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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

The silici6ed forest of Arizona,
known as Chalcedony Park, covers
1000 acres, and consists of fallen trees
which have become buried and silici-
fed into agate and jasper. 1t is the
most beautifully colored silcihed
wood in the world, being every i'm
aginable shade of red, brown and
green.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

AT the recent election in Maine
there were three tickets in the field
republican, democrat and prohibi-
ton. The republicans elected all
four congressman, carried every coun-
ty in the state but two, and elected
the governor by $4,000 plurality.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

A heated controversy is going on
in the Congregational denomination
as to whether the unrepentant heather
has a spell of possible probation after
death. Two hundred Congregational
divines are to meet in New York in
October to settle the question.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

With 70,000,000 bushels of wheat,
California will have an income of at
least $54,000,000, where last year it
was only $2S,OO0,000. Her barley
crop will bring sl6,000,00O this year,
as against a9,00O,000 last year.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

The Russian National Academy off
ers 81 1000, 700 for the best work on
the life and reign of Alexander l., the
the work to be completed in 1925.
This is the largest literary prize ever
offered.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

The claims of the Anarchist that
their aim was to elevate their fellow
men IS all right. What we object
to is the stuff they wanted to elevate
them with. - Lowell Citizen.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

keely, the motor man, used to be
head waiter in hotel. That is where
be got the wonderful patience with
which he waits for his motor to mote.
= New Haven News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

The yield Of Great Britinn's wheat
harvest for the present year is estima-
ted at 5S,SS0,OO0 bushels, which is
less than one seventh OF the U. S.
crop.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

A 40.acre field in Dawson county,
Neh., produced SO bushels Of wheat
to the acre this season, 1900 bushels,
in all.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21

The son of a clergyman was deliv.
ering yaledictory when, in pulling
o 1t bis hanek rich eff, he pulled ont a
pack of cards. "Hello! he excl,im-
ed "lve got on my fathers coat"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-09-21
(IutiCura:
SZAEGRbA2 SAzW6JIHEy
MlSSRlCE'S HIGHER SCHOOL

For Girls, 4S7 and 4S9 La Sale Ave-
Chicago. Eleventh year brgins sept 10.
Pupils prepared for college. Full courses
in English. Modern Languages and Glass
les. Family and Day School. Miss X. =.
ice Prin, Miss NJ. j. Holmes, Asst PIN.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
II Was "The Last story Told"

A party of gentlemen at the Birming-
ham hotel were telling stories one night
recently of famous shots and how many
quails, cartridges, ducks and other birds
had been killed ut single discharge.
After listening to what seemed n willful
exaggsration by different narrators, a
stranger who was present volunteered his
experience of his only use of the fatal
double barreled gun as follows:
81 went into the field one day to try
cunning. The only game discovered was
an immense flock of blackbirds. should
say there were 10, 000 in the flock. Slowly
crawled up toward them, and when not
more than four rods away the birds rose
in q solid mass. fired both barrels, and
how many do You think killedP'
Different guesses were made by the
party, ranging from 20 to 100.
"Not one," said the stranger, "but
went out with my brother to look for
results, and we picked up four bushels of
legs. had shot little under"
This was the last story told.-New
Haven News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
s,ec,aI Guardians of ROYALTY.

Gen. Count Miraso, who was shot by
the insurgent soldiers here the other day,
belonged to the celebrated clan of Mon
teros de Espinosa. The latter have the
hereditary privilege of watching over the
slumbers of the royal family of Spain.
At IL p. m. the palace doors are sol
emnly locked, the attendants and follow
ers withdraw, and the whole building is
confided To the sole care of these Mon
teros. In pairs they march noiselessly
through the rooms and corridors the
whole night, crossing each other at
stated intervals. Two remain standing
bolt upright the whole night long in the
ante room of each royal bed chamber.
At 6 o'clock in the morning the palace
doors are again tremendously unlocked,
and the Monteros retire. So jealous are
they of this privilege that they never
marry out of the clan, and woman be,
longing to 1t will travel from one end OF
Spain TO the other in order that her child
may be born in their village Of Espinosa
-Madrid Letter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Rabbit killing In Australia.

The experiment OF turning eats loose N
Australia to destroy the swarms of rab-
bits is reported to have proved eminently
successful In one of the worst infested
districts of Victoria $50 cats were bought
ut Is. head, inclosed for time in a linn
tied space by means of wire netting, fed
on rabbits and afterward turned loose
in patches, food having been still sup
piled in rough building for any cats
which might not at once support them
selves by hunting.
Not a single cat is known to have found
its way to its original home, and as to
the result of the experiment, the special
reporter of The Melbourne Farmers
Gazette says "During q thorough in
spcction of the sand hummocks just a
little before twilight our party only sue
ceeded inf seeing three rabbits. The
cats, OH the other hand, were to be met
with everywhere, and mangled rabbits,
some slaughtered but recently and Others
dead for weeks, were come across in all
directions. The cats were evidently the
complete masters of the situation.
The writer goes on to express the opinion
that there is no doubt whatever as to the
success of the experiment, which is, more
over, as inexpensive as it is successful
London Standard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Aristocratic Photographs.

A photograph which has found its
way into the shop windows recently is
that of the Marchioness Of Londonderry,
wife of the new viceroy Of Ireland. She
is represented as wearing her coronet
and with . look of cold disdain on her
face which is in accordance with ones
ideas of royal lady of the olden times.
1t is not customary nowadays for the
aristOcracy and royalty to affect crowns
and coronets when they have their photo
graphs taken. Nearly all those Of the
Princess of Wales, and of the queens
family represent them In very plain at
tire.-L0ndon Letter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Active, Pushing and Reliable.

J. R. Jones can always be relied upon
to carry in stock the purest and best
goods, and sustain the reputation of be-
ing active, pushing and reliable, by rec
ommending articles with well established
merit and such as are popular. Having
the agency for the celebrated DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, colds
and coughs, will sell it on a positive
guarantee. 1t will surely cure any and
every affection of throat, lungs, or
chest, and in order to prove our claim,
we ask you to call and get Trial Bottle
Free,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Children OF Noted Authors.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, lately re-
turned from his greatly honored journey
abroad, will have no successor to his au-
thorial renown. His son, named after
him, is conspicuous barrister, and at
present on the bench in Boston. He went
to war at the head of company in a
Massachusetts regiment, and his father
wrote very entertaining article in The
Atlantic, my Search After the Cap
tain" 1t gave, as I remember an ac-
count of how he had gone to the front to
look after his boy, who had been reported
seriously IL not MORALLY wounded, and
encountered him sound and well, with
the greeting, "How are you, dad?"
James Russell Lowell, who is thought
to have been largely instrumental in pre-
pairing the British mind to receive his
friend Holmes with cordial, generous hos
pitality, had q son years ago, but he died,
/ believe, in Italy, when little more than
infant. His only other child, daugh-
ter, is the wife of young Burnett, son of
the proprietor of Burnett's cocoaine. The
former owns the celebrated Deerfoot farm,
Massachusetts,, and is reputed to be q
very pleasant, interesting, high minded
fellow. It may seem somewhat incon-
gruous at first that the daughter of Low
ell, who is as distinguished in lineage as
any citizen of the republic, should wed q
man known mainly in connection with q
hair restorative. But this is only SEEM
ing, and is, besides, q narrow, snobbish
view to hold In an enlightened democ.
racy like ours.-Cor. Chicago Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Old Universities.

Harvard is more venerable than q mum
her of German universities which arc
famous. The University of Halle was
founded in 1904, that of Breslau in 1902,
of Gottingen in 1877, Berlin in 1910 and
Bonn in 1918, all being younger than
Harvard, which was founded in 1886.
The oldest of the German speaking uni.
versitics is that of Prague, which was
founded in 1913; the next is that of vi.
emma, founded in 1865, and Heidelberg,
founded in 1886, is the third and is the
oldest university in the German empire.
kansas City Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
How He Broke His Fast.

After Succi had completed his thirty
days fast, the Italian papers reported
with great minuteness his efforts to re-
cover his lost weight. The first day he
was rather cautious in his diet, limiting
himself to three dishes, but on the second
day, as one paper said, ''it would have
been difficult to count the number of his
meals" Large crowds assembled in
front of the restaurant where he ate, and
admired his appetite. 1t is, then, not
surprising to hear that Succi's appear
ance is visibly improving. Color has re-
turned to his face, and his skin is no
longer drawn tightly over the bones.
Immediately after taking the first cup of
bouillon he grew very red in the face.
Strangely enough, his head diminished
SO much in size during the last two weeks
of his fast that his hat did not fit It, and
he had to line it with paper to keep it in
place.-New York Evening Post.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
A New Sort OF Novel.

Mr.. William Dean Howells said when
lie was in Washington last winter that he
Ind it in mind to write novel which
should have neither hero nor heroine
unless a newspaper can be one or the
other. His idea was to make the growth
of great daily newspaper the main feat
ure of story, keeping the men and
women subordinate to it-Washington
Cor. Philadelphia Record
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
Electricity in . Gambling House

In gambling house at Moscow it was
found that electricity had been invoked
to swindle innocent players. Immense
sums having been lost, and the victims
being certain that they had been robbed.
but not being able to prove it, they laid
the matter before the police. This led to
an investigation, during which it was dis
covered that the walls and ceilings were
covered with q certain kind of paper on
which stars were stamped, and that
among the stars on the ceiling many
holes had been bored. In the room above.
man lying on the floor could see all the
cards, and by means Of wires connected
with the shoes Of the person who was
cheating he could signal to him his op-
ponent's Glands. New York Graphic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
The TricycIists.

Some years ago tricyclists were held in
contempt by bicyclists. The latter
claimed that the machines of the former
were only fit for children and small boys
to ride. However, tricyclists pursue
their way regardless Of the jeers of their
associates, being satisfied with the COM
fort and pleasure gained from their
machines as against the hard knocks and
falls received by their rivals, the bicy
clists.-BrooklYn EAGLE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-03
LEGEND OF THE LITTLE DOG.

There is never boy or girl who was
brought up in all that country side who
has not heard form nurse or colored COM
panion the legend of the Little Dog. {"
1t is, as the black mammies' always
warned their young charges, small
gray dog, not puppy, but q creature
grown old and gray, which suddenly ap-
pears at dusk to n truant child At first
it is small and insignificant, even harm
less looking AS the truant looks over
his shoulder, and fearfully begins to
speed homeward, the animal grows with
the growing darkness, and whitens in
the increasing blackncss until 1t looms
closer and closer behind the appalled,
child in great, gray shape as hideous
and as terrible as the gigantic white
whale of the South Seas to the belated
islander at sea. have often imagined l
saw the "IIittle White Dog" and
whether saw him or not l was scared,
like many another white child, "half to
death. u )hn Paul Bocock in Detroit
Free Press
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People Who Live I'm Trees.

DIR. Louis Wolf, who made the sensa-
tiOnal discovery while ago that the
Sankuru river afforded more direct and
more easily navigated route to central
Africa than the Congo, made another dis
cOvery in the course of the same journey
which was quite as remarkable if not so
important. On the banks of the Lonami
river, far toward the center of the con-
tinent, he says he found whole villages
that were built in the trees. The ma
tives, partly to protect themselves from
the river when in flood, and partly to
surprise them, build their huts on the
limbs of the trees where the thick foliage
almost completely hides the structures
from view. The inmates possess almost
the agility of monkeys, and they climb
up to or descend from their little houses
with astonishing case 1t is believed they
are the only Africans yet known who
live in trees. In Borneo some of the
natives are said to live in trees, and Mr..
Chalmers in his book on New Guinea,
tells of a number of tree houses that he
visited on that island. These huts, which
are built near the top of very high
trees, are used for lookout purposes, or
as place of refuge for women and chill
dren in case of attack. They are perfect
little huts with sloping roofs and plat
forms in front, to which extends the long
ladder, by means of which the natives
reach the huts Mr.. Gill describes one Of
these houses which was used as q resi-
dence. He says it was well built but
that it rocked uncomfortably in the wind.
New York Sun.
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There would not be 80 many long ser
mons IL men were obliged to practice
what they preach.-New Orleans Plea
mno.
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Y heads Tor leagues around
THE EERIE SUNSETS.

In Madison county, along the base of
Prospect mountain, the sunsets are said
always to be of a weird and surprising
grandeur. No such gorgeous illumina-
tiOns Of the western sky are to he seen
anywhere in this country. Whether it
be from the peculiar natural conforma-
ton of the neighbOrhood or the way I'm
which the hills to the west are shaped,
the splendOr of these sunsets is famous.
AS they fade away, and the streamers
of cloud which have been crimson and
purple melt into the colder gray Of dusk,
these cloud streamers take on fantastic
shapes of living things, and the upper
ether, so high as to be indistinct, is
twisted and moved by the convolutions of
II mighty serpent and the tail-folds undu.
late down to the horizon and lose them
selves in the forests of the mountain
This is the Great Snake. During the re-
cent earthquake disturbances these at
mospheric and serpentine phenomena are
declared to hive been noticed in q
marked degree.
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VALUE OF THE CONGO.
A Doubt That the Country II Worth Do.
veloping-A Travellers Views.


veloping-A Travellers Views.
The Italian traveller Bove has lately
Joined in the unfavorable verdict upon
the value and the future of the Congo
state. In q letter dated from Lucunga,
which the Roman paper, Rassegna, re-
prints, he says: "The part of the country
through which / have travelled has not
altered the unfavorable opinion which
had formed of the Congo; on the con-
trary, everything have seen confirms
me in the belief Of the insignificant value
Of the district. When I remember the
great stir which has been made with re-
gard to the Congo basin, the conferences
and transactions, and the numerous YES
sells which have been sent out, the hom-
age and the congratulations which the
king of Belgium has received; when /
think of the mean jealousies, the i'll will,
and the examinations, am inclined to
believe that mankind has advanced very
little In the real love of truth, and that
even great statesmen often stumble In
the dark.
"The journey from Matadi to Lucunga
was heavy piece of work; chains Of
mountains, steep hills, deep precipices,
endless hollows, rivers full of rapids,
and everywhere sandy deserts, and
underwood six or seven yards high,
through which the way lay for hours
and hours, as through tunnel; the
whole body was whipped by the hard
grass. The excitement became quite
feverish to get out of this torture and
breathe once more free air. Here and
there l came upon a tiny wood, and
every two or three hours upon village
of four or five huts; then grassy deserts
again and hard rocks. All travellers unite
in praising the upper Congo state, its
boundless forests, its wide water veins,
and the fertility Of its soil. Well, before
long we shall see how far this is true.
Manari appears to think as little of the
upper state as of the lower, and I share
his view that great part of the upper
Congo district is covered with immense
swamps. The slow current of the river,
its width, the numerous slow tributaries,
and the large lakes from which these trib-
utaries spring, must indeed lead one to the
belief that the upper Congo district is
an immense plain.
"And supposing even that the country
on the upper Congo were q paradise of
fertility, what good would it be to our
emigrants to go to a country where 1t
is almost impossible for Europeans to
work, and where they would have to pay
half their earnings to doctors and chem
lists! Nor do / see for the present any
market for our commerce. 1 have re-
peatedly said that it would be far more
useful to direct our attention to the coast
of west Africa, to Sierre Leone, Liberia,
and the Niger district, where traffic is on
the increase, where there is a numerous
and commercial population, and where
SHORTLY the produce of the western Sou
dan will pass along the great highway of
the .Siger-which is, indeed, the river
which is of greatest Importance to Az
RIGA. Foreign Letter.
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VIRGINIA FOLK LORE.
LEGENDS OF INTEREST TO ALL
STUDENTS OF SUCH SUBJECTS.

The Story of the Seven whistlers-The
Black Horseman, the Eerie Sunsets and
the Great Snake-Legend of the Little
Dog.
Whether, like the folk lore of Georgia,
the cotton states, that of eastern Virginia
is traceable directly back to Africa in
nearly every case, is II question. There
seems to exist n Caucasian folk lore
sprung from long residence in the beauti-
full spurs of the Blue Ridge and among
the picturesque hills and secluded valleys
which radiate and fill all the section of
the state. That the slaves exerted a per-
ceptible influence on this cult there can
he no doubt. But that it i'm large part
originated in imaginatiOns and supersti-
tions apart from them is equally I'M
doubtable. This folk lore embodies
several legends which ought to be of in
terest TO students of such subjects all the
world over.
LEGEND OF THE SEVEN wHIsTLERs.
Once in the life of every man he hears
the Seven Whistlers' call. They are
strange birds on whom mortal eyes have
never rested, the whistle of whose wings
sometimes falls upon the startled ear.
And there is always a portent of some
thing momentous for good or evil, even
though they may not "dee their weld" for
weeks after the Seven Whistlers' "call. "
Like all pOrtents, their coming is
mostly in the cleaning. For then, after
all, is the "witching hour" There is in
the quiet of secluded country side in
the twilight hush which comes down
from the mountains and the twilight
shadow which falls from the heavens a
mystical significance of another world
and of the flmsy structure of the veil in
tervening, which is to be found at no
other hour of the twenty-four.
1t is, then, by some lonely wood pond,
or in some valley circled by the woods,
that this hush is broken by faint, far
beat, distinct note in the cir, not on earth
or in the sky overhead, taken up and re-
peated six times and ever growing clearer
and more distinct, and finally pealing
away with a rush of wings and a sound
of passing like that which in all the Med
iterranean isles signaled the death of
"the Great Pan" when Christ was born.
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THE BLACK HORSEMAN.


There is low valley on the Appomat-
tox river, not many miles from the his
tOric field of the surrender, through which
flows gentle stream. Along its banks
are groves of oak and ash, and farther
away on either side stretches the rolling
meadow land. On the top of neighbor
ing hill is ruined cabin, said to be the
site of what was once famous planta-
tion mansion. Here, in the first cool twi-
lights of the fall, as the darkness gathers
sufficiently to allow the lights of the
farm houses a mile or two away to be
visible, the traveller or passer by may
hear the champing of bit and the paw
ing of powerful steed. In few mo-
ments, just on the bank of the stream, a
coal back horse is seen and strange man
in foreign costume stands by the saddle
ready to mount. "Whoa, sir; whoa,
SIR" the rider cries, 'whoa, STRIP and
the black steed paws and champs his bit.
In an instant on the hill, where stands
the ruined cabin, q brilliant illumination
flares up and the windows of q stately
mansion are seen oil aglow in the rays OF
the dying sun which fall last upon that
height. Then the strange man raises his
head suddenly and leaps to the saddle
and in flash the radiant mansion and
the coal black steed disappear, and all is
silent and dark. This is known to all
the gray heads for leagues around.
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IN THE STRONG ROOM.
PEOPLE WHO FIND USE FOR A
SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT.

How the Companies Bid for the Favor
of Feminine Observation-Disclosures and
Pearls I'm PrOfusion-A Sleeping COu-
pom Clipper.
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N'B. OF H."

Meets End ana Ith Thursdays, ana ISt and 3rd
Saturdays AN each month, AT :: % O'Clock L. VI. .
i>II.
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Il Corner Hickory and Broad streets, Rev
q. &. Pollock pastor. Services Sunday morn
ings AT l0:30, evenings at 1880. Prayermeet
ing at $50 Thursday evening. Seats free.
Strangers cordially invited.