis.
CHINA has 40OOO0,OOO people and 4,O88.OOO
square miles
WILTON, Maine, has woman seven feet
high and weighing $50 pounds.
BILLING'S-GAIT.
IF you do MT beleave in " total depravity,"
buy quart Ov New England rum, and study
it..
MEN amt apt tH be kickt out Nv good socie-
by for bein ritch-
Az general thing when a woman wears
the britches, she has good rite tew them
1T IL admitted now by everybody, that the
man who kan git fat on berlony sarsage, haz
got good deal Of dorg in him.
HAY Mt got so much mummy as sum folks,
bat have got as much impudence as emmy ov
taem, and that il the next thing tew munny
TELL the truth and shame the Devil"
know lots Oy people who ken shame the Devil
easy enuff, but the tother thing bothers them.
SEKTs and creeds Of religion are like pocket
cnmpusses- good enuff tn pinte out the direc-
ton, but the nearer the pole you git, the wuss
ina work.