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Massage Treatment.

What with electricity, massage,
airpumps and toilet cupping, re-
ally old woman bids fair to be a
novelty. We will assume that you
are old. wrinkled with the tell-tale
parenthesis each side of the mouth
and the line across the top of the
nose, by which men say they tell a
woman's age. They will have to
learn more if they think to know a
woman's age hereafter by anything
but the expression of her eyes,
which cannot be counterfeited yet
awhile by most people. And be-
ware of those who can initiate the
tender, innocent, appealing looks
of a stray seraph, for they come
from the other place direct. The
specific treatment for wrinkles must
be kept up for six weeks vigorously
and applied afterward as occasions
require. At night bathe the face
in hot water, as hot as can be borne,
and steam it till the pores are open
ed, when a fine unguent is gently
rubbed into the skin which nour-
ishes and strengthens it.
Then the operator begins the
massage, which is not rubbing so
much as working the parts. She
begins by stroking with the thumbs
above the eyebrows-you can't do
it yourself-pressing outwards per-
haps twenty-five times. Then she
works all round the orbit of the
eyes, and you have no idea how it
rests the tired nerves Of sight.
Down the temples is the next pass,
then the cheeks are stroked round,
which increases their plumpness or
their tendency that way. The lines
at the side of the nose and mouth
are very gently stroked across and
upward, and the dropping muscle
of the lower cheek has especial at
tention, and dash Of salt and
brandy lotion sometimes to restore
its frmness. A skillful operator
will fuss over your face twenty min
utes, and if you don't happen to
exactly look beautiful Immediately,
you feel So. All this massage is
worth every dollar it costs, for the
nervous relief it gives. Many wo-
men never know for years what it
is to feel rested and soothed till
they come under the hands of
masseur. Every motion is afore-
thought and of purpose, and the
quiet, practiced touch tells on the
fretted nerves like the brush Of an
angels wing-feather. The massage
alone is enough to take twenty
years off a woman's age.
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Looking Forward.

At all the register offices in Paris,
young married couples are provided
with very handy little memoran-
dum-book in which to enter the
certificates Of any marriage. birth
or death that may occur III the
family, thus avoiding the necessity
of obtaining copies from the public
registers, which entails trouble and
expense. The little book contains
twelve spaces for possible births.
The other day young bridegroom
in dismay asked the clerk at the
register office:
"Have l got to fill in the whole
of the twelve blank spaces2'
Just as you please" replied the
clerk ''only when you arrive at the
thirteenth you had better call again,
and we will give you supple
ment. La France. -,
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HOW THE WORLD GROWS.
The Question Now Is, How Soon Will
the Earth be Overpeopled.

None of the addresses made at
the recent meeting Of the British
Association have excited more dis
cussion than thesspeech in which
Mr.. Ravenstein estimated the max
imum population which the earth
can feed and the epoch at which
that maximum will be attained,
provided the present rate of increase
continues. Mr.. Ravenstein's prem
ises are in part derived from the
computations of the most author
itative geographers. These experts
aver that the comparatively fertile
land of the earth comprises 2S,OO0,-
600 square miles, the bare grass
land or steppe 100000, and the
bare desert 4, 100000, making about
46,OO0,O0O square miles in all. They
also say that the present population
Of the world is 1,46S,OOO,OOO, and
that it increases 8 per cent every ten
years. Taking these data for grant
ed, and also assuming that the av-
erage yield of all the cultivable land
upon the globe will not exceed the
present average of European pro-
ductiveness, Mr.. Ravenstein reach
es the conclusion that 1872 years
hence the population of the earth
will amount to about 6,0OO,O O,OOO,0 900,
and that this will be the utmost
number of people which the earth
can feed.
The objection to this pessimistic
conclusion is that two Of the as
sumptions are obviously disputable.
1t is by no means probable that, as
population presses on the means of
subsistence, the present rate Of in
crease will be maintained. The
experience of France seems con-
elusive on that point, and even that
of the United States points in the
same direction.
Mr.. Ravenstein's address to the
British Association ended with the
admission that we need not worry
ourselves about his calculations,
seeing that none of us will live to
see the day when there will be no
more room upon the face of the
earth. We may go further and pre-
dict that 1872 years hence there will
be as little cause to worry about
the disproportion of population to
food as there is now, so long as
climatic conditions are not materi-
ally changed. The state Of things
is scarcely conceivable under which
the brain of man would not devise
the means of supporting the hu-
man race upon this planet.
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Bits OF Information.

The average reader gets through
400 words minute.
In New Zealand the hottest wealth
er comes about Christmas time.
An ardinary man during an aver
age life will drink about 175 hogs
heads of liquids.
Shoemakers note it as q curious
fact that a colored man who toes-in
in walking is a rarity.
There are said to be more public
holidays in Honolulu than in any
other city in the world.
There are probably 100,000,OO0
people in Europe to-day who do not
eat meat more than once a week.
The newest walking stick is verify
a light unto his feet and a lamp
unto his path-an electric light is
hidden in the handle.
1t is estimated that out of an ar
my of 100000 smokers in this
country those who use imported
cigars only number $4,000.
A chemist advises that canned
fruit be opened an hour or two be-
fore it is used. 1t is far richer after
the oxygen of the air has been re-
stored to it.
Mr.. Petrohf, who had charge of
the census of Alaska estimates the
population Of the Territory at from
$4,000 to $4,000. Of this number
one-seyenth are whites.
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A Gamblers Church.

"The first church built in El Paso,
Tex, was put up by the gamblers, !"
said Harry Wicks, frontier sport
ing man. ain the early days of that
border town everybody gambled.
1t was good-sized town and we
had no church. You see, Pm count
ing myself in. Well, along came a
minister and said he would preach
for us if we would build him a
church. | don't recollect his poll
tics-I mean religion.
THE boys wanted me to raise the
pot for the building. l did all Of
that kind of charity work, and a
few days before had taken up col
lection for the widow of fellow we
had hanged for shooting man
without giving him show for his
life. There were seven houses and
the population of the town was
about 900, not counting the sew
eral hundred cowboys that came in
from the plains at night. So [ took
round the hat and all the boys
Clipped in from SIS to 500 each, and
| soon had big stake.
Il wanted to give something and
did not have a cent. So when was
passing the hat round at one of the
faro tables l saw that the jack had
lost through two deals and chopped.
Well, that means that on the third
deal the jack won. | always play
system, and just knew the jack
would win out, and as | wanted to
give something to the church | just
took $40 out of the hat and played
it open on the jack for me and the
church. 1t won on the turn, and l
PLAYED the deal out, winning $34O,
which, with the $500 raised from
the boys, made good stake for the
church. 1t is a custom among the
profession that when man stakes
a player to give him half the win
nings. l did not claim what | was
entitled to, but gave it all to the
church. Chicago Tribune.
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He Had No Interest.

knowing that local election was
going on in Grenada, Miss, l asked
a colored man whom / found cut
ting wood about four miles out of
town why he wasn't at the polls.
"Wall, doan' dun take heap
of interest in dat lechshun," he an
swered.
"But why?"
"Right smart O. reason why, sab.
S'posen' l git up to de polls an
Mars Smith says to me i: Reuben,
| want dem fo' dollars yo' owes me
fur bacon afore yo' vote How's |
gwine ter pay him, sah?"
Il see."
"S'posin' I git up to de polls an
Mars Jessup lay his han on my
shoulder says: 'Yo old black Reu-
ben, whar's dat log chain yo' bor-
rowed O. me las fall to haul sticks?'
How's l gwine ter tell him dat some
niger done stole it away from me?''
eyes"
"S'posin' l walk up to dat winder
wild vote in my ham, and Mars
Roberts calls out to all de folks !:
1Heahs de man what knows sunthin'
bout dat yearlin' | lost last sum-
mer!' Does yo' reckon | could get
dat vote in arter dat?'
Hardly"
can 's'posin'," be continued, as
he leaned on his ak, "dot | should
git all ready to vote, and Mars Ben
Walters an Mars Tom Davis an
Mars George Turner should cry out
at me-: 'Whar's dem chickens?
Whar's dem hogs?- Whar's dat
honey Do yo'. dun reckon | could
lift a hoof to git out O. dat?"
"But you don't acknowledge that
you are guilty of stealing chichens,
hogs honey and SO forth?" / asked.
II doan't 'zactly knowledge to
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The Dogs Of Syria.

Mrs. Burton gives some curious
facts about dog life in Syria and
other Eastern countries. Dogs exist
there by hundreds and thousands,
without owners or care, and are a
kind of community by themselves.
Each one belongs to a particular
quarter Of the city, and is not al
lowed to live elsewhere. She treated
them kindly and fed them, while
the inhabitants beat and stoned
them, and in gratitude they under
took to escort her and defend her
from harm. When she went out to
walk, a dog always met her, as if
appointed by the whole community,
accompanied her to the border of
his boundary, and passed her over
to one belonging to that quarter,
who did the same thing in his turn.
Each dog waggad his tail, as if bid
ding good by, when his work was
done. She says, also, she has often
in the quiet night, heard dog come
barking from the foot of the noun
tains. Meeting the dogs on the
border of the village, there would
be quiet for a few minutes, then a
general barking in concert then
one dog would start for the middle
of the village, with a similar result
there; then a single dog again for
the farther side of the village, fol-
lowed by general barking there.
whatever the canine news is," she
says, sin about twenty minutes it
is passed around to all the dogs in
Damascus
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What MacarOni Means.

Few people who sing the old song
Yankee Doodle" and utter me-
chanically the words "Stuck feath-
er in his hat and called it macaroni,' .
stop to think what the word maca-
roni implies. "Macaroni' is the
old-time word for dude or dandy.
The name in old England formerly
signified fop. 1t was first applied
to the three young men who trav-
eled great deal and who introduced
macaroni into England. These
three young men were very ,foppish
in their dress; in fact, they were
typical dudes, and the nickname
which they received was soon ap-
piled to all others of their class.
So when Yankee Doodle "stuck a
feather in his hat and called it
macaroni," he was simply terming
himself a dude.-Chicago Herald.
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the rate of fifty per day and selling
them at good profit.-New York
Tribune.
DWarf1ng Trees in Japan.

No one who has been to Japan or
who has visited the larger botanical
gardens can fail to have been struck
with the ingenuity displayed by
japanese gardeners in dwarfng
trees. AS result of their labors,
tree Of species that generally
grows to a height of thirty or forty
feet is kept at height of only two
or three feet, yet perfectly proper
toned, and it may be fifty or sixty,
or even a hundred years old. In
fact, the japanese seem to have dis
covered way to reverse the laws of
nature, to repress growth without
doing so unevenly and without af-
fecting the apparent health and
vigor of the tree. These japanese
dwarfs were long a puzzle to the
botanist, and many people stoutly
maintained that they were natural +;
not the result of the gardeners skill,
but separate species, or at least
dwarf varieties Of known trees.
Yet nothing is better known at pres
ent than the fact that every one of
these trees, if left to itself, would
have grown to it's full height. The
better acquaintance of Europeans
and Americans with the japanese
has resulted in a knowledge of their
methods of dwarfng. The theory
of the process is very simple. The
tree is given just enough nourish-
ment to live and not enough to
grow. The amount of earth in the
pot that holds the roots, the amount
of moisture supplied, the number
of leaves on it's branches-all are
carefully regulated. The last-named
item seems to be very important,
and when properly attended to
would undoubtedly dwarf the tree
without other precautions, for the
leaves are the lungs Of the plant,
and by clipping them judiciously
the amount of carbonicacid gas it
takes from the atmosphere is ex-
actly regulated, In addition to all
this, the direction of growth is con-
trolled often by bandages, SO that
sometimes remarkable deformities
are produced in the dwarfed trees.
Pail Mall Gazette
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A God Forsaken Country.

Captain R., part of whose regi-
ment is stationed at Fort Hamilton,
was recently ordered to Texas. The
change from the charms of New
York to the distasteful features of
army life in the far West distressed
Mrs. r. nightly, and she bewailed
the inexorableness of army life with
characteristic vigor. Little Miss T.,
aged four and a half, appears to have
caught the prevailing infection Of o.
family despair, for when she knelt
to say her prayers the night before
their departure, there came between
her sobs: "Good bye, God, we're
goin' to Texas. IN. Y. Herald.
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To Avoid Diphtheria.

A correspondent writes from Gin
cinnati that diphtheria may be pre-
vented in the following manner
"On greater or less sensation OF
pain in the throat, which often oc-
ours from severe or even slight colds
after the individual has been ex-
posed to drafts from open doors or
windows, take small quantity OF
clean cotton and pack it well into
the ears, SO as to prevent the pass
age of air into the glands. 1t will
instantly give relief, and nature will
do the rest. By putting your fin
gers in your ears for moment you
may readily convince yourself of
what the cotton will do if kept in
place for any considerable time"
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Z, IDAHO, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1890. /

of stones, or in the mud and water.
The question is often asked, ''How
long can a man live without sleep?
The victim of the Chinese waking
torture" seldom survives more then
ten days. Those condemned to die
by the waking torture are given all
they wish to eat and drink, but
sleep is denied them. Whenever
the poor victim closes his eyes he
is jabbed with spears and sharp
sticks until he is awake. There is
no torture more horrible.
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10 J. W. LANE and WILiAa LANE, their
heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that | have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred { 1907 dol
.arS IN labor and improvements upon the
NOkNlNG STAR lode mining claim:
situated in Sawtooth mining district, and
adjoining the Telephone and Emma min
ing Claims on the southeast, in Alturas
county, Idaho Territory, in order to hold
oald premises under the provisions of Sec
non 2324, Revised Statutes of the United
states, being the amount required to hold
me me same for the year ending December 81,
1881 and if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety days
alter this notice by publication you fail or
se 'el4se to contribute your proportion OF
"uch expenditure as co-owners, your inter
!St being an undivided one-third, amount
ing 70 S33.333h, your interest in said claim
VIII become the property of the subscriber
%'huer the provisions of said Section 1924.
JOHN COLLINS.
hetchum, l. T., January %, 1890.
First publication, Jan. %, 1880.
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Sleep.

What sleep is no one knows. The
prevailing theory as to its nature
is that of the Psychologist, Preyer,
who holds that refuse matter accu-
mulates in the nervous centers in
such quantities as to bring about
insensibility, which continues until
the brain has been relieved of the
waste matter by its absorption into
the circulation.
Whatever feats of endurance men
may accomplish, they cannot live
long without sleeping. Under every
condition of bodily and mental
suffering, men sleep. Those con-
demned to die. although they fear
their fate, generally sleep the night
before execution. Soldiers have
been known to sleep when on a long
and wearisome march while walk
ing in the ranks, or lying on bed
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A Safe Medicine for Emergencies.

The sirup Of ipecac ought to be
kept in every nursery. 1t is the
medicine mothers should give while
waiteng for their physicians, when
their children are attacked with
Group or heavy "colds on the chest"
In Group an emetic dose will be
needed, and one teaspoonful should
be given every ten minutes until
the little patient vomits. In severe
cough, which is dry and hacking,
for the purpose of loosening it
about five drops should be given
baby every two or three hours until
a physician assumes the treatment.
Herald.
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Salt as q Preservative.

A correspondent of the Scientific
American writes to that journal as
follows: "Thirty-four years since,
1 set four 4 ] by Al inch oak hitching
posts near my residence, 81 feet
deep in the earth, having first bored
one 1-inch hole into same some
8 inches above, and another hole of
like size some 4 inches below the
earth's surface, and partly filling
each hole with salt, and then pulg-
ging same with a dry oak plug.
The posts are to-day sound and
strong. Draw your own inference"
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Formula for Insect Bites.

One of the very best applications
for the bites of mosquitoes and heas,
also for other eruptions attended
with intense itchings, is: Menthol
in alcohol, one part to ten. This is
very cooling and Immediately effec-
tual. It is also an excellent lotion
for application to the forehead and
temples in headache, often at once
subduing the same.-Weekly Med
ical review.
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BUCK KIL60RE.
His Adventure in Search of Food Dur
ing the Late Unpleasantness.

"When I was returning home on
a furlough during the latter part of
the war;" said Congressman Buck
Kilgore of Texas to Washington
Post reporter, 81 pulled up at lit
tie cabin on the roadside in Louisi-
ana about night. The sole occupant
of the cabin was one woman. She
refused to let me remain during the
night or to give me anything to eat.
had one gold dollar in my pocket
which 1 offered to pay her for a
chicken which had just been cooked
and was smoking on the table. She
refused to sell the chicken at any
price, but was willing to wager the
chicken against the dollar that she
could beat me jumping, l to make
the first jump starting from the log
doorstep.
81 took survey of the very short
woman who had bantered me for a
trial of my activity, and then sur
veyed myself. l was a long-legged
cuss, and l put the dollar on the
table by the chicken. l then took
a position on the doorstep, swung
my hands to and fro, pluming for
my flight through the air. Then |
lit out for the tallest jump on re-
cord. By the time l hit the ground
and turned to see the woman fol-
low she had shut the door and
fastened it on the inside. The only
thing l could see was the muzzle of
double barreled shotgun, supple
mented by firm female voice ad-
monishing me to move out, and to
move quickly. l moved. There
was something about that voice and
that gun which inspired me with
the idea that it would be unhealthy
for me to linger there longer.
''It was now dark, and going a
halfmile l stopped for the night at
the gin-house, under which stood a
grist mill no longer in use. Iplaeed
two or three planks on the top of
the hopper, some seven or eight feet
from the ground, and crawled up
for nights sleep. l had not been
there long when l heard peculiar
whistle, not far away, which was
responded to in an opposite direc-
ton. Pretty soon the parties, man
and wife, met under the Clubhouse
and took seats on the frame imme-
diately beneath me. l soon learned
from the conversation that the man
was lying in the woods to escape
the conscript officer, and that the
woman was his wife, who had
brought him his supper. While
she was spreading the meal for him
she was chatting pleasantly about
the incidents of the day, telling him
among other things how she had
won a gold dollar from a simple
Texas soldier on his way home on
a furlough, and how he 'hirted the
gravel when she showed him the
gun-empty gun, etc. Ihad become
intensely interested IN the conver-
sation and was trying my best to
get glimpse of the couple over
the edge of my scaffold. Leaning
too far the scaffold tilted, when my
self and the whole thing came right
down between them. They did not
wait to investigate the cause of the
crash, but lit out, leaving the chick
en-, bread, milk, and other eatables.
l gobbled up the pile and crammed
it into my haversack, went off a
short distance and ate until | was
filled. Next morning | was twenty
miles away, with full stomach
and a light heart, hitting the ground
only in high places as l headed for
Texas"
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Making Home Attractive.

II don't see why l can't keep my
husband at home," said distressed
looking little woman.
"Why don't you try to make
home attractive to him?"
81 have. l have taken up the
parlor carpet, sprinkled sawdust on
the floor, and put beer keg in the
room, but some way or other it
doesn't seem to make any differ
ence."-Washington Post.
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NOTICE..

AT A. MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders Of the First National Bank of
hetchum, Idaho, held at its banking office
on the 2Sth day OF February, 1890, the own
srS OF over two-thirds of the shares voted
70 go into Liquidation on the 28rh day of
Aprll, $3.50. and close UP. its affairs. All
association are therefore hereby notified to
present the notes and other claims against
'he association for payment
Dated at ketchur1, Idaho, April Is, 1890
ISAAC i. LEWIS, President.
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nuthin', sab, but I'ze free to say dat
dere has been some of the moas'
presumptious times around yere
since de wah yo' eber heard tell of,
an de furder l keep away from a
white man de safer feel.-N. Y Sun.
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