Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
MIR. Edison Ia worth $1,000, 900
nd has a fine prospect before him.


Mr.. Edison Ia worth $1,000, 900.
nd has fine prospect before him.
Mrs. Langtry has been exceeding.
y thrifty in business point of view.
Tier property in New York is said to
be worth $3.50. 200. Then she has pos
sessions in California.
"A young man who was asked by
an elderly friend the other day why
he carried a cane was able to give an
answer. Said he: IL carry cane be-
cause. getting in the habit Of it. |
never lose an umbrella"
"A blacksmith at Oviedo, Fla, aps
pears to be a second Elihu Burritt.
His sign reads: "Thurston Holling-
worth. general repairing and jobbing
In all materials neatly and promptly
done. Specialists Surveying ana pho
Biography. Information given on SCI
entific and mechanical subjects"
-Apricots are slow of bearing,
usually. Sometimes they fail to pol
lenize we'll, but when then they do
they are often destroyed by the cur
culio. Examine the flowers and see il
they are perfect; If not graft over to
, some other kind. Should they set
well, prevent attacks of the curculio
by spraying with some offensive mix
ture at frequent intervals. Apricots are
not usually raised at profit this side
OF the Rocky Mountains. at least in
Northern latitudes.
kentucky has a man who is
probably the heaviest man in the
world. His weight is given Mt 1872
pounds and it requires thirty-seven
yards OF cloth to make him suit He
is six foot four and one-half inches in
hight, is thirty-one years old. and
weighed eleven pounds at birth.
When two years old he took a 81 900
prize at the baby show in New York,
tipping the beam at 206 pounds ut that
time. His father weighed l15 pounds
and his mother 122.
A Bristol cat had struggle with
ayoung rat one day which came near
ending fatally to both animals. Pussy
pounced on the rodent as he came from
= | O1iiiho ~ VI ebShOl Oeti tCis Ouu SOoIt w as
getting the best of the fight. Suddenly
the rat made dive at the cats open
mouth, and half Of it's body disap-
peared. There was terrible scratch
ing and coughing, and when the store
keeper came to the rescue of his mouser
he was just able to grab the rat by the
hind legs and pull it fiom the cats
throat, which was fast choking to
death.
The assistant examiner OF Chinese
customs service has sent to the
Treasury Department here printed
list of Chinese medicines exported
from Yangtse ports. Among the
remedies are tigers bones, ground
blood, bears gail, asses glue, tree
bugs, elephants gall. fossil crabs,
fossil teeth, fowls gizzards, .insccts
OF nine SMELLS" Jobs tears, cow-hair
glass, rhinoceros horns, cows knee
puff balls, dragons teeth, straw
hedgehog skins, dried silkworms
snake skins, crabs eyes, horse tails,
and centipedes.
The naval cadets OF Annapolis
have invented what is called the
"smile drill for the benefit of theil
lower class men. The upper class mar
holds up one finger and the poor lower
class man must smile-just little. Ul
goes another finger and the smile mus,
broaden; still another, and it is wider
than before. At last all the fingers are
up and the grin is stretched as far as
grin can be. This rather painful situ
alton can be prolonged until the crue
upper class man is tired of seeing the
other fellow smile. Then he closes his
hand and the smile must instantly
cease. Prompt obedience is the es
senee Of the smile drill, as of every
other.
One of the finest collections OF au.
tographs in this country was made by
the late DIR. Lefiingwell, of New Haven
It is valued at $4,000 Among the
famous names whose possessors wrote
them are Adelaide, Queen OF William
w.; Queen Anne, Caroline, Queen Of
George H.; Charlotte, Queen OF George
H.; Charlotte, daughter OF George
w.; Charles l., Charles H., Edward
w., Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Wood
vile, Queen of Edward w.; Elizabeth.
daughter of Charles l.; Henry ",
Henry ", Henry VI, Henry VII,
Henry VIII, james l., James H., Rich
ard H., Richard ILL.,, Lord Francis
Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, Lady Jane
Grey, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter
Raleigh. Robert Burns, Lord Byron,
William Cowper, John Dryden, Oliver
Goldsmith, William Shakespeare,
George Washington, James Madison,
John Adams, John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren, and Roger Williams.