Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-08-18
HERE AND THERE.


from the summit OF St. Helen's, Oregon.
In Altoona, Pa, they can build loco.
motive in eighteen hours anu n''''H's
minutes.
Switzerland advertises accommodations LOT
about $4,000 guests over night during tug
summer season
sVThe Kings daughters now number w.
900 In the United States The society Is 70
have monthly paper.
We are importing onions from Egypt Ihey
come In about thirty days via Liverpool, anu
are of superior quality to the Bermuda
The French are acknowledged to have the
finest guns and projectiles In Europe. tneu
FermIny shell has been shot through an
armor plate twenty inches thick, and eone
out with It's steel point unin1ured.
A resident Of Sorrento. Fla, who recently
recovered from q severe illness, has since re-
fused to eat meat unless II Is raw. lie ne
uuently kills q chicken or q rabbit aud de-
yours 1t almcst before Il becomes cold.
II ia strange that the deyisers II open air
shows cannot think OF something else thaa
the destruction Of something to repro
duce on their immense stages. BAasloa,
Rome and Pompell have beeR used In turn
for these pyrotechnic dramas The list may
be exhausted soon, and then they may work
In another field.
An Albany family has 3-year-old boy,
whose bump Of mischief is phenomenal HIS
mother took him In his carriage to market
and bought some potatoes, which were put 10
the carriage at his feet. As she had walked
along conversing with another the boy had
dropped them all out unnoticed, and the fact
was not discovered until they were home.
There are a number Of warm sulphur
springs In Elsnore, CAL and citizen OF
that town Is utilizing them for lnenbating
purposes. He puts tin pail full OF eggs ia
a spring whose temperature Is l02 degreeA
and In three weeks the chicks come out As
the temperature of the spring does not vary,
the eggs require no attention. This beats
the patent incubators all hollow.
The latest touch OF realism in newspaper
work Is to print all the oaths used BY the peo-
pie figuring In an auecdOte. Often these
oaths are but the outcome of thoughtless
babit, and add no point to the anecdote.
The custom seems TO have originated In those
papers which are conducted on the PLAZA OF
finding out the lowest intellectual level Of
their readers, and then going lower.
man Of IS. with face smoothly shavsn,
with the exception OF pair OF small ais
whiskers, dressed In q modest suit OF gray
tweed, stood In the betting ring at Jerome
park the other afternoon aud checked on his
mutual tickets with a lead pencil He had
nothing OF the swagger aud loudness so pre-.
valent on all sides OF him. 1t was W. K.
NJ a..
that throng OF gambling men.
An enumeration taken at Reading OF the
furnaces Ia the schuylkIll valley which have
recently gone out Of the blast because Of the
depression In the iron business shows tina
out OF twenty-one tlrst-class furnaces Ia th,
district Of Conshohockeu to Pottsvlie whlcl
were going a mon III ago. eleven have closed
down and are taking advantage Of the tempo
rary dullness 10 make REPAIRS. Ia this eleVeE
is the Robson furnace, producing eight hun.
dred tons per week, the Mount Laurel and
| the Macungie furnaces two at Brdsbogo, and
one at Reading.
Mrs Marshall o. Roberts who has 81, OOO,.
00O In her own right and the income Of 90, 600.
| 900 besides, IL to marry the impoverished and
elderly earl OF Arran, PROPRIETOR Of the isles
| VI VII west sue OF Ire
land, and Of an estate IN County Mayo. Mrs
Roberts was Miss EndIcott OF Boston She
Is but little over 30 now and artists rave over
her as Juno. She met Mr.. Roberts on az
Atlanta steamer. He was widower, forty
years her senior but her married life with
him was fairly congenIal. She has a step.
daughter considerably older than herself and
step-granddaughEer who will eventually
have 81. 000. 900 from the Roberts estate Her
own son, now 10 years old, will have the So
900 600 OF which she now has tho income II he
! lives to be 81.
| The outdoor play at Manchester by the Sea
this year will be "A Midsummer Nights
Dream, and the performance will be given
In the evening, with electric light effects.
| Mrs. Agnes Booth -Sohoeffel will direct the
performance. The date 10 July 30. Tn,
following named actors viii appear as the
l lovers, the fairies, And the hard handed men
| Of Athens: Nat O. Goodwin Louis James,
William Owen, J. y. Mason, John Sullivan
Henry V. Donnelly, Dlgby Bell. Frnzlei
Coulter, E. r. Goodwin, Charles Reed, MarIs
Wainwright, Lillian Russell, Kate FORSYTH
Genevieye Lytton, Yernoua Jarbeau, Jear
Gordon, Grace Thorne, Rose France, Lillian
Lee, J. 3. Booth, and Mamie Ryan as Puck.
The net receipts will be given 10 charitable
theatrlcal society Of Boston. aud tho prices Of
seats will be s2, 90. aud s5.
The claim Is made that the first attsmpt At
celestial photography was made at the Har.
ward college observatory, nearly forty years
ago, when daRuerreotory plate was exposed
in the focus Of the dfteen-Inch equatorial
which was kept pointed upon Lyra, aud a
very good image was thus obtained the
| double star . Gemlnorum also giving an elon.
gated image, evidently due TO its two com
Donents. ID was found that such bright stars
could be made to give faint images, but Ho
success followed when fainter stars were the
objects, even OF Polarls no image being oh.
: tainable with any exposure. The experiments
we're at last discontinued but we're resumed
seven years later collodlon plates having
then been introduced, which in seDsl
tiveDess far exceeded the old dagueneotyps
"a short exposure Of some eight seconds o,
even less, sufilclng for great many stars.
the Improvement in the driving mechanism
Of the telescope still further aiding the opera.
| ton.
! This is time Of year when receipts for suu.
burn meet one at every turn. Here is the bes,
/ prescription that can be made. Ruru yo,.