Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-05-22
ALI SORTS.

to be almost as ready 2 talker as
barber.
A New Hampshire patent medicine
firm has this season put out lo,ooo,-
600 circulars.
Sixty thousand dollars were spent
in Chicago for flowers during the re-
cent opera festival.
A distillery has lately been put in
operation at Charleston, p. u, Tor
manufacturing oil from pine wood
Salt water is said to be a sure cure
for insanity. This is probably why
SO many lunatics 90 up salt creek.
Newspapers in this country, itis es-
timated, employ not less than $4,000
writers at the present time.
Tree planting is Systematically fos-
tered in China, and 100000 trees
were set out last year in Hong Kong
alone.
A Wagner journal is to be started
in Paris, devoted to the doctrines OF
the composer. We have no papers as
bad as that in this country.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
Matthew Arnold is now preparing for
his visit to this country. Meantime
he will do no literary work.
/ "Philadelphia women buy s2,00O,-
900 worth Of corsets every year" says
statistical writer. Well, Phladel-
phia women must be Rugged some
way.
/ There are linen mills at Patterson,
| N. j., where the wet spinners, who
have to stand barefooted in water all
day while spinning, earn less than a
dollar day.
S, me one says, "Chcago water is
considered dangerous" 1t may be
remarked in this relation that all wa
ter is dangerous if it is deep enough
and you can't swim.
The members of the Women's Ath-
letic Association of Philadelphia will
include, says the Medical Reporter,
} "two or three sets Of young ladies
prominent in society,"
The Washington correspondent 0.
the Medical Journal says that we may
:. look for cholera, if at all, through
Spanish channels, and our outpost o
. observation should be Havana.
D The new two-cent postage stamp
will be highly scented with spices
Still we do not believe two-cent post
age stamps will ever take the plac
o. of coffee and cloves between the acts
o An Englishman "doing' Amerc
II was very much amused at the motto
SC posted over the jacl>-towel in tn
Mushroom of Minneapolis hotel
% on are requested to wash befor
l. you wipe.
n Gladys Lady Lonsdale, one Of tn
II famous English beauties, is to be ma,
If ried to the Earl de Grey, eldest so
Of the Marquis of Ripon. She ma
ries him purely for his fortune, whic
- will be immense.
:" The latest intelligence is to the e
II feet That bacilli are found in butte
,e This is not particularly astonishing
10 we'll inforMed readers. Most an,
- thing may be expected in butter b,
cream.
Senator Stanford, of California, wi
% begin the erection of the new Pa
" Alto University when he returns
San Francisco in May. 1t is said TIL
the presidents chair will be otfere
~ to DIR. Newman.
Is The average maple sugar crop
Vermont is in the neighborhood
" 100000 pounds, but this year
al will exceed that amount. The Gree
I'd Mountain state produces about on
n third of the maple sugar crop of Il
m country.
v If war between England and Rn
10 STA should happen to be postpone
X what in the world will become of ;
es the Chicago canned beef that h
oe been shipped to England under c
ders from the British Government?
The people Of Afghanlstan expe
1t, that England will avenge the defe
oh Iof the Afghans by Russia, and
demnify the .Ameer for his loss,