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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Royal College of Physicians
has passed resolution that the medi-
cal curriculum should be extended to
five years instead of four.
Religion was severed from moral
ity and morality from religion. and the
outcome of the ancient world was an
immoral religion and irroligious moral
ity.- Luthardt
Nine new missionaries have been
appointed to Japan the present year by
the American Baptist Missionary Union
an addition of SO per cent to its work
ing force in that country,
baptist progress in Sweden is one of
the remarkable religious movements of
the present time. Roviyals are constant.
In twenty years the number of church
members has advanced from 1900 to
~, 30s. The baptisms in lsSS were
ESQ.
A now manuscript of the New res-
lament, which, it is thought. dates back
ia the fourth century has been discov-
cred. Ii is in the possession of the Pa
tuiarch OF Constantinople, through whom
he Didache was given to the public Il
.ew years ago.
The educational system in force in
Italy is assuming proportions which
may he called National. Nearly four
millions of boys are in schools. less or
more under the inspection of govern
ment and the education of girls is fairly
begun, Missionary Review,
A|.,,,,,,'g Ac-
ISOLATION of New York teaches its even
ing classes (besides the usual matters
such rs commercial arithmetic. penman-
ship bookkeeping. photography type
writinr) a class called business training.
retouching photo-negativcS photo-color
mechanical and frcc-hand drawing,
modelling and design, physical culture
and choir music.
Get a habit a passion for reading
not flying from hook to book. with the
squeamish caprice of literary epicure;
but read Systematically. closely,
thoughtfully, analyzing every subject as
you 90 along and laying it up carefully
and safely in your memory. 1t is only
by this mode that Your information Will
be at the same time extensive. accurate
and useful.-Wirt,
The government of New South
Wales has adopted an entirely new
scheme of technical education. The
present Board of Technical Education
is to be abolished. and technical schools
will be placed under the direct control
of the Education Department \ sum
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

AT London, England, and Bremen.
Prussia, the longest day has 1873 hours.
At Stockholm. Sweden. it is 49, hours
in length. At Hamburg in Germany and
Dantzic in Prussia the longest day has
II hours. At st. Petersburg, Russia.
and Tobolsk, Siberia, the longest is 10
hours and the shortest five hours. At
rornea, Finland, June 81 brings day
nearly % hours long and Christmas one
less than three hours in length. Al
Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts
from May 81 TO July %, without inter
ruption; and in Spitzbergen the longest
day is three and half months. AT st.
Louis the longest day is somewhat less
than Is hours, and at Montreal, Canada.
it is l6.-St. Louis Republic.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
FATHER ToLToN's HISTORY.


Personality Of the First American Negro
Ordained Priest.
There is now at the clergy-house ad-
1acent to the Franciscan Church of ST.
Peter, corner of South Clark and Polk
streets, the first colored Catholic clergy
man ordained for missionary work in the
United States. His name is Father
Iolton and he is a full-blooded American
negro, born in Missouri thirty-five wears
ago. Father Tolton is fine specimen
of his race. Above the middle height.
with well-formed head and expressi We.
intelligent face, his appearance bears
out his reputation as that of man of
unusually strong mental qualities. In
the course of conversation upon his
career and education recently Father
Tolten said he was born in Rolls County.
Missouri. He was given his academic
training and classics at the Franciscan
college in Quincy, H., and from the
Kindness and consideration with which
he has ever been treated by the bretb-
rem of that order he has always retained
the warmest regard for them. His
studies in theology and philosophy were
carried forward in Rome at the College
of the Propaganda, and he was or
dained to the priesthood April "a.
1856, celebrating his first mass at
St Peters of the Vatican on the
following day, Easter Sunday. Thus
regularly ordained priest of the Catholic
Church, representative of the colored
race in the United States, and ecclesi-
astically commissioned especially for
their benefit, has ministered in the sery-
ice OF the mass at the same historic altar
before which have knelt the supreme
-pontiffs of the Catholic world.
Ordained the first colored priest for
the United States, with particular ref
erence to missionary work among the
colored people, Father Tolton has been
admitted to clerical work by Bishop
Feehan as regular priest of this do
cese. He celebrated his first mass in
Chicago at st. Mary's Church, singing
the service remarkably we'll In the
opinion of priests who were present
Father Tolton has a fine resonant voice
of admirable quality, and his delivery is
scholarly and exact. For the present
he will contine his ministrations to the
colored people of the South Side in the
basement of st. Mary,s church every
Sunday morning. Ultimately he will take
charge of the Church of St. Augustine.
to be built for the colored people of the
city at the corner of Thirty-ftth and
Dearborn streets. The society sustain
ing this church is actively raising funds
for the erection of new edifice.-Chi-
cago Times
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

The best people need Affections for
trial of their virtue. How can we cNer-
else the grace of contentment, if all
things succeed well; or that of forgive
ness, if we have no enemies. Arch blsh-
OPP Tillotson.
Self-respect is the foundation OF
character and of progress. Break 1t
down. and nothing valuable can be built
upon the ruins: establish it firmly. and
no one can tell how noble a structure OF
virtue and happiness may not be raised
For fit of dependency look ON the
good things that have been given you in
the world. He who goes into his garden
to look for cobwebs and spiders will find
them, while he who looks for flower
NAV return with one blooming on his
breast.
As that man can not set right
value upon health who has never known
sickness. nor feel the blessings OF ease
who has been through life stranger to
main, So there can be no confirmed and
passionate love of truth for him who has
not experienced the hollowness OF error
-Colcridge.
The moment a human being arrives
at that point where he feels the object
of life is to give rather than to get,
when he prefers the place where he may
be able to do the most for Others rather
than TO receive the most that Others may
do for him. that moment marks the
transition into ano'herand higher phase
OF life.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
BEATING THE EDITOR.
How Circus Agent Found Out the CircuIa-
ton of "A Country PAPER.


The weekly paper on which l learned
my trade was situated in town which
no circus going West ever skipped. We
used to count on those circus ads. as reg
ularly as we did on the HOLIDAYS. and for
years and years we were without a break
They were cash, of course, outside of the
dozen free tickets which the agent left
and the money pulled the publisher
through tight place more than once.
Our object was. of course. to get as high
a rate as possible, and to get high rate
we had to boom the circulation. 1t held
steady at about $50, and for the first
three or four years it was sufficient to
tell an agent that we printed about
thousand copies" After that. however,
there was one chap who gave us trouble.
He was an agent for old Dan Rice, and
he paralyzed us by asking to see the pile
of paper we had wet down for the out
side pages. While he didn't get to see
it. he knocked our regular $40 ad. down
TO $50. and he had no sooner gone than
we began to plan to beat him next
season.
About the time he was expected we
got an extra bundle of paper, fixed it
with the landlord to notify us, and the
idea was to wet down enough to
show a full thousand copies We
were daily expecting a call when an
old tramp printer slouched into the Of
flee one fine morning and asked for a Job
We We're just getting ready to work off
the outside pages, and as he said he was
used to Washington he was offered
a quarter to pull the edition. l was at
the roller, and l soon saw that he knew
his business. He could sly" and
point" his sheets with surprising dex-
terity, and he brought the lever around
with a ''chuck" which made things
shake. In two hours he reached the
bottom sheet and turned to the publish
er with;
''Is this all?'
Eyes, that's all"
81 make the pile four hundred and
fifty"
Its about four hundred and eighty.
Here's your quarter, and perhaps I'll let
you set up an auction bill this after
noon"
When afternoon came in walked the
circus agent looking as Jim Dandy as
you please. We took one look at him
and tainted. He was the identical chap
who had done the press work of the
morning. When we recovered con-
seriousness he was holding out his bis
tered hands and saying:
IN MI out a contract at SIS aud leave
six tickets. Sorry for you. gentlemen,
but perhaps You can get rid of that extra
bundle of paper by discounting literally
on the price. Inn working this little
racket all along the line. and it's curious
how fast the circulation of the paper
gets heloW iye hundred. IN, ! sun.
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BIBLICAL HISTORY.


Tvs Correctness Estshlishsd BIZ the Ne
'earehes OF Modern Arehoeososists.
hssyria, Palestine and Egypt are
yielding their buried treasures TO the
lnag'cian ms Of civiliza ton, and reporting
facts OF startling significance TO s.ien-
lists and religionists. The recent dis
coyery OF the palace Of Amenophis III,
OF Babylon with the great library OF the
period, consisting chiefly Of cuneiform
tablets carries us back thirty-fiye hun
ared years, CT one hundred years be-
lore the Exodus, when the Babylo-
man language was In the ascend
ant throughout the East, and the. BABY
lonian power was supreme in the world.
Preserved on clay tablets In the archives
OF the palace are the records OF the wars
OF the great kings, with Baby1onian
names, dates and other events that con-
nrm the primitive history Of the Penta-
teuch, SO far as the Babylonians were
related to Palestine. both before and
a1ter the lsraelitish conquest. Professor
Sayce completely surrenders to the
archaeological evidence Of Asavria in
support of the credibi1ity Of the Old
Testament in its historical revelations
ana answers higher criticism and
lnhdei science with the unimpeacha-
Dse facts OF history. He also Is
OF the opinion that Palestine Will
reward the archaologist with unex-
pected proofs OF the accuracy OF the
Old Testament in underground Libraries
ana In various svmbolical and monu-
mental resources that the future will
appropriate, to the discontinue OF the
critic and nnbeliever. Already Egypt
Is yielding up her historical insides into
the lap OF the antiquarian, establishing
that Rameses III. was the Pharaoh of the
oppression, and that the route of the
lsraelites to the Red Sea, as detailed in
tnes Bible, is exactly correct, with fe-
ilcitous confirmation of all that it re-
cords regarding the stay of Israel in
Egypt 1t is gratifying coincidence
That just now. when the attempt is being
made to discredit the history in the Old
Testament, and to reduce some portions
OF 1t to myths, the antiquarian reopens
the palace doors of Babylon, knocks at
The gates OF Royal tombs in Egypt. un-
covers the graves in Moab and Philistia.
and exhumes the treasures of Phenician
glory from their long-forgotten hiding
places, to find records that repeat in
part the story of the patriarchs, and in
hundred ways confirm the genealogies
the wars, the customs, and laws of Israel
from Abraham to Solomon. This is
more than an illustration of literary en-
terprise; it is proof that the foundation
OF civilization standeth sure, and that
the divine history knows how to take
care OF itself Archaeology, the latest
Dorm OF the sciences, is contributing
quite as much to the education of the
nrst principles of religion as any of the
older sciences, with their boosted age
and achievements Reviaw
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

Fow tho Dude~ Were Drsseed In she r,me a.
me 9tuArts.
When Villiers, james rs and Charles
is favorite, went on his mission 10
Paris in 1925 says the (aentlemanss Mag
azine, he had no fewer than ssyen-and-
twenty suits Of clothes made. the rich
est that embroidery, lace. silk, velvet.
gold and gems could contribute, one Of
which was white, uncut velvet. ssset
all over, both suit and cloak, With ffar
monds valued at ESQ 200. besides 4 great
feather stuck all over with fismonds.~
ut was common with him, says con
temporary, TAT an 0rdinaxy dancing To-
have his clothes trimmed with great
diamond buttons and to have diamond
hatrbands, cockades and earrings; to be
yoked with great ana manifold ropes
and knots OF pearl; IL short. to BE-
manacled, fettered and Imprisoned in
jewels. = y,
To the prevailing extrayagance in
dress the satirists again allude in the
seyerest terms II have much won
dered, says Henry Peachan1, sswhy our
English, above other nations, should so
much dote upon new fashions, but more
l wonder at our want Of wit that we can
not invent them ourselves, but, when
one Is grown stale, send pres
emily over into France to seek
a new, making that noble and
hourishing kingdom the magazine Of
our fooleries, and for this purpose MANY
OF our.-tailors lie leger Il. e., residel
there, and ladies jest over their gentle-
men ushers to accouter them and them
selves as you see. Hence came your
slashed doublets las If the wearers were
cut out to be carbonadoed upon the
coals) and your half-shirts, piccadillies
tnow out of request), your long breaches.
narrow toward the knees like pair Of
smiths bellows, the spangled garters
pendent to the shoe, your perfumed
perukes or periwigs. to show us that lost
hair may be had again for money, with
a thousand such fooleries unknown to
our manly forefathers.r
The reader may find it q pleasant
change to turn to the rhyming moralists.
Here to the fore comes John Tayler. the
80 called water poet, launching his shafts
not too sharply pointed at the excess
of those who wear
"A farm in shoe strings edged with gold.
And spangled garters worth a copyhoId;
hose and doublet with a iordship cost
gaudy cloak three manors' price almosty.
beaver band and feather for the head
Priced at the chuTch's 1.-THE, the poor mans
bread''
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

Go not SO far out of your path for
truer life; keep strictly onward in that
path alone which your genius points
out; do the things which lie nearest to
you, but which are difficult to do; live a
purer, more thoughtful and more la
borious life, more true to your friends
and neighbor. more noble and magnani-
NOUS Thorean.
The man whose ideal is not above
his own best performance will steadily
decline in his course of life-in compar-
ison with the low ideal that contented
him t. begin with. 1t is better to have
lofty ideal and to strive toward it even
If atar of. than to have an ideal so low
that it requires no struggle TO live up TO
its. : Times.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

The report OF the British investigating
committee on the army and navy service
finds the war Office system eumb.ous and
inefficient. and proposes 10 abolish the
position OF COMMANDMENT, chief, now
held by the Dlke OF Cambridge.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
Extract fror novel by that gifted

EXTRACT froE novel by that gifted
author, Fanny Nington Usgirls'
while the Christmas festivities were
in progress there came from the dimly.
lighted hall low, delirious sound, sug-
gestive of OSCILLATION. Then followed
gurgle of laughter and Marian's voice,
which said; That's good joke on you.
Arthur. Its holly up there. and not
miStletoe' But Arthur didn't seem &c
regret the blunder at all.H-Chicago
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
A BIG SNAKE STORY.
now the Cribo OF st. Lucia Swallow
serpents Larger Than Itself.

Now the Cribo OF St. Lucia Swallow
serpents Larger Than ITSELF
No part of the West Indies is so rich in
snake stories as st. Lucia Froude tells
how this fer de lance hunts his human
prey by creeping along garden path un-
til the guileless tourist falls fsul of him,
when in the fash of the eye the fierce
beast has stabbed him with fangs that
never do less than kill. Coleridge, a
nephew of the poet, who visited the
island in 1875. gives the gentle reader
shudder by saying that not even on horse
back is the inquisitive traveller safe from
savage monster known as the wood
slave, whose bite is as deadly as that of
troude's horror and whose instincts are
no less desperate. Neither of these
gentlemen had seen any snake in st.
Lucia: no more have l. But it will
never do to leave the island without
something on this subject more author
itative than the yarn of an engineer
sergeant.
l therefore take pleasure in assuring
prospective travellers to this place that
In 1874 St. Lucia was pronounced to be
infested by countless reptiles and
this from the pen of one who had re-
sided thirteen years in the place, Mr..
Breen- But his snake story differs ma
terially from those of both Froude and
Coleridge in that he appears to know
neither fer de lance nor wood slave. but
tells of ubiquitous yellow serpent"
whose bite, however, may be effectually
cured if promptly attended to, and from
uyha I 1aa ,,,C T
to back the statement of the thirteen
year residenter as against those of the
two gentlemen first quoted. though the
one be historian and the other the son
Of Bishop. This yellow serpent, how
ever, has an enemy called the cribo,
who is both aggressive and powerful.
and attacks his Fellowship at sight and
without provocation. Mr.. Breen saws
that the yellow serpent in these COM
bats usually comes off second best, and
that the cribo is SO clever that when he
is through with the fight he rolls about
on the leaves of plant called pied
poule' which operation not only counter
acts any evil effects from the others
bite, but acts as tonic for more fight of
the same kind, SO that ultimately the
crloo Is sure to gain the victory, which
he signalizes by swallowing his victim
whole. commencing with the head
Sometimes the cribo is called upon to
swallow an adversary longer and bigger
than himself, an operation that might
discourage one less fruitful in resources.
The work is accomplished in this wise:
The cribo swallows as much as the cubic
as his skin permits, whereupon
he goes to sleep until time nerves him
for second effort. He then sucks in
what is needful to keep himself dis
tended. and thereupon once more seeks
rest and sleep-repeating these opera
lions until the apparently-impossib
task is aeeomplished-namely: swallow
ing more than himself Leeds (Eng.)
Mercury.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21

Referring to the return from their
honeymoon of couple living in the
vicinity, West Grove, Pa. paper says
they were given Il serenade that was
hilarious if not upbecoming. Much
cider was drunk and damage done"
If wheel be suspended on it's axle
SO as not to touch the ground, and be re-
yolved, it is fact that both the top and
bottom part revolve with equal rapidity;
but if the wheel be placed on the ground
and revolved it must move forward.
The top spokes are thus revolving for
ward and are also moving forward
through space with the forward move
ment of the hub. The bottom spol<es,
on the contrary. are revolving backward.
The difference between the velocity OF
the upper and lower spokes is, therefore.
to be measured by the absolute forward
movement of the hub.-Mobile Register.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16

he was after the nomination for attorney
general. This is exceedingly doubtful.
stipend attached to the Office of attorney
general. Mr.. Erwin's presence last
evening among the Alliance leaders is
accounted for in tins way: Several COM
mittee meetings were held, at which
resolutions were drafted for presenta-:
ton to the committee to be appointed at
tO-day'S convention. s
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
THE SEARCH IS HOPELESS.
The Missing Bodies at Gervais Not
XnH Ronnuorod

The Missing Bodies at Gervais Not
Yet Recovered.
The search at Kohlman's for the
bodies of Mrs. j. 81. Schumacher and
her son Charlie, and Rev. MI. Pfaeffe,
of Texas, has thus far proved truitless.
All day yesterday, from early morning
until darkness ended it, the workers
continued their explorations. but with
out result. The lake was thoroughly
examined, and when it was finally aban-
doned it was with the conviction that
the bodies were not there. During the
afternoon the missing SchurmeIer dog
was found beneath the debris in the
rear of the cottages, and this gave the
hope that the bodies were blown in the
same direction, but at late hour last
night no trace was forthcoming,
All day long great crowds poured out
rail, in vehicles and by foot from North
st. Paul. The crowd was so great, and
the populations of relic hunters so per-
sistent that the police at last found it
necessary to exclude all persons from
the scene of the search. There was
really nothing developed during the
day about the wreck, or in the vicinity
of Little Canada, except that President
Prendergast, of the board of control.
began movement for the relief OF the
impoverished farmers.
Most of the injured ones are doing
nicely and will soon be beyond danger.
The exception is Miss Minnie Meist,
who is lying in critical condition at
her home on Mississippi street. Mrs.
George Miller. though terribly pros
trated by the shock, and j. I'll. Schur-
meier Sr. were in fair way to recover
rapidly. Moses Melencon, his wife
and three children, Frank, George and
| Jennie, ali of whom were more or less
injured, were removed from the resi-
dence of Paul Millette, at Little Can
ada, to the city hospital. Mr.. Melen-
con is seriously injured internally and
grave doubts of his recovery are enter
tanned. but the others are repored to be
doing nicely.
The funeral of George j. Miller will
take place this afternoon at $3.50 from
the residence of his father, 354 Waverly
street. Rev. Funk and Rev. Buttrick
will officiate-the former will speak in
| German and the latter in English.
The funeral of Peter GieSen. another
victim of the cyclone. will take place
Thursday morning at o'clock from the
undertaking establishment of Guthunz
q Rockstroh, by order of Mr.. Schur-
| meier.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
SUITS AGAINST THE CITY.

The Result Is Not Very Encourag-
ing to Future Litigants.
City Attorney Holman presented the
following report:
To the Honorable the Common Coun-
cilof the City of st. Paul. Gentlemen:
Section six co. of Article thirteen 03)
of the muipal code of st. Paul
requires the corporation attorney
to report to the common coun-
Gil from time to time the DISPOSE
ton OF any suit or suits to which
the city is party or il which it is in
terested, and such information as. in
his opinion, may be for the interest of
the city. In compliance with this pro-
vision l submit the following brief re
port, covering the six months from Jan.
1, 1900 to July l, 1890.
The most notable case tried during
this period was that of James Dillon
against the city, potable by reason of
the large damages claimed and at
tempted to be shown, as well as the
serious consequences that would have
resulted if the plaintiff had recovered
a verdict.
The trial of the suit occupied the at
tention of the court and jury for six
days, and take pleasure in reporting a
complete victory for the city. A bill of
exceptions has been settled by the trial