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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
ST. plsT6fF's DAY.
A Thread tts Miles Ia Length Spun From
pno Pound of Cotton,

ffhN ibhht ~ tNNNhh
The 9Th OF January Isaday in which
the elderly miidens, Who are sometimes
called spinsters. should take peculiar
interest la old times il was known
and observed as 81 nisRA's day, he-
cause II was generally then ehat the
women resumed. after an Christmas
holidays the distatt and spindle When
the spinuing Wheel was invented, along
in 1853, thosu l.dies Is no used II began
To he called spinsters. This. afterward,
in legal terninologN came to be applied
20 all unmarried women. but the namo
was an houored one until tie employ
ment al spinning was considered Too
mental for women d rank Then II was
used eontrmpnously. and gradually t
eamo to signify more particularly. sim
gle ladies OF mature years. before the
spinning,N heel WAS r,legatcd tu the
garret somr extraordinary feat. wero
aceompii shed. ~, as people nowadays
would say, records we're made hy those
expert in its ese. In the yvar l545 "A
woman ~ East nereh3m, IN Norfolk.
spun a single pound OF woui into a
thread Of $4,000 yards IN length wanting
only eighty Yards Of furty-eight miles.
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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
How >ilicate OF soda Is obtained.

This salt is obtained by fusing one
part OF silica and two of dry carbonate
OF soda, mixed in powder, in an earthen-
ware crucible, and pouring the fused
mass on a stone slab to cool This is
then pulverized and treated with boil
ing water to dissolve the soluble mart
Inc solution is filtered and concentrated
oy boiling, so as TO form crystals on
coolng, These are again purified by
dlssolving them in tepid water. filtering
the solution and boiling, that it may re-
crystalize. This form of soda is some
times used in fine laundry work.
Christian at Work.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
,.,,,ny like Eeios rrep'r''' !,

Lawyer 1.-THE Ordinary the defenda'i
time was it when you sd"
strike this blow? .1irary kind
Witness (the extraor 'iau na,t ten
'os Seven en- and one-half mino ta,l ne nos
viii You ,~'' be kind enough sI to ten
Won come to be so exact i,bt ask ne
II thought some 'oJ' n-Philadelpn'
20 | looked at my watch
Inquirer. :, - live alle'
1t is easy in the worm = easy in SCI,
' 'as. " % IL. : :S ss %a n o g: al. :,
crowd, keeps with P p'anSS' -Emersoa'
Independence OF soli'uas
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28

In lecture to a girls assemblage,
not long ago, Prof. Ames, of Columbia
College, said that in some parts of India
the lily is actually used as an article of
diet. 1t has been found by the bota-
nists to be highly nutritious article of
food, being peculiarly rich in nitrogene-
Gus compounds. The poor Indian, who
evidently considers the lilies from a
astronomical point of view, either eat
them as Il vegetable or kneads them
with dough and makes them into cakes.
In either form they are declared to af-
ford most substantial and nourishing
tepast, and the aesthetics of ten wears
ago, when accused of diving on lilies"
would certainly have been enabled to
return the laugh against their torment
ors If they had known the culinary at
tributes of their cherished flower.
Mark the result of the professors in
formation: At stylish luncheon re-
Gently given by an enterprising belle
stewed lilies were one of the novel
dishes. They tasted like an amalgam
of spinach and cabbage and were not
very dainty, but they are bound to have
vogue for awhile, anyhow Chicago
Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
WEEKLY MENpING DAY.


vVhv Every Housewife should Have One
Set Apart.
Every housewife should set apart one
day in each week for mending day-its
duties should be AS religiousIy per-
formed as her daily devotions. Which
day it shall be depends upon the usual
time of getting the clothes in from the
wash If that disagreeable work Is done
at home, it should be as early in the
week as practicable; the flannels should
he washed out ana dried quickly, so as to
shrink as little AS possible, and to al
low plenty of time to air them, for moth
ing is more ruinous to the health than
damp fannels.
II the clothes are all in by Thursday
evening, then Friday would be a nice
opportunity 20 lay out every garment
and put IL through rigorous cxamin-
alton. 1t is well 10 have aspecla stock
ing basket, In which all the socks anu
stocking are placed ready for inspection.
II should be furnished with suitable
needles, darning cotton Of all colors to
suit the fancy hosiery, pair Of scissors,
etc, 80 that II may be picked mp at any
OF those odd moments which so often
come To a bousckeepef when she IL not
ready to settle down TO work which
needs cutting out or planning. After
the holes are mcndrd, thin places should
he neatly darned, for then they present
strong even surface which IS more
comfortable than the hole when drawn
together later.
The garments which need intending
should be placed ia another basket.
Every button should BE- examined ana
u they are pulling out ~ the roots -
children's buttons always do double
bit OF cotton or material Ike the gar
ment can be hemlned on the wrong siae'
the edges Of the hole henmed down on
Il, and the button replaced coneeaiihg
the hole entirely u looks much better
than setting ~" button hlgher or lower
TO gain "A fresh foundation
strings have way OF wearing nail Oh
just whore they are sowcd on They
should be cut the Old place tipped on
and new sowing taken up or else ne"
strings Littlo Sits IN understanding
should have strong piece % material
laid under shch fafRer man the sllti
when That "a darned down WIN a re-"
neat stitches IT VIII hold much longer
than II II Is lust run up
Boys clothing should be furnished
with good strong pockets. for the JOY o.
little chaps hrst pantaloonS pales be-
fore "iots OF pockets, TO hold Just every
thing,
Little girls enjoy pockets, too moa'
crate sized one, IN the seam OF calico
av .stnUhup, ApRl9 hgiH4 hap hAntHr.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28

heard IA charming young married
woman make singular remark the
other day. IF | were man." she said
Il think | would be bachelor. Not
because ! would admire the life or be-
cause | would prefer it to the joys of a
hearthstone, but because, in the whole
INST OF my acquaintances, | don't know
glrl whom | would marry. What are
my reasons? l can't tell you exactly.
There are some girls who are faulty one
way and some another, but they all fall
so Tar below what | would desire in a
wlie, We're man, that unless | were
blinded to much that | now know. or I'M
less could find somebody different from
all the girls had ever known, | would
not marry. You think that remark
able utterance? Well, perhaps it is;
and an unlind one, too, since | am "a
woman but can't help it. 1t is the
way feel -Chicaso Mail.
"A mans faith in his fellows bears
little or no relation to his own moral
Character. the best men being often the
most distrustful, and not always the
most agreeable companions,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
KEEPING A HORSE,
It's Not such an Expensive Luxury az
Many suppose.

It's NOT Nuch an Expensive Luxury as
Many suppose.
Driving a horse is not such an expen-
sive luxury as one would suppose. OF
course ii costs lots of money to be able
to drive a crack. A frst-class trotter
costs As much as one wants to pay. A
good 2:2o horse can be had for about
$4,000 and thousand more can be add
ed to that amount for every half second
he can GO faster than 2:20 down to PIP,
Those that can trot faster than that are
phenomenal and bring fabulous prices
ANtell's price was 500, 600; Sunol's 500
600, and Maud SIS $500 A good
threc-minute horse that can do fair work
on the road can be bought for 5000. OF
course he won't beat every thing he
meets, but he will maSe a good showing.
This is how a bill for horse and rig
would look
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-He-Wcll. you know, judge others
by myself" she-''But isn't that a
rather low standard of judgment?"-
Boston Transcript.
-Adoring "Masher''-"O, how | wish
! were that book you clasp so lovingly"
She-''How l wish you were, so that l
could shut you up.'-N. Y. Ledger.
II am quite surprised, Mr.. Meeker,
to account for your wife's knowledge
of parliamentary law" "She? Great
Caesar. Hasn't she been speaker of the
house for the last fifteen years?
mond Dispatch.
The foresighted maiden.-Urgent
suitor-''Nith any sort of management
we could certainly keep alive on $500 a
year. She-''Yes, dear, but ! would
sooner be comfortably dead. Life.
-Dashaway TAT the table, sarcastical-
lyl IL think that Brown-Sequard's
elixir might be applied with great effect
to this chicken" Mrs. Slimdict (the
landlady and it might be APP
piled to your account. N. Y. Sun.
Wife Ito husband at the end of a
"spat') -"The fools amt all dead yet
Husband They amt eh?" Wife
mo, or would have the amount of your
insurance policy before this. boston
Courier.
--Sisterly sweetness.-Mi Minnie "Mr.
BinX actually proposed to me last night
never was so surprised in all my life "
Namely needn't have been. His
sole ambition is to be thought eccentric. "
-Terre IIaute Express.
Patient Ito unsuccessful physician
doctor, you are not experimenting
on me, are you?" Physician Certainly
not, sir ''Well, then. doctor, won t
you please experiment on me little?''
Time.
Tommy Ito the bashful young man
calling on sister, Hello, MIR. Blush.
You amt caught yet, are you?" Mr..
Blush-"Caught. Why, what do you
mean, my little man?" Tommy Moth
ing, only sister said the fool-killer would
catch you one of these days. '-kearney
Enterprise.
-"Yes, said Smiggins, who was in a
reminiscent mood, Il had very narrow
escape earlier in life" "Indeed?" said
his wife. "A narrow escape; / was kid
mapped lis it possible!'' But pc.
hceman rescued so, dear. There
isn't day passes nowadays that there
doesn't something turn up to reflect OF
the police. - Merchant Traveller.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28

The buggy blankets, whip and har
ness can all be bought at an auction
sale. An experienced man should be
consulted, though before the purchase
is made or the buyer may be swindled.
The cost of taking care of the horse
would make bill for a year look like
this one;
Twelve months board at SIS per month. $500
Painting buggy and repairing harness ~
Sundrles, including veterinary surgeon n
"N''.-.''f --.-.-- ..---.-.., ..-.... $3.50
This would mean an outlay of about
81 week. \ good top-coat is neces-
'ary' and SO are pair of driving gloves.
These Will cost about $50. SO that the
complete rig would necessitate an ont.
lay of about $3.50, and it would cost
about s. week to keep it. But then
what an amount of good healthy enioy.
ment can be gotten out of TN !
Star
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28
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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-28

day ana MI nl2nt were lelt IN peace
On the third day there were but twenty
natives IN the bestegiug force, and the,
fred into the thic llet only at long intei
walls. On the fourth day this force wa
reduced tu ten. Al noon WildS made s.
scout aud found them eating diune'
aud We crrpt up and killed one an.
wounded two, aud completely raised TIA
siege We could have gone away nov
had We had any place to go to, but ".
had dvcided 10 remain.
On the nth day, about nine o'clock il
the morning, n rabhle OF about six hun
lred natives most of them soldiers, who
we're ON their way to Cawnpoor, were
turned aside 10 attack US Each one had
1 gun and plenty OF ammunition, and
for three hours they kept up credit
thle fire. They could see nothing t.
shoot at, but fired into the thicket, and
&C least iva hundred bullets hit tn,
walls OF our fortress. We did not fit,
IN reply, as it would only have betrayed
nut position. At noon, when their FIR
began 10 slackeu. We made ready for e
charge. rhore were two spare guns
all were loaded Then. while waiting
Wilds piled up couple of hundred
stones about the size of his fist from the
plentiful supply once used in the rabblt
work of the buildings. The thicket was
surrounded two lines deep and at sig
nal a general advance was made Haf
We been without cover we would hav,
been killed or captured. When they saw
our fort the orders were to storm it. The
walls were SO low that one could boost
another up and before we opened fir,
there was living fringe all around us
In one minute only the dead wer,
in sight. Wilds fred once, and then re
sorted to the rocks. and / honestly be
lieve he disabled a dozen men. Four o
the killed fell into the Enclosure, an,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01

IIcathcn In BROOKLYN.

A missionary Sunday school in Brooklyn
has some sadly neglected heathens in at
tendance whose lack of knowledge of the
Bible Is almost enough to induce some Of
the ardent missionaries who 20 off to India
to stay at home and convert them. If the
children come for two consecutive Sun
days the teacher is grateful. One teachers
class was always present and seemed inter
cstcd. She told them Bible stories so en-
tertainngly that waggish friend said
"the Riddles wouldn't recognize the Bible
when they grew up" Her plan was to tell
"A Billie story and then review the pupils on
what she had told The boys seemed to
enjoy this sort of lesson.
On Sunday she recited to them in very
animated way the story of Josephs trials
and triumphs. The boys answered in 2
gratifying manner until it came to the
scene where Joseph was ruler in Egypt
The teacher he'd made strong point Of
Joseph's gcnerosity-how he might have
sent his brothers away starving, but in.
stead had given them corn, and unknown
to them had put money into their sacks
She drew especial attention to the fact that
he had placed the silver cup in Benjamin's
sack, and thought she clearly brought out
the fact that Joseph had sent for Benjamin
a few hours after his brothers had started
fer home, and asked the question, erich
ard what did Joseph do after his brothers
had goncY" ole telephoned for police
man, answered Richard promptly, THAT
is not what | told you" said the teacher
rcprovingly. IL know it," said Richard
sullcnly, but that's what his nibs oughter
done. New York Tribune.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01
Ingenious AuricuIar Device.

The British Medical association appears
TO regard with favor device brought to
its attention by DIR. John w. Cousins, of
London, who terms the instrument new
antiscptic artificial drum head, and by the
use of which he claims to have been very
successful in improving the hearing of the
deaf In shape this mechanism is described
as being exactly like a hat, with Il very
high tapering crown and IA broad, fat rim,
having short ribbon attached to the edge
1t is made of several sizes, according to the
ear it is designed to fit, is stained flesh
color, and is SO soft, light and flexible as to
produce no sensation of weight or pressure
in the canal, it's weight being only from
one-siXth to one-fourth of grain
When in position the crown rests near
the tympanic membrane-or where il
should have been-the brim upon the
meatal wall and the ribbon, or handle, be
hind the tragus. 1t is made of compressed
cotton fiber, swollen by prolonged INNER
sion in water and saturated in an anti
septic oil and ether In addition to the
above named qualities it is urged in favor
of this drum that it can be put in position
and removed by the patient himself, and
that it can be successfully worn by persons
whose ears IRE discharging anything, from
fresh serum to fctid pus In these latter
cases the plan pursued is to deodorize the
ear cavity with boracc acid, insert the
drum and give instructions for removing
the device and cleansing the ear.-New
York Tribune
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01

Some excellent advice is given by re
cent writer on the production of artistic eff
fects by judicious lighting in photography
He says that if photography seeks to fol
low in the footsteps of art it should free
itself from the limitations of lighting in
portraiture imposed by the narrow con.
fines of skylights and rejecting screens
Were more study given to simplicity in
lighting the more successful would be the
average portrait. This is exactly the
study of the painter simplicity in his
methods. Why does the amateur often
beat the professionals Because he is backed
with mere artistic Judgment and, freed
from the conventions of the skylight,
works with greater simplicity. What has
made the success of some Of the best of
our photographers What has led Sarony
nowadays to discard backgrounds and
bric-a-brac altogether? Nothing but this, "
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01

.----..rrll-ss l96nsois in an npt9wn side street
in this city.
The young man got work at accounting
and managed to live and save fifty-five
dollars. When the work he was employed
upon was finished he found too late that
he had Overexericd himself. He became
almost idiotic. Only one spark of his
mind remained, a Pickering ember of rea-
son in dethroned brain. He knew that
he had a mother in New York, that was
all He did not know her name or address
or his own name. He bought a ticket to
this city, and coming to the Grand Central
station said 20 hackman the word "ho-
tel" He was driven to a cheap Italian
pension in South Fifth avenue. 1t is a
mercy he was not robbed and thrown over
board. His disease left him reticent, but
as his fellows at the boarding house could
not speak English they did not discover
his helplessness.
Now what did he do, think your He
set out to find his mother How2 BY
walking all day and far into the night, and
looking at all the women in the street and
at all the signs on the buildings. His rule
became this: Never to walk the same
street twice Day and night, week after
week, that poor semi-idiot trod the cruel
pavements, and peered into the faces Of the
women and studied with Inexpensive brain
the legends on the houses
He changed gradually from the figure of
gentleman TO the ideal of tramp. Spat-
tered, soaked and resoaked with rain, los
ing button now and another tomorrow,
accommodating rents for which there were
no patches to be made, bedraggled, dust
grimed, pallid, haggard, heart sick, hollow
eyed and bent, he dragged his one CLEAN
of reason over the flags and the cobbles.
That single link that bound him to his
kind supported him-or was it the prayer
that found words at his mothers bedside
every night and lived in her mind all day.
At last one rainy night-just now, dear
reader, when You were ut the theatre, per.
haps, or at case in your happy home-that
wreck of youth was walking in a drench-
ing rain through an uptown street. when
he saw on sign the words Asylum for
Helpless Women" He read the words,
and pressed his brow and read the words
again, 1t was Gods mercy that he did not
90 on like the automaton he had become
But no. He mounted the steps and rang
the bell The maid who answered the
signal tried to keep him out, but he pushed
by her
'The woman who keeps this house, said
he, II must see-the woman-who keeps
The house"
His voice was as if dead man had
spoken. The girl was alarmed. She ran
for the matron. The woman looked at
the youth all tattered and stained, like
bit of wreckage of the storm without, and
asked him what he wanted 1t was year
since she had seen her boy, and this-this
thing-who was he?
Mother, said the young man, "dont
you know your own SOM"
She had no money, and she had to take
him in and gave him bed in the asylum.
The trustees Of the institution could not
permit man in u house for women. They
dismissed the mother So the boy wrought
her undoing by reason of his own.-Julan
Ralph in Chatter.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01

All New York has nothing more foreign
than the tea wharves of South street Tea
comes in at these wharves in great full
rugged ships, and is unloaded for days by
dozens of active men. 1t comes out of the
holds in the familiar cubical tea boxes, Gov
cred with coarse mating, and wound
about with strips Of tough cane. The mat
ting is lettcred in English, but every tenth
box is damaged, and the teamsters refuse
to take it until it has been repaired. Two
or three carpenters are on hand to make
repairs, and to them the damaged boxes
are turned over. When the English let
tered mating is stripped off one sees the
queer figures and gay colors of China or
Japan. The repairing means merely deft
mailing up of the broken boxes. Each box
with its contents weighs about sixty
pounds OF this from forty eight to fifty
pounds is tea and the remainder packing,
which includes mating, box and tea lead.
The whole wharf is redolent of tea, and
standing about among the workmen are
the tea importers, their black worsted
concealed by long, cool, clean linen dust
rs-NeW York Suu.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-01
Remember 1t.

DIR. Maxwell, of the GAINESVILLE
Dental Parlors, over STATIONS Shoe
Store, wants 1t remembered that his
prices on dental work will he raised
after September | on all classes of
work. Bearing this fact in mind, peo-
Pile wishing work done should call
early and take advantage of present
prices. Remember that you can get
gold filings now at 81 and upwards /;
teeth extracted without pain for so
cents; full set of teeth Oh best rubber
plate for $500. These prices are rock
bottom and will not last always. Don't
forget the place, franklin street over
STATIONS Shoe Store. d.tf,swlt