Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-10

ONE Of the saddest deaths recently
recorded was that Of A. Diebold. a re-
tail coal dealer. who froze TO death In
his Office in LOUSY lie. Ky.
A CITIZEN Of Milledgeville recently
received a two-cent postage stamp as
his full share of the proceeds of a
mortgage that had just been foreclos-
ed.
The only religious daily in the
world has been published in Montreal
since 1860. The experiment W as once
tried in New York but 1t was a fail
ure.
BoILSG snow TO get diamonds is
novel; but il proved efficac Gus in
Bridgeport when $1,000 worth that
had been dropped by lady were re-
covered.
A PORT HURON man has won the
everlasting gratitude of near-sig GIFTED
men by inYentng hitching post which
drops out of sight whenever no horse
is attached to it.
A DAKOTA editor wrote fellow
and it was printed 'felon." The mis-
take occurred in an article attacking
the grand jury and he was tried for
contempt of court
A HERD of almost 1000 Angora
goats, ''about which nobody knows
anything" it is reported. are running
at large along the banks of Little
Wood RIVER, L I.
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY was showed in
at his farm at Hastings, Mimi, re-
Gently, with the snow four to seven
feet deep and the thermometer forty
to fifty degrees below zero.
An immense cigar factory is to be
built at Key West, Fla, by Cuban
manufacturer. The cost is estimated
at 100000. and its capacity at over
one million cigars per week.
The wife of dentist says that she
intends to go into her husband opera
ting room soon and do her share OF
work, for she believes that man and
his wife should pull together.
AT Newcastle, Cal. there is a
famous fig tree. One foot from the
ground it measures eight feet four
inches in circumference, and its
branches cover $500 feet of surface.
Ex-SEYAToR IL A TABOR is again
in luck. 1t is said that eight feet of
solid ore that will average S75 per ton
has been opened up at the Matchless
Silver Mine, owned by him in Leadyille.
HERE is local item published in the
Northwest, Grand Forks. Oak: ANY
person wanting wife or housekeeper
Or servant girl, go TO Walsh, the
Intelligent opposite the Herald Office"
PEOPLE don't really kiss the Pope's
toe. The Pope's foot is encased in
six stocking, which is again encased
a dainty slipper embroidered with
cross, which the pilgrim touches with
lis lips.
A WEALTHY Montana man has offer
I'd to give the College of Montana. at
Deer Lodge. SO 600 on the condition
hat the college will raise $4,000
more and maintain perpetual schol-
arshIp for deserving girls without
means.
FLORIDA promises to become large
producer of opium. The poppy grows
there very readily and larger than any
where else in the United States Six
teen plants will produce an ounce of
opium and an acre should give profit
Of 81, 600
The old proverb of setting thief to
catch thief was illustrated by the
robbery of railroad station in Indiana
Just as they were scared away the
burglars had broken open some boxes
full of goods that proved to have been
stolen BY the station master.
A SCHEME is under consideration in
Mexico for tunuelling the volcano of
Popocatapetle through the wall of the
crater, in order to reach the immense
sulphur deposits inside the mountain.
A narrow-gauge railroad will connect
the tunnel with the town of Amecameca.
THE finest solitaire diamonds owned
in Washington are said to be those in
the earrings of Mrs, Langhorne, Vir-
ginia lady whose husband made a great
fortune in tobacco. These stones are
valued at 5000 each. and she has q
necklace to match which cost $40, 900.