Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Tho mummy market is now so
overstocked that lovers OF the antique
can obtain specimens for less than
tlO0.
The sustaining power Of the Forth
bridge may be imagined from tho
statement that each cantelever would
sustain six OF the greatest ironclads.
"A Philadelphia inventor Is busy
on street car hoor. comprising stats
laid crosswise on two endless rubber
banda. that revolve as the car moves.
and gradually roll the people up to the
front
Two brothers down In Tulare
County. California engaged in aquar-
rel while at play. for which their
mother corrected them. The elder OF
the two at once left the house and
was found several hours later dead.
hanging to tree
"A man at Chelsea, Mich. was
awakened one morning by his dog
dragging the clothes from the bed.
lie arose and found that his house
was on fire. He had just time 10 re-
move his family before the whole
building was in flames.
An Ohio peddler. having fallen
Ill. his seventeen-year-old daughter
mounted the cart and drove about the
country for three weeks. Her sales
exceeded any that her father ever
made in the same length OF time.
An East Liverpool family who
! gave tramp meal about n year ago
!, were surprised by visit from him
, again the other day. The man came
! back. not a. a tramp. but rs pros
porous man OF business. He was on
his way to Cincinnati. and stopped on
| TO visit his benefactor. to whom he
presented set OF gold collar and cufi
buttons.
In n Maine town is very heavy
girl She is quite sensitive about her
weight and II Is not generally known.
but two mischievous young men.
wanting TO know it. one OF them per-
suaded her to stop and speak with
him on the hay scales. The owner OF
the scales was in with the plot and
quickly weighed them. The weight
Of the man being subtracted, left the
amount OF 30l pounds for the girl.
What we call Observation-Disclosures
Is temporary suspension OF the faculty
OF memory. The mind. intent upon
some present thought. obliterates OF
obscures the record OF the past We
may even regard IL as a temporary and
partial form OF insanity. and u we find
Observation-Disclosures most common with
persons OF great mental powers we may
accept the fact as another illustration
Of the near alliance between great
genius and madness.
America says that the United
States Is destined 10 become nation
Of blondes The population OF Norway
shows percentage OF 1925 OF light
eyes Flaxrn hair appears in 81. 3 pei
cent, while absolutely black hair /,
only found in the ratio OF two per cent
The immigration from Scandinavian
countries In 1888 numbered over 80,
600. or about one-sixth OF the entir,
immigration that year The immigra
tion from Germany is also very large
, ly made up OF pure blondes. while tina
, from the British isles and other Euro
r pean countries In very mixed. will
I blondes still in the majority.
3 The experienced bunco steere
; knows human nature better than h.
he does his father. and lays his plan
with nice regard for human weak
, nesses. Greed. avarice and love O
appreciation are taken into accoun
and used at the right moment Tn
victim becomes infatuated with hi
deceiver. and when this state is ar
rived ut nil warnings or memories o
warnings are useless. The dupe /
charmed. not so much by the ingenuit,
OF the plot rs by the friendly an,
plausible manner OF the bunco expert
The victim sees things In their re
, versed order. and. whereas In his fatu
ity he thinks he is exchanging nothin,
for something. he Is in reality ex
changing something for nothing.