Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17


Silk from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds the
strength OF ordinary silk and about the
same elasticity.
-one Of the Berlin hotels wae lately
robbed by two persons in the garb or
nuns They were subsequently appre-
hended and one OF the women" was
discovered to be man.
"A bread-buttering machine for use
In penal institutions, operating q brush
FED with soft butter, Is patent lately
issued It Is said to save butter ana
crumbs
"A Charlestown lady became quite
sick the other day and vomited a small
i've nsh. She does not know when it
passed down her throat, but supposes it
did 80 with drink Of water.
Mr.. Wick, Of Chelsea, England. Is
the father OF peculiar infant prodigy.
His daughter Nelly, four years Of age,
recently shaved fveme inside Of thirty
minutes for silver medal
What sort Of q restaurant is this.
waiterY' he asked the first OF that ex-
elusive set that deigned to approach.
we'll sir, know one man that's been
coming here steady for a month and he's
living yet. Philadelphia Times.
Tell your master that be has made
mistake Of twenty marks in the ac-
count he sent me- sImpossibler'
Why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes. Yes, / know that, but my
master is not human. - Fliegende Blat-
ter.
South Attica. Mich, farmers planted
mustard seed They did not expect pine
apples or oranges, but they we're wild
when the plant came up and proved to
DC western mustard, which is about ten
times as hard to eradicate as the Canada
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made by q
farmer st East Cape Girardeau. Mo. A
hill on his premises is declared by an
expert from ST. Louis to be composed
chiefly OF the finest porcelain clay. II
is estimated that there are at least /, 900
car loads, worth $125 per load.
-Distanced- Yes, sir,v began the
| distinguished looking stranger, II have
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu-
tive nights, STRIP That's nothiner' de-
clared Peckson. my wife often de-
livers 200 same1ectures in one consecu-
tive nightl"- Grocer.
"A five-year-old child in West Camel
is OF the following dimensions: Height,
feet; weight, lit pounds; circumfer-
ence OF abdomen, Az inches; waist,
/ 371S inches; chest, 81 inches; neck, IA
inches; head, 2211 inches; thigh, %
inches; calf, 151< inches; arm, Tx
inches; forearm, 1915 inches. He is
very healthy, eats all he can get and is
fairly intelligent The parents are BY
no means corpulent. and their other
children are of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott, OF Newbury. claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption OF which the smoke nuisance
will cease to exist. The process re-
moves from the products of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter Of
coal smoke, and a remarkable and inn
portant thing is the entire absence Of
sulphur in any form after the dense
volumes of smoke generally seen issuing
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the ''annihilator."
AT the palace of Bangkok per
forming leopard was brought in for til,
amusement of one Of the Siamest
princes. In one of the princes retinus
was young girl of about fourteen year
OF age. The leopard jumped or he
breast. 1t was merely in play, said tn,
animals caretakers. who begged her no
to be frightened, butin another momen
the leopard had seized the girl by tn,
throat, and she died in sight of the hor
rified spectators
clearinghouse inmates soon lear
to appreciate tender meat, and viii
eagerly seek the place where it is fire
quently served. A Chicago man hi
upon an ingenious plan to secure
clearinghouse where eating would be
come pleasure instead of tiresome
teeth-grinding exercise. He asked
butcher to direct him to the house wher
he sold the best meat The butche
cheerfully did so, and the man was 500
thereafter installed in a boarding
house where the delicaeies of the tabl
are good and plentiful.
1t is claimed that the rain whic
falls in the interior of Queensland doe
not all run to waste but is stored be
meath the surface and that the supply
II it can be utilized. is enough to las
through periodical drought The loca
government proposes to devote larg
sum to prospecting for water by artesia
wells. The artesian we'll at Barcaldint
700 feet deep, cost $4,000 and yields IT'S
900 gallons of water daily. Another a
Blackall, 1,663 feet deep with a six-inc
casing, cost $4,000 and yields 800, 90
gallons daily.
For a year draEghtsman name
Hazen, aged torty-two, with his Wit
and six children, had lived in Paris i
great difficulty. Finally they resolve
to commit suicide and take the childre
, with them. They sent the latter out I
! buy charcoal, and with the window
! closed Hazen lighted the stove and tn
whole family lay down on the floor I
= die, the mother clasping the younge.
, child in her arms. They were foun
| two days afterward all dead but til
= mother. Upon her recovery she sal
that when asphyxiation began the ell,
= est daughter began to cry, but lest 81
| should excite the neighbors her fatht
threw himself over her face, and the
were found in that position.
, "A year ago Mrs. c. B. Pomeroy wei
from Newark to Canada to live with h,
' second husband, leaving her six-yea
, old daughter in the custody of Mr.
> Julia Williams, of 457 Broad street, wi
r was to receive So week for the child
D board, says the New York Sun.
: Saturday Sight young man, who is I'll