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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
BRIDGING THE TUNNEL,
French Engineering Scheme of stipend
Gus Magnitude.

ous
The Paris Temps, which thinks that
though England objects to underground
visitors, she will not be afraid of arriv-
ais by viaduct. says: 1.-The scheme OF
constructing bridge over the English
Channel has just been completed. 1t
has been worked out by the Creusot en-
gineers and M. Hersent, ex-president
Of the Society of Civil Engineers. The
progress of metallurgy makes the con-
struction possible of an immense bridge,
fifty kilometers long, with a platform
at the height of fifty meters above the
sea at full tide, and supported by piles
1T distance of five hundred meters.
The Forth bridge which is being COM
pleted in Scotland, and under which the
largest vessels can pass, is an advance
towards a more important structure.
The height allowed for the bridge over
The channel would allow large steamers
and sailing vessels to pass freely 1t
would support four railway lines, be-
sides a road for carriages and footpaths.
This will be satisfactory for those who
Tread sea-sickness. The only trouble
eft them will be that of choosing
heir mode of ocomotion-whether by
railway carriage, omnibus, cab or veloc-
.pede. Places of refuge, watch houses
md alarm-bells will be placed on each
pile, with powerful light. The ALL
;hors OF the gigantic scheme believe
hat this foundation may be constructed
oy means of compressed air diving
,ells, the depth of the strait between
Calais and Dover not being, on an aver
ige, more than twenty-five to thirty-nine
meters, and in a few places exceeding
fifty meters. The bridge will cost SOO.-
300, 600 francs, its metallic weight will
amount to 100000 tons, and it
might be constructed in six years, The
scheme will shortly be submitted for
examination to an international techni-
,al committee. When this examination
has been completed the Channel Bridge
society will apply for concession to
he French and British Governments,
rom which it will ask for no subsidy. I'm
Ter these conditions the concession
night be easily granted and the works
Immediately begun. In few years the
commerce of the two nations would
benefit from the simplification intro
1uced into their relations by the execu-
lion of a work which might be consid-
cred as one Of the most important of
;he century"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
ANCIENT PROBLEMS.
achilles and the Tortoise and the Ass and
the Two Bundles of Hay.

the Two Bundles Of Hay.
Among the problems with which it
pleased the ancients to perplex them
selves was one which bears in an in
,tructive manner on the doctrine of
limits. 1t may be thus stated: The
;wift-footed Achilles started in pursuit
If tortoise, which was 10000 yards
rom him, Achilles running 100 times
aster than the tortoise. Now, when
Achilles had traversed the 10, 900 yards,
he tortoise had travelled 100 yards;
When Achilles had travelled these 100
ards the tortoise had travelled one
ard: when Achilles had traversed this
ard the tortoise was still Tooth part Of
yard in advance; when Achilles had
reversed this Tooth part of yard the
ortoise was the 10, 0O0th part of yard
advance, and so on forever-the tor
Disc being at each stage in advance of
achilles by Tooth part of the distance
Achilles had traversed in thes preceding
'tage. The tortoise then remains al
ways in advance Of Achilles by some
distance, however minute, and there
ore Achilles can never overtake the
ortoise. But we know that Achilles
raveling faster than the tortoise will
,vertake it, Therefore, Achilles will and
will not overtake the tortoise; which is
tbsurd.
The ancients were strangely fond OF
problems of this sort. Thus there was
he famous problem about the ass be-
ween two exactly equal bundles of hay
Ut exactly equal distance. This ass"
avs the sophist, twill attempt to eat
neither bundle, for, by whatever line of
easoning it could be shown that he
would turn first to one bundle, by a line
VI reason precisely similar it may be
'hown that he would turn first to the
'ther. But he can not turn first to both.
Therefore, he will turn to neither" An
)ther of these problems was thus word
ID: "Epimenides, the Cretan, says
hat the Cretans are liars. Now Epi-
nenides is himself a Cretan, therefore
Ipimenides is a liar. therefore
he Cretans are not liars. Therefore
Ipimenides is not liar. Therefore the
3retans are liars. Therefore Epimeni-
les is a liar. Therefore," ETC., ad in
initum. Others stated the problem in
more simple form thus: when
nan says lie, does he lie
II does he not liep If he lies he
peaks the truth. if he speaks the truth
lie lies. Chicago Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
AN OUTCAST'S LIFE.


How IL Begins, Develops and Goes a..
Misery and Sin.
A city missionary give his conver..
ton with one of these outcasts:
''Well. my boy, what do you wan,o,
"A home, please, SIR"
"What is your namep"
''Hain't got no name, sir: the ho..
call me Pickety."
'Well, Pickety, where do you liver
do Mt live nowhere, SIR
"But where do you stayp"
81 don't stay nowheres in the a..
time, but l sleep in hay-barges, sir. ana
sometimes in dry-goods boxes. ana
down on the steam-gratings in wintas
till the M. P.'s came along. and ;,,.,
now a cove has taken me in at the iros
bridge at Harlem"
Iron bridge! What do you mean,r
"Why, them holler iron things who,
holds the bridge up. He got it srs,
and he lets me in"
'Pickety, who is your father?"
''Hain't got no father, sir; he died
afOre ! knew, and me mither she dr;nl,
ed and bate me, and we was put out bv
the landlord, and she died and the c;,'
hall buried her!" And SOMETHING H.
a shadow came over the cunninp blns
eyes.
''Picllety, did you ever hear n
God?"
Yes, sir; have heard the fells,.
swear about him. and | know it's lncLn
to say something to him when you sleen
out in bad nights"
"Did you ever go to school, Picketv
or to church,"
"No. sir; l never went to no church
nor sc hool. should kind O. like to
learn somethin,"
My hearers, these unfortunates ara
all about us.
When they got up from their hands
and knees to walk their first step WAS
on the road to ruin, and every dav
since they have been plunging down 10
lower depths, and wilder despair. and
deeper darkness.
The re are many about us in boyhood
and girlhOOd in comfortable circles that
are going to be something very good Or
very bad, very bright or very ignorant,
and they will yet make their parents
glad with an infinite gladness or pain
them with infinite sorrow. They 90
bound ing through the hall; they shout
in the yard; they sing in the school.
This activity that now strikes the ball,
and runs the race, and rolls the hoop,
and fl lies the kite, will soon be ready for
the higher game of life, where fortunes
are TO be made, and regulations
achieved, and temptations combatted
and immortal souls jeopardized, and
kingdoms of glory won.
Call up that child; push back his hair.
Shall this face be ever Frightening up
with benevOlence, or SCARED, and
pinched, and blasted with low excuses?
Shall those eyes become more and more
intelligent, or shall they acquire the
dishonest glance and the servile down
cast? Put your hand on that chid's
heart Shall it always beat with noble
impul SEES, or will it be thief's heart, a
towards heart, traitors heart?-Tal.
lll0e'S Sermon
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
HIDING THEIR GRAIN.
Peculiar Gust m Obtaining Among the
Peasants of Morocco.

OF morocco.
Owing to the brotherly way the Sui
an has of quartering his soldiers and
riends on his beloved subjects, they
hide their grain until it can be sold in
hese matamors, which are simply holes
lug in the ground and the top built over,
Though now and then one is found
which is lined with q sort of cement.
~ doing this, when a detachment of
ioldiers comes along on a foraging ex-
edition, the thrifty peasant is able to
lift his hands to the sky and VOW that
he is without even enough to keep his
amily from starving. OF course the
rain rots in the ground, and by the
ime the Arab finds market for it
here is nothing to sell but mass of
mold, but somehow nothing is learned
W the experience, and he does Just the
anne the next year and the year after
The pleasant little story told about
hese matamors is that they
ire dug in out-of-the-way places
~ old and decrepit slaves who have
'utlived their usefulness, and then their
'wner scores a double point in killing
hem to preserve his secret and to get
id of feeding them any longer All
hat is known is that these matamors
re discovered in the strangest places.
md no one knows who they belong to
~ who dug them; not that the least in
eresting anticipation about a trip into
he interior of Morocco may be consid-
'red the possibility that at any time
our mule may land you at the bottom
If a matamor twenty feet deep, from
which the grain has been taken, and
where you will stop until the day of
Judgment unless some one else sees you
lrop; or on the other hand you may
tumble upon a matamor crowded with
he hidden wealth of some nabob, for
here is no question but there are
'ordes upon hordes of gold and silver
tored in this way in Morocco to keep
away from the itching fingers of the
emile Sultan.-BostOn transcript.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
A PRISON ORCHESTRA.
Extraordinary Concerts Given Daily in
Pennsylvania Penitentiary.

extraordinary Concerts Given Daily In 9
Pennsylvania Penitentiary.
AT the Western penitentiary in Penn
sylvia MIA there is nightly concert given
by what is probably the largest orches
ira in the world. 1t iscomposed of at
least three hundred players, who never
see one another. The music begins pre-
cisely at six o'clock every evening, and
ends at the stroke of seven. Within that
hour the convicts are permitted to make,
each independently, as much music or
discofd as he pleases.
This prison is, perhaps, the onlS one
in the United States where the inmates
are allowed to cultivate the art of music
and the privilege is deeply appreciated
by them. just before six O'Clock they
may be seen by the officials, sittingwith
their instruments in readiness. As the
hour strikes, they begin to play, and
rattle off tune after tune during the aP
pointed time. AS may be imagined
with several hundred instruments play
ing at once, it is impossible to distin-
guish any one of them from the rest, Or
to tell one tune from another. As the
waves of sound rise and mingle, the
listener can only be reminded of wind
bowling in the distance.
'T hey look forward to this hour with
great pleasure" said one of the keepers
to reporter. Emusic is the only thing
that varies the nonotony of their lives
and taking an instrument away from
prisoner is about the severest punish
ment we can infict." -..+
AS they were talking, there wa'
moments silence. 1t was a few minus \
before seven, and a man began playNs
Home, Sweet Home" on violin. hh
neighbor accompanied him on guitar
and in short time they were Joined
a flute, cornet and mandolin. The prr
oners in the upper tiers OF cells seem0
to be waiting for the beginning OF n
favorite melody, and one by one caug''
it up, until all were playing the tune
The sounds ceased at the stroke u
seven, and quiet reigned supreme
Youths Companion.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

A California miner says that miner
are o very superstitious class, ana =
tells OF dreams and other forms y
warning they have received, notli!!ns
them of danger, which proved VII
timely. He says: 81 know OF a VasD
rich mine In the San Gabriel MounlaD
Los Angeles County, that has eau,
the death of every man who has Wv
to carry ore away from it. You w.
call this superstition also, but thero%
dozen miners besides myself wi
know of the millions that could DC
en- from this mine and yet are Sli'
to 90 near it. Some half dozen "
had been killed by caves, etc" lbs m Il,
partner fell victim to Il loathsome,Ia
ease while preparing to work the NV
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

Brown Cat an evening ty)-Who
is that rank and scrawny-looking party
near the piano, ROBINSON Robinson
That's Bixbys wife. Brown-You
don't tell me. You know Bixby, thenp
Robinson-Oh, yes; he's my brotherin-
law. = TEXAS Sylings.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

"A man in Bathgate was present at
The funeral of neighbor, of whom no
good could be said, but as everybody
was saying something, and as he did
not like to appear singular, and was
incapable of lying eulogy, he re-
marked that it was "a nice, quiet
corpse.n
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

TIE Queen of Sweden, since she
learned and began cooking by the ad-
vice of her. physician for her health,
takes long walks, and often goes into
the peasants houses and shows them
how to make good dishes.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

1t is claimed that the deaths and
Wounds from railroad accidents are only
Ibout one-fourth as great in Europe as
u this country.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

If oil men knew as much as most
men think they know, the encyclopaedia
people would be driven out OF the bus
mess. SonerviiIe journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

America for the Poor Man.

To begin with, the humber kind of
work is better paid in America than
with us, the higher kind worse. The
official, for instance, gets less, his
office-keeper gets more. The public
ways are abominably cut up by rail
and blocked with horse-cars; but the in
convenience is for those who use .pri-
vate carriages and cabs; the CON
venience is for the bulk of the com
munity who, but for the horse-cars,
would have to walk. The ordinary
railway cars are not delightful, but
they are cheap, and they are better
furnished, and in winter are warmer
than third-class carriages in England
Luxuries are, as | have said. very dear
above all, European luxuries; but
working-man's clothing is nearly as
cheap as in England, and plain food is
on the whole cheaper. Even luxuries
of a certain kind are within a labor
ing-man's easy reach. / have men
toned ice, l will mention fruit also.
The abundance and cheapness of fruit
is great boon to people of small in
comes in America. -MdttheW Arnoid.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05

1t is only in southern ATTITUDES
that figs can be grown successfully, and
in the South it is said the quality can
be greatly improved by growing them
and prone to an early decay that they
can not be shipped to points as fal
north as st. Louis. We have never.
seen them in St. Louis market. but have
seen them in Shaw's garden, the tree.
being protected from frosts during tbs
wintery months. Persons from the
North do not greatly admire the taste
of ripe figs. 1t usually takes time and
practice to cultivate taste for them.
Journal of agriculture.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
Measurements Which Prove Perfection All
Over the World.


For a woman of five feet five inches,
1873 pounds is the proper weight, and if
she be well formed she can stand an
other ten pounds without greatly show
ing it. When her arms are extended
she should measure from tip of middle
finger TO tip of middle finger just five
feet five inches. exactly her own height.
The length of her hand should be just
one tenth of that, and her feet just a
seventh, and the diameter of her chest
a fifth. From her thighs to the ground
she should measure just what she meas
ures from the thighs to the top of the
head. The knee should come exactly
midway between the thigh and heel.
The distance from the elbow to the
middle finger should be the same as the
distance from the elbow to the middle
of the chest. From the top of the head
to the chin should be just the length OF
the foot, and there should be the same
distance between the chin and the arm
pits.
A woman of this height should meas
ure twenty-four inches about the waist
and thirty-four inches about the bust if
measured from under the arms, and
forty-three if over them. The upper
arm should measure thirteen inches
and the wrist six. The calf of the leg
should measure fourteen and half
inches, the thigh twenty-five and the
ankle eight. There is another system
of measurements which says that the
distance twice around the thumb should
go once around the wrist; twice around
the wrist once around the throat; twice
around the throat once around the
waist, and so on; but the first is the
measure used by sculptors, who have
gained them by measurement OF the
Greek statues. Philadelphia Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
CHARACTER STUDIES.
To Learn a Mans or woman's Disposition
Watch Them Eat.

Watch Them Eat.
There is no better place to study
human nature than the average hotel
dining-room. If character doesn't
show out when man is hungry, there
probably isn't any. Good breeding,
however, shows even more quickly, and
though it may not be altogether pleas
ant to watch the man next to you eat a
whole dish of green peas with his knife,
it is curious and interesting sight.
A thin little woman leading four chill
dren came into the supper-room of one
of the city hotels last week. There
were three boys and one girl and they
were probably included between seven
and thirteen years of age. TIL ey had
evidently been travelling and the chill
dren. though not used to public dining
rooms. all had children's appetites.
Each one demanded a bill of fare and
studied it eagerly. There was mo-
ment's silence and then
''Ma, want some strawberries and
a Bath bun and-and a banana"
MA. want some turkey and pump
kin pie"
ma, ma, do they have bear steaks?"
II don t know, my son-Willie. stop
reaching for the butter, and put down
that knife"
Here q commotion arose owing to a
dispute between the eldest boy and the
one next, relative to the changing of
their order to golden buck. the second
boy contending that it would be better
to order all mince pie. because they
knew what that was.
ma, what's canvasback duck?"
"It's kind of wild duck"
."What does it have canvas for. to
ut up when it rains?"
Here the waiter, having prepared ice
water all around. assumed . receptive
attitude. and the thin woman said:
I'VE just want light supper. The
children are not hungry" she ex-
planned. land it isn't good for them to
eat much before going to bed. You
might bring some buttered toast. tea
and stewed prunes. two portions of
each will do"
And then eight sad. young eyes. from
which the light of pie and turkey had
faded, followed the waiter as he van
ished toward the kitchen.-N =. TFi6-
u11e.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
WATCH THE PIGS.
How to Raise Healthy and Consequent
Profitable POrkers.

How to Raise Healthy and Consequently
Profitable Porkers.
The best possible floor for a piggery
is one of earth, provided this is of a
kind that will not become too dusty.
Hogs seem to be peculiarly sensitive to
dust, or, rather. since they have their
nostrils oftener and closer to the ground
than any other domestic animal, they
inhale more dust than any other. 1t is
very injurious to them, causing snuffies,
cough, influenza, thumps, etc. The
occupation of one bed for long time
unchanged is a fruitful cause of disease;
even the earth, which purifies all things,
will itself become foul at last from the
exhalations of the skin. Hogs seem
to be peculiarly sensitive in their skins
and the mucous membrane lining all
the internal cavities. They suffer from
a lack of cleanliness, and no animal
will show it sooner in the toused and
dead look of the hair; whereas hog
that is in good thrift will very soon
give unmistakable evidence of it in the
clean. soft. bright appearance If his
hair and bristles.
As above stated, an earth floor is the
best every way, but this should not be
allowed to become SO dry as to yield
excessive dust, nor so damp as to pro-
duce a steamy, reeking condition in the
nest, which also is very productive of
colds and cough. A floor of clay is
good as against the first objection; it
does not tend excessively to dust. l
have bedded hogs on layer of earth
thrown on Il tight DO ard floor . foot or
so above the ground. and this will pre-
vent dampness. but is Objectionable on
account of the propensity of rats TO har-
Dor in it. Rats and unringed hogs are
exceedingly destructive to a board floor.
Every precaution should be adopted to
exclude these odious vermin. Their
constant running and squealing disturb
hogs not little, to say nothing of the
thieveries they perpetrate. have even
suspected them of devouring very young
pigs. If were about to build hog
pen now, after years of experience. l
should try at least one compartment OF
it with brick or stone floor laid tight
in cement, as a foundation for the layer
of earth for them to rest in. This would
prevent the foul and pernicious damp
ness that would arise by capillary
attraction from the ground beneath,
and it would exclude rats.
Let me repeat: If the farmer will
carefully watch his pigs and completely
renoyate their straw, once a week at
the outside. he may with safety give it
to them for nesting; otherwise not
With the best of intentions toward my
swine. 1 never could bear it in mind to
change their bedding often enough; and
there is hardly anything more perni-
cious to them than pile of evil-smell-
ing. polluted straw. 1t is positive
poison to them.-Ssephss Poyers, 10
Oh Fa-assT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
Farming as a Business.

There are some among our readers
who, we fear, think farming an ex-
ceedingly profitable business. and that
any one can make money at it. This is
4 great mistake. as many have found to
their sorrow. We do not wish to mis-
lead any one ny giving results of crops
obtained under peculiarly favorable cir
cumstances. Farming, like every other
calling. has its advantages and its dis
advantages. When properly conducted.
it will yield a good living, and possibly
something more. No one should ex-
pect to get rich suddenly in this bust
ness. 1t is healthful. and in many
respects independent and pleasant en-
ployment and one worthy the atten-
ton of men of brains. 1t is not now
true, if it ever was, that every Ounce
can get better living by farming than
by any other occupation. We do not
wish to discourage those who are think
ing of farming for hfe-work, nor, on
the other hand, are we willing to
glorify it so as to mislead. 1t is our
desire to impress upon all our farmer
friends the Importance of so conducting
their business as to secure the very best
results. -CongregationGlist.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
A NEGLECTED GRAVE.

Neglected grave; how soon forgot
A blackened stone, rank grass, dead leaves
A narrow mound that neer receives
A fond attention, mark the spot
Where one whose name no carving shows,
Lies wrapped in mortal's last repose.
Up yonder hill, years gone apace,
A funeral cOrtegs crept-tears fell
From kindred eyes; mournful kneu
Announced an end to iifes swift race.
And now, all those who sorroIed then
In endless peace are here again
What care the dead if selfish aims
Afford no time for long respect?
II stately shaft or cold neglect
EZtol or slight their empty names?
Alas their usefulness is DER,
The busy world needs them no more.
But do not we, whose beings thrill
With buoyant life and sturdy powers,
Keep bright the hope in solemn hours
That, when our thrObblng hearts are still,
Some faithful friend shall ever keep
a loving vigil o e. our sleep:
-HO.cGrd II. Hoke IL LesEis's Weakly.