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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

It is said to be the intention OF
Springer, of Illinois, to ward off the adj
mission of Idaho and Wyoming, unless
New Mexico and Arizona are taken in as
well, and for that reason he has intro
duced another omnibus bill. 1t is known
that the democrats have determined to
make fight against the admission of
Idaho, and New Mexico and Arizona are
to be used as pretext.
The ways and means committee has
been listening to several farmers as to
their needs in the way OF protection.
Several papermakers were also beard.
John l.. McCabe, of an importing wood
pulp COMPANY of New York, wanted the
duty on wood pul p removed. f. l.. En-
bree, representing an American COM
pany, wanted it continued. Some REP
resentatives of the leather interest
wanted the duty on wool and wool grease
materially reduced or removed Repre-
sentatives of button manufacturers
wanted protection of ivory horn and other
hard buttons.
Senator Frye's bill TO- encouraging
navigtion provides that all vessels, sail
or steam, engaged in the foreign carrying
trade, shall receive a bounty of one
third of one mill per ton of gross register
measurement for each mile navigated
Owners of vessels already built shall re-
ceive the bounty only so long as they
shall stand inspection and hold charter
according to certain specified grades
Provisisns of a similar nature are given
for vessels to be built hereafter.
Among Representative Hermann's
bills are: Granting to the Siuslaw East
ern Railway < Navigation tompany the
right Of way through the public lands in
Oregon or in the territories of Utah and
Idaho, on the line of said road between
Siuslaw hav, in Oregon, and the city OF
q lden, in Utah, and Boise City, in Idaho,
all the RICH. to take timber, stone anu
other material for road construction !,
lands are also provided for switches and
depot urposes.-Grant'ng to the Astoria
X South Coast Railway the right to build
u bridge across Ioung's bay, in Clatsop
county, Or.-For life-saving station and
life-saving crew at the mouth of the Suis
law river, in Lane county, Oregon.
The following nominations were sent
to the senate Tu' sday: Collectors OF
cuStomS-f rank A. stewart, southern
district of Oregon Coos bay) /; Edward
Fay lor, district of Oregon, Astoria Chas
U. Snider, receiver of public moneys at
Lakeview, Or; Ezra A. Bowen, register
of the land office at Vancouver. Wash
Egbert Nasholds, agent OF the Lemh
Indians, Idaho.
Among the senate bills introduced and
referred were the following;
Dawson offered resolution which
was agreed to, calling on the postmaster
general for information as to the p -ogress
the controversy Of the postoffice depart
ment with telegraph companies, aud as
to the probable cost of the erection of
government independent telegraph lines
between the cities of st. Louis, Chicago,
Philadelphia and New York.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
ALONG THE COAST.

In Tacoma, Counsel McNaught, of the
Northern Pacific, together with Vice
President Prescott and Manage jackson,
of the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship
Company, concluded the purchase, for
$780, 900, of the Washington Steamboat
x Navigation Company's six boats,
wharves, docks and property in Seattle,
together with the steamer Mabel
California grain merchants say that the
heavy rainfall and the eat quantity OF
snow in the mountains insure an abun-
dapt supply OF water ior the coming sea-
son, and plenteous water supply means
a good crop of everything that grows in
the ground. The only trouble now feared
is that warm rain will come and melt
the snow in the northern part of the
state, causing great rise of water again
in the Sacramento river
The police force OF Seattle had busy
time of it during 1899, having made 3Sl5
arrests during that time.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
Ar. We unp,isomerY

81 have heard it said that, taken as q
whole, people of these days are not SO
handsome as those of olden times" said
an artist to Washington Post reporter,
"but have theory that they far excel
In beauty of form and feature their an
cestors of many hundred years ago The
only way we have to judge of such com
parative merits of the people of today
with those who are made known to us
by tradition and history is by the means
OF statuary. We compare our modern
men with old works of art and pronounce
them inferior without taking into con.
sideration the deception that has been
practiced by the artists whose work was
done for those whose form and feature
they portrayed and from whom they
were To look for their pay.
1T was the easiest thing in tho world
then, rs is done now, to smooth over
blemishes and defects. The art of pho
Biography will not permit such deception
To 30 great an extent as ii was formerly
carried on"
"Do artists not tlatter their subjects as
much nowadays as was done of old?"
"ln making oil paintings this is done
by great many, and that is the reason
why many people will not sit for a photo
graph, but prefer to DO represented by
an artist. Tho photographers recognize
this and do what they can to overcome
it. knew one once who, having a sitter
with nose very much out of shape, ac-
tuaily used putty to straighten it out,
and with that improvement in his Gus
toners appearance took the picture"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28

Senator Mitchell has secured action by
the committee on transportation routes
to the seaboard on his bill for "A boat rail
way around The Dalles, whereby the bill
was referred to the secretary OF war. A
report in favor of the project is expected
in few days from the secretary.
Representative Cutcheon, OF Michigan,
has offered two bills f-r Alaska One ex-
tends the United States land laws in that
territory, and the other grants to the
Metlakatlah Indians the island Of Annet,
in the Alexander Archipelago.
Chandler has offered bill proposing
an amendment to the constitution, so that
if any state shall fail to enact and effectu-
ally enforce laws against murder and
other felonies, congress may provide
for the punishment of these crimes with
in such state.
Plumb offcre resolution which was
agreed to, directing the managers of the
National Soldiers homes to report
upon the advisabilty of establishing a
hospital at Hot Spring, Ark, to which
all disabled ex-Union soldiers shall b
admitted under proper recommendations,
The question of irrigation Of the govern
ment's great arid land areas bids fair to
rise to great importance in the present
session. The senate committee on irri-
cation has held its first regular meeting,
and a general discussion of the subject
was had. Senator Plumb. of Kansas.
wac last year strongly opposed to any
plan looking to irrigation by the govern
ment. and especially in the Rocky Noun
tain districts, where settlement has not
been made. The senator now is willing
to see those regions irrigated upon which
settlers are already living and have sui
fered severely from drouth, such as Da-
kota He says the mountain regions
which may be reclaimed by irrigation
should be reserved for future generations.
The concession OF the Kansas senator
that some irrigation is needed, is appre-
ciated by the irrigation men. An appro-
priation Of $250,000 will probably be
asked for to complete the surveys OF the
arid belt.
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PUN0ENT PAnACRAl.jrIIs

Small "Uncle, do ~,
stand the rule OF three?n Irn ny uhdsk
fectly, my boy! / live with ss'c-.''Psr.
IN. y. Ledger. ~ ny wife,
DE Ruyter--'Clara. vo,..
the fire with one Of my MSS Started
out!--quick!" His spoase---..p,.,r all II
yourself. won't be made 4 Wy itout
Puck lne ire.s
Mrs. Sharpleigh says her ~,
and the moon are great cron;a. husband
together, but Mr.. $. has one daa,s aiways
gets full every night. -Epochp '"'0n-Ae
Jackson--"M Mrs. Henpeck tan.
gained six pounds while she va = n J., 80
mountains Henpeck = "Tba ~ y tie
ing; ! gained twelve wbila moth.
away" sue was
stranger-"Haven't you anvtA,.
better than five cent ciparso. ncysniis
storekeeper (astonished )--..H, IHuuntts
run down to the Indicator off,oa Jimmy
them Mr.. Vanderbilt ism town y gu tell
-Dude-"l hear you have been ton,
people that am a fool Friend ,ns
are mistaken. On the contrarr lou
the only friend you have GOT y, an
always maintained that Won nv ~ mas
some little sense. Texas Siftin,s sos
"A critical condition-sI he,s
husband is sick, Aunt Dinah?n ..y sa YOU
Nothing serious, l hope? H;s 700 s a.
ton is not critical?" ''Criticale a Sonal,
say ho wuz. He amt satisfied l s.l.s
muffin. '-Terre Haute Express WIN
-"Excuse me, MISS" said So.
young man to lady who affects qua; quart
1lity in head dress, ''but your hal. .t ~
down" THANK you," was the ,sn ~
possibly you have observed tho spy si.
fact in connection with your musta, ' ~
Washington Capital. "
Mr.. McDuff-''You'ye bean ou..
hour dressing and you said il wo ,1a ~
take you over twenty minutesls NJ,
McDuff-"Now don't say wo,dy
thought should never get into tbis -. !
gown" Mr.. McDuff-'Well. in5aias
from appearances, you have not NV
than half succeeded. Thine.
-Wife-'I believe that mora
than men go to Heaven" Husband
lyon do? What makes you think so,
"Women live better lives than NO..
II grant it, Mary, but there's one th;n.
that leads me to think there arc ra.l'
few women on the other shore.n uWh..,
is that?" sit is spoken of as the si,a ~.
shore."-Boston Courier.
An elegantly dressed woman asLoa
to be shown some silk for gowns ona
made the unfortunate clerk hand down
and unfold piece after piece witbon,
coming to any decision. Finally a.
concluded she would prefer some nat.
terms that she had first looked at, which
involved the turning over of the entire
pile, and at last asked: "Are Won ouito
sure, sir, that this style is worm. aIt
was, madame" answered the clerk
"when you came in, but after the perid
that has since elapsed | should not like
to say for certain. Judge.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
THE OLD WORLD.

Earl Cairns, prominent English
nobleman, is dead.
Henry M. Stanley and party have ar
rived at Cairo.
In receiving the generals of the army
at Berlin the Emperor impressed upon
them the duty of officers to strive to be
in state of constant preparedness. He
ceunselled them to study the changes
wrought by the new rifles and smokeless
powder, and to educate the soldiers for
Independent action.
The English yacht Inva has been
wrecked on Acetras rocks, near Cadiz,
Spain. 1t was reported that fourteen of
the crew were drowned and four saved.
1t is now reported that the entire crew,
in two boats, are missing.
Colonel Voelkof, an officer of the czar' s
body guard, and some other officers OF the
same corps, have committed suicide. 1t
is supposed they were implicated in the
recently discovered plot against the life
of tie czar. 1t is reported that the car
bro her, the Grand Duke Sergius, will
shortly be banished from the capital for
meddling with politics.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28


Sir John Bowring not only testified to
this perpetual outflow of Chinese immi-
grants, but he paints in vivid colors the
causes which lead TO these results. He
says: There is probably no part OF the
world in which the harvests of mortality
are more sweeping and destructive than
In China, producing voids which require
no ordinary appliances TO fill up. Multi
tudes perish absolutely from want of the
means of existence; foundations destroy
towns and villages and all their inhab-
itants; II would not be easy TO calculate
the loss of life by the typhoons and hur-
ricanes which visit the coasts of China,
IN which boats and junks are sometimes
sacrificed by hundreds and by thousands.
The late civil wars in China must have
led to the loss of millions of lives. The
sacrifices of human beings by executions
alone are frightful"
Ii is such a condition of things, and
such causes as these, that induce the
laboring classes of Chinese to immigrate
To other countries. Considering the in.
centive which exists in these densely
populated districts to escape from the
misery which marks their existence, and
10 seek new lands where their condition
may be bettered, the dangers that
threaten from such inexhaustible sources
OF human supply become easy of appre-
ciaticn. Willard B. Farwell in Popular
Science Monthly.
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~ MbER-ROUGH AND DRESSED


"A "A prisoner who was being taken with
some other criminals in a train fro ,n
, ne mans to Sille lie Guillaume com
trlved to effect his escape in Ill oon
eleVer manner. Each Of the cnInu;;s
o mas IN n a small cell, and, having man o
a tSo 10 conceal a saw about his person
.he captive in question set to VOL puJso ~
q s"1 ni aoor' lie succeeded in saving ont
pee piece OF wood sufficiently largso o ~
ehaole INN to drop on the line gbo "
ene train stopped al station and I b;l
escape was not discovered mil t u,s
Sarty arrived at their destinat;on '''e
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28

Turgenief,s Dinners.
A habit of Turgeneiff, says The Fort
nightly Review, was to invite friends to
dinner and be absent when they came,
not deliberately of set purpose, but be-
cause OF the little value he set on his
pledged word and the very faint impress
sion it used to make upon his mind. He
once invited the famous critic Belinsky
and five others to dine with him at his
house in the country, where he had a
chef de cuisine whom he looked upon as
agenius. will organize banquet for
you the like of which you never dream
ed Of" he said
He fixed the day and made each per-
son give his word of honor that he
would come. Don't fear for us" re-
marked Belinsky. I'VE shall be there
without fail, but you must not repeat
the trick that you played upon us last
winter, when you asked us to dine and
were not at home when we came; but,
lest you should forget your invitation,
shall write to you the eve of the day OF
our arrival"
twas sultry day when the whole six
Of US set out for Pargolovo in an open
caleche at II o'clock in the morning, says
one Of the persons invited. We were
thoroughly fatigued by the heat and dust
of the road. Arriving at Turgenieff's
country house, we alighted with Joy in
our countenances, but we were all struck
with the circumstance that Turgenief
did not come out to meet lis. We
knocked at the door Of the glass terrace.
The silence of death reigned in the
house. All our faces grew visibly long
er. Can Turgenieff have played the
same trick as last winter" exclaimed
Belinsky.
But we all Gained him, saying that we
probably arrived earlier than we were
expected. "But wrote to him that we
should be here at O'clock" objected Be
linsky; what can it meanp If they would
only admit us into the room we could
wait, but here We are scorched."
At length boy came out OF tho door
and we all piled him with questions.
His master had gone off, he said, and the
chef de cuisine was in some public house.
We gave the urchin money, sent him to
fetch the chef, who should let us in, and
meanwhile we sat down on the steps of
the terrace.
We waited long in vain. Belinsky
wanted us TO return, but our hired coach
man refused to take - back until the
horses had bad long rest So we sat
on, hungry and hot. Panaieff went to
the public house to see If anything eata-
bic could be procured, but there was
nothing to be had. At last the
chef made his appearance. "Where is
your masterf" cried Belinsky. He did
not know. "Did your master order a
dinner for us today" insisted the critic.
''Iie did nothing of tho kind was the
reply. Amusement and terror were de-
picted on all faces. Belinsky famed up,
and, looking at us in his significant way,
exclaimed; "Turgenief has indeed given
US banquet"
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

l.. = Scoville, a nephew OF Guiteau
the assassin of President Garfield, has
disappeared from Chicago, and his whet-
abouts are at present unknown. He is
secretary of local building and loan as
socaton, and it is alleged he is short in
his accounts to the extent of between
$1,000 and $4,000. He is son of George
Scoville, whose wife was sister of
Guiteau.
At Huntington, w. Va, Edward
Church, l7-year-old boy living with his
father, is charged with poisoning the en-
tire family by putting poison in the
bread, One little girl is dead, and four
others of the family are in a critical con
dition. The young murderer confessed
to friend and then fled. He has not
been apprehended.
Andrew Christie, young man about
% years of age, who has been stopping
IN Eugene for week or two, left the
Minnesota hotel one morning and walked
north on the railroad track half mile,
aud as the local express came up he
rushed in front OF the engine and was
mangled in q horrible manner.
Coughlin, Burke and O'Sullivan, con-
victed OF the murder of Dr. Cronin, were
sentenced to life Imprisonment Tuesday
at Chicago, and were hurried from Jail,
strongly manacled, to the penitentiary at
Joliet The court, in everything mo-
ton for new trial, asked the prisoners
ii they had anything to say. O'Sullivan
said: 81 have not much TO say. pro-
test my innocence before God and man
The time is not far distant when it will
he shown that | was convicted by a pre-
JUDGED jury and perjured evidence.
do not ask for mercy; | ask for justice
| have not had Justice" Burke said 81
am innocent; always knew that in Eng
land they allowed periursrs to 80 ON the
stand and convict limo, ent men. but l
never knew that it was done in America.
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SINCE ADAM DIED.
The Number of People Who Have Liv.
Since the Beginning of Time.

The Number of People Who Have Lived
Since the Beginning of Time.
Did you ever make calculation of
the number of people that have inhab-
tied this globe since the beginning of
time? No doubt you will say that such
calculations involve loss of time. and
are, after all, barren Of results, but as
we are engaged in giving curious read
lngs and odd calculations, let us take
few minutes time and approximate,
with certain degree of accuracy, at
least, the number of souls that have
been ushered into and out of this sinful
world since the time when it was not
good for Adam to be alone. At the
present time 1t Is believed that there
are l,400, 0O0,0O0 human beings on our
globe; but let us suppose there has been
but an average of 100000, 900 living at
one time since the creation. To give
room for any possible doubt as to
the average length of life, we will nut
1t down at so years. ct may have been
longer than that during Bible times, if
mas been much shorter however, since).
49, "''ioS' lchS III Vi lie recR
oned as above, we have had two genera
lions OF 9OO,000000 each every century
Tor the past 5000 years. Taking this
Tor granted, we have had about 1927.
o43'23I' 075,266 Inhabitants on this globe
since the beginning of time.
Admitting that there is a great deal
OF guess-work about this calculation
ana that 1t has been hastily and per.
maps lnaccurately done, it will be per.
eelVed, nevertheless, that our earth is a
vast cemetery On each rood of it 2sa
human beings have found a burial
place. A rood being scarcely sufficient
lor ten graves, each grave must contain
the remains of 1919 persons. The whole
surface of the globe, if all peoples bury
within the earth as we do. has been dug
over l2o times in order to get room for
burial places.-St. Louis Republic.
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Too Too.

"Been writingf"
"Yes."
"Who to?"
"oh, dearl Why don't you speak
dramatically? The idea-'Who TOT
You should say To whom o.'"-Har.
per's Bazaar.
in EGYPT the English occupation
has mostly superseded the French Ian
guage.
The precise number Of policemen in
England is 1926. OF simple constables
there are $4,000, of detective officers
Oil; there are $3.50 sergeants, 1913 In
spectors, $50 superintendent, and 1877
borough head constables-
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Familiar Quotations.

The number of quotabie and much
quoted things in The Merry Wives is
considerable, Shakespeare had an ex
traordinary kuack of saying what
would bear repetition, and prove a
future bon mot, in all manner of az
tered circumstances. How often have
we not occasion to remark with Nym,
His mind is not heroic, and there
the humor of it. But how seldom.
alasl in the changes and chances of
mortal dinner parties, can one observe
about the lady who sits next him AT
the feast, "lspy entertainment in herr p
You are not young, no more am |, F"
Is quotation more frequently appro
pirate, though never to be ventured.
Again, He wooes both high and
low, both rich and poor" well it
corresponds with the charming modern
vulgarlsm, George is a general cour-
ter, up with all, on with none" Often
we are tempted to exclaim with Shall
low, Though we are justices, and doc
tors, and churchmen, Master Page. We
have some salt of our youth in us; we
are the sons of women, Master Pare. I"
Nor Is any quotation from all Shake
speare more frequently in the human
mouth than that of Mrs. Page, what
the dickens. The wild Prince and
Poins, spoken of by Mr.. Page, runs
now as a mere household word; and a
household word is the jolly hosts de
scription of Fenton: He capers, he
dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes
verses, he speaks HOLIDAY, he smells
April and May" This is Chaucerian
He was as fresh as the moneth of
May" Who but Shakespeare could
have put the essence of youth into so
few words, and those in the hosts
Magazine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
PORTLAND MARKET.

The wees closes with decided change
in the weather for the better, the thaw
having commenced yesterday. Seasona6ie
as the wintry weather is, we are hardy !,
prepared for it in Oregon. The snowfall a,,
has been heavy, especially In the eastern tern
mart of the state, and the merchandise
movement has been delayed In conse.
ouence. However, the signs OF a oreak III
the weather are general, ana tue oeiayI"
sinff will soon be forthcoming. Stock
taking in several leading lines Is not com
nleted' and business can hardly be ex,
meet to resume its usual activity untl'
this important work of accounting is over yer
A quiet feeling may be said to have pre-
vailed in all markets, the attention peine
given mainly to the squaring up OF ola &C
coun.s, with corresponding general ois,
position to let matters drift along until the
new campaign has fairly opened.