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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
THE ARIZONA KICKER,
Specimen Kicks From "A Recent Issue of n,
Kicking Sheet

specimen Kicks From "A Recent Issue of the
Kicking sheet.
Ten THOUSAND REWARD On Tues
day night of last week. as we were
preparing to go 10 bed after a hard
evenings work, some mnrderous
wretch hurled brick through the
only window in our office 1t was IN
tended for cur destruction, but that
Providence which watches over an e.
itor as well a a sparrow willed other
wise. II struck aud knocked our bed
stead TO pieces. pied three dead ads on
the stone, and then glanced OFF and
ripped up several feet Of flooring but
left our person untouched We were
out OF the office inside OF ten minutes.
but the blood-thirsty tiend had made
good his escape. We have been
warned that we must go. and this is
the seventh emphatic hint To stir our
stumps, but here we squat We don t
vacate. We don't scare We don't
change our editorial course one iota.
We hereby offer $40. 600 reward for in
formation that will lead to the capture
Of the bastard who attempted to assas-
sinate us. and hereafter we warn the
public that we shall sleep with a
double-barreled shotgun across the
foot OF the bed. Any one coming to
the office at late hour to ask us to
play a game of poker should stop at
SCOTS corner and whistle four times
As signal.
CORRECTION. Last week we had a
brief item To the effect to Major Horn.
back. our efficient Register Of Deeds,
had got staying drunk. destroyed a
bushel or two Of valuable papers. haa
two fights. and then gone home to
smash his cook stove and lick his wife.
Next day Major Hornback called a,
this office and not only subscribed for
the Kicker for himself. but sent two
copies TO friends in the East, paying Us
six dollars in cash. We therefore desire
to correct the item of last week. The
Major was not drunk. 1t was simply
AN attack of vertigo, to which he i
subject. He was never drunk in hi'
life. and more efficient public official
or kinder husband and father. car
not be found on the face Of this globe
We shall make other corrections frQn
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
a STORY OF BENTON.
How u Witness Once Enraged the Tamou.
Statesman.


Thomas Benton once lived in Will
hanson County. Tennessee. at Hills
borough, which, at one time, was
called Benton" and practiced his
profession in tie town of Franklin. |
remember an incident of his profess
sional career at that place. 1t seems
that some enemy of Benton's had cir
culated story that, while at school.
he had appropriated five shilling
note belonging to a school-fellow and
hid it in his cravat While the story
was not believed. Mr., Benton, then
thriving practitioner, was somewhat
sensitive on the subject. He was at
one time engaged in the trial of law
suit in which sbrewd and unscrupu-
lous eattle-trader was II witness. The
latter had become somewhat famous
through sharp trick he had played
upon Methodist preacher who came
to him to buy COW. II can let You
have any COW in the bunch" said old
Jnrnigan, except that long baggcd
red heifer you see over there. She is
such good one that | could not part
sith ner.N This of course. had the
effect of making the unsophisticated
preacher exceedingly anxious to buy
that particular COW, and finally ended
in his buying her at about three times
her actual value. only to lenrn after.
ward that she was an old and worth
less cow which Jarnigan had fixed up
for heifer by serapng out the hicks
in her horns. When this witness was
put upon the stand and it came BEN
ton' time TO cross-eXamine, he opened
up with the following question: Are
Jou not the Mr. Jaruigan who owned
the long-bagged red heifer?' Quick
as n flash old Jarnigan retorted. Are
you not the Mr.. Benton who had a
live shilling notein his crayat?' White
with fury. MIR. Benton Sprang from the
chair and dealt Jarnigan blow. and
in an instant they were rolling aud
tumbling over the floor. Benton was
quite an exasperatng man in dealing
with others, and very irascible one
himself, NashUute Democrat.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
TALENTED BUT LAZY.
nm. U,,oveIv sight Presented by f"""s
xyn,,.n who shIrk, Her Duties

,pe UnIoveIy sight Presented py
woman who shlrks Her Duties.
The town is full of talented girls VINO
viii never amount to any thing because
they are so well content with Simply
he;np talented. These girls Will never
he able to take prominent place IN
any profession or circle in society De-
cause they lack the industry without
which all the talent under the sun 10
not worth copper groat. Talent Is
the unbewn block of marble, Industry
IS the chisel that may convert II 10 INC
perfect statue. The philosophlc writer
of "Our Picayunes" says that industry
heats genius at every thing except the
making of real poetry. Talented girls
who are too lazy to accomplish any
thing except by inspiration are oiteh
not only the victims Of their own faise
idea that talent is better than devei-
oped muscle, or trained mind, OF me-
thodical work, but of the ill-adyised
nraise of relatives and friends. A
smart girl wants encouragement not
merely praise She wants that sort OF
cncoura cement that if she wills to work
she can be and do any thing that Is
great, and noble, and possible 10
human endeavor. Many smart girl
remains SLOUGH and smatterer
all her days because of the exaggerated
ideas of her own ability, not capability.
she receives from those who should
have known better. A talented girl OF
eighteen can play the piano; but not
well enough to keep the honest attcn-
ton of a roomf,,l of people. She can
dabble in paints, but not well enough
to make her pictures worth framing.
She can write romances, but none good
enough for publication. These are her
possibilities. They speak fairly well OF
her at eighteen. and friends predict a
brilliant future for her. But ut nine
teen and twenty she neither plays, nor
paints, nor writes any better than she
did at eighteen. She has spent hel
days in idle, ambitious dreamings OF
what she would like to do. Her mind
runs sluggishly, she is drunk with the
stupor of laziness. She is an enormous
reader of novels. but finds even the
magazines "too solemn" for her minc
and taste Victimized by home adula
ton, she has quit her piano-practicing
neglected her studies. abandoned hel
lrawing-book, and she ends by doing
nothing at all. Her mother has loved
her too we'll to allow her to make a bed
sweep room, keep up any routine o.
duties or studies, and the result is :
failure. Admitting friends fall off, sorr,
and Disguised. A lazy young woman
is us unlovelya sight as slovenly one
A girl of eighteen, a talented girl
needs ut her elbow mother or ;
guardian who shall increasingly ant
earnestly inspire her with an ambition
to take always and ever an upward
/ step. N. o. PicdyuHR.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

Ia Florida. and In many other
paris OF the country, the orange Is cat
IN halves, and lis juice and pulp are
passed 10 the mouth with teaspoon.
A Chicago parrot scared away a
burglar who was trying To effect an
entrance through a window, 10y crying
in a shr.u voice, Come OF the
porch
- be territory west Of the Missouri
river GA the North Pacific railroad. IL
n said. Is gradually being ridden of
the features which causes II To be
known ~ the " hunters paradise"
The London Hsfical Press con
graduates Itself and lis readers that
therc u more crowded city and one
with higher death record than Lon
don, namely. New York. where, in
1850, le,I persons lived in every
dwelling house. on AN average. against
- IN London. Furthermore. the En-
giish city has no deaths from sunstroko
to record. and a temperature below
Herc Is almost unknown.
The two sides Of the face are not
alike IS rule. says German pro-
lessor, the want Of symmetry is con
hnei Ia the upper part 81 the face.
Tho lefs hand hs,if OF the brain over
weighs the right half. the nose leans
a little 70 the right or 10 the left The
region OF the right eye is usually
slightly higher than that OF the left
eye. while the left eye is nearer the
middle line Of the connteaance. The
right ear il also higher. a. Il rule, than
the left ear.
-Even the Oldest fashioned garden
doee not contain all the varieties grown
IN Shakespeare's day. The flowers for
May and june enumerated by Bacon
wore 'pinks of ell kinds, specially the
blush pink; roses of ali kinds, except
the musk, which comes later; honey
suckles, Strawberries, bogloss, column
Dine. the French marisold, fos Afri-
canus, cherry tree in fruit, RIDES, figs
in fruit, rasps, vine flowers, lavender
in flowers. the sweet satyrian with the
white flower. herbs. musearia, lilium,
corrallipm. the apDle tree in blossom.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
SEMI. WEEKLY WORLD.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Baroness Gripenberg, of Finland
IS editor for magazine for children.
"A copy OF "Pickwick in tn,
original parts has just been sold II
London for $3.50 II was the first IRON
the press. and was presented by Dick
ems 10 Mary Hogarth.
1t has been TN open secret that
"Octave Thanet," name signed tC
many excellent magazine stories. is q
pseudonym. The true name is said "a
be Alice French. the daughter of Judge
French. of Davenport. la.
Laurence Oliphant the author OF
..lreue Macgilieuddy" interviewed on
the subject OF novels, confessed that 'oi
oil the older writer's OF fiction Charles
Readc stands Mt the head. " He prefers
the writings OF Dickens to Thacxeray
but Of the men he cared most for the
latter.
A Jewish Publication Society has
been organized Ia Philadelphia, repre-
sontlng all phases Of Judais.ic he
lief Its object Is To issue from time to
time publications designed to foster q
knowledge Of Jewish essentials. litera-
ture aud history among the Jews OF the
United States.
Count 'rnlstoi is the title and name
of two distinguished Russians, and it is
well 30 know that fact ia view of sus-
epicions 81 attempted violence to one
az them, The confusion between Count
l.. \ Teisioi. the novelist and philan-
shroplst. and his cousin, Count Tols,oi.
the narrow-minded Minister ~ Educa-
tlan, il very commonly made The
name OF Tolsioi is found more than
once in the history OF Russian litcre-
tnre,
"A man may be intelligent. emil
neui indeed 10 literature and philoso-
ply, and yet exhibit very little com
mon ses..e IN the use OF money. DAN
lei Webster and Horace Greeley would
use money fooiishly and recklcssly,
even when they greatly needed 1t for
their own legitimate purposes. The
late Matthew Arnold left an estate
worth bat 5000. The bulk of his ac-
cumulations. il seems. was used 10
pay other peoples debts. - United Pres
6gfeytaa.
Prof Thurston says ia an article
In ibe Forum that the world Is await
ing the appearance OF three inventors
greater than any who have gone be-
fore. TIE first is he who will show us
how, by the combustion of fuel, direct
ly 10 produce the electric current; the
second is the man who will teach us
10 reproduce the beautiful light OF
the glowworm and the freely, light
without heat, the production OF which
means the utilization OF energy with
out u waste still more serious than the
thermo-dynainic waste; while the third
Is The inventor who is to give us the
first practically successful air-ship.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

A fast young man decided TO make
to young lady formal offer of his
hand and heart all he was worth
hoping for cordial reception. He
cautiously prefaeed his declarations
with $ few questions, for he had no in
teniion OF throwing himself away. 4"
Did she love him well enough to live in
cottage with hlm2 Was she good
cookP Did she think 1t a wife's duty
TO make home happy2 Would she
consult his tastes and wishes concern
ing her associates and pursuits In life?
Was she economical? Could she make
her own clothes, etc2 The young lady
said that before she answered his aues-
lions She would assure him OF some
negative virtues she possessed. She
never drank. smoked or ehewed: never
owed bill 10 her laundress or tailor;
never stayed out all night playing bill
lizards; never lounged on the street
corners and ogled giddy girls never
STOOD Ia" with the boys for cigurs and
wine suppers. "Now. said she. rising
indignantly, Il am assured. by those
who know. that sou do all these things.
and il i rather absurd for you 10 ak
peet ali the virtues in mo. while YOU
do not possess any Yourself. | can
never be your wife and she bowed
him out and left him ON the cold door
stop, madder II not IA wiser man. -
HeGith Joaraai
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
hygiene Versus Medicine.

1he development of sanitary science
mas advanced with rapid strides during
the last three decades Thirty wears
ago 1t scarcely had an existence. Our
diminished rate of mortality is due to y
greater extent to this cause than to inn.
proved methods of treatment of dis.
eases. We point this out, not with the
intention of sneering at the anxious
ana too often thankless work perform
eo py our doctors, but to accentuate tho
'act That preventive medicine is moro
powerful aud far-reaching in its effect,
man the endeavor to cope with disease
NoV only is prevention better than
cure, bnt it is also easier. Far from
inns being slur upon the medical nro-
i'sSion' we should probably not he be.
y 'na the mark in stating, that almost
every important sanitary measure hos
originated with it, and has been nress
=" oy 1t upon an often UNWILLING puh
lic'-Sdturiap Rerie,s. i'
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

The Atlanta Constitution saws +bo
negro Is changing in appearance and
losing some OF the birthmarks pecu-
mar to the African race. The nav
generation is showing the effects of a
nigher culture. Especially is this
noticeable in the towns whore GOVT,
with the whites shows its effect. The
naI-hosed, kinky-headed negro is pass
lug away and becoming an unknown
race All the colored children no
matter how dusky in hue, show tho
chahge' Longer hair, aquiline noses
ana smaller mouths, with tbipner
ups are the rule.
- The Philadelphia Record saws. cav
ooSerVant gentleman tells the Groceyu.
man, OF this city, that the Nortb.r,,
girls eat sour pickles as tbougb tha,
ioVea Them, while u Southern hollo
requires them made into sweet nicl,laa
ana will not eat the tiny, sbarn littIa
pickles our Northerners so much ILL.,
sweets to the sweet however is ~
motto OF both; for the Record VIII
wager sour ball to kiss-versa that
lhe girls in Dixie love caramels nv
we, Meli US do the girls that bloom with
,Ie roses on the northern sida s W
Hasoh and Dixon's line.n vi
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
Gould Do Some Thing for hsr

tongue can not tell how mucb 7
love you, Miss Clara" he said 81
would do any thing in the world 10,
YOU" 0''o '''
Would you," she asked wear;,v
TRY me-"
wei, 90 and spend the evening
with Lille Brown"
Lille Brown! What forp" he asked
astonished. "A'u'
II hate her. ~ 7. Sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

-Graham Waters. two,h;..,
p p run and one-third white fine flour
n ,"o III saitspoonful of salt, one-,bird
s,oa small cup OF butter, and table.
s slo"n OF brown sugar. Mix with
i.ush spring water enough 10 m,lo "
thin tI,;n Tough, which should be rolled out
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

The tongue shows to pbvs;c;or
lhe disease OF the body; to a philoso-
pher' the disease of the mind. 10 !,
Snrlstian' the disease of the soul.-Iu.
dtdnapoliS journal,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

wioung Man Ito editor)-"Here !.
little poem of a pathetic na,rra ~ %
showed showed 1t to my mother, and she
actually cried over it." Editor (after
n1"tn ns 'ne poem)-''You say your
a Ao, !, criedP' Young ManV.Yes
SIT. Editor-"Well. Won 90 ha.s ''
nu promise your mother never ~
o ntI,e amy more poetry, and | think thu
OLD lady will dry her eyes" WIZ
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

An Albany newspap"
there are families in 'hN
have got the art OF kerr.
pearanoes reduced to s scf
they want 10 make 'hen
hink that they have e0I
country they are not con~ -
old plan of shut Ing inc ' :,
and living in the hacs
They leave their n ewsp'F N
front piazza, arpart"".. q
but they take them IN y.
read them. ut the same v. III
ing the pia1za with OLD Pr
rext days masquerade i
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

Mrs, Holyoke (who has not asked
h'm' and does not want him)-"rm
sorry you cant stay to tea with U.S."
captain Whiifet equal to the occasion)
I'm awfully glad that L M sorry I've
got to go, '-Judge.
If ever there was a victim of mis-
placed confidence in this self-seeking
world 1t is the man who imagines thai
ne Is making the congregation believe
mat he is wide awake while he is tax.
ing little nap in church. - SomerriUe
Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

The Young Peoples Society Of
Christian Endeavor. which has had
such II phenomenal growth within the
last six years. is spreading rapidly in
foreign missionary lands Societies
have been organized in connection
with our stations in Japan. China.
India, Turkey and Africa, and mis-
sionaries are finding the methods {
this organization specially helpful i
stimulating young Christians TO active
service for Christ.
The cathedral at Ulm. on the
Danube, is the finest and the largest of
the Lutheran churches; it can seat %.
coo worshipers. The spife was never
finished, bat the work Of completion
has been carried ON so vigorously that
the Gaping stone OF the magnificent
spire may be placed at the height of
5S4 feet in 1889. The cornerstone of
the Minister was laid in 1877; the
church was cleared of Roman idolatry
in the year OF the Augsburg confession.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

Mrs. Lenox Hill, Jr.-" Err
doesn't it seem to you, Henry, as il
there was something had forgotten
in making this pound-cake?" MIR.
Lenox Hill,Jr. CRITICALLY -''Well, yes;
II it only had handle, you know. it
would be easier to pound with. '-i1tck
Fond Father-"John, | read in the
paper that your baseball nine lit on
the opposing pitcher and pounded
him all over the field. | hope you
had no part in the disgraceful affair. -
John, 81 (sadly) father, did
not hit him once. '-HarUdrd Lam
boon.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07
PETTY VANDALISM.
DETACHMENT of the Yellowstone Geysers by
SHALLOW Minded Visitors.


SsIallcw -Minded Visitors.
1t is pity that the wonderful natu-
raj attractions of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park can not be preserved from
yandal hands for future generations
From the report of Captain Moses Har-
rs to the Secretary of the Interior, it
would seem that the geysers of the Vel
lowstone, rs well as the game, needs
protection.
alt is apparent from the most casual
observation that the means heretofore
employed for the preservation of the
natural objects of wonder and beauty
in the Park have been entirely made
quate. 1t may be said without exag-
geration that not one of the notable
geySer formations in the Park has
escaped mutilation or DETACHMENT in
some form. Those that have been most
fortunate are covered with lead-pencil
Inscriptions, recording the names of
those shallow-minded visitors to whom
such distinction is pleasure. A
lead pencil mark seems to be
very harmless DETACHMENT, but names
bearing date of 1880 are still dis
coyerabe through the thin deposit
of silica, and if this marking
should 90 on unchecked, in a very
few years these once beautiful forma-
tons will have become unsightly and
unattractive objects. At the Upper
Geyser Basin, names with date of June,
1856 have been chiseled into the solid
geyserite SO deep, that, in the slow pro-
cess OF nature, many years must elapse
before this mutilation will be obliter-
ated Not content with the deface-
ment of the formations, efforts are con-
stantly being made to destroy the
geysers themselves, by throwing into
them sticks, logs of wood and all sorts
of distinctions. The eruptiye force of
several of the geysers has been totally
destroyed by vandalism of this charac-
ter. The footsteps of the throngs OF
visitors are wearing away the deli
cate. and lace-like tracery of the sill
cious DEF osits, and in few years tn,
formations surrounding the geysers
VIII present the appearance of the worl
pavcments of a city street. The willfu
DETACHMENT of the beautiful objects ca,
only be prevented by watchful super
vision, supported by the rigid enforc,
ment of lawful penalties, A certai.
mount of wear and deterioration, Incl
dent 10 the multitude of visitors. i,
probably unavoidable. y Golden Rule
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-07

-ChicAs,o has in her 81
teachers. the number OF pup &
is 75, 900. OF these 9,ooV ."
divisions, that is, can s" Il
only half a day. There u.
girls than boys in the sc'iV
The average expense e. /
nell graduating class OF =. = 1
through the course was NJ
highest, 81, 500, and loweses
two extremes must have y q
great variety in living ~
in amusement.
A physician of Pnilaas .
lyzed II black japannea 70 "A
by patient suffering iior a
and found il con.alneu 4
one of the lead salts. frVD -
he concludes that many y" a
often due to the absorp'i0A
In the hat band.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
The EnGLtsh rL-u.ch 4rnllL

Ou Wcdae=dly tile Bishop, Of 1Iar.-
borough prc.jdeI ut the seventh annual
meeting OF tAi:a-ssc.r,2a d. the pi1co's
Hal, plccadl0y. The a.-ocjation,
which was initiated ia 1881 ly the pes
cnt honorary secrotry, til. Rev. W.
C}rliIe, aims at drawing the masses into
the communion Of the Chu7ch Of E.o-
land. Its officers and nurscz some 200
IN number are di-t-itutaJ throughout
the coaatry, working in connection with
the various churches to which they are
attached. The society lun3-r5 among
its patrons the A1cablshops of Caatcr-
bury and York, the Bishops Of Carlisle,
Chester, Durham, Ely, Exe.s5 L,adon,
L!andutf, Liverpool Manchester, New
castle, Oxford, Rochester, Eipou,
Southwell, Sojor and Man. Truro,
Wakefield, and WincLestc~.
The Rev. q. G. Chambers, tho sccre-
tarG read the report, wlicL showed
that during the year the army he'd a.
900 outdoor and 50, 900 indoor meet
ings, which wcro attended, by over
1000. 600 of persons, aud resulted in a
large number Of conversions. There
were confirmed during The same period
5000 persons, The army has 10000
commitment members, 100 cficer-
cvan2ci5ts, and 10 mis,io nurse. who
nqiI 400 O00 visits with pTI1 o,d