Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-07
or GENERAL INTEREST.

hind.
"A Brooklyn young woman has a
beautiful and most curious table cover
in stripes of white and golden brown.
1t is woven of the shorn hair of her st.
Bernard dog.
Walker County. in Georgia, boasts
of many things. but not least OF we'll
known lady, who, within the last four
years has presented her husband with
three sets Of twins.
"A blind physician of Pensacola,
Fla, has large practice, and is able
to find his way, unaidcd, about the
principal streets of the town in way
that would not discredit that popular
institution, the oldest inhabitant.
One statementin Matthew Arnold's
latest remarks about the Americans is
easy to believe. He says that Paris
physician notes distinct form of
nervous disease produced in American
women by worry about servants. --Bos-
ion Transcript.
-Four years ago not a single barrel
of petroleum was produced within the
boundaries of Colorado. Now the pro-
duction of the finest quality of illumin-
ating oil is about three hundred barrels
daily, and it is almost certain to amount
to one thousand barrels day within
the next year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson. of Bos-'
ton, has an income of 800, 900 year,
which she receives quarterly, and it is
said she is often penniless before the
end of the quarter. She spends her
entire time and fortune in charity, and
that without identifying herself with
the objects of her generosity.
Bishop Spaulding arrives at the
conclusion that celbacy is becoming an
alarming evil in this country, and the
capital hastens 10 agree with him. We
have frequently shown that if young
men do not marry young women, they
will have to meet them in competition
Is wage workers. Topeka Capital.
In Japanese play some charac-
teristic figures of speech are: His
attempts at lovemaking are as awk-
ward rs II pupp. on a slant ROOT" said
by one rival to another; and, 1.-The
sparrow can not comprehend the mind
of the eagle" when one character
asks another to explain remark he
has made.
While the United States has law
that no immigrant shall enter this
country who has already secured sit
uation in it. the Canadian immigration
Department has regulation with re-
gard to the dependent class of immi-
grants that none shall enter the coun-
try who has not a situation OF II home
already provided. Montreal Witness.
John Jay is the only Chief Justice
that the Empire State ever produced.
He was appointed in 1889 and served
six years The others were: John Rut-
ledge, South Carolina; Oliver Ellsworth,
Connecticut; John Marshall, Virginia:
Roger B. fancy. Maryland; Salmon P.
Chase and Morrison r. Waite, OHIO.
Melville w. Fuller, who has just been
selected, represents Illinois. John
Marshall served the longest, thirty-four
years.
1T has generally been believed that
the reduction in the average height ri
French soldiers which followed Napo-
Icons wars, due, of course. to the inn
mense slaughter in those campaigns,
made all of those soldiers the shortest
in Europe. But. according to high
medical and military authority in Rus
STA, the minimum height of the Rus
sian and the French conscript is about
equal-ive feet; while in most other
European countries the minimum
ranges from five feet one inch to five
feet three inches. america.
"A New York man has made a
small fortune of 1875, 000 in two months
through an Invention. He had often
noticed the trouble which school chill
dren have in cleaning their states, and
he invented little TIN box, in the
bottom of which is small sponge
saturated with water. In the center of
the box he placed piece of tin drilled
with holes, and on the top of this
another small sponge. A pressure
moistens the upper sponge, and the
slate can be instantly cleaned. One
firm of stationers purchased ten thou
sand gross of the little invention. and
the lucky inventor hopes to become
millionaire.
"A Rockland man who owned a
COW made bargain with butcher to
kill and sell it on commission. 1t so
happened that the first offer the butcher
received for the meat was from the
owner of the COW, who did not recog-
nize the carcass. Three-quarters of the
meat was sold to him for five cents a
poAnd, and he afterwards sold it again
at a small profit The next day he
bought the remaining quarter. beat
ing the accommodating butcher down
on his price, and sold that quarter for
small profit. When me settled with
the butcher for his own COW he was in
dignant that the meat man sold it so
cheap, and was dumbfounded when he
hoo rd that bo bip,oalf xuaa Tho $500,