Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-10
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The liberals In Spain dro sGaN@k - @%
aaSs universal suffrage.
let man drink too much hot flip and he
IL apt to become fiippant.
Blind Tom plays by ear. He could ncs
play at sight il he could see.
II Young man is successful he is well
spoken d. II he fails his name is Dennis.
A man accuse murder, wishing to
prove himself il !. ! should conduct his
own case.
An eccentric Burlington man has built
house on wheels, where he resides with nus
wife and children.
Lightning struck pine tree on the FARM
of W. F. Spann of Webster county, Ga,
and killed twenty hogs that had taken shell
ter under it
A temple at Hakodate, Japan, which had
been many years building, and was WITHIN
ten days of completion, was burnt July TO-
Some of the wood carvings were magnificent
and the edifice cost an enormous sum OF
money.
A resident of Sioux City Ia, who for thir-
ty years or more grudgingly paid taxes ON
twenty very poor Jersey acres, has Just sold
them for above $4,000, in consequence OF the
y
tile, brick and pottery making.
Guide boards have been growing numer-
Gus in the country towns of New England
for few years past. In some sections OF
Massachusetts at every corner are set solid
granite posts ten feet high, to which are
bolted iron sign boards with raised letters.
Early in the present century there were
about 100 professed florists in the United
States, and their combined greenhouses COW
cred 5000 square feet Of glass. There are
now over 10000 florists, occupying $1,000, 900
fest of glass, or about 1000 acres OF green
houses.
A novel electric railway has been complet-
ed,running from the shore of Lake Lucerne
over bed cut in the solid rock to the sum-
nit of the Burgenstock, /, $50 feet up. 1t has
a gradient of from 81 to 50 per cent The
electricity is generated by water wheel in
the River Aar.
Coughing and sneezing can be stopped by
pressing on the nerves of the lips in the
neighborhood of the nose Pressing in the
neighborhood of the ear, or pressing very
hard on the top of the mouth, inside, is also
means of stopping coughing. The will has
immense power, also.
11er6 Is now u pDSlOlllCc 1OI GNSIS INV
men. women and children in the United
States. If the expenses Of carrying the
mails were paid direct from the pockets Of
the people, pro rata, each citizen would pay
an average of eighty-fve cents year for
having his mail carried.
A Dutch missionary in Africa bought a
negro boy 2 years old, who was deaf and
dumb, for six pounds Of salt. On account Of
his infi1mity, but for the interposition Of
this missionary, the child would have been
put to death. He is now pupil in the insti.
tuition for deaf mutes at Maestrict.
A certain means Of stopping dog fight, o.
Ioosening vicious dogs hold upon anything
Is showering something over the animal
that will produce sneezing Be his viii
power ever so strong, the motion of sneezinI
Involuntary opens dogs jaws. Peppe
answers very well, but snuff is the best, a
It can be used without limit.
To perforate glass an exchange gives tn
following directions: Stick piece of stii
clay or putty on the part where you wish t
make the hole. Make a hole In the putty tn
size YOU want the hole, reaching the glass, @
course Into this hole pour little molte
lead, when, unless it is very thick glass, tn
piece Will lI1lleuldJ6ly uTOp Oubs
In 1890 will end the term Of 100 years dun
tng which the cities of Boston and Phil
delphia have each enjoyed the revenue froI
a bequest of 5000 made by Beniami
Franklin The money was to be loaned t
young married artihcers and the trust ha
been executed, although the lapse OF tn
century requires a new disposition of tn
funds. 1t is significant that Wills in Bosto
the 5000 have become only $4,000, and ths
IN both cases the amount is less than Franl
lin estimated it would be.
People generally have little idea Of ii
significance of our Alaskan possession
The coast line of -laska, 1921 miles,
nearly twice the combined Atlantic an
Pacific coast lines of the United State
The market value of Alaska fisheries IL
last year is estimated at S3,OOO.OOO. tho
sand salmon, averaging ten pounds ,eac
have been taken in Sitka Bay in sing
haul The seal fisheries yield to the go1
eminent 1911, 500 annually, or enough to pa
4 per cent on the amount paid Russia Il
country. A single island is said to be pra
tically mountain of ore and to contain mi
eral wealth enough to pay off the whole
our national debt.
An EnRllSn STD CdpbtIH WIlVDo W HiiS 1@ie1
pool Mercury that during a voyage arouI
Cape Horn he measured the height OF u
wave coming up astern in line of sight fro
the mast to the horizon at the back. Tl
reason he selected the mainmast was thi
that as rule it is nearly amidships, al
when the ship is running the sea ahead al
from aft lifts the two ends, forming
hollow amidships Che actual foot Of t
wave) below the mean draught, eqnal to t
slight elevation the observer necessarily
above the true height. It was dificl
operation, but he obtained some good obs
vations, marking the height Of the waves
the mast. On measuring the distance fire.
these to the mean draught he found them
be as follows: sixty-four, sixty-one fiji
eight and sixty-fiye feet respectively, val
ing in length from $50 feet to 800 feet.
The ground on which Philadelphia
built is claimed to be one Of the richest g
fields in the world The only difficulty
that the field cannot be worked Nearly I
whole city is underlayed with clay to
depth of about ten feet-an area say ten mi
square. A cubic foot Of clay weighing
pounds, taken from depth of fourteen f
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