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Came to my ranch, on Upper SqaaS
creek, Nov. 1a, lSSs, i. dspple gray horse.
ten or twelve years old, branded 81 on
ri ght shoulder The owner is requested
to prove property, pay charges (including
the publication of this notice. and take
the animal away. u 6AlnU.
January p, iSA.
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C. S. KINGSLEY, who returned from
BOISE City yesterday, informs US that
the Democratic and Republican Ter
ritorial committees recommend tha'
each county put up only one ticket
for members of the constitutions
convention, the two parties to be
equally represented, where that l.
| nnssihla
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s,N'L BooRN left for Deadwooo
last Wednesday afternoon to resume
work on his mines.
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maT, AND TERRITORIAL.

lsw CARvAS is here, running a
ssf and tailor shop. He has but
eousls and no superiors" in
lines.
II
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REV. G. TUCKER, of St. MichaePs
Church, Boise City, will assist Rev
F W. Crook Sunday, and preach at
both services. Holy Communion al
II A. NJ
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THERE is no change yet of i'm
portance in the condition of w. b.
Noble.
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HoS. Ben WILSON and 1' /
Kevs came over from PloneerSiiie
Yesterday.
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CLARK'S 0. N. 7. THREAD
BOISE CITY AND NAMPA.

All orders will have prompt and careful
attention, NATHAN FALk S BRl.
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Treasures Notice.

The following warrants viii be paid out
of the County General fund on presehtS-
tion At nv office:
No l5-In favor of Ferguson s
Marshal ,$lY k
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.aA Electric Light Orchestra, of
We cl'y, which played for the in
sa'atlon ball, in Sonna's Opera
a'e' Boise City, last Tuesday
guy was listened to all through the
Na and Boise City. A telephone
;, placed in the opera house, and
~s branch lines of the capital, as
as the Basin line, were connect
herewith. There were listener:
''' lour telephones at this place
'he central office, Myer &
NUS the bank and the Lun,
The music, at first, was dis
y out the tones were not strong
neen 10 and IL o'clock the line
D0ise CITY were disconnected an
"ie music sounded fine at thi
- The telephone company hav
l'aSs of the people of the Basi
sihs treat.
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pa GIRARD, of Boise City, was
Epboned for last Monday at 3 p.
to consult with DR.. Zipf In the
bot W. B. Noble, who was serl-
" injured last Saturday, in the
favay accident, an account of
ih was given in Tuesdays World.
doctor arrived here a little after
o'clock Monday evening, and
asd on his return Tuesday morn
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It is only question of time: the sooner
you make yourself acquainted with our
goods, the sooner you will act for your best
interests.
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WV. HooroN and Colby Knapp
went up last Wednesday to work on
the two locations made last fall by
Mr.. Hooton-the Silver King and
Blue Dick-a short distance above
the Washington mine. The veins
carry high grade silver ore at the sur
face. One runs east and west and
the other northeast and southwest,
and were traced the entire length of
the locations. The richest ore is
near the point where the two veins
come together, and if surface indica-
tions count for anything these two
locations will prove to be good ones
If they increase in richness witt
depth at the same rate the Washing
ton did, there will be more silver
than rock at the depth of two oI
three hundred feet. The character
of ore is exactly like the high grade
silver ore in the Washington. Dar
Mckay and Sam'l McGregor ais
went up to that district Wednesda,,
to do development work on the Sui
Rosa, the original location of tha
section, and joining the Washington
on the west. The Sub Rosa ha
turned out an immense amount o
gold, and, like the Washington, r, ra
: into silver in the lower tunnel. In
general opinion of miners aequainte
with the property is that with httl
further development the Sub hos
E will prove to be as good a siiVe
!. NINE as the Washington. All ind
, cations are favorable for that provln
to be the best mining section
Boise county. 1t is not yet halt pro-
: pected. The locations made by NJ
v Hooton last fall have been run ov'
: by thousands of prospectors.
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! v. 4. WADE, N. D.,

bvSIrIAN AND SURGEON,
,.ruanently located in Placervilie,
nj respond to all professional calls.
~ !. nuad at the office formerly occu-
BY DR.. Rothwell.
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lHE Republican primaries, for the
Eton Of delegates to the county
PVsntion, which will place in NOM
lon three candidates for delegates
lAe constitutional convention, will
held next Saturday evening, be-
Esn six and eight o'clock. The
Fyentlon will meet in Placerville,
llth, at 10 o'clock. The cleo
Tor delegates to the constitution
eonsentlon will be held on Monday,
h I'd. The constitutional conven-
will meet on July 4th.
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Our proposition is to appoint you
JUDGE

And for that reason you ought not to
decline the honor, but try our goods, which
means your decision
IN OUR FAVOR.
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|NHY should not Idaho become a
aa when she is increasing in pop
l0n aud finance as fast as any 9th
Sa'e or Territory in the Union ex-
Y Dakota? All you have to do is
Safeh the treasury of facts, print
ashington, D. c., to see that
'''V Idaho was estimated to be
f'a SIX million dollars, in 1880 she
worth twelve million dollars, and
f'aY she is worth over thirty mill
'0llaFs. Show US more genu.
reason why Idaho should not be a
|A-l Idaho Citizen.
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,,,tsssiaual Cards.
Z. s. KINGSLEY,

LopyEy AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW.
"A 10 business in Boise county
, 1889-04-17
THE BARRING OF THE DOOR,"
The Eastern Incident Which Furnished
the Theme of a Scottish Song.

y A4AsAsEh AnGAuthN tuFnlNnSu
the Theme of n Scottish Song.
1t is not generally known that the in
cident which forms the subject of the
drou Scottish song, THE Barring of
the Door," which also occurs in the
Nights" of Straparola, is of eastern
origin. In an Arabian tale a block
head having married his pretty cousin,
gave the customary feast to their re-
ties were over he conducted his guests
to the door, and, from absence of
mind, neglected to shut it before re-
turning to his wife.
Dear cousin" said his wife to him
when they were alone, Ego and shut
the street door" 1T would be strange,
indeed" he replied, 'if l did such a
thing. Am l just made a bridegroom,
clothed in silk, wearing a shawl and
q dagger set with diamonds, and am l
to go and shut the door2 Why, my
dear, you are crazy. Go and shut Il
yourself" ooh, indeedl" exclaimed
the wife. Am /, young, robed in a
dress of lace and precious stones, am 1
to go and shut tho street door2 No, in
deedl 1t is you who have become
crazy, and not l. Come, let us make
q bargain" sho continued, ''and let
the first who speaks go and fasten the
door" agreed" said the husband,
and Immediately he became mute, and
the wife, too, was silent while they
both sat down, dressed as they were in
their nuptial attire, looking at each
other and seated On opposite sofas.
Thus they remained for two hours
Some thieves happened to pass by,
and, seeing the door open, entered and
lald hold of whatever came TO their
hands, The silent couple heard foot
steps in the house, but opened not
their mouths. Tho thieves came into
room N saw them seated motionless,
and apparently indifferent to all that
might take place. They continued
their pillage, therefore, collecting to-
gcther every valuable and oven drag
ging away the carpet from beneath
them; they laid their hands on the
noodle and his wife, taking from their
person every article of jewelry, while
they, in fear Of losing the wager, sold
not n word.
Having thus cleared tho house the
thieves departed quietly, but the pair
continued to sit tutoring not a sylla-
bic. Toward morning a police officer
came past on his tour OF inspection,
and seeing the door open walked in.
After searching all the rooms and find
ing no persons, he entered their apart
ment and inquired the meaning of
what he saw. Neither of them would
condescend TO reply. The officer be-
came angry and ordered their heads to
be cut off. The exe~cutioner's sword
was about to perform its office when
tho wife cried out, Sir, he is my hus-
band. Do not kill himin "Ohl obi"
exclaimed the husband, overjoyed, and
clapping his hands, you havel lost the
wager; go and shut tho door, He
then explained the whole affair to the
police officer, who shrugged his shout
ders and went away.-St Louis Re-
nub1ic
, 1889-04-17
Evidently Her Own Hair.

A pretty married woman living near
Americus, Ga, owns q COW that she
thinks the world of. She milks tho
COW herself, as she does not want her
spoiled by endless attention. Since
the crops have been gathered the COW
has been running in the fields, and
tho brush of her tail got filed with
cookie burrs.5 One morning last week
the lady went into the pen to milk,
and while sho was performing tho
duty, the COW switched her tail into
the neatly done up hair on the lady's
head. The bur=s caught and the lady
dropped her pan Of milk and began to
entangle her hair. The operation dis
turbed the COW, and she began to
pranco. Tho lady grabbed the tail
with both hands, and said. 80
wenchl so wenchf" but the wench, not
liking the grip, started in q trot
around tho pen. The lady startled
the household by her shrieks, and q
negro woman ran to her rescue, but she
had to return to the house for n pair
of scissors. The COW was driven into
q stall, her tail trimmed off and left
sticking to the lady's head, She went
to the house, and it took her husband,
the negro woman and the family until
10 o'clock that night to pick the burrs
from her head.-Atlanta American.
, 1889-04-17
Married In a Depot

Charley Joralemon, tho popular
doorkecpcr in tho ladies' waiting room
at tho Union station, tells of an anus
ing incident, not without its pathetic
side, which occurred there not very
long ago. A Journal man was chatting
with him this morning in regard TO n
couple Enthusiastically nowly married.
who had passed out to their train n
moment before, when no remarked:
Ono of tho funniest things of that
kind that ever happened hero was q
few months ago when n couple were
married here in tho waiting room.
They had been here for n good while
and appeared TO be very atfectionale;
We arc nll quito accustomed to that sort
of thing here, and hardly noticed
them until n minister appeared on the
scene and bado them stand up. Then
we all came closer and stood by while
the couple wcro mado man and wife.
They were Germans and seemed to
take it as quito in the ordinary run of
things. When the ceremony was over
tho minister went away and tho bride
bought tickets and engaged berths to
Chicago-she evidently managed tho
doodle for the northumberland
whom their train went out they went
with it, as happy rs n couple of chill
dren. ALBANY Journal.
, 1889-04-17
He olung to His rormontnr.

a friend relates the following rather
jocose incident: Proceeding down JOY
street not long since, his attention was
called to little negro boy who was
crying ~piteously, and alternating his
outbursts by munching a glowing
hued red pepper. Tho tears were
streaming down his ebony cheeks and
he was believing loudly about the
burning sensation in his mouth and
throat totally oblivious of the fact
that the pepper was the cause of his
trouble, and that he was continually
aggravating the pain by endeavoring
to masticate the pungent article
The narrator, noticing his trouble
and its cause, stepped forward and
snatched the pepper from his hands
and threw it into the street. where
upon the black urchin set up O most
vociferous howl and dashed after his
treasure, while a burly negress rushed
out Of q doorway, evidently thinking
her child had been abused. The well
meaning pedestrian did not linger to
explain. AS he departed no caught q
glimpse of the ebonized gamin again
in possession of the pepper and yelling
n munching as before Adapting q
fragment of a common quotation, It
was rs where ignorance Is bliss
Boston Budget
, 1889-04-17

a wounded or enraged eagle is an
ugly antagonist. l. G. Brinkman, of
Burlington, had an encounter with q
wounded eagle not long ago, which he
does not are to repeat Whiio hunt
ing, ho fired at the caglo and broke the
birds wing, but did not otherwise in
juro it.
Expecting to make an easy capture
of his prize, he went forward. To his
surprise, the eagle flew at his face,
and had he not warded it off with his
arm. his eyes would have been put
out by the savage bird. AS it was, it
gripped his arm, and, despite his eff
forts to FREQ himself, he could not
shake tho eagle of.
1t struck at him with its sound
wing, dug its sharp talons through
his clothing into his arm, and used its
beak most v%iciously. 10 called to his
friends, a short distance away. They
came and killed the bird, and then
pried its claws out of tho flesh of his
forearm and leg, which was badly Ia
cerated.
Mr.. Brinkman's wounds were quite
serious, lie will bear tho a for
many a day.-Youths Companion.
, 1889-04-17

That Constantinoplo is today Mo
hammedan and not Christian is duo
70 the genius of tho Turkish sultan,
Mohammed II, son of Amurath ii, who
was born Mt Adrianoplo March 81,
1430. His father and grandfather had
by successive conquests reduced tho
Greek empire to the limits of Con-
stantinoplo itself. When Mohammed
became sultan in 1450 no determined
to complete the work of conquest by
the capture of that city. Tho siege
was commenced April 6, 1453, with an
army of PCS, 900 men and n fleet of 300
vessels. Tho Greeks, assisted by n gal
liant band of 1000 Genoese, made an
obstinate resistance. Although a com
bincd attack by land and sea made on
the following both of May was unsuc-
c~essful, the Genoese chieftain, Justi-
miami, was wounded so severely that
he had TO retire from tho rampant.
This produced n panic in the city, and
n second Turkish assault, led by the
sultan himself, proved irresistible.
Constantine tho XIII, the Greek en-
peror, was slain, and tho Turks poured
into tho city. Mohammed II com
plcted the conquest of all tho territory
subsequently known as Turkey in Ei-
rope, Greece, the Mediterranean islands
and Crimca, and died in 14S1.-Phila-
deiphia Times.
, 1889-04-17

You will often meet men who, while
supremely indifferent to the pressing
problems of the age, are very much
concerned about many problems of
the remote future. Here, for instance,
Is a dear old clergyman writing to me
the churches will do when all the
world Is converted to Christ 1t gives
great pleasure to reassure him on
this point When the churches have
converted the world, they will dis
oover that they will have to begin all
over again and convert Christianity, q
task that will require their very best
efforts, for experience shows that it is
much harder to convert Christians
than heathens. It's because we are so
busy holding our own In Christendom
that we are doing so comparatively lit
tie today In heather lands-New
York Tribune.
, 1889-04-17
THE POSTAGE STAMP MYTH.
A Syracuse Paper Gives n Youthful Reader
Some sound Advice.

Some Sound Advice.
For years past there has been IN
iQca in the minds of many young peo-
pie that there lives q man somewhere
who will give 81, 900 for !, 200, 900 an
ccled postage stamps. In replying to
a youthful correspondent The SYRIA
cuSc Herald says; This Cancelled
postage stamp myth, for such it must
really be called, has been current
among American juveniles for nearly
twenty years. In many households
throughout the land it is believed in
as unqucstioningly as the Hindoo de
votee believes in Brahma or as the
Mahometan in the prophet of Allah.
Somewhere there is a person eager
and willing 10 pay 81, 900 for /, 1000, 900
cancelled stamps, and in many places
industrious collectors have been en-
gagged in the fond cndeavor TO gather
up the necessary 1000, 900. No one
has ever stopped to inquire the mean
ing of 1000, 900, or TO figure for n mo
ment how long n time it would. take
for one person to collect 1000, 600
stamps.
An entcrprising youth in search
of stamps would think If he got alum
drcd n day he would be getting n
great prize, and yet at that rate it
would take him nearly twcnty-eight
years TO gain the coveted million.
Suppose he could collect /, 900 n day
every day in the year, il would still
occupy nearly three years of his time,
and then it would take nearly as long
atimo TO count them out TO the person
paying .he money for them, and there
would be very little time left either for
eating or sleeping, much less doing
.nything else in the way Of daily du-
ties. Thus it may DO seen how foolish
tho idea Is that, with great industry, a
million stamps could be collected in
many years and then recounted to n
purchaser. And yet it seems like
something that could be accom-
plished.
"a few years ago n pleasant story
went the rounds of tho papers telling
how some young person, eagerly de
sirous of obtaining this 81, 600 for his
education, went tho rounds of the
business offices, told his needs and
gathered up all tho stamps in innum-
crablc waste baskets. In this way he
obtained 1000, 900 of stamps, and, as
tho story goes got the 81, 900. But if
II critically examines tho tale il will
~ ~ "Ai"e an llhpuSSlplllty ~ IL.
To sever the stamps from tho envel-
npes, TO count and bunch them would
ta';c n very large amount of time. The
most industrious worker could not
possibly do this work at the rate of one
stamp minute, but surprising he did
do this, it would only bc at the rate
of sixty an hour, or about 600 a day,
for AN ordinary days work. At that
rate it would take nearly five years to
count them. Theu, if they had to be
counted again TO the purchaser, it
would take another five years"
, 1889-04-17

Place aux danes. Tho fair sex of
oil classes of society are just now dis
tinguishing themselves In the French
capital. What with lady doctors,
lady artists, lady politicians, and lady
agitators Of all colors, they are max
ing remarkable progress. Should they
continue to advance at the present
ratio, their male rivals will have to
look to their laurels. The Parisienne
is evidently determined to show that
she is fit and able to become n public
character. Too long has she been kept
in the background to tend the chill
dren and mend tho stockings. The
timo hasarrived to prove to the world,
and particularly to their masculine
tyrnnts, That nm arc really superb
or beings, and capable of taking care
of themselves in the struggle for life.
They have not yet obtained tho right
OF political voting, and consequently
cannot be deputies, but they look for
ward to that victory at an early pc
Rod, and say they will not DO satisfied
until they get it. They hold that, be-
ing forced to pay taxes, they are en-
titled to have voice in tho affairs of
the nation. In any case, they CON
tend, with some reason, that things
could not possibly be worse than they
are, and in all probability would be
infinitely bctter.-London Globe.
, 1889-04-17

Among the queer things in Connec-
ticut are its trees. Up in Middletown
it was necessary TO cut down n tree in
the rear of Outings cigar store. Sew
eral bricks were found imbedded in
the roots, 30 that only the corners were
visible.
Over in Cobalt n large and particu-
larly straight tree was felled and drawn
to the sawmill. After starting the saw
tho attendant heard a grating of the
saw teeth, and stopped the mill. He
tried another cut, but again the graf
ing sound was heard, and he had to
shut down again. Several further at
tempts TO saw the length of the log
proving futile the trunk was sawed
across, and an old log chain and a
dozen harrow teeth were discovered
imbedded in the hard grained wood.
In Westfield a bowlder weighing
over half n ton is to be seen about ten
feet from the ground in the crotch of an
enormous apple tree, and old residents
say that they al remember when that
bowlder could be sat upon, so near TO
tho ground was it when they were
young.
a Saybrook farmer tells the story
about his hanging his scythe in a
maple tree several years age. after a
days moving. Tho scythc was left
there all winter and the next summer,
until the time for hnying came around
again. On going TO get the scythe he
found the blade so deeply imbedded in
the soft bark of the maple as to be i'm
movable, and he let it remain. The
tree is still standing in the front yard
OF n fashionable residence in hat vii
L. -
project two arms, forming n letter T,
apparently part of the tree themselves.
The scythe blade has been entirely coy
cred with bark. Tho handle Of the
scytho years ago rotted of.-New
York Sun.
, 1889-04-17
why Sixty Seconds Make n Minute.


Why is our hour divided into sixty
minutes, each minute into sixty sec
onds, etc.l Simply and solely because
in Babylonia there existed, by the
side of the decimal system of notation,
another system, the sexagesimal,
which counted by sixties. Why that
number should have been chosen, is
clear enough, and it speaks well for
h practical sense of those ancient
Babylonian merchants. There is no
number which has SC many divisors
as sixty. The Babylonian's divided
the suns daily journey into twenty
four parasangs, or 720 stadia- Each
parasang or hour was subdivided into
sixty minutes. A parasang is about
a German mile, and Babylonian as
tronomers compared the
made by the sun during ono hour at
the time OF the equinox to the prog
ress made by a good walker during
the same time, both accomplishing one
parasang. The whole course Of the
sun during the twenty-four equinoc-
tial hours was fixed at twenty-four
~parasangs, or 720 stadia, or 800 de
grees.
This system was handed ON to the
Greeks, and H~ipparchus, the great
philosopher, who lived about $50 B. O.,
introduced the Babylonian hour into
Europe. Ptolemy, who wrote about
100 A D., and whose name still lives
in hat of the Ptolemaic system of as
tronomy, gave still wider currency to
the Babylonian way of reckoning time.
1t was carried along on the quiet
stream of traditional knowledge
through the Middle Ages, and, strange
to say, it sailed down safely over the
Niagara of the French revolution.
For the French, when revolutionizing
weights, measures, coins, and dates.
and subjecting all to the decimal sys-
ON of reckoning, were induced by
some unexplained motive to respect
u clocks and watches, and allowed
our dials to remain sexagesimal, that
is, Babylonian, each hour consisting
of sixty minutes. Hero you see again
the wonderful Conference OF the world,
and how what we call knowledge is
the result of an unbroken tradition of
a teaching descending from father to
son. Not moro than about a hundred
arms would reach from us to the
builders Of tho palaces of Babylon,
and enable us TO shake hands with the
founders of tho oldest pyramids and
TO thank them for what they have
done for us.-Max Muller in Fort
nightly Review.