Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-25
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Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, OF Godey's Lacy.
Book fame, was the first woman 70 suppo's
herself by journalistic work
The most ancient statue yet discovered
In Greece has been found at Iripolit<a ~
resembles antique Egyptian sculpture
man OF Van Vert County, Ohio on a
bet wheeled barrow containing lou cats
three miles through muddy country roau'
Buffalo Bin contemplates taking MS MlIo
West show to India. Certain lndlah po'eh-
tates who VISITED Paris advised him touo
so
The garden next 10 the little cottage IN
which Edgar Allan Poe lived At Foruhaiul
has been covered with ugly tenement
houses
DIR. John Hall, Of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church, in New York, has a salary
of 81, OOOa year, and also makes handsome
sum by his pen.
There is a young giantess q feet inches
high, said absolutely TO be only twelve
years old, on exhibition ia London she y
Don CoSsack
Baron Alphouse de Rothschild, OF Paris,
Is preparing an elaborate catalogue OF aus
wonderful collection of gems, mosa!cs ana
other works Of art
The heir TO the Dutch throne, little Prln-
cess Wilhelmina, has mastered Dutch and
German and is now deep in the mysteries
Of the French verb
BY depositing their pennies for the last
three years the scholars IN the public
schools in long Island City have at present
10 their credit the sum OF sl6 4O5to.
AT the Dial Verne Theater, in Milan, q
play is soon 10 be brought out entited
The Retreat from Moscow in which the
leading character will be Napoleon.
There is a woman near Astoria, Ore,
who has TO hold up her hand and get per
mission from her husband before she can
go out. She is going TO school 10 him.
Minister Linco,ns daughter. who Is now
Is, and finds life in the English court very
pleasant, is described as having girIlsh
beauty and amable, wlnsonle manaers
There is movement To make German
academy, like the French academy, Of
forty immortals, whose mission il shall b.
to preserve the purity OF the German Ian
guage
President Fonscca, OF Brazil has two
daughters, one OF whom Is marrisi 10 an
Englishman and the other TO an American.
His boys were educated At an American
school.
Mrs. Clements (wite Of Mark Twain Is
sweet, lovely, refined woman, but a
serious drawback 10 ner husbands happi.
ness is the fact that she cannot appreciate
his jokes.
Sixteen students OF the Military Academy
OF Medicine in ST. Petersburg have been
exnelled for attending funeral service IL
NJ. Internationally, the uihitist who died
recently
IF the kettle boiling be, seven minutes
makes the tea" is one OF the many petit
neut couplets read on the coolies Of metal.
worked yelycts that go 10 table with tho
tea service.
Ivan Panin the Russian aguostic and
writer, has been converted 10 the Baptist
faith and admitted to membership la tho
First Baptist Church In Minneapolis. Ito
may enter the ministry
The conductor OF a train that runs be-
tween Philadelphia and Norristown was
recently converted, aud now holds daily
prayer meetings in the baggage car which
are attended by the trainmea.
Mems watch guards are cut very short
You should have only enough length 10 90
between the buttonhole and pocket. These
chains are, IA rule, very light, weighing
from ten to twelve peunyweights.
The 5000 new blocks erected In Rome.
and the eighty-two miles Of splendid new
streets, have so changed the capital Of
| Italy that IL Is scarcely TO be recognized by
those who visited It twenty years ago
The redecoration OF the famous corridor
| I'm Windsor Castle has been completed AZ a
| cost Of many thousands Of pounds. The
work has been. constantly in progress all
the year except when the queen has been a,
the castle.
| A farmer at Saco, Me, says he has found
an occupation which combines amusement
with toll. He is blowing stumps out OF q
| field with dynamite, and the fun Of seeing
the old roots go flying forty feet into the
air DISCUSSES all the work.
The Ohio papers were not long since
commenting on the uniqueuess Of I
marriage ceremony performed By q
/ NbHldu. " lbull lew uhyb Joseph cause
and Miss Ida Boren were united in mar
riage in Milton, Ind, By the groomis
mother she being a minister OF the Society
| OF Friends.
| A railroad dog, who travels steadily with
his master in the cab OF Denver K Rio
Grande locomotive, is said to be highly
valuable in many ways He can scent
cattle on the track when they cannot be
seen, and drives them of when they are IN.
disposed TO get off.
| An old maid in Connecticut adopted n bov
and called him "Moses David Absalotn
| Daniel Mark White" The other dav when
he became Of age he sued her for A.; nn
damages for hitching all those names IN
front Of him, and it is hoped that the Jury
will give him every cent OF IL.
A Philadelphia man who has worn ,bs
same green overcoat for twenty years ba.
| just brought the article out again. Tbc
cloth was woven for him. ana coat sI2 no,
yard. On its twenty-frst birthday n ,viii
be secured ana cleaned with great coro'
mony, and its owner hopes that il will thor
be fitted for a life Of usefulness.
A peculiar case was filed the otber a :,
In the Circuit Court Of birmingham AIa
Thomas s. Davis, twenty.slx years ~ No.
brings suit for $4,000 against tho Georei,
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