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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
MISSOURI COURTSHiP.
An Aged Politician Relates the Story oil
n Narrow Escape.


when l was young man. said
the politician. IL travelled in the South
west considerably, selling saddles, etc.
On one of my trips L stopped over
night in settlers cabin in Southeast
Missouri. The settler and his family
were mighty cordial, gave me the best
they had and made me welcome to q
bunk on the floor with them. The old
est daughter was sixteen or seventeen
years old and a perfect beauty for her
situation. She was the kind of n girl
novelist would break his neck to get
hold of for heroine. She'd be very
picturesque and pleasing in book.
but shudder when | think of her in
real life. She took quite a shine to me
and before we laid down she had told
me nearly every thing she ever heard.
A heavy rain fell during the night, and
as the roads had been heavy before,
they were not passable the next morn.
ing So had to stay at the cabin.
The girl was very attentive for the
three days | was there. and on the
evening of the last day she said: Say,
is you uns married?' | told her no,
and wanted to know why she asked
Well, if you uns amt, she said, we
uns might get spliced.
The speaker paused to allow his
hearers time to break all their buttons
and then proceeded:
Her father approved heartily of the
plan. I've been wishin' you uns
would hitch ever since seen YOU uns,
he said. and the whole family was Sc
congratulatory that was afraid to dc.
cline. pretended to accept and of.
fered to ride to the Westinghouse about
twenty miles away and get the preach
er. They laughed at the idea. We
uns can marry ourselves by kissing
over a candle. the girl said. insisted
on the preacher, and after long argu.
ment got my horse to ride for him.
Just IA ] was about to mount the girl
came out of the cabin arrayed to go
with me. That was too much. J
mounted in a hurry, laid switch to
the horses TANKS and rode off at the
top of the horses speed. have never
seen the charmer since. Sd Loui:
Post Dispatch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
How Women Walk.

1t can not be out of place here to
suggest the ACCESSIBILITY of opening
Glasses where children, girls especially.
might be taught the science of walk
ing. Mothers should be the natural
teachers, but many who are rigdly
careful in all other particulars seem abb
solutely Indifferent on this important
point In fact. after showing them
navigation by means of their legs,
duty is believed to be Mt an end and
no matter how wretchediy child
moves the parent rests satisfied with
only spasmodic attempts at correction.
Whether the ungraceful wobble, the
hating step and painful stoop so COM
monty seen is attributed to carelessness
or unnatural dres ing. certain it is
that six out of every ten women wax
abominably. To be upright and easy
IN ones movements is only rs nature
intended, and unless deformed there is
MT the slightest excuse for the absurd
locomotion noticed on the streets every
day. Why children are permitted to
grow up pigcon-toed, round-shoulder-
ed, crooked and awkward is a PROPOSE
ton left open for further discussion. -
Chicago Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
FRAiL HUMAN NATURE.
How 1t Displayed Itself In Crowded De-
troit Street Car.

How 1t Displayed Itself In a Crowded De-
troit Street Car.
You can cram a good deal Of human
nature into a street car about six
o'clock in the evening. There was a
heap of 1t in Grand River avenue car
an evening or two since, when half a
dozen people saw man take twenty
dollar-gold piece from his vest pocket.
fondle it for moment, and then drop
it into his left-hand pants pocket In
about three minutes he felt in his vest
pocket for that mNey, and it was
gone. Then he felt in the other pocket
and suddenly rose up.
Lost any thingP" queried passen-
ger
II don't know-let's see-yes,
have!"
He felt in several other pockets,
drew forth bunch of keys. lump OF
rosin. pocket knife, some troches
and half dollar, and then exclaimed;
"rve had my pocket picked of $20!"
Five passengers betrayed excite
ment Six others were only casually
interested. Four were skeptical, and
seven winked at each other and whis-
pered that it was dead fake.
"Lose it in the carp" asked a second
passenger
"Of course / did! had it less'n
five minutes agor'
'And your pocket has been pickedr'
''Sure enough! Is there an officsx
on this carp"
do you mean to say you suspect
mep" demanded the man on the right.
'Or mel" demanded the one on the
left
But it's goner' shr uted the loser.
''Some one has certainly robbed me. "
Five passengers whispered 'Ratsr'
softly to themselves. and four others
gazed serenely at the ceiling.
Conductor. stop the carl" shouted
the loser as he seized the cord and
rang up five fares on the register.
What is itp" demanded the con-
ductor rs he came in.
''Some one has robbed mer'
Feel in your left hand pants pocket,
you numb skullr' shouted an old man
on the opposite seat.
His advice wa implied with. and
10! the lost was fu I'D.
twenty-five cents, sir!'' said the
conductor
What forp" fTes
"Those five fares!"
1t was paid. and the victim offered to
lick anybody in the car before he got
off Then he got of, shook his fist at
the conductor, and darkness settled
down upon the city and sent the spar
rows to their nests under the caves -
Detroit Free Press
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
EARNS HIS SALARY.
The OnerOus Duties of China's Ambassador
to the United States

1t is not-at least it may not be gen
orally known-there are a great many
things that hadn't ought to of not be
generally known; if l do not fail to
make myself clearly understood. bear
in mind that the discussion relative to
the uselessness of English grammar as
she is taught. is great strain upon the
nerves of literary man; but whatti-
wazzasain Chats yolapuk) is, that it
may not be generally known that the
Chinese Government some years ago
sent an ambassador 20 this country,
whose sole duty is to go to a city as
soon as he hears that the construction
of a cable road is in contemplation.
When the first car makes its trial trip,
this Celestial ambassador is required
by his government to look at 1t in
amazement and say: mo pullee font
end; no pushee hind end; no mulee. no
horsee; runnee likee & y alice samee!'
1t most sorely grieves a sensible China
man to talk in this idiotic way, but the
Imperial Government compels this Off
cial to do this, in order to keep the
American people in good humor. He
said it first in San Francisco; then he
said i in Chicago; then Kansas City;
then Philadelphia; then Los Angeles,
Oakland. and last winter son of old
Sam Adams proprietor of the Adams
House,. who was burning kibosh, a
sort of incense, before an elm tree on
Boston Common. told me that the Chi
nese said it there. But" | said.
you have no cable cars in Boston. I"
The Pilgrim turned his quid of cult in
his cheek-all the Pilgrims are great
cult chewers-and said. haughtily:
What of that? There is a Chinese
professor in Harvard College" That
struck me as great and beautiful
truth and it impressed me profoundly
l didn't exactly see what he meant by
it, but then ! have to accept so much
that l don't understand in order to be
able to believe any thing. that the
swallowing of the incomprehensible
and unknowable is now accomplished
by me with no effort more painful than
spasmodic gulp, accompanied by
stentorous breathing and slightly ac-
CELEBRATED heart action, with failing
temperature and mean barometer. -
Bnrdette, In Brooklyn Eagle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
INKS OF ALL COLORS.
How Writing Fluids Are Made In American
Laboratories.

Laboratories.
Ink is variously composed, accord
ing to the purposes to which it is to
be applied. Common writing ink is
the pertannate of iron, mixed with n
little gallate. held in suspension in
water by means of gum or some other
adhering substance. The gum also
preserves the ink from being too fluid
and also serves to protect the vegeta-
bic matter from decomposition.
Blue ink has of late years been much
in demand. The coloring matter is
said to be sulphate of indigo and tinct-
ure of iron. or, according to another
recipe, Prussian blue dissolved in wa
ter by means of oxalic acid. Red ink
is usually made by boiling in the pro-
portion of two ounces of Brazil wood
in pint of water for about a quarter
of an hour. and adding little gum
and water. This ink is not in demand
now, carmine having superseded it;
this color is attained by n solution of
carmine and ammonia, also adding
gum. The great merit of our COM
mon writing ink is in the freedom
with which it flows from the pen,
allowing of rapid writing. and
the manner in which it bites
into the paper so as not to be removed
by sponging. The great defect is in
the want of durability. Such inks par
take of the nature of dyes. The writ
ing ink of the ancients. on the con-
trary, is characterized by great perma-
nency; its bass was finely divided
charcoal mixed with some mucilagi-
nous or adhesive fluid. India ink is of
this character; it is formed of lamp
black and animal glue, with the addi-
ton of perfumes. not necessary how
ever. to its use as an ink. and is made
up into cakes. 1t is used in China with
brush. both for writing and painting
upon Chinese paper, and it is used in
this country for making drawings in
black and white, the different depths
of shade beng produced by varying
the dilution with water.
Writing ink" said a prominent
manufacturer. "is now made in large
quantities in New York, and whereas
in the past we used to import largely,
we now export to almost every coun-
try. "A T. Maitland Express.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
ARMENIAN WOMEN.
They Are Not Allowed to Speak Above
Whisper in Their Homes.

They Are Not Allowed to Speak Above .
Whisper In Their Homes.
1t would appear that nowhere is the
patriarchal system carried to a greater
extent than among the Armenians.
During the lifetime of the father, all
the sons and their descendants live to-
gcther in one common dwelling; and
thus houses may be found which. from
the number of their inhabitants, re-
semble bee hives, often comprising
three or four generations. All the
property is held in common by the de-
scendants Of the head of the house.
Brothers and sisters inherit equally,
but until the death of the head no one
can possess any thing separate from
all the others. Until marriage the Ar
menan girl goes about as she likes;
she is unveiled, and enjoys as much
freedom as she could do in European
countries. flirting, love making and
marrying to please herself, rs in more
civilized lands. But once married and
all is changed. From that time until
she becomes mother. she never
speaks to any one except her husband,
and then only in private. After she
becomes a mother, she may speak to
her mother-in-law first. and after the
lapse of certain periods. to her own
mother, her sisters-in-law and her own
sisters. She is always yelled, even in
her own house; she never speaks to
male strangers, and she seldom or
never leaves the house. Her finery,
jewelry and ornaments can be shown
only to those of her own SEX
and in every way her seclusion is
as complete as that of the Turkish
woman. On the other hand the Armen-
ian women seldom do any hard work;
they remain at home while their hus-
bands labor in the fields, and they en-
Joy. probably on account OF their ac-
quaintance prior to marriage. much
more respect and confidence from
their husbands than falls to the share
Of the Turkish wife, who. moreover,
has to divide with two or three rivals
the little affection or respect which her
husband deigns to bestSw on her. As
the Armenian woman can only talk in
her own house below her breath, that
none of her male relatives may hear
what she says, it follows that the con-
sequence which usually results from
the residence of so many women in one
house, incessant quarreling, is quite
avoided. Custom. the strongest of all
laws. forbidding them to speak above
n whisper, Il war of words could only
be carried on under great difficulties;
and rs yet at least speaking on the fin
gers. which would also require a
knowledge of spelling, an accomplish
ment very few of them possess. is not
introduced TO facilitate the interchange
of hostilitics between those ancient en-
emics, mothers and daughtcr-in- law
Yet it is not easy to realize the idea of
large family circle in which all the
ladies sit mute. only converse among
themselves in whispers. - London
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
ABOUT CHEWlNG-GUM.
The Origin and Growth of What Is Now q
Great Industry.

Great Industry.
In the school days of the present
generation of business men the article
of chewing gum on sale was chiefly
vile compound of wax and resinous
substance. Now it is almost solely
composed of the sap of a species of
rubber tree manufactured in various
attractive forms and standing so high
in popular favor that it has been recon-
mended by prominent physicians as an
aid to digestion and cure of dyspepsia.
It's sale. it is said, has increased in this
country to the extent that where ~
cents worth of chewing gum was sold
twenty years ago, $40 worth is sold to-
day.
The manufacture of the gum is an
American industry. The last English
wax gum manufactured "A Liverpool
confectioner who sold a species Of
chewable paraffine sufficiently got
in trouble in the courts on account Of
its ingredients and went entirely out of
the business. The article from which
the present popular varieties of gum
are manufactured is the sap of the Chi
first of which was brought TO this city
very shortly after the close of the war.
The discoverer endeavored for three
or four years to find market for the
article in ordinary commercial lines, but
was entirely unsuccessful, its peculiar
properties rendering it. from one rea-
son or another, inadmissable in any
branch of rubber manufacture at
profitable price. 1t was then that the
idea of utiliz ng it for chewing was
first originated. Now there are about
LOCO. 600 pounds per year of the raw
gum imported from Mexico. and the
original authors of the manufacture
clam to use three-quarters of that
quantity in their big factory in Brook
Ign, the balance being divided among
some twenty-five or thirty smaller con-
Germs throughout the country.
The gum is collected in Mexico in
much the same fashion as butter and
egg are through the country here. 1t
is brought in in chunks and bought by
the pound. representing n trade OF
nearly $500, 600 per year to the native
collectors. AS the gum trees become
dep, eted, new tracts of trees producing
the same quality of gum have to be
discovered. and for tbs purpose sal
aried explorer, who is botanst, s
kept almost constantly on the move
N. T. Comn,erc al Aduertiser.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
Pure and Impure Air.

OF the air we breathe there are two
kinds: The breath we take in, which
is, or ought to be, pure air. composed,
on the who,e, of oxygen and nitrogen.
with a minute portion of carbonic acid,
and the breath we give out, which is
an impure air. to which has been added,
among other matters which will not
support life, an excess of carbonic
acid. This carbonic acid gas, when
warm, is lighter than the air and
ascends; and when Mt the same temper
ature as common air is heavier than
that air, and descends, lying along the
floor, just as it lies often in the bottom
of old wells or brewers watts, as a
stratum of poison. killing occasionally
the men who descend into it. Hence
word of admonition is addressed to
those who think nothing of sleeping on
the floor; and as the poor in all great
cities are too apt in times of distress,
to pawn their bedsteads, the friends of
the poor-those who go about doing
charitable work among them at this
season-are entreated never to let this
happen, and to implore them to keep
the bedstead whatever else may 90, to
save the sleeper from the carbonic acid
stratum which lies close on the floor in
cold weather. Heath and Home.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
woMAN's IDEAL WOMAN.
Some, of Her characteristics Pointed O ~,
by Masculine Writer.

by Masculine Writer.
1t may be taken as a general propos.
ition that womans ideal woman is NOT
mans. There are exceptional cases
in which both men and women meet on
common ground of admiration for
the same woman, but these wonderful
beings are as rare as an unsuspicious
wife, and as a rule the lines of feminine
and masculine taste seldom meet upon
the same object.
The late Adelaide Nelson was one of
the few objects of this common admira-
ton; indeed. it is almost "a question
whether the women were not the more
pronounced devotees. Certainly they
were the more abject in their devotion.
but this extremism is peculiarly If
the sex When they hate they hate
like sixty, and when they admire they
are not content unless they grovel
On the other hand, Mrs. Langtry is not
any especial favorte with the women
of this country at least-and Mary
Anderson is rather a fashion than an
object of sincere female admiration.
Again. Emelie Melville was ALWAYS
well like by the women, while Aimee.
a much cleverer artistic. could not
count the feminine population among
her general adorers.
1t would be difficult matter to ana.
I'VE the sentiments that move woman
to like woman. Personal beauty at-
tracts them, of course, but it must be
beauty of peculiar kind. Perhaps
the most successful of all beauties ia
that of the languorous sort. that beauty
which gives the promise of pretty, win
some ways. and lissom yielding. Ger
tain it is that there are few female ad-
mrers of the statuesque woman. A
woman, according to the tenats of mu-
liebrity. must possess the opposite
qualities and characteristics of man;
that is, she must be tender and
smooth the follower and not the drec-
tor, gentle and not fiery. the sweet mis-
tress and not the sour master In
working out the code of likes and dis
likes, however, women make the mis-
take of attributing to man a level and
uniform style of liking. Men are
sometimes attracted by womanly tricks
or attainments which in woman's eve
are little short of detestable. The piq-
uant, pert woman is always hated by
her sisters, and especially so when she
is seen to be successful. NASTY, for
ward MINK is the usual verdict on such
specimens of femninity. while the won
der is audibly expressed how any SEN
sible man can see anything to like in
such q creature.
The heroine of the female novelist is
generally either disappointment or a
distorton-a disappointment because
expecting to find some steady. well.
defined index to what is thought per
lection in the world of womanhood
one finds only 'slimsy" wrath; and
a distortion because when this nonen-
tity is discarded the substitute is made
an individual whose proper place is in
chamber of horrors. Fortunately we
are not obliged to accept their clay
goddesses as being worthy of adora-
ton, and we have the comforting if
conceited knowledge that we know.
or think we know. of one at least who
is of gold. = San Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
He Resented the Imputation.

Seedy 1ndividual-Yes, mum; the
winter has been hard on us poor pee.
pie That pie is rattling good, mum.
Farmers Wife-You don't look very
well. that's fact What are youp An
actorp
Seedy Individuality bloom may
be OF my cheeks. mum; and my looks
may not be quite up to the handle, but
thank Heaven, mum; I'm no actor. -
It'd Bits
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

Ancient writer's have mentioned
giaits exceeding ten and even twelve
feet IN height, but these accounts have
doubtless been exaggerated, and il is
matter of question whether any of these
individuals have exceeded in stature
the giant Winckelmeler of the present
time. and who is eight and one-half feet
high Dwarfs of sixteen and even
twelve inches are among the records of
human existence, but these diminutive
creatures were either immature or ILL
formed.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
Large humble of colored peor

Large humble of colored people
are said to be emigrating to California
from the Southern States Recently
one party of twer ty-four men and
women arrived in San Francisco en-
route TO join a colony in the southern
part of the State. A other party of
ITO laborers has gone TO Frisno to work
in the raisin vineyards, and $50 more
are to follow.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

A man at Livingston, NJ. T., is
said to keep as a pet full-grown
mountain lioness. The animal is as
tame as a cat and playful as little
dog. and sleeps in the bed with its
master.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

discrepancies in my ACCOUNT
repeated the bank cashier Indignantly.
mot a bit Of it. The accounts are all
right to cent The trouble IL with
the cash. - Somereiiie Journal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

Why the Brute Laughcd-Wife
(reading letter. = Well, this
is very funny. Mother says
that owing to sickness in
the family she will have TO give up her
visit to Us next week. Husband-Hal
ha! ha! Wife-What are you laughing
at you brute? Husband-Why, my
dear, didn't you observe that some
thing was very funnyp-M y Tribune
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

Ere nature we possess no defects
that could not become virtue. and no
virtue that could not become a fault -
Goethe.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

Newark, N. j.. has post of veter
ans o. the Franco-Prussian war.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

kerosene was first used for H.
Illuminating purposes in 1926. and its
original use as an expeditions way of
kindling the kitchen fire. and lessen
ing the number of household servants
at the same time, is believed to date
back to the same year. Boston Budget
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

1t is said that the poet Tennyson
sometimes spends hours on a single
line. A Texas horse thief has been
known to do the SAINT thing. Syti,sgs
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-19
L SATANIC BEING.

Ho BOASTS of Poi,ouing Hundreds of In
disns Hnd that He VIII Poison More
NEw'YORK, April 18.-Advices received
from Ro de Janerio say that number of
accounts have been received from the
southwestern frontier of San Paulo of the
alleged poisoning of Indians en- mssse.
According to statement forwarded
thence to San PAulo psper s certain
Jo,quin Bueno, who has seventy armed
men under his command recently assault
ed ls:ge Indi5n village aud while
the frightened Indians were absent, poi
soned with s.rychniae not only all
food ard drif abapocned by the fugi-
tivas, but sl=o the wells and springs Ac-
cording 20 Bueu0's own declaration he
found when ne returned few DAYS later
800 c2rpses of Indians in the village. He
also boosted that in another village he
had poisoned 800 Iadisns, and that he was
about to treat similarly another jp which
5000 Indians resided.