Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-15
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4 GaEOIs
The skin Of Julia Cisco, a middle
aged colored woman Of Jersey City
has turned white.
| The average school life of the
woman teacher in the West Is about
two years, and the further west she
gets the less she teaches.
"A Mexican sorceress has predicted
that Mexico will conquer the United
States in 1890, and some OF the Mexican
| papers say she is infallible
| 10 raise poultry successfully be-
gin on small scale and learn the BUSH
ness as you go aong. 1t is always the
big concerns with plenty OF money 10
start on that fail.
Not only New Years calls are
played out. but ten years hence, says
a cynic, Christmas will be observed
only as holiday and St. Valentines
day will not be noticed at all. The
people are outgrowing these childish
things.
| There are in Connecticut in pro-
portion to its population. singularly
arge number of old people, OF whom
goodly number are women. This
would seem to indicate that its reputa-
ton as land Of steady habits is de-
served. N Y Tribune.
| The chair in which Governor
Clinton sat when the first meeting OF
the New York Leg: stature was held in
| Kingston, in l777, is owned by ply
stefan of Athens, N. Y. 1t is in an ex-
cellent state OF preservation, and
looks as though it would last for y
| hundred Or more years to come.
A prominent Buffalo physician is
an enthusiast on the subject OF onions.
he feeds them to his children daily.
says they are the best medicine for
preventing colds. and adds: Feed
onions, raw, boiled. or baked, to the
children three or four times n week
and they'll grow up healthy and
strong. No worms. no scarlatina, no
diphtheria. where children eat plenty
of onions every day."
| 1t is no wonder that foreigners
think the English language so difficult
to master when we think of the great
| change that a single letter makes in
the pronunciation of it. The letter G
! changes lover into clover, makes a
crow crowd, k makes eyed keyed, G
| changes son into song, l transforms
a pear into pearl, changes hoe
into shoe. makes Dough bought, W
makes omen into women.
The Piutes HAYS natural taste
for drawing. and many of them are
able to draw very good pictures of
railroad trains and the like. The
! children make all kinds of animals in
| clay, as naturally as white children
model mud pies; and even the stupid
! est looking Of the bucks will with pen
ell dash off without the slightest hesi-
tation map of any portion of country
all the rivers, lakes and mountains in
! their proper places, and giving the
whole proportional dimensions.
"A young Litchield. Conn, couple,
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| married, were confronted with tor
rent so deep and swift that their horse
! could not be induced to attempt the
passage. But the hardy, long-legged
| groom was not to be daunted or turned
from his purpose. Leaving his team
in charge OF friends, he took his blush
+ ing bride-elect on his broad back. and
half wading and half swimming
reached the other side in safety, when
the happy pair. hand in hand. con-
tinued their journey as though moth
ing unusual had occurred.
Since May 5, 1888, the killing of
deer on Cape Cod has been forbidden
by law, under heavy penalty, and
the result is that the $4,000 acres OF
woodland between Sandwich, Fall
mouth and Plymouth are thronged
with deer, now quite tame. When the
law was not in force about 200 deer
were killed yearly. For over 200
years that region has been favorite
hunting ground Among the relics
in Pilgrim Hall. Plymouth, is an old
rifle, once owned by famous hunter
of Plymouth, and on the stock are 26C
notches. each notch representing a
deer slain by the Puritan Nimrod.
An English journal repeats a
warning, frequently given and oft
neglected, to English and American
girls about to marry Frenchmen. 1t
does not yet seem to be understood
that. though a woman may be mar
ried to Frenchman according to all
the forms of the English law. she is
not necessarily married in France.
Tie French law still requires that
the absurd and ANTICIPATED form OF
rs king the head of the bridegroom ~
family to consent to a marriage shall
be gone through, and if this is omitted
the marriage is invalid. An English
woman who had been married 20 a
Frenchman for two years was recently
coolly informed by her husband that
.hey had not been married at all. the
above precaution not having been
| taken, and she had to leave him.