Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-11

eht when he died.
IhE largest body Of fresh water on
/ the globe is Lake Superior. 1t Is
400 miles long, 100 miles wide nj ia
greatest ~, breadth, and has an area OF
1900 square miles.
TIE Egyptian obelisk in Central
Park, New York, is rapidly going to
decay, notwithstanding the efforts
made 10 preserve II, The climate Il
too severe.
SECRETARY TRACY has made ar
engagements by which the navy will
be furnished with brown prismatic
powder for large guns and the new
sinokeless powder for smaller guns.
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4 SAND pump near Boise City,
Idaho, recently brought up a flint
idol from a depth Of 800 feet. Tits
claimed 20 be the oldest mark OF
human life on record By Professor
Wright, Of oberlin College, Ohio.
| IT s,ens odds that any man, what
ever his faith, election, or calling.
should speak Of our public-school
system as "one ~ the great evils
threatening the destruction Of the
republic"
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SoME ono suggests that New
Mexico be called New Grenada. As
( the nbreyiaiion OF this name would
he ~. q. il is no, likely that the
New Mexicans viii tall in with the
suggestion.
| THE young ladies Of the normal
school OF Ada, Ohio, were 80 shocked
By the appearance Of "a statue OF
Apollo that they bad ii dressed in
velvet knec.brecchcs by the town
tailor.
JusT what iull.grown black bear
cnn do in the way Of hugging was
demonstrated in Maine a short time
ago. when bruin seized a barrel oi
beef gave Il squeeze and crushed
IL ia pieces. II was estimated to be u
squeeze oI two-horse power.
4 LINE drawn from thecentcr ofthe
howl 20 tile center Of the great toe is
called the Meyers line" II shows
that the range Of the feet is scarcely
ever the snmc in two individuals,
aud, therefore, toexpect ne from
uniform lasts is to expect the i'm
possible.
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HAxNipAI., Mo, man picked up n
| 81 hill which belonged TO a poor wild
ownnd kept Il. This is straightior.
ward. 10 SOY the least. Some men
takcmoney from poor widows by the
roundabout chattel mortgage meth
od and charge cxorbitant interest
beside.
i orlTr q complication OF relation
sbin results from recent wedding
/ in Lehigh County. Pennsylvania.
The Stcpmothcr OF the bride is the
slater al the groom, so his sister be-
co,nes his mothcr.in-law and his
1 hroiber.in.law his lnther.in-law, and
his wife his niece. The bride married
her uncle and her stcpmother became
her sister.in.law.
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Tnr number Of species OF animals
whose track have been found in the
Trims Of New England and New Jer'
SOW by DIR. Edward Hitchcock and
prof c. II. Hitchcock is now 100.
| including one marsupial, thirty-iive
so.callcd birds, although they are,
honhtless more reptilian than avian
n their character; twenty-eightt
dinosaurs: twenty-seven replies and
amnhibin: sixteen batrachians; SIX
"haIoninns. besides arthropoda and
molInsen, The two great collections
nrc az Amherst College and MI nor
yoke Seminary.
pRorEsson yoN BERcMANN' Q,
Berlin, is reported to have performed
= remarkable surgical operStlon'
Two patients were simultaneously
brought to him for operation one
recurring omputation Of the th'gn AZ !
The hip joint, the other needing s,,ng IN =
aortion Of the humerus remover, %, on
pcconnt of the bone being extens '.,
t. diseased. The first operation s Wus
tbs smputntion, and then the sur S
% o,,e proceeded TO excise the rH ns
sseassd norton Of thehumerus' . in,s
made made 4 gap in the bone, but but R ge%
~ The thigh bone was taken INN, mon
the N. limb which had just been nm h!oI,
s sat md tlxed in the gap, py wll. y,
tu'ou ,s..t,,ty ~ the numerous was