Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-12-22
or GENERAL INTEREST.

A Vermont minister has preached |
l2l funeral sermons, with net returns
Of two barrels OF apples and silver
dollar.
About the meancst gag that could
be devised was one which an Ohio
highwayman 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
premium oftwenty-five cents.
The lack OF women's restaurants
down town Ia New York Is made up in
some Instances by the janitrcsses OF
big Office buildings who serve warm
dinners to the pretty typewriters up
under the caves.
-RAttlosnakes 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 ut 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 it 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
DIR. Elisha Mitchell has recently been
erected on the summit OF Mitchelfs
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 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, 1.-The man Is convicted. An
ice cream saloon without women is IN
impossibility."
"A writer in Chinese paper MS.
serts as a physiological fact that the
Chinese lack the full complement o
nerves that are possessed by Western
people, or that their nerves are less
sensitive than those of other races
and explains in this way the wonder
full endurance OF the Chinese, theil
impassiveness, and their ability to GO
along without bodily exercise.
Japanese gongs melodiously sum
! mon guests to dinner, and are con
sidered a great improvement upon TIL
dinner bell. OF all devices, however
!, which have been invented to call PEG
pie to meals. including the bugle, thu
gong, strings OF bells suspended iron
the portiere rod, and the soft-spokel
waiter. no arrangement sends such
thrill and awakes such an appetite u
the farmers horn.
The receiving ship Wabash Will
lying off Boston some time ago ha
several curious applications from me
: who wanted to enlist. Ons man sal
: he would enlist if he could do work t
which he was accustomed. He wa
not enlisted, for he was a paper
> hanger. Another wanted to enlist an
take care Of the Captains horse.
gardener would enlist ii he could fin
:. work, and another candidate wante
: to be the ships roofer.
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes
novel suggestion in sanitary scienc,
. A French Colonel ascertained that h
could wash his men with tepid waite
/ for ccntime, or one-tenth of a penn
: per head, soap included The ma
undresses, steps into h tray of tepi
3 water, soaps himself, when a jet fro'
o a two-handed pump plays upon hi
9 tepid water, and he dries and dresse
himself in five minutes, against TIVE,
n ty minutes in the bath, and with tiy
h gallons Of water against some sevent
n in the usual bath.
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