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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
JACKS COSTLY RIDE.
An English Tar Mounts the Bronze stee
of Peter the Great.

An English Tar Mounts the Bronze steed
of Peter the Great.
Among the most famous sights" Of
ST. Petersburgi is fine equestrian statue
in bronze of its renowned creator, Peter
the Great. The fgure-which stands
on the left bank of the Neva, opposite
the Senate House-is appropriately
mounted on huge block of grey granite
from East Finland, which was one Of
Peters first conquests. The great Car
Is represented as sitting erect on rear
ing horse, and pointing with his right
hand to the spot on the opposite bank
where he built with his own hands in
1904 the first house of his new capital,
while beneath his horses hoofs lies
crushed the serpent that typifies the
! grovelling ignorance and superstition
which impeded his grand designs. Now.
1t happened that one cold autumn night
an English sailor, who had just landed
| from newly arrived cargo steamer
was strolling back across the Senate
| House-square, and, as his ill-luck would
have it, stopped to take passing look
at the imperial statue. ''Well, If that's
the thing they make such fuss about
don't think much of i'll" cried Jack, dis
painfully. tits nothing like so big as I
thought it was Why; Icould climb to the
top of it myself; and l will, too" No
sooner said than done. Over the ratings
went bold Jack, and, clawing his way
nimbly up the roughened surface of the
granite pedestal, he succeeded in clutch
ing first the tail of the serpent and then
that of the horse, and found himself in
trice astride of the latter, close behind
the bronze figure of the Car. So far 50
good, but just at that critical moment
the moon clouded over, ard poor Jack
could not see how on earth to get down
again. What was to be done? To stay
where he was perched on that cold
bronze, would be little better than sui
eide on such bitter night. To descend
would be to risk breaking his neck or
limbs; and to call for help would de-
liver him OF once into the hands of the
police. But the question was unexpect-
eddy settled for him. His muttered ex-
carnations of dismay caught the quick
ears OF passing patrol, who at once
turned their lanterns upon the monu-
ment, whence the sounds appeared to
issue, and, discovering Master Jack in
his elevated position, promptly sent for
ladder and hauled him down. A night
In the tehast (police lock-up) rewarded
our hero's exploit and the next morn
ing q stern-faced Project of Police SEN
fenced him to fine which left poor
Jacks pockets as empty as his head
nlencing the culprit's circumstances by
saying, with grim smile-'if you will
ride with the Gar, my friend, you must
expect to pay high for mount Cas-
sells Saturday Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

Assimilation of food is best encour.
aged by work. Digestion is not assimi-
lation. Food may be digested and taken
into the blood and yet not assimilated,
because there is no activity to encourage
It. Ii muscle is to be built up, there
must be tearing down of muscle first;
II there is no tissue of the brain torn
down, there can be no building up pro-
cess. If we work hard with brain or
muscle, using up great deal of force,
nature goes to work in the hours of re-
cuperation to build the brain and the
muscle little stronger than it was be-
fore, so every days expenditure will re.
quire the assimilation OF little more
food. Bat If there is no demand, nature
will not undertake the task. Some
times when one has an extra strono
stomach and liver, he will be able to
make fatty tissue, which will not add to
strength. out of food digested in idle
ness. Assimilation is the power that
dlnerent parts of the body possess of
building up structure like their own ont
OF material furnished by the blood;
muscle has the power to make muscles
and nerves have the power to make
nerves, etc. DIR. j. K. kellogg. of Rat.
tie Creek Sanitarium, in a Parlor Lect.
ure.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
THE SHAFTS DAUGHTERS.
Eight OF Them Have Succeeded In MakIns
Good Matches.


The Shah became father at the age
OF sixteen years, wherefore his eldest
children are now well advanced in life.
His eldest daughter Is nearly forty-flye
years old and is called the GLORY OF
Kings She married tho son of the mas
ter OF tho mint, one of the richest men
In Persia. When the master died, how
ever, the Shah took possession of the
bulk OF his fortune. Naturally the SON
in-law felt himself ill-treated. and fail
ing TO obtain any redress, he left Persia
and went to Paris. There he distin-
guished himself by the utter reckless
ness OF his career, until his imperial
father-in-law for very shame recalled
him and gave him what was left of his
inheritance. He had previously been
married to the adopted daughter of
Nine. Hadji Abbas, clever French
woman, whom Hadji Abbas, the court
painter, married in Paris and took to
Teheren, at the request OF the ladies' of
the harem, to teach them the European
fine art of millinery, The second daugh-
ter of the Shah, called the Light of the
Empire, is the wife of General Yusuf
Khad. Number three and four, the
Pride OF the Empire and tho Purity of
Empire, are married, the one to high
court official, the other to the chief
priest of Teheran. All the eight grown
up daughters of the Shah, indeed, have
made good matches.
They have, perhaps, made better
matches than their husbands. For it ia
not altogether profitable to be a son-ip-
law of the Shah. A Princess spends
much, and her carriages and ruHner, her
many servants and the lavish entertain
ments she is obliged 10 give TO other
Processes generally cost much more
than the $4,000 per annum which the
Shah gives as dowry. The Shah, too,
Is more apt to take any thing from .
son in-law than from stranger or a
person not related to him, and another
drawback is that the husband of a Shah's
daughter loses more or less of his lib
erty, can not take other wives and must
do as his wife pleases The only one,
perhaps, of the Shah's sons-in-law who
has kept his liberty is the chief priest
of Teheran. He is able to bring relip-
lon to bear on the subject; can possibly
justify any thing he does by the Koran
and traditions, and has the clergy with
their enormous influence to back him
up.-London Letter.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

The clerk of well-known New York
hotel proved a day or two ago that he
possesses sharp, quick eye. A young
business man from the West handed
him 500 bill in payment of a small
amount. II can not accept this" re-
piled the clerk to the astonished younr
man, who had taken the note from a
large roll of bills received from a bank
In his native town. at is not signed
by the president of the bank" Inyes.
tgation proved this statement true.
The note was issued by one of the Ma
tional banks of Stockton, Cas. 1t was
signed by the cashier of the bank, but
the space reserved for the signature of
the president was blank. The note bore
evidence of use, and perhaps had been
In circulation for number OF wears
N. Y. Letter.
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4 RIM or srsrl.


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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
GIANTS or THE FoagsT.


Some Interesting Points About the Enor-
NOUS Trees Of California.
There are ten groups of Sequoia gu
gantea in the Sierra Nevada untains,
and the descriptions of most OF them are
found in the writings OF Muir, Whitney
and Clarence King. Beginning at the
north these groups are named as follows;
The Caiaveras grove, the South Calaver-
as grove, the Tuolumne grove, the
MERGED grove. the Mariposa grove, the
Fresno grove, the Dinky grove, the
Kings River grove, the New Kings
River grove, and the large kaweah
grove. The latter consists Of number
OF small sequoia forests extending over
z beit 81 country hve miles vide and
nifty miles long IL Is n this region
That the kaweah colony OF solists have
secured most OF the timber lands and
sre now building large mills 1t Is not
probable that In ten years any OF these
ven Iorests groups Will remain except
the caiaveras groves and perhaps one
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
A FABLE DlsPELLEp.
Esephantine Memory OF Faces IL In No Sense
Remarkable.


There is another fable OF our early
childhood which certain young man 10
able to dlspel with absolute authority,
having made long and careful series
OF observations This Is a fable about
elephants and their wonderful power OF
remembering faces and avenging in
iurieA The young man, who, even as a
youngster. was of reflective and ex-
perimental cast OF mind, began his ex-
periments at very tender age by dis
respectfully twisting the nose Of one OF
the elephants In Central park. Not the
whole of this proboscis, you know, the
youth was too small for an army con-
tract OF that kind. but just the extreme
tip Of the trunk, as II was held out to
him in friendly salutation.
Tho big mass OF meat roared and auiy-
cred with pain. II was evident that
wringing the end OF an elephants pro-
boscis was like wringing the nose OF a
man. Here was new sensation both
for the boy and the elephant, and one
that the former proposed TO follow up
as long as the latter was not at liberty
70 demonstrate. The next day he tried
1t again. Now here was chance for
the elephants memory 10 step in and
protect him from repetition of yester-
days indignities But IL didn't just
as before, the trusting animal put out
his proboscis in greeting, and Just
as before the bad boy gave 1t
twist that brought tears to
the eyes of tho enormous creature
why not elephant tears" as we'll
MS erooodlle's9--and made him howl
with pain Day after day this young
ster would go up to the park and prose-
cute his researches in the psyche ory of
the elephants mind and every day the
kindly creature assisted in his studies
by giving him his trunk to experiments
on.
Once during the month IL happened
that the elephant did break his cage and
get away. The inquiring youth stood
near Now, he was sure that the ele-
phant had begun to remember and thai
his own little special Judgment day had
come But the elephant rushed past as
AZ there were no such things in all the
world as inquisitive small BOYS. And
then for the first time the boy began to
doubt the eternal remem brauce of an
elephant But still he was not wholly
satisfied. 1t might be that there was
some mental popularity of this particu-
lar elephant the youth reasoned, and so
from time 10 time he went on twisting
elephants trunks whenever he got .
chance.
And as he has travelled much during
these years that he has been getting
older, he has probably had more chances
and twisted more elephants trunks.
both In Europe and America, than any
other living being Moreover, he has
set his friends TO experimenting upon
elephants. whenever it was possible,
and OF no fact in life Is he more certain
than that the beautiful story of the ele-
plants lasting memory is a clear and
unmitigated myth. Y. Evening Sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
One Way to Cure a Toothache.

Ever SO many "toothache cures"
have been suggested from the time
toothaches were first invented. All of
them have been probably more or less
successful in banishing the pain. Here
Is an unique 'cure," however, that we
have never before seen mentioned. 1t
Is offered by Dr. Lambert, of New
York, who says he has tested it with
good results:
He took silver half-dollar and cop-
per two-cent piece. He then placed the
copper piece on the outside skin over
the place where the tooth ached, and
the silver piece over and on the skin
just in front of the middle of the ear, so
that the silver just touched the front of
the middle of the ear, and held both
pieces with just pressure enough to
keep them in their position. In three
minutes the pain was gone and has
never returned. N Y. Voice.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
elra Anp POINT.

After spending m hour with pref
~ fool, how refreshing homeiy people
are. --Atchison Globe.
When the house dog barks at the
milkman in the morning 1t Is sure
sign of hydrophobla. Louisville Cou-
rier journal
Only one wolf has ever gone around
In sleeps skin, but many sheep mas
travelled for miles and miles in wolfs
skin.-Dallas News
The woman who carries pins In her
mouth is supposed to be closely related
to the man ''who didn't know 1t was
loaded Rams Horn
Good advice Is worth much more
than money, but Jones says that some
how he can not make his creditors see 1t
in that lght.-N. Y. Ledger.
fare you really become Socialist
WHIP" mo, indeed" But you told
Jack YOU had" "Oh we'll, was dead
broke then. Yankee Blade.
-s.How does your girl treat you,
John" asked the mother. "She doesn't
treat me at all, mother; I am obliged
TO treat neE eFoIy SiliO'
rier.
When a man thinks himself geni-
us he lets his hair grow long; when
woman thinks she has mission to fni-
| fill in life she cuts her hair short-N.
Y. Ledger.
"A man recently committed suicide
in England because he thought his wife
was too good for him. This will DO
queer reading to some Americans
Rams Horn
-"Why are yoa drinking that black
coffee?" Because have the headache. )"
1.-THE headache? Why don't you do as
those do who have the tooJhache? Why
don't you getit filled. "-Fliegende Blat-
| ter.
| Mrs Winks-"Wbatk kind of girl
have you now?" Mrs. Minks "A
very nice one-ever so much nicer than
the others. She doesn't seem to object
to having us live in the house with her
at all."-N. Y. Weekly.
| After the Dinner was Over-Nuli-
wed-"What an absurdity it was that a
bachelor should reply to the toast of
The Ladies' He can't know any thing
about emil" Enpeck-'Can't, ehl Why
do you suppose he is bachelor?'-Bos-
ton Times
Owner Cooking disconsolately down
the row of vacant houses) MOT one
gone yet, Marks?" Marks (the agent,
briskly).-"No. Something must be
done. I'll put sold in the windows Of
two more of them tomorrow morning. y
-Harper's Bazaar.
-Charles-"I don't see you very often
lately, George. Where do you spend
your evenings?" George-(clerk in bust
ness office) -"We've been balancing oul
books, and there was mistake of three
cents discovered on the balance sheet
and I've been trying for the past week
to discover where the mistake lies y
Blade.
An old gentleman who had at
tanned his one hundred and second
year was thus greeted by a friend
GOOD morning, Mr.. Shiles, how
J does man feel after he has en-
} tered his second century," "That ali
depends" my son, said the venerable
seer, that all depends upon how he
} spent his first one."
Miss Beauty-(at chu rch fairy
Don't you want some pen-wipers, Mr.
Bach?" Mr.. Bach-"Naw-at a dollar
apiece, l presumed" Miss Beauty
''Oh, no. The minister said we must
not charge more than we thought the
things were worth. These were made
by that horrid Miss Pert, and 1 think
they are worth ten for a cent"-N Y
Weekly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

Fweddie's wardrobe suffered severely in
the fire at the Southern hotel His friend
Cholly, meeting him on the street, observed:
GOOD gwacioas, Fweddiei Whateyah have
you done with youah good clothesi You
look like a twamp.H
"Deah boy, my clothes are ssoaked'n
"Deah mel Didn't know you were in such
straights, my boy. What did you get on
themP
"Watahi Ha-haF- Chicago Tribune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
One More Disannnintman.

Empioyer-William, you have now worked
for me three years Ne0
Eyes. sirn
And have always found you Industrious
painstaking and honest.n NV 49,
II have tried to be, sir.n
your fidelity" fl- via e
Thank you, sir.n
sor The next two months you will worl,
on the books until IL O'Clock every nic-b+
DO not fear to leave you in the Office alone at
al. l have great deal of confidence in
you-"-Lincoln Journal LII
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
A Death Blow to His Popularity.

First Western Politieian-Id don't want
to see the Colonel elected. How can
We contrive to spoil his chances? Could
we get up baby show and appoint him
Judge?
second Western Politician-Naw, that
dodge Is played out Let's get up a
baseball match between the lawyers
and business men of the city, and get
him to umpire thu game.-Munsey's
Weekly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

what are you stringin' the poor Teller
up ior?' asked Texan. as he came upon
slynching party. ~"
he lowed he'd sing Little Annie
Rooney an we couldn't stop him
''Sarves him rigbtr 7 t Hp nin.
4e'd only killed man or two."-Tbo
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17
Mhr He nidn.t wand n.

"Daaringer, have you half dollar that
yen don't wantF7
'why, certainly. Here it is"
The next day:
'iSay. Darringer, that half dollar you gave
me was counterfeit.i'
'Yes, Bromley. You asked me II had .
half dollar that didn't want. Lila
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

He's an awfully nice fellow and a
good friend of mine, but he has one
grlevous fault-he is always quoting
French and Latin and all the other
languages"
And doesn't know one suppose9"
That's just it; he does know them
and | don't "-Judre.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

The increase noted in leprosy in tbs
west Indies is attributed to the fac,
that lepers are permitted to walk 49,.
without restraint, to beg. and to miy
with healthy people. In the four wears
following 1873 twenty-five deaths from
ieprosy were registered there. wbils
thirty-four deaths occurred in the three
years preceding 1855. 9e
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Privileged Charartar.

Little Nell-Aunty took me to the
matinee to-day, and all the idiot asylum
inmates were there. The manager sent
'nem free tickets, and put them ali in
one part OF the theater, in a whole LOT =,
seats by themselves. ~ -o'o'
act? ~" oio tney
-. Little Nell-oh, just as If they had A,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

cyrus, l want you to go downtown
win me. l want to picl, nut a new
neckae for you" ''Have we time
ehougn before the shops close, Emily p,
replied the capitalist consulting his
watch Yes, if We hurry. It's onlv a
nttie after one o'clock" "All right m '
GEAR Go and get ready. I've eot ~
s0ep around the corner and buy rail.
road I'll be back in ten minutes "
Chicago Tribune. Ian u'ea' -
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fou have good word for everv.
Ivy aunty'" observed Miss ophelis
NOW suppose you could even con-.
mend the burglar who breaks into von,
mouse WELL" replied aunty. chs T.
= man OF enter prizes "-Intsr-ocean
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

"A young man in Ffndlay, O.,
whose sffanced died about year ago.
hss nov set all the gossips there talk.
Ing by sioping with the girls mother, q
woman almost fifty years old
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-17

Chinese pheasants were introduced
into the woods OF Oregon only eigh.
years ago, and there are now said to b
aesrly million Of them there
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"a monument to Arnold of Bresc,a &.
w VI &c erected re- In Rome, on the very spot
where ne was burned at the stake
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-10
DEATH OF GENERAL FISK.
The Prohibition Candidate for President In
1883 Very Suddenly Expires.

The Prohibition Candidate for President in
1SSS Very Suddenly Expires.
NEW YORK, July 9.-General Clinton B.
Fisk died at his residence No. 175 West Fifty
eighth street, this city, 1880 A. NJ. to-day. in
the 62d year of his age. The funeral services
will be held at the Madison Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church on Friday, the llrh inst, at
8 o'clock. The burial will be at his old home
Coldwater, Mich, on Saturday. July Il. Clin-
ton B. Fisk was born at York, Livingston
county, N. Y. in the year 1873, and was rep
resentative of the New Eng and Flsks; IRON
which have been bred men of renown. He was
a child when his father removed 10 Michigan.
In his youth he began course OF education
preparatory to the university, but was pre-
vented from completing it by bad health. He
then opened a store, and was successfully mer-
chant miller and banker before leaving Michi-
gan 20 make his residence in st. Louis. This
" as in 1853. The war was still young when Mr..
Fisk became Colonel of the Thirty-third Mis-
souri, Infantry in the forces of the Union.
Made Brigadier General in 1852, he was pro-
NOTED to Brevet Major General of Volunteers
in 1865. After the war he was Assistant CON-
missioner under General Howard in the man
agement of the Freedmen's Bureau in Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
He married Miss Jeanette G. Crippen, of
Coldwater Mich, and has three children, two
sons and a daughter Mrs. Fisk was among
the early Florence Nightingales in the War Of
the Union. Associated with Mrs Jessie Ben
ton Fremont, she was concerned, at st. LOUIS,
in the first society for the relief IF the soldiers
She was in the field with her husband two
wears in charge of hospitals. General Fisk
was one of the leading laymen in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, de was freSldent Oh the
Board of Trustees of Fisk University, for col
ored students, at Nashville, trustee of Dick
inson College, Pennsylvania, of Drew Theolog-
ical Seminary, and Pennington Seminary, New
Jersey, ana OF Albion College, Michigan. His
useful services to religious organizations include
the duties of trustee of the American Missionary
Association, and those of membership In the
Book Committee of the Mehodisi Eplscopai
Church His secular activities were princi-
pally in railroading and insurance interests
He was a friendly and genial man, OF portIy
presence. and excelled in public address,. he
was the Prohibition party's candidate for Pres-
idenr at the last national election.