Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-03-12

SONS III different parts OF the town, |,
the gas Of Which is utilized III light |
ing buildings, heating, cooking, hak-
ing, hiacksmithing, steam boilers, and
IL fact everything Is run BY gas in
this gassy town. Wood, coai and
kerosene are ~ little demand il this
favored locality since communication
Was opened Miti, the lower regions.
! heard big Dutchma.. resnar to
his companiol,: "Yosepl, dis helltire
hin \ pig ting for de brnples If Wind
Ivy, don't itin ''Yaw, yaw, sl,on.
4 don't can tell what | dink ateud dis
wonderful ding. idirk We better 10
home And .Yosepb s. suggestion
appeared TO be agreeable to ssShon,"
and both with serious aud ineditatiye
.countenanees started for the r. t.
station. Oil IN paying quantities las
also been struck ~ two wells here.
! In Il brick-yard Gu side ot town par
. ties bored for gas with winch 10 burn
/. brick. On reaching the gas stra an,
they got but feeble How, so thew
bored two hundred feet aeeper aud
obtained Il fine flow of coal oil. The
production is about Two hundred bar.
rels in twenty four hours. The sue
cessful operations at this place have
created quite an excitement through
out this part Of the country, and ev-
;ery town aud village has it's anger III
the bowels Of the earti, boring 70,
gas or oil; and some na-t with sue
cess while others agai;, meet with dis
appointment, and suppos. become
convinced that all me:, were not horr
to strike ''ile." ID. b. X.
4 4 MOVING girl is Emma Grant
This pun IS patented. The point .
the Joke is scarcely visible to tn,
| naked eye; but we take it for granite Z,
that your keen perception can see il
, If we didn't would send out a mavui
f flying glass to accompany it. 1t wa
no doubt the modest Iustre OF this pul
tn t inspired the title of that touching
!, sentimental song, Whoa, Emma,
the singing of which thrills us fror
, the end Of our toe-nails to the SUNNI
of the bump of reverence. The au
thor of that soul thrilling song make
= no mention of what inspired the title
:. but it was no doubt as above stateC
We have heretofore been constitution
ally opposed to puns on general prir
9 cipaIs, hut as the manufacture of thel
u is getting to be leading industry
+ this country, and fashionable, an
+ worked into beautiful shapes by tt
. elite of the land, we fall in, becaus
# our place in society is with the elit
gang, and one mrst keep up with II
procession or limp along behin
. Those who hobble along in the re;
are called "fossilized fogies,' al
,. rather than be compelled to pulveri,
Il some one for calling US such nam
y we have gone into the punning blu:
It ness. This apology we deem sufficier
9; WHEN Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mill
is left here last fall for California, wi
ct their little daughter, Lena, the
I'd friends had but faint hopes that the
t. little girl who is beloved by ever
r. body here would ever return. S
~ had become SO weak, nervous a
y feshless that no one thought that $
at would ever be well again. VIII
Mt the family returned the other d
In everybody was rejoiced to see lit
n Lena looking SO well, and to lea
r. that she had entirely recovered, a
ce weighs twenty pounds more than VIII
at they departed.