Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Fraternity audience, in Boston, by stating in
his late lectures that mulattOes are compara-
lively rare in the South. He saw very few
during his two years service on the Sea Is
lands. In the South they are found in the
cities rather than on the plantations, but the
census figures show them to be ten times as
numerous in Massachusetts as in South Caro-
lima, in proportion to the negro populations of
the two States.
AT the last session OF. Congress, an tout
| west (" member protested against admitting
fiaxseed duty free, pleading that his constitu-
ents were largely interested in 1axseed culture.
So another member adroitly proposed to ad-
NIT linseed duty free, and put duty on flax
seed; So Congress did both, and there it
stands, law and laughing Stockton lnseed
is but another name for flaxseed
COUNT BISMARCK may be said to have ex-
tinguished the national hopes of Poland by the
delivery of one of his most caustic speeches in
the German Parliament, in which, addressing
the Polish Deputies, he said: "The re-estab-
lishment of the Polish Republic is a fantasticaI
dream. There are not Poles enOngh in tho
world to accomplish it,"
In the liquor law investigation in Boston,
Mr.. G. A. Richards, liquor dealer, was call
ed to testify. When his attention was called
to the law, and he was asked how he could JUS
tify himself, as a prOfessedly good citizen, in
daily violating it. he replied: " In the same
way, suppose, as the judges lawyers and
clergymen justify themselves for daily tempt
ing me to violate it."
A WASHINGTON correspondent says "The
most painful fact which is impressed upon an
observer of the two Houses, is the extent to
which drunkenness and blear-eyed debauchery
are visible in the faces of the members One
third of the members Of both Houses appear
to be living wrecks of men whom alcohol has
substantially destroyed.
HERE is sample of the demOralizing effects
produced by spiritualsm: A Mr.. Perry, in
the Providence Spiritualist Convention, said:
GAS a spiritualist, have yet to learn that we
hold anything as sacred" A Mr.. Wheeler
said: "As Spiritualsts, we have not acknOwl-
edged any such things as moral obligations"
IT is said that chloroform is an excellent ar
ticle for the removal of stains of paint from
clothes, etc. Portions of dry white paint
which successfully resisted the action of ether,
benzole and bisulphide of carbon, are at once
dissolved by chlOroform.
THE lower branch of the Massachusetts,
Legislature has ratified the Constitutional
Amendment, by vote of 100 yeas to 20 nays.
Two days previous to the vote, Walker, the
cOlOred member. made long speech denounc-
ing the Amendment.
To get round the prohibitory law in Massa-
chusetts, they sell their mince pies with lots Of
brandy in them-abOut one drink to each pie.
The opposition are getting up what they call
anti-brandy pies, against the prOhibitory pies
The cable between Florida and Cuba will
be laid this month. The London Gutta Percha
Company is making it, The deepest water is
800 fathoms. The Cuban authorities heartily
cooperate with the company.
A. G. Cox, of Santa Clara county, who be-
came insane under the preaching of Rev. Mr..
Earle during the recent religious revival in
San Jose, died recently at the State Insane
Asylum.
DIR. RICHARDSON states that iodine, placed
in box with perforated lid, destroys organic
poison in rooms In cases of smallpox he has
seen this method used with great benefit.
A LADY named Mrs. Smith died suddenly in
the stage on the road from Virginia City to
Cisco. Her husband was not aware of the
fact till the coach arrived at the station.
"MY opinion is" said philosophical old
lady of much experience and observation, (" that
any man as dies upon washing day does it out
of pure Spite"
In one of his late speeches, John Bright said
that One-half of Scotland is owned by twelve
persons, and one-half Of England by one hund-
red and fifty.
THE Governor of Nebraska has called an
extra session of the Legislature, to meet May
10th, to generally revise and change the State
laws.
THE Radical law requires five cent stamp
to be affixed to marriage certificates to make
them legal Does the lack of stamp upon
such documents invalidate them?
BYa vote of 63 to % the Legislature of Wis
consin passed resolution to submit the ques-
tion of suffrage for women to the people at the
next election.
THE Omaha Herald says goods from whole
yale houses there are shipped to merchants
,ver in Iowa. This is reversing the old order
If trade.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, the home of the late
Abraham Lincoln, gave 100 Democratic ma
ority at the late city election.
JOHN O DoNNELL's train of pack animals,
which left Sacramento for Montana, March
'th, was in Salt Lake City, May 7th.
A CHICAGO paper having remarked that
IhicagO has New England Debating Club,
he Boston Post responds thatsO has Congress.
One Rev. Mr.. Williams of New York was
ately caught in picking ladys pocket of her
'urse, while riding in the street cars.
OSHKOSH, Wis, which has gone Radical for
he last ten years, lately gave 300 Democratic
naiOrity