Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-09-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

IN HOLLAND an unmarried woman
always takes the right arm of her
escort and the married woman the
left. At a church wedding the bride
enters the ediflce on the right arm of
the groom and goes out on the left
side of her husband.
SINCE the termination of the dyna-
mite patent in 1881 there has been
immense industry in the invention of
high explosives, and there are now
moro than three hundred varieties
A dynamite cartridge one foot in
length takes only Ia 900 of sec
ond to explode.
DIR. PETER, provost of the uni
versity of Pennsylvania, greatly
wants to resign his post, but the
trustees will not hear of it. He gets
$1,000 a year salary, and gives the
college $4,000 year from his
pocket. No wonder they want him
to stay.
A TEST has been made in France
to see whether the color OF horse
had anything to do with his charac-
terlstics. 1t has been demonstrated
that any such idea is all nonsense.
Pedigree and early training have all
to do with it, and color nothing
whatever.
THE Piute Indians in Nevada are
III worried frame of mind over the
prediction of one of their number that
a great food is soon to sweep over
their Territory. They have deserted
their homes, it is reported, and tax
Ell to the mountain towns, carrying
provisions along.
IL New YORK city three women fol-
low the business of butcher and are
successful. One has been ut it for
twenty-five and another tor twenty
years. They are said to be very lady
like and refined women, with none of
the butcher atmosphere about them
and not bit beeiy in appearance.
A ROMANTIC couple in Indiana we're
on horseback in the middle
of the road, and then took a gallop
into the country in lieu of bride
trip. The bride, who is only sixteen,
the horse feature. and in
sisted that both animals be coal
black. There was no opposition to
the union.
JOHN DANIEL, a butcher, died in
New York the other day from erysipe-
las contracted in peculiar wav. He
was carrying some decayed animal
matter in slaughter house and ac-
scratched himself with a
piece OF bone. The animal poison
got into his blood and caused his
death.
A MALE beauty show is to be
opened in Vienna, and the decisions
are to be made by a jury of women.
-Four prizes will be awarded-one to
the handsomest man, one to the
owner of the finest mustache, the
third to him who has the largest
nose and the fourth to the competitor
for having the least hair on his head.
A New YoRK physician names
these among other evils to be guard
ed against at summer resorts: Over
fatigue and undue exposure to the
sun, irregular eating, over feeding
on food to which one is unaccus-
toned, sitting orlying on theground
and unnecessary exposure to the dew
'Ai' va III l'hCpo tilNl lliS lllttll.
BEFORE the war the high water
mark in cotton was ., 100000 bales.
The crop of last year is not yet en-
lirely out of the hands OF the plant
rs, but those whose business atten-
ion is absorbed by the staple place
t at 100000 bales, an increase of
300, 1000 over the year preceding.
This season, with average weather,
t will be 100000, or five times the
'alue of all the gold and silver
Produced in the United States in one
ear.
SOapstOne and It's Uses,
cientfic American.