Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-24

STRAY BITS.

An indian woman, the last Of the Hum
boldt tribe, recently died at Oakland, DIT.
There are said 90 be only four horses IL
Alaska. three at Juneau, and one at Sitka.
An interesting sale Of autographs recently
took place in Paris. LISTS signature brought
$40, while Zola's sold for Sl.so.
The first Mormon temple in Wisconsin wa,
dedicated at East Delevan recently. The
building is small and unpretentious
Berlin has technical high school, bull,
nv the city at a cost of 81, 500, 900, and main
tanned at an annual cost OF slOO,O0O.
In Ohio 100 farmers institutes will be held
pext winter as part of the commemoration
of the Tooth anniversary of the founding OF
the state.
The favorite stage Of the late King Louis
of Bavaria has been purchased by travel
ing circus. Even his shirts have been sold
at auction.
A new way to make sure of dreaming on
wedding cake has been discovered, and thus
epigrammatically expressed by a contempt
rary: Eat it."
DR.. Schaeffer, of Washington, asserts sol
EMMY that walking on railroad ties is fine
exercise and conducive to health. This will
tighten the hearts of many theatrical people.
Irwin Bleichart, who runs shifting en-
g.u, at Lebanon, Pa, claims to be the
Youngest locomotive engineer Ill the country,
If not in the world. He is only Is, and has
been at the business two years.
The proper thing in neckwear among the
swells of San Antonio, Tex, is a scarf made
of rattlesnake skin, with pin composed OF
the snakes rattlcs The skins are prepared
by q Texan, who has a snake rancho near the
city.
Burnt wood ornaments ape really works OF
art this season, so exquisite is the shading
upon them One of the prettiest is an owl,
wS) conceas an ink well somewhere in his
portly body, and whose markings are indi-
Gated by burning, which must have been
done with fairy torch.
Geographic communication will shortly
begin between Russia and France. All dis
patches at present come through Germany
and have recently been tempered with at
Berlin Russia, in the case of a war between
Germany and Austria, would be entirely cut
off from Geographic communication with the
remainder of Europe.
There are 20 blast furnaces in and about
Pittsburg, 81 rolling mills, 30 steel works, L.
window glass works, 81 flint glass works and
II green glass works. The blast furnaces
make 900, 600 tons of iron per year, the roll
ing mills 81, 900 tons, steel works 50,OOl
tons, plate glass works 3,250,0O0 square feet
window glass works 100000
A North Carolinian, recently returned
| from Japan, says that in few years the
| japanese will be the greatest railroad build
e1s in the world He bases his judgment OF
the fact that the japanese are great patrons
of railroads Even when they have no bust
ness to transact they ride back and forth on
| the cars until their money is gone, even the
beggars in the large towns spending theiI
money in this curious way.
| 1t is not generally known that the worlds
supply of pencil wood is drawn from the
gulf coast swamps on both sides of Cedar
Keys, and that the product of the mill:
there is shipped not only to the New Yorl
and New Jersey factories, but also to Ger
many, and, perhaps, other countries of Eu
rope That nothing may be lost, the saw
dust is distilled in large retorts and the OF
extracted, every ounce of which finds ready
| sale