Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-12-11

kind of foolscap.
The Cincinnati News-Journal comes
out in favor of the word ''bursted,
entirely ignoring the superior beauty
and comprehensiveness OF the ex'
preston "busted."
The "wishbone" wedding has be-
come the correct thing. The couple
stand beneath floral wishbone. AT
ter the cermony the bride and groom
are given the wishbone to pull. The
tug results in break somewhere, and
whoever holds the long piece is abb
solved from getting up to build fres
in the morning.
The report of the Federal Commits
sioners Of Railroads show that the
four Pacific companies owe the Gov
eminent $102,376,312. The Sinking
Fund is said to be failure for want
of suitable investment Some bonds
were purchased for the Union and
Central Pacific Companies, and the
Secretary of the Interior recommends
that three per cent. per annum be
credited on all accounts covered into
the Treasury by them.
Neal Dow, who is talking Prohibi-
ton in Illinois, could not understand
why the houses and barns on the fer
tile prairies of that empire of agricul-
ture should be small and cheap, since
their occupants are sober and frugal.
An old inhabitant explained that the
land is owned in large blocks by
wealthy proprietors who will not sell
but who rent it for pay in kind-l2
to Is bushels OF corn per acre. The
farmers, therefore, have no induce
ment either to erect good houses and
barns or to improve the land. Their
interest is to ''skin'' it, and to spend
upon it as little money as possible.
Some sportsmen from Concord, n
H., encamped near Moosehead Lake
Piscataquis county, Maine. On the
morning after the tornado they start
ed to get out of what was a fores
when they went in. They took onl,
their guns and blankets. On tn
first day they walked nine and hal
hours, and advanced only four miles
They had literally to chop their wa.
out. Men whose fortunes were in tn
woods lost them in few hours. On
man had four yoke OF oxen and nv
span Of horses at camp, and had t
kill them, as they could not be brougf
out and food could not be taken t
them.
An association has been formed i
New York for the purpose OF estat
fishing an international monetar
standard, Its main object will be til
promotion of stability and value, b
establishing the free coinage OF silvt
and its use as money under the sam
conditions as gold, and by fiXiu
through international agreement, tt
relative value of the two metals. I'll
promoters of this movement are leaC
ing representative men i'll all tt
walks of life-among them Gener
Grant, Mayor Edison, n. A. Low,
l. Tiffany, Il. Collier, Rufus Hate
Hamilton Fish, II. G.. Dunn, and mar
other prominent citizens.
The public may expect to have Sc
geant Mason inflicted on them t
several days. Through misplac,
sympathy the soldier who shot
Guiteau has been released from Il
Albany Penitentiary when he h;
scarcely served out one-quarter of |
sentence. No sooner is he at liber
than he begins to talk about ever
thing, from politics down to "Bet
and the baby" and the announceme
is made that he willappear at che
museum in Pittsburg. Here lies t
chief trouble with this fellow. He h
contracted the itch for notoriety, al
this, as has been shown by many c
ses, is incurable. He tried to pose
d hero when, soldier on guard dut
he attempted to shoot the prison
whom he was placed to defend. VIII
he failed in this and the unsentime
tal court-martial gave him his II