The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-02

In Walla WalIa fresh butter is selling at 25 cents
per pound, and fresh eggs at rs cents per dozent
ANiAmerican citizen is now taxed about four
times as much as citizen Of England.
The Prize money for American sailors during
the war will foot up $4,000, 900.
Hon. E. G. Ross, just elected to The. U IS. Sene
ace from Kansas, is a printer.
A CoCRT in Wisconsin recently decided that
man mas right to chastse his wife ''to a reason
able extent ! So
Two SISTERS, eft in state of utter destitution,
employ themselves in cutting wood and hauling it
to Mobile. s.
BETTE HoLr posts fellow who married her
one day and left the next. He was better at taking
Holt than holding on.
A MAN of 81 and woman of 81 years. were
lately married in France, and on the wedding
night this lovely brace of patriarchs danced jig.
Ice, four inches thick, has just been gathered in
Georgia The 'oldest inhabitant" hardly re-
membcred anything like it. y
The Archbishop of Canterbury has an income
of Els 900 a year. Many of his cergymen are
pinched for the necessaries of life.
THERE were ten applications for divorce before
the Circuit Court, Portland, Oregon, at the Feb
ruary term. In some of the cases the parties had
lived together twenty years.
The Springfield Republican says: 'sOur Minis
ter to Chill, Gen. Fitzpatrick, is often picked up
in the streets of Santiago, drunk and is described
as drunken. Olackguard."
Two sleighs ran from Providence 80 Boston, a
distance of forty-twO miles, for a purse of 800,
and the winner made the race in three hours and
twenty-five minutes.
A SOUTHERN journal, in commenting on the fact
that Fred. Douglass enjoys the reputation of q
very talented man, says, "of course he is smart !;
he ~ the son OF Southern gentleman
The oil wells in southeastern Kentucky, which
promised SO fairly last fall have disappointed the
owners. The drills have been almost universally
abandoned, and many persons have been ruined.
The turning down of the wick of kerosene
lamp for the purpose of leaving a low flame on
going to bed, or on leaving the room of an even
ing, is highly unsafe. The low fame generates
poisonous air iu the room.
"I've got no hoops on this morning. observed
Clara = How is 1T you don't sing, then z" asked
cousin John. ''What do YOU mean, stupid 2?
why if there are no hoops the slaves are liable
to come out, you KNOW"
Ksy ffa AB5 Il sRsnsff q agsEz nil a
being thrown over the fly wheel Wnne trvih6 Ia
ADJUST the belt, few days ago. He leaves
widow and three children.
THE new propeller, Idaho, mate of the Montana
is to be placed on the route between San Francisco
duO OleAaHu3 ts place VI buG NOllHld. which
sci will be put on the route to Hoaday's Mexico
line from San Francisco Holiday proposes to
put line of steamers on the Colorado river.
"WHO goes there ? said an Irish sentry of the
British legion at st. Sebastian.
"A friend" was the prompt reply.
''Then stand where you are for, by the powers
you're the first I've met with in this murtherin
country"
GoLDwas accidentally discovered, short time
since, in Hancock county, Kentucky. An ASSAY
at the Philadelphia Mint developed $45 II ner ton
Of gold, and $58 TO $50 per ton of silver and
other precious metals. A Philadelphia company
has bought the ground, is now sinking a shaft,
and cOntemplates the erection of hot blast furn-
ace at an early day.
The total values of the products of the mines
of Great Britain for 1865 are set down. in round
numbers, as follows Metals obtained, SIS, ,900,-
600 of which $58,8OO,OOO was represented by
iron Goa, 1922 500, ,OeO. receiving its value at
only 81 "a per ton earthly minerals (not includ~
ing ordinary clays or building stone) 1920 900
making grand aggregate of $2O8, 100000.
The Austrian Empire is one of the few coun-
tries producing the important article of quicksi-
yer IN suflclent quantities to allow of large i'm
portation OF it after meeting every demand of its
own industrial establishments. The che produce
Of Austria is from the mines of Idria, in Corlnta
In 1864, the production for the whole empire was
1884 Vienna cwts., of which 5000 Vienna cwts.
were exported.
Gov. MORTON, of Indiana, who has bad health,
is trying the "iron treatment" His legs are
placed in iron boots and subjected to an oscllatory
motion OF twelve hundred minute, and the arms
similarly encased, two thousand minute. The
object is to vltaize and increase the action of the
muscles and the nerves. The operation causes
almost insuferabe heat to the eXtremities His
Excelency improves.
The longer live, the more feel the Importance
of adhering to the following rules, which ] have
laid down for myself in relation to such matters
l. 70 hear as little as possible what is to the preiu-
dice of others. 2. To believe nothing of the kind
until absolutely forced. 3. Never to drink into
the spirit of one who circulates ill reports.
Always to moderate, as far as | can, the unkind>
ness which is expressed toward others. 5. AL
ways to believe that if the other side were heard
very different accounts would be given of the
matter.
AN Armenian journal publishes the following
fact An Armenian woman of the village of
Cowrdbeblind was married at thirty years of age.
She had seven children and sixty-tWo grand chill.
dren, twenty-one OF whom married and had twelve
children, and one of the latter was also married
last year. and has just had child SO that the old
lady, who is in her hundredth year, has just seen
the grand child OF heE grand child, and what is
still more remarkable is, that all the members Of
the prolific family dwell in one house.
JACoBUS DE VoRAGINE. in some arguments sue
cinct elegant and Iorcible, declares the benefits of
matrimony. They are these: Hast thou means
In wife thou hast one to keep and increase them.
Hast thou none? Thou hast one to help thee to
get some. Art thou in prosperity She doubles