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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

One has to go TO other cities in order to
thoroughly appreciate the revolution
brought about by the use of the tele
phone In cities like Cleveland, Detroit
and Rochester all the well to do people
have telephones in their dwellings. and
the useful instruments are made 10 serve
instead Of letters visits, and the employ
ment of messengers The ladies use
them quite as much in the routine Of
household life as our down town men do
in business
After breakfast In the morning a pro
vincial lady who has a telephone is apt TO
closet hersel! with 1t tor half an hour
or more, during which time she finds
ont what the grocer has that is good 10
offer. sends her orders, connects with
the butcher and tells him what she
wants. rings up her dressmaker aud has
Il delightful chat over trimmings and
fiounces and then calls upon one after
another IN her circle of lady friends, and
gossips with each and all precisely as she
would Il she were making a social round
in her carriage later M the day The
average New Yorker has scarcely any
conception Of the usefulness of tele.
phone as it is employed in other cities. -
New York Sun,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
The Iuxury Of soday.

Now, the growth of luxury for the last
half century has been very great and
very general We do not merely mean
that the rate Of living has advanced
This Of itself Is not necessarily to DO de-
plored IN any class, and in some Glasses
Is matter for serious congratulation
That an agricultural laborer, for instance.
should be able to procure moro food, bet.
ter clothing better housing. and better
education for his children than he could
fifty years ago is matter to rejoice over,
and state Of things to secure by every
proper means What we mean is, that
the scale of comfort deemed necessary by
every class has enormously grown Take
the upper classes. The great houses
throughout the country are administered
in a style the increase of which is quite
dispropurtionate to the growth Of income
of their owners. The expenditure on
far fetched foods and most recherche
wines. the most costly amusements, has
vastly developed. And the tendency Is
ever upward Young men beginning life
try TO start where their fathers left off
Some quarter Of a century ago there was
discussion in the newspapers as to the
prudence or otherwise of young persons
in the upper classes marrying on an in
come OF 500 year Three times that
income would Ike now considered made.
quate 10y the critics who conducted the
DISCUSSION. Quarterly Review.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
The King and the Peasant.

A King who Prided Himself on o.
Wisdom. Honesty and Kindly Rule g.
Separated from his Suite one dag VILE
Hunting, and after Wandering about 10
a long time, came upon Peasant Va',
ing in the Field. Passing himself OIL y
a Hunter, the King observed:
"You have planted but a small Wy
this season. What is the Causei
because Taxes are so Onerous tna' !
cannot Afford to rent more Land.
Il see that your Cabin is out Of h
pair?" :.
"Yes, the King, in his Wisdom, y
Decreed that | shall put in all my opI'
Hours on the Public Highway"
Your Cattle look thin. o..
"Yes; in his kindly Rule the An'
Permits his Soldiers to Impress them
"You appear to have been III y,
80 | have. Our Honest Kings -
Collector threw me into Dungeon
cause ! could not Pay more PromPui.
"And suppose should tell you W. T,
am the King himself~ queried the A1
arch. =,
"Alas! sir, that would complete y
Misfortunesi You could have CONF ~ ~
to Rob me of what Little | have ig,n H.,
Moral; The King handed the fs' III
his Purse, of course. and rode ava, /.
some new Ideas in his head-on. .s
didn't He sent Il Guard out 70 I"nl
and Imprison him, Confiscatea ii r 4
and Issued an Edict that all NJ NJ
were to be treated as Foreign ln''u'''
Detroit Free Press.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
The Widows Mite.

An aged German general wore only
one trinket, a much worn German hair
penny, at his watch chain. One day
his grandson asked the reason of its
presence in the place of honor, and the
old general answered by telling little
romance. Baron Malortie, the grand
son, narrates the story in his book.
"'TwiXt Old Times and New"
The grandfather was so severely
wounded at Leipsic in 1912 that he was
picked up for dead and thrown with
thirty or forty corpses in commor
grave His servant having promised
the officers father to bring his son alive
or dead, searched for his masters body
and found him still alive. A strong
constitution and the servants nursing
allowed the officer to be removed ar
the end of ten days
His fathers house was a long distance
from Leipsic, and the country was over
run by French patrols and narauders.
The Journey home was begun at night
III PEASANTS cart drawn by an old
horse. Cross roads were taken. ana
during the day they rested at some
farmhouse.
One morning after travelling all nigh,
they reached a small village and
stopped in front of a bakers shop.
Inc servant went in to buy bread
leaving his master stretched on a bed
OF straw and rags covered with a man.
Tie and wearing soldiers old can CD
ms bandaged head. There was moth.
ing to betray his rank, but on the con
trary he seemed II poor wounded pri
vate
a poor woman in a tattered black
gown, with a child in her arms. looked
IN the bakers window. Suddenly She
saw the wounded man. CHANGING at
the haifpenny in her hand. and then
looking at the bread in the window she
pressed the coin into the soldiers hnnd
ana hurried off without saying a word
ohe had sacrificed her own and her
eilild $ breakfast that she might relieve
one whose need she thought greater
than her own
At TINS moment the servant appear
ed and by his masters order ran M
Ter the poor woman. Overtaking her
ne dropped Il gold piece in her hand rs
silt from the wounded soldier. who
from that day wore the widows mite a,
his chain. '''''0 ~
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

An old hotel steward said yesterday
that IT is impossible TO restrict large
proportion OF the loss Of portable articles
IN hotels THIS loss is not SO much due
to theft as TO carecssuess and hurry on
the part OF maids and men and women,
who carry oil the teaspoons they have
been using In theiI rooms, pack up the
hotel towels by mistake and break good
deal that is only missed when an inventory
Is taken This steward said that a large
hotel collects Spoons napkins and towels
stamped with the names of almost all the
large hotels IN the country. and OF names
IN Europe The spoon packed away with
the child medicine by a maid in Paris
Is perhaps next brought To light IN q
New York hotel. where il is sent down
TO the kitchen when no longer needed
Thus these little hul costly things travel
about and defy safe keeplng There Is "a
great deal OF theft OF course Servant
women wrap tahlecloths and sheets
around their persons walters pocket
forks spoons knives and napkins. and
bartenders and then helpers carry off
bottles Of liquors A. Ear as possible.
large hotels board and house their help.
because thai makes it more difficult for
theft to he pracuced.
But the leakage remains very great.
In one case that can be certified TO, a
clever waiter established his wife at the
head OF "A boarding house and furnished
her tableware linen and a great deal OF
the food that was eaten from his stealing.
from the different piaces where he was
employed. New York sun
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nenth Of a rn,nrite nonnn.

An old hunter ia Mexico gave to the
author Of 'Summerland Sketches his
experience with a tavorte hound which
exhibited feelings that would honor hui
mainly
You have no idea. i" said he, "how
they &c, used TO YOU II YOU are alone
with them fof weeks together the worst
OF il is that it comes so awful hard on a
fellow 60 lose creature OF that kind
Il bought fine Scotch deerhouud in
Baltimore 10 GO had him nearly
eight wears and ! tell YOU, sir felt like
shooting myself when lost him The
Memcans poisoned hlm because he
wouldn't let them come near my smoke
house al night
No square straightforward poison
either toi It took him whole week to
die II lust went through me like a
knife 60 hear hun whine and perhaps !
ont to nave put hlm out Of ms misery
bur ! was thinking Of all the scrapes we
had helped each other out of we had
frozen and starved together all over
Texas ana Arkansas and couldn't kill
him wule there WAS a ghost OF chance
OF hs pulling through
The voice OF the old rough became in.
articnlate At the recollection lie had
spread the dog couch at the side Of his
OWN bed and pattcd hls shaggy coat til
he lay silent and mououlcss
But late IA the evening when the logs
in the fireplace had fhckered almost iht r
iast, the hound RAISED ms head ana placed
1t upon ms masters arm looked into his
ewes and sank back dead like the last
pressure OF a human hand. "a farewell
mutely spoken but not easy 70 forget "
- Youth $ Companion
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
.nrnn,hlne lessons. ror sIneer..

Roman began to teach his pupils by
what he called breathing lessons,
whereby he made them expand their
lungs so as to strengthen them, and at
the same time acquire the habit OF re-
tanning sufficient breath To finish long
sentence OF cadenza without lnterrupting
il. Once he had ascvrtalued the register
of the voice whether II was bass. bari
tone or tenor mezzo soprano or con
tralto. he Immediately Obliged his pupil
to promise him on his honor not to at
tempt TO force a SINGLE note above or
below his natural register THIS art OF
breathing is one OF the first taught IN the
great couservatorles OF Europe HE
pupil takes a looking glass and stands be
fore it. throws back his chest puts his
feet together IN a straight line ana begins
to fill his lungs gradually with an Keep
ing the mouth wide open. with smlllng
expression When the lungs are full he
beats with his fingers generally from
three up to about fifty strokes before he
allows the breath to escape very slowly
from the open mouth without closing the
mouth AT all
These exercises. repeated for about
quarter OF an huur three or four tunes
dag. unqnestionably benef; the health
and impcrceptihly but rapidly increase
the volume OF sound emitted In aboat
two months the pupil begins to add TO
these breathing exercises others, IN which
he draws his breath in the same manner,
but pronounces each Of the vowels at first
planlsslmo ana increasing gradually by
degrees to iort,sslmo almost 10 a shout.
Singers, OF course replace these simple
nounds BY soiteggi and other vocalizes -
Saturday Review
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

Visiting Ileine one evening. when he
was just debating a letter to his secre-
tary | asked to whom he was writing.
lie replied To my mother. lis she
still alIye, the old lady who lives by the
DammlhmF "Oh. yes. said he, 'it is
true she Is old sick and weak but she
has still the warm heart OF a mother. "
And you write often to here" "Regu-
larly, every month How unhappv
she must be on account of your condi-
ton oh, as regards that, there exists
between us peculiar arrangement. My
mother believes me 10 be well and
healthy She reads no newspapers. |
write often to her as well as can. in a
merry humor and then she is happy.
That son can lee as sick and miserable
as am no mother would believe"
After this llripe became silent, and
M soul was deeply moved when. from
his bed OF torture, where lie lay for long
years, saw him seal and send Off to the
post his letter winch was fun of consoling
news and assumed serenity.-Alfred
Meisser.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

The ostrich egg is very delicate ana
will not keep It's vitality more IMAM 'ni'ty
days Now as the laying lasts coupte
of months, il IL evident that halI OF %
comes worthless for sitting ana can serVe
NO nurnose except rs curiosities III
hazars II il, therefore, the business OF
man To nroyide against this improvident
character of nature and utilize what u
wasted by that force. NO occa5ion W "
into detail about lncuhators' the pf'hei
ME is well known Practically they are
nadded boxes, each holding fifteen 10
twenty eggs and heated by hot water
which can have its temperature readily
under control The eggs are taken away
as laid one always being left III the nest
Each one is numbered and dated, and
list made out with its weight and de-
scription Of the parents They are Kept
in a dry room till the necessary number
is obtained. when they are placed IN the
hox and the heat Is applied The tenn
nerat,lre is 40 degs centigrade at frst
Ia ders al the end of eighteen days, and
then 800 dogs. to the finish DURING
the whole process each egg must oe
turned upside down every DAY AT regu'
lar time. This is absolutely necessary
/ lout the fifteenth day the eggs are
examined to see which are impregnated
and which not. This is done with box
containing a lamp and a reflector III
front of which is an opening which hts
an egg supported on the outside by little
shelf If the egg is clear II VIII not
hatch, if opaque, except at the larger
end. whe the all chamber IS, 1t goes
back to the incubator Sometimes the
egg is rotten, in which case the gas
formed within forces the liquid through
the shell and turns il yellow After
forty days the greatest. attention must oe
paid day and night &c listen TO the noise
of the chick On the forty third day a
small hole should be made in the shell
near the air chamber which has already
been marked with a pencil. Next day
this hole is enlarged so as better TO notice
any movement inside. When this Is
seen the shell must be broken, the men,
brane torn away and the chick freed.
taking care to use the greatest delicacy
in every movement. The chick is
wrapped up and kept warm for twenty
four hours, when il has very small lot
of finely chopped greenstuff with few
bread crumbs On the third day 1t gets
a little milk, on the sixth little grain
with the vegetables and little water to
drink Ali the Year Round
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
Tragedy of the Pet Dog.

I had been to picnic luncheon with
some friends in a glade near the lovely
valley of Kujiar We walked back,
having our dandis Qight palanquin) car
ried behind US. and when dusk began to
fall we put the dogs which had accom-
panied US into the dandis, knowing it
was no longer safe for them to run by
our side At length one lady became
tired and called for her dandi. Ii was
brought and set down for her to enter
AS it touched the ground the little dog
Jumped out to welcome his mistress. but
in moment his pretty gambols were cut
short, Like a flash a great creature
sprang into the road. and swapping up
poor little Prim, vanished with the rapid
ity of thought down the steep hillside.
We felt thunderstruck. and stood for
some moments in Mortified silence, gazing
down into the bushes where the gliding
form had disappeared, but nothing was
to be seen or heard. The elastic tread of
the leopard left no sign or track, and so
noiselessy had it passed that we could
not tell whether it had slipped at once to
the bottom of the ravine OF whether it
was then lying only few feet below us
hidden in the brushwood The latter
we imagined to be the case from the sud
den silence that fell upon the other dogs,
which, instead of whimpering as before
and rebelling against their Imprisonment,
now covered, mute and terrified, in the
cushions of the several dandis, Poor
Prim must have been killed by the first
clutch of the cruel claws. for he never
uttered a single cry We hurried home,
grieving much over his dreadful fate,
and the gentlemen of the party immedi.
ately returned to the spot with their rifles
and heaters, but nothing was then to be
seen of the leopard. Chambers Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
SEMI WEEKLY WORLD.
IDAHO
Poisons of the Toilet.

The modern toilet artist deals in the
strongest drugs, posons and stimulants.
She will offer you gentian and cocoa as
fillips to the nervous force, and genteel
sspick -me-ups." and women will take
them. ignorant that they are spending
life double tides, and using up in two or
three brilliant years the nervous force
that should carry them safely through a
score You are offered corrosive subli
mate (under another and prettier namel
as face wash sovereign for refining the
complexion, and YOU may buy arsenic
bonbons to produce the blanc mat adj
mircd in certain circles. and overlap your
face with lead lotions and powders. which
make short work of paralyzing the
muscles and painting the dreaded "blue
line of lead poisoning on the gums and
lips. Foolish girls see the dead white
actress complexion worn by venture
some creatures. who would sign their
souls away, supposing them TO own such
things, for a new grace, and feel sure
there can't be any harm in it, for she
looks lovely, and SAYS she never felt bet
ter in her life. i'tu tliey do not SEQ the
terrible closing experience of such lives
of folly which are known only 10 doctors
and agonlzrd friends ldlocy, dropsy,
are the kindest finale, but death in some
form is the penalty you must all pay who
begin the arsenic habit You hear that
bismuth powders and lotions are harm.
less. and they appear 50 IN nine cases out
of ten. But the effect In the unluclky
tenth case is SO much like poisoning no
one can tell the difference But few stop
Al l. a.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

They have female street car conductors
In Valparaiso, and the street cars are
double deckers The average Gillian is
rough character naughty, arrogant.
impairment and abusive, and the country
has more intempernce than any other
IN South America. and quauels and muir
der. The young bloods ilirs with the
female conductors and make She cars a
nuisance, These female conductors wear
n uniform Of blue flannel, with a Pan
anna hat and white pinafore with many
pockets. reaching from the breast to the
ankles. The Gillian women are not
pretty, and many Of them are Of Saxon
mixture. Criminals and cas;away We
men wear kind Of nun costume, and
are thus advertised. Women who have
been false to their marriage VOWS some.
times 80 To convent and whip them
selves literally. Cincinnati Enquirer
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
suppres,ed ror thc Good OF mankind.

Il would HE Go SHOW youau ARTICLE have
written on The Way to Become IA Society
Young ,dan, SAM the visitor with the rou
Of manuscript.
Does it give the whole processf7 inquired
the editor
"!t does In my humble Judgment it is
the most complete treatise on the subject
ever written"
"W hat is yo,r price Tor itf'
"Twchty- Ii dollars
Intending copyright"
Certainly"
an take it,' said the editor, handing him
the money, and, with the consciousness Of a
good deed performed for his fellow men ira
dating lis benevolent face mud lighting up
its rugsed Lines, he tossed the manuscript in
the fire and watched il slowly burn To ashes
Chicago Tribune
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12
Rac,a, Elements of Russia's Army

Racial Elements OF h"s II
Probably the Russian army 's ~, q. ii
heterogeneous in the world 50 10 ainbr
ethnology is concerned. From s'' ~ i,
nation on the point just lSsusu sar,
Russian statistical department W. i
that of the 227.906 recruits s's IS II
1885. the racial composition was = M.
lows Russians, l60,052. Poles I; s5,,
Bulgarians, 400, Tcheks, ~, IS
mans, $500. Let's, 3.424 u'e csyu,,rs
Moldavians, 1850, French 1 H.
3,572. Armenians, l42, bohe' T"rsnaps
Georgians, 8. Jews, lO'Oll, h" aae
800, Tchouls 90. Estloi'iS,%I ,N,sulsi
Laps, |; Moravians, l,7OI; e inos AZ
ans, 704; Votiaks, SAL %snrsflls
Permians, 6s. voguls, o. CnOs ai.
1899, Tartars, 4,50S, basiA" ,,Ssr ~
and about 100 belong to three ee,.oO'uisnsrsf
or tribes. In all. then, the nus :, Al -
comprises 90 different races !, i ne
tribal elements, among which ,, ~
worthy neither Ossellnns MOI ~ N+ !. -
are represented. so far at lea 1s~s' "
recruits are concerned. St jaw
EeIle,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

Wife-l mcndcd the hole in your
trousers pocket last night after you had
gone to bed, John, dear. Now, am moi
a thoughtful little wife?
Husband (dubiously) - Well-er-ye-es
you are thoughtful enough, my dear. but
how the mischief did You discover that
there was a hole in my trousers pocket?
New York sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

My little lread Helene, at supper, obtains
possession of tae mustard pot and, after most
generously saturatins her bread and butter
with HE hery condimeut, quickly takes n
large bite but bravely >uppresses an ontcrV
as size puts the bread some distance from ber
plate and remarks 81 dess wait tin ii dets
told New York World.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

Students Of the earth's surface will be
anxious TO see the huge globe that is to
be exhibited next year in the Champs de
MAYS, Paris. It viii rotate properly on
an axis. and viii be accurately con
structed on scale of -,niiiiorth
Even at that it viii be tremendous
thing and give considerable Of an idea Of
the appearance Of the world we live in
Chicago Herald.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

.,I Lutte plck had been listening to the recita
t,oi J." geography of an older brother ~
IN NV %nat an island is, said he to mamma.
Gu nat Is itF asked mamma
Us little piece of land all fenced round
~ %" water proudly answered Dick
Youths Companion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

The use of brown stone in building
business structures is almost entirely dis
continued IN New York. Ii is used for
dwellings but its chief employment is
for window and door trimmings. Wher-
ever ii forms building material it is
massed with the utmost plainness and
simplicity New Orleans Times Demo
graf
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-12

A number I'll new combn3nors -, no
per are being made One of the Iatast - !
paper having middle" of Tin or cold
toll. The upper layer is made of waved
and the under surface of common nanar
This IS intended for a variety of uses s. -
A new sheathing paper is conposed NJ
TWO OF more layers oemented together Inv
asphalt. or some waterproof or disipfectin.,
material. don't think that The asnhaiI
idea is altogether new. l'''''''
4 new cardboard is an interior lave,
or middle of paper made from an ad iIl u
lure OF pulp and animal hair. This is in.
tended to be an improvement on ever,
KIND of paper in which threads or YAM,
have been introduced. Paper Trad
Journal ii"u