Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31
LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.


made by mixing chloride of zinc with the
pulp in the process of manufacture.
The skeleton of the largest elephant ever
killed in India is to be sent to the museum
at Madras 1t is 10 feet inches high.
The cultivation of piueapples Is rapidly
extending to southern Florida. One grow
er will have 100000 pines to ship this sea-
son.
A farmer by the name OF Josh Virgins,
OF Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who
is short Of stock, works his boy instead Of
niue.
Twenty-Five cases of insanity have been
brought before the judge at Tacoma, w.
r., since last March, ami one-half OF
the cases are of persons who came from the
east.
Look out for your rubber boots A Yale
sophomore is very seriously i'll in New
Haven his blood having been poisoned BY
the aniline dyes of the lining of his rubber
boots.
The height of snoobishness is reached at
English bazlrs, where money is taken as
the price of an introduction to this anG
that beauty or titled lady presiding oven
tables.
The supreme court OF Mississippi has
imposed two fines of SO each upon rail
road for failure 10 provide separate but
Ike accommodations for the black AMI
while races.
OF this years graduating class at Prince
ton, thirty-two WILL it is said, become
lawyers, twenty-oae min sters, fourte en-
doctors. twelve business men and two
newspaper men.
Down in North Carolina an eleven year.
old son OF the boss brick mason is earning
his $3.50 day. He is at work on the ont
side of the wall, where none but experts
handle the troweL
The ruling passion was exsmplifed in q
Williamsport, Pa, lady VINO, seeing food
stained baby clothes sold at a sacrifice, ex-
pressed regret that she hadn't baby tt
utilize the bargains.
The greatest snuff taking country in the
world is France, though it shows a decline
in the habit In 1869 the consumption was
1900, COB pounds, or seven ounces per head.
Now it is five ounces.
A tramp stole clothes line worth p cents
from an Indiana farmer, and eighteen men
turned out and pursued him for thirty miles
to give him a switching. The object was to
convert him to honesty.
The total Indian population is less than
go 900. OF these 1922 live in houses and
9,6l2 families are engaged in agriculture.
And among these so-called savages there
are Is, 663 church members.
A Mexican robber who was shot by order
of the government received six bullets In
his breast and got up and ran thirty rods
before falling down to die. The Mexican
tough is a hard chap to kill.
The hotels in some OF the larger Mexican
cities are now run after the American fash.
ion, except that if you kick TO the landlord
about the bugs he has the porter 60 up and
shoot as many as he can find.
Frenchman tried his flying machine
in the suburbs of Paris the other day. He
flew off barn and it will be several
months before his broken legs viii allow him
TO canter around as blithely as before.
The State Geologist Of West Virginia be-
lieVes there are caves in that state twice as
large as the mammoth, but the trouble is
to find them. Whenever hunters foot
slips into hole he should Investigate.
None Of the railroads in India run bag
gage cars, and no traveller is allowed 70
take trunk Whatever he carries must
be bundled up and no porter will move a
bundle three feet witho 1t demanding ten
cents
A very handsome granite monument has
been placed over the grave Of Edward
Payson Roe, the novelist, in the Cornwall
village cemetery. Upon it are engraved a
number of quotations from his best known
works. The monument was erected by
Mrs. Roe.
Great Britain counts on soon having the
largest dynamo in the world. 1t is being
made for the new electric light works at
Deptford. The shaft of the machine viii
be turned out of a block of steel weighing
seventy-ive tons, which mas just been cast
in Glasgow.
There are some curious men on the legal
bench in this country. A Connecticut court
fines man $ for lying in wait TO kill his
wife and stabbing her, and an Ohio court
calls it assault and battery when four
bullets are fired into farmer and he is
robbed Of his wallet.
A setter dog, owned by Robert Bruden, OF
Bristol, Pa. has just been found after hav-
ing been locked up in barn without food
or water for a period of six weeks. When
. ht5NOfSitu bthi Jug was % lLiu dS a ShtuSlc
and unable to stand up. He, however, soon
revived on being fed.
The experiment Of going down the Idaho
mine at Grass Valley, Cal, in submarine
armor to put out the fire has been unsuc-
cessful The neat was too great and gas
passed under the helmets OF the two men
who descended. They reached the 9O0-foot
level, or within 100 feet of the fire.
On the lawn Of Joel Scarlet, at Kennett
Square, Pa, few evenings since, a circle
about four feet in diameter seemed to have
been scalded in the grass. On closer look
it was found covered with yellowish fungi,
which turned bluish-black when the sun
came out. The phenomenon has been OBJ
served several times, and was called a
l.fairy circle"
A milkman at Pottstown, Pa, served a
gell-to family whose regular supply was
.ent's worth of milk day, the cent being
left outside in cup. He lost on measure,
but filed the cup daily to oblige them. But
when on recent morning he found three
cups set out with penny in each instead Of
a larger vessel with three pennies he
stlasg@t Z. time to drop the contract and
asrixe AWAY
q fi0nssstsaper gives the following rule