Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-05-04

ALE UNIV EhcAA1 low S1AeNChN1
on its rolls-a gain of 120 over last
year.
THE thaw at Montreal cost the con-
tractors OF the ice palace 5000. IT
was almost as expensive as q seige.
IT is whispered among those who
presume to know that Ward McAllis-
ter, as leader of the select few, is to
be dethroned and that Percy Van Stan
will reign In his stead.
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER has become a
more inveterate cigar-chewer than
ever. He sometimes INDUCES in TWEEN.
ty cigars day. His cigars are spoken
of as Widow Buffers weeds"
EVANGELIST MOODY is holding daily
services In a mammoth pavilion in San
Francisco, and although the place ac-
commodities 5000 people, it can't begin
to hold the crowds that come to the re-
viEal meetings.
THE discovery has just bsen made
that Daniel Boone was once a member
of the Virginia legislature. His many
biographers never suspected it and il
was reserved for newspaper man to
bring it to light.
OLD BoxEM Brown of New Mexico
is coffin peddler. He travels with a
big wagon, team of mules. and about
twenty cheap assorted collins. He says
he knows hundred men who already
have their collins in their houses.
SENATOR VANCE of North Carolina
had one of his eyes successfully re-
moved. He began to lose the sight OF
it more than a year ago and it has
grown worse until recently, when he
became entirely blind in that eye.
a REPORT is current among the pool
men of Washington that Butler Malone,
son Of Virginia's well-known republican
leader, has become plunger, and that
his winnings aggregate some $40, 900 or
$4,000 during the past sixty days.
The sultan of Turkey is one of the
most enthusiastic chess amateurs in
Europe. He will play the game for
hours without intermission and will
not allow any matter of state to inter-
fere with the problem in which at the
time he is engaged
ARTIST WHISTLER, the eccentric pu-
gilist, is an American, but is not fond
of his native land. He is a slender
man, with delicate face and a nervous
manner. When he first went to Lon
don no made up his mind 10 take a
short cut to notoriety. How well he
succeeded is well known.
Mr.. STURGEON is recruiting very
slowly. Writing from Mentone on
Christian Perfection he says: ~
am too i'll to write on any subject with
force and at length. / labor for per-
lection, but in this life 1 never expect
to be perfect. Like Porter Cartwright,
/ may be perfect in spots"
IT is whispered among those. who
presume to know that Ward McAllister,
as a leader Of the select New York few,
is to be dethroned and that Percy Van
Stan win reign in his stead. The ques-
ton that will then agitate the minds of
those followers OF fashion will be to
know whether or not Mr.. Van Stan has
''got him on the list. !"
GEORGE KEENAN,, the journalist and
author, lives in a quaint and modest
little house in Washington. He is
forty-three years old, and has a long,
thin face; his mouth is concealed by a
heavy mustache; his eyes are large
and dark, and his figure is spare Mr..
KEENAN, keeps himself in condition
by daily spin Of ten miles on his
bicycle.
MAJOR WILLIAM H. MARTIN, men,
Der Of congress from Texas, is six feet
tall, thin, and carries himself like a
soldier. His hair is black and curly,
his forehead low, and his eyes near to-
gether. He wears eyeglasses, and is
usually seen with big cigar in his
mouth. Major Martin is sixty-five
years old, the father OF nine children,
and the owner of ten thousand head OF
cattle and ten thousand acres of ranch
land
The Empress of Austria recently
visited a small town where the in
habitants were SO delighted that, to do
her the highest honor possible, they
elected her member OF the Chamber
Of Deputies, an honor she was obliged
70 decline. In recognition OF this
favor che sent quite a sum of money
for the poor, but the mayor was oblig-
I'd 70 decline the gift, as they had not