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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-23
HOUSEHOLD BREVlTiES.

-Molasses Cake. One cupful of mo-
lasses, one-quarter cupful cold water,
piece of butter the size of an egg, one
teaspoonful of soda, one-half teaspoon
full of ginger, little salt and two and
one-half cupfuls of -four.
Planned Spring Chickens. Split the
chicken down the back, put in drip,
ping pan cover with bits Of butter, and
set in the oven. When half done take
out and season with salt pepper and
butter. return to the oven to brown
Make gravy by adding butter, a little
hot water and tablespoonful OF grated
cracker to the gravy in the pan.
Sweet Apple Pudding.-Pare and
slice half dozen large sweet apples Tor
more if smalD, scald quart OF sweet
milk and stir smoothly into it a teacup-
full Indian meal, a teaspoonful salt anu
teacupful molasses and the apples;
mix we'll together, pour into outtereo
nudding dish; bake three hours IN a
/ moderate oven. Serve with hot sauce OF
sweetened cream.-OrangeJ JUDD FARMER
To brighten gilt picture frames
take sufficient flowers of sulphur tt
give golden tinge to about one anC
one-half pints of water, and in this boz
four or five bruised onions, or garNc
which will answer the same purpose
Strain off this liquid, and with it. w ,i
cold, wash with soft brush any gildins
which requires renewing ana "neh VI
it will come out bright as new-"aVer
ley Magazine.
Cream Pudding.-In one pint o
cream or rich milk melt teaspoontu
of butter, then add half cup OF sugar
one teaspoonsul of lemon or vanilla an
the yelks of five eggs Beat the whlte
of the eggs to stiff froth, drop by spoon
fuls in the hot custard and sur yer
lightly, so as the whites will De a,
through the yellow custard in spoonful
unbroken; the effect Is very pre.t'
Ripe strawberries may be placed IN
dish and the custard poured over then
Household
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-23
THE PLASTER STUCK.
And in Order to Get Rid of 1t Miner
Had to Break His Neck.

A miner named Tobias, in our camp
with wandering rheumatic pains for sew
eral weeks, and the most of them finally
got together between his shoulders and
hung there. He tried one thing and an
other until our brief list of remedies
was exhausted, and then brilliant idea
struck him. He gathered some pitch off
an old stub, added some tar scraped from
the wheels of passing cart, and melted
tup for a plaster. He took a piece of
stout canvas foot square, covered it
over with the mixture, and then had one
OF the boys clap it on his back. The re-
suits were all he could have hoped for.
In four or five days the pains left him,
but day or two later the plaster began
itching so vigorously that he had to stop
and rub his back on stone every ten or
fifteen minutes.
The boys were finally appealed to to
rid Tobias OF his torrentor, but we in
vestigated to discover that the only way
to get it off was to skin him. 1t seemed
to have grown into his flesh, and the
slightest pull at it made him yell with
the hurt. We tried soaking and greas-
ing and reheatin, but it was no go. And
the more we fooled with it the more it
itched. We had heap of fun at the
poor mans expense, for by and by he
had to get up nights to go and rub on
his favorite bowlder. By and by he de-
clared that it must come off, happen
what would. He wouldn't let one of US
touch it, but planned a way of his own.
He had one of the boys cut hole in the
margin of the cloth at the top and run a
small rope through it. The other end
was made fast to stone weighing about
hundred pounds. When all was ready
Tobias took his stand on the brink of a
gulch thirty feet deep, shut his eyes
and teeth, grabbed stake with both
hands, and gave the word to push the
stone over. When the rope straight
ened Tobias uttered yell which was
heard mile and five seconds later lei
go of the stake and went head over
heels down into the gulch. We climbed
down as soon as possible, but it was nc
use. The fall had broken his neck
When we turned him over to see abou
the plaster it was there in the same ole
spot. The weight of that stone hadn'
even started it loose at the top. N. Y
SIM
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-23
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
Change of Scene the Best of All Rem
edies Known to Science.

Change of Scene the Best of All Rem
edies Known to Science.
Il am a woman of strong constitution,
forty-six years old. and have always had
good health until recently. After re-
peated bereayements, many cares and
much hard work, have fallen into a
very depressed state. For more than a
year | have found it difficult to sleep, or
to be cheerful.
rs there hope that | may entirely re-
cover? If SO, what are the best means to
be used? Is it best to take medicine or
not? Is it best to go into company and
to church, or to stay at home? As l am
but a type of very large class of
women, thought you might be willing
to give us some hints
The explanation of the above con-
dition is very simple one-the undue
expenditure of nerve-force. 1t is like
the persistent spending of more than
ones income; it mus end in bankruptcy.
Nothing cxhausts nerye-force faster
than long-continued, strong emotion.
Even pleasurable emotions are exhaust
ing, but they are seldom long-continued,
Indeed, it is difficult to keep them up.
But the depressing emotions of grief,
anxiety and care tend to perpetuate
themselves. 1t is difficult even for a
strong will to throw them off, espec-
tally those that come of sore bereave-
ments.
The case is rendered still worse by
the fact that, in this condition, the cere-
bral arteries are apt to become en-
larged, and so to carry too much blood to
the brain, to the inducing of wakeful-
ness. Nov there is nothing like sleep
to restore lost nerve force. 1t is the
nightly restorer of the daily waste.
Further, the above causes draw nerve
force from the stomach and digestive
tract, and thus lessons its power I,
nourish the nervous system. Of course
cheerfulness in such a condition of gen
eral depression is not easy, and direct
attempt at it is of little worth at the
best.
The tendency in such cases is to lool
on the dark side. Suitable treatment
however, is sure to remove the trouble
and that. too, somewhat readily, The
prime thing Is to remove the cause
/ Grief must not be cherished. Faith il
God should tighten the burden of care
( II hard work must still continue, mean;
should be found to lessen it for time
/ The greatest benefit would come from
a change of scene and surroundings TO
a few weeks. 1t is indispensable tina
/ sleep be secured in full measure. Les
| blood must go to the brain. A foot-bath
quite hot, just before retiring may prove
a help, and so sometime may no
cloth on the stomach. The food SHOULD
be nutritious aud ample, but easy to b'
digested.
1t will be help, rather than hin
drance, to go to church and into pleasan
company. There is aid in all innocen
diversions. Youths Companion.
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AMERICAN COLLEGES.
Their Progress Since the Close Of the War
of the Rebellion.


The installation of Hon. Seth Low as
president Of Columbia College will d.
rect attention to the remarkable deyel-
opment Of the principal American uni
yer5ities in the last quarter OF the cent
ury. lis safe to say that during this
relatively short period such educational
{ institutions as Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton and Columbia have made a greater
advance in their peeuniary resources.
In the size OF their professional stats
and in the number of students than in
the preceding hundred years.
Indeed, from their foundation up to
the close Of the war of the rebellion the
progress Of these establishments was
comparatively slow. Mr.. Henry Adams,
in the first volume of his History of the
United States. notes that in and near
1900 only fifteen or twenty grad
yates were annually sent forth
| from Columbia. and that most Of
the nominal professorships were un-
1lled. We are told on the same author
lty that on an average during the decade
from 1890 to 1890 only thirty mine young
men yearly took degrees from Harvard
7 NOAA~5p' hlo Was d
average than had been exhibited in the
decade preceding the evolutionary war
In 1900 only one professorship had
been added to the tutorial resources of
/ Harvard since 1870. A review of old
/ catalogues would no doubt reveal a sim
| liar backwardness at Yale and Prince
ton in the early years Of this century.
/ Now, although the number of students
and of instructors naturally rose with
the immense increase OF the country's
population, the figures reached in 1860
4 were far below those attained to-day.
/ AS to the academical curriculum of the
/ four institutions named, it remained in
/ 1850 pretty much what it had been in
1900, and no decisive change took place
until the era of educational expansion
and reform which followed the civil
war. Now, all Of the colleges mentioned
rank among the foremost universities
of the English-speaking world in respect
Of standards, methods and stimula ton.
N adorar
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MEDICAL PROGRESS.
Potato Diet Successful Substitute for
Gastrotonly.

Potato Diet a Successful Substitute for
Gastrotoniy.
The success which has attended the
treatment of foreign bodies in the stom-
ach by the administration simply of
large amounts of potatoes and restrict
ing the diet to the same-now favorite
substitute for gastrotomy in European
practice-is due, as explained, TO the
well-known fact that potatoes, being
composed of nearly twenty per cent. of
carbohydrates, eighty per cent of the
solids being starch and cellulose, great
portion of this large quantity of carbo-
hydrates resists the action of the diges-
tive Juices; the oelulose and other car
bohydrates, increasing greatly in vol
ume from inhibition with water, lead to
an immense accumulation of indigestible
residue, consequently the intestinal tube
is, throughout the entire period of the ad
ministration of this food, filed with
large masses of non-absorbable matter,
the folds of the intestine become
obliterated, and fixation of the foreign
body in the intestinal tube is thus
avoided. 1t seems that from five to
nine days, or even longer, are required
for the evacuation of the foreign body,
and in every case which does not seem
desperate trial of this simple treat
ment should. it is asserted, precede
resort to gastrotomy; in fact, according
20 Prof Billroth, in his address before
the Vienna Medical College, in view Of
the success of this procedure, gastrot-
omy for foreign bodies should become
an obsolete operation.-.Laneet.
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A oEpRAvso TRIBE.
'kin Manelotta of Africa nm,
Their ExlI Wa. 80

Their EVIL Ways
nelson had curious account ~ ,,t.,.
OF the dwarfs OF the Congo forest ue
uescribes them as the ugliest and moe,
oepraved specimens OF humanitv bo
ever heard OF. They struck me a. tho
ealA ana .orbidding features of bad
nightmare he said, rather than actin
Al human beings, when we first saw
,nom. y, they're bad lot, ! can tell
you sometimes we struck a district
where they seemed a trifie less wild Or
more confident, and they used TO come
IN swarms to the camp. They n,
course, had never seen a white man no.
fore. 10
The most disagreeable thing about
'heni was their guilty, sneaking i'm.
preston. They are cannibals, of course.
anu III always seemed to me that thew
came into our camp for the purpose OF
ieastlng their eyes on us, as a pack OF
hungry dogs might gaze longingly at a
leg OF mutton. They could never look
Us IN the face. have felt their bale
lui gaze on me as sat at nv
tent door, and the moment that
looked all eyes would instantly
DC dropped. But | have detected them
Sizlng up the others, and fairly licking
their chops. 1t used to make nv flesh
creep They used to pay more atten-
ZION TO Jephson than any of us. We
were none of us overburdened with
Drawn in those days, but Jephson is Of
plumber build than any of the others.
hence his popularity with these impish
canhlpals. They admired Jephson be,
cause they saw at glance that he
would cut up into more steaks and bet
ter rib-roaSts than we others.
II tell you what" continued the gal
liant Captain, somebody ought to call
the attention of the missionary socie.
ties to these depraved manikins. Il
would be Christian and civilized act
TO send out to these benighted beings
twenty or thirty plump, rosycheeked
young missionaries and few bottles of
Worcestershire sauce. There is no such
held for missionary usefulness in all
Africa as in the Congo forest. Afri-
cans, know, are as a general thing I'M
grateful and unappreciative, but | as
sure you there is positive demand for
missionaries among these dwarfs, and |
Will guarantee that every one sent will
be duly appreciated, with or without
the Worcestershire sauce. Thomas
/ Stevens
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-23
Isles" IN THREAD.
How the Numbers Now in Use Originated
and What They Mean.

and What They Mean.
Every seamstress, whether she wants
No. so or go or 1875 thread, knows from
the nAmber just what size the thread
will be and what kind of sewing it can
be used for; but how the numbers came
to be jHst what they are and just what
they mean not one person in 1000
knows; get it is very simple matter to
explain, providing you only know the
points and how TO elucidate them.
When $40 yards of yarn weigh 1000
grains pound of cotton, the thread
makers mark it No. l. If 1850 yards
weigh pound it is marked as No. 2.
For No. so yarn it would take so multi
piled by $40 to weigh a pound; this is
the whole explanation of the yard meas
urement as used by the spool cotton
manufacturers. The early manufact-
ured thread was of three instead of six
cord. the number being derived
from the number of yards to
the pound, just as it is to-day, No. 60
warn made No. 60 thread, though in
point OF fact the actual caliber of No. 60
thread would equal No, 20 yarn, being
I maze OF luTtt NJ. ~ Wv iSVCo w
gether.
When the sewing-machine came into
the market as the great thread-consum-
err, unreasoning in its work and in
exorable in its demands for mechanical
accuracy, six-cord cotton had to be made
| in place of the old and rougher three
cord it being much smoother. As thread
numbers were already established, they
were not altered for the new article, and
No. 60 six-cord and No. so three-cord
were left identical in. both size and
number To effect this the six-cord has
to be made of yarn twice as fine as that
anded in making the three-cord
variety. The No. 60 six-cord is made Of
six strands of No. 100 yarn. The three
cord spool cotton is the same number as
che warn is made of. Six-cord spool cot
ton is always made from yarn double Its
number. Thread is simple thing but
simple as it is there are 1000 kinds OF
It and each kind goes through hundreds
of different processes.-st Louis he
public ---
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THE coLD-Ala CURE.
Views Of a Writer who Has Unbounde,
Faith In IT.

afttA III
A good many people are afraid OF cold
air, especially at night, shutting them
selves in close bedrooms, where their
systems are poisoned and their constitu-
tons gradually undermined by breath
ing the bad air. And even hot or warm
air that is pure, air in room that has
ventilation as well as heat, is debilitat-
ing where breathed all night Pui-
monary complaints arc inevitably and
exclusively caused by foul indoor
air, and cured by pure, especially by
cold, pure, outdoor air. The remedial
influence Of fresh air is SO much in
creased by low temperature that
colds" are, in fact, far more durable in
nidwinter than in midsummer. /
was shot through the lungs in Mexico.
and have ever since been susceptible to
the contagion Of "catarrh factory.n as
friend of mine calls the unyentilated
school-rooms and meeting of our
country towns. In warm weather I
avoid such man-traps as | would the nit
OF gas-well, but in winter l risk their
injection in the assurance that its in
fuence can be counteracted by an extra
dose of ice air.
On returning from crowded lecture
hall, sitting sick-room, a stuffy omni-
bus, ETC., | remove my bed to the draft
side of the house, and open window to
the full extent ofits mechanism, taking
care to go to sleep facing the draft. /
have often awakened in the morning
with my head grizzled with boar
frost, but without the slightest vestige
OF the catarrh which had ANNOUNCED its
approach the night before. Cold is an
antiseptic and powerful digestive
stimulant. The hospitals of the future
will be ice-houses. Dyspepsia, catarrh
and fevers Of all kinds can be frozen out
of the system, not by letting the patient
shiver IN the snow-bank, but by giving
extra allowance Of warm bed-clothing
with the additional luxury of breathing
ice-cold air, which, under such circum-
stances, becomes as preferable to not
miasma as cold spring water to warm
ditch water. / have also found that the
best brain work can be done in cold
room, and that stove heat has a tenden-
cy to stultify like a narcotic beverage.
/ Warm wraps make fires tolerably dis
pensable. Herald of Health.
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CURE FOR LAZlNESS.
How Young Fellow Was Made to Lear
That He Could Work.

That He Could Work.
During morning walk merchant
who was detained by business IN
Amsterdam, came to a group of men
who were standing round a well, into
which strongly built man had just
been let down. A pipe, whose mouth
was at the top of the well had been
opened and stream of water from it
was flowing down into the well and be-
ginning gradually to fill it. The fellow
below had quite enough to do if he did
not want to be drowned, to keep the
water out by means of pump which
was at the bottom OF the well. The
merchant. plying the man, asked for
an explanation of what seemed heart
less, cruel joke, ''Sir," replied
an old man standing near, that
man is healthy and strong;
have myself offered him work twenty
times, nevertheless he always allows
laziuess to get the better of him, and
will make any excuse to beg his bread
from door 10 door, though he might
easily earn it himself by work if he
liked. We are now trying to make him
feel that he can work. If he uses the
strength which is in his arms he will be
saved, if ne let them hang idle he viii
be drowned. But look" continued the
old Dutchman. as he went TO the edge OF
the well, the fellow finds out that he
has got muscles; in an hour We shall let
him out with better resolutions for the
future" Such was the case, and the
cure was effectual.-Christian at Work.
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aAmNlno A JEWEL.

x,.,ny Woman's Ingenious
smsrs ,ar beating Mouey-Lender
SEMI .wfnlly ashamed of 1t now,
= dsmure little brown-eyed woman
'becsu'V yas this way; My friend Ada
ae ma A pendant, a circle Of beauti-
bOsea Il white diamonds about ruby
81 'm u,oged like faming-red heart; 1t
Y, n IRE enough to melt 2 rock, ADA
Y T. was shame that the ruby was
90 aralne. because 1T made the pend
s.S no value to her.
~ = INA ~ care, said l.; 1T looks so much
iu saal stone that do not believe
DNs ~ could tell it was bogus. Why,
''Y V mare Is even little flaw in 1t, just
se often find in rubies. But Ada
S!Va long as it was not genuine the
slu , 81 was of no value to her, unless
sssad the diamonds set over.
s,Wby not pawn it?' said |.
80 couldn't,' said she. I'd be fright
1,odeath. Besides, how do you doit?'
40 inst 90 in and ask him how much
~ cive on it, said |, though | had
Nn heen near pawn-shop. was in
ps'J Joon TO expose my ignorance now.
D'Wonld YOU dare do it?' said she.
certainly replied, bravely.
own you do it for me, dear%
NAV that took my breath away. To
mo friend up to mischief was one
s l Int to be up to it myself was an
a aar However, / could not admit !
- afraid now.
a,ye.es.' said, half-heartedly.
asbe made me start at once. We
=, down town. and while she waited
store | climbed the stairs to the
.s.o Of swell broker with my heart
,a.,inc until was nearly suffocated.
al down in the private Office, and,
IN face as long as the statue Of
ni,ery. handed out that pendant.
@Iiow much?' said the man.
81 don't know replied. He disap-
.,,cd and came back and said $3.50
pTben | knew he thought the ruby
ii as had expected him to do, and
ns nepdant therefore worth about 5000,
~ pena anro ofrered was about donble
n real value of the pendant; SO
" isa- ot tho oar for mo
a'A'a "a a. tbor said,
s i,c s,,'' , ~, do NO better for ma~
~, eaid bo Ono mora ,oro
. W that memento of better davs
eA |o IN a voice sufrused With
y 'D''
A aS,,, .o,.oi -,
r,i h.ol,or had n.en wa+cbino na
ia a,m md I tbink he was movad hv
'''i!' ~,' distross which NV tri,.h,
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COUNTRY AND CITY.
ln Life Disqualifies People for Unre
hitting Eyertion.

n Life DiSqualifies People for Unre-
hitting Exertion.
has lately been pointed out, as the
come of an exhaustive investigation,
ad the leading judges, lawyers, ply
als clergymen, publishers, editors,
Esers manufacturers and merchants
Aew York, not over ten per cent. were
rOn Manhattan Island.
here is something, apparently, in
atmosphere and vital conditions of a
51opolis which tends to disq ualify it's
tres for unremitting and triumphant
zion in the struggle for existence.
same phenomenon has often been
HTed in London and in Paris.
BE causes may be obscure, but that
are deep-seated, and inseparable
large conglomerations of human
A seems evident from the persist
dthe race-type in countries whose
shave been repeatedly occupied by
n invaders. Thus in Spain, where
Roman colonists settled in the
and left tillage to the conquered
Vi, there is not now trace discern
Of Roman blood. In Syria, al
Oh It's cities remained in the hands
seks for upwards of nine centuries,
en the time of Alexander to the
Of the successors OF Mohammed
klow remains scarcely vestige OF
aeek domination.
Atseven more noteworthy, the sed-
Arab population is dying out, and
lace is taken by an inflow from the
districts, which have been inhab-
Tthe same Aramaic stock since the
o history. But the most striking
F9e of the fugitive character Of ur
NPulation is furnished by the Nile
whose cities in historical times
been successfully tenanted by As
Ns Persians, Greeks, Romans
and Turks. They would be soil
Today but for the incessant re
aent of their inhabitants from tn
n' whose race-type is identica
NAT Of the subjects of the Pharaoh
|ed on the walls of the rock tomb
Aebes.
laws Of nature seem to have pre-
yea a curse upon the jewellers i
aues, and from the viewpoint c
VIAL and vital statistics it is ur
Sl0nably true that God made tn
w and man made the TOWN.. \
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m -
me Snsirs TenRcity of Life.

snail IS blessed with very great
MOI vitality. A case is recorded
Egyptian desert snail which came
upon being immersed in warm
after it had passed four years
va card in the British Museum.
'gcimens in the collection of a
A,M 9' revived after they had APP
=! oeen dead for fifteen years, and
4o1eh Tor weeks together in solid
wi Ice have recovered on being
O0t The eggs of this creature
a1'e 10 destroy as himself. They
peF"ctly Indifferent to freezing,
s been known to prove pro
a''er having been shriyeled w
Ien 10 the semblance of grains Of
1Ongman's Magazine.
nlSman's wagon was standing on
' with the horse united, as is
I'M. Whlie tho owner is delivering
a5r farmer came along leading
ok, natter on his way to market.
H.. vi the cow so terrified the
aaS. s ne ran away at furious
sss, sn the street. That milkman's
iGpps are IRE now wondering how long
h, AIS morse saw u COW. Buffalo