Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-29
THE FREE PRESS.
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.

the curious observation that acute
rheumatism is more prevalent in dry
than in rainy weather
The ostrich farms at Los Angeles,
CAL, have been quite as remunerative
rs show for curious sight-seers as
from the sale of feathers.
The heirs of merchant of Monson,
Mass, received the other day thirty
cents sent by man in Pennsylvania,
who wrote that they were to pay for
four apples that he took from the mer-
chants store when he lived there forty
years ago.
"A brace of famous dueling pistols,
exhibited in q bar-room in Sumter, s.
c.. were owned by General E. w.
Morse, and have been in use in dozen
or more duels, including the famous
Cash-Shannon meeting, when Colonel
Shannon was killed.
A New York society woman had q
ball dress made of white satin which
before making had been run through
the press of one of the great dailies,
so that her costume was the news of
the day. She won the prize for the
most novel costume.
"A gentleman of Baltimore proba-
bly, owes his life to a parrot. The cries
of the bird awakened him at three
o'clock in the morning. He discov-
cred that his house was on fire and
barely had time to arouse his family
and get them out before the building
was completely wrapped in flames.
A French bachelor advertised for
wife. A typographical error changed
his age from thirty-seven to eighty
seven, but it made no difference, for he
received two hundred and fifty applica-
tions from ladies ranging from the age
of sixteen to sixty, and all promising
love and devotion to the rest of his ex-
istence.
AT Jonesboro, Ca. a man entered
a store the other day and wanted to
pay for a suit of clothes which he had
purchased there twenty-eight years be-
fore. The merchant didn't remember
the man and had no account against
any person of his name, but the strang-
Ell insisted that he owed the bill and
paid it with interest.
1t is related that one of the pages
of the United States Supreme Court
once found under the chair of a men,
Der of the court noted for his absent
mindedness, and who had gone on
trip out of town, a slip of paper on
which was inscribed: "Mem. Things
to take along: One pair of socks, one
shirt, two collars, one pair of cuffs, one
wife"
Twenty years ago Enoch Hall, of
Morven, Ga, picked up the seeds that
an orange eater had dropped and
planted them in little box. A few
months afterward he moved to Indian
river, and the little orange sprouts
were carried along and set out. To-
day one of the sprouts is a tree fifteen
inches in diameter and bears $500
oranges.
Morning Light is the name of
very young Indian who recently ar
rived in New York. lie first saw the
light of day in midocean. having been
born on the voyage across from France
on the steamer La Bourgogne. His
parents are full-blooded Spirit Lake
Chippewa Indians. who were members
of the Buffalo Bill Company. As he
was born under the French flag France
may claim him as a subject.
Our mail collectors find in the iron
boxes along the streets all sorts of pa
pers and articles which have been put
in by some hand from whose motions
the mind has become detached for
second. A glove, pair of spectacles,
deed, mortgage, a theater ticket
goes In, and on goes the person, hold
ing on to the regular letter which
should have been deposited. This is
called Observation-Disclosures, but is brief
lunacy. Scientific american.
One of the most interesting curl
osities in the United States is piece
of mosaic from the floor of the temple
to Astarte, built by the Romans at
Carthage, which is preserved in the
National Museum at Washington. 1t
is two thousand years old and repre-
sents yellow lion IN the act of killing
~ hoiSO' lySo, tCClh, blOou SpOlS anu
all are depicted by bits of stone. The
fragment is about seven feet square,
and is valued at twenty-five thousand
dollars.
The cheese for excellence with
high livers is Roquefort. 1t is French
and made of goat 3 milk and herbs. 1t
is very rich, and is served just before
coffee at dinner. Roquefort is almost
a religion with French epicures, and is
equally we'll thought of by little an
imal probably first cousin to the Amer
lean skipper. This little animal is
also part of the French epicure's relig-
ion. If the cheese does not contain
him it is looked upon with suspicion as
his discrimination is very fine.
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