Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-18

still in Georgia, | wouldn't care if the
devil was president He couldn't do
much harm without red liqnor.'
IT requires s340,OO0,O00 annually
to carry on the government of the
United States. OF this amount only
some s9O,00O,O0O is collected Oh arti-
Giles of necessity.
The "last buffalo expedition" is
starting out after the 70 or 100 buf-
falo which are in southwestern Texas
supposed to be the only band in
the United States. They intend to
capture them alive.
Senator Teller has introduced IN
the Senate a bill authorizing the cti-
zens of Colorado, Nevada and the
Territories to fell and remove tim
Der on the public domain for mining
and domestic purposes.
The Pope has condemned the
"plan of the campaign" and the boy
colt which the Irish intend to use
against England. Members of the
National league are debarred from
absolutlon. The people are greatly
incensed.
OF all the liquor laws passed by
any State, Iowa has the only one
which the lawyers can't find flaw
in. The bill was drafted by a farm
or, and they wouldn't permit law
yer to even discuss it.
A peanut trust has been formed in
Norfolk, Va, embracing firms en-
gagged in the peanut trade in st,
Louis, Cincinnati, New York, Nor
folk and Smithville, Va; in fact, the
entire peanut interest in the country,
with the exception of three small con-
Germs.
General Master Workman Powder
" has written letter in which, after
quoting from letters from all sections
of the country, as well as from ar
ticles in various labor papers, giving
him advice as to what should be done
at the coming election, he says: Gas
the campaign warns up | will be an
noyed still more and take this OPP
portunity to say tkat ! am not can.
didate for anything. | don't favor
the turning of the Knights of Labor
into party and will not have any
thing to do with parties"
SALOON man Ito barkeepeD-
"What are you doing, Bob?"
Bob-"Puttin' water in the whisky
Saloon man--"Well, that won't dc
You must put the whisky in the wa
ter, and then if a customer asks if W
put water in the whisky you cal
truthfully say no. You will find
Bob, as you acquire more bushes
experience, that, in the long run
truth always pays. Charge Jones
account to Brown that Jones is
id rascal-he left yesterday BIT
we must get even, you know"
EXERCISE IN PRoNuNCIATIoS.-I ii
who is anxious to tis his tongue i
knots will do well to attempt the 70
lowing exercise in pronunciation;
day or two ago, during hull in bus
ness, two little bootbacks, one whit
and the other black, were standin
at the corner doing nothing, who
the white bootblack agreed to blac
tho black bootblack's boots. TT
black bootblack was, of course, willin
to have his boots BACKED by his fe
low bootslack, and the bootblac
who agreed to black the black boo
blacks boots went to work. Youth
Companion.
Commenting ON the case of Il
young lady at the Harvard Anne
who wrote the best essay, but cou
not take the prize because she was
woman, the North Carolina Pine Kn
SAYS: "iIow many hundred tim
must such an unanswerable argume
rs this be presented, before the wi
men who control our universities al
colleges shall open the doors to W
men? When it is urged that, as
rule, women are inadequate to Il
strain of great and conscious ment
effort, aud that such exceptions on
prove the rule, the ready and TRUTH
reply is that so many exceptio
prove the rule to be no rule, but
false and foolish theory, with nothiI
but age to recommend it."
The Mcdonald bill, relative
''trusts," declares all Inter-Sta
trusts, pools or combinations, lin
ar n; harwiSa rafrula fiprr pr IN