The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

THERE are 180,921 miles of mail routes in the
United States. a atts 3o#
IT is said that Hon. J. P. Benjamin is writing
for London newspaper.
The Russian army numbers ,1S5 ,9l5 men in
addition to 1l9.540 Cossacks liable to serve. =
GEN. JOE JOHNSON was born in Enniskillen,
Ireland. His brother is reported to be still living
there. e
JOSH BILLINGS says never owned mule
and never mean tn, unless there is United States
law passed requiring it..
The engines of the large ocean steamers make
about zoo 600 turns in crossing the Atlantic be-
tween Liverpool and New York.
A DRUNKEN man who slipped down upon bit Of
ice one cold night. wanted to know why it was
that water always froze with the slippery side up
"FM afraid you'll come to WANT said an old
lady to ayoung gentleman. 81 have come to want
already" was the reply. "I want your daughter"
DURING the fiscal year ending 1866, there were
,348 marriage licenses issued in San Francisco.
and 50 divorces granted.
The old stage drivers along the California and
Oregon route are resigning the reins because their
wages have been reduced to $65 per month
THERE are in Scotland 1864 houses without
windows, and 226,723 houses of only one apart
ment. Windows are taxed in that country
WHEN a fond maternal parent asked that stut-
tering wag, Ctas. Lamb, "And how do you like
babies, Mr. Lamb?' he promptly responded.
fb-b-boled madamw
A MAN in Louisville who speaks from his own
experience, says that the man who keeps PLAYING
faro Is pretty sure to reduce his winter wardrobe
to a linen duster.
A SAVINGS bank of Mobile, established by the
negroes, collapsed the other day in consequence of
the depostors withdrawing all the funds to attend
circus. ha
In New London, Conn.,. one day, four girls
about l8 years of age, and one boy but years of
age, were seen drunk. Neal Dow, of that end of
the country is lecturing on temperance in England
BRIGHAM YoUNG says there are IA 600 maidens
in Lowell and desires that 1000 God>fearing men
should go there and take to themselves seven wives
apiece.
DURING last year New York received 20 per
cent, or more than two-thirds of all the foreign
imports Of the United States, and sent out 48 per
cent, or nearly half of all the exports
SEVERAL of the leading Eastern papers have
lady correspondents at Washington. A Miss Kate
Field acts for the New York Tribune.
The statement recently made in special dis
patches that Senator Guthrie was ''alarmngIy i'll,
and that he probably would never take his seat in
the Senate again, has no foundation.
A cotemporary suggests that lady on putting
on her corsets is like man who drinks to drown
his grief. because in SOlacing herself she is get
ting tight.
The Springfield (Mo) Patriot gives an account
of "a jack colt folded on the 18th of MAY last,
which is four feet one and half inches high"
How high would he be if he was un-foIded?
In 1850, there were q 1897 churches in the
Northern, and l6 658 in the Southern States. be-
ing one church to every 62S persons in the North,
and one church to every 562 persons in the South.
JOHN s. RoeK, the first ocolored lawyern ever
admitted to practice in the United States Supreme
Court at Washington, died Of consumption at his
home in Boston short time since.
AN Irish washerwoman in Calaveras county.
CAL, who was obliged to take share in a newly
discovered mine in payment for services, her en-
ployer being unable to pay in money, now derives
an income of $4,000 year from it.
AT recent examination of girls in Cheshire.
England, for the right of confirmation, in answer
to the question, "What is the outward and visi-
bic sign OF baptism 2" the reply was, ''the baby,
sir.''
NYE, the Black Buzzard of Nevada, on one oc-
caslon speaking of his fellow black, Blaisdell,
Governor of Nevada. says "Blaisdell is an ass !;
ne tapers the wrong way wears No. 10 boots and
No. hat"
Old lady Ito hackman) )-"But these hacks are
dangerous. You never know who rides in them.
We might get the small pox." Coachy-"Yo
no cause to be ateared of my COACH mum, for
I've ad the hind wheels waccinated, and it took
beautiful tftq
AN Eastern paper says: The old Penn manson,
ID Philadelphia, was htliE so strongly that it is
found impossible to take it apart for removal.
Unlike the modern building in New York, where
man sneezed violently and the whole of one end
cropped out. The lone endf of which, the house
or the man?
1T is singular fact that the man who has be en-
most liberal to the poor of London is not an Eng
llshman but an American-Peabody; and the
poor OF New York is not an American but an
lrlshman--A. J.. Stewart. They obtained their
riches, however, in the cities they would benefit.
MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON being piquad by
some remark of thu Albany Journal made during
the Womans Rights Convention, sent the editor a
bottle OF Mrs. WinsloW's Soothing Syrup The
editor accepts, but gets rather the better Of the
doner by remarking. that his wife doesn't drag
his babies, as oratorical and strong minded women
frequently find it necessary to do.
The Boston Commonwealth Summers organ
speaks of Gen. Grant as a "person of limited
information and commonplace ideas with some
obstinate preJudlces, and not a superabundance of
intelligent convictions Suppose u Democratic
paper had uttered such a remark! k!-the whole
Radical press would have c1amored for its sup
preston.
lee Baltimore Sun states that nearly two thous-
and Germans now leave Europe eyery week for
the United States, in the Bremen and HAMBURG
mail steamers "A company is established at CO.
penhagen to encourage the emigration of Danes
NorWeglanS and SWedes to the United States
The children of all these emigrants it is said are
ltoh l. Los.-