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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-22

There were $4,000 deaths from
diphtheria in the province OF khark-
off, Russia, between 1878. and 1882.
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Notice to creditors '1',,,

Estate Of Thomas I Hays GIVEN wen /
N 'he ounndeer n ad ,ns
above named estate! ~ claims agsllI'sb !
and all persons having VI sh s' same WIN NJ, !
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from the first pupiic ~ his oficc. u
TO til the undersigned I n ,lo Terrii"a'II,
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS, 1884.
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never inspected by any one except the
King, and Mr. Pelham, then at the head
of the Government On the decease of
Mr.. Pelham, in 1754, his brother, the
Duke of Newcastle, and Others of the new
Cabinet, were anxious to obtain infor-
nation concerning the private state of
the House, and they besought Rob
erts to give up the book containing
the names of the bribed they ordered
him so to do; but he steadily refused to
surrender the book he would do it only
bv command of the King, and TO his
Majesty in person Therefore the Minis
tiers complained to the King, who sent for
Roberts to come to st. James, where he
was introduced into the royal closet, sew
eral of the Ministers being present. George
II. then ordered him to return the book in
question, which was done. The King took
the poker and put it into the fire until it
was red-hot and then, when the book had
been delivered to him, he thrust it into the
flames, standing by while it burned to
apply the hot poker TO any hand that
should be extended to grasp it. He evil
IDENTIFY considered it as too confidential
register to be transferred to new and I'M
tried Ministry. Appended to this record
we find the following item, which is worth
saving Another official person (name not
given), who had been private secretary to
the Earl of Butte, and seventeen years
treasurer of the Ordnance, testified that the
Peace of 1863 had been carried by money.
He secured more than 100 votes with ESQ.,
600 set aside for the purpose, 40 members
receiving from $500 to FL 900 each.-[Bow
Bells.
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Speaking Of the operations of the high
license IN San Luis Obispo county, the
Talislaqu saws No little criticism has been
passed upon the license ordinance now in
force The nightly tax levied upon theatri-
cal troupeS and other travelling shows is
rated as being too high. by far, and calcu-
lated to discourage such entertainments.
If this is the tendency of high license it
IL we'll 10 have one in operation. If the
general run Of shows that have favored this
place with their presence within the past
few months is a fair sample of what is to
be expected in the future il were best that
the high license Act be made a little more
binding OF the many shows noticing san
Luis the past year, but one or two were
worthy of being patronizcd. The majority
of these affairs that 60 securing over the
country are characterleSS organizations at
the best. They are made up from the low
dives and disreputable haunts Of the large
cities, and nothing that is moral. refining
or instructive follows in their wake They
generally become poyerty-struck in some
attractive town in the interior and disband,
leaving the impecunious stars TO follow the
bent of their vagrant inclinations They
confer no earthly favor upon the precincts
directing their attention, and there can be
no policy in holding out inducements to
them to come. If the high license tax is
faulty in any respect it is not so when ap-
piled to these Savory frauds that give no
value for patronage received. To the first
class entertainment the high license ordi-
nance is more beneficial than otherwise
it will fare better when not preceded by a
host of catch-penny scaveRgers and the
support Of the public be in better condition
TO be enlisted.
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BEYRoUT.-According TO DR.. Jessup {" in
the city of Beyrout, which twenty-five
years ago had hardly hundred children
at school among all the sects, there are now
IL 900 children at school, in population of
$4,000. Three thousand of these children
are in Protestant schools OF the other
5000, so are educated by Mohammedans
315 by Jews, the remainder are in the
schools of various Christian sects Of the
II. $3.50 children at school in Beyrout, 1921
are girls, and only 5,46S are boys This
great advance in female education is most
gratifying, and hopeful for the future
When the American missionaries first
came to Syria it is doubtful whether
there were twenty females out of popula-
ton of 100000 who could read. In
all Syria and Palestine there are now 7,149
girls at school in Protestant boarding and
day schools, and : AIS boys, making 1926
children in Protestant schools" These
figures speak for hemselyes.-[Church of
Scotland Record
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One-handed Pianist.

Count Gcza Itchy, the one-armed Hun
garian pianO-player and composer, says
the New York Post, has just completed one
of his extensive concert tours, the proceeds
of which he invariably devotes to charita-
BILE purposes. Count Itchy lost his right
arm at the age of Is by the discharge of
his gun while hunting. He has trained his
left so marvelously as to deceive by his
play the ear of the listener, who can scarcely
be persuaded that such brilliant effects may
be produced with one hand only. His com
positions have met with equal favor. They
are all intended for the left hand, and List
has declared that they are better in style,
more delicate in taste and stronger in
effect than many compositions for two
and four hands He finds them, however,
exceedingly difficult and only adapted
TO players of the authors skill and train
ing Count Itchy is also a writer of great
ability a collection of his poems and
tales, in his native Hungarian, was pub
lished last year, and well deserves tranSla-
ton into other languages. In a humorous
poem entitled The oath of September"
the Count says that on the anniversary of
the accident which deprived him of his
arm he invariably goes hunting, and, moth
ing daunted, sounds the horn in honor of
St Hubertus. If on that day his right arm
should suddenly grow again, he would
seize it with his left and put it in his
pocket; but first, he adds in a different
vein, he would lift both his hands in
prayer for his country. He only regrets
the loss of his right arm from patriotic mo-
tiN-eS
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At a recent meeting of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, observations on
the temperature of the earth, as shown by
deep mines, were presented by Hamilton
Smith, Jr., and Edward B. Dorsey Mr.
Smith said that the temperature of the
earth varies very greatly at different locali-
ties and in different geological formations.
There are decided exceptions to the general
law that the temperature increased with the
depth At the New Almaden quicksilver
mine, in California, at depth of about 800
feet, the temperature was very high-some
115o; but in the deepest part of the same
mine 800 feet below the surface and 800
feet below sea-level, the temperature is
very pleasant, probably less than S0o. At
the Eureka mines. in California the air
200 feet below the surface appears nearly
as cool as 100 feet below the surface. The
normal temperature of the earth at a depth
of 30 or 60 feet is probably near the mean
annual temperature of the air at the partic-
ular place At the Comstock mines some
wears since, the miners could remain but
few moments at a time on account of the
heat. lce-water was given them as an ex-
pertinent; 1t produced no i'll effects, but
the men worked to much better advantage ;
and since that time ice-water is furnished
in all these mines and drank with appa-
Tc1IlN no Ddl results. T.. ID. IDOISeN Sdlt
that the mines on the Comstock vein, Ne
vada, were exceptionally hot. At depths
of from l 800 to 1000 feet the thermomete
placed in freshly drilled hole will show
1902 Very large bodies of water have run
for years at 1862, and smaller bodies at
1902 The temperature of the air is kept
down to HOP by forcing in fresh air cooled
over ice. Captain Wheeler, U. S. Engi-
neers, estimated the heat extracted annu-
ally from the Constock by means of the
water pumped out and cold air forced in,
as equal to that generated by the combus-
ton of 90, $50 tons of anthracite coal, or
81, 700 cords of wood. Observations were
then given upon temperature at every 100
feet in the Forman shaft of the Overman
mine, running from $50 at depth of 100
feet to 12l.2o at depth of 9, 300 feet The
temperature increased-1oQ 70 1000 feet
deep, increase 10 in % feet; 100 10 800 feet
deep, increase 10 in 800 feet; 100 to $500
feet deep, increase 10 in 1928 feet. A table
was presented giving the temperatures of a
large number of deep mines, tunnels and
artesian wells. The two coolest mines or
tunnels are in limestone, namely, Chanar-
clio mines and Mont Gents tunnel and
the two hottest are in trachyte and the
" coal measures, namely, the Com
stock mines in the trachyte and the
South Balgray in the " coal measures
Mr.. Dorsey considered that experience
showed that limestone was the coolest for
nation Engineer and Mining Journal.
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Enforcing Marital Rights.

The case of Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon, of Eng
land, is attracting good deal of attention
throughout the civilized world The lady
has beautiful voice, and was an ornament
to society before she married. but she has
an unhappy temper, a shrewish tongue and
an inordinate delightin litigation. She has
plenty ofmoney, and can indulge in the lux
ury of going to law. Her husband found
living with her uncomfortable, so he left her.
He Offered her every inducement to live
alone She was to have house and money
to live on comfortably; but that was not
enough. She insisted upon her rights to her
husband and she went 10 law to make
him live with her. The Court sustained
her right. though admitting that the
law was absurd The Court. however, sus-
pended any punishment on Mr.. Weldon,
pending an appeal to higher Court. The
lady was so eager to get decision in her
favor that she applied to the Justices of APP
peal to take the case out of its regular order,
which they refused to do. 1t seems, how
ever, that it really is the law of England
that husband and wife can be punished
for not living with married partner who
is hateful to them At last accounts a law
had been proposed in Parliament TO rectify
this state of things. III Demorest's Monthly.
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Tho Value of Straw.

In every 100 pounds of straw there arc
from four TO five pounds of ASH, the ash
containing potash, soda, magnesia, lime,
phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid, silica,
chlorine and sulphur. No nitrogen is
found, as ii is driven off when reducing the
straw to ash, but when the straw decom-
poses in the compost heap, the traces OF
nitrogen, with a proportion of carbon, are
absorbed and partially retained
Ofwheat straw the proportion of pot
ash is 40 per cent, while bean straw
contains of potash as large quantity as
2.59 per cent; but while the bean straw
is thus richer III potash that that OF wheat,
the latter contains seven times as much
silica, which, though not really considered
valuable as a fertilizer as it always exists
plentifully, is in condition to be more
readily appropriated by plants when re-
turned to the soil in the straw.
Barley contains a larger proportion of
potash than oats but oats require greater
quantity of soda, and yet these two miner
ais are very closely allied.
Corn fodder contains Les per cent. of
potash, while peas contain 1.07. This in
dicates that corn fodder requires more pot
ash than peas and less than beans, which
contains more than double the proportion
in peas. This is contrary to the general
supposition that beans and peas feed alike
on the same matter, as they are shown, in
noticing the proportions of lime required
by each, to be rather dissimilaf
Bean straw, which excels in potash, is
considered lime crop also; but while the
crop of bean straw per 100 pounds contains
LBS per cent of lime, the percentage of
lime III pea straw is .S6, thus demonstrate
ing that one prefers potash and the other
lime This difference between peas and
beans exists in the seeds also, as the beans
contain more potash than peas, though the
lime exists in each in nearly the same
quantity.
Oats are supposed to be exhausting to
the soil, but while the straw is really richer
in potash than that of wheat, the grain OF
wheat exceeds the grain of oats largely in
nearly all the mineral elements. while the
grain of buckwheat is deficient in nearly
everything that composes the ash, as COM
pared with wheat Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-14

A CHINESE SuPERsT1TIoS.-As an illus
tration of the rcgardlessnesS of the Chinese
for their female offspring, a child of tender
years was observed to fall from a sampan
into the river on Saturday last, when no
attempt whatever was made to effect its
rescue. The infant, however, fortunately
became entangled in broken spar, which,
whilst drifting down the river, was picked
up by the crew of another boat. and the
child restored to her parents, who, as is
customary, administered sound tioggng
to the semi-drowned infant The theory
held by the natives is, that by preserving a
fellow creature from a watery grave the
reScuer is answerable in the next world for
all the sins afterward committed by the
person rescued; which literally means that
wise dspensation of Providence has
been fruStrated.-[ Hong Kong (Chinal
Mail
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Chemicals from Smoke.

The old saying that nothing is wasted OF
lost in nature is true in regard to the
smoke from the furnace at Elk Rapids
In this furnace are manufactured fifty
tons of charcoal per day There are
twenty-five charcoal pits, constructed OF
brick Each pit is filled with one hundred
cords of hard wood and then fired The
vast amount of smoke from these pits,
which was formerly lost in the air, is now
utilized. Works have been erected to con-
vert the smoke into chemicals and acids.
These works are a curiosity. First, they
have a circular tube made of wood, with
pine slaves sixteen feet in length,
bound together with heavy iron hoops.
This tube is placed directly over the pits,
in horizontal position, with an opening
from each pit into the tube. At the end
nearest the building there is large drum
containing rotary fan propelled by ma
chinery, the power of which is gas.
That acts as suction or draught for
the smoke, which is conveyed into
fire stills filled with copper pipe, two
and one-half inches in diameter. The
boxes in which the pipes are situated are
twenty feet square, and eight feet deep,
made of heavy pine, and filled with cold
water; these are all connected by copper
pipes; they are connected with the main
still, 100 feet in length, ten feet wide, and
eight feet deep, filled with copper pipes,
two and one-half inches in diameter in a
horizontal position, surrounded with cold
water from this conveyed to a purifier,
from which runs what is called pyrolgno-
Gus acid, which is as clear as amber, with
an unpleasant odor. From the acid is pro-
duced: First acetate of lime; second, alco-
hol; third tar; fourth, gas, which is con-
sumed under the boilers. Each cord of
wood contains $4,000 feet of smoke; $780,
900 feet of smoke handled every twenty
four hours, producing 1900 pounds of
acetate lime, 200 gallons of alcohol, and 25
pounds of tar These articles have COM
mercial value in the manufacturing of
various articles. The smoke from 10000
cords of wood consumed per annum is thus
made "a source of much profit as the works
are nearly automatic, and require no work
men to run them.-[St. Louis Grocer.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

"There are five murders and fifty fights
In that barrel, said an Indian, pointing to
q cask of whisky; and his estimate was
none too high.
81 never SHOULD have struck him if l
had been SOBER" said condemned muir
derer. in his remorse over his crime through
the contentious of drunken spree
General Sam Carey is to travel over
Maine this summer and urge the adoption
of the constitutional amendment prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of liquor.
He will talk in tent that will seat 1000
people.
Rev. Phillips Brooks says that if to-day
we could sweep intemperance out of the
country we would wipe out almost all of
the poverty in the land. There would
hardly be enough left to give healthy exer-
else to the charitable impulses.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell, for whom the town
of Gunnell, Ia, was named, recently said:
% In Grinnell there are no saloons, and no
one has been sent to Jail, to the poOr-house
or to the penitentiary for twenty-five years.
We can stand cyclone occasionally if you
will keep whisky away from Us"
Eli Perkins shows how even the very
best Temperance men are financial sufferers,
if nothing more, by the existence of
the drink traffic He. says | paid
1925 taxes on my New York house
last year What was this tax used
for? 1t was to govern city where three
fourths of the arrests were made on ac-
count Of drunkenness. | can govern
myself, but l have to pay 1925 a year to be
protected from the criminal classes, made
criminal through rum"
Professor Andre sends us the following
translation of a notice that appeared in a
Hungarian paper a short time ago: BY
desire of my wife | publicly declare that |
will never again enter public house, wine
shop or any other place where intoxicating
drinks are sold, and | hereby request that
none of my friends and acquaintance will
ever tempt me to enter such place. And
/ further give notice that should ever be
found in such house will forfeit the sum
of fifty forms (f5) to the funds of the Ara
der Orphanage. Ernst Terney Arab July
L, t8S5-'- Montreal Witness.
The drunkard-maker alwas hates his
Oldest and most reliable customers, and is
proud of cursing them and kicking them
out. How we should be surprised TO hear
the shoemaker slam the door against an
old customer, and say, You villainous old
scamp, | have made boots and shoes for
you and your family for twenty years, and
You have paid for them, and here you are
for more shoes Get out, and don't let me
see your face again" How funny it would
look to see tailor basting an old school
mate into gutter because, after getting
bis clothes there for fifteen years, he
wants to buy an overcoat Or a
minister assaulting an old standby
because he has been twenty-five years a
commitment and elder in his church, and
therefore must be unfit company for any
body. Isn't it time for drunkards to be
Of drunkard-makers II BroadaZe.
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"Rathern and "Sooner."

These two Saxon adjectives in the COM
parative deg. ee, commonly used as adverbs,
are SYNONYMOUS We have lost the posi-
tive degree of rather" but retain that of
sooner" Nevertheless, old English
rattle means early or soon; curious
pathological fact to remember when we are
accused of being rather late in keeping
an appointment. Fancy the rathe prim-
rose being rather late Rather and
sooner are indifferently applied either
term us an adverb denoting preference l
must confess that the turn of phase in which
the application is made puzzles me exceed
ingly. Can we say | had hear2' To
this question there is only one IA
tiOnal answer-a round, decided No"
But in " Rasselasn occurs the unauthor-
lied phrase, " had rather hear the dis
pute," and it Is impossible that the mere.
interpOsition of an adverb should make
sudden sense and grammar of ungrammat-
ical nonsense. Nor unauthorized y / say,
Is Doctor Johnson's had rather" How
often it may be found in Shakespeare l can
Concordance" does not stoop to such
triAes as rather bnt a school-boy's
memory will supply three ready instances:
Two are in HOtspur's humorous soliloquy
with Owen Glendower, where the Percy
inveighs against ballad-mongers and tEeir
mincing poetry CuriOusly enough, the
very words, had rather hear" are iden-
tical in Shakespeare's historical play, and
in the eighth chapter of Rasselas - but
though DR.. Johnson has been called over
the Goals for a supposed fault, Shakespeare,
who committed ii many times before him,
has got off scot free The sChOol-boy third
Shakespearean instance of " | had rather
shall be from Julius Caesar, in the quar-
rel between Brutus and Cassius; but. in
deed. our young friend may proceed to
quote OthCllO. and ! know not how many
more of Shakespeare's characters, to estab-
Hsh beyond all manner of doubt the
position OF " had rather in English par
lance and English poetry. In some musty
old school grammar | have seen, long long
ago, the infinite to have rather set forth
Ia open form, as if it were quite regular
irregular verb, needing no explanation or
apology II is older by century than
Shakespeare time but it cannot, think,
be traced as far as Chaucer, TO whom the
adjective rathe' was well known, so that
be could not easily confuse il with " lief
Do We not all remember the lean, thread
bare Clerk of Oxenford, who was in bad
way To get a benetice?
@ For him was lever have at his beddes heed
Twenty BOXES, clothed in blak and reed,
OF Aristotil, and Of his p'lilosophie,
Then robus richie, or fthul lhddlel or sawtric'
Lever l need hardly say, is but
varied spelling of lifer.' which did not
go ont till long after rather had come
in. Nor could rather have taken its
place even now if we had retained our
hold on the significance both of " lief and
OF rathc," different in meaning as they
are. Shakespere has lief" many times,
but he drops liefer' altogether in favor
Of rather :" though once he uses the
superlative "liefestH in it, true old Saxon
sense of dearest - Godfrey Turner in
Good Words
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WONDER WHO THEY'RE roRe
My mas been working very hard,

My mas been working very hard,
And also very sly.
And keeps her sewing out of sight
Whenever am nigh.
! asked her once what made her stop
Her work when came in;
She said she only stopped to get
A needle, thread, or pin.
The bureau-drawer next TO mine
Is locked both night and day,
And when ma wants il open
She sends me of to play.
stole peep one afternoon.
Although 1t was not right.
But, oh the little things | saw
We're such a pretty sight.
The cutest, incest little clothes
Just big enough for a. doll
But then know they re not for her
She needs them not at all.
/ knew they're not for ma or pa,
Nor me nor brother Hor,''
For We can't wear such little clothes;
l wonder who they're for?
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George IL. and His Mlnisters.

About the year 1867 a Mr. Roberts, who
had been Secretary of the Treasury
private Secretary OF Mr.. Pelham, the Pre-
mier-divulged some strange details of the
mode in which the House of Commons was
managed in his time, when a number of
members received from him, at the end of
every session. a stipend in bank notes, the
sum varying from $500 TO $500 per annum.
Roberts. on the day of Propagation. took
his stand in the Court of Requests, and as
the gentlemen passed, in going to, or re-
turning from the House he would convey
the money to them by quiet squeeze of
fhe hand. The names of the recipients
1s,e-e entered in book which was preserved
aitl C2.e most profound secrecy. it being