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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
FRENCH FABRICS.
Novel Combinations of Coloring In the La
test Products of French Looms.

Novel Combinations of Coloring In the La
test Products of French Looms.
Paris has been busy preparing large
variety of wooden fabrics, which, doubt
less, will be brought out later at .
much cheaper rate in England, losing,
however, in their reproduction some
of their original perfection both in the
looms of Germany and of Great Britain.
The new stuffs are characterized by
brightness of tone and novel and
happy combination of coloring. The
pennies, which erstwhile were few and
far between, now flood the market, and
nearly every WOODEN stuff has been ar
ranged with them. There are few
horizontal stripes, and some checks,
formed by interviewer or rope cords,
but pentes carry the day by ten to one
Pentes, in connection with dress, con-
sist of horizontal stripes of distinct
kind from the ground, and of varying
widths, set round the hem of the skirt,
to the depth of half yard or more,
sometimes placed in front, sometimes
at the sides, and now, in this seasons
goods, occasionally all around the
skirt.
Canvas is the dominant idea in all
the new woolens, only the varieties are
so diverse, it would puzzle all but the
caterers of fashion to decide why some
of the stuffs are considered canvas at
all. They are thin and thick, some
times in diagonal lines, and sometimes
brocaded, but their chief originality
this season is the pentes. Some of them
are open-work, like particular sort of
curtain muslin used to be; and this is
divided by stripes of irregular widths,
either of plush or velvet. Biscuit and
tones of brown carry all before them.
When | was looking over these stuff's
there appeared to be six tones of brown
at least to one of every other color.
One great comfort is that skirts will
be made up at the cost of but little
trouble, and no expense for trimming
remark which applies to another class
of materials with interviewer border
ings, chiefly of cashmerian designs and
colors. The canvases are generally
torty-eight inches in width, the pentes
at least half yard deep. was par
ticularly pleased with coffee brown,
having six rows of stripes, each of a
different shade: dark brown, red, green,
terra-cotta, blue, stone. Mignonette
and beige also blend well.-CdsseHs
| MonthlV.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
ITALIAN EYES.
A Country Where Pretty Blondes Are at
u Considerable Premium.

A Country Where Pretty Blondes Are ut
"a Considerable Premium.
The iris of the eye of Italians is most
commonly chestnut; according to NJ.
Mantegazza, the proportion of such is
"a per cent, the black eyes number %
per cent, the blue II, and the gray 8.
Piedmont and Lombardy have the larg-
est proportion of gray eyes; Veneta of
blue. In general, the chestnut color of
hair amounts to II per cent; then comes
the black hair, 26 per cent; then the
blonde, per cent. Though in Venetia
it is 81 Black hair is rare in Venetia.
More than three-fourths of the Italians
have abundant hair. Southern Italy
excels northern in this respect; in Tus-
cany the poor heads Of hair preponder-
ate (58 against AZ per cent? As to
beard. the color does not always coincide
with that of the locks. While chestnut
preponderates, this preponderance is
less marked; and one sometimes finds
chestnut locks with blond, and more
often brown, boards. Rusty boards
with abundant locks are most common
in the south of Italy. In two-thirds of
Italy the natives wear the beard short or
are clean shaven. This practice domi-
mates especially in Tuscany (83 per
cent? the Sardinians have most long
boards $50 per cent.). Red hair in Italy
has been subject of discussion among
anthropologists; some think red-haired
persons are remnants of q race almost
extinct, and which extended to the
banks of the Rhine and into England;
others think red hair a mere physiologi-
cal acc dent, from which no conclusion
can be drawn. In Italy throughout one
finds few cases of red hair. In one
commune, SAINT Agata di Puglia, rel
hair is predominant No explanation
has been given of the fact. Badness is
most common in Tuscany. In Italy
generally, of 10000 young men ex-
amined for military service 20 were re-
jected for premature badness, and 81
for disease of the calp.-Natuye.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16

public, without so much as thought
that any one would think she should do
it indoors Or, maybe, it is man in
scanty garb, sitting on the threshold of
his shop, washing his long legs in basin
of hot water. Sometimes you may come
across conjurer performing at one
of the tiny clear spaces where
the road widens for few yards.
Close by this spot once met
man who seemed to have knife
broken off short in the top of his skull,
and the blood apparently was running
down upon his .clothes. The people
stood aside with what thought was
shocked aspect as he solemnly walked
on, looking to neither right nor left,
and it proved TO be only a famous con-
jurer going through one of his most re-
markable performances. Occasionally
you may happen upon one OF the &C.
centric customs of idolatry, and see
new house consecrated by the presence
of the black-faced idol. By the way,
while we are just finishing our journey,
| will tell you a curious fact about
Cinnamon and foreign pictures. The
Chinaman who sees foreign picture for
the first time looks at it with the eyes
of a grown-up child. When l had dis
covered this fact, l tested the truth of it
many times by showing pictures to in
telligent friends. A fine sketch of the
interior of Turkish man-of-war, four
guns served by about ten men, and the
Admiral standing in the foreground
with his hand resting upon his sword,
was put down as ''mountains;'.' and a
large and elaborate picture of the funer-
al of Mons. Theirs proceeding through
the streets of Paris was said to be "a
ship at sea-" This is an interesting
fact for psychologists. -Every-Day Life
n, china
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
A BURMESE TALE.


Ono of the FavOri'e Fairy Stories of the
Burmans and Siamese.
Fairy tales are popular among them,
and there is one which comes from over
the border in Siam which was told us
by a Siamese. The exaggerations all
hang together artistically, and are in
the same key, as it were: There was
once King who heard that there was
an enormous giant in far country, and
he declared that he should never rest
till he got hair of the giants head.
So he sent the fleet, and they sailed and
they sailed and they sailed for weeks
and weeks and weeks, and at last one
day in the afternoon it became sudden
ly dark, and they stuck fast and could
get neither forward nor backward. Now
the fact was that they had got inside
hole in sort of carrot, the smallest
vegetable in the giants kingdom. And
behold the next morning the giants
children went out to fish, and as they
went they picked up two or three ele-
plants on their way for bait, but they
were only able to catch a few of the
very smallest fishes in their coun-
try something equivalent to your
minnows,' (said the narrator),
And as they were going back they saw
the carrot growing by the waters edge,
and pulled it up to put it into the curry,
and inside it was the whole fleet. AZ
ter they got home the giant threw the
fish and the carrot into the pot in order
to boil them, when the fleet rose ont of
the root to the top of the water with all
the men in it. What are those curious
insects?' said the giant, peering down
into the pot" Then came good deal
more, which the narrator had forgotten.
1.-The men tried to shout to the giant
and tell him what it was that they
wanted, but their voices were too weak,
and he could not hear word they said.
At length he lifted them up to his ear
in his hand, and whole boats crew
marched in at the hole and went ever
such long way up inside, and then
they all shouted together and told him
they had come from their King to ask
him for a hair of his head. So at last
he was able to hear what even then
seemed to him only whisper. Unlike
his kind. the giant was apparently as
good -natured as he was big-he gave
them the hair, lifted them back to the
sea, where the hair, when put on board
the feet, nearly sank it, after which he
pulled cut his cheeks and gave tre-
mendous blow, which carried the fleet
straight home hundreds of miles at one
go!'-Good Words.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
Totals for United King


The total for 1885 shows net in
crease of about twelve per cent. upon
the failures. for 1884. But these official
figures only tell us of the cases that oc-
cured through the Court of Bankrupt
cy. There is no way of arriving at
any reliable statistics of the many
other actual failures that have
happened during the year. Not
only has there been an increase in
the private arrangements effected with
creditors, but also in regard to county
court administrations. Then there is
that large class of cases where debtors
simply drop through, or run away, or
get work as journeymen, but which are
nevertheless equally failures, and equally
bad for their creditors. 1t is useless
when we remember these facts merely to
compare the figures in bankruptcy for
1885 with those of 1882 or 1883, and say
there is decrease. There has been no
falling off in the totals of failures, and
these simply prove that many insolvent
debtors have privately arranged with
their creditors or have done without, as
the cheap system of liquidation was
taken away, and they could not afford
the more costly present plan. 1t must,
moreover, be borne in mind that every
new bankruptcy act has had the appa-
rent effect of cutting down the totals of
failures. The act of 1869 did this, as
our comparative total shows, and the
fact that those totals rose again did not
prove an actual increase of insolvency,
but rather that debtors grow more used
to the new law, as they doubtless will to
that of 1888. -Kemp's Mercantile Ga
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
Seven Philadelphia news-boys en-

Seven Philadelphia news-boys en-
gagged in pie-eating match the other
evening for the amusement of Apollo
Senate, Knights of Sparta. The pies
were large, thick, very juicy, and made
Of cherries. The boy who, without the
aid of knife, fork or finger, first fin
ished his pie was to have one dollar.
Every boy was paid fifty cents in ad Ii
ton. The pies were on a narrow table,
and after each boys hands had been tied
behind him time was called. In five
minutes Jimmy Dougherty had eaten
every crum, licked the plate clean, aud
looked like painted devil in a panto-
mime. Two of the boys were down on
their knees, having dropped their pics
on the floor. philadelphia Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16

nearly fifty years ago, until I saw an
article in the paper mentioning the
trip the Indians took East in 1897. 1t
brought to mind my trip, and l re-
member Keokuk well. The object of
their visit was for treaty purposes, as
l understood it, and they came back
delighted. I saw in the paper that
some one had also found picture of
Keokuk. may yet find the one pre-
scented to me. -IoUd State Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
NEW TORPEDO.BOATS.
An Ingenious Device That IL Propelled
Under Water ny Electricity.

Under Water by Electricity.
The United States may be behind the
world in naval armament and coast de-
lenses, but if all the inventions which
keep bobbing up to meet these long-felt
wants were given a fair chance under
the fostering influence of Cong ressional
appropriations this would be the most
armed nation in the world. The main
tendency at present seems to be toward
torpedoes and submarine torpedo-boats.
IL large machine-shop on the east side
of this city a number of torpedoes are
being built for the Government ON a
plan which has received the approval of
the engineers at Willett's Point. One
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16

Mr.. Henry Strong, in the course of
an article in the North american Reuiew
combats the idea that this country is
threatened by the English system Of
!, nlordism, showing by successive CEN
slls that small estates are not in the
course of consolidation into large es-
tttes. In Illinois. out of 255. 900 farms,
only 649 are of more than 1000 acres;
in Michigan there are but eighty four.
and in Kansas only 235.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16
BRITISH FAILURES.

Tradesmen who Went Under In England
During Four Years.
The failures last year were distributed
among the following trades and, for
better comparison, we give the total
number in each trade in 1882, 1883 and
1884:
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-16

An old English charm for curing
nosebleed is a curious one. If person
is subject to nosebleed he may effect a
cure by going to a person of the oppo-
site sex, and requesting him or her to
purchase a piece of lace, such as may
be specified, for the person making the
request. When the lace is brought the
person must take it and neither pay for
it nor return thanks for it. He must
make a necktie out of the lace and
wear it for nine days, and he will never
have the nosebleed again. If the per-
son is too modest or gallant to get
the lace in that way, let him catch
toad, kill it and wear it around his
neck in bag until the stencil sickens
him. His nose will never bleed again.
-D'Onkey-''Don't you think it is
in very bad taste for Brown to say
when he was married that he was led
to the stakep" Smith-''Not at all,
my dear fellow. His wife had lots of
money that attracted him. 1t was q
big stake, and he won it. "--LoUeu CT.
izen.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22
W. L. HENSEL,

The Democratic voters OF Centre county will
meet at the regular places Of holding the gen
eral election for their districts on SATURDAY,
AUGUST, 1885, to elect delegates to the Dem.
ocratic County Convention. The election will
open N . o'clock pm and close at o'clock p m
The delegates chosen at the above time will
meet at the Court House, in Bellefonte, on
TUESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1856, at p. NJ,
to nominate: One delegate to the State con-
ventlol TO fill the vacancy occaSioned by the
death Of l.. G. Lingle; four delegates to the
State convention in 1887; one candidate for
Congress and three Congressional conterees
one for State Senate, and three Senatorial con-
ferees; two for Assemblys one for Prothonota-
ry; oae for district Attorney; one for County
Surveyor, and to transact such other business
as shall properly be brought up and the inter-
ests OF the party may require.
The rules governing the election of delegates,
as well as the names of those chosen to hold
the elections will be published prior TO the elec-
tion. ADAM HOY,
L. A. sCHAEFFER, Chairman.
Secretary.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22
Legal .4DVERTISE.M NJ E.NTS

nRPHANS' COURT SALE.-By virtue of an
~ order of the Orphans Court of Centre
County there will be exposed 10 public sale Oh
the premises, on
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9th. 1856,
at O'Clock, p. m. the following described real
estate of John q. Weaver, late Of Centre Co.,
deceased:
No. l. All that certain tract OF tand, situate
in Green township, Clinton Co. Pa, bounded
on the east by land of Joseph Shook, ON the
south by lands of T.. SellaTS and others, on the
west by lands of Jesse Shrack and on the north
by lands of ThOs. Weaver, Jesse Shrack and
Others containing SEvENTY-THREE ACRES more
or less. Thereon erected q
TWO-STORY DWELLING HOUSE,
Bank Barn and other outbuldings
No.2. Another tract, situate as aforesaid and
bounded rs follows. On :he north by lands OF
Eli Zeller. on the east by land of Joseph Shook,
on the south by same and Jesse Shrock and on
the west by lands of Emanuel Hoover, contain
ing Ten ACRES. more or less. No buildln =.
CONDITIONS OF SALE: One third of purchase
money 10 be paid upon confirmation OF sale,
one third In one year, with interest, and the in
tereSt on the remaining one third 10 be paid
unto Magdelena Weaver. widow OF said dece-
dent, annually during her natural lifetime and
at her death the principal sum 10 the heirs and
legal representatives OF the said decedent.
l.. B. STOVER, Trustee.
Madisonburg, Pa, July -. 1886.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22

pollute the fields of the farmers, and it
spreads from the thriftless to the land
of the thrifty with fearful rapidity.
The law of 1885 provides that any
person holding lands by lease or other
wise, who shall allow the Canadian
thistle to go to seed on their premises,
shall be fined fifteen dollars, to be paid
to the school fund of the district. Any
citizen who is likely to be injured by
the spread of the pest from his neigh
boris lands, may give notice to have the
weeds cut before going to seed, and if
not done, the Constable or Supervisor
is required to enter upon the property,
cut the weeds and can compel the pay
ment of labor and costs from the hold
er of the polluted lands.
No average farmer Or good citizen
should require official notice from an
officer to make him cut the Canadian
thistle before it ripens its seed. A few
hours work ut most would cut ii Cn
oh1 hNSiuSS ttiit viz hpiuNi VI
any land should cut it for his own pro-
lection. 1t is destructive of all crops
when it gets rooted in fields, and its
downy seeds are waited hither and
thither to pollute all neighboring lands.
Supervisors OF public roads are also
required, by the new law, to cut the
Canadian thistle on or along all roads
or unseated lands in their districts, and
in case of failure, they arc liable to a
fine of ten dollars, to be recovered for
the use of the parties about to be injur-
ed by such neglect or refusal. The
present is the time to destroy the Ca
madam thistle pest, and every occupant
of land should willingly and promptly
obey the elaw.-Philadelphi Times.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND meant busl-
ness when he issued the following or
der to office-holders, regarding the
contemplate fashion of partisans in
government employ, to use their in
huence in political campaign work.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
D. c., July IA, 19S6.-To the Heads
of Departments in the Service Of the
General Government: deem this a
proper time to especially warn all sub
ordinates in the several departments
and all office-holders under the Gener-
al Government against the use of their
official positions in attempts to con-
troll political movements in their local
tiles. Ofiice-holders are the agents of
the people, not their masters. Not
only is their time and labor due to
the Government. but they should
scrupulously avoid in their political ac-
ton as well as in the discharge of
their official duty offending. by dis
play of obtrusive partisanship, their
neighbors who have relations with
them as public officials. They should
also constantly remember that their
party friends from whom they have
received preferment have not invested
them with the power of arbitrarily
managing their political affairs.
They have no right as office-holders
to dictate the political action of their
party associates, or to throttle freedom
of action within party lines by meth
ods and practices which prevent every
useful and justtiable purpose of party
organization The influence of Fed
eral offce-hoIders should not be felt in
the manipulation of political primary
meetings and nominating conventions
The use by these officials of their posi-
tions to compass their selection as del
egates to political conventions is unde-
cent and unfair, and proper regard for
the proprieties and requirements of
official place will also prevent their as.
suming the active conduct of political
campaigns. Individual interest and
activity in political affairs are by no
means condemned. Office-holders are
neither disfranchised nor forbidden the
exercise of political privileges, but their
privileges are not enlarged nor is their
duty to party increased to pernicious
activity by Office holding. A just dis
elimination in this regard between the
things a citizen may properly do and
the purpose for which a public office
should not be used is easy in tie light
of correct appreciation of the rela-
tion between the people and those in
trusted with official place and a con-
sideration of the necessity under our
form of government of political action
free from official coercion. You are
requested to communicate the sub
stance of these views to those for
whose guidance they are intended
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22
The Nanticoke Armory Burned.

NANTICOKE, Pa, July 16.-Broad-
way Hall, large frame building used
for amusement purposes, was complete
ly destroyed by fire this morning. 1t
was the property of Company e, Ninth
Regiment, n. G.. p, and served them
as an armory: The company is at pres.
ent in camp with the regiment at Bear
Lake. The hall was built six years
ago, at cost of 1000. The insurance
was $4,000. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22
Coal Trade Frightening.

PoTTsyILLE, Pa, July 16.-The coal
trade in the upper part of the county is
Frightening. Nearly every colliery a.
ronnd Ashland is working on full! time,
with the prospect of steady employ
ment for the next three months. Capt.
talists have been prospecting for coal
in that vicinity, and at Centralia haye
struck the Mammoth vein, which is 81
feet in thickness and is the largest vein
in the anthracite region.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22
Miscellaneous News.

At Turbotville, Pa, few days ago,
Miss Maria Frankenlield stood upon
the roof of an clubhouse to pick cher
ries. She slipped, and fell upon the
platform OF a well 53 feet deep. The
boards broke, and she went to the bot
tom. Her whereabouts were soon dis
covered, and ropes and ladders were
placed at her disposal. She Was fished
out, and found not only alive, but very
slightly injured.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-07-22

REPUBLICAN CoNGREssMEN and some
papers have been working
hard to make it appear as if the dem
ocratic party neglected the soldier and
soldiers widows and orphans. Mr..
Springer, Of Illinois, however, has
furnished convincing proofs from the
official documents in the pension
bureau that the present democratic
administration has in proportion
granted more pensions than any of
the republican administrations, For
instance Grant during his two terms
rs years signed but 542 private PEN
sion bills. During the 47th congress,
which was republican in both branch
es, Isl pension bills were passed.
Now the 4Sth congress, in which the
democrats had a majority in the house,
passed $50 and the present congress,
since December has already passed
665.
1t is true, President Cleveland vc-
tced about 80 of the last 6G5 pension
bills, but it was sufficiently proven
that he did so for weighty reasons
and oil deserving and honest claim
ants will only benefit by his cautious
procedure.