Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


I forests Of Norway. Most Of them were |
killed by English sportsmen. who. as
Voltaire once intimated, are never happy |
unless they are killing something.
The baggage OF returning European
tourists is thoroughly searched at New
York now for dutiable articles, and the
result has been large inc ease In the
amount OF duties collected In May this
year $40, 466 was collected from passen.
gers baggage.
Attention Is called 10 . prophecy
which q writer In Harper's Magazine
hazarded In tine year 1855. This dreamer
predicted that in the year 5000 men
would be able 10 attach an ear tube TO .
wire and hear conversations two miles
away.
1T 10 q common sight In New York
to see well-dressed men running or skip
ping the rope in Central Park. Exercise
is the chief aim OF these simple diver
sions, which ase practiced mostly by
brokers, lawyers and club men who are
becoming stout
Other things being equal, II will be
tolcrably safe TO give the preference
TO the hired man who sings at his work.
AS for the whistler, there Is room for
argument. II he knows how, and can
, whistle q tune decently, the fact is =
mitigating circumstance. IL he doesn't
know bar OF music from pair of bare
I'm the fence, and creates tune and time
as he goes afong, still determined TO
whistle, he may yet be Of some use, a.
, guinea hens are said TO be-to scare
away the hawks.-liartford Times.
. A Spanish woman's mantilla is held
sacred by law. and can not be seized for
debt, says the Dry Goods Chronicle.
There are three kinds OF mantillas
which form the toilet OF the Spanish
!, lady. The first is composed OF white
blonde, used only on state occasions,
!, birthdays, bull fights and Easter Mon
!, day. The second Is black blonde,
: trimmed with deep lace; and the third,
: for ordinary wear, is made of black silk
!. trimmed with velvet.
4 While the Indians, OF Eagle Valley,
! New, were at fandango one day re-
!, Gently, they left in camp an aged buck
named Teekaboo and his squaw. Teeka-
boo was quite iniirm, so his spouse dug
i hole In the ground. put him in up to
!. the neck and filled in the dirt solid
She then left for the fandango, first
- placing a cup OF water near the buried
h buck. lie was rescued by some sheep
\ men after sixty-fve hours confinement
= The ways of the itinerant vendor oi
!, delicacies OF the season are often anus
! ing IL trying. Through a suburban
q street toiled a cart, whose driver yelled
% "Watermelonsl Nice ripe watermelonsF
a in the tones of stentor. Called to q
lo halt by a housekeeper, he confessed
a that he had nothing but potatoes to sell
a "Why did you call watermelons, then?'
was the indignant rejoinder. ITO ut
tract attention, mum; everybody has po
tatoes."
Among the rules of q prominen
> livery stable. where the animals OF man,
"A wealthy men are kept says the New
" York Sporting World, are the following
)" mo man will be employed who drink
r intoxicating liquors. No man shal
IN speak loud to any Of the horses or in tn,
Ia stable where they are. Horses OF gool
n- blood are nervous, and loud, excited
Il conversation is felt by every horse win
~ hears 1t, and keens them all nervou
,e and uneasy. No man shall use profan
Ie language in the hearing Of horses"
7 "A tanner in Coburg, while cleaning
,e an old oil-painting which he had latel
IA purchased. found concealed between
OF the canvas and the blackboard, docu
n ment to the following effect: Luck,
IN individual, whoever you are, who read
Il. these lines, act with prudence and fdel
! ity. In time OF calamity l had fou
Ia thousand thaiers In silver in this room
a They will be found in the floor unde
: the stove. You are to distribute tw
.ts thousand thalers among the poor an
" keep the rest for yourself. May
H. bring you joy and happiness Alexande
,s. Won Rotheneck. Written In the yea
ar 1859 at Coburg." Where is that money
er Echo answers, "Where?"
IL 1T doesn't pay" remarks the Ken
7 nebec journal, ito be too grasping 4
to this life. Several years ago Richmon
man refused to allow the Maine Centra
tn railroad TO put a foot on what he sur
re posed to be his land. A survey shove
Of that not only the land in dispute, bu
a. several rods more, belonged TO the con
he pany, and when the line fence was bull
re Il took of a slice OF the citizens door
"a. step. A similar case happened in SkoH
, hegan recently. A citizen objected
, staging poles being sot in his garden ;
m shingle the car house. A survey Shove
re that generous slice OF the garden wa
n. the property OF the railroad company.
he The Lewiston (Me.1 journal tell
an of a Maine man who is q Selectman, Al
ar SCISSOR and 0yerseer OF the Poor In hi
or town. lie is also school agent and high
way surveyor in his school and highwa
he district. 1t Is said that the town pay
ed him 81 per day for the hoard of hi
ng mother-in-law, and that he has hired hi
Is own daughter for the school teacher
Is: An ex-soldier, he draws nice sum eac
sts month as pensioner. lie carries on
10 farm and speculates some in farm pre-
no duce and stock. He also owns build
sh ing that is the headquarters of poke
til club, and he is leading as well rs
ly. successful member thereof 1t shoul
ad be added that he does not teach elias
les In Sunday-sehool.
RS Joseph Duvuette has been in th
he Michigan prison for thirty-two consecs
7 tive years. He was convicted Of mul
der in Sanilac County In 1855 and COZ
ys. demned TO solitary confinement for III,
Foranumbero of years (how many he hin
oil. self can not tell he was isolated trol
,al any thing in the shape of a human bein,
he lie never saw human face or heard
human voice for long, weary months I
he . time. His food was brought TO hil
ira on a tin plate and handed through