Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-07-13
suPE RFlclAL SURVEY.


birmingham, Ala, cost 81, 10000.
A copy of John Eliots bible has Just been
purchased by the trustees OF the British
Museum
There were 1896 pictures submitted for
this years exhibition at the London
Academy.
Experiments made by M. Mosso Of Turin,
prove that ecls' blood is as poisonous as the
venom Of snakes
A Greek professor, Paresi by name, has
found In the milk and pulp OF the cocanut a
specific for tapeworm.
A Goldendale, w. r.. colt fell into a
shaft and its mother went insane with
grief before IL was rescued
r. BurweIl Green, OF Washington, Ga,
has a biscuit that was baked at Manassas
Junction in 1851 1t is little stale
A nugget weighing 5oi pennyweights and
worth about $500 has just been taken from
the gold mines hear Gainesville, Ga.
Saccharine, the new sweet will not
erystaiize nor ferment: consequently II can
not hope TO supersede the plebian sugar.
II Is estimated hat Americans viii spend
S40,0O9,000 In Europe this season, OF
which probably 81, 100000 will 60 for tips.
"Ardenbrite," the new invisible lacquer
just brought out in London is proof against
weather, steam, smoke, sea air, or sea
water. al
chrysanthemums are largely grown IN
Dalmatia and worked up by chemists
there into the well known Dalmatian insect
powder
A devil fish weighing 1900 pounds was
caught some days ago in the Gulf Of Next
60 at St James, Fla, bya party Of tourist
fishermen.
John Battles, who died recently at
Dorchester, Mass, aged seventy six, was
one OF family Of eight who all became
useful school teachers.
Railroad men say there are between two
thousand and three thousand tramps Of the
most desperate order along the line Of rail
road between Ogden and Reno. Cal.
A circular has just been issued by the
French Botanical Society inviting foreign
botanists TO take part in the Botanical Con-
gress 20 be held AT Paris in August next
Canesieo, n. ", raised so many onions
last year that growers are now dumping
them INTO rayines and guilies 10 get rid OF
them. A New Yorker bought enough 70
A0aa car Tor II.
Barmaids are going out OF fashion III
England. much TO the disgust and amaze
mont Of the old FOUNDERS and they threaten
70 emigraic unless a speedy check is pat
upon the absurd mandate
Several head Of cattle were bitten By
mad dog which passed through Merritt
township, Michigan, the other day Some
sheep which were attacked BY the animal
butied themselves 10 death.
A couple OF Springfield Mass. men have
devised a metal roll for drawing out slivers,
that not merely docs the work better than
tho old leathor-coyered roll, but win save
The spinners the pretty penny now paid out
In repairs upon them.
Hereafter the boats 10 oe carried By Al
lantic steamers instead Of being made OF
wood viii be made OF steel in one piece.
Wooden boats rot and are easily crushed.
The new boats viii be built by machinery
especially made for rolling them out in all
sizes In a single plate.
Joe Kemp, Of Buena Vista, Ga, had
very large rat the other day that was cap
tured and killed by his cat Its shoulders,
neck and stripe down the back to the tail
were the color OF tho common gray rat:
the balance Of the body and feet were
white, like the white rat
A ghost has appeared near Akron, Ala,
az a point on .he railroad where man was
run over and killed last summer. A ghosily
figure in white with arms extended. was
seen there by young couple who were out
riding the other evening, Both were badly
scared and so was the horse.
new fence is made Of soft steel, cut
while in the plate and drawn out after the
fashion OF paper love baskets. IL is pro.
poseu also 10 make iron laihing by the same
process, which, Il is said, will be fire resist
ing and capable OF being bent and hammer.
cd into corners and around curves in a way
TO put wood quite out Of countenanee.
The military custom OF saluting by
bringing the hand into horizontal posi-.
tion over the eyebrows is thus accounted
for; II is supposed to date back 10 the
tournaments Of the middle lagos, when,
after the queen Of beauty was enthroned,
the knights who were to take part IN the
sports OF the day marched past the dais or
which she sat, and as they passed shielded
their eyes from the rays Of her beauty
Among precious stones the ruby, the
topaz, and the sapphire are composed main.
~ OF alumina, colored with different earthly
and metallic salts. The diamond Is car
bon crystallized, as everybody knows: the
garnet IL mixture Of silica and alumina;
the opal, silica and water; the turquoise,
phosphate Of alumina, colorc6 with salts of
copper which also turns silicate Of mag.
nesia into the cleaning green malachite
John Rausch, a San Francisco express
man, believes that marriage is failure.
He married pretty girl. after investing
about twenty-five dollars In bridal outfit
for her, and established her IN acomfortabic
fiat They spent Saturday night together,
and MIR. Rausch went 70 his work Sunday.
When he returned home Sunday night his
brand.new wife had disappeared, taking
with her everything of value she could lay
her hands on.
Fourteen years ago a, farmer living near
Deaance, Iowa, struck huge tush at tho
depsh of twenty-six feet Mhilc he was dig
ging well. He laid the wall of the well
on top OF the tuslx hut fancying nfteruard