Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-03
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A.x /
were born on the same day of the month.
mo; can't say that ! want tne
earth" unused the freight car TOURIST.
.About three-quarters OF it Is water
and that / amt got no use for. '-Ierre
Haute Express.
Aunt Mary--"Poor Budget Does
your tooth ache yet? II 'twere mine,
dear, I'd ha ve 1t out at once" Budge-
"If 'twere yoursl Well, auntie, so
would I."--Harper's Young People.
Census Enumerator-'sWell, have
finished big days work, and I'm
tired" His wlfe-''I'm so sorry cant
help you. Now sit down, dear, and tell
me all you found our about our neigh
bors. IN. Y. Sun.
Editors like bregity, but man who
was recently hanged in Indiana suited
them too we'll. He made no remarks
about heaven. but nodded to the
preacher and said: "I'll see you later,
and then the trap fell. -Brooklyn Union.
--s'Say, old fellow. are you really
relation OF tho celebrated Prot Drip
''Yes, but somewhat far removed.
"How then9" ''fie Is my brother, but
you see there are ten sisters between
US. ''-Fliegende Blatter.
"A dispatch from Ohio tells OF one OF
the shortest courtships on record. The
groom was a guest at Canton hotel.
He became infatuated with the cook the
dag of his arrival, proposed, and, being
| accepted. married her at once.
The IL. road companies in New
York are doing their utmost just now to
minimize the noise made by their trains,
| and on some Of the roads they have sue
ceeded, but they are still far from hav-
| ing the noiseless trains which so delight
| the heart OF tho traveller in Berlin, and
the service has a great many lacks.
The great Bear River Canal in Utah,
for the construction Of which s., 00o 600
has been provided, is expected to be one
OF tho most extensiue irrigation works
/ in America. To get the river along the
| side hill along Bear Creek canon and
out on to the plain near Plymouth will
necessitate moving goo, 600 cubic yards
Of solid rock.
-''While passing along street in Des
Moines, the other day." relates the St
Joseph News, Constable Allen noticed
/ woman digging in garden and turn
ing up peculiar-looking vegetables.
After she had loaded her apron and left
the scene the constable went over and
did little digging on his own hook, un.
earthing several gallon jugs Of whisky
1T has been estimated that were
electricity 70 come into general use as a
means for propelling street cars, at least
90, 900 horses would be thrown out Of
employment This is serious consid
Grafton, for were the street cars tC
eschew them, what would become of ouI
decrepid steeds? In France this ques
ton could be easily answered; but In
, the face of our prejudices 1t is, indeed
: perplexing.
, The Argentine Republic has noarly
T1.0o0, 900 sheep, yielding about 260, GOO,
600 pounds of unwashed wool, which
when washed, amounts to something
, less than 100. 900, 900 pounds. The flock
OF the United States, although in 1888
> numbering only 10000, 900, produced
I nearly 1853, 900, 900 pounds of clean wool
. Thus the average per sheep in the Al
4 gentine Republic was less than -
pounds of clean wool, while in thi
. country it was nearly four pounds.
3 "A negro killed monster rattle
4 snake SIX miles this side of Glover Va
z ley on the Union Pacific extension fror
i Milford, says California paper. TIL
r only weapon which the darby had wa
i In the form of earth clods, but he sue
n ceeded in crushing out the life Of tn
: RATHER, and upon examination foun
i the snake to measure ten feet in length
Q with ninety-six rattles and button o
/. the lateral extremity. This would Civ
o an almost phenomenal age to the snak,
y meking 1t about one hundred years OLE
y The skin and rattle have been take
It North to Salt Lake, from whence it wi
be shipped to the East.
p The laborers of the blacksmit
;, Zhuravleff. OF KEW, found comic,
% bomb and conceived the notion OF usin
1t as an anvil. They knew what tt
n thing was, but they thought it was n,
% charged, because they had found 1t l.
it ing about freely. To make sure that
A. was not dangerous, they tried it sewers
10 times in the fire and 1t did not explod
y Hereupop they fitted it up as an anvil
n But as soon as they tried to forge
70 piece OF iron upon it, it exploded wit
s. tremendous force, tore off the roof
10 the building and scattered the wall
lg Luckily, the explosion tended upwa
above the heads OF the workingmen al
only three of them were slight
wounded by flying fragments
d 1t is not often that there is any di
pute as to the habits of the Southe
negroes We see them on minstr
stage in strange and uncouth gart
o. 90 and we hear them playing on the ban
and bones. All this Is the purest fame
40 and 1t would be the widest imaginati
.. III it had not been sanctified by t
drunken craziness of circus performe
~ OF the old Bob Ridley stripe. Think, 1
% instance, of Southern negro goi
~ around and proclaiming himself to
~, old Bob Ridley or Jim Crow. Did ar
body ever see a Southern negro, sla
- or free, going around the country in
- calico coat and buttons as big as wa
=, tub. with banjo on his back and sir
Ing songs written by white lian?-l
~ lanta Constitution.
- AT first sight one would supps
Ia that the class above all others tt
10 would hail with delight general stri
liz OF police would be the burglars. Gu
o,, ously enough this Is not so, says
90 London Mercury The professional b
a., glar is dead against such strike;
"a as he correctly reasons, though the
,to lice ceased to protect property, prope
,ra would not thereby be left unprotect
. no Ill