Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-22

ration IN Cleveland, Ohio.
A Man in Lincoln, Illinois, has feet 16 inch.
es long and 5 inches wide.
THE black pepper tree has been brought to
bearing maturity in California.
CINCINNATI has given over $4,000 bushels
of coal to the poor this winter.
AN editor down South says he has been SON.
struck-had an eleven FOUNDER.
THE Prince of Wales is deep in debt. He
is said to owe $250,O00 to his upholsterer.
THERE are said to be $4,000 spiritualists in
New York, and five millions in the Union.
THERE are 81 ,S96 lawyers in the United
States and average about 100 clients apiece.
THE Home Journal goes in for so revolution
izing society as to allow women to propose"
THE future allowance of the British soldier
is to include a "pound of meat without bone"
WADE HAMPTON, according to report, is to
be one of the editors of the Charleston Is. CO.
Mercury
IT HAS been decided in England thata stamp
ed fac similc OF signature is as valid as q
written one.
THE other day little boy in Memphis,
drank the oil out of sardine box and died
from the effects.
| IT is asserted that newsboys in the streets
of New York are frequently stolen aud shipped
to Western cities.
TWELVE Dry Goods houses in New York
sold goods to the value of S95, 100000 in the
past eight months.
! Two tipsy British soldiers cursed the Queen
and are now serving five years sentence
with branded backs.
Mr.. GEO. TRENHOLM is said the only rich
man in South Carolina who was rich at the
outbreak of the rebellion.
! THERE is a boy living in Leroy, Kansas, who
is six feet eight inches tall. He will be twelve
years old next Fourth of July.
THE u. p Railway employees are preparing
to establish n hospital in Omaha for the use OF
disabled ones of their number
j IT is limited that the young King of Bavaria
did not die natural death-that he was put
out of the way on account of his liberal ideas
| TIE death penalty, abolished twenty years
ago by the Swiss Canton of Friburg, has just
been restored by large majority Of the Grand
Council at Canton.
4 NORWICH, Conn.,. is disQraced by secret
order called the " Brotherhood OF the Black
Crook" whose rites and ceremonies are OF the
most obscene sort.
THE number Of special constables enrolled
in England, in consequence OF the Fenlan
alarm, has reached 1864, nearly half OF
whom belong to London.
A NEGRO den, broken up in ST. Louis No..
n few nights since, contained bar and billiard
room in the first story, religious meeting IN
the second, and faro bank in the third.
II AT a cclored party Sambo asked Dinah if he
should help her t0 some of the breast. "An't
YOU shame, Sambo, to say breast afore the 10.
ldiesi I'll take piece OBJ turkey BOSOM"
HEARING n physician remark that small
blox will break the nose, rustic exclaimed .
!" Well. dunno bout that; I've bowed my
nose hard lots of times, and it amt broke"
THE announcement of the official vote OF
Maine shows that the Democratic gain IN thai
state last year was l6,345. Tho sars gain
/, the present year will give the Democrats the
control Of the State.
A CELEBRATED lawyer once said that the
three most troublesome clients he ever had
: were q young lady who wanted to be married.
n woman who wanted divorce, and an OLD
maid who didn't knew what she wanted
A WOMAN in Vienna has confessed that dur
!. ing the last ten years she and her father mao
committed sixteen murders for money Under
lher directions u searcn mas Deeh ilaue, WHITE
e resulted in the finding OF all the skeletons,
OsE hundred and ninety fige years ago thu
: first white men were in the vicinity OF Bur
5 IIinqton. Iowa. In 1873 Father Marquette,
Jesuit Missionary, and Joliet, citizen Of Que
). bee, passed down the Mississippi river, iandlDl
lncar the mouth Of the Des Moincs river.
Il LrMBURGER cheese has been decided TO o'
In Nuisance in Pittsburg, and grocer fined FOL
y keeping it in his cellar. Complaint was mad.
; by citizens Of the neighbOrhood OF the stencil
o that arose from the cheese, The grocer, VIII
Q was fined $50 and costs, appealed the case
THERE is a curious rumor IN washington
that Mrs. Senator Sprsgne, who is quite = poi
Itician, sympathizes strongly with the Presl
dent. represents to hcrhusband. and her fnther
u Chief Justice Chase, that it's an aetof tyran
:, nv, and that Mr.. johnson has only stood u
% for his rights.
= IEHAnMoNIoUs.--In the Louisiana Consen
y ton, wickliFe, the most rabid white Radical !
THAT body, called Cromwell, negro membe
l. from Massachusetts,, "a ljar and on IDIOT an
al when Cromwell drew wcapou on Wickllii
!. for these words, the latter knocked the color
n ed member down, very Aat.