Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Buckeye State and calls pair of twin
at his house regular Buckeyetems.
William Mcguire, slater of Port
land, Me-, fell from scafold forty
feet high, struck on his hip on board
fence, and then walked home.
"A Tallahassee (Fla.) merchant,
who began business over three years
ago, has not been absent from his store
a single day, often having his midday
meal sent to him.
-Buffaloes in this country have be-
come so scarce that commission has
been sent out from the capital to secure
specimen before Nimrods complete
thar work of devastation. - Washington
Post.
About four thousand barrels of
flour were under water in Montreal,
but only small part of it was injured,
because thin coating of paste forms
around the outside of the pack ,ges and
the great bulk of the flour remains
sweet and dry within.-Montredt Wit
ness.
Accounts begin to come in of girls
who kill themselves jumping the rope.
The eleven-year-old daughter of An
drew Bosemer, of Louisville, has just
died after matching herself against
some playmates at picnic She
jumped until she brought on heart pal
pitation that could not be controlled.
The riot gun is New York weapon
capable of discharging six rounds of
buckshot in four seconds. 1t can be
loaded quick as flash. Each round
onncicfc Af nina I,,nlrc hAt napohln of
penetrating nearly two inches of wood
at a distance of one hundred yards
The charge is widely scattered.-M Y.
Times.
The noble red men who have
already gathered at Niagara Falls this
season to engage in the sale of Indian
relies are said to take great interest
in the Irish Home Rule movement.
One of them was recently heard to re-
mark, "Begorra, Misther Gladstone's
moighty foine mon. "-Norristown
Herald.
"A lilliputian horse that walks a
narrow plank in a circus stationed at
New Lisbon, Conn, recently slipped
and fell into the net. Without found
ering or making any fuss he waited
ground. Then he walked off, went up
on the platform again, and safely
crossed the plank. Hartford Courast.
A code of signals has been arranged
for the use of transatlantic steamers to
warn one another of the presence of
ice. BY the adoption of this code a
steamer approaching the ice region can
! quickly ascertain from any vessel which
has crossed the Newfoundland banks
just where ice was seen, and what Kind
of ice (whether heavy pack, icebergs,
or light field ice. IN. Y. Times.
There is cave about four miles
from Houston, Tex, about one hun
dred feet long, sixty feet broad, and
from four to sixteen feet in height,
where numberless bats roost by day.
1t is said that there are so many that it
takes them nearly an hour to get into
the cave each morning, and in the rush
hundreds are killed. 1t is proposed to
form a company to collect and utilize
batskins.
Considerable Importance is attached
by papers on the Pacific coast to the
recent discovery of feldspar and pegin-
attic in San Diego County, Cal.
These two materials are the ingredi-
ents of fine porcelain, and, as they
have not hitherto been found in this
country in suitable quality and guam
tity for manufacturing purposes, it is
thought San Diego has a bonanza in
the production of hrst-class ceramics.
On a recent night the garden OF
Joseph Texter, in Fetterman, Pa, was
visited by severe frost, that DESTROYED
his early vegetables, blistered his fruit
trees, and froze his grapevines. Gar
dens lying near, and some adjoining
his and quite as exposed, were not IN
iured in the least. The reporter who
tells of this suggestvely says: "Mr
TeXter is an honest citizen, has no bad
habits. and is a moral person. "--PittS-
6urgh Post.
"A doctor at Portland, Ore, took
too much electricity while practicing
what he called magnetic healing, and
now he is suffering from paralysis OF
the lower extremities. He used to
wear shoes with plates in the soles OF
them, and stand on metallic plates
underneath which there was an electric
battery, and as the current passed
through HIM he transmitted it to his
patients by the laying on of hands,
claiming, of course, the power was
within himself and not from a battery
1t has been the custom of the New
Orleans daily newspaper publishers to
take back from the retailers the unsold
copies of their papers. This has been
stopped recently because the publishers
found that they were being robbed.
Several dealers had established routes
on which they rented the papers at re-
duced rates instead of selling them.
They delivered the papers in the morn
ing, gathered them up in the evening,
and returned them as unsold copies
N. Y. Tribune.
"A noted physician claims to be
able, as result of recent experiments,
to change the nature, pitch, intensity
and extent of the voice by the aid of
different inhalations. A few inspira-
tons of alcoholic vapor impart de-