Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-10
STRAY BIT s.

Tie r'Drcel post in England 10 very popu'
lar Nta-ly 10000 parcels are handled by
| it every lay.
! 1t takes every year ], O00, 900 horses tails to
| keep Pawtucket (R. L. haircloth factory in
| running order.
! 1t is said that there more millionaires
in Buenos Ayres than in any other city of its
size in the world.
An Anglican curate performed the mar
riage ceremony for u child IL years old IN
Kensington, England, recently.
An unfortunate Maine baby that happened
to be born on the day of her grandparents
lden wedding was named Anna Versary.
The opera is said to be having hard time
all over the world; but twenty-five new ones
were produced in Germany last year and
thirty-five in Italy.
Dr. Merriman, of North Adams, Mass, is
riding this winter in a sleigh that is 2!5 years
old. II was made in 1868 for his great-great-
grandfather, and has been in the family ever
since.
A petition for the suppression of bull
lighting in the Federal district of Mexico,
including tho City of Mexico, is receiving
tho signatures of thousands of the capitals
citizens
The desert of Sahara has been largely re-
claimed by French enterprise. Forty-three
GASES have been created, having 1900 in
habtants, 10000 forest trees, and 100000
fruit trees.
The Electrical Review says that the light
ming rod is a relic of superstition, and that
the day will como when lightning rod on a
house will DO regarded in the Same light as a
horseshoe over n door.
A French beadle, while attending funeral
officially, caught sight of u hare Ia the GENE
terry, and after chase killed it with his ba-
ton, and was fined 30 francs for killing game
with prohibited arms"
a railroad engineer of Erie, Pa. fell VIC
lently on the ice, striking on tho back of his
head. He is recovering, but finds when
standing erect he is wholly blind, though he
can see as well as ever when lying down.
The people of Exeter, N. H, are going to
celebrate in June next tho 250th anniversary
of tho settlement of their town, and have ali
the arrangements now made. These include
the extra one of calling it by the name Of
nc quarter millennial.n
There are no fewer than 2,O76 general
officers in the British army, to which may be
decd 1,G73 generals who have retired
Nearly 800 generals paid for making
tfter dinner speeches about tho British
lrmy always doing its duty.
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Robinson arc solid
citizens OF Charlestown, Mass Thy have
been married fifty years Mr.. Robinson
weighs 278 pounds, Mrs. Robinson weighs
s.5 and of their seven living children none
weighs less than 200 pounds.
According to statistics gathered by The
Railroad Gazette, there were in December
last ninety-two railroad collisions, eight Y.
three derailments and seven other accidents
making 1s2 i'll all, i'll which seventy ono per.
sons were killed and 211 injured.
| A little girl of Metz II years old, named
! Louise Fuchs, has just been condemned to
eight days Imprisonment for having insulted
tho emperor of Germany. The insult con
!sted in writing private letter to one OF
| her l;tlc friends, in which there was some
ching disrespectful to his majesty. Such
sentences are said to be quite common in Al
sace-Loraine, and they can add no strength
20 the popular love for the eonquerors.