Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-02-04
FACT AND FANCY.


selling them by the bushel
Mexicans propose TO celebrate the 4OOth
anniversary OF tho discovery of America IN
ios@ with grand worlds exposition.
The council at Logan, o., has ordered the
ringing OF a bell at 8 L. NJ to notify parents
to call their children In from the streets.
A Nevada ranchman, to protect his cattle
from the effects of blixxards, has painted them
al with mixture of tar, red clay and linseed
oil.
kindiing-wood factory about to be start
ed at st. Johnsbury, VT, will employ thirty
men and use ten thousand cords of slabs a
rear.
A farmer In Tyler county, West Virginia, re-
Gently cold lot OF well-seasoned raIlroad
sies, which be had cut aud hewed thirty eight
years ago.
AT Boston last Monday $50 poor widows re-
ceiyed silver half dollar as Christmas pre-
sent from fund left by w. II. Knight for
that purpose.
Forty men and I've girls were sent to Jack.
sonyille, Fla, by bogus employment agency
IN rev lork, which charged them IS each for
places they didn't get
Forty-one calico aprons were among the
Christmas presents received BY female
ressdens Of Belfast, Me. She had previously
fold her friends that all she cared for was
calico apron.
young man at Bangor, Me, recently for
babe his sweetheart to 60 to a dance with a
rival, whereupon the maiden had him arrested
and jsilad. Then she went to the dance with
the other fellow.
IL Is said that an apple tree in Peasants
county, Virginia, which has borne fruit for q
number OF years. has never been known to
blossom This year 1t bore largely OF fruit
that had neither core nor seed
The San Frincisco Ex lrai,ssr has contracted
with New York publishing house for 1000
600 copies Of magazine supplement for that
paper which will give reliable information
about California and its resources
At Waterbury. Conn, the other night, John
Miller was seriously stabbed in the groin. He
stopped the hemorrbage by pinnlng the edges
OF the wound together, and then put himself
under the care Of physician. He will re-
cover.
A Maine man as an experiment clipped the
fleece from pet Newfoundland dog and had
u carded and spun into yarn. 1t yielded four
skeins of jet black yarn, weighing two and
one quarter pounds, and was as soft as
WOOL
A handsome buck deer was recently shot
near Rock Springs, Ky.. which for the past
ten years had been a target for the rifles of
The hunters OF the neighborhood. 1t weigh
ed 175 pounds and its antlers were of unusu-
al size.
The pastor of a wealthy New York church
Is said to have recently received as fee for
marrying young couple handsome locket
on which were the initials OF the pastors wife
set in diamonds. Inside of the locket was
a1O0 bill
A gift of $4,000 was received Tuesday by
she president of Yale college from Alexander
Duncan, of London, who graduated in 1925
1t is Mr.. Duncan's desire that the money be
used In providing immediate necessities for
the college
At Mount Vernon Me-, recently, was Wit
messed the novel sight of farmer moving on
the ice. The swamp had frozen up but left
enough grass remaining above it to warrant at
thrifty farmer cutting it and drawing It home
for horse bedding,
A seal went up Mystic river, Connecticut,
last week as far as the bridge, and wds seen
there at intervals for an hour or more 1t
was rather remarkable trip, as It took his
sealship mile inland 70 a place where the
river can not be much above two hundred
feet broad.
One Wagner night at the Metropolitan op-
era house, says The Neio York S11I, is almost |
enough to put those who sing the principal |
parts In sick -beds, so great is the strain upon
their voices and physical strength. The light
opera almost invariably succeeds one Of Wag-
ner's works on this account
In New York, Sunday, Gustav schumann,
aged IL, explained to Justice Patterson why
he had shot Randolph Knrbansky, aged Is, in
the knee with his toy pistol. ale was all the
time teasing me and hitting me-" said Gus
taY. "He's bigger than / am; so had
xrudge against him, and shot him."
The Rev. George +. Pentecost, the we'll
known evangelist who gave up pulpit at a
salary of 5000 year to enter the revival
field, is having disturbance with church
people at Augusta, Maine, because they pub
lished his receipts from his new labors, and
intimate that he is making more money than
lie received on a salary.
At Wooster, o., Tuesday, Laura sldle insti.
tuted legal proceedings againt Byron A.
Foueh for 5000 damages for breach OF prom
ise. Fouch is Wooster university graduate.
and until recently practiced law at Findlay,
from which point he was taken to Wooster
several weeks ago to answer criminal charge
preferred against him BY Miss sdle and
which was compromised.
Mrs. Cordella Champion, of New Haven,
Conn, was arrested Saturday morning charged
with using oleomargarine in her bakery with
out the displayed sign required by law.
Friends furnished the 800 bond for her re-
lease. She claims she used the article for her
own personal delectatlon. She is respecta-
BILE woman, who has supported herself by sell |
ing bread and doughnuts
Naugatuck (Conn.) Congregationalists are
building a parish house, modern idea,
worthy Of imitation. 1t will have twenty |
four rooms, besides hall, cioak-rooms, and |
closets The hrst floor has an assembly room,
reception-room, Sunday school library, and |
seven class rooms; the second floor eigh. |
class rooms, reading rooms, kitchen, and din |
ing.rooms; third floor for PASTORS study and a
gymnasium.
They tell in Dover, Me-, that two strong
temperance women one day came upon a man
living drunk by the roadside, while his wife
sat by his side knitting. She had been walk
ing home with him when he collapsed One
Of the ladies asked the faithful wife: "What
would become Of him II he should die in that |
copdtionp 81 don't know what his destiny
would be in the future, but he seems to have
q good time now"
On Christmas day the prisoners at the Ohio |
pepItentIary were allowed to receive presents
from their friends. Among the presents re-
ceved By prisoner named Ray was box of
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