Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-05-25
WINGED MISSILES.

| u "itS IN bhsif nOop skirts.
a correspondent Of Science states that
holding the breath is found TO control the
sensiblity to tickling.
The rabbit pest Is again making head .Ray
IN Australia, The means taken TO eradicate
II have proved insufficient
According TO a statistical document lately
published In Paris, there are in Europe
SVoVoo blind people, $1,000 Of whom are in
France.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is the
classical name Of locomotive owned by
sne Lackawahna Iron a. Coal company at
Scranton.
An lrishman named Casey died recently
In Albuquerque very wealthy BY his viii
he left 70 Gen. J. A. Williamson, of Iowa,
nearly $4,000 for favor 70 Casey long ago
forgotten
Under the new constitution IN Japan no
men aan vote unless he Is 20 years old and
pays at least SIS taxes. There win be no an
archisis IN that country and political corrup-
ton viii be unknown.
The New York retail grocers declare that
all adnlterati0n OF provisions takes place be.
fore the goods come INTO their hands. They
don't even dampeD the fine-cut tobacco they
sell nor sand their sugars
Clark. the murdered druggist OF Chicago,
left letters 70 prove that he was in love wiki
over nifty women. some Of whom doubtless
killed him. II was awful that his happiness
was 50 suddenly cut shor:.
A Russian prince who has been arrested
In York for stealing and pawning an over
coat is out In a card asking for suspension
OF public Judgment He probably wants a
chance 70 steal the rest Of the suit
According 10 the annual register OF our
naval forces, just published at Annapolis,
our navy is commanded by l,5i4 officers.
As they are all good dancers, however, none
Of them need be considered superfiuous.
A library Is 10 be established in Paris in
which only books and writings Of women
are 10 be admitted. Carmen sylvia" the
poetry writing Queen OF Roumania has ac-
cepted the presidency Of the library.
a writer in an English journal says that
he noticed recently while skaters were
skimming over the frozen surface Of Round
Pond, In kensington Gardens, that the ice
gave forth distinct musical note which he
found 10 be 6 sharp.
The recipe for making the original eau de
cologne was discovered 800 years ago, and
since that time il has been inirusted 10 only
ten persons. The written copy Of the recipe
is kept In a crystal goblet, under triple locks,
ia q room IN which the essential oils are
mixed
Four young men were fined IS apiece 10
Washington the other day for making some
remarks about a white horse while red
headed girl was passing. The magistrate
did not stats whether his severity was due
10 the antiquity Of the joke or TO desire TO
teach the offenders better manners.
West Point cadets always attract atten-
ton and favorable comment from the pub
lie. A number Of them when in Washing
ton were thus described: They were COW
cred with buttons and so tightly laced aud
walked so straight that ramrod looks
pnify and hump backed beside them"
Terra-cotia money Jugs for saving up coin
are becoming very common Many families
keep them handy, and drop into them their
spare dimes and niclels until the jug Is full
Then Il is broken, and the contents applied
10 the purchase Of some article long desired,
but which Il was thought could not be
afforded.
There Is no country Of the world where
the science OF long life, accompanied with
good health. unimpaired mental faculties,
good digestion, ami great activity, is better
understood than in France, and there, OF
1000 persons born. 10 reach the age OF 90,
and the percentage continues TO be high I'M
I'll s. is past.
Among the names Of the mistresses OF
the white house have been three Marthas,
Elisa
Elizabeth. one Margaret one Sarah, one
Jane, one Harriet, one Dorothy, two Jullas,
one Letitia, one Emily, one Angelica, one
Louisa, one Lucy, one Frances, and now
there Is Caroline, though she calls il Gar.
rie.t
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt deprecates the
publicity that has followed her announced
intention 70 pay for monument over
Marions grave In South Carolina, from
whom she is descended. She had thought
10 honor the nero's memory quietly and
without credit 10 herself, but the press has
frustrated her plans for secrecy in the
matter.
"Memory hoops are the latest fad in Kan
sas CITY. A memory hoopis about ten inch
% I'm diameter and will hold thirty to forty
bows or knots. And the thing for the male
friends Of young lady TO do is to give hel
handsome piece Of colored silk, which sh'
ties on the hoop The girl who covers thu
most hoops in this way is considered thu
reigning belle.
There is cradle in New York that ha'
rocked over 1900 babies, 1t began TO rocl
nineteen years ago, when the Sisters o
Charity started little founding hospita
ON Twelfth street, New York, with s. in th'
treasury. Sister Irene was at the head o
Il. as she is still, wonderful, frail LITTLE
woman. whose genius aud devotion Will al
WAYS be remembered by those who hay'
once beheld her among the babies whom sh
has saved and succored.
Concerning Holsters, experts say tina
vo,,nR crustaceans have to be put in the SCI
almost as soon as Matched, and they begii
70 feed voracously, They are born viii
sense enough to know that Holsters maxi
delicious food, and they attack one anothe
savaeely and hungrily. For few day
they swim on the surface, where they mn
! ,he food suited to their early requirements
Hero their destruction is enormous In
fow DAYS the Holsters walking or crawling
members are developed, and he sinks to IN