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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

A patent for new clock or chro-
nometer has just been granted that is
attracting considerable attention here.
1t is the invention of w. Fl. and j. d.
Gray. of Maryland. who claim it can
be made to run, if necessary, for years
after once wound up, Other special
features of this time-piece are that it is
absolutely noiseless when in opera ion.
and does away entirely with the pendu-
lum balance wheel now used in clocks
and watches. The running gear, in
Guiding both the striking and time
mechanism, consists of but six wheels,
and it requires but one spring to propel
both of these attachments. BY the use
of a patent self-winding spring con-
nected to two of the wheels the invent
ors utilize the power wasted by friction
in other time-pieces, thus enabling the
clock to run a much greater length OF
time with the same motive power or by
once winding it up. The inventors
threaten to work a revolution in clock
making by the Introduction of time
piece, which, they say, because of its
simplicity. can be manufactured at
much less cost than the many excellent
low-priced time-pieces manufactured in
this country to-day. - Washington Let
ter
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06
a Practical Invention.


In the hundreds Of railroad appli-
snces that are annually invented, few
seem to be of really practical service
when the test is made. There is al
ways something lacking to make it
lust the thing" A recent invention
in railroad equipment has apparently
all the requisites of n good thing and
seems to be not only scientifically cor
rect, but simple and easy to adjust 1t
is in the form of a platform projection
for passenger coaches, suitable for
either a vestibule or ordinary train.
The projection does away with the
vertical and lateral motion of the coach
which the Miller buffer only partially
succeeded in doing. and is a protection
against accidents incident to the jump
ing off the track of the trucks. Should
the truck and wheels become derailed.
as in the recent Florida accident, the
projection on the adjacent car would
hold the dersiled car in place. and the
truck would become suspended. not
touching the ties. There would be no
iolting or humping along. and posi-
BILE smashup of the coach. As a pre-
ventive of accidents by derailment it is
claimed to fit the needs exactly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06
A Par of Mislaid Eyes.


Little Winnifred, in the Kindergar-
ten, was running ON to her teacher
the other day, in the confidential way
which small children often employ with
their teachers in talking about the peo-
pie at home.
my Aunt Clara" said she "has been
awful sick"
"What was the matterp"
Caught her eyes in her SPINE"
"Her eyes in her spine! Why, my
child. what do you meanp That is i'm
possible"
swell, she has. l heard them telling
about it."
The teacher was somewhat puzzled,
and the next time she met an elder
sister of the little girl, she took occa-
sion to seek an explanation of the mys-
terry.
'Why. did Winnifred say thatP"
said her sister laughing. 1.-The fact is,
Aunt Clara had had very severe
spinal trouble, and the doctor found it
necessary to cdutsrise her spine. And
that's where Winnifred got her odd
idea. y Youths Companion.
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Source of Napoleon's Genius.

Napoleon. as all the world knows.
ate very plain food and little of it,
though always with hunger and rapid
ly. A little clarrt was all he drank; a
single glass of Madeira would flush
his whole countenance. He was
neither an ealer nor judge of eating.
wrote Careme. but he was grateful
(was hep to M. de Talleyrand for the
style in which he lived. He differed
widely from that poor Stauislas of
Poland, who fondly studied onion soup
in the inn kitchen at Chalons. Ma
poleon had Il strange theory about his
bile. There is no personal defect that
a man can not get himself to be vain
of for one reason or another. Don t
you know" said he to the Comte de
Segur that every man that's worth
any thing is biliousP lis the hidden
fire. b, the help of its excitement l
see clear in Difficult junctures 1t wins
me my battles!" Careme himself ale
sparingly and drank nothing-a sort
of Moses of the Promised Land by
choice. Saturday Revie,0.
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YOUNG MEN, READ THIS.
Don't Measure Your Work BY Your Pay;
Always Do Your Best.

Don't MeaSure Your Work by Your Fay;
Always Do Your Best.
Il is very common for young men.
l think. to determine the quality of
their work by the price which they
are paid for it. i only get. says such
a one, five dollars a week, and am
sure that am giving five dollars
worth of service; if my employer
wants more, let him pay more; if he
wants better let him give better
wages. This is spacious reasoning,
but it is false; and it is destructive to
the best work. AMI therefore to the
best manhood. NJ man can afforl to
do any thing less we'll than his best.
He who always strives to do his
best work. in the very process of
Striving will grow better and better.
Not only will he grow more
skillful in that particular workm an
ship, but he will be batter equipped
for other workmanship. This is an
absolutely universal law. 1t is the
absolutely universal road to promo
ton.
The man who is careful to give
nothing more than he gets rarely gets
more than he gives. The man who
works for his own sake. who puts the
best part of himself into every blow
that he rikes. who mixes all his work
with brain and conscience, who studies
TO render the largest possible service
regardless of the compensation which
it brings, sooner or later will fl nd his
way on and up. The world learns
his worth, and calls him to higher
service. Nor is this all. b. stirring
hin self up to do always the best he
can. he grows into power to do b t.
ter and ever better. -Chantauqaan
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FLOATING VILLAS.
The Queer Households Moored Along the !
Banks of the Upper Thames,

-
Banks of the Upper Thames,
Villas on the Thames, especially in
the pleasant, picturesque stretches be-
tween Hampton court and Windsor.
command such fabulous prices during
the summer months that nothing but
millionaires can indulge in the luxury.
Necessity is the mother of invention"
and an ingenious mind has initiated
movement that viii make of the upper
Thames a series of floating villages.
This new fad is a housed boat, built on
almost fat bottom. thus allowing it to
be moored at any sylvan spot close under
the outrageous trees that line the
banks. The boat has its saloon, dining
and sleeping rooms, and is generally
fitted up by the ladies with exquisite
taste and comfort. There is great luxury
in quiet life on these handsomely-ap-
pointed crafts, and their numbers in
creased so rapidly last year that the
tradesmen sent round small steam
boats taking orders and delivering the
provisions. The owners of fine villas
are naturally indignant at the constant
inroads on their privacy, and the ques-
ton as to the right of mooring such
boats in close proximity to the grounds
of park is to be tested in the law
courts. These craft were moved to
different Yarts of the river by means of
tugs. but recently a stern-wheel veloci-
pede has been tested as motive power.
The paddles, two feet in diameter, are
connected with gut-band to the driv
ing-wheel, which is twenty-six inches
in diameter and over seventy pounds in
weight. Ordinary bicycle handles,
which are connected with the rudder
saddle cranks, and treadles are used.
The boat is thirty feet long and seven
feet beam, and was propelled two miles
and Il half, between NARROW and Bourne
End, in forty minutes, which is good
time. 1t caused a great deal of aston
ishment to the oarsmen and inhabitants
If other households TO see such big
thing propelled so easily by one man,
London Letter.
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NEEDED REFORMS.
Timely Suggestions Which Are Just as
Valuable Here as in England.

Timely Suggestions Which Are Just as
Valuable Here as in England.
Lord Brabazon draws attention to the
fact that unless some speedy change is
made in the social condition of some of
our women and children the nation
must inevitably deteriorate in the next
generation, The utter absence in many
large towns of adequate public playing
grounds is a serious evil, as it is impos-
sible for children to develop into healthy
men and women without sufficient air
and exercise. A public playground
has been opened in Horsemonger Lane,
and some also in Manchester and Sal
ford. 1t has been found by the Metro
politan Public Garden Association that
i play ground can be daily provided for
5000 children at cost of fl00 a
year. Horsemonger Lane playground
contains a gymnasium, swings, run
ming giant stride, five court
and many other advantages. After
$50 p. m. the young men of
the neighborhood are allowed to
enter the boys Enclosure, and the
young women that of the girls. There
can be no question of the inestimable
boon thus conferred on thousands of our
poorer fellow-creatures, and the ad-
vantage to the national welfare will be
great in its influence on the health OF
the people. Many efforts have been
made of late years to shorten the hours
of labor for various classes, but there
still remains class for whom legisla-
tion is necessary. Lord Brabazon states
that girls in shops and refreshment-
rooms are kept standing for an I'M
pardonable length of time. In places
of public refreshment girls work alter
nate days fifteen and eighteen hours,
with bat very short interval for food.
Many of the shop-girls also work for
fourteen hours The effects of til ESQ
long hours are most injurious in every
way. That it is physically injurious ii
scarcely seems necessary TO remark
and it appears also to be so morally
Many return home broken in health
and there are numberless sad tales O
insanity. phthisis, bronchial affections
chronic dyspepsia and other maladies
1t must be said that many of the shop
peppers would willingly abridge the
hours could it be made incumbent oil
all shops to close earlier.-Londoi
F1uc,f
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The Most Courageous Wins.

II man does a thing bravely and
well, even though it be directly at
variance with our habits of thought
and action, it is impossible to with
hold from him certain sort of re-
spect. He has courage to assert him.
self! and. say what We will. we all
secretly like that quality, even when
il tells against us. A person who goes
creepingly and self-depreciaiingly
through the world. like a shy dog in q
strange place. momeatarily expecting
a pursuing stick or stone, will gener-
ally get it but let him 'show fight, "
and he may choose his road, free from
cowardly interruption. The most cour-
ageous wins. Our moral is-that this
courage should have The right direc-
ton cary N Y Ledger.
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AN INTERESTING CRY.


Why New Orieans Has Reason 20 EKuae3
. Grand Future.
One might make various studies Of
New Orleans; its commercial life; it,
methods, more or less antiquated. Of
doing business, and the leisure for talk
that enters into it; its admirable
charities and its medieval prisons; its
romantic French and Spanish history.
still lingering in the old houses and
traits Of family and street life; the city
politics. which nobody can explain. and
no other city need covet; its sanitary
condition, which needs an intelligent
despot with plenty Of money and an
ingenuity that can make water run up
hill; its colored population-about a
fourth Of the city-~ith its distinct
social grades. its superstition, non
challnt good-humor, turn foridling aud
basking in the sun, slowly awaking to
asense of thrift. chastity. truth-speaking.
with many excellent orier-ioving, patri
otto men and women. but amass that
Feeds moral training quite as n.uch as the
spelling-book before it can contribute
to the vigor and prosperity of the city;
its schools and recent libraries, and the
developing literary and art taste which
will sustain book-shops and picture
galleries; its cuisine, peculiar in its
mingling Of French and African skill,
and determined largely by market
unexcelled in the quality of fish, game
end fruit the fig alone would go far to
reconcile one to four or five months Of
hot nights; the climatic influence in as
srmilating races meeting there from
every region of the earth.
But whatever way we regard New
Orleans, it is in its aspect, social tone
and character sri generis; its civilization
differs widely from that Of any other,
and it remains one of the most interest
ing places in the republic. OF course
social life in these days is much the
same in all great cities in its oDserv-
ances, but that of New Orleans is
markedly cordial. ingenious. warm
hearted. l do not imagine that it could
| tolerate, as Boston does, absolute free
dom of local opinion on all subjects,
anu -uuuouDtcuit IL 10 Sci1SftiNc W Cfiti-
cism; but believe that it is literally
true, as one of its citizens said, that il
is still more sensitive to kindness.
The metropolis of the Southwest has
geographical reasons for a great future
Louisiana is rich in alluvial soil, ths
capability of which has not yet beer
tested, except in some localities, by skill
full agriculture. But the prosperity o
the city depends much upon local con
ditions. Science and energy can solv,
the problem of drainage, can CONVEX
all the territory between the city ant
Lake Pontchartrain into a veritabl,
garden. surprising in fertility the fla
environs of the City of Mexico. Ane
the steady development of common
school education, together with techni
cal and industrial schools, will create :
skill which will make New Orleans tn,
| industrial and manufacturing center o
that region Charles Dudley Warne;-
in Harper's Magazine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06
DIDN'T Show II a Bit.

Kansas Tramp-What towns this,
JUST ahea
4 Kansas Farmer-Oskaloosa.
/ 1ramp-Where they've elected lot
o women to the officesp
Farmer-The same
Tramp (>houldering his bundle and
preparing to take the back track) =
That's all want to know. / won't
have nothin' to do with no such burned
town. l was raised in a country where
men was capable of runnin' things
themselves.
Farmer (relative of member OF City
CounciD Coll you don't show 1t q
bill- Chicago Tribune
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

A man. who probably went on a
riend's note. describes friend to b.
Il self-sacrificing Individual who places
himself between the anvil and the
hammer. The same idea in another
shape is TO be found in the remark of
he gan bier: 1.-The only hand in tins
world which blesses those who grasp
it is full hand. y 7e1as Settings,
Hardly Il man, whatever his cir
cumstances and situation, but if you
ret his confidence will tell you that he
is not happy. It's, however. certain tina
nil men are not unhappy in the same
degree. Is not this to be accounted
for by supposing that all men measure
the limited happiness they possess by
The happiness thev dcSire or think they
dcseryeP-G Gre rifle
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Hianfa1on rnliosophY.

Use got mo- spect fur er kind-hearted
fool den has fur er cruel wise man.
De business dat makes drunkards
only thrives when dar is er sober man
at de head o. it,
Nine times outen ten de man what is
allus er sayin' dat man is got er
stronger mine den Ell oman amt able
ter control his own apertite.
De man what doan know nuthin' but
book rarnin' is all right long ez he is in
de parlor, but he amt much ercount
when he gifts out inter dc woods
kansato Tfdreler.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

1t is almost as diifcult to make a
man unlcarn his errors as his knowl-
edge. Nal Information is more hope
less than non-information; for error
is always more busy than Ignorance.
Ignorance is blank sheet on which
We may write; but error is scrubbed
one on which we must first erase.
"A young man asked his austero
parent Shall marry for love or
money!" He was answered in this
wise: If you marry for love, you will
probably always be In want of money;
if you marry for money. You will al
ways be in want of love; therefore.
your safest way is to marry for u little
# both."
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Food for Scandal.

Miss Bunker (of Boston)-I don't
like to speak ill of Penelope Beacon,
mamma. because we have always been
friends, but think she is very injudi-
cious, 10 say the least. You know how
difficult it is to stop Mrs. Grundy when
once she begins to talk.
Mother-Heavens, dear, what do you
meanP
Miss Bunker Qmpressively) -Pene-
.lope appeared at church last Sunday
without spectacles. - It'd BIS.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

The students of Trinity College.
Dublin, raise So. 00o year. which they
give to the support of the Church Mis-.
sionary College at Fuchow, China
The Scotch universities have recently
decided to unite in the support of
mission in India. Students of Prince
ton College have raised 81, 600. and 4
missionary has already been selected.
The Theological Seminary at Prince
ton raised S646. and viii increase the
sum several hundred dollars before
designating missionary. Knox Col
lege, Toronto, and Queens College.
Kingston, Canada. have each sent Out
their own missionaries
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

In treating negro in Leipsic for
for an ulcerous affection. it was found
necessary to replace portions of the
skin with pieces taken from one or two
white persons. These latter pieces
gradually grew darker in color. and
finally as black as the patients own
skin. This singular fact led to an ex-
pertinent being made of transposing
portions of black skin on white pa
tient. aud it was found that after few
weeks these began TO grow pale. In
less than fourteen weeks they had. in
fact, grown SO white as not TO be dis
tinguishable from the patients natural
skin.-Bost0n Budget /.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-06

in the school-books of generation
still young a vast tract of territory west
of the Missouri river was known as the
Great American desert" and the man
ner in which that supposed sterile area
has been transformed into profitable
grazing regions and has even been COW
cred with fertile farms and gardens is
one of the most remarkable achieve
ments of American enterprise during
the past decade. Eastern people who
behold with wonder the present rapid
growth of that section are even led to
believe that the settlers bring an in
creased fainfall with them and thus
overcome the arid character of the
plains. or at least that the cultivation
of the soil and the planting of trees en-
lance the supply of atmospheric moist
ure.-N Y. Herald,
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cowBoY HOSPITALITY
The Free and Easy Way in which The,
Welcome Travellers and Strangers.


Welcome Travellers and Strangers
One hot afternoon, as we were ap-
preaching Big Dry Creek, COWBOY
suddenly rode in sight on the crest of
ridge, and came down the slope toware
us at swinging gallop. He sat a
erect as bronze statue, and had BIZ
been dashed to his horse like anothe,
Mazeppa he could not have sat more
perfectly motioniess in his saddle. In.
stinctively we Strengthened up our tree
shoulders, and sa. erect also. Evident
ly he wanted to speak to us. SO We
rode frward to meet him. wondering ting
while whether his manner would BIZ
agreeable or irritating.
After we had ciyilly exchanged how
do-you-dos, he inquired if we had seer
any horses since morning. Hehad lost
some, and up to that time. two o clock.
had ridden about twenty-five miles in
search Of them, No, we had not seen
any horses. So we fell to asking ques-
tons about trails, creeks and water
holes. We were getting deal Of infor-
nation, when he suddenly exclaimed:
s.Looky here, fellers! The best thing
you can do is to pull on to our ranch
and put up for awhile Its only twelve
miles from here. Take the trail that
turns off to the left. about three miles
ahead. You won't find anybody at
home-the boys are all off on the round
up, you know-but just go right in and
make yourselves at home"
isn't the door locked?"
Thunder, mol Wei never lock doors
in this country. Somebody might come
along hungry, and want to get in to get
some grub. OF stay all night. If cow
boy wanted to get in, and found the
door locked, he'd just simply break it
1own."
Aren't you afraid Of thievesP''
20, no; nothing is ever stolen. A
mans upon his honor, you know; and,
besides, if feller'd ever really steal
any thing out of shack, the country
soon be too hot to hold him. Anybody
| thsteomes to shack hungry is ex-
aeecfed to go in and get square meal,
and stay all night if hewants to-"
Isn't that privilege often abused?''
mo. hardly ever. Say, you'll find a
cowup at the ranch and you can milk
her if you want to. There are plenty Of
eggs about the stable; ii you want EN-
Ego for 'em. just make yourselves al
home. and stay as long as you like. I'll
be glad to have yer company"
A few more remarks were exchanged
and then our cowbow gathered up his
reins and said:
well, I've got to finish my circuit
twenty miles more, reckon; SO mus
be moving. So long. I'll see YOU al
the ranch about shutdown"
! And fiinging the last remark verhi:
shoulder at us his pony galloped rapidly
! away, moment later he rode over the
/ ridge and disappeared. " e. Horn
aday, an tosnlopotttan. a