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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
The American PhysiocuOmv.

The American physiognomy at Its best
Is often distinctly classical. One can see
almost any day in our streets good exam
pies OF the Greek type, and not infre-
quently among what we call the common
people. Last summer in a temporary visit
TO fishing village on the Sound / noticed
young fisherman who would have made
an admirable model for an Adonis. He
was about 20 yeaV of age, of medium
height, with handsome Greek head. and
fgure that despite the rude apparel in
winch 1t was hid revealed striking uatu-
raj grace and elegance in every movement.
l watched him with keen interest. and
imagined myself on the Egean shore.
IL Is pitiful to think that excessive ex.
posture, ill-cooked food, tobacco and bad
liquor are destined only too surely to
coarsen the lines and obliterate the charm
OF MS handsome face. / should have been
giad OF an opportunity to investigate a
nttie further and see if his mind responded
70 MS shapely exterior, but could not OBJ
tam IL. Our American land exhibits
three natural blossoms frequently. hut
only among the young They spring fresh
and beautiful from the soil, but the sordid
cares and uninspiring conditions of our
c,Villzation soon despol them Of their
charm.-Home Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
A Berlin Weather Prophet.

The astronomer Falb, who last year at
tanned some celebrity by his more or less
accurate predictions of earthquake shocks.
has this year come to grief by his weather
predictions for. the months of June and
July. In commenting on his failure, a
German paper recalls the fate which once
overlook another scientific weather
prophet, Professor Dietmar of Berlin. who
had predicted that the winter of 1898
would be so mild that butchers, confec.
TONERS, etc, would be unable to procure
sufficient supply of ice. 1t so happened
that after New Year of that winter I'M
usually cold weather set in. and as if by
common agreement, so many boxes filled
with ice were sent by post to Professor
Dietmar the freight charges being un.
paid, that the Postmaster General Won
Nagler advised all postoflices by circular
to refuse the acceptance of boxes with ice
for Professor Dietmar of Berlin. New
York Post
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

The ladies' fishing season is now at
hand. 1t requires large inducements to
tempt women to go fishing, and hence the
early days of September are assigned to
them in these waters. The reason is that
then the festive swapping mackerel, as it
is called in Long Island sound or the
young bluetish, as it is termed along the
Jersey coast and at the Long Island sea-
shore, becomes ravcnous. 1t is only
necessary for the men to row the women
among school of young bluefish for the
latter to believe themselves great anglers.
OF course ''no gentleman" will tell his
fair companions that to catch ten snap
ping mackerel it requires only the letting
down of line having hooks enough for
one half of them. FIVE fish being hooked
live other hungry ones will hang on to
their tails,-New York Times.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
ETIQUETTE of the Cigarette.

There is fashion even in SO small a
thing as the lighting of a cigarette. In
Cuba it is customary among gentlemen
for one to place the cigarette between his
lips, light it, take II few puffs and then
hand it to his friend In Spain the same
fashion prevails. An Austrian is very
punctilious about the etiquette of cigar
lighting. He lights his cigarette first and
then hands the lighted match to his COM
panion. The idea is that it is more cour-
teous to allow II comrade the greater length
of time. If he is handed the match first he
naturally hurries in order to hand it back
again. A Frenchhan always hands his
companion the match first. An English
man proffers the cigarette to his friend,
lights match, hands it to him and then
helps himself to another cigarette and
match. An American usually hands his
friend lighted match and takes q light
from his cigarette afterward.
The small boy gets light wherever he
can, generally from some passer by on the
street The habit of stopping men in the
street to ask for light is looked upon as
ill bred in all countries. In no country is
1t tolerated to such an extent as in the
United States. New York Mail and Elk
press
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

Injuries of baseball players furnish the sub
ject of an article in The Medical and Surgi-
cal Reporter, by DR.. Leuf, who is himself
player, and speaks from personal exp renee
One of his fingers was injured by ball nVe
times in one week, and all of his fingers
have been injured at least once. bis treat
ment Is to continue playing, and at every oP
portunity-eitber in the street, in the once,
or upon the tield-to firmly grasp the ilhger
about the middle, and rub towards the UP
Under this treatment the swelling, stiffness
and soreness diminish, and after some weeks
are entirely gone. The most marked swelf
ing of the hand, accompanied by great pun,
can be best relieved by the application Vi
water us hot as can be borne, the mana IT,
manning in the water for ali hour, the tenn
perature ing maintained during the whoio
time. Nothing will do so much harm 70
player as to abstain altogether from playns
because he has some trivial INJURY or so''
muscles
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
Little Johns Experiment..

Little John, aged years, was of such
courageous nature that his mother said he
feared nothing, seen or unseen. His
mother related to him the story of the
naughty children who said to the prophet.
10 up, thy bald headp' and were imme
oiately eaten up by bears. He listened
with wide eyed and open mouthed atten-
unh' When she had finished he medi-
lated short time, and then, with an evil
uent determination in his infant mind to
.est the truth of that story, slid down
from her lap and, putting his head under
her dress Tor protection, said in solemn
zones; Go up, thou bald headr AS no
pears appeared, fear his doubts exist to
this day. -Babyhood
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
A Considerate Mental.

Sam Walkup, although in affluent cir.
cumstances, is one of the most shabbily
dressed men in Austin. His colored body
servant, Tom, on the other hand, dresse
like dude. One day Mr.. Walkup said
to Tom:
1t must cost you great deal for
clothes. You are always dressed in the
height of fashion"
Yes, sab, il does cost me right smart.
but | does it, sab, entirely on your ac.
count
ION my account?n
Yes, sab; Of was to dress as you do.
nobody would hab the slightest respec'
for you, sab, Texas Siftings.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
"AooNls" plxey AND PATTI.
Trouble Caused br the Actors Dog
Irishman and sonGbird.

Irishman and sonGbtrd.
Mr.. Henry K. Dixey is tho owner OF
81 BERNARD dog that weighs perhaps 300
hounds. and, after the fashion OF the lamb
That was platonically attached to Mary,
this dog accompanies Mr.. Dixey wherever
Mr. Dixey goes. Twice across the ocean
and ali over this continent makes Prince
the most extensive traveller Of the canine
kind. M. Dixey and his leyiathan dog
were having romp through the four or five
rooms occupied by the Clan Dixey at the
Hotel Richelieu. First Mr.. Dixey would
shut the dog up in the folding bed and
hide himself In the wardrobe; then the
dog would break away from the folding
bed and begin hunt for Dixcy, humor-
ously tipping over tables and chairs, as
humorously breaking the crockery, and
still more humorously accompanying his
labors with volcanic vocal eruptions ex-
pressive of fear, hope, anticipation, Joy,
etc. This play lasted for about an hour,
Mrs. Dixey sitting in the front room mean
while smiling cOntentedly and thinking 10
herself how much better 1t was for Henry
to be passing q quiet afternoon Mt home
than to be frittering away his time In the
company of frivolous men about town.
But Nine. Patti, whose apartments at thu
Richelieu are located directly under thu
Dixey rooms, must have thought differept,
for while Mr.. Dixey and his dog were In
the midst Of their genial sport-or, we
might say, while the festivities were at
their height, there came knock at the
door and Nine. PATHS maid Hortense,
looking like one Of the '"Two Orphans,
presented this message: mime. Patti
complemongs Mime. Dix-see, and will
Lo.r ~
her little boy stop to play wiz re dog!"
Mr.. Dixey was highly indignant; he did
not care SO much for himself, but the in
suit to the dog was one that he could
scarcely brook. Next morning, as he lay
in his bed, he became cognizant Of an an
gelic voice soaring in solig-a voice SO
heavenly that it stayed not in the porches
of his ear but penetrated to the innermost
recesses of Mr.. Dixey's very soul and
filed his whole being with an ecstacy Of
ineffable delight.
ida, my DEAR" called Mr.. DiXey to his
wife, who was sewing in an adjoining
room.
'What is it, Hcnry?' she answered.
"You're in unusually good voice this
morning, my DEAR" said Mr.. Dixey. ~
don't know when I've heard you sing SO
pleasantly"
"Why Henry" exclaimed Mrs Dixey,
owe not been singing; that was Nine.
Patti you heard-she is practicing Proch's
variations, and isn't it just too lovelyp'
But there was cold, meaningless gilt
ter in Mr.. Dixey's eye as he straightway
arose from his bed, donned trousers, and
put on one of his red Hibernian wigs. A
few moments later, when, in answer to a
brutal knock, Nine. Patti opened the door
Of her parlor, the Incompatible songbird's
sloe like orbs beheld what seemed to be a
gaunt, raw Irishman standing in the por
tai. "Misther Dixey's compliments to
yees, num-" said this hulking appari-
ton, land wad yeez moind shopping the
tra-la-la-loo, mum, till Misther Dixey
have bit av slape?''-Chicago News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
Antidote for Paris Green.

Paris green is in such extended use as an
insecticide that people very natural. uesn1
to know of All antidote for its deadly ac'ion
in cases of accidental poisoning. fopu,A'
Science News names, as the proper ahtluo1'
freshly prepared ferric hydrate But W.,
would not be generally available, ana Wv
same authority adds: The common n'sur
cinal dialyzed iron may also be used, ana u %,
the advantage of being always ready "
course, the main dependence in cases Oh PVl
soning must be upon the prompt emptyihs !.
the stomach by emetics or the sto'nA''
pump.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
SEMI-WEEKLY WORLD.
BETWEEN THE LINES.

Between the lines the smoke hung low
And shells flew screaming to and fro,
While blue or gray In sharp distress
Rode fast, their shattered lines to press
Again upon the lingering foe.
IT'S past-and now the roses blow
Where war was raging years ago,
And naught exists save friendliness
Between the lines
To you who made the traveller know
In southern homes how warm hearts glow,
Let even this hating verse express
Some measure Of true thankfulness,
And grateful, loving memory show
Between the lines.
Walter Learned In The Century.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

In fitting keys in Leyways an expert ad-
vises that the keys should make an easy fit
on the straight sides, the locking coming on
the tapers. Oil the keyway, and either chalk
or red lead the key; enter it, and the abra-
sion OF the lead will show where it binds:
ease of slightly with file, and continue till
the tapers bear solid the whole length, then
send it home solid. The oiling is important,
because il you are fitting into cast iron you
In the work, and make it very difficult to
drive the key out
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
External Remedy for Snake Bite

For snake bite,, DIR. Weir, OF Phiiadeipn'a'
is reported as stating that the immediate "
plication of carbolic acid to the wouhu p
vents both local and general poison "a
acid, il applied in too great qu''h,i.,
liable to produce sloughing and even dans Ina
Gus symptoms, hence it is best used u, al.
proportion of two parts acid and ape par aan.
cohol. 1t is believed to act by causiiis 20
traction of the small vessels and thus ~ :.
venting absorption of the poison. Appne'
the wound at late period it produces w
feet
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

Young Man getting off street car)-Hers
Is my fare, conductor; you forgot to ask me
for it." ''e
fassenger-Who is that young man who
Just got OFF, conductora
CONDUCTOR never saw him before some
crank, guess. 1t takes all sorts of peonla
sur to make up the world.-The Epoch.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

The human emotions which, being
struck, resound in slang are of many
kinds. There is fear and desire of secrecy
that may produce an esoteric language, a
kind of verbal cipher, ineligible only to
the initiated, This kind of speech is very
useful 10 thieves as long as the police are
not adopts. Thieves slang is probably
much composed Of Romany, "Yiddish"
that very curious pigeon Hebrew,
French, Italian mispronounced, and words
merely hit out in a kind of unconscious
poetry, figurative and sensual Nobody
knows what Leland lately wrote about
some gypsies who had kind Of Celtic CT
pre-Celtic dialect, and very probably there
Is a good deal of Arcadian or Proto- Medic
in Yiddish. By reason, however, of the
never ceasing need of new names for old
things, the thief's slang is very fugitive
and eyanescent speech. Travellers talk of
families of savages which get separated in
the bush, and, when a generation has
passed, the descendants of each set speak
q different tongue. In the same way alters
the talk Of thieves--London Daily News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
SONG

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Mo dare sport
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strong and free
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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

on' man may gain deathl-ss renown,
AND all fame that the world can give.
But II caught III womans dry goods crowd
lie Ieeis too mean TO live. Yankee Rlada
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06

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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-06
Story and Moral.

Man, ass,
Smells gas,
Strikes match,
Happy dispatch. It'd ~.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-06-02
THE DAMAGE AT CoRSIcaNA
DESTRUCTION OF STAND PIPES.

Lexington, Mo -Collasped June %,
1885; 365, 900 gallon stand pipe, y feel
diameter by l52 feet high, made of one.
halt inch iron, supported by seven
| wrought steel columns, 40 inches di-
ameter, 50 feet high. Supplied the city
lor several weeks and burst when full |,
scattering material "a if exploded.
| Victoria, Tex.--l6 feet dismeter and
100 feet high; lower 70 !eet 4.lnch iron,
! remaining 80 feet sinch thick. When
containing 20 feet of wafer was struck
by a tornado blowing 80 miles an hour,
| which caused an oscillation, bucklinY
and collapse OF the 80 feet OF empty
| tank.
GrRvesend, N. Y.
Newport, Wooden tank burst
with great damage.
Caldwell, Kan, while
being built in 1887 was II feet inches
diameter by $50 feet high; il doubled
over about midway, breaking part of
foundation like the uproOting of "A tree.
Plattsburg, Neb-Was partially col
lapsed by a storm while empty, March,
1887.
Cincinnati, O.-Stcel too light and il
burst; a total wreck.
Belleville, N. j loo fee. high by 6
feet diameter, and 4.inoh thick.
Franklin, Mass,
Thomasvil!e, Ga.-CoIlapsed Decem-
bcr 10, 1887, before completion.
Erection scatlolding had been built to
serve as II brace between solid brick
centre pie9 feet in diameter, and
outer walls. In hosting brick to top
of tower the pier was swayed and
oVerthrown.
Houston, Tex.-Circular foundation
wall with cross sections settled under
pipe, 70 feet diameter h Il ieet high,
2 kankakrr, III. Steel ~ feet diane
Ier by l2o feet high. Collapsed and
blew over, breaking oil anchor bolts.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-06-02
NEGROES PUNISH AN IMPOSTOR FOR
WHOM THEY SOLD THEIR
HOMES.

ATLANTA, May 25.-A few weeks
| ago man of mysterious manner anG
appearance located in Green county.
He called himself "Abbidigal" OF
"llOly One claimed to possess Il
divine nature aud said he had received
instruction by divine revelation to free
the negroes OF Georgia from the bondage
of Erlse religion. lie gained the con
ldence OF the cOlOred people and deIud.
Ell Them into believing he was the COL
Orcd savior.
The stranger informed the negroes
That there was Gland OF promise
which he had recently discovered. II
was, he said, Il place prepared fol
negroes, where they had neither TO
WORK nor slarVe-a paradise that wae
TO be the home of all that followed
him. He babe them steal and sell al!
they had and put their money into his
Keeping, and on u certain night they
would meet aud together start on their
journey. A dozen families sold their
cabins, crops and all they possessed
anu put The money i'll the hands OF
"Abbidigal."
The swindIer appointed the meeting
AT an isolated spot. and the time for
starting on the journey was two nights
ago. A band of about forty men,
women and children congregated there
and waited in vain for the coming of
"Abbidigal. In the meantime it was
asccrtained that the "lIoly One" was
several miles distant, making his way
across the country. lie was pursued,
caught, hanged to Il tree and lashed
with brier reeds until it was believed
he was dead. lie was found some time
later by white people and cared for, but
cannot recover. lie is a white man,
but had stained his face, hands and
hair so as to pass for u negro.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-06-02
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.

A Minnesota plow manufacturer, in
letter to the New York Evening Posi-,
shows how the eastern steel trust, pro
tected by high tariff, robS western
farmers on their plows. He says:
"The modern plow is mostly steel
The cost of the material in it, other
than steel, is about so cents. We get
our beams moulded and lay out cuts to
shape at the mills. You see that the
price of steel makes difference in
either in the profit account Of the inau-
ufacturer or in the cost 10 the farmer.
Until last year, and for some year
prior, we have been getting our steel At
A cents pound. There was nothiu:.
to intimate that The mills were not do
ing prosperous business at that rate.
Their statesmen were active in soliciting
orders, their trade was good and read
occasional accounts of increase III Their
facilities for supplying the demand
Last year the steel trust was formed
and the price advanced rapidly, until
now the steel we bought last year az
Al cents pound costs us lO4 cents a
pound, an advance of i25 per cent.
This is not duo to any increase in
wages, but solely to the rapacity of the
trust-and the trust is made possible by
the tariff "
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-06-02
A TERRIBLE HAIL STORM.

MESQUITE, Tex, May 23.-The
hardest hail and rain storm ever wit
messed here came last night. 1t began
at about S:45 and lasted Just thirty
minutes. The hail stones were as
large as hen eggs.
The damage TO crops cannot be esti-
mated. Corn was stripped, wheat aud
oats ruined and fruit killed The two
bridges across the creeks in the east
and west part of town were washed
away. Chickens were knocked from
the rOost and killed. Mr.. Harris had
fine dog killed by a large hailstone
striking him on the head.
A report comes from the north of
Mesquite, in the neighborhood of New
Hope, to the effect that crops of all
kinds are ruined, fences blown down,
stock and chickens killed. An unoc-
cupied house about mile north of
Mesquite was blown down. w. b.
Stump, living in the edge of the Post
Oaks, south OF here, says iruits and
crops OF all kind are completely ruined
trees and fences blown down and the
effects of the storm irreparable.
THE DAMAGE AT CoRsICANA.
CoRsICANA, Tex, May 23.-About
L 80 o clock last night this city was
visited by the severest aud most de-
structive storm that has been seen in
this section since 1870. The lightning
flashed, the thunder roared, hail and
rain poured down in torrents and the
wind was terrific in its powerful fury.
Houses were blown down, trees up
rooted, fences laid flat on the ground,
immense structures trembled upon
their foundations, and the entire popu-
lace was aroused and alarmed with
tear and excitement. The storm came
from Hortheasterly direction and
lasted nearly an hour. A great deal of
damage was done.