Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-09-17
THE FREE PRESS.
GRANGEvILLE, IDAHO.
MISCELLANEOUS.


The past has been the greenest
summer within the memory of the old
est inhabitant.- boston Budget.
The total number of self-support-
ing women and girls over ten years of
age, in New York is 2,647, 157.-M Y.
lost.
England has 1913. 995 women teach
ers. many of whom occupy positions as
professors and instructors in the higher
branches of learning.
When Philadelphia society girls
want to ind cate that one of their num-
Der is rather rapid they say: 20, she's
a regular bird. "-Ne,0 York Journal.
"A Massachusetts, COW got hung in
the woods by her tail and was held fast
thirtv-s hours before she was found.
All this time she had nothing to say
she could not tale unfold.
Five gypsies were lately fumigated
In Spanish town so thoroughly as to
forever prevent the cholera from at
lacking them. They were all killed in
the process.
"A man at Lewiston, Me-, drives a
SPIRITED horse without breeching. the
back by his launches in contact with
the crossbar. "-Boston Journal.
The Waterbury Comm Watch
Factory makes about three thousand
watches in one year. Most of the work
which requires the finest touch and the
most delicate manipulation is done by
women. Their wages average about
$3.50 day.-HarJord Courant
A shocking case of cruelty to ami
mails has come to light in an up-country
village. An able-bodied man appeared
at the village store and told the doleful
tale that Mary had went off to work
an the mill tn mornin' an hadn't lef'
me tie to eat or any money either. +"
boston Post.
1t is estimated that every wear
about $4,000, 900, 600 letters are posted
in the world. America leads, with
about $500, 900, 900 and England fol
lows, with 700,000,O00 Japan, which
established postal service only ter
years ago, now mails annually $4,000.
600 letters. - Chicago Tribune.
The Jewish Messenger appeals tc
the young men and women of the ole
faith to abstain from publishing in the
newspapers their matrimonial engage
ments. No one is interested in sucf
announcements, it says. except a few
near relations, and they can be reached
by mail.
Beet sugar has overtaken anC
passed its only rival-cane sugar. The
estimated supply for the coming Gro,
year is 2,505, 600 tons, while of cane the
yield is estimated at 2. 100, 900 tons. O
the total amount. Cos, 900 tons-th,
United States will probably consum,
about one-fourth. N E. Farmer.
Rather fine bean-poles, those,
said a tourist to a suburban trucker wht
was engaged setting out his winte
crop. '.Bean-poles. thunder Why
Our crop of hoes will be ten bushels
more to the acre this fall than last.
And the stranger went on Illuminating
on the remarkable fertility OF land il
Colorado ODinion.
The chemical reactions daily TAX
ing place in the laboratory of natu-,
are immensely interesting, both from
their magnitude and their direct in
fluence upon human affairs. Tl
waters of the Schuylkll undergo
number of chem cal changes. Abov'
Reading they are so impregnated witt
sulphuric ac'd from the drainage o
m mes as TO be unfit for use in boilers
and have but few fish living in them
At Reading. however, the acid is neu
tralizcd by being brought in contac
W tn lime water flowing in from rulpo
hockon Creek. and the resulting insolu
Bile sulphate of lime is precipitated
forming bed of gypsum. philadelphia
Press.