Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-04-27
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-''Robert Elsew here was the book
inquired for by youngster at the cir
culating library the other day.
There were 1887, 100, 600 bushels
Of corn raised in the United States in
1888, which sold for 5000, SOL $50.
Statistics show that in New En-
gland seven out OF ten widows under
thirty-five marry within two years.
Benjamin Franklin's watch Is
owned by a Lancaster, Pa. gentleman.
who still carries it and says that it
keeps good time. 1t is Of silver,
shaped like biscuit and has engraved
on it's back: "Ben. Franklin, l776,
Philadelphia.
-''Underdonedom" is what N. p.
Willis dubs the brigade of half
fledged masculines who crowd the
door-ways and blockade the entrance
to every ballroom, and are generally
too weary and blase to enjoy any thing
! but the supper.
Statistics show that in England
business conditions really regulate the
number OF marriages. When wages
are good many more marriages take
place than when they are not. so that
the marriage rate corresponds closely
with the great changes in trade.
} A resident of Lexington. Ga, has
} in his possession the brand that was
used during the days of slavery fol
branding slaves who were guilty o
) murder. II is n rudely constructed
: "M' made of iron, which was heatet
, red hot and applied to the person
sometimes to the cheek, of the one tt
+ be branded.
A cat in Lee County, Ga, is sale
to have committed suicide on accoun
of the loss Of her kittens. The youn
felines were drowned. In the after
n noon the cat went around in grea
grief, and that night ended her lif
i by placing her head through a larg
;, crack in the crib and moving alon
q until she got to narrow place an
II then letting go. She was found in tn
!. morning hanging stone dead.
There is water wheel in use &
u BOwdoinham, Me-, which is probabl
y the only one of it's kind in existenc'
T. 1t is twenty-seven feet in diamete
10 with a foot Of its rim out of water
high tide; the spokes are wide and 81
'r diagonally, like the vanes of a win
10 mill. 1t turns eighteen hours of Il
u day by tide power, running one WI
~ with the flow, the other way with Il
e' ebb With one foot fall Of the til
" this wheel gives about fifty hor
'h power. ..........
y -Bartolo Scpulveda. who was pa
'u doned and released from the penlte
~ tiary after twelve years of impriso
y pirate $l5, 900 to pay him for his loss
III time and damages by reason OF his L
'r- prisonment, says the Los Ange
OF Tribune He proved an alibi aft
'r- twelve years had elapsed. His cril
III was murder and his excuse for wa
VI ing so many years to prove his inl
ist cence is that he was drunk when
U" murder was committed and could !
zen take care of his interests.
uss Three years ago John Wright,
'o Pike County, Ga, lost his sight, {
''u the oculists that he consulted agr'
that there was no possibility OF
ever seeing again. The other day
Mr. Wright sat on the porch in
OF sunlight his eyes began to itch violt
~, ly. He rubbed them. and when
Ii, l. Al
ia that he could distinguish objects d
ly. During the day his power of Wis
/, increased and at last account the
..l gentleman was in u fair way to see
well as ever.