Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST


1t is said that the walls OF a church
at Dan ison. Mich, were recently meas
ured ON Sunday and the contract for
papering them let the same day.
before he died Allen McIinn ~
Texas, Mich. aged eighty-three years
a spiritualist, asked that at his fune.
ral bands be played and dancing and
other recreations be enjoyed. His de-
sire was carried out to the letter.
"A Scotch beadle took his sweet
hcart to graveyard, and showing her
DARK corner. said: Mary, my folks
lie there. Would you like to lie there
when you dieen 1t was a grim wav Of
proposing, but Mary was a sensible
scotch lassie and accepted him.
"A colored man was hanged the
other day at Marlin, Tex, but the pun
ishment was insignificant when com
pared with the treatment he received
at the hands of the newspapers. For
instance one paper headed a descrin-
ZION OF the execution, "a Midair
Dance and another described him as
having been ''Jerked to Eternity"
1t is pretty generally known that
not few young women use belladonna
to give brilliancy to their ewes. but il
Is not SO well known that large ma
lorlty OF those who thus injure their
sight and brave the danger of becom-
ing biind are women who have light
eyes. Dark-eyed women either have
more sense or think that their eyes
are well enough as they are.
The yellow fever scare has given
rise to various precautionary measures
against the germs of disease. A
Philadelphia physician, while riding
on railroad car, spread clean hand
kerchief over the glass from which his
cfsldren drank water. The Santtarg
inspector says that better plan is to
rest the edge of the glass against the
chin. allowing the whole mouth to
project into the fluid.
"A Bar Harbor teacher. who means
to have her pupils well informed as to
what goes on in the world. as well as
to what is in books, has some of the
pupils put on the blackboard each
morning Bulletin Board made I'D
from headlines in the daily papers
She also has read aloud articles from
he papers that pertain TO the most i'm
portant events of the day. This new
department is said to be very success
full.
A house that formerly stood on a
hill in Stratford, Conn, has been re-
moved to Bridgeport, part OF the dis
lance being accomplished by water
| the building resting on two large
scows. Pictures We're left hanging on
the wall. provisions remained on the
pantry shelves, and the family did not
move out. Hardly a jar or tremor
was felt during the entire journey, and
the domestic work went on without in.
terruption.
1T is just as we'll to bear in mind, y
says the London Hospital gazette, THAT
chlorate of potash lozenges are not
lollipops properly so called. The USE
of these pharmaceutical sweetmeats il
any thing approaching excess is apt tt
be attended by marked prostration anC
even severe toxic symptoms. A mum
Der of cases are now on record in which
an excessive dose of the salt, taker
either by accident or from inattention
has been followed by alarming ant
even fatal effects.
A curious experiment consists il
taking a water fisk or other wide
mouthed bottle and placing a small
cork in the neck while holding it in
horizontal position. 1t will seem HI
easy matter to blow the cork into tn
bottle, but upon trial it will be foun
almost impossible to do So The harde
one blows the more forcibly is the cor
elected ont of the bottle. The expla
nation is that the bottle is already ful
} of air, so that no more can be blow
+ into it; and the only effect produce
by blowing is to compress the al
already inside.
/ A French scientist in China a
= tempted to reason Chinese family OF
of making the onerous and eXpenslv
; provision for the comfort OF dea
: relative which they believe it nece
I sary to make. on the ground that th
1 deceased did not require any such con
=. forts. This led to a discussion as
/. the future state of the dead. and OF
: OF the Cinnamon, at last getting tire
s of the argument, seized huge knit
t and proposed to the Frenchman TIL
e they should each "cut their throat
# so as to go and see what the state
h the dead actually is and put an end
j the talk about it." The FrenchmS
o politely declined to accede to Il
b proposition, and let the Chinese enjt
= their superstitious belief witho
n further molestation.
Making a kaleidoscope.