Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-29
OF GENERA. INTEREST.
The New York Press Club talks OF
snpropriate monument

The New York Press Club talks OF
erecting an appropriate monument
over Horace Greeley's grave.
A Kansas woman wants to start
chidren's rights association ana make
large families fashionable again.
A cricket match between Amer
lean and English players was played on
hoard the Aurania during its last trip
to this country. 1t ended in draw.
Washington Cor rather the District
of Columbia), on basis OF three peo-
pie to every name in the new city a.
rectory, claims a population OF 2o2'oSo.
1t is estimated that discoveries, in
yentions, and compounds patented
each wear in the United States and
never amounting to any thing cost
5000. 600.
The editor of the Halifax Herald
saws that the Halifax Gazette, now
known as the Royal Gazctte. is the old
est paper now published on the conti-
nent of America.
The petriied remains OF huge
monster have been discovered near
Knoxville, Iowa. The body was be-
tween fifty and sixty feet long and two
and half feet wide. with four eyes.
The sockets of the eyes are eight
inches in diameter
Some hunters caught bear in
Athens. Me-, after long chase. He
was found to have only two sound legs.
one hind leg having been cut off. APP
parently. at the joint. and one fore leg
near the body. Yet he was able to run
about AS fast as the average bear.
In the stomach of cow killed in
La Crosse, Wis. were found one silver
piece, two wood screws, each an inch
in length, six carpet tacks, twenty-threo
Single nails, two large knitting need
les, and one street railway spike three
inches long. One of the needles had
pierced the cows lungs and caused the
formation of big tumor.
"A witness against q Philadelphia
saloon keeper. who was on trial for
violating the Sunday law, wore false
beard A lawyer detected it and pulled
The beard off his face. When ques-
toned as to his reasons for appearing
N disguise, he said he wanted to pre-
vent saloon keepers who might be pres
.nt from recognizing him thereafter.
There are fully fifty centenarians
lnown to be living in New England at
he present time. OF this number
,leven live in Connecticut. four in
shode Island. ten in Massachusetts.
-xteen in Maine, five IN New Hamp-
.laire and five in Vermont. The oldest
If all is Giles Benson. of Castleton,
Vt, one hundred and fifteen years OF
lge.
The ubiquitous Office boy has dis
covered a new use for old business let
ters, which he now sells to various
firms at from ten to fifty cents hum
Tired. The buyers use them for the
addresses contained therein, which are
,luly copied and in turn sold to sewing
machine and patent-medicine men.
who use the lists in sending out cir
cularS.
The narrow roads in some parts of
the Menominee range have evolved
the invention of peculiar cutter, long
and slim as toboggan and called the
"Fore-.nd-after." because it accomo-
dated but two people, one sitting be-
hind the other. This makes it very
unpopular with the girls of the district.
but the vehicle is convenient all the
same. for the lumber-cutters.
-Bavarian horses are celebrated for
general worthlessness. A dealer sold
, one to a German officer during the
Franco-Prussian war. and warranted
him to be II good war horse. The soldier
came afterward in towering passion
and said he had been swindled. "And
, how?' said the dealer. "Why, there s
, not a bit of go in him, and yet YOU
warranted him as a good war horse
Yes, Ibid. and by George! he is good
war horse; he'd sooner die than run. "
Two boys recently, in search of a
rabbit, removed the rear steps of St.
Mary's Church. in Kittanning, Pa,
and found bundle containing three
gold watches, two gold chains, one sill
yer watch, dark lantern and a jimmy.
| Three years ago the articles We're
stolen. and the thief sent to the peni.
Tertiary, but the property was never
recovered. Two of the watches be-
, longed to Kittanning parties. and the
, third is thought to belong to IA Brook
, vile man.
1t is reported that in Peru and
other parts of South America this
, years fruit has been avoided by birds,
while it has caused the death of sheen
, and cattle when fed to them in large
quantities. These observations have
been cited as tending to show that the
, instinct of birds. with respect to the
t wholesomeness OF fruit, is frequently q
worthy guide for human beings to fol.
low. The possibility is suggested tina,
the variation in the fruit of differen,
, years may have something to do with
, outbreaks of cholera.
, Professor Edward Hull, director o.
| the Geological SURVEY of Ireland, in ;
paper read before the British Associa
, ton at its last meeting, says that man,