Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-09-07

being worked with profit.
Governor Foster, ot Ohio, Is sahi to
have remarked recently that the "filcr
of Vice President is the short cut to
Oblivion"
The total number Of species of How
ering plants in the world Is r,ngihy
estimated By Bentham and Hooker t"
be 05,62O.
rhe Swiss railroad companies now
cover "a portion al their carriages win
a phosplorescent preparation, which
makes them visible at night.
The government has stored IN The
abandoned property division OF me
treasury department $4,000, 0Oo III
confederate money.
Tne surplus of the Posioiiice De-
parlment Tor the year jnst closed was
$4,000 Of course il will take up
more than this to compensate Tor the
reduction of one.ll,ird in letter post
age.
The Philadelphia Ledger calls 4e!-
lows,one Park the new Ems, where IN
future the statesmen and capitalists
of Europe may meet at the baths, FAC
cidenlally ON purpose and hS up
matters Of dis ute.
A lady of Saratoga, with a $500
dog, a. put on HIM par OF dog
eu-rings thai cost $4,000, and his COZ
lar. stuld, d with cmeraldS and pearls.
is worth s., 900. Perhaps somebody
could manage to sell this enterprising
lady $1,000 maidstone.
The New Orleans grand jury in the
in their report suggest, as "a sanitary
measure that cre,natorv be establish
ed under the direction OF the officers OF
the Charity Hospital, for the purpose
of burning the bodies of those that die
of contagious diseases
A musical won Ter is exhibited IN
Lpndon. Ii is Cd the Gamma Tne
notes are produced 10y 'gs, twelve oi
whom are seated in u row inside ct a
long box. Keys on the outer board
communicate with wires. which toncl
each animals head, AID when the per.
former strikes the ivory, the con
tact warns the dog. and whine, ;
yell. bark, or base CRAWL is th'
response The harmony is defective
but The Iahorions training has givel
the strange orchestra moderate
tunefnl facility. 49,
The Catholic mission at Lyons hn
published some statistics concerning
the religions creeds OF the world an,
the number of their adherents. Mono
theisan is said to have fewer follower,
than Paganism, which counts SIG 900,
900 worshippers. Clthollcs are est
mated to number 2l2 100000 Non
Catholics are distributed into Protest
ants, numbering 4,000,o 900. aud va
rions dissiaents and schisnatics, tig
ured up at 100000 Jews foot u
1000 900; Mohammedans. 200, 000. 00C
Brahmins, l63 100000 Budhists 423,
10000; and idol worshippers, 230
100000.
Monsignor Capel, in conversion
with correspondent at Newport, Il
L., denied emphatically that his misslo
to this country has any signiticanc
and certainly had no reference what
ever To the status of the Cathoi
Church in the United States. Whe
shown paragraph intimating hi
visit was to have great bearing O
the future of The church here, and tha
he was secret emiss .ry OF the Pop
TO prepare the way for the transfer {
the papal court from Italy to Americq
he laughed heartily, and reptile |: -
pure myth; the Imagination in thl
once more embodies the form of thing
unknown.
Lord Dntferin is making efforts to
the preservation of the monuments {
Cairo. There are now in that Cit
3l5 large mos lues, l9l chapels, 20
sacred tombs, 200 sebils or fountains
35 mosque schools, and Is hospice
There are besides, in the extra mnr'
a