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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
SANITARY MAxlMS.
Abstrrrt OF - Leanet Issued by the Na-
tIonaI Health society of London.

tional Health society OF London.
1t is the duty OF every householder
to ascertain for himself whether his
own house be free or not from we'll
known dangers to health.
This duty, imperative at all times, Is
OF surprising urgency in house where
woman is about to become mother,
or a surgical operation is about to be
performed.
As rIle, the soundness o' the sani-
tary arrangements of IL house is taken
for granted. and never questioned until
Granddaughter illness has broken out.
In other words, we employ Illness and
Death as our drain detectives.
Whenever gas from sewers or the
emanation from leaking drain, a cess
pool, or fouled well make their way
into house the inmates are in i'm
minent danger of an outbreak OF
typhoid fever, diphtheria, or other
febrile ailments classed together under
the term "zymotic," not to speak OF
minor illness and depressed vitality. the
connection of which with sewer gas is
now fully established. Sewer gas en-
tiers a house most rapidly at night,
when outer doors and windows are shut,
and is then perhaps most potent In
communicating the meat. the milk, and
the drinking water, and in poisoning
the inmates.
A house in which children and serv-
ants are often ailing with sore throat,
headache or diarrhea is probably
wrong in its drainage.
Scamped drain work is one OF the
most dangerous of the sanitary flaws Of
new buildings; it is also one OF the
most common and one of tho most diff.
cult to detect, and is rarely found Out
except by the illness it produces.
II you are about to buy or to rent q
house, be it new or be it old, take care
before you complete your bargain to
ascertain the soundnes5 of the sanitary
anxiety than you would exercise ir
testing the soundne5s of a horse before
you purchase it.
If you are building house or car
achieve it in an old one, let no drair
be under any part Oh your house.
If there is smell Of drains in YOU
house or damp place in a wall neal
which waste-pipe or soil-pipe runs
or damp place in the cellar or kitchen
floor near drain or tank, let no time
be lost in laying bare the pipes OF
drains until the cause be detected.
If rat appears through the floor o
your kitchen or cellar and strong
current of air blows from the rat-hol'
when chimneys are acting and tn,
windows and doors of the house ar,
shut, feel sure that something is wrone
with the drain.
If you are tenants, and your Landlord
refuses to remedy the evil, do it a
your own cost rather than allow you
family to be i'll.
A landlord may reasonably look TO
interest on the money which he spend
for the benefit of his tenant; but he i
committing little short of granddaughter
if by refusing to rectifv in his property
he saves his own pocket at the expens
of the health and lives of his tenants
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
ABOUT HEDGEHOGS.
why Hunters Have Deadly ha'reu VI
the Little Animal.

There are a great many hedgehos'
in the woods here, and all huu'0''
have a deadly hatred OF them anu a.
WAYS kill them whenever ioahu, u'iuO,
the idea that they will otherwise NV
have good luck in hunting. lhe , ~
great damage to the timber oy g"u,lDs
the traces in the winter as they ieeu
upon the bark. There are acres Vi pl'0
trees in some places where scarceP
tree has escaped them, grea' n u'.5
being girdled all around and kllisa'
The animal sits on the snow IL Is sou,
when gnawing trees, so tna' \. 'I .hs
girdled places show the aep'n u
snow saw some work of he'd gehoss
however where they had barKeu ' ~
tree forty feet from the grou hardlv
places where the snow couiu .a.o.s
have been so deep. l only came WE
one in my wanderings' a oig snas'i
beast, too lazy to get out of the way way. If
did not want to shoot it lot ie shor.
frightening the game in the uel ~ With
hood. and so contenteo lily aon he
neltine him with rocks, whereupo .al, an
ram and tried to hide under i' 'rht
tree. where l left him. one u" Nv a
about midnight was awaN'I ,,,st mt.
loud humping and pounding Ju' toupd
side the tent, and on going ou' .iOthes
one of the hunters in his niS"' ,,nh He
belaboring a hedgehog with clu auim m
was taking his revenge on .I limo him
for falling out of tree and waAi"S
up.-Forest and Stream
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
CHINESE LADIES' FEET.
A Sight Well Calculated to Disgust Intel
ligent Foreigners.

The small feet of Chinese women is
sickens the foreigner. In Tientsin and
North China all of the Chinese women
compress their feet, and they hobble
about the streets with canes, resting
their heavy forms on the stump of the
natural foot There is a woman here
in Canton whose foot is so small that
the part which goes into the shoe is
not bigger around than trade dollar,
and the compresse foot is a horrible de-
formity. | had one photographed and
the sight fills me with disgust. The
leg from the knee to the foot is like a
pipe stem. The beauty of the ballet
girls calf is missing and the skin
seems to be wrapped around the shin.
1t is cracked and rough and the foot
itself seems to be broken in two in the
middle. The instep was doubled over
upon the heel ana the Tour sman toes
were wrapped around under the sole OF
the foot. The big toe and part of these
four were all that weslt into the shoe,
and the Chinese ladies, in reality, walk
on their toes. They have the heel set
about in the middle of the shoe. like
the French heel and we get French
heels and rouge from China. The com
preston of the feet is said to date back
to an empress who had club foot and
who made the other ladies of the court
bind up their feet until it became the
fashionable thing. Another explana-
ton is that it was adopted to keep
Chinese women from gadding, and if
so, it succeeds. All Chinese women,
except the Manchus or Tartars, now
bind their feet and it is a very low
peasant who has feet of the natural
shape. The pressing is with bandages
which are put on the foot when the
child is five years old. They are
wrapped so tightly that the toes are
forced into the flesh, that the instep is
forced up so that the heel and the big
toe forms a perfect bow, and so thai
the flesh often breaks at the instep.
and the bones sometimes protrude.
This binding is kept up through life.
and swelling takes place whenever the
bandages are removed. The woman
must be in continual pain, and in the
winter these compressed feet are liable
to freeze. DR.. Mary Niles, of the hos
pital here, told me yesterday of the
case of woman in the country near
Canton. Her feet became frozen and
sloughed off. She came into Canton on
the stumps with her feet in her hand,
brought them to the hospital, and
asked the doctors to sew them on
again. cast of one of these feet is
now shown at this hospital. which is
larger than any in America, and which.
since its foundation half century ago
has treated a million of patients. F.
Il. Carpenter, in Cleveland Leader.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
Got the Quarter.

Dude Ito chance acquaintancel-That shah
by looking fellow is making right for us. Bet
he wants to borrow money He, hel I'll get
ahead of him, Please, sir, can't you lend me
quarter or dime to get something to eatl
Shabby Certainly Hands out a
quarter,l Now, young man, if you are
through begging of this gentleman, would
like to speak to BIN. He is one of the depos
itors in my bank. York WeeK,y.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
PLAN TING.


Planting in pain and weakness,
Good seed In the ground so bare,
The sadtears, falling, number
The grain that is planted theres
There, in the ground so fallow,
With never the sun to warm,
Under the SHOWS deep cover,
Beat on by sleet and storm,
TIL the failing limbs grow numbed
Yet YEARLY plodding on,
Scattering still the seedlings,
Patiently, one by one.
Lifting eyes to the leaden,
Cheerless, gray hued skies,
Rifting and renting its dizziness,
transcript vision lies;
Away and away over hillsides,
Waving fields of grain,
Is the harvest planted in sadness,
In weakness and in pain;
And seeing with sight immortal,
The rains of Heaven which fell,
terminating the seedlings
We're the tears could not quell.
Eana Miller oheldralse, in Good HousekeeI
ing.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

The rock to which a chain was at
tached during the war of the Revolu-
ton to prevent vessels going up the
Hudson river will have to be removed
in making excavations for the Peeks-
kill bridge in the Highlands. 1t will
be taken out entire and preserved at
either West Point, Newburgh, or in
the rooms of the Historical Society in
New York
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

Two English servants, Ann Warde
and Eliza Wylde, went to Salvation
Army meeting on a Sunday evening,
overstayed the time when they should
have been home, and for fear of a
scolding, tied themselves together with
awoolen scarf and drowned themselves
in a canal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

Tor twenty-five years IN c sr
sion. Isaac Richmond. a North ca r. III.
s eolore si1 man. has won the prize n I
neighborhood Us tao nus This sue
curer of the tobacco leah ,,ant plau.
cessful planter owns an eNcei 18th the
tation, but still remains 'ad him.
gentleman who formerly oWne a disd
-Horatio c. onderdOnk <. VIM Hudson s
recently at his home on IN. u arr Of his
left a will providing tha' II aottwenty.
6S,'s without the consent OF his parents o.
or habituallv uses topacoo' u,orpipg,
rising by nine o'clock In ,i,v led from
the one so offending is d eOa' The
receiving any of the i neo 4.
estate is valued at si.ooo'oV"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

Undoubtedly the good fame o.
every man ought to be under the pro
lection of the laws, as well as his life
and liberty and property. Good fame
is an outwork that defends them all
and rends them all valuable The law
iorbids you to revenge; when it ties ur
the hands Of some it ought to restrain
the tongues of others Burke.
h1f grotesque alpnapeJ Is max.
ing the Germans a nation of near
sighted people. Defective vision is
not only acquired, but it appears to be
handed down to Offspring.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

Many men spend dollar to save
ten cents; they wear out a nic<le's
worth of shoe leather IN getting gift
of two cents worth OF grindstone from
a neighbour
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31
THE SCOTCH SPINSTER.
A story of q Good Woman who Wanted
to lie Loved Economically.

A story of u Good Woman who wanted
to lie Loved Economically.
knew young fellow who was very
sweet on Il Scotch spinster. She was n
wealthy Scotch spinster, but If there is
a kind OF woman who must be loved
economically and for herself alone it Is
Scotch spinster. Scotch spinsters are
warranted 10 make good wives all the
time. II is awfully hard to be untrue
to IL Scotch woman. She makes you so
very comfortable and holds you to her
not so much by your heart as by your
bank account. She doesn't always want
new bonnets; she is rather liable 30 OBJ
ject even TO your having a new hat un-
til the old one is quite worn out. A
Scotch wife can keep her husband neat
aud trim and herself and her children
as we'll at smaller expense than auy
others. She doesn't want diamond ear
rings for her birthday. All you have
10 do is TO show her your bank book
and kiss her and tell her you owe the
big balance to her, and she is quite
satisfied. This young fellow did not
when he thought to please her he sent
her lovely and expensive basket of
flowers. He went up to receive her
thanks and smiles. and he was quite
knocked over when she told him he
hadn't u big enough salary to waste it
buying flowers for her or anybody else,
and she was sorry to see he was so eX-
travagant. because otherwise he was
"a very pleasin' young man He lied
himself back into her good graces by
saying he had got the flowers for moth
ing. and he thought he could not make
better use of them. She smiled graz
ciously and said;
Seem they did ma cost you any
thing, it's a great compliment"
She was a woman after all.--San
Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

breed from the best' is good
rule for poultry-keepers, as well as for
breeders OF the large domestic animals
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

A California paper remarks that
it's likely, if Santa Cruz gets new
Jail. 1.-The present practice of the prison.
srs climbing out and going down town
to find the sheriff when they want him
will probably be discontinued.
w men a young man Is over head
and ears in love with pretty girl, he
never asks "Is marriage failureP'-
Boston Courier.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

-Auctioneer-And this. ladies and
gentlemen. is an elegant oil painting
by one Of the grand old masters. 1t is
a picture of-(looking at the cata-
logue) of Andrew jackson. and
doubly valued on account of its an
tiquity. Qmpressively) Ladies and
gentlemen, this picture is over 200
years old. How much am offeredp"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-31

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Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
@UN'ty REPORT.
Speculative Excitement EutzsNo Material
Change in Business.

Speculative Excitement EutzNo Material
Change in Business.
New Y YoRK June 80 R. &. Dun & Co.'s
weakly review OF trade says: 1t has baen
a week OF considerable excitement in
speculative circles and of heavy general
trade, without material change in condi-
tiops AS all depends in large measure at
this season upon crop prospects,
it is most encouraging to find the
reports in this particular unusually
favorable, the only noteworthy ex-
ception being that some damage to cotton
and grain from freq uent rains is reported
at Galveston. In the orthwest the grain
outlook is particularly fine, great Inn
provement being reported in quarters
where there had leen some apprehension.
With crops Of unusual magnitude highly
probable, and with general volume OF
business so maintained, and the main in :
crease Of 80 per cent. over last year in
clearing house returns, the prospect is not
gloomy.
Detroit notes quiet business, and Kansas
City and Omaha report fair activity; at
Milwaukee Improvement is seen with
greater activity, and at Cleveland and
Pittsburgh the iron and other trades con-
tinue to mend. The glass factories have
about all closed for the summer. Coal
mining on the Monongahela is dull. Col
lections are still slow at Milwaukee, but
at Detroit there is visible Improvement.
The money markets continue amply sup
piled.
Wheat advanced cents, with sales Of
"a 000, 900 bushels on Wednesday, and 55,-
Geo for the week, but all accounts Of
harvesting thus far are satisfactory.
Corn and oats have declined each frac-
tion, and coffee is still sold heavily trans
actions for the week reaching 1000 bags,
and has declined y cent Pork and its
products are all a little stronger. The
general average OF prices has fallen.
The business failures number 2!5, as
compared with 2a0 last year and $50 the
week previous. For the corresponding G
week Of last year the figures were POI.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
MYSTERY SOLVED.

Tho Disappearance of the ST. Louis School
Teacher-Her Body Found in the River
Effects of Disappointed Love.
ST. LOUIS. June 29.-The disappearance
of Miss Bertha Gerspacher, the young
school teacher, has been solved, her dead
body having been found in the river near
SeFca, Mo, just south Of st. Louis, and
fully identified The following letter has
been forwarded to the dead gitl's mother
by Harry Hoffman, Of Chicago, Miss Ger
spachsr's lover, and shows that she had
contemplated suicide for some time past:
ST LoTIs, June 12-My Own Darling Harry!
/ am sorry, Harry, for the news have to break
to you in this letter O, how l dread writing
this; / thought first ] woJild not write 1T all,
because | could hardly stand it, but then you
would know what was the matter. L don't
know what has come over me, but I am a
changed person. J had hoped to win ma over,
but know now that / never. never Will get her
consent, and I would not marry without her
consent l think this way: mother looks
into the future, which we do not and certainly
a marriage without a mothers consent would
be an unhappy one, and then you don't know
how your mother would feel toward me.
BERTHA
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
SWEEPING CHANGES.
secretary Tracy Reorganizes the Business
of the Navy department..


secretary Tracy Reorganizes the Business
OF the Navy Department.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Bv a sweeping
general order Secretary Tracy proposes
an entire reorgan zation of the business
methods OF the Navy Department. Up to
chs time new equipments and new duties
constantly arising from the conditions of
change incident to the replacement of the
old wooden vessels with new ships and
modern guns have been assigned here and
there to the several bureaus of the depart
ment, often with no better reason than
the convenience Of the moment. The re-
suit has been confusion and an exaggera-
tion of The defec;s OF he bureau system.
Duties which have no connection have
been placsd together and those naturally
associated have boen divorced. Supply
has been complicated and expensive.
Electric lighting, for example, has been
claimed by three bureaus. The training
OF officers and men, apart from he inde-
pendent establishment Of the Naval
Academy, has been divided betwee an
equal number, and there has been no
Office to control and detail the personnel
as whole, both officers and men, and to
receive and transmit the correspondence
of the fleet.
Secretary Whitney realized the evils Of
the system and made an effort to change
them, but was obliged from the magnitude
OF the task and the paramount Importance
Of concentrating his energies upon the
procurement of new ships and guns, to
abandon the tas k Secretary Tracy, how
ever, now says that the time is ripe for
further change. and has accordingly is
sued the new order 1t enlarges the duties
of some of the Fundamentally those of
the bureau Of equipment, to which is at
tributed nearly all the duties of supply,
heretofore belonging to the bureau of
navigation and the control Of the hydro
graphic and compass offices and the naval
observatory. To the constructing, manu-
featuring and purchasing bureaus are
assigned other duties, grouping them
Systematically and appropriately.
Each bureau exercises control
Of its shops, labor, superintend-
ence, acquisitions, accounts aud appropri-
aiions. The limits of authority are we'll
defined, The lureau Of navigation loses
its duties Of supply and its control over
several important Offices and becomes un-
der the immediate direction of the Secre-
tary, an executive section for military
matters, and is charged with the training,
discipline and control of the personnel OF
the fleet Finally, the chiefs of the bu-
reaus of yards and docks, equipment,
ordnance, construction and repair and
steam engin eering exoflicio constitute
board for the design, construction and
equipment Of new ships. Practically the
effect of the order will be to make the
bureau of navigation TO correspond to
the Adjutant-Genecal's Office in the War
Department in the control of the person
mel of the organization.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
Miscellaneous Items.

The Burlow dynamite works, at Ladd's
station on the East & West railroad Of
Alabama, exploded recently. The shock
was felt in Gainesville, Ga, and the in
habitants took refuge in cyclone pits and
cellars. A little child standing near the
works was blown one hundred yards and
died in a few minutes. Five men, who
operated the works, escaped without
scratch, but the machinery and houses
were completely demolished.
An unaccountable disease is working
havoc with the cotton plant in Laudedale.
Dyer and Upton counties. Tenn, and
Mississippi County, Ark, all among the
most productive in the South. Cotton
that looks green and vigorous at night i
found black and withered to the roots in
the morning. 1t is not frost, because the
Youngest and tenderest cotton is not af-
fected. The older and stoHter stalks are
the ones killed. On some plantations
hundreds Of acres Of cotton have been
destroyed and the ground replanted IN
corn. a curious feature OF the case is
that fields are occasionally found unin-
iured when the crops on all sides Of them
IRE blasted as If by fire.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
WILEY MATTHEWS.
The Escaped Bald knobber Seen in the
Woods.

The Escaped Bald Knobber Seen in the
Woods.
OZARK, No., June 29.-Last Sunday
evening in desolate part Of this county,
Thomas Yeary was in the woods sitting
on log when his dog sprang at some
thing. and the next moment Wiley Mat
thews, the condemned Bald Knobber who
escaped from the Ozark Jail, appeared
and spoke 10 him, calling him by his
mama. Matthews was so sunburnt that ne
hardly knew him at first.
Matthews told Yeary that he wanted
him to help him get away and not to tell
any one that he had sern him. He said
that he had been in the hills all the time
he had been ont of Jail apd was afraid to
get out where people could see him for he
said: Il know they. are on the lookout
for me"
Yelry was well acquainted with Mat
thews from boyhood up until he was sent
TO jail for the murder of Greens and
Edans. Matthews was armsd witE good
pistols and would be very hard to take.
Yeary came into Ozark after three days
bard ride, as he thought there was big
reward offered for Matthews.
z. A. Johnson, the sheriff is now in
Stone County, Mo-, but will start out after
Matthews as soon as he gets back. There
is only $50 offered for the arrest OF Mat
theys yet.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-06
A COMBINATION STORM.
A Destructive storm Sweeps Through
Portions Of Minnesota.

Destructive storm Sweeps Through
Portions of Minnesota.
KUsHFoRD. Mimi, June ga combined
cyclone, waterspout and hail storm passed
from one to five miles east Of here Thurs
day night, destroying every thing in its
path. 1t probably gathered over the town
Of Wiscoy, Winona County, entered
Money creek, Houston County, section .
and 8. passed almost due north, curYing
slightly to the west, through Yucca an and
the eastern part OF Norway in Fillmore
County, and then on through Probe till
it spent its force.
"A belt two miles wide in the pathway Of
this storm for thirty miles in length is
absolutely laid waste, the trees being as
bare Of leaves as in winter, and the loss
bv the storm can not fall much below
500. 600. Immense trees, two feet or more
in -dia meter, were torn mp and twisted off.
For tw miles in width the mercili So hail
pelted every thing into the ground. 1t
crossed the rallrcad track where the sec
tion mer were at work. aud they say that
the stones fell fully as large as mans
fist.
Andrew Fizico, Of Yucatan, was drowned
III the food and another drowning ID re-
ported from Houston,