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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-01-29
Cash Gifts,
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will be distributed among the ticket.holders.
The tickets are printed in coupons. of tenths. and
all fractional parts will be represented in the draw
ing just whole tickets are.
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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-01-29

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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-23
Matt Carpenter.


In her Washington correspondence to
the New York Times, Grace Greenwood
gives some brilliant pen and ink pictures
of men and things about the Capitol, and
in aracy description of the recent debate
in the Senate on the salary bill refers to
Senator Carpenter as follows:
Next came Mr.. Carpenters racy. roll
licking little speech This Senator makes
no wry faces over his humble pie-not
bit of it. He is ready to retrace his steps
since wilful, misguided Wisconsin de-
mands it, but he will not crawl hack on
all fours. He knows he is right, but he
is willing she shall have her way, since
there is no help for it, yielding with the
good grace of philosopher, if not With
the resignation Of a saint. While dtfend>
ing his vote of last year, he playfnlly
made some admissions which rather told
against the increase of salary. He said
he had taken his back pay, and "most
thoroughly and faithfully spent it,"
Doubtless, if the sum had been ten times
as great it would have Been as thoroughly
and faithfully spent; and the fight of
Government with Senator's "credltors" to
get back its Indian like gift would have
been as hopeless. There is something
remarkably engaging and devil may >care
and outspoken in this jolly MIR. Worldly
" iseman Of the Scrate. There is even a
certain magnetism Of good humor and
good living, genius and geniality, about
him. He is aWebster, With the dignity
and decorum left out. He reminds one OF
Sheridan and Rochester and the Marquis
of Donegal and other splendid old spend
thrifts ard good fellows, of whom this
penurious, Puritanic age, and country are
not worthy. We arc little shocked at
some sentiments he rtters, out We rather
like him for speaking them out and not
cor cealing them or Guessing them over
He rem nds me of one of Gov. Hunts
little camp stories He-that is the Gov
crnor- described poor white family Of
Missouri, careless and intoerably lazy
the daughters of which were accustomed
to 60 barefoot till the soles of their feet
became like unto horn. One Of these
young ladies on coming home one day
from long tramp in the rain after the
cows, was standing on the hearth drying
her clothes, when her old mother dra weo
out, "Sal, har's-a-live-co al-under--
yer-foot." The girl slightly turned bel
mead and drawlcd back (Which foot
mammtw
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-23
A New Domestic Animal.

An English officer, who had been
travelling in the Northern provinces
recently brought it to Fort Buford.
is desert bed as IAN animal of rare
beauty, and never before caught on
this continent" 1t is said to be of
the same family as the giraffe or ca
melopard Of Africa, and is known to
naturalists as the tygomelia. The ami
NAL was taken when quite young, and
is thoroughly domesticated, and fol-
lows its keeper like a dog 1t is only
four months old, an ordinarily stands
about FIVE feet high. 1t is of a dark
brown or mouse color, large, projecting
eyes, with slight indications of horns
growing out. This animal was caught
north of LAKE Athabasca, on the wat
ers of. McKenzie's River. 1t is very
feet, being able to outfoot the fastest
horse in the country, "The black cap
per spots on the rich brown color, y
says an enthusiastic writer, make it
one of the most beautiful animals in
cxistencc-more beautiful than the
leopard Of the Chinese Jungle" 1t is
not impossible that the curiosities Of
the animal creation on this continent