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Charles Dawson was a farmer until ~
was AZ years old. Abont seventeen year
ago, without theological training, ~
entered tho ministry, and has since pVss ~
pastor of church in Greenvi,le ~.
Maine legislature, and recently defentsso
one Of the ablest and strongest poh.ns
ians of that state for nomination 70 u
state senate, and the nomination
equivalent 10 election.
, 1890-08-28
Housekt ep ng Girls of fashion.
fNow Nnrk World

The superintendent of probably
the largest grocery store in New
York remarked yesterday in the
course of short talk that it was
about time for the newspapers to
quit their silly jokes concerning the
ignorance of New York girls about
cooking. "No newspaper reporter, !"
he said with good deal Of emphasis,
"knows as much about 1t as 1 do.
Our place here is located near Cen
trail park, near Fifth avenue and
near Broadway. We are in the
very middle of the richest and most
aristocratic section of the city, and
it Is here that girls of wealth and
position flock in greater numbers
than anywhere else except the opera.
1 have watched them going on twen-
ty years and observed them closely. I
have seen them come shyly with
their mothers when they were 10,
and / have known them to drag
their children in with them ten
years later. l known many hundred
society girls to marry and take up
housekeeping within few weeks,
and L tell you now that despite the
newspaper wits and the army of
people who write about things
Of which they know nothing, the
number of New York girls who are
failures as bousekeepers Is infinetisi-
NAL compared to the number who
succeed. / should like to know, by
the way, the reason for assuming
that a girl Is failure as a house
keeper because she happens to be
high-spirited, clever, ingenious, and
interesting. These are qualities
that shine In housekeeping as in
other walks of life, and American
girls are loaded up to the eyes with
them. DON'T telI mep,
, 1890-08-28
The Beautiful Arms.

Mrs Ella Dietz Clymer owes
much of her reputation as the
"beautiful" president of Sorosis to
her use Of her arms. She never
forces them. If she disposes herself
statuesquely against the high carved
back OF her chair she is content
with 30 much picturesqueness as Is
compatible with the calm poise of a
good presiding officer. II occasion
arises for her to throw an active ex-
preston into her posture, she gets
just the permissible effect, no more,
no less, out Of her graceful arms.
Lillian Russell has splendid, ripe,
full colored arms; q little heavy,
perhaps, and suggesting the Turkish
bath rather than the sunshine, but
strong throughout and firm.
Julia Marlowe has 1.-the, grace
full yound arm; 1t reminds one of
, 1890-08-28

Margaret Mather's before that
young woman quarreled with her
manager and began to grow fieshy.
And yet Miss Mather's arm was al
ways too long. Miss Marlowe's is
exquisitely proportioned and clear
ly, dainty modelled. II is Diana
arm, or rather that of one of DiaDa's
nymphs, more youthful than the
huntress.
Mrs. Kendnl's arm when she is
on the stage Is like her face as one
sees II off the stage, serene and
hcalthfully matronIy. Her upper
arm Ia peculiarly muscular. Her
skin has u creamy tint, and the ell
bow is irreproachable.
Carmencita could not have be-
come the rage she Is but for her soft,
olive-tinted expressive arms that
dance quite as much as her feet,
but are even more graceful, as they
lie heavily OH her knees after the
impassioned performance, than dur
Ing their music-quickened life as
they wave and circle above her
pi9uant, dark-dyed face.
Lilli Lehman has extremely
handsome arms. A sculptor might
model from them. You never ap-
preclate their beauty when she Is on
the stage because your attention Is
distracted by her erange-colored
wig and the yards on yards of CASH
mere with which she curiously dis
figures the goddesses of Wallhalla.
IL she would only give them half u
chance her arms are splendidly
warm-skinned, majestically strong
the very arms OF Brunehilde or
Isolde.
PATHS arms are like pearl satin in
color and texture. Albani's are not
well formed. Mrs, Hodgson Bur-
nett treats her arms about the least
skillfully, and Genevleve Stebbins
has about the best arms Of contem-
poraneous femininity.
or society bellies Mabel Wright,
now Mrs. Yznaga, has perhaps the
widest spread reputation for arms.
Miss Elizabeth Blsland has the
prettiest arms of any writing
woman, with young and virginia.
delicacy of rounding. The COM
monest fault of woman's arm Is
excessive largeness at the elbow;
there is petulance and not strength
In such an articulation. Every body
remembers the struggle of Mrs.
James Brown Potter's teacher with
her irrepressibles.
, 1890-08-28

Mile. Jeanne Hugo, granddaugh-
ter of the celebrated poet, is be-
trothed to NJ. Leon Daudet, son of
the novelist, Alphonse Daudet The
fiancee, who Is very handsome
her dowry also-is just twenty, and
the young man is three years her
senior and promising member Of
, 1890-08-28
NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs. Oscar Wilde has the reputa-
ton of being the most picturesque
woman in London. A couple of
years ago she adopted the Liberty
silk gown, and fashion went mad
and miles to see her. Now she
wears black and white, black and
gold, black and cress green, and the
cut Of her gowns is quite as remark
able ns the seamless clinging robe
designed by Burne-Jones ten years
ago, The gold or yellow frocks,
toned down with black feathers,
gauze or lace, are reserved for land
scape effects, the black and green
for daylight interiors and the white
and black for gasltght. This even-
ing dress is all of black bengaline,
made Greek fashion, with Grecian
embroidery OF gold, and worn with
white shoes and q white boa- Her
bouquet is always the same-steph-
anotls smothered in fern leaves
, 1890-08-28
The Masculine Woman and the Efeminate Man,
Late Summer Fashions---Notes
and Personals

"a visit to the club, thus effectually
disguised, she would have o pretty
rough awake ing to mems opinion
In general on the subject of womcn's
masculine tendency.
1t would bo very unnatural II men
did admire that sort OF thing. What
attracts n man towards a woman,
by all the laws of nature are the
softness, the gentleness, the woman
Illness which belongs to her sex. He
would be going against the very
laws of nature II he admired her
when she filings aside attributes of
her sex. SO let these young women
who go In en- Enthusiastically for mas
culine style OF dress disabuse their
minds at once Of the erroneous idea
that men admire 1t, for they do not.
1t Is just as repulsive and disgusting
To them as the effeminate man Is TO
woman, and just In proportion as
woman admires n strong, brave,
manly man, SO do men admire a
womanly woman, and would far
rather see her with all the weakness
and follles Of her sex than to be in
the least degree strong-minded or
masculine.
, 1890-08-28

A novel and most ingenious skirt,
made without any foundation, has
been introduced for the benefit Of
, 1890-08-28

Hiss Helen F. O'Neill, who has
been for two years on the editorial
staff of the Boston Budget, and has
contributed stories and poetry to the
Detroit Free Press and other publi-
cations, died Thursday ut Canton.
She had been sufferer with con-
sumption since she had an attack of
ala grippe" last winter, and her re-
covery has been doubted for some
time. She WAS an accomplished
musician, and was Obliged to give
1t up as a profession, owing to pull
monary weakness. Charles s.
O'Neill, weil-known newspaper
man, is q surviving brother.
Queen Natalie of Servia's trou-
Bile have told terribly upon her. In
two years she has aged twenty. 1t
Is said that she suffers from want
Of sleep and has recourse to opiates.
Her beauty Is gone, and with II her
youth and the wreck of her former
self is all that is left to tell the tale
of her life. She is the personific IA.
ton of political riddle, In the solv-
ing of which y nation Is rendered
wretched, a queen outraged and q
mother discons0late.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01
Ahout ChIoroforming.

The statement that when handker-
chief is thrown over a mans head he
Immediately goes into trance is inter-
esting and raises a curious point. There
are many lawyers who are wont to de-
clare that the evidence given from time
to time at criminal trials leaves no
doubt that there exists some drug
which, when spread upon cloth and
placed over the nose and mouth, imme-
diately produces Inconsistencies. On
the other hand, chemists assert that
the thing is an impossibility. and that
no such compound has ever been dis
covered.
Chloroform and the other recognized
anRsthetics require at least three dis
tinct inhalations TO produce the loss OF
sensation. To reconcile this conflict OF
testimony seems impossible, unless. in
deed, we adopt the sensational theory
that some camerra among the criminal
classes is in possession IF q trade secret
as vet unknown to science. Probably,
however, this notion is too fantastic. and
we should rather incline to the supposi-
ton that the immediate loss OF con-
seriousness is due to something conlpar-
able to mesmeric action.-Spectator
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

No woman, at least in America, has
any such talent as man has for spend
ing money. She spends for what she
believes to be beauty-for raiment,
books, Jewels, decoration. furniture, pic
lures, marbles rarely for what does her
serious harm He spends most for his
vices, for the things that hurt him great
ly. He is apt to speculate, to bring evil
to others from his love of pleasure or of
gain.
He will get rid of more money in a
month than she would in years. She
would, however ignorant of it, be APP
palled by the sums he dissipates. She Is
constitutiona1y conservative, big state
rnents of any sort are likely to alarm
her. Unless desperate or frenzied. she
invariably stops short of extremes. She
trembles and turns pale where he, in the
flush of egotism. moves undisturbed.
Nearly all the talk of woman's care
lessness of money is really idle. The
opinion cannot be sustained. 1t is main
ly the echo of misrepresentation. Where
she is even partially enlightened on the
subject, she is prone to be very cautious
in its use. Her temperamental tendency
is to heopposite of carelessness. --JuIius
Henri Browne in Ladies Home Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

Arthur Simmons has q Texas pony on
his farm at Chokee whose ability as
jumper cannot be surpassed He IS
diminutive specimen of that breed OF
horsehesh. and day or two ago was put
into big box or crate for shipment to
Americas, there being no stock car con-
venient at the time. The pony and box
were placed upon fiat car aud the train
pulled out. The little sample of Texas
cyclone soon got tired Of his close quar-
tiers, and while the train was running at
a speed of thirty miles an hour. kicked
the box into a cooked hat and made leap
for liberty. He struck terra frrna night
side up with care, and when the train
men came back to view his cold remains
the said remains were quietly nibbllng
at a key of iron spikes on the side CT the
road. and it took four men and a boy an
hour to run down and capture him. Al
least that is what the conductor said
Americas (Ga.l Times.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

There are no data now existing which
will enable any one to predict what will
be the size of boilers, engines. dynamos,
steamships, bridges. cars, locomotives,
Office buildings and other structures ten
years hence. Everything in the en-
cheering line seems to be changing at a
more rapid rate than at any previous
period. Certainly the limit TO increase
of size does not yet appear When the
single engine reached its limit in ship
building, the compound engine came IN
When shafts and screws seemed to have
grown as large as they could be made,
twin screws and shafts were used, and
at the same time facilities for making
still larger shafts and screws were per
fected. So it is in every branch of en-
cheering; as soon as a limit Is liked
some one finds a way of Overlapping 1t,
and the limit is placed further ahead
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01
Treating the Brain.

The brain has generally been regarded
Is part of our organization which lies
entirely outside the sphere of operative
infefference by the surgeon. 1t is not
geuerally known that the matter of the
brain itself is non-sensitive, and that
persons have recovered from severe in
juTies of the head in which several
ounces of brain matter have actually
been lost. Professor Ferrier, in recent
n<1dress on the functions of the brain,
points out the interesting fact Ito which,
Il nay be added, surgery itself has been
le1aing up) that in the near future it will
a. justifiable enough for surgeons to at
fdlnpt to cure certain brain affections by
IT, Rctual handling and examination of
tht great center of the nervous system.
Such view of matters certainly fore
clats veritable triumph of the healing
art for it need hardly be said that there
efQno cases in face of which medicine
e<NAds more hopelessly than many forms
of brain disease. Today operations are
etceessfuIly performed which but few
ye@rs ago were regarded as essentially
fa<al ia their nature. 1t is not too much
~ predict that brain surgery will form a
d6partment of the medical art of the
hzture from which great things may be
hoped for in the interest of suffering bu-
ity.-Herald of Health.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

The real test of the manners and morals
of a nation is not by comparison with
other nations, but with itself. 1t must be
Judged by the historical, not by the topo-
graphical standard. Does it develop and
how? Manners, like morals, are an affair
of evolution, and must often be native
product, wholly indigenous thing. This
is the case, for instance, with the habitual
American courtesy to women in travel
ing-a thing unparalleled in any Euro
pean country, and of which, even in this
country, Howells finds his best type in
the Californian. What takes the place
of it among the Latin races is the courtesy
of the high bred gentleman toward the
lady who is his social equal-which is
wholly different thing. A similar point
of evolution in this country is the decorum
of public assembly. 1t is known that
at the early town meetings in New Eng
land men sat with their hats on, as in
England Unconsciously, by simple
evolution of good manners, the habit has
been outgrown in America. but pariia-
ment still retains it.
Many good results may have followed
imperceptibly from this same tendency
to decorum. Thus Mr.. Bryce points out
that the forcible interruption of public
meeting by the opposite party, although
very common in England, is very rare in
America. In general. with us, usages are
more flexible, more adaptive; in public
meetings, for instance, we get rid of a
great many things that are unutterably
tedious, as the English practice of NOV
ing, seconding and debating the pre-
.scribed vote of thanks to the presiding
officer at the end of the most insigniti-
cant gathering. 1t is very likely that
even our incessant self criticism con-
tributes toward this gradual ameliora-
ton of habits In that case the wonder
is that our English cousins. who criticise
themselves quite as necessarily, move SO
slowly.-Harper's Bazaar.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

what queer pumpkin looks more
like squash, don't it," remarked one
Lewiston woman to her visitor, lately.
s.That's just what | thought replied
the other, letting her work drop into her
lap. II looked and looked at my can,
but it was labeled Pumpkin and 50
supposed it must be pumpkin and mads
pumpkin pies of it; but Tom declared
they were queer pumpkin pies well.
it says pumpkin and I belieye-why, see
here.r Her little girl had torn of the
outside paper and on that next the can
was picture OF squash, and under
meath: This squash. etc" Henceforth
these women put no more confidence in
labels And perhaps when Tom gets
over saying. queer pumpkin pies, one
of them viii feel more kindly disposed
towards the manufacturer whose squash
is pumpkin if pumpkin viii sell better.
Lewiston Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

A problem of great interest in physics
and astronomy, on which TyndaH, Lord
Roose and Professor Langley labored IN
vain, has been solved. and trustworthy
evidence at last been obtained as to the
thermal value of moonlight This has
been accomplished by Mr.. c. Y. Boys.
one of the professors at South Kensing
ton, who. by means of his quartz fla
ments has produced thermopile of al
most incredible delicacy- By this APP
paratus he can render sensible the heat
of candle up to the distance of mile
and three-quarters, and by directing the
minute disk of the instrument TO the
moon he has shown that the warmth re-
ceived from it's reflected light is equal to
that given out by candle at twenty-one
feet distance. The result accords with
the anticipations of Professor Piazzi
Smyth. Observations seems to show that,
although the moons face is under the
blaze of an unclouded sun fox fourteen
days, it remains comparatively cool, and
that whatever heating it does ultimately
receive is rapidly gained and as rapidly
lost.-London Standard
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

Ministers like their little jokes a. wen
as any one else. Chaplain Wharton, of
the Grand Army of the Republic for the
state OF Wisconsin, is no exception, and
he perpetrated one q while ago which
acted as boomerang it came back and
hit him hard It was at some great
G.. A B. affair, where speeches were
being made, and one speaker desired to
refer to the incident mentioned in the
Bible where some one tied the tails Of
two hares together. The speaker was at
loss to remember who this person was,
and he asked the chaplain With face
a. sober as Judge, that gentleman said
it was Goliah The speaker went On
with his talk and made his reference.
speaking GoIiahs name in all confidence.
Some one behind pulled his coat tail and
said in whisper. 1T was not Goliah;
it was Absalom." This rather knocked
him out for moment. but quickly re-
covering he said: We'll, there appears
to be little discrepancy about who it
was that tied the hares tails together
As was not sure about it myself went
to Chaplain Wharton. thinking he should
be authority on the matter. and be told
me it was Goliah.r This so completely
/ turned the laugh upon the chaplain that
| the speaker got back his composure and
finished his remarks IN good Style.
Chicago Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01
A Pretty Action.

A newsboy took the Sixth avenue ele-
waited at Park place at noon yesterday,
and sliding into one of the cross seats fell
asleep. At Grand street two young wo-
men got on and took the seats opposite
the lad. His feet were bare and his hat
had fallen off. Presently the younger
girl leaned over and placed her muff
under the little fellows dirty cheek An
old gentleman in the next seat smiled at
the act and without saying anything held
out a quarter, with nod toward the
boy. The girl hesitated moment and
then reached for it. The next man Just
as silently offered dime, a woman across
the aisle held out some pennies, and be-
fore she knew it the girl, with flaming
cheeks, had taken money from every
passenger in that end of the car. She
quietly slid the amount into the sleeping
lads pocket, removed her muff gently
from under his head without rousing
him and got off at Twenty third street,
including all the passengers in pretty
| little inclination of the head that seemed
full OF thanks and the possession of
common secret-New York World.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01
with One Arm.

son the whole" said the one armed
man, refectively, II am glad lost my
arm, even if don't get pension for it.
was never in any war in my life.
could have gone, but l did not want to
do it. Isn't that good reason enough?
.'Still, am not sorry | lost my arm.
1t saves me cuffs and sleeves and lots of
other things you fellows have to buy.
Do miss it? Yes. But not so much as
you would think. have got used to do
ing without it, and I am quite happy. |
was single when lost my arm. had
Just been Tilted by a girl. After | got
carried through the mill and MANNED !
paid court to another girl, and she took
me as was Since then we have made
money, and had eight healthy children !"
As he spoke he reached to the top of
the door and lifted himself up eight
times in succession. Then he held by
his little finger for two minutes and a
half. There is not one man in 10000
with two hands who can do that.-Bos-
ton Globe.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

Hem! hemi heml coughl cough!
coughi The hall of the house of repre-
sentatives sounded like an asylum for
consumptives. The senate was IN execu-
tive session. and the hundreds of visitors
who thronged the Capitol on Saturday
afternoon, being debarred from that end
of the Capitol. thronged the house side.
There was strange odor in the air. 1t
tickled the nostrils and irritated the
throat. As it grew stronger and stronger
the crowds gathered around the big
tanks of ice water and helped themselves
most literally, while the ladies bought
up all the caramels at the candy stand.
The guides. usually so fluent of speech,
grew husky. and finally spoke IN dis
iointed sentences. Everybody coughed
and wondered.
The cause OF. the strange oder was To-
Gated in the restaurant. Half dozen
employees were burning red paper by the
ream, and thousands of cockroachss were
succumbing to the fatal smell. The an
nual campaign of determination was 10
progress. w ashington Post.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

Hospitality is the browning virtue Of
he Turk. Hewould scorn to be thought
behindhand IN this respect when com
pared with any other race OF men, Mr..
BARLEY tells story Ia his Bulgaria
Before the War which proves that the
Turk viii not allow himself to BE- ont
done even by any Of his countrymen.
A friend OF mine Was one day shoot
ing in the vineyards at Rustchuk, when
be was stopped by an old Turk and told
that trespassers were not allowed, and
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-01

A good story is told of clever trick,
by means of which some Russian jews
have cheated the custom house. Stimuli
taneously at two frontiers very large
case came to each, but was not claimed.
After the regulation time had elapsed
they were opened and found to be gloves
and ordered to be sold at auction, &C
cording to law. A Jew, on looking at
them, cried out they were all right hand
gloves and of no use to any one. Conse-
quently they went for next to nothing
and for far less than the tax would have
amounted to. Needless to add that the
case at the other frontier contained all
the left hand gloves, and of course they
were bought by confederate.-Ex'
change.