The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
GEN. STERLING PR1oE's friends are arranging to
buy him $4,000 house in st. Louis.
The IBperial Court of Riom, France, has lust
decided Chat the epithet female" applied to a
woman is an insult. a#
AMoNG the FeniaHs lately arrested in Dublin. is
W. j. Smythe, formerly Colonel in the United
States army.
COLEMAN JOHNSON, colored, formerly President
Llncoln's barber, has been appointed lst class
clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury
A wAGGIsH editor says that the streets of one of
the westeFs cities are to be ghted with redheaded
girls We'd like to hug the lamp posts.
A DINNER was given near Paris the other dav.
OF which the principal dishes were shark, horse.
dog and rat. asI -'0-O'
A correspondent of the Hartford Courant states
that that city has eight hundred grogshops and
dorty thousand inhabitants, grog shop to every
fifty inhabitants
The Louisville Courier takes Abraham Tincoln
. representative OF what common schools can
roduce, and says, If this is the best showing
rat can be made for them, let them slide.n
The Scientific American estimates that twenty
ns .. postage stamps were used last year-or by
1perhclal measurement forty-eight and half
luare miles OF paper
WILD BILL" who is the hero of the initial
.rtlcie IN HarperS Magazine for February is now
resident for junction City, Kansas. and is q
iaDDllng hummer of the lowest species.
A LYNcHBCBG negro. who followed the party Of
CONGRESSIONAL excursioDsts as far as Bristol, n.
" iele theih IN disgust, and reports that he only
III mt nf fhnfr 1Ioio
AN Ohio gentleman who has been running a
Mississippi plantation during the last wear 1T q
dead loss OF $4,000, has come to the Conclusion
Inat colored men may fight molly. but they don't
work worth d-n."
BY manuring and careful culture. Dr. Cloud
raised 6s98 pounds of cotton to the acre, on poor
plny woodland, IN Macon county, Ala. BY the
same system, Gen. Dunlap, OF Mississippi, picked
i've pounds OF cotton by weight from single stalk.
A New York exchange says: dry goods are
coming down. We are glad Of it. The dry goods
lately carried along the streets by the ladies arc
certainly very high, and ought to come down lit
tie for decency sake, if for no other reason.
HE Union Register is new paper published at
Greensboro, Nc. In its declaration Of nrincinles
it says 1--WE believe in Congress, the test oath
the genuine iron clad-impeachment of the
President, and the Julian bil.''
CLorGH, in one of his recently published letters.
tells capital story of IAN aged Calvinist woman
who, being asked about the Uniyersalists. said
Yes, they expect that everybody will be saved.
but we look for better things"
The oldest book in New England is owned bv
Rev. j. Power, of Worcester, Mass. and was
printed in l470 1t is theological work written
by Rainer, Catholic priest Of Pisa, Italy, who
died in l249.
THERE is an amusing aneedote current about
Lord Derby. 1t is said that some wine merchant
persecuted the Premier into taking glass of wine
-claret or sherry-which was to keep off the
gout and that he got the reply :-'sI have tasted
your wine, but prefer the gout."
A HOTEL keeper in Washington has posted nm
bis dining room door the following notice =
Members OF Congress will go to the table first,
and then the gentlemen. Rowdies and black
guards must not mix with the Cong as it
is hard to tell one from the other.''
A NORTHERN planter overheard two of his hands
talking: JIm," said Sam, "why don't the
major call me mister; and what's the reason he
calls my wife the old woman, and not missus %
81 can't tell, replied jim; "pears to me Yankees
don't think much more of us than our old masters
used to-"
The New York Herald recommends govern
ment' to go to work coming ten cent pieces made
oI copper anu nlcKei very proper, for copper
and nickel are just about as much like silver. as
the Government is like that formed by Washing
ton and Jefferson. Gold and silver are the remenl-
brancers OF the government as it was, but copper
aud nickel the signs OF the things As it is.
4 YOUNG couple in Smithland had laid plan
to outwit the vigilance of cruel parents and eope
The youth stood beneath the window the lady
attempted to climb Out-When, oh horror some
one detained her from the rear "Why dost not
come, gentle Amelia?" She answered. in an ag>
itated voice: II can't, Bill-mam's got holt on
my filters !"
AN lrishman who had left his native country,
and sought an asylum in America because it was
land OF liberty, was attacked on his first arrival
IN December, by furious mastif. He stopped to
pick up a stone to defend himself, but the stone
was frozen fast. .'By my soul," SAYS Pat, '.what
a swate country, where the dogs are all let loose
and the stones tied fast"
THE following statement will show the amounts
received for duty ON imports at the principal ports
of the United States for the week ending Jan.
18th: New York. 81 .858,00O; Philadelphia,
S76, ,264 AZ; Boston, $l73, 20: Baltimore.
$l8, 1888 30; New Orleans, for the last week of
1866, $69,767 46 San Francisco, from December
9Th to December 18th, $49,235 80.
A. I. STEWART, the New York merchant prince,
is a native of Lurgan, in the county of Armagh,
which town, during the late panic in Ireland, was
benefited largely by Mr. Stewart's liberaIity. Not
more than thirtyfVe years ago Mr.. Stewards
mother, then the wife of John Martin, kept a
furniture store in Chatham Square, New York,
while Mr.. Stewart himself kept modest dry