Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-10
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The Republic OF Switzerland elscts a Presl
Dent every year.
chestnut exchange is about to be estab.
iisled Ia Chicago.
california has green cueumbers I'm the
market foot long
Inc nigh license law closed 100 saloons ip
ri'tsburR February l.
Port Huron has less than IL, lnbabltants
ana debt Of over 5000
colony Of Mlchiganders will settle near
Troy, obion county, Tenn, this spring
a canal which waters .65 square miles OF
lane was opened in California last week.
The ice bridge at Niagara has brought an
unexpected number Of visitors TO the Falls.
Broadway fruit dealer displays this sign.
SapAhese ehestnuts, warranted to keep for
ten yeRrs.n
Steel lace Is q novelty. The lace looks as
hne as any Brussels lace, and ia equally soft
10 the touch.
The bite Of rat on her face led 10 blood
poisoning and caused the death OF Mrs. Lucy
NJ. Carleton, in Nashua, Mass.
Citizens OF DoughertY, Mitchell and Lett
counties, Ga, are about to plant melon
patches OF from 80 TO $50 acres each.
The coolest spot in the world is said TO be
Werchoiausk, in Siberia, where the mean
temperature for the year 1885 was age below
zero.
OttumWa, lows, has an arteslan we'll which
discharges 2,OOO,0 900 gallons every twenty. four
hours II is said to be the best well 10 the
country
Rsnchmen near Mangus, N. NJ, are trying
TO catch big bear that has already killed
over one hundred goats and thus far eludes
all pursuers.
The story Is current Of Detroit man who
took bis baby 10 be photographed, aud when
be called for the picture he was unable 10
identify his own.
Many Of Yicksburg's best citizens are in
favor Of abOlishng the present city govern
Inent and making the city a taxing district
similar TO Memphis
II is stated that $4,000 was sunk in the at
tempt 10 establish the DMy Gazette in
Augusta, Ga.,a city Of over 40, 900 inhabitants.
IL ran just eight months.
''The Memoirs Of the DeVlli is the title OF
stunning play which the Dramatic Club Of
Michigan University is now payilg 10 the as.
tOnished natives up there.
The mhll.carrler between Calico Cal, and
Bismarck is dog. The mail is fastened
about bis neck In the last three years he has
never missed trip nor lost letter.
Grinnell la, enjoys the distinction Of
never having saloon aud Of not having
furnished an inmate OF the Poor House or
Penlteutiary for twenty-eIght years.
The Ohio Society In New York has post.
poned It's annual banquet from February 20
10 April 7, 'the centennial anniversary Of the
settlement Of the Ohio Valley at Marietta"
Miss Story, the daughter OF a clergyman in
the north OF Ireland, has won the literature
scholarship OF el0O year for five years
awarded BY the Royal University Of Ireland.
An Irish terrier belonging 70 George Gas.
kin, Of Bhbbacombe Beach, England, watches
for mAekerel from high bluff near the hotel,
and barks and points when school sppears
The first striking clock was imported into
Europe by the Persians about the year S)a II
was brought as present TO Charlmagne from
AbdellA, King Of Persia by two monks Of
Jerusalem.
Prohibition dominates eight Of North Car.
oluAs ninety-three counties, and the senu.
meni is on the increase. la Randolph county
not license for selling liquor has been Issued
for seventeen years
A farmer near Reedsvllle, Peun.. recently
killed two deer AZ one shot His weapon was
sngle-barreed rife, with which he
put ball through the neck Of each deer at a
distance Of seyenty-fve Yards
There are but three silver dollars Of the
coinage Of 1904 in existence. Two Of these
are accounted for; the third Is somewhere in
circulation about the country. The value Of
this missing dollar Of 1894, as quoted by ihe
last numIsma;ic circulars is $50. II is nat |
ural, then, that this coin should be much |
sought
Fifty families OF Newfoundland fishermen |
have arranged TO move next spring TO a group |
Of the Qcen Charlotte Islands, of the British |
Columbian coast, above Vancouvers The |
waters about the islands are said 10 abound |
in fish, and one OF the Industries OF the coll |
ony win be sending fresh fish TO the Vic. |
toria market.
Chippewa lDuiAnh are huuOliuN Ant "iHcuh- 1
sin loggcrs They divide up into bands OF ten |
90 fifteen, scatter through the forests and |
pitch their tents ALWAYS in the neighborhood |
OF a logging camp This winter they have |
been holder and have even compelled the /
cooks In some of the camps TO prepare them |
meals when the crew was absent from the |
shaniIcs
The longest railway anywhere operated
by electricity is said TO be great success |
Il is in Richmond, extending twelve miles
over steep grades and sharp curves, aud is
running proftably aud unfaillngly, the |
electric current being carried upon wires |
upon POLES at the side OF the street and con-
ncctcd with the car, upon which is motor,
by a suspended wire which moves with the
car
The scheme for the destruction OF rabbits
which NJ. Pasteur lately recommended to the /
farmers Of New South Wales has, II is said, |
been tried with success on Nine. Pommery's |
nrnperty near Rheims. The place was infested |
by rabbits, which the game keepers were I'M
able to exiermnate either by ferrets or by |
NJ. Pasteur's bouillon was then
called into requIsitlon. His nephew, NJ.
dir onerated ON the land by placing small /