Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-25
or GENERAL INTEREST


"A Vermont minister has preached
III funeral sermons, with net returns
OF two barrels OF apples and silver
dollar.
About the meanest gag that could |
be devised was one which an Ohio
hlghwayman used. He filled his vic
TINS mouth with sand.
Gold dollars are used for bangles
! and trinkets to such an extent that
they have become scarce and command
o premium oftwenty-tive cents.
| The lack of women's restaurants
down town In New York is made up in
some Instances by the mattresses OF
Dig Office buildings who serve warm
oinners to the pretty typewriters up
under the caves.
-liattlcsnakes have been unusually
numerous in Georgia during the last
year, and their increase is attributed
by the newspapers OF the State to the
enforcement OF the stock law, which
prohibits the hog, the rattler's great
est enemy from roaming at large.
"A new disease has broken out
among the grapevines of the Santa
Ana and San Gabriel valleys of Cali
fornia. 1t is termed the sapsour, and
the cause OF 1t no one knows. The
vines begin to wither and in short
time die. The disease is infectious and
spreads very rapidly.
"A monument to the memory OF
DR.. Elisha Mitchell has recently been
erected on the summit OF Mitchell's
J Peak, In North Carolina. The monu-
ment is OF bronze, and is probably the
highest memorial shaft in the world,
the mountain having greater alti-
tude than any east Of the Rockies.
"A Boston liquor dealer was tried
for selling without a license. He
claimed that he only kept an ice cream
saloon; thereupon the judge asked the
witnesses had they ever seen any wom-
en- entering the place. They declared
they had not. THAT settles it" said
the Judge, "the man is convicted. An
ice cream saloon without women is an
impossibility."
! "A writer in Chinese paper as
serts as a physiological fact that the
Chinese lack the full complement OIL
: nerves that arc possessed by Western
9 people, or that their nerves are less
9 sensitive than those OF other races
' and explains in this way the wonder
i full endurance of the Chinese, theil
= impassiveness, and their ability to ge
along without bodily exercise.
Japanese gongs melodiously sum
. mon guests to dinner, and are con
y sidered a great improvement upon thu
. dinner bell. OF all devices, however
. which have been invented to call peo
u pie to meals. including the bugle, thu
4 gong, strings of bells suspended from
! the portiere rod, and the soft-spokel
/ waiter, no arrangement sends such
" thrill and awakes such an appetite a
IT the farmers horn.
y The receiving ship Wabash Will
10 lying off Boston some time ago ha
w several curious applications from me
- who wanted to enlist One man sal
" he would enlist If he could do work t
III which he was accustomed. He wa
III not enlisted, for he was a paper
p hanger. Another wanted to enlist an
X take care of the Captains horse.
M gardener would enlist if he could fin
IN work, and another candidate wante
w to be the ships roofer
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes
novel suggestion in sanitary science
A French Colonel ascertained that /
could wash his men with tepid wat'
IL for centime, or one-tenth of penn
IT. per head, soap included. The ms
il undresses, steps into tray of tep
Is water, soaps himself, when JET fro
SO two-handed pump plays upon hi
lrs tepid water, and he dries and dress
himself in five minutes, against TIVE
an tv minutes in the bath, and with ii
it'll gallons of water against some seven
an in the usual bath.
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