Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-02-25
CURRENT EVENTS.

"""9 "etHeeh fuO aud go hOrirs aud
mus The rauehing business very profitable.
ino coming orange crop OF Southern Cali.
Iofhla Is expected 10 be much greater than
last year One estimate is . 2JJ 10 . bOo n.r
loads, against 1000 car loads the past season
Colonel Bennett H. Young, Of Louisville re.
Gently sent 10 a Philadelphia friend a t,sIr ~
Kentucky turkeys that weighed sirty.elgbl
poands--lhe gobblrr iorty.four and lie len
twenty.fouE
ihe highest price, Rl0, 9S5, paid last year
Tor picture at auction was Boueher's portrait
OF Nine. de Pompadour. Gainsboroueirs
sisters" brought 1886, and Turner'S ''Yau
Gozeun 70 325.
~ 10 the fashion now IN Washington for cab.
met ladies' 70 keep their private secretarIes
ike their husbands, Mrs. Whitney was the
first TO employ a secretary 10 look after her 40.
eial correspondence aud keep her tablet Of en-
gagemtnts.
oysters are very abundant la Australia and
OF VERY good Quality. The government controls
them, aud the laws forbid their being taken
from the water til they reach certain Size.
license Is required for The fishermen, and
holders are required 10 pay 81 cents for every
three bushels Of oysters. The annual license
fee Is $50.
They are talking about establishing a
Maple Sugar Exchange ia Vermont TO guard
against aduliefAtion. II Is said that the wide.
spread aduteration Of genuine maple sugar
ana syrup i resulting seriously TO the sugar
industry 81 the state. The annual product IS
about 100000 pounds, and il Is thought the
organization Of an exchange would increase il
% per cent.
A passenger and Ticket agent OF Florida
railroad, At Jacksonville, Fla. has novel
way Of advertising his line. lie has rack
made Of wire, filled Hllh the choicest oranges.
aud on each orange is stamped an ADVERTISE
ment, When an one comes into bis ticket
Office seeking information about his line,
especially 4 he Is from the North. be Is in
rted 70 take an orange or two.
A iehderioot who had been hired TO aherd
/ geese Oh General MoHlgomery's ranch near
Chico, Cal, became Tired Of ordinary methods
u killing the Wild birds, and, Eaturating a
I quantity o. wheat with slrychnine, scattered
/ II about the helds In The morning there
I gefe 2 400 dead geese hing about and their
4 esreasscs completely damned up Pine Creek,
50 that il overlooked Ia BANKS
! A wsli-kn0vn ariisl 10 New York tells q
4 litlic stoFy sAas ulli Interest the mental
scientists. liz Eas sitting il his sleeping
chamber late Al nghi reading French poTel,
when bis wife, who had retired some hours
before. said-hly awoke aud reisted dream
/ Ahirh she had Just hai. The dream was an
exact eogatstpau--sye 10 details--oi the
p,gi q the novel, which The laiy had never
read
An Ohio gjIi. who tired 81 hearing the farm.
ers 10 Der SECTION groal about wheat growing
20, paving. decided she'd sec shout H. She
fcnied y. sores 81 land, kept s,ric, account
% ever dollar expended 20 raising the crop.
~, "a average yield Of thlriy-dYe bushels u
tic acre. aud sold !, Cor SlS4 TO- The cost Of
,r0dncgiun wAs saAl 2, Including S3L50 ior
fertilizers aud the gain on the Investment
wss ~ pr cent
WiBes OF nattd year sim maintain their high
prices 10 Tie European market Al sale Of
= aeii.knorn private cellar ia Eiinburgtl late
ly, I.asaart a Fer!ey Joacis " the great year
az lssii. rralitol co. Ito case, and Laat,es,
EsAfA Eighteen hundred and seventy wa'
ie,rssrnird by MarganK al s2259 the cSse
sni Haut nrlon AZ ca Dagnze, q ISL
brought 81 the case using 10 oar high du
itrs oa uines, these EFires would have beef
considerably e1ceeIsd here
one Grim II fruit shippers 10 Fresno Cal
has srht East tbis season 10000 boxes o
rGisiht, each t'aE weighing tHcniy pounds A.
II takes from iifet % four pounds 81 gree,
Frapes 10 make Qua pound a. dried some
sltiag like 0u, 0Jq pounds Of green grape
urrc hABdlcd There wcrc also shipped 4,
0p.n51 pounds q peaches, a. MACY Spficpts
nceiariB -, api rrars. and 20 end Of smsiie
fruits, Tbs one Gfm has raid out for iEai
ard wages this season S3G10d
A tspeF made ~ Herr l.adcNigg, German
oil resist DC action o. both hrc and water
TIE manufacture i accomplished By usin!
,wrnty ave Parts d asbestos dtre With from
twenty aEe Is thirty parts 81 aiumtnum sui
,lialr. moIsicnlug the mixture With chlor
lie 81 zinc and thoroughly washing tin water
/ IL l. then treated wiib a solution .! one par
az tosin soap IN eight 10 tcu parts Of solu
siou oi pure aluminium suphaie, after Whiel
Il Il manufactured Into paper like oriiuar
luip
Probably The most remarkable railroad I
The world Il that running from Gloggln'E
I,ounrrlns near Vienna II is only twenty
,iye miles ID length, aud cost over s',uO1Us
II begins q, the little station OF 6logginiE A
N elevation al /, go feet, and from there %
train. bauisd b. two powerful locomotives
Winds round aud round ovcr some fifteen dou
Ia yladucis and through as many tunnels.
, rrccps along precipiccs Atforiing elimpses Q
.,sme Of Tic widest scenery in Europe. i
,tmiuus, l,ouncring is At an elevation Of .
SDl feet.
The rabbit war IN New Zealand and Aus,r'
! n, i becoming more serious than ever. IN
climate n Australia sults the rabbits admir'
! bly. and 80 docs The sparscucss % the popula
lion. The result is that the rabbits hold u
. ANA. aud they occupy and possess nearly ~
; ~ O1l acres II land In Victoria. They nav
i. ,ra.srd the MURRAY aud are continuing the
Devastating march northwards. South Aus'r'
us Tasmania aud New Zealand have all su
frrsd 10 an extent that Il 10 almost impossibI
10 estimate.
The terrible blizzard IN Dakota was proceed
r Al Nv remarkably clear, beautiful weathe
Tho ar was 40 clear that cities and town
l.kes aud timber forty miles distant was clea
~ ylstblc. The south wind melted the sue
.nd thc oldest iuhabitant began TO talk aho'
Jsnuary thaN. About an hour after moo
"a tho llno morning, cloud oyerspead u