Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-21


o John L. Sullivan.
JAMES JUDGE OF Benosha, via, AL
hongh totally blind. Is enc Of the most
k,llful plumbers In the town.
On. ScHLTERMANs Is ut present en-
ragged in excavations at the Temple of
Venus in the island Of Cerigo.
MRS LANGTRY bought handsome
and expensive rocking-cha few da
ago and ordered it sent to the pr.uoe OF
Wales.
THOMAS MAST SAYS It Is only right
that mountain peak should bear his
name. as he has in his time piqued
great many persons
HENRY LABoUcHERE says that dur-
ing the Sandr.ngllam battles two weeks
ago the prince Of Wales was shot in
the nose by careless guest
Mus. CRoBAR Is powerful lever in
Saginaw. Mich. church society.
where the Rev. Mr.. Broadax hews a
branch from the tree of evil every
Sunday.
TEE emperor Of Austria will cele-
brate his jubilee next December. He
has asked that it be celebrated with
works of practical benevolence rather
than By pomp and show.
Rev. DIR WARREN claims that IL
there were no women on the stage no
men would 60 to the theaier How
does he account for the time honored
popularity Of minstrel shows?
MRS. LABoUcHERE grac:ously re-
marks that the royal family Of Eng
land treat the ex-Empress Eugene
kindly only because they hope to be re-
mcmbered largely in her will.
Mr. PETER HALDEMAN BURNETT,
the first American governor OF Cali
fornia, has lately completed his 80th
year. HeliYes in San Francisco, and
lIenjoys capital health. Senior Pho Pico.
tile last Spanish governor Is stiIl living
in Los Angeles county. He is nearly
80 years old
MRS. BAILEY, wife Of the editor OF
the Utica Observer, is one Of lie few
women who have invented anything of
mechanical nature. She has recent
ly devised and patented an arrange
ment to be attached to hospital beds,
BY means of which patient is enabled
to raise and lower himself without the
assistance of nurse
| THE following is told of Lord Sails
bury's recent Grafton at Oxford: He s
in the habit when speaking of occas-
ionally wetting his lips with little
whisky and water, and, happening TO
pour out supply Of whisky, he forgot
the water. and drank the spirits alone,
1t nearly strangled him at first, but
when he recovered he proceeded to de-
yer the most extraordinary Grafton Of
his career
A STATUE to Parmentier, who made
:. the potato popular in France, is to be
erected at Neuillr, near Paris. A few
days ago Frank Parmenter. of the Troy,
N. Y, Press, was in this c ty, and was
! asked by a well-known New Yorker il
4 he was a descendant Of the Parmenter
z swho introduced the potato into
France" YES answered Mr.. Par
menter. '.and our family has ia its pos
session the original potato"
Mrs. CLEVELAND recently received
!. from Achille DIV eri. Of Venice Italy,
a q iewelled casket maize expressly for
: her. olivieri is manufacturer o.
glassware and mosaics Col Lamont
g has sent the casket back to Ven &c with
1 q note TO the donor in which he says
/. that the gift was one Of too great value
ss to be accepted by Mrs Cleveland. VIII
Ac does not receive presents from thos'
who are not her personal friends Th
y note is couched in polite language. bu
: seems likely to wound Achille N Tia
ie heel
: REv. JOIN F. HERRLIcH, at one tim
rector of the Irving Memorial Churc
he at Tarryiown-on-H Hudson. has Tor IN
le past four years been at the head Q
an Grace Church. Elmira N. y. He ha
rn lust accepted call TO St. Paul
= Church, Sacramento. Cal Mr.. Herr
- Itch has been one Of the most sueeessf,
clergyman of the Protestant Episcops
cd Church in this country. He cleared 0
is a debt of S25, 200 which hung over tn
KS Irving Memorial church. aud his rec
% torship at Elmira has been highly a.
i. ceptable.
90 A VERY remarkable story is told
boarding school circles about NJ IS Ne
IN lie Arthur. the daughter OF the late q
W. president. She was at Mrs. Lockwood
school in New York city and had bee
st. there a year, when one day she VI
ost missed by her little chums who crow
nd ed around the prime pal after the opel
,ht ing exercises to ask where she had gon
.Where's NellP" they said. "W i
his don't YOU knowP'' said the lady. III
ING father, General Arthur. died last nlgl
me ..was her father General ArlnurP"
- asked with one voice; twas she !
~. presidents daughterpn Miss Mel
ur- had never limited al what most gu