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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

Be PUScruAL- Worcester, Mass,
Press says:
Little boys, always be punctual
There was once a President who was a
little boy, too. He learned many things
when he was in school, but he did not
learn to be puntual After he had to
grown to be a man and had been elect.
cd President of this great and grow
ing country, one day he had a duty to
perform; but his habits of delay still
chung to him, and he put off that duty
fer eight days. And during the time
he was delaying to sign the salary re-
peal Act the congressman were draw.
ing an extra 81 IL per day, which, in
the aggregate, amounted to $2l, 900.
The price of eight days delay. Al.
ways be punctual.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

A YOUNG man in Indiana sued his
father for loaned money, which the father
claims was his own property. The
latter's council, in summing up the
case of his client, remarked: "Twice
has the prodigal returned to his fathers
house; twice has he been received with
open arms; twice has the fatted calf
been killed; and now he comes back
and wants the old COW.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

AN ameteur hunter in Illinois blew in
the muzzle of his loaded gun a few days
ago, and only very few Of his friends
were able to procure locks Of his hair
to remember him by.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

some supporter Of the Administration,
who is at once able and honest, has
been appointed at reasonable salary
to take charge of it and pass it round.
Possibly Mr.. Kellogg of Connecticut
may have borrowed it to use on p 1ne
mouth of the Housatonic River: But
wherever it is, we repeat that it is a
monument to the economical principles
of the presentm Senate, and as such
should be remembered.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12


Many TWAIN DEcE1vEp.-You may re-
member that lectured for the young
gentlemen of the Clavonian Society
During the afternoon of that day | was
talking with one of the young gentle
men referred to- and he said he had an
uncle who, from some cause or other,
seemed to have grown permanently be-
reft Of all emotion. And with tears III
his ewes this young man said:
ooh. if | could only see him laugh
once more! Oh, if / could only see
him weepn l was touched. could
never Withstand distress. | said:
Bring him to my lecture. I'll start
him for you"
ooh, if you could but do it, all our
family would bless you for evermore;
for he is very dear to us. Oh, my ben,
efactor, can you make him laugh!
Can YOU bring soothing tears to those
parched orbs?"
was profoundly moved. ! said:
"My son, bring the old party around
| have got some jokes in my lecture
that will make him laugh, if there is
any laugh in him, and, if they miss
fire, | have got some others thatll make
him cry or kill him, one or the other"
Then the young man wept on my
neck, and presently spread both hands
on my head and looked up toward heaven,
mumbling something reverently; and
then he went after his uncle. lie
placed him III full view. in the second
row of benches, that night, and | began
on him. | tried him with mild jokes
then with severe ones; | dosed him
with bad jokes, riddled him with good
ones: fired old, stale jokes into him.
and peppered him fore and aft with red
hot new ones. | warmed up to my
work. and assaulted him on the RICH,
and left. in front and behind; fumed
and charged. till ! was hoarse and
sick. and frantic and furious; but
never moved him oncc-l never started
smile or tear. Never a ghost Of a
smile, and never suspicion OF mois'
ture! was astoundcd. | closed the
lecture at last with one dcspairing
shrick-with one wild burst of hnmor
and hurled a joke Of supernatural
airociIy full AT him. II never phased
him, Then | sat down bewildered and
exhausted
The president of the society came
mp and bathcd my head with cold water
and said:
What made you CARRY on so toward
the last?
said. Il was trying to make that
COMPOUNDED old idiot laugh, in the sec
ond row"
And he said. "Wcll, you were vast
ing Your time: because he is deaf and
dumb. and as blind as badger
Now was that the way for mans
nephew TO impose upon stranger and
an orphan like me?
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

MARRIED men will read this clipping
with interest: First gentleman: "Why
don't you kill her with kindness?'
Second gentleman: "You might as
well try to kill an elephant with Goldfish
balls, or blister a rhinoceros with a
mustard plaster" He was referring
to his wife's mother.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

We read of young woman in Mis-
souri, who, when certain good time
comes will probably be member OF
Congress. Before clipping with the
darling of her heart she had an inter.
view with her fathers bureau drawer
and vote herself an increase Of back
pay to the extent Of $1,000.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

"FELLow-clrzENs," said a colored
preacher. "ef l had been eatin' dried
apples for a week, an then took to
drinkin' for a mont, / couldn't feel more
swelled up than / am dis mint wild
pride an vanity seeing such full tend
ance har dis evenin'."
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

AN unusual number Of the people
are carrying their hapds in their peck.
cts, there being nothing in their peck.
cts to interfere with the indulgence
Danbuyy Nous.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

"GRANDxA, why don't you keep ser.
uant any longer?" "Well, you see, my
child, I'm getting old now and can't
take care Of one, as / used to, you
know"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12
IDAHO WORLD.
DIsENTHRALLED.


NJ NARY B. DoDoE.-In Appleton's Journa
naad, Do YOU say that he 10 dead?
TIE hack the word, it is not truel
An empty cage you might have said
Has lost the singer that we knew
The somehow level with the stars
THAT charmed us even in prison-bars!
But deadl There can be no such word.
For that which was serenely bright,
Made in the image of its Lerd,
An affluence from the central light.
An inbreathed essence from on high,
A heaven-ht spark-that could not die.
Not dead, but free, he scars above
The limit of our lesser scope.
And we, because we shared his love,
May cherish the uplifted hope,
That life to rs is more, by just
His altitude above our dust.
More by the power he has obtained
To minister as angels may;
More BY the knowledge he has gained
OF loves supremest, patient way
OF blessing through the cloud or sun.
So ona all perfect will be done.
As he 1.-THE thought is radiant) he
This very moment may be near.
With solace, melted soothingly
To feed hope or hush fear;
So true it is, divinest things
Come borne to US on hidden wings.
So well we know our fathers care
Hovers about us night and day.
So sweet it is to think the air
Is moved in mysterious way
By breath Of one beloved on earth.
Grown lovelier by celestial birth!
Then say not he is Of the dead!
Tis only We in cerements dim
Who fail of life around, o'erhead-
But say it nevermore Of him
Whom death to ivelier JOY has called.
Who lives among the disenthralled.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

An old edition Of Morse's geography
saws: albany has 400 dwelling
houses, and 2, 400 inhabitants, all stand.
ing with their gable-ends to the street.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12

contingent fund, and why his servants
and household expenses were largely
paid from the same source, will turn
up their noses and in vinegary way
ask what has become of the tooth-pick
Such persons very likely would have
the Senate's tooth-pick fastened secure
ly by lock and chain to some accessi
bic public place-as, for instance, the
Vice-President's desk-so that Sena
tors might pick their teeth in the order
of succession as they entered the Cham
Der, Conkling succeeding Flanagan,
Frelinghuysen following Chandler, and
SO on. That, it is needless to say,
would be an ostentation of economy
wholly at variance with the ideas OF
the leading statesman of that body,
who, whatever else they do, do not
make public exhibition of their virtues
What has become of the tooth.pick or
precisely in whose hands it now is, we
are not prepared to say. If it has
come over from the last session, as il
undoubtedly did, being a tooth-pick not
for session but for all time, we are
confident it is now in progress of pass
ing around, and is in the hands of some
leading statesman. 1t is not possible
that Senate which deliberately limited
itself to one gold tooth-pick would lose
sight of it. 1t is more probable that
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Sleep.
Persons who live by mental labor moi

Persons who live by mental labor not
only require full supply of sleep, but
they also need letting down gradually
to the level of repose. Hence, the long
er the interval between the time of the
active use of the brain and the hour of
rest, the better the chance of refreshing
and restful sleep.
The AD1ericGn Journal of Insanity
not long since attributed much of the
prevalent nervousness and impaired
health of individuals to the want OF
sufficient and quiet rest. It says ITO
procure this it is important, in the first
place, that the mind should not be dis
turbed for several hours before retiring
to rest. Study during the evening Is
improper. Some few persons, we know,
are able to perform much mental labor,
and to study late at night, and yet sleep
well. Some require but little sleep.
But such individuals are very rare.
Another medical authority, the Lancet
places the minimum of sleep at six
hours for men, and seven for women,
with an extra hour or two to be taken
whenever practicable. DR.. Hammond,
an authority on nervous diseases, says
For the brain there is no rest except
during sleep" Southey slept seven
hours and half at night, but he also
took siesta during the day. "Sleep
agrees with me, he wrote, "and I nave
good substantial theory to prove that
it must; for as a man who walks much
requires to sit down and rest himself,
so does the brain if it be the part most
worked, require its repose."
In respect to sleep, President Grant,
E. e. Hale, and others have~ confessed
to requiring nine out of twenty-four
hours. Milton in winter invariably
took eight hours repose, and seven in
summer. Humboldt is reported to
have slept but four hours in the twenty
four, but this was in his old age, when
he did not need much sleep, and be-
sides it is said that he was a great t'he-
a-bed," and spent many hours in this
half-wakeful state.
| Campbell slept over seven hours
Douglass Jerrold retired at 10 and rose
about Z, while he slept little after
dinner. Chief-J ustice Story always
| slept eight and often nine hours. John
c.. Calhoun went to bed at 10 and rose
at daYbreak. DR.. Arnold allowed him
self about eight hours sleep. DIR.
Charming usually took an after-dinner
nap, besides taking full nights rest.
Melanchthon used to take but six hours
rest, but he would not even open a let-
| ter in the evening, and retired at g.
| Golden A0e
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Better Times Ahead.

The news as to the condition of the
harvests all over the world is very good.
There is every reason to anticipate a
year of cheap food, and, as the general
revival OF business depends in the long
run on cheap food, it is not unreasona-
BILE to believe that we have seen the
worst of the dull times, which certainly
could not we'll be dulIer than they have
been during the past. few months. A
comparison of prices in 1873 and 1874,
made by the Economist, shows con-
siderable fall in leading commodities
since last fall, and prices being now IA
vorable to consumers, we may fairly in
fer that the improved tone in the iron
trade, which is attracting attention IN
England, is prophetic of improvement
we'll as there.-Nea0 York Nation.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
A Famous Medical Inetftutaen,


The name of DR.. R. v. Pierce has become
as familiar to the people all over the country
as household words. His wonderful reme-
dies, his pamphlets and books, and his large
medical experience have brought him into
prominence and given him q solid reputation.
The Tunes, in the present issue, presents
whole-page communication from DR.. Pierce,
and our readers may gain from it some idea Of
the vast proportions of his business and the
merits of his medicines. He has at Buffalo
mammoth establishment, appropriately
named I" The Worlds Dispensary," where pa
TENTS are treated. and the remedies COM
pounded Here nearly hundred persons are
employed in the several departments, and a
corps of able and skilled physicians stand
ready to alleviate the sufferings of humanity
by the most approved methods. These ply
slclans are in frequent consultation with DR..
Pierce, and their combined experience is
brought to bear ON the successful treatment
of obstinate cases. The doctor is a man OF
large medical experience, and his extensive
knowledge of materia medica has been ac-
knowledged by presentations of degrees from
two of the first Medical Colleges in tho land
How meritorious his works are may be in-
ferred from the fact that his pamphlets and
books have been translated into German.
Spanish, and other foreign languages, and
have been in heavy demand. AS an evidence
OF the business of the dispensary, it is only
necessary to state that for the quarter ending
March 81, 1874, the sum expended for postage
alone, not to speak of that paid on news
papers received, was 81 080 10. A perusal Of
the communication will be found interesting
reading. and will show to what proportions a
medical institution grow under able man
agement and well-directed effort"
II you would patronize Medicines, scientif-
cally prepared by skilled Physician and
Chemist-use DR. Pierces Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious tonic,
Alternative, or blood cleansing, and an une-
qualed cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard seed,
constitute agreeable and reliable physic
Favorite Prescription-a remedy for debili-
tated females; Extract of Smart-Weed, a
magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Complaints,
and an unequaled Liniment for both human
and horse-desh while his DR.. Sages Catarrh
Remedy is known the world over the great
est specific for Catarrh and ts Cold in Head ~
ever given to the public.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Ruling Passion of Charles James
FOX

Before he was IA his father took him
to the Continent to show him life At
Paris and Baden they of course visited
the gambling houses, and the boy,
scarcely entered upon his teens, alarmed
e7en his father by the eagerness with
which he entered into the play At
this early age he commenced the habit
which became almost the ruling passion
of his life; which, in spite of the large
estates left him by his father, and the
great emoluments of his various offices,
made him a poor man, haunted by
bailiffs, and pestered by duns. The
sums which he lost were enormous. At
one time he is said to have played for
twenty-five successive hours, losing
s5O0 an hour. At another time, after
upon him to offer his condolences. He
found Fox quietly reading Herod-
otus," and upon expressing some sur
prise at his philosophy, was asked !:
''What would you have me do, when L
have just lost my last shilling?" At
one time he found himself the winner
of 98, 600. One of his creditors, hear
! ing of his good luck, presented his
note, and asked for payment. "Quite
impossible" said Fox, 81 must pay my
debts of honor" "Well, them" said
the creditor, throwing the note into the
fire, now mine is debt of honor, F"
and as such it was paid. This anecdote
is somewhat differently rela'e3 by Rog-
ers. According to him, it was Fox
himself, who, pressed by creditsr,
| asked for the note, tore it in pieces,
and thus satisfied his conscience by
paying the amount, which had thus be-
come debt of honor. It is related,
however, that Fox would never touch a
card when he was IL office, and when
late in life his political friends paid his
debts he left off playing entirely.-1he
! G0LaEY for September.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

THE total amount of cotton marketed
from Sept. 1, 1873 to Sept. 1, 1874, was
4, 4,1S5, ,534 This makes what is technic-
ally called the crop of 1874, but this is
not the crop grown during the past
summer, which will be much less. The
September returns of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington show a
very heavy decline in the. prospects OF
the cotton crop in all the States, in con-
sequence of the severe and widespread
drought, and this years cotton
crop is estimated at only $4,000 to
3,700, 600 bales. At an average price OF
Is cents per pound for cotton, the de-
crease of half a million bales of cotton
in the crop of the present year, as com.
e ence Of nearly $40, 900, 900 to the South
ern States. The smaller crop may
however, cause higher prices before the
end of the year.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Mushroom Cities

We suppose of no country but ours
can the following, from the Baltimore
Gazette, be said "To a resident of an
Eastern city, or to the European, it is
a most singular sensation to come, in
America, upon one of those deserted
mushroom cities which spring up in
a night and disappear in a morning.
Through the mountains of Pennsylvania
there are many of them-generally min
ing villages, after the mines have run
out. Perched often on the top of high
mountain, the gunner or the curiosity
hunter comes suddenly upon them out
of the densest solitude. There stand
the houses in clearing, filed with wild
rasberry bushes and vines and small
shrubs-black, bare and desolate, with
hinge1ess doors and paneless windows
with small trees growing up through
has~hoors, and the cravings of wild
animals visible wherever the floor or
walks were formerly gr. stained.
On the line of the Western railroads
emporthese tary towns appear and dis
appear, and in the oil regions probably
more strikingly and pretentiously, the
fall ~heing more disastrous than else
where. Such was Pithole City, Pa.
according to an exchange. Within one
month from the completion of the first
house, this city had a telegraph office
and a.hotel, costing the owners $50, 600.
In one month there was q daily paper
established and in the. next theater
in another month another theater, and
theu~an academy of snusic. In six
months there were seyenty-four hotels
and boarding-houses an. the seventh
month the city had reached its highest
prosperity. It had then about 15, ,00(
inhabitants, elaborate water-works, s
citv fall. and an expensive city govern
mens.z@ It's fall was quite as rapid. Only
fifteen inhabitants now remain.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

NOTES ON ADvERTIsING.--Toc cure dull
times-apply an advertisement to the
afflicted part.
A sign-board can't tell everything.
It takes an advertisement to do that.
All who advertise do not get rich, but
precious few get rich without it.
The world is full of advertising, yet
every one wants to see what is new.
The worlds memory is short. It will
forget you if you do not jog it fre-
quentIy.
Early to bed and early to rise will al
be in vain if you don't advertise.
The world is sure to find out an hon.
est man; but it viii find him out great
deal quicker if he advertises.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

The Rice Divorce suit for fraud in age, is
causing great excitement In Boston. 1t should
warn young men not to marry in haste. Rice Is
but u; his bride9 He swears that she m ade him
believe she was but his own age, by using Eagno-
liza Balm upon her face, neck and handE. Poor
youth He probably found her elbows weren't
Qaite SO soft and pretty. Ought Hagan to be in
dioted2 We know of many similar cases. THIS
Balm gives a most wonderful pearly and natural
complexion, to which don't object. We like
pretty women. To finish the picture, they should
use Lyon's Kathairon upon the hair. With pearly
chin, rosy cheeks, and soft, luxurious tresses,
they become irresistible
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

THE KILLING OF CORRESPONDENT IN
NEW ORLEANs.-And here let me tell
you the correspondent of the Chicago
Times died on Monday. After
the Metropolitans had been driven
back, he saw negro policeman fleeing
from the fight as fast as his wounds
would permit, carrying gun. West,
the correspondent, called to him.
Drop that gun, you --," and
fred his revolver. The negro was struck
by the bullet and fell, West running to
him to get the gun. But the negro
raised himself with the desperation of
death, and, seizing the bayonet,
plunged it into Vests heart, and they
died together. A friend of the Times
correspondent witnessed the scene, and
helped to take the body away. From
his lips learned these facts.-C CEnciy,-
9aGLt2 Gazette
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

TIE deepest coal shaft in the country
was formerly that of the Hickory mine
at Poftsville, Pa, which is sunk to the
deptnof 666 feet at cost of 800, 900,
and consuming 428 working days in its
construction. This, however, is but
little more than halt the contemplated
depth of two shafts now being excavated
near Pottsviile by the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company, and
whici1 are to be pushed a vertical dis,
20 feet in the other having already
been bee Sc accomplished. At each shaft
twe,31Y;y-five diamond drills are used,
boring holes to the depth of between
that the completion Of the work will
deveIope mining area from which at
least SO, 600, 900 tons of coal can De got.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

To HAVE good health the liver must
be kept in order. Sanford's Liver lnylgor-
ator has become a staple family medicine
Purely Observation-Disclosures and Tonlc-for
all arrangements of Liver, Stomach and
Bowels; clears the complexion, cures slck-
head&che. Shun limitations. Try. Sd'tJoTo )
Lice1 Iraoig0rator.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

CHILL CURB SAFE AND SURE.-Dr.
Wilhofts Tonic is curative and protective. It
will cure Chills and protect from further at
tricks. It's reputation is established: Its
tains no poison, 1t acts promptly. and it's
effects are permanent. It is cheap, because it
saves doctors bills 1t is harmless. speedy IN
action and delightful in its effects Try 1t and
prove ali that's said. WHEELocK, FINLAY d
Co. Proprietors, New Orleans.
FoR SAFE RY ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

POPULAR FAL1AcY AND DEcEPT1oNs =
It is an infrmity of man to cling to the
teachings of a past generation, and to
stubbornIy resist the light of reform
and progress. Health reform and tenn
perance growth are jealously watched
over by the poison bitters compounders.
One great prevailing deception of the
present age is the impression that every
human biped of either sex must be
stimulated, and the poisoned chalice is
labeled Medicated Bitters," the bet
ter to palliate their use and prolong the
epidemic. One of the most Jealous
workers to cure this malady, DR..
JOSEPH WALKER, inventor and proprie-
tor of the famed CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BTTTERs, believes in making bitters
that are sstrue medicine" and advises
the sick man to swallow draught that
will wash OFT the leprosy of his disease.
In this faith he is steadfast, and his
VINEGAR BIrrERs, though contradic-
ton to the general character of all
other bitters, are, as a great success
and Life Vitolizer, evidence of one
popular fallacy and corrected,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

THE manager of a country theater,
peeping through the curtain between
the acts, was surprised by glimpse of
the empty benches. 'sWhy, good gra-
cious - said he, turning to the
prompter, "where is the audience p
Is He just stepped out to get glass of
beer" was the brief reply.