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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
A Woman undartaka.

There isa brisk, capable Iittle =. I
ann England who has taken M
profession OF general undertake
Not that she drives the hears q
ranges the ice box. hut straigA,
a death occurs she goes into the hs
arFanges all the details 81 thA
al, directs tho servants IA IL I
paration Of thehouse, attends y ]
necessary kilograms and maasam
answers the questions 81
secures the mourning, aFraas
the flowers, and, ia short NJ
the bereayed family Of AN the pa, ]
duties aud enFes incident 10 tss
ence nt death in the HOUSE. laI
tho funeral procession lears I
door she proceeds to destroy "a
as possible all remains OF tie ~
visitor, opens shutters and win
sets the house ia order ns II nd
had occurred and then hasteasa ~
on some other errand 81 Ia impaaJ
for which she Is amply paHl
In addition to this she hrn
homes, sometimes remaining Ma
months Ia a single family tson
Is in order. and she also an8aas
the details uf weddings in tls kml
manner as funerals, proyiiias 81
t%roussean, supplying the hFss
aud packing the wedding gilss ah,
the happy pair have dittal ss y
GENTLY packed fourteen rasss o. -
ding presents for a lady goag Il
Germany. and not ous artists 81
broken. For hiaseFvicn tbs rgsps
seven English shilliugs a day aaaa
sists on being treated a. u so
equal to her employers.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

A SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, sweet girl
graduate has patented a new method
of cooking Saratoga chips, and is now
supplying a single firm ia Cincinnati
with 800 pounds Of chips a day. When
a young and energetic woman takes it
into her head to be a useful member OF
society she generally succeeds. When
some inventive genius finds a way OF
cooking tripe so that it will not taste
like a fried Iiver-pad there will be less
excuse for anarchy.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

CIGARETTE smoking has become a
potent cause OF insanity, as shown by
statistics from the hospitals and asy-
lums throughout the country. In Chiea-
the average in one hospital is more
than twenty-iv cases annually, or 2
per cent OF all insane cases. 1t is
peculiar to this phase OF deca-
dence that the mental ruin is generally
too grave to be reparable. Medical
science is incapable OF helping these
suicides OF the mind; and all that re-
mains, as they are generally violent,
is 10 subject them to restraint like in
corrigible animals whose physical
Vigor survives for a time their intel
lectual death.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
His Hair like a CT, Sasslan
Girls.

Charles r. Cummins, Of Montague
lewis county, is a freak, in that he
aas a head of hair like that of the
Circassian girl of side show fams
and is going to join a circus. Mr.
Cummins is u son of Foss Cum.
minis, and was ho--c on October 10,
1852. He has always resided in
Lewis county and is q farmer by oe-
cupation. His hair, unlike that of
his four brothers, has always been
very heavy and curly, and for this
very reason has been kept closely
cut. Six months ago a lady friend
persuaded him to let his hair grow
to a suitable length. in order that
she might be provided with frizzes
that would not have to undergo the
eurlingiron process occasionally. In
side OF three months the hair had
grown about three inches and was
hard to manage, but the growth
was allowed to continue, and now
the hair will average seven inches in
length. 1t is, in all respects, as be
fore stated, similar to that of the
Cireassian girl, and MIR. Cummins
being unable to find q hat large
enough, is compelled to go bare
headed, The hair is as fine as silk,
dark brown in color. and inclined TO
curl.-Rome Sentinel.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

that'n beat anything ever saa0 !.
in ten mile nv Piketown.n a
Martha and Robert, being la..
a mile away, heard Peters w
and, after a moments eonsnl,a,
the ex-hired man turned 81 w
about and drove back to Tia ~ O
the late impromptu wrestling s..
Bob" shouted Peter, holdin~
hand out toward the young
view kin hev the gal IN wsi1as
D'yehear? In welcome. Ye're Wo.a'
Nv her. ANY man that out.nls.,
out-hoes and out-mows old pets a.
minis, AN tew cap all, slams MI
his back the way yew hey. i va,.g
ny this best gal within Ten mn
Piketown."
The week following theaboye a.
ed incident, Robert Sharp ana ".
tina Cummins were married.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

FROM present appearances the dis
placement Of writing materials by a
machine is only a matter of time. Sew
eral OF the typewriters nov in use do
almost perfect work. They are easily
operated, and, with a little instruction
and practice, n a obtain a speed
that is surprising to a novice. An ex-
pert can produce copy on a typewriter
rs fast as he can think. It is printing
instead OF writing, and can, therefore.
be read with ease. But legibility is
not the only advantage of this new
process. More words can be placed on
a page, and a much cheaper kind o.
paper can be used.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

Ii is difficult 10 say in precise terms,
what forces are directly connected
with the production of hale and happy
old age. Certainly much more is in
yolved than mere strength OF constitu-
tion, for to this must be added health
ful surroundings, contentment and ac-
tive, temperate and regular habits.
Hard work, so long as it is not carried
beyond the limit OF repairing regularly
the WORKOUT tissues, is both harmless
and conducive to longevity. Civiliza-
ton is at once helpful and injurious as
regards longevity. Under its protect
Ing influence normal development at
all ages is allowed and fostered. But
civilization affords great opportunities
for self-indulgence and as a rule they
aare not allowed to escape.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

AFTER great wars more male than
female children are born. Since tae
early settlement of America in the
frontier aud young towns female
births have been in excess. Males are
more exposed to accident and disease
than females, and, the birth rate
being about equal, it is natural that
females should be in excess. Why
nature should take no account Of dis
ease and accidents, but does take ac-
count Of wars. is one of her secrets. A
possible solution lies in the fact that
almost all diseases aud accidents are
due to NATURES laws.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
Big Rather on a Saloon Door
step.

Nashville American.
As r. D. Averitt put the key in the
door of his saloon. on the corner oi
First and Woodland streets, he dis
covered an enormous ~rattlesnake ly-
ing on the stone sill. The snake
struck at him, and he narrowly es
capped being bitten. He jumped back,
however. and escaped.
The snake remained in ~undisputed
possession of the premises until Aver
lit procured a crowbar from some
hands working on the street rail
road, and chopped his head off.
The snake was measured and found
to be four feet eight inches, an unusual
length Tor the species, and was three
inches in diameter though the thick
est part of his body. He had IL
rattles and a button.
There was much speculation as TO
where the serpent came from, but no
one could give the plausible theory
IL is supposed it came down on a
raft, and crawled up to the saloon
during the night.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
our Flag Abroad.

"Here, for the first time since leav-
ing New York, / saw the Stars and
Stripes. 1t was floating over the
gateway to the American consulate.
1t is a strange fact that the further
one goes from home the more loyal
one becomes. / felt that / was a
long ways off from my own dear
land; it was Christmas day, and /
had seen many different flags since
last | gazed upon our own. The
moment l saw it foating there in the
soft, lazy breeze / took of my cap
and said: That's the most beautiful
flag in the world, and / am ready to
whip any one who says it isn't
mo one said a word. Everybody
was afraid. | saw an Englishman
in the party glance furtiyely toward
the Union Jack, which was floating
over tine English consulate, but in a
hesitating manner, as if he feared to
let me see."-Nellie Bly's Book.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

THE science in our schools is too
often a make-believe, and the schools
will lose nothing when every make
believe slips out of the curriculum.
The trouble is. the science that is now
taught is taught from books. There
is no science that can be learned from
books. Book science is canned science,
a thing that cannot be assimilated by
the mind.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
b ..Ynllow pay."

Sept. 6, 1881, is well remems
in New England and parts %, ~.
York and Pennsylvania as ths .ooos
low day. Southern Canaan
on some Of the characteristic ,sl
In the states above mentlonsI ia )
yellow in the ntmospherc ha. ,nnlsI
more greenish cast, which W. 4 m
for the Canucks referring ".oIuk
"the green day" In the NM
the sky had the appearance "a 4 MI
cloudcd, but as the sun aross or Il
plainly visible, and OF the S0 Sars
brass. About midday O muou oIlet
er yellow appearance gras
everything except leayes aa aSay sg
had che intense yellow look, .ns' Nh
pearing OF a rich velvety green shith
cause Of the phenomenon, sa
lasted buo one day, has new ada
satisfactorily explained ~
Reputable.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

The element OF insecurity is always
reflected by the high rate OF interest.
A shrewd and successful capitalist re-
marks that he has always risked his
money when he has tried to earn more
than six per cent. interest. No farm
err can afford to pay over six per cent.
for money for long time loans. No
business man C n make a profit if his
capital costs MIN a higher rate y eai
after year.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

Ii is told OF an American millionaire
who bought a castle on the Rhine that
one cold day his daughter found him
warming his hands at a fire which he
had kindled in a suit of plate armor.
20 papa, what have you been doing?'
she cried. The fellow that patented
that stove, replied the lord of the
castle, must have been crazy; but
I've made the old thing heat up at
LAST
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

THAT England intends. to go to
Mecca n OF these days is clearly iu-
dictated by recent %utterances in the
English press Pilgrims have been
treated so badly at Mecca OF la t years
that the Turks and Egyptians are be-
ginning to be very anxious TO see
Mecca in neutral hands.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

THS schools try to satisfy the public
by making a show of teaching what
they don't teach and can't teach. One
OF the chief difficulties or disadvan-
tages in our school system is that there
are not, as a rule. enough teachers to
do the work as it should be done.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25

john HowELLs, son of the novelist
has chosen architecture for his life
work. If the young man succeeds as
we'll in his line as his father has in
literature. John will ultimately be
come aplain carpenter.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
difficulties of Running a SHOW

NltllSAAhASS ~ manning = NV
II can tell you a good story" said
a local professor. "a friend Of mine
was running a snide spiritualistic
show up in New Hampshire. Hehad
o man under the stage to make the
raps. This man was tongue tied,
and only now and then could say
anything when occasion required.
The show was free the first night,
but cost a quarter the second night.
The house was packed. My friend
stood on the stage and called for the
spirit of Capt. Kiddend Pirate Gibbs.
They answered at first and then they
failed to materalize. Somethinghad
gone wrong. is the spirit of John
Slade here?" said the medium. Silence
followed. The audience could heara
pin drop. Then it was broken by a
sepulchral voice from the hollow cav
erns of the stage, saying, I can't do
a thing, cap'n, this fish lines gone
and broke. "-Lewiston Journal.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
A PIKETOWN ROMANCE.

LID Peter Cum
minis was down
with the rheuma-
Consequent
he was very
peevish.
He badgered
and bullied all
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15
Only One of bis Kind.

Homnnculus, Or as the Indians would
put it, Tibiuigneeshie, or little man, sat
on platform at the st. Paul museum
yesterday in all his war paint and feath-
ers. looking for all the world like q
small model of 10" the poor Indian,
as he appears upon his native heath.
HOmunculus is twenty-five years old.
has the stomach and the dignity of
judge. but is only tbirty-two inches tall
and weighs fifty-siX pounds. This
is his first public appearance and he is
the first Indian midget ever put OH ex-
hibition in any museum. Homuncnlus
is an Ohjibwa, and he was born and
raised in Canada. AS he sits upon the
platform at the museum in his funny
little buckskin suit, looking like some
diminutive cigar sign, he cuts a curious
figure. There is no doubt his being an
Indian; he has the hair, the
low broad forehead, the cum
ming eye, ana the manners of an
Indian chief. He has not yet learned
to speak the language, but he is learn
ing slowly. Slowly because he is such
silent little fellow, and preserves al
ways proud and dignifed silence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15
HOLDEN WILL SWING
Appellate Judges Throw Out
Appeal Of the Redwood
Falls Murderer.
II Is Deereed That Clifton Hol-
den Has Had a Proper
Trial.
None But Gov. Merriam Can
Now Save Him From the
Seaffold.
Decisions on Various Legal
Points by Wearers Of the
Ermine.

Clifton Holden. the Redwood Falls
murderer, is to hang-that is. if Gov.
Merriam declines to come down at the
last moment with pardon and consign
him to the state penitentiary the re-
mainder of his natural life. Holden's
appeal from the verdict of the trial
court was yesterday thrown out of the
supreme court. The opinion of the ap-
pellate body is written by Judge Dick
ensOn, an | the findings read:
1t is for the court to decide in a GRIM
inal trial whether alleged confessions
have been made under such circnm-
stances as to be properly receivable IN
evidence against the defendant, and its
decision is to be sustained unless mani
testify against the weight of the evil
dence. State VS.. Staley, IA Mimi,
I05. followed. The inducements to the
making of confessions, which should
exclude proof of such confessions. must
have come from one in authority, or
must have been presented under cir
cumstances likely to lead the defend
ant to suppose that they were sanctioned
by person in auth ority. Evidence
considered as justifying the decision of
the trial court receiving in evidence
proof of inculpatory and contradictory
statements made by the defendant.
Testimony Of witnesses that a certain
statement of the defendant was voluli-
tarily made. considered. in connection
with other evidence, as not being the
expression Of an opinion, but the State
ment of fact that no inducements were
presented leading to the making of the
statement. A witness who had seen
the dead body of the deceased gave tes-
tlm0ny tending to show that he had
seen the same man alive subsequent to
the time when, according to the theory
of the state, he had been killed by the
defendant. He identified a photo
graph OF brother of the deceased
as resembling the man he saw.
Held that there was no apparent error
in receiving in evidence true photo
graph of the deceased. At the close of
the evidence. and before the Judge had
charged the jury, six of the jurors sent
request to the counsel for the state,
and for the defendant, that the cause be
submitted to the jury witho argu-
ment. and this was done. Held to be
no ground for new trial. The general
charge of the court held to be sufficient
to cover particular request for in
structiOn as to the duty of the jury If
any fact inconsistent with the defend
ants guilt had been established. Evil
dence considered sufficient to Justify
the verdict
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15
FAILED FOR HALF A MILLION.
A Michigan Corporation Goes to
the Wall.


JACKSON, Mich, Jan. 14.-Jackson is
in the midst of huge financial sensa-
ton. The George T. Smith Middlings
Purifier company has failed with liabil-
tiles of half million. 1t is said the as
sets will about equal the liabilities.
The purifier company was reOrganized
twenty days ago, but the creditors,
pressing their claims. forced the suspen-
sion. The blame for the failure is laid
to the extravaganza and recklessnesS of
George Il. Smith. The principal credi-
tors are the Jackson City bank, SIT, 900,
and Preston National Bank of Detroit,
$4,000. The company gives its liablli-
ties to the press as S4S4.O00; assets are
estimated at S50U.000. George L. Smith
owes the company 100000, but is una
bic to pay.
New YORK. Jan. 14.-R. K. Danes &
CO., importers of mems furnishing
goods at SOC and sos Broadway, made an
assignment to-day to William a. Wis
dom. The amount of preferences is not
stated. but it is not to exceed a third of
the estate.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. IA circular
was issued by the firms of Oliver Broth
ers & Phillips and the Oliver 81 Roberts
Wire company to-day informing their
creditors that the last of their indebted
ness. principal and interests, would be
paid Feb. 1. The firms failed for 81. $780,
600 five years ago and asked extension
of time to pay their debts, and on Feb.
will have paid 100 cents on the dollar.
BUFFALO, Jan. 14.-Charles A. Sweet,
as president of the Third national bank,
has brought suit in the supreme court
against the Buffalo International Fair
association to foreclose a mortgage
upon the property of the defendants for
S250,000. 1t is stated In the papers filed
with the county clerk that rs per cent
of the stockholders asked for fore
closure. The suit was brought owing
to the default of payment of interest
upon bonds, 240 at $1,000 each, and 100
at 500 each.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15
FOREIGNERS Liability.

First National Bank of Deadwood. Oak. an
pelIantS VS.. Gustin Minerva Consolidated
Mining Company ct al, respondents.
Judgment anirmed- MITCHELL, j.
When person becomes a stockhGlder
in corporation organized under the
laws of foreign state he contracts with
reference sc al! the laws Vi that state
which enter into the constitution of the
corporation. Hence the extent of his
individual liability as shareholder for
corporate debts must be determined by
the laws of that state. The liability
may be enforced by creditors
wherever they can obtain jur-
isdiction of the necessary parties.
The remedy, however,iS governed by the
law Of the fOrum,and where by arrange
mentS between the corporation and the
shareholders the stock is issued as fully
paid up without, i'll fact, having been
paid for to the full amount of its par
value, equity will set aside this ficti-
tiOuS arrangement for its payment, and
hold the shareholders liable for the
amount not actually paid in favor of
creditors VINO can fairly he presumed to
have given credit to the corporation in
reliance upon its apparent and professed
capital having, been fully paid in.
But no such trust will be en-
forced against the stockholders in
favor of creditors who have dealt with
the corporation with full knowledge of
the arrangement by which the stock
was to be tictitiously issued as paid I'D.
If corporation issue new shares after
the claim of creditor arose, he, not
having dealt with the company on the
faith of any capital represented by such
shares, cannot mission the contribution
by the holders of a greater amount of
capital than the corporation itself could
claim from them as part of its assets.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15
MINNEsoTIANs WANT MONEY.
The Brothers Mowatt Interested
in Will Contest.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Jan. 1.-THE
Mowatt will case was continued to-day
before Judge Barnard. a. s. Cassidy.
one of Mary l.. Mowatt's attorneys,
testified that she was not present when
the will was proven on June 6, 1883.
Frank Mowatt, nephew of the testator,
James Mowatt. testified that Augustus
Mowatt told him and his brother that
their share in the estate would be
$1,000 each, and that when they came
from their home in Minnesota they
found that they would receive only
$1,000 each, which they did receive.
Mary l.. Mowatt occupied the stand
this afternoon for three hours. Her
testimony was, in substance, that she
was induced by threats made by her
brothers, Theodore and Augustus, to
execute the contract by which she
agreed to divide the estate of her de-
ceased brother, James, among his heirs
at law or next of kin, the same as they
would have taken the property If James
had died without will.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-15

prohibition. "We are told" he re-
marked, that history repeats itself. l
am in hopes that in so far as good his
tory or the history of good things is re-
corded that the adage is true" This
was prelude to branching out upon
sketch of the abolition of slavery, in
which the slow growth of the then third
party, or the abolitiOnistS, and the
birth of the Republican party
was illustrated by the experience of
Henry Clay in Springfield, H., in 1852,
only being able to draw company of
thirty-twO to hear him discuss the abo-
lItiOn of slavery. As none of the
churches would open their doors for the
the house of representatives. usually
used for public meetings, was
refused, the meeting was held
out doors, and Abraham
Lincoln stood leaning against tree,
whiting and listening to Clay's speech.
he who afterwards was the candidate
10 lead the third pa rty Or Abolition
party to triumph, had not at that time
made up his mind as to prohibition of
slavery, and at that time tue Repub-
lIcan party had not been born. Mr..
st. John asserted that within ten years
the principles of prohibition, the over
Vi iIuSlS anu IllO VI
equal rights to all will have taken hold
of the hearts of the people so that they
will sweep the country like cyclone.
High license came in for its share of de-
nunciation, the speaker denouncing the
laws of Minnesota. STATING that if the
legislature gave the people chance to
vote on the quest on, prohibition would
be adopted by all overwhelming majority
Vice President Morton's action in al
lowing liquors to be sold in his apart
ment house at Washington, was con-
demned. He declared that in the
states Harrison carried for presi-
dent there were two saloons
to where there was one i'll the states
that went for Cleveland. He also in
stituted comparison from statistics,
showing that the three great Repub-
lican states of Ohio, Illinois and
PENNSYLVANIA in 1887 consumed
6,457,972 barrels of beer, while
the eight states of Virginia. Tennessee,
Texas, South Carolina. Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, with an equal
population. only consumed 2S4, 553 bar
relS, or one-third as much as the Repub-
lican states.
The speaker was frequently applaud
ed and throughout held the close atten-
ton of the large audience.