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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-15
RIVER FLOODS.
How Great Countries Have Been
Devastated and Destroyed.

What the Experiences Of Csnfuriss Has
Demonstrated-Ths Sad Destructton
Wrought By the Axe Alone
Trce-t uItare ~ > Preventives
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-15

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, 1889-08-08

Many who have become enfeebled by
long confinement II close attention to
the calls Of sedentary occupations rush
away for a short holiday, and endeavor
by systematic over exertion t. make up
for the inactivity of the previous months.
Every year brings its sad warnings of
this folly in a record of fatalities, while
the experience Of most practitioners
shows yet more clearly that this over
strain is followed by prolonged illness.
The circulatory and respiratory systems
work hand in hand, and rebel against
any sudden disturbance of their ordinary
routine. The danger is always greatest
when there is any heart weakness.
In moments of intense nervous excite
ment the breathing is frequently .uncon-
s~ciously stopped, and the strain upon an
enfeebled heart her becomes very Sc
we're. Emotional excitement necessarily
produces palpitation, and the flxation of
the thorax Chest then adds to the diff
Guilty at the moment when the heart is
at its weakest. The prime requisite for
n happy summer outing, for q beneficial
vacation, is the harmonious setting.
Keep cool; don't fret your nerves; strive
to keep your temper, and be deliberate.
Don't hurry. A vacation in the summer
Is n good thing, a very good thing, pro-
vided you go about like n sensible being.
Let us drop our "beastly" American way
of doing it. 1t is the pace that is snap
ping SO many strings. Go slow.-Medi-
cal Classics.
, 1889-08-08
Electrical Exhibition.

A proposal has been made to hold an
exhibition of electrical engineering and
mechanical inventions in the capital of
Scotland next year, and the influential
support promised to the scheme augurs
well for its financial success, while the
scientists and engineers associated with
it guarantee In a great measure that the
exhibition will be worthy of the rapid
development of electrical practice, which
1t is intended to illustrate. Every exhi-
bition is associated to q more or less ex-
tent with a great passing event or with
the celebration of past memorable occa-
sions, and the promoters of this scheme
have decided on the year 1890, as it is
likely to see the completion of one of the
greatest undertakings in a branch of civil
engineering, in the opening for railway
traffic of the Forth bridge.-Engineering.
, 1889-08-08
How tho boy. Saw tho clrcn..

The admirers and owners of cats in
Camden are up In arms over the sudden
disappearance Of their feline pets. For
the last two OF three days complaints
have been made all over the city by own
ers of cats that their animals were miss
ing. The secret of their mysterious dis
appearance is out at last. Tho Royal
Menagerie and Dime Circus is In Camden
with a tent full of wild animals.
The manager has discovered an mex
pensive food for his beasts-live cats
which cost considerably less than fresh
meat. The managers mode of securing
the cats is TO offer small boys q ticket to
h show for every cat brought to him.
The Camden small boy, as soon as he
learned of the circus mans offer, started
out with a bag on his back to catch cats,
and the back alleys have been full of
these Juvenile hunters. After being
brought TO the circus the cats are stored
away until dinner time, when they are
thrown into the cages Of the hungry
tigers and ions."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
, 1889-08-08

During the past few days a series OF
very interesting tests ave been made in
heating n railway passenger coach, fur
nished by the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad company, at the
Byrd street station, by means of the Bur
ton electric heaters. These tests have
been conducted by Mr.. Z. ". Trafford,
electrical engineer and superintendent of
the Virginia Electric Light and Power
company, whose command Of the neces-
sary measuring instruments enabled him
to get exact figures of the amount Of cur
rent used in the work.
Fourteen heaters, having n radiating
surface of seventy square feet, were
placed in the car, one under every other
seat, a vacancy on one side being filed
by a heater on the opposite side. Wires
were run from the power station on
Seventh street into the car through one
of its front windows, and a switch was
provided for letting on or cutting OF the
current. The main object of the test
was TO demonstrate that by the use OF a
powerful current for a short time only q
car could be heated to the desired tenn
perature by means of the Burton electric
heaters moro quickly than by any other
known method; and the next was to
show that this temperature could be
maintained by the use of a current of
much less voltage as cheaply as the pres
emit methods of warming railway cars.
According to the calculations of Mr..
Trafford, the expense, represented in the
use of coal, of heating a car with "A
strong current TO a difference of 90 dogs.
Fair. above the outside temperature,
would be ut the rate of twelve cents per
hour, or six cents for half an hour, the
limit of time 1t is proposed to take to
warm n a before it is attached to a
train. He estimates that the cost of
maintaining this temperature from q
small dynamo, after the car had been put
In motion, would be, for coal consumed,
n and a half cent per hour.-Rich-
mond CVa-) State.
, 1889-08-08
VS.
r ELECTION


One of the many important subjects
which will engage the attention OF the
constitutional convention which meets
here in less than a month from date, is
the question of naturalization. As it now
stands any foreign born person who has
lived here for six months and declared
his intention to become a citizen may
vote at any general election held in the
territory. This has left the door wide
open for the practice of the grossest
frauds.
The Omaha Republican in an article
on the subject of American citizenship
emphasizes very forcibly the necessity for
more stringent election laws.
while we believe that more people
are coming to us than we have any use
or work for it says, yet when they
come, if not paupers or criminals we must
receive them under our present laws. But
we are under no obligation to give them
the rights OF suffrage until they become
actual citizens. And yet this Is done in
many states. and we fear it will be done
in some if not all Of the new states.
"A naturalized citizen is entitled to
vote, but in several states a for
eigner who has only declared his intention
to become a citizen is allowed to vote. 1t
is so in Nebraska. Thus a man who is
yet actually a foreigner can neutralizc the
vote Of an American citizen.
Members Of congress are voted for by
legislatures which elect senators Of the
United States are also voted for by them.
and, therefore, the question becomes
national.
1T will be the duty of the coming con-
Rress to revise not only our immigration
laws. but our naturalization laws. lmmi-
grafton must be restricted and citizenship
must be protected. The United States
government has a perfect right to require
of aliens that they shall be able to read
either the Declaration of Independence or
the constitution of the United States.
This requirement presupposes a knowl-
edge of our language and a fair degree of
information. regarding our institu-
tions. 1t is no answer to this to say that
many American born citizens cannot read.
They absorb Americahism by their con-
tact with other Americans during the
twentv-oue years from birth to manhood.
They grow up under our institutions,
thew hear evervthing. understand cverv-
, 1889-08-08

The V~iennese journalist who undertook
to drive in a cab from the Austrian to the
French capital has completed his journey
successfully. However, the two horses
were completely exhausted after travel
ing 800 miles in twenty-one days. Herr
Loewy could have reached Paris a day
earlier, but his driver thought it unlucky
to finish a journey on a Friday, so rested
outside the city. The chief difficulty in
the journey was a terrific thunderstorm
at Strassburg, which threatened to de-
stroy the cab altogether.-Paris Special.
, 1889-08-08
Death in the Vinegar cruet.

Acting under the provisions IF n re-
cent law the secretary Of the state board
of health has collected samples of the
vinegar sold in this and other Indiana
cities, and has just completed a careful
analysis. OF eight samples thoroughly
tested, but n proves to be pure cider
vinegar, and the other seven are nothing
mo than n decoction of rain water and
sulphuric acid. Tho largest vinegar
mandatory in this city, which claims
to sell pure apple vinegar, furnished the
worst stuff that was found among the
samples. The secretary says that It will
destroy the stomach even of an ostrich
if used literally. The law as enacted by
the last legislature prohibits the manu-.
facture and sale of any vinegar not the
product of pure apple juice. 1t must
not have any artificial coloring; must
have IN acidity equivalent to the pres.
ence of not less han a per cent. by
weight of acetic cid.-Indianapolis Cor.
Chicago Herald.
, 1889-08-08
MINERAL RESOURCES.
Value of the Products of the United States
for

Value of the Products of the United State.
for 8
The sixth report on "The Mineral Re
sources of the United States" by David
T. Day, chief of the division of mining
statistics and technology, United States
geological survey, will soon be issued.
The report is for the calendar year
1888, and contains detailed statistics for
that period, as well as for preceding
years.
The following are the totals of pro-
duction of the more important mineral
substances in 1888, as given in the re-
port:
Metals-The total spot value of all
iron and steel made during the year, in
first stages of manufacture, excluding
Implications, was S145, 000, 900, a de-
crease of SEQ, 103, 900 as compared with
1887. The gold product was valued at
$50, 175 900, an excess of $40, 900 over
the previous year; while silver of the
coming value of $50, 1876, 900 showed
some increase over the previous years
production. OF copper the total product,
including the yield of the imported ores,
was 231 ,27O,622 pounds, a decided in
crease. The product of white lead was
valued at s10,6sO, 900, that of zinc at
IS. 900, s55, and zinc white at 81, 900, 900.
The nickel product was worth S115, 51S,
and that of platinum $1,000, while the
production of aluminium gives promise
Of future cheapness.
Fuels-Al kinds of commercial Goals
produced were valued at $204, 221 900;
coke, $14, 200, 600; petroleum, 1874, sos, $50.
The amount of coal displaced by the use
of natural gas was IA, 1853, $50 tons, val
ued at S22, Coz, 1913.
Structural materials-The value of
building stone produced was S25, SOC, 900,
$500, 900 more than the preceding year;
brick and tiles were valued ut S49, 218, 900;
lime reached the value of S24,5 43, 500,
and cement showed n decrease, with q
value of 81, 533, $50.
Miscellaneous-No systematic mining
for precious stones was carried on in the
United States during 1888, but chance
discoveries in gems amounted to S84, $50
in the rough, and gold quartz valued at
S75, 900 was found.
Salt was produced to the value of
S4,377, 204, a very slight increase; borax
was valued at $455 $40; mica al $40, 900,
and graphite at 1888, 900.
The amount of mineral waters sold
reached the value of 81, 700, 300, a slight
increase over the previous years sales.
Tho total value of the minerals pro-
duced in 1888 was 1891, $50 ,991. The re-
suit is an increase Of nearly $50, 1000, 900
beyond the value of the product in 1887.
The unprecedented stimulus given to the
production of copper by an artificial
price increased the total value of that
product nearly s13, OOO, 900, or nearly
enough to offset the decline in the total
value of pig iron. The other important
factors in the increase were coal and the
other fuels which followed the increased
quantity of metals. With the antici-
pated decline of copper to the normal de-
mand, a decline in the total value of the
product in 1880 will not be inconsistent
with the natural development of our
mineral resources.
To sum up, the value of all metals was
$3.50, 245, 403, and that of all mineral
products 1895 Ala ,52S, giving a grand
total of S591 COS, 931.
, 1889-08-08
How Mon Get Rich.

That wasn't n bad investment which
Erwin Davis made n couple of years
ago. Erwin Davis is the capitalist who
30 successfully tried to sell his gallery of
paintings some months ago at fancy up
set prices. He Is a smarter ~financier than
picture seller. About two months ago
he happened to learn that the second
mortgage bonds of the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad company could be
purchased at n very low figure. Davis
has q yearning for a low priced railroad
bond He looked into the matter and
found that the company had defaulted
on the interest, and was apparently GO
ing to wreck and ruin. He bought the
entire issue, 1000, 900, from the dis
gusted holders at ten cents on the dol
lar. That was an Investment of $500, 900.
Being Interested in the road he now
insinuated himself into the management,
and very soon he controlled the board of
directors. He 30 worked things hat an
entire reconstruction of the road WINS
doomed imperatively necessary. He then
invited the attention of Mr.. Huntington
system would not be complete without
the Richmond and Allegheny. Hunting
ton and Davis put their heads together
and the result was a n~inety-nine year
lease of the Davis road to the Huntington
system, the second mortgage bonds be-
ing guaranteed 4 per cent. interest, which
makes their market value eighty cents
on the dollar. Profit to shrewd Erwin
Davis in two years, $1,000, 000.-New
York World.
, 1889-08-08
Reducing the rurpIus.

The disposition of the surplus IN the
United States treasury engages the atten-
ton of our statesmen. but u more vital
question has our attention, and that is the
reduction of the surplus consumptives.
Since the discovery and introduction OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. there has been a marked decrease in
the mortality from this dreaded disease,
and it is possible to still further reduce the
number of consumptives, Howl By
keeping constantly at hand a bottle Of
DIR. Kings New Discovery and using
according TO directions upon the appear,
ance of the first symptoms, such as q
cough, a cold. a sore throat, a chest OF
side pain. Taken thus carly a cure is
guaranteed. Trial bottles free at DR.. w.
N. Hunts drug store.
, 1889-08-08
Cholera in ian

DIR. f. d. Larkc of Rogers City
Michigan, says the epidemic of last year
in Presque, Isle county, in which so
many persons lost their lives, was choleric
dissentry instead of cholera as first re-
ported. He used Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says
it succeeded, where all other remedies
failed. Not a single case was lost in
which it was used. This remedy is the
most reliable and most successful medi.
cine known for collie. cholera morbus,
dyssentry. diarrhoea aud bloody fux.
Twenty-Five and so cent bottles for sale by
B. B. David, druggist.
, 1889-08-08
a.. A. II.

The National Encampment of the G.
A. X. will be held this year at Milwaukee,
Wis. Aug. PC to 81. Agents of the
Union Pacific railway will sell tickets to
Milwaukee and return at the lowest one
way first class fare in Nebraska and Kan
sas Aug. 81 to 2S inclusive; in Colorado
and Wyoming Aug. 20 to 81 inclusive;
limited to return leaving Milwaukee Aug.
u to Sept. 5 final limit Sept. 10. For
those who desire to return later than
Sept. 5 the limit on tickets will be ex
tended to Sept. 30 on application to the
Joint agent Of terminal lines at Milwaukee.
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyo.
ming should be well represented at this
encampment and all should go via the
Overland Route" For further inform
alton apply to
4. l.. LoMAX, G. P. A.,
Omaha, Neb.
g. w. SWEET, Agent,
CHEYENNE, Wyo.
, 1889-08-08
Cardinal newman in petter Healtn.

Cardinal Newman has returned from
Malvern to Birmingham in improved
health-being, In fact, as active at 80 as
he was when he and the century were q
decade younger. Though his mind is
clear as ever, his hands have forgotten
their cunning. He writes only with great
effort, and now. the difficulty is increased
by a slight failsre of eyesight. But the
cardinal still sees well enough to read his
daily paper and to scan the obituary col
umn, in which the record of the deaths
Of persons who are almost centenarians
makes him feel that he is not so very old
after all.-London World.
, 1889-08-08

Wyoming Creamery and jerks Butter
at K. s. Johnston & Bro.
, 1889-08-08

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & Hist
Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-07
The Mortgage.

After much anxiety, and a great deal of hard work, the editor of the santa Anna Cal. Standard has sue ceeded in lifting a mortgage from his rancho in Orangethorp and to- day exults in the full ownership of "siXty-one acres of as fine land as California boats.' Now that the heavy burden has fallen from his weary shoulders he indulges in this descriptive sketch of what mort gage is like and "how the old thing works" in many cases:
 "A mortgage is a queer institu- tiOn. 1t makes man rustic and keeps him poor. It is strong in- centive to action, and q wholesome reminder of the ileeting months and years. It is fully as symbolical in its meaning as the hour glass and the scythe, that represent death. A mortgage also represents industry, because it is never idle and never rests. It is like bosom friend, be- cause the greater the adversity the closer it sticks to a fellow It is like a brave soldier-it never hesitates at charges nor fears to close in on the enemy. It is like the sand-bag of the thug-silent in application, but deadly in it's effect. It is like the hand of proyidence-it spreads all over creation, and it's influence is ev- anywhere visible. It is like the grasp of devil iish--the longer it holds the greater its strength. It will eX- crcise feeble energies and lend ac- tiyity to sluggish brain, but no mat ter how hard the debtor works, the mortgage works harder still. A mortgage is good thing to have in the family-provided always it is in somebody else's family. It is like a boil-always good thing to have on some other fellow. It makes one sour, cross, selfish, unsociable and miserable, and rarely does hlm any good, except to eXerclse him. In that respect it is equal to Vigor of Life or the latest patent medicine. We've had our last one as far as we know ourselves. We would rather have the ague than have a mortgage. Adieu, old death pail, adieu, "- Ex- change.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-07
Great Storm---Take Warning

>t. Louis Republic Correspondence.
 CANTON, Mo-. July IA great event in meteorology will take place between September l2 to b, 1889, and is destined to be the greatest storm period that has occurred in the past 100 years, or during the present century. This storm will be universal, covering every meteorolo- gical district of the globe.
 The main part of the storm will in all probability take it's course along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. produc- ing terrific hurricanes, tidal waves and possibly earthquakes. The in terior portion of the United States will be severely affected also by eddies of spurs from the main storm, which will spread over the country in high gales and terrific storms during the passage of the illalu StOI!il
 There was a time when we felt timid in publishing our great storm predictions, but since we have offered reward after reward to any or all who would find single failure in our predicted tornado periods and none have come forward to claim the reward, we feel confident that our forecasts are favorably received everywhere. And though it is with sorrowful feelings that we announce the above approaching disaster, ac- campanied as it will be with fearful loss of life and property, yet we feel it our duty to warn the people of danger in time to prepare for it, and hope the warning will be of inestima- ble value to them.
 The signal service, with all its fa- cilties, are not competent or able to give timely warning, so we thought It best to make the news public-the sooner the better. Yours in the in terest of science and humanity.
 PRoF. GEO. F. RooT,
 Meteorologist.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-07
To Cure the Taste for Liquor.

A correspondent of the New York Sun, in answer to the question, Can any one give me cure for drunkenness says:
 Indulgence in spirits after awhile which is longer or shorter accord ing to the constitution of the person produces irritation. inflammation and fever of the stomach, hence the craving for drink and the greater the fever the greater the craving. As spirits act also on the nervous system and on the brain the nervous system becomes impaired and the brain weakened. Who can deny that person ailing in these several ways is laboring under serious dis ease? He has then no will power to exercise, because the seat of the will is in the nervous centers, and when these are impaired or destroyed so Is also the will power.
 ''Here is the cure: Let the per son have within his reach small vial of the best kind of tincture of Peru vian bark and when the craving foI liQuor comes on him let him take a teaspoonful of the tincture every two hours. In few days the taste for liquor is destroyed, and destroyed while indulging in it, for tincture oi Peruvian bark is spirits into whicl has been drawn all the substance oi Peruvian bark, It is to be found il every dru4 store, bat il should be oi the very best,
 "pcruuan bark is q tonic. It i' also the best, if not the only y cure known for fever. It is from Peru. vian bark that quinine is extracted and, moreover, it is anti-periodic It is-by these three agencies that il destroys the craving for liquor. Any one wishing to be cured of that all ment can be in the way l have de- scribcd but there are few drunkards indeed, who wish to be cured, '- EX
Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-07

spent q long time, wrapped in our Harnesses, by blazing fire discuss ing the curious problem of Nieland's deliverance. Whether the balloons were more frightened at the lion than at the man, and so associated them- selves with the man for protection, or whether they, by some subtle instinct had recognized the man s fear, and had come to his assistance which seemed the more likely ex- planation-and both the human being and the brutes, with a knowledge of each others terror. formed tacit mutual protection society against a common enemy, there seemed to be an alliance that ended as soon as the danger was past. My friend was inclined to believe in this latter theory; and pointed out that the balloons opened path for him in their circle, and witnessed his de- parture with the greatest tranquility. But, whatever the cause may have been, Midland was mutually thank ful and never afterwards, when we were shooting along the banks of the Modder river, would he kill any of his friends, the baboons. '-lllustra- ted London News.