Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters OF General
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

New jersey.
Heavy stitching on the BACK oi
glove is bad form.
Archbishop Riorden has lett Rome
for the United States.
A famine is threatened among the
East African colonlsts.
There are 100000 women IN the
limited States who work Tor wages.
The New York law against car
stoves goes into effect January ISL
Straw bail goers are having an en-
counter with the courts In New YORK
Two-ffths of the Dominion OF Can
ada are under no-license liquor laws
From 1880 to 1883 no less than
1857 ,252 persons have come to this
country.
Louisiana has five newspapers edit-
ed by women. The New Orleans nc
ayune is one.
The sword that Ethan Allen carr led
at Ticonderega, is owned by Lansing
Mich, woman.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is rapidly be-
coming one of the most enterprlslng
cities of Canada.
The Bible has to be printed in ~
different languages to supply the peo-
pie living in Pennsylvania.
From the best statistics obtainable
there are about 100000 Union sol
diers living at the present time.
Tramps have filled up the Brooklyn
almshouse. One hundred men have
been put at work on the sand pile.
Alexander II. Stephens during his
life educated $50 boys and 80 girls
giving them all collegiate educatlons
There are 100 colored preachers in
Tennessee, and the highest salary re-
ceived by any OF them is $500 year
Military men believe that the White
Pasha, now at Bahr ell Ghazel, and
moving north, is the great explorer
Stanley.
A Brooklyn boarding-school proprl
etress has sued plumber for $l5,OOl
because the pupils have become sicl
from sewer gas.
St. Louis painters have condemned
the practice Of the painting OF fire
houses and police stations by police
men and fremen.
They are going back in Philadel
phia to the old fashion of sellin!
grains and vegetables by weight in
stead of measure.
The Brooklyn Engineers societ.
last week protested against the grant
ing of permission to company to la.
pipes for hot water.
Governor Beaver has just sent il
81, 900 for the John A. Logan monu
ment fund of the G. A. r., collected il
various Pennsylvania posts.
The Newark Law and Order leagu
is taking steps to counteract what
deems the growing influence c
liquor interests in State politics"
Minneapolis -four men have selecte
st. Adams, VT, as their distributin
center for New England, and inten
building there two immense storag
houses.
Public men in Canada say that til
Liberal party will ultimately take IL
annexation in opposition to the In
perial federation policy of the Coz
servatives.
Colorado is becoming an oil,produ
ing State. In the valley of the Arkal
sas, near Pueblo. there are numb,
of wells, the yield of which is LOG
barrels per day.
The Rev. Dr.. David Sturgeon, age
SO, is an inmate of Flatbusb, Lon
Island, almshouse. He gave ava
large sums and was ruined by IL
failure OF company.
1t is estimated that flom five to 81
million pounds of turkey and mil
ion quarts of cranberries were nece
sary TO enable the city of New Yol
to enjoy its Thanksgiving feasts.
Minneapolis street-car drivers are I
longer furnished with free passe
Fare must be rung up when the pa
senger gets on the car instead of
the time OF payment of the fare.
Seventy per cont. of the infants
the Founding hospital at Ottawa ha,
died during the year, Within fl,
years GOT have been buried. In
proper nursing is said to be the caus
A deposit Of natural gas was struC
the other day nine miles northeast
Tuscola, III. The pressure creates
flame thirty feet high. The discover
has caused great excitement in IL
! district.
There are $500 members of IL
Michigan Auti-Horse Thief societ
ard during the past year they ha,
not had n cents worth of propert
stolen, although they are worth an a
gregate OF - 100000.
: A man in New Brunswick has d
played strange taste about dyin
, He dug his grave, lowered his cofii
got in and took dose OF poison AZ
t then pulled Il string to landsGd
which descended upon him.
: The Toronto Trades Council has