Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Washington correspondent OF aChaIieS
town paper gives this bit of criticism nus
far Wade has proved signal failure as Cue
presiding officer of the Senate. The contrast
| between him and his predecessor (F0ster) Is
SO great as to cause many Senators VINO VOGeu
for him to regret ever having done SO. his
! mode of deciding and putting questions Is very
| ridiculous. Last evening the Senate was al
most convulsed with laughter, when ne an
nounced the vote on proposition IN This wise:
| On this question the yeas are twenty and the
navs are twenty. So the agreement is not
agreed to. ="
Rem WADE is now President of the Senate,
superseding Mr.. Foster, who is regarded as
foo much Of gentleman. Wade has recently
been trying to quit whiskey and reform. An
idea NAV be had of the man who is designed
for President after Andrew johnson is put out
of the way, from a recent occurrence. The
first bill he was called upon to sign, was one in
relation to the Young Mems Christian Assocla-
ton Of Washington, and as he put his name to
it he whispered that it was pretty good be-
ginning, by G."
A LONDON correspondent says: The CT
gar ship Ross Winans has been for several
| DAYS experimenting in the channel, trying her
speed and qualities as sea boat III fOugn
weather Ii her propellers work as expected,
she ought to make thirty knots an hour, and
nothing less will satisfy Mr.. Winans, who has
| been spending mint of money on her"
JONES had drunk too much tanglefoot, and
was vainIy trying to get rid of some OF 1t by
vomit in the gutter Smith suggested that, to
stick his finger down his throat, Jones might
facilitate the operation. Jones turned ON HIM
with ineffable scorn and full maudIin dignity,
and said: odd if sh-sh dnt like ter know
| -, ,,o,3y Ts1n hoccini this mike y
A GENTLEMAN went into an oyster saloon
in Boston, and upon calling for Saddle-Rock
stew. observed man near him eating very
warm stew with his fingers Don't you fur
nish your customers with spoons 2" said the
astonished stranger to the proprietor. Oh,
yes" said he, !" but that is Gen. Butler at that
tablet"
THE last Illinois Legislature passed law
making it a high misdemeanor for any man.
aper of lunatic asylum to receive any patient
who had not been declared insane by jury.
A trial is granted to all patients now In con-
fnement, who have not been found non cOmpos
Daentis by court.
A DUTCHMAN married second wife with
| in week after the loss of his first. The Sab
bath following, the bride asked her lord to take
her riding, and was cut up" with the follow
ing response g You tink / rid out nit anOder
! woman SO soon after the death of mine frau
No, no.
To MAKE a valuable speckled dog bullet
proof, Mark Twain says-Take off his hide and
i line il with sheet iron Russia iron is the best,
and is slicker and more snowy than the conn.,
mon kind. Dogs prepared this way DO not
mind bullets.
i THE river at Memphis is forty-three miles
wide. The towns of Helena ark and Friar's
Point (Miss.) are still submerged from four to
fifteen feet The inhabitants are living IN the
second stories. Great suffering and restitution
prevails.
i THE Buffalo Commercial Adrertiser says !:
i The Southern turfmen have cut Witkes' Spirit,
for its ultra Radicalisn, and the 1Myf, Field
and Farm, is now the recognized organ. 1t is,
! besides, q more reliable and readable paper
than the Spirit.
The Boston 1dcertiser remarks of Mr.. Alb
bolts statement that when he visited the En-
: peror q he saw no visible indications of i'll
health,' that that is very extraordinary, for
what Mr.. Abbott said would have Sickened
anybody else.
GOVERNOR GEARY has signed the bill re-
quiring railroad companies to carry passengers
without distinction of color, and cOlored people
will hereafter ride in the street cars of Phila-
delphia with white people, instead of cars set
apart for them.
i WE have had robbery in Milton, says a
Boston paper, poisoning case III Boston, a
murder in Providence, r. l., all within a few
days. Are we not entitled to Congressional
f Committee of Investigation
CAPTAIN ANDERSON, of the Great Eastern,
who made himself famous by his successful
management of the mammoth ship, whilst lay
: ing the Atlantic Gable, was at one time COM
positor on the Dumfries (Scotland) Courier.
GREELEY lately made fun for one of his
Western audiences by beginning his lecture in
this way: !" Ladies and gentlemen, believe it
: is universally acknowledged that | am the
worst public speaker in the United States
: BosToN excels New York in some things il
. not in others. Her whole tax this year is twice.
and the city tax proper nearly three times as
much as that Of New York in proportion to the
. size and population of the two cities.
In BosToN nowadays habitual drinkers club
together, buy their liquor at wholesale, hire q
! room, and drink ad libitwm, each being sup
I posed to get his joint share, and therefore
/ ready to participate in the expenses.
: A LADY in South Carolina lately presented
: her husband with four bouncing boys, weigh.
' ing an average of three and half pounds
q each.
q FIVE members of Henry Ward Beecher's
church have been arrested for distling contra
band whiskey. 1t is lucky Henry was not