Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-04-13

NORMAN JONES, Publisher.
BLACKFooT, IDAHO.
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LORD BEAcoNsFIELD's hat was O.
Lord Salisbury's is s
DAVID A. WELLS has been appointed
lecturer ON taxation at Harvard.
PAIL MALL is Pell Nell, and Chol.
mondely is Chumley. Pauncefote is
probably Pfoote, says the Saratogian.
TIE veteran Hannibal Hamlin broke
the record of lifetime and wore an
overcoat on the occasion of his recent
visit to Chicago.
WTTH the death of James Winter
bottom there occurs break in a line
of sections at ALI Saints church, Glossop,
England, which has reached through
one family for 200 years.
THE only negro in the next national
house of representatives will be III. P.
Cheatham, from the Second North
Carolina District. He is thirty-two
years old and is a prominent man in
his community.
Mrs. S. V. WHITE, wife OF the con-
gresham from Brooklyn, has conscien-
tious scruples on the subject of pro
hibition, and she is said to be the only
hostess in Washington who has refused
to serve wine to her guests.
Mrs. MARY Drummer, who lives on a
farm near Derby, Pa, is 1O2 years old.
She has III descendants living. She
was never taught to read and passes
her time smoking, which has been so
lace to her for the last sixty-fve years.
JOHN BURROUGHS, the author, has at
his home at West Park, on the Hudson,
a large vineyard where he grows tons
OF grapes every year. He is now stay
ing in Poughkeepsie, getting some
essays in shape for publication in the
spring.
SIR CHARLES dixie was recently
asked his opinion of Boulanger, and re-
piled: 81 can only repeat what / said
in the Fortnightly Review in 1887. III
have not discovered whether he Is a
clown, charlatan or the coming
Cesar"
IN Cocamonga, Cal, pretty SER
vant-gfrl has captured millionaire
aged 70 named Daniel Hamilton. He
has four children, thirteen grand
children, and one great-grandchild,
and all objected to the marriage but
could not stop it.
A SPEECH by the Athenian orator
Hyperides has been discovered In
Athens and given to the Louvre. He
was the defender of Phryne and in order
preserve her from the charge of impie-
ty pulled off her garments and exhibit
ed her to the judges, as it has been rep
resented by the picture of Gerome.
THE dress that Mrs. Harrison will |
probably wear at the Inauguration is
of pearl-white brocade, made with a /
long train, the front of which is of al
most solid gold embroidery The cor
sage opens a little at the throat and |
shows full ruche of real old point
lace. The sleeves reach the elbow.
AMONG the living sovereigns men
toned in the new Almanach de Gotha |
those who have reigncd longest are the
emperor of Brazil, who assembled the
throne in 1881 at the age of 6; Queen
Victoria, who succeeded in 1897, and
Duke Ernest of Saxe-C oburg-G otha,
crowned in 1874. The oldest sovereign
is Pope Leo Kill, who is 7S years old;
the youngest is the king of Spain, not
yet 3.
BUFFALO Bills" ranch Is located
on the North Platte in Nebraska and
contains nearly five thousand acres of
fine land. Mr.. Cody has about two
hundred head Of thoroughbred horses
and two to three thousand head OF cat
tie. His residence is big frame house
near the railroad, on the roof of which
is painted in large letters, Col. w.
F. Cody's ('Buffalo Bilr) Scouts
Ranch" and over it every day there
floats big American flag.
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A NOVEL suit has been entered in the
Third District Civil court, Williams
burg, by William j. McIntee, we'll
known politician, against the Brook
Ign cross-town railroad company. The
suit is brought for the recovery of the
value Of coat. He accidentally sat
ON covered stove and burned off the
tail of his coat He then went to the
railroad company and demanded dam
ages, and the official of the corporation