Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Cocaine Is said to be worse than
alcohol and opium put together 1t
completely destroys mans will
power.
M The town of Kalamazoo, Mich,
has made arrangements with a restau-
rant keeper to feed tramps at the rate
OF sixty cents per dozen.
The greatest length of Lake Mich
igan is 800 miles; its greatest breadth,
108 miles; mean depth, $50 feet; eleva-
ton, 506 feet; area, $4,000 square
miles.
"A horse at Fitchburg that had
was sold, and his new owner put him
with another horse to draw sand, but
he refused to work anywhere. and had
to be returned to his former owner.
AS soon as he was put In coal team
all trouble ended.
"A Maine telegraph messenger took
a telegram the other day to an old
gentleman seventy yeIirs old, who
never had seen such q thing before.
The first thing he did was to read the
printed regulations on the top of the
blank, and it took him five minutes to
get to the message.
The Mormons are reported to have
taken possession of all the best agri-
cultural lands In Arizona. While the
greedy Gentiles are looking up the
mineral districts, the Mormons have
quietly gone in and taken up the land
adapted to farming purposes. The
Mormons incline to be a pastoral people.
The female employees of the Gov
eminent Printing Office and of the
Bureau of Engraving at Washington
do all kinds of work, dirty as we'll as
clean. They help manage the presses,
their sleeves are rolled up high above
their elbows, and their plump, round
arms receive many an ink spot during
the day. About 800 women are en-
ployed in the two offices, and colored
women work side by side with white
women without clashing.
While running line recently
through Southeast Georgia into Flor
ida, with a view of connecting some
point on the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia railroad with Jacksonville,
the engineering party killed more than
one hundred large moccasin snakes,
some OF which contained in their
stomachs large numbers of fish, while
in one was found a squirrel. More
than fifty alligators were also killed,
and bear and a panther.
A San Francisco nautical journal,
In recording the death of an old sea
captain, speaks of him in the following
novel style; Captain B. b. Sharp has
gone up aloft, where he can now live
among the stars he loved to speak
about. No more lunar observations
nor plain-sailing will the old man lay
out to aspiring young captains or
mates. He has let go his anchor, the
cable is out to the bar end, and that
has slipped through the hawser hole"
"A plant grows in Mixteca, Mexico,
which the natives call the "herb of
prophecy" A dose of it produces
sleep similar in all respects to the
hypnotic state. The subject answers
with closed eyes questions that are put
to him, and Is completely insensible.
The pathologic state brings with it a
kind of prophetic gift and double
sight. Furthermore, he loses his will,
and is completely under the control of
another. On returning to himself he
remembers nothing of what he has
done.
Fifteen years ago Bigley Smith.
who had been for several years in Chi
huahua, Mexico, returned to his home
in Henry County, Alabama, so the
story goes, with a twelve-months'-o
girl baby, which he asked his mother
to rear and educate, as he intended
making her his wife when she reached
womanhood. He then returned to
Mexico, where he remained till week
or two ago, when he again revisited
his home. He found that his mothers
charge had grown up to be beautiful
young woman. She had been kept in
ignorance OF his relations toward her,
and when he proposed marriage to her
she acceded and they were welded.
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