Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-16
LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT

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Our aquatic athletes arc now getting the
last rows Of summer.
Many a man has a pale appearance after
leaving bucket shop.
Saratoga is famous for spring water and
Niagara for fall water.
Lawyers ought to be good poets, they
write lots of versus
People studying the language of Finland
have an exciting time at the Finnish.
The old-fashioned china, for practical
purposes, is not what it is cracked up to be.
The Eifel Tower is now $50 feet high.
The remaining 4so will be completed in
january.
A man was recently arrested In Maine
who had wives in half dozen states, in
Guiding state of Indignation.
Georgia democrats think good deal OF
Grady as an orator, but when they want a
senator they Colquitt-Lowell Courier.
Tho death of a book keeper should coca
sion 10 surprise, for it is the most natural
thing in the world for him to go to his ac-
count
Little Bobby has, discovered that the
Chickasaw nation dates back to Bible
times, and that it was founded by the chick,
Esau.
A Pittsburger died recently at the age OF
eighty who had drank eight glasses Of gin
daily for fifty years. He was an octo-gin-
arian.
Nearly 10000 Norwegians migrated from
their country last year, and the emigration
this year is reported to be considerably
greater.
II o,,ss,,;l1, r.. f,,r b,.,.h,,.. 49,,
married four sisters. There remain three
boys to mate them.
A Maryland paper asserts that sports
man, while out cunning near GAINESVILLE,
shot partridge out of hawks mouth and
did not iniure the hawk.
The New York Times has an article on
1.-THE Saloon in Politics" but more timely
subject for analysis just now would seem to
be Politics in the Saloon"
Natural gas has been discovered forty
FIVE miles from Fresno, Cal, and the peo-
pie are building hopes on its making their
town manufacturing center.
Bernhardt says if she could have her
choice Of death she would prefer TO be struck
Dy a meteor. 1t might want something
meatier than you to strike, old girl.
Sometimes when Fortune seems to DO
marching directly towards you, it wheels
suddenly and goes tho other way. Then it
is that you curse the Wheel Of fortune.
A Norwegian savant boldly expresses the
opinion that there are no such things as
mermaids. This Skald will get himself into
hot water if the circus men get hold of him
An Indiana man has coughed up an &C
A 1T
view this event with sorrow. There were
quite enough accordions in the world al
ready
1t is too early as yet to say much about
the rest of the crop, but that favorite Della
ware peach known as the Salisbury cling.
stone has been frozen philadelphia
Ledger.
A piano manufacturer in New York named
Anton Dali, fell through the elevator shaft
Of his establishment from the fifth To the
first floor. Incredible as it may seem. no
was not injured.
Bibbley aroused by q burglar going
through his trousers -''Thsre 3 no use In !
wastin' your time, young man; m wife 'sh |
been all through those long fore you came |
round. Texas Siftings,
In the list Of college yellsr going tho |
rounds Of the press we fail to find any refer |
snce to the Electoral College; but perhaps |
its pupils did all their yelling before they |
got there.-Norristown Herald.
We understand that the New York Four |
inland Club is having very fine set Of |
table ware made for its swell dinners The /
dishes, appropriately enough, are to be Of /
coachin' china.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The public will view with alarm the an /
nouncement that the foul fly is 10 be retain
ed in the baseball field. This insectiverous
sbomination is bound to be on hand every
time. AS the lamented Billings remarked,
'Darn a FL"
''They are working on a new telescope"
observed De Smith, ''that will bring the /
moon within sixty miles Of the earth" 'If
the moon is really made Of old cheese" re-
marked De Cantur, that s close enough
Chicago Tribune.
English locomotive engineers are COM
planning loudly because the companies will
not provide cabs on their engines TO shelter
them from rain and snow storms The di-
rectors claim that cabs obstruct tho view
and lead to accidents.
A young man who was married at Bur
lington, Iowa, the other night gave tho Of
ficiating clergyman 80 gold piece by mis-
take for $3.50 coin, and went to the preach
er's residence in the middle Of tho night and
demanded restitution. He got it.
Queen Victoria intends 10 place an eques-
trian statue Of the late Emperor Frederick
in Windsor great park in close proximity TO |
the statue Of the prince consort 1t has been
purchased out Of the women's jubilee offer
ing and will be unveiled in March next
Mr.. Shopleigh-"Here's letter from my (
daughter, Mr.. Barter, in which she says she
wants me to send her water COLOR She
probably means water cooler; she never
was much at spelling. Pack up one Of them
big ones with roses painted on 'em She
might as well have good one while we're
about It."
A freight train on the Southern Pacific
railroad lately ran into herd Of cattle,
striking yearling calf, which jumped at one
bound on the pilot Of thelocomotive IL laid
down quietly and rode for nine miles Aa