Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-18
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

: Mrs. Frances Hodgen Burnett ex-
poets to spend the winter at Washing
? ton.
Charles A. Dana of the New York
Sun sailed for Europe on the steam
ship La Normandie.
Over $4,000, 900 has been put into
building improvements at Denver,
Col, during the past year.
j New York will have to struggle
along with only 800 real society folks
this season. Ward McAllister is going
to pass the winter in California.
A workingwoman's society in De
troit, formed ten years ago to take cal e
OF girls unemployed and get them
work, has so thrived that it recently
dedicated fine building for its pur-
poses.
Colored women in New York CITY
have organized "the women's charity
and industrial club" for the help of
their sisters, and have leased a four
story house as "home for friendless
colored girls"
A prison official thinks it would be
a great scheme to tattoo convicts.
His idea is for each penal institution
to adopt different mark or mono.
gram, and then the problem of identi-
lying convicts will be solved.
King George OF Greece has formally
notified Prime Minister Tricoupis of
the betrothal of Princess Alexandra
TO Grand Duke Paul of Russia. A TIE
Deum was sung in the royal chapel in
honor Of the event.
Nine. lima de Murska, the once
favorite Hungarian songstress, sailed
for Europe this week. She is said to
be dying and in straitened circum-
stances, and her musical friends made
up purse to enable her to reach her
home.Y
Princeton college catalogue, just is
sued, shows that there are in the nm
dergraduate academic department 463
students, in the school of science Ill.
post-graduates 80. Altogether there
is total of 667 students, as against
gil last year.
A clergyman in Newark, N. j.,
whose wife complained that the mem
bers OF the congregation were very
distant toward her, took occasion to
remark from the pulpit few Sundays
ago that his wife would like to be in
PRODUCED to several women of the
congregation.
Over 100000 has already been
spent in the New Cumberland oil
field in West Virginia, and the re-
ports are 30 encouraging that the ex-
cltement among the producers is at
fever heat. The leases have all been
taken up and territory cannot be had
at big premium.
By means OF recent improvements
made in the manufacture of rifles, as
many as one hundred and twenty can
now be rolled in an hour by one ma.
chine. They are Strengthened cold
and bored with corresponding speed,
and even the rifling Is done automati-
cally, so that one man tending six ma
CHIMES can turn out sixty or seventy
barrels per day. With the old rifiing
machine twenty barrels were about the |
limit OF a days work.
Recently a gentleman who was
travelling in Switzerland found VERT
able curiosity in museum in the lit.
tie town OF Soleure. 1t was a birds
nest made of imperfect watch springs
which had been thrown out of the lit
tie watch factories which abound in
that district. Some bird considered
them excellent material of which to
construct her nest, and with infinite
care worked them together into as per
fect structure of the kind as one
could desire to see.
According to G. Koechlin's paper in
the Mulhouse Industrial Society's
Bulletin on the resistance opposed to
bleaching operations by dressing, the
latter only dissolves in lyes which con-
tain at least 10 grm., but better up to
20 grim. soda I've to lit. water. As
regards IL. Koechlin's new bleaching
method he said that with sulphuric
acid the best white was obtained, par
ticularly if i! to l grim. acid per | lit
water were used at 80 deg. G. and
that sulphuric acid, contrary to the
accepted theory, removes lime better
from tissues than hydrochlorlc acid
does.
Albert Royal and brother, both of
Orlando, Fla, went on the Wekiva
River, below Clay springs, the other
day ON deer and bear hunt. They
arrived at their camping place before
shutdown and concluded to take a
short hunt before dark. They had
not gone far before they came across a
bear sign which they followed up, soon
coming in sight of one of unusual
size, which they succeeded in bring
ng down the first shot. One remain, ;
ng to care for the dead bear, the
other kept on and soon found an
,ther, which he also killed, the whole
lime occupied not exceeding thirty
The first bear weighed four :
,undred pounds and the other two
hundred and fifty pounds.