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Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
SHOOTING WILD GEESE.
The Inspiring Method OF Pursuit Practic-
ed l,y Dakota Huuters.

In Dakota there prevails among the
natives most Inspiring method of pur-
suit. When at distance you perceive
n flock OF geese garnering the golden
grain in blissful unconsciousness of ap-
preaching evil, he tacks up toward
them in most unconscious and inno-
cent sort Of way, just as though he had
some funny business to attend to in
that particular field. The geese feed
on unconsciously, doubtless connecting
the approaching team with plows and
oxen and farm work, to which they
have long been accustomed. Finally,
when the team is nearly in range. they
become somewhat suspicious. and pre-
pare for flight, tapping their tails and
stretching their necks toward the other.
This is the vital moment. The jehu ap
| plies the whimble good, and the bron
chos fly over the prairie with the wing.
of the lightning. The hunting wagor
sails over the plowed ground, occas
ionally striking the solid ground to ge
a new start, while the hunters hans
desperately on to the seats, and are fill
cd to the eyes and ears with stubble
plowed ground and chaff A goose, al
though generally keeping up with th'
intellectual procession upon such al
occasion as tn $, is reduced to n lament
able state of desuetude. Filling the al
with incoherent lamentations, the
rush about hither and yon, undecide
whether to fly or fall nobly in tn
breach. Now, a goose has to get a ru
to give it start when it rises, and a
it can only rise against the wind, If yo
approach on the leeward side the COOS
is compelled to meet you halfway. Thu
one has ample opportunity to ruffle tn
plumage Of such a bird before it ca
get well out OF range. Minneapol,
| IribunC
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
A COLOSSAL FLOWER.
Description of II K"c 'ntiy Discovered DO
tanical ondpr.

Description OF k"c 'ntIy Discovered Boz
tlnical " NOndpr.
In the farthest southeastern island of
the Philippine group, Mindiano, upoa
one OF its mountains, Parag, in the
neighborhood of the highest peak in
the island, the volcano Apo a party OF
botanical and ethnographical explorers
found recently. at the height of $500
feet above the sea level, colossal
flower. The discoverer, DIR. Alexander
Schadenberg, could scarcely believe his
eyes when he saw amidst the low grow
ing bushes the immense buds of this
flower, like gigantic brown cabbage
heads. But he was still more aston
ishcd when he found a specimen in full
bloom, a five-petaled flower, nearly a
yard in diameter large as a car
riage- e-wheel, in fact. This enormous
blossom was borne on sort OF vine
creeping on the ground. 1t was known
by the native who accompanied DR..
Schadenbery, who called it Boo.
The party had no scale by which the
weight of the flower could be ascer-
tained, but they improvised a swinging
scsle. using their boxes and specimens
as weights. Weighing these when OPP
portunity served, it was found that a
single flower weighed over twenty-five
pounds. 1t was impossible to trans
port the fresh flower, so the travellers
photographed it, and dried II number
of its leaves by the heat of a fire. Dir.
Schadenberg then sent the photographs
and dried specimens to the Royal Bo
ttnical gardens at Breslau, where the
learned director Immediately recog-
ni:ed it as "a species of Rat1lesia, n
plaat formerly discov cred in Sumatra
and named after the English Governor,
Sir Stamford Rallies. The new flower
was accordingly named Rafliesia Scha-
dcnbergia. The five petals OF this inn
mense flower are oval and creamy
white, and grow around a center filled
with countless long yiolet-hued STAN.
ems, thicker aud longer in the female,
or fertile flowers, than in the infertile.
The fertilization is accomplished by in
sects. whose larvse breed in the decay
ing flesh of its thick petals. The fer
tile flower develops soft, berry-like
| fruit, in which countless seeds are i'm
bedded. The flower exhales a poison
Gus gas. even when first opened. d.-Iitts-
| tnrgh Bulletin.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

Can you bear piece of bad news.
Amelia9n hoarsely whispered the mer-
chant to his wife. .'What is it, Cyrus2"
she exclaimed. Don't keep me in sus-
pense.' IL have made an assignment
for the benefit of my creditors" 20,
Cyrus. Then well have to give up this
skin sacques | had ordered for the
girls!m well, no, Amelia, its hardly
so bad as that But / think we'd bet
ter discharge the coachman on account
Of" "But you've assigned for the
benefit of the creditors. Won't they
get every thingPo "Amelia, your ig-
norance of business it absolutely pa
thetic. - Chicago Tribune.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

1T costs the Prince OF Wales ESQ.,.
GOO a year to keep up his hunting
stables.
Hundreds OF English girls are now
adopting shorthand for livelihood.
In Berlin heavy wagons are no,
allowed on certain streets. In Paris
any carload of rafting material must
be fastened till it can't rattle.
The telegraph lines entering the
central station at London are all un.
dcrground. II appears all the more
wonderful when it is said there are
LOO different lines.
Princess Eugene OF Sweden has
sacrificed her family jewels TO build a
hospital for eripples upon an island Of
the coast.
The Queen incurred expenses In
her jubilee as we'll rs other people.
the cost to her having been ECO. 900,
and the largest payment being in the
department Of the master of the
horse.
Paris receives 100 francs by
the will OF a citizen who was run over
and killed in that city. He bequeathed
the money to erect bridges over the
streets at the most dangerous points.
The old Town Hall at Leicester. q
curious wooden building, in which
| Shakespeare is said to have acted, 10
now occupied as II school of cookery.
| A pulley still shows where the Drop
| curtain was.
Emperor William OF Germany Ia
still carrying on his crusade against all
things not Teutonic. He has ordered
| the officers of his army to discard
| pointed English boots and wide creased
trousers. He has also made change
In the royal crown. which he consid.
cred too high for his style OF beauty.
The Earl of Onslow, the new Gov.
ernor OF New Zealand, is thirty-five
years old, and has never done any
thing particular in his life, beyond be-
ing a lord-in-walting to Her Majesty In
1880, and recently serving rs Under
Secretary for the Colonies and the
Board of Trade. His salary as Gov
ernor is S25, 900 year.
A course Of popular scientific lect-
ures has been inaugurated at Victoria
Hall, London, to which the price ol
admission is only one penny. The
lectures are designed to benefit the
poor, and great pains are taken to
make them entertaining as well as In
structive. The movement has enlisted
the sympathy and cooperation OF emf
nent scientists.
The project of maritime shiE
canal to connect Bristol with the En-
gland, and it is said syndicate is il
course of formation with view to itl
promotion. The length OF the pro
posed canal will be forty-fve miles
The cost Of construction is roughl,
estimated at 60, 900 per mile.
I Drink seems to be as prevalent IL
5 Belgium as anywhere else-perhap
more so. A newspaper published il
5 Flanders states that 1.-THE daily con
sumption of a workingman-no
drunkard there includes at $50 a. m.
'worm-killer;' at 8 a. m, an eye
opener;' at IL a. m, u whip IL p
m. 'digester at 8 p. M, u soldier,
and at $3.50 p. m, a 'fnisher'" ~
regular yearly expenditure, withou
counting extras on festive occasions
amount to 2l9 francs, 800 to 1,20
francs beinp the uSual WAGES
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
FACTS ABOUT sNAILS.
Their Great Nutritive Value and How to
Cook Them.

Cook Them.
Something like 10000 pounds OF
snails are sent up daily to the Paris
markets from the gardens of Pottou.
Burgundy, Champagne and Provence,
where they are speciai!, reared for the
purpose, the natural delicate flavor of
their flesh being improved by feeding
them on beds OF aromatic herbs 1t l.,
not merely, however, as delicacy that
snails are so generally appreciated ir
France. They also take very high rank
as nutritious food, and from the time
of the ancient Romans downward have
been regarded as excellent in consump-
ton and weakness of the chest. Ac-
cording to Payne they contain seventy
per cent. of water, sixteen per cent. of
nitrogen, one per cent. OF fat. two per
cent of salts and five per cent. of un-
determined matter.
DR.. Ebrard. a French authority, who
has made the snail his special study,
declares that the weight of meat rep
resented by the snails sold amounts to
that found on cutting up Il whole flock
of calves and young heifers. He esti-
mates the monthly consumption OF
snails in Paris at half million. The
market price Of the great vineyard
snails is from two francs fifty centimes
to three francs fifty centimes per lOo,
while those from the hedges, woods
and forests bring only two francs to
two francs fifty centimes. The pro
prietor of one snaillery in the vicinity
of Dion is said to net over 1000 francs
annually.
The snail is reared and fattened witt
great care in some cantons of Switzer
land as an article of luxury and is ex
ported in picked state. 1t is alst
eaten as a relish and nutritious article
of food in Austria, Spain. Italy and IL
some sections of the United States
The Ashantees and other African tribe
smoke them and cat them as daily foo(
all the year round.
In Algeria in the markets large heap
OF snails are sold by the bushel and th
hundred as an article of food. Vender
hawk them in the streets of Cairo. Ii
modern Rome fresh h-gathered snails ar
hawked by women from door to dool
and the housewives serve them eithe
boiled in their shells, or stewed or frie
in oil. 1t is a common sight to see in a
Italian city the people gathered aroun
a number of baskets filled with snail.
waiting for them to be thrown into
large iron pot suspended over fir
made between four stones. Herbs an
love apples (tomatoes) are added, an
when done the broth is retailed to tn
expectant bystanders. AS the coo
ladies out the sayory concoction. sh
or he gives utterance to trade erie
Altogether the scene to an America
, is quite suggestive of the colored hawl
ers of ''hot corn shot corn.-ProJ
| Castcgnier, IN Medical Classics.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
Worthy of the Prize.

One OF the prizes for virtue given by
the Paris Academy this year was award
ded TO Marguerite Pauline Rault, who
was born near st. Breuc, and was first
a sehoolmistress in BETHANY. She came
to Paris at the age of twenty in 1865 t0
watch over younger sister, became a
nurse, devoted eight years to the res
cue of fallen women, and has since in
terested herself in gutter or mendicant
children ill-treated by their parents.
She teaches them to make umbrellas,
and has sometimes to give money to
the parents to save her charges from
being taken back to hardship and cr4-
elty.-N. y. Post.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
ELECTRICAL LIGHT.
How 1t Affects Flowers, Vegetables and
Other Plants.

How 1t Affects Flowers, Vegetables and
Other Plants.
From time to time, of late years, ex.
periments have been made OF the effect
of the electrical light on flowers and
plants, with results seemingly the
same, to wit, feeble efforts of some
plants to prolong their periods OF
bloom into the night and then n1e-
mature decay. One has only to study
their actions, as obs srved, to conclude
that even plants need rest, or, to be
more precise they seem to thrive best
under the conditions which nature has
imposed period OF darkness and
the period OF the light, which Is
heat as well; or else that the
family OF plants, as now they are,
sprung from these exact con.
ditions, and will not thrive without
them. Ii is the nature of some flowers,
rs every one knows, to open at one
period of light and close at another; OF
others to open only at night and close
before or at the moment when the orb
of day tops the horizon. So strictly
do some of these follow their unwritten
laws that floral clocks have been con-
structed, so that one may step out into
his garden. of bright day or clear
night, and learn the time by the con.
dition of bloom on the floral dial.
Prot. Wollney, OF Munich, satisfied
by experiment that electrical light will
not advance or improve plant growth,
recently tried the effect upon them Of
the current itself We quote the fol-
lowing, being the means employed and
its result:
He '1ook patches of ground twelve
or thirteen feet square, separated by
boards penetrating the earth to the
depth of foot. In one case he ap-
piled two earth plates and interposed
five earth cells; in another he inserted
an induction apparatus; and in third.
plate of copper at one side and q
plate of zinc at the other side to form
natural battery. Peas. potatoes, car
rots, ETC., were planted on these and
other patches, but the electricity.
whether of high or low potential.
seemed to have either no influence or
bad one upon their growth.
Plants being full of sap, and sap .
fairly good conductor, every 6ber must
have been reached, and, SO far as the
Professor was enabled to perceive, the
only effect OF the current was to pre-
woke a perturbation on the protoplasuA
-Scisntyfc An,ericass
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
INSECT-EATING BIRDS.
How They Have Been swept Away by
the Destroying Hand of Man.


Fifty years ago every farm in the
Eastern. Middle and Southern States
had from five to twenty acres OF wood
land. These lands not only served
many other good purposes, but were
natural resting places for birds, and
served them as safe shelter during the
heat Of the day. These primitive for
ests were the home Of many species OF
birds. The writer well remembers the
delight experienced in going TO the
woods in the spring of the year and
listening to the songs of the native
warblers as they returned from their
winter quarters at the South. The
shrill whistle of the quail was as IA
miliar to the ears OF the farmer as
household words. The scream OF the
blue jay rang through the forest clear
and loud.
The many species OF woodpeclier
were watched with intense interest as
they glided up and down the trunks OF
the trees, ever and anon rapping with
irresistible force with their powerful
DtihS, VI hoi VI
some huge grub that had been sapping
the life of some monarch of the forest.
While watching these ever industrious
and useful birds, a scarlet tanager, like
flash OF fire, or some other bright
bird, would fit by, happy and beautiful.
How is it now? The woodlands axe
and the pot-hunters gun can tell the
sad story. The birds have gone-no
home, no resting place, no safety any
where. Looking at this sad picture.
one feels ready to exclaim with the
poet Burns:
Inhuman mani Curse on thy barbarous art,
And blasted be thy murder aiming eye
May never pity soothe thee with sigh
Nor ever pleasure glad thy cruel heart.
The birds that were SO common fifty
years ago were mostly insect-eating
birds, and destroyed millions of noX-
ious insects, and were of inestimable
value to the farmer and tiller OF the
soil. Even the grain-eating birds con-
sumed a large number of larva. The
humming birds, supposed by many to
subsist wholly upon honey, consume
many small beetles and thrips, and
thereby confer "A benefit to the florist.
-Vic6's Magazine,
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
a Man Of Misfortune-Miss Cert

A Men OF Misfortune-Miss Gertie
Sofsigh was going through the paniten-
tiary with party of visitors and had
obtained permission to speak with one
of the inmates. "Yes'm, hits VERY
ard said he, ito ave the best days OF
yer life spent in a place like this, but
Him only one out of many unfortunits. "
Poor man." said Gertie, you must
have gone through many tria's during
your life" Right for you, miss. As
many as ten, but only seven OF them
turned out halibis."
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

Honor among thieves received q
new illustration day or two ago. One
of them, who was arrested after break
ing into a house, admitted TO the officer
who arrested him that he had COM
mitted the deed and addef: after |
came away | remembered that l had
left the back door and gate opel, and |
had good notion to go back and close
them for fear somebody would get in
1t worried me good DEAL! l!'-Phitadet-
phid Ledger.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

Since our last issue Colonel Fair
banks has had three rods of beautiful
pick ket-fence erected in front of his
abode, and the Gem saloon has received
three barrels of whisky and a new pier
glass. We chronicle these improve
ments in no boastful spirit, but simply
that outsiders may know that the spirit
of progress is not dead within us. We
are going right to the front as town,
-Arizona Kicker, in Detroit Free Press.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23
How to Ship Poultry.

Do not pack poultry until it is en-
tirely free from animal heat Fowls
packed before they are cold are almost
sure to spoil.
The best packing material is clean,
dry wheat or rye straw. Hay is not so
good, nor is it SO clean.
Those who know best how to prepare
poultry for the market always kill the
fowls by cutting through the roof of the
mouth to the brain with a sharp-point-
ed knife, the fowl being suspended by
its legs.
In many OF our large markets 1t is
required, and in all is advisable, TO
have the crops of fowls free of food and
other matter. Hence poultry should
not be fed for twenty-four hours before
it is killed. d.-F'drmer's Gail.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

"A lawsuit in New York has de-
veloped the fact that latter the owner
Of a lot in Cypress Hills cemetery has
buried deceased member OF his own
family in it he is absolutely forbidden,
by a law under which the cemetery is
incorporated. to ever transfer or sell
the lot outside of his family"
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

Passionate expressions and yehe-
ment assertions are no arguments.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-23

1T costs the Prince Of Wales $50,
GOO a year to keep up his hunting
stables.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
For California.

The Chicago and Northwestern
Railway offers exceptional induce
ments to all classes Of California
travel.
First class tickets afFording
choice Of routes; good returning
until spring, and second class one
way tickets are now on sale at
very low rates. T.
Fast Vestibuled trains fully
equipped with Palace sleeping and
dining cars amply provided for the
comfort of tourists, and the well
fare of the second class traveller is
promoted by personally conducted
colonists excursion providing every
comfort enroute including accom-
modations In free tourists sleepers.
For full Information apply to any
Ticket Agent iorratidrass =. r. WILL
sop, O. JIG. 9A ~ ", ny.
chiesx6, Ms, ;iie.s T. '.fw - - n,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
Protection.

A special from the Columbus
Post of Thursday Jan. "a, says:
1t is now definitely known that
the Buchtel iron furnace will close
down the present week. Not only
that, but the Columbus and Hook
Ing Coal and Iron company will al
so close their two mines at Buchtel
this week on account of the scarcity
of orders. They will work their
other mines throughout the valley.
The closing of the furnace and
mines at Buchtel will throw three
or four hundred men out of en-
ployment. Men continue to come
in from Sunday Creek valley seek
ing work, but they may as well
stay at home, as there is not suffi
cient employment for our home
miners.
Republican protection.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
The Logan Home and Sav.
ing Association.

Just organized with Judge 8. H.
Bright as President; John Hansen,
Secretary; L. A. Culver, Treasurer;
John F. White, Attorney, aud an
able Board of Directors.
This Association is organized for
the purpose Of raising money to be
loaned ams ng the members there
of for use in buying lots and houses
in building or repairing houses, and
for such other purposes as are
authorized by law.
Books for subscription to the
capitol stock are now open at room
No 8 Collins building, End floor.
Shares 800 and $500 each.
Meeting every Saturday night
from to 8 O'clock.
Weekly dues on each 500 Of
stock 25 cents.
Any member can draw out his
money at any time, and II left
more than 6 months with divi-
dends.
Any member can borrow as
much money as his shares Of stock
represent at 6 per cent. interest,
and such premiums rs he may bid.
For further information see Con-
stitution and Bylaws.
8. H. BRIGHT, Pres.
JOHN HANSEN, Sec.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26

List of letters remaining In the
Post Office ut Logan, o., January
20, 1889, uncalled for, when called
for say advertised:
Miss Estella Kirkpatrick, two
James Suomy, Read Marsh, M.
McCaffery, M. Oliver, John b.
Brice, Jas Spores.
CHAs ROSE, p. M.
Last Monday evening quite a
number of the friends of Louis
DELPHI met at George Hartman's
and gave him a genuine surprise,
and presented him. with a hand
some rocker as a reminder that he
had reached the 53 milestone in
life. The famous "Dutch Glee
Club" furnished music for the oc-
casion.
On Thursday AL and George
Brown, George, Frank and Lon
Thompson, all colored, were arrest
ed on charge of breaking into q
building of Charles Wright, in the
night season, and stealing chick
ems. On a Preliminary hearing be-
fore Mayor Price, John Brown and
Lon Thompson were bound over to
court in the sum of 500 each which
failing to give they were committed
to Jail. The other parties were dis
charged.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
IlesbOrO JOtting gs.

We are having a great amount
of rain and mud this winter and
thereby have almost impossible
roads, and along In the mean time
a great many are affected with
colds and coughs.
Business is very quiet In this
commercial emporium, and but
few cases of disturbance in this
community that gives our police
force even fair share Of official
duties, but withal our city Is still
improving and pavements are now
laid far out north ON Main Street.
and large mining interests are
now In active operation in this
near vicinity.
The United Brethren In Christ
are holding q revival at Fairview
Church and have gained some ac-
cassioas and are vigorously calling
for more.
Now and anon there IL some-
thing Of a party among the young
people and unless hard cider take
control of the affair q very ane
time is had, but too often come Of
the young, and put on the cap
sheaf of non coinpos mentis, and
besmirch the whole affair by some
OF their desamatory exploits.
But VIXEN we begin to chronicle
the little things hereabouts we
must not omit those charming
times that are found at those spell
ing schools that were held at NO.2,
8 and 9 very recently and another
at No. 8, or Black Jack. Now we
know'2, 8, and 8 had spleRdid sue-
cess and all were we'll pleased and
fully convinced ,; our. schools are
hustiers. NJ! ,,'i ,l3a..ssa.,, :, !,
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