Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-08-22

w ho 10 tHcTo tudI III logical WOruS can eX-
press tho effect that music has on US,
Noclsamixon township, Bucks County.
Pa, boasts of a lour-legged duck which
uses them all in way that is a sight &c
see.
Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer has charge
OF church in Providence, r. l. She has
the reputation of being the best speaker
here.
Senator Stewart of Nevada is always
enveloped in a cloud of smoke. He Is
moro closely welded to the weed than
Grant
A railroad is to be built from Archangel
to Vologda to unite the extreme habitaple
north of the Russian empire with the
interior.
Mrs. Reagan, wife of the Texas senator,
learned shorthand without teacher, In
order to become her husbands private
secretary.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the poetess
is remarkable pedestrian. She thinks
nothing of walking twenty miles a day by
way OF pleasure.
new model school in Germany, which
has been built ut cost of $395, 00), contains
a large dining room where 40 poor children
can lie fed in winter.
The car of Russia has forbidden ap-
plau.e in the theaters of St. Petersburg
He is liable at any time to issue an order
against babies crying.
A sum of $4,000 has been collected by
American ladies for the furtherance of the
higher medical education OF women at the
Johns Hopkins University.
Nobody ever likes to inset the "T-told-
you-so" people. Persons avoid them in
this world and they hope not to meet them
in either Of the other worlds.
A plank has been sawed In Eureka Cal.
for exhibition at the worlds fair 1t is of
redwood, twelve and half feet long, six
teen feet wide and four inches thick.
A novel summer charity in New York
provides summer excursions for little girls
who are obliged to take care of younger
children while their parents are at work.
A Waterville, Me, m n was placed in
the lookup for being drunk. When he
awoke in the morning he discovered that
he had been sleeping with a corpse all
night
A farmer at Warwick, r. l., being I'M
able otherwise to dispense a gang of
tramps in his yard, overturned q hive of
bees. The tramps disappeared but not
till many had suffered.
Men who have no capacity OF the head
are willing to bet on the capacity of their
stomachs. A fellow in New York is
willing to wager that he can eat more
molssse than any other man.
iced clans, pint of beer, a portion of
ice cream, large slice of watermelon and
n cup OF coffee,' was an order given at
cafe in Cincinnati The consumer lived to
smoke cigarette after the novel repast
A. Hunt sunk an artesiun we'll $50 feet
two miles from San Bernardino recently
The water rises thirty inc hes above the
top of the casing, and stones OF eighteen
pounds weight are occasionally thrown
out.
Herbert Gladstone is IS years old. He is
in parliament on the prestige of his father s
name more than on his own ability. He
is considered milk and water young man,
a tennis player and a dawdler at 8 o'clock
teas"
John McGlynn, q shoemaker of Kings
ton, suffering from an abscess on the neck,
died suddenly on Sunday evening. At
noon he said to his wife: al want good
dinner; il 1 do die l don't want to die
hungry"
This is the way the great beast of
Africa goes to his extinction. An ordinary
elephant produces 10 pounds of ivory,
worth 800. England consumes $50 tons,
for which it is necessary to kill 1900
elephants year.
The clock recently removed from the
exchange tower in Savannah, Ga, has
marked off time there for eighty-seven
years. 1t was removed because it had be-
come too unreliable. A modern timepiece
is to take Its place.
The Chicago Tribune is 'tagin' the pur-
chase OF Cuba at any extravagant figure.
1t quotes Uncle Sam as saying: 1.-TWO
hundred millions for that little island of
Cubya Git eout! Come right down to
business. Whatl We takef'
b. p. Shillaber (Mrs. Partngton) reach
ed his roth birthday last Saturday His
health has been poor for several years, but
neither his own suffering nor the conduct
OF that bad boy Ike has dimmed his genial
spirit or deminished his love Cor his fellow
man.
A new st imbling block for bi yamlsts
has been found by determined young
Miss Day, who was married by MIR.
Roberts, he having another wife at the
time When she had to leave him she
sued him for breach of promise OF marriage
and has got a verdict of g, 800.
The emperor of Russia's suite at present
consists of 173 persons, Of whom seventy
three are general and seventy-slx extra
aids -de-camp To the suite belong fifteen
members Of the emperial family, seventeen
persons of not imperial birth, seventeen
counts, nine barons and Ill other noble
men.
The festive jack rabbit is a strict vegeta-
rian and will not touch grease OF any kind,
nor will he tackle vegetables that are sea.
soned with grea,e. Orchardists in Colo
RADIO take advantage of his fastldiousn .ss
and protect their trees from his incisors BY
rubb ng the body of the tree with bacon
rind.
Down in Florida a negro tried 10 steal d
ride on a cowcatcher The engineer did
on the track. when the COW few on ono
side and the negro on tn, other, exclaim+
ing, ''Oh Lordyp' forty times before no
| hit the ground He was left to keep tho
bovine company
Patsy. Mitchell, of Thompsonville, Mass.
promised that he would never drink an
other drop Of liquor ''as long as he had
hair on his head" When his thirst be-
came so ungovernable he sold his bushy
head OF hair TO Bod Grumpy, barber, for
a pint of gin, and when his hair was re-