Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-06
or GENERAL INTEREST.


There is ice in the Stevens mine Oh
Mount Mcclellan, Cal. computed to be
eighty thousand years old.
"A mathematician has calculated
that the dead are in the minority, after
all, such is the rapid growth of human
population
The Quakers, who are believed tc
have numbered 100, 600 about two cen.
turtles ago, now have scarcely Is, 00t
members in tn country.
"A company of gentlemen in New
York the other day had the pleasure OF
listening TO n speech, through a phone
graph, from Mr., Gladstone himself
"A law has been passed by the Ohio
Legislature authorizing township trus.
tees to deduct So from the road tax OF
any property owner who erects on mis-
own land and supplies properly u public
watering trough.
In 1870 master mason of Provi-
dence. X. l.. stamped his initials on
copper cent and put it in circulation. In
taking some chanye the other day he
found his coin After fifty years o!
wandering It had returned, and he would
not take hundreds of dollars for t,
tone OF the periodic dirges of the
denudiae" Ia the expressive phrase which
the Mississippi Valley Lum herman ap.
plies to a pred ction made by somebody,
for the hnndredth time. that in twenty
I've years the whole country win hare
been denuded Of its fores Is, and tim be.
will be thing OF the past
The natives Of Hayti, according &c
DIR. Il z. Crandall, fear pulmonary con
sumption more than yellow fever on
smallpox, aud believe IL 90 be both con
iagions and infections All property
from consumpdye's death-chamber--
even jewels and moneys destroyed or
removed to a place OF deposit, md small
houses are burned.
Recent investigation has shown that
the people Of Great Britain swallow
over 800 900 pills daily, or one pill q
week for every person ia the popula
ton The pill consumption for one +
year wou' a weigh us tons. and would
I'LL so freight cars, which It would take .
two powerful locomotives to pult I
Placed in a row the lis would reach .
nearly 300 miles, or from Liver .,ool to /
New York and back again.
A singular case of mind blindness" +
recently occurred. thu stuject being a
man OF eighty who had complained for /
a month Of inability 10 find his way
about 10 tell his own position Ia n room 7
and to recognize objects, although his .
perception Of light was scarcely ina /
paired Although he Honld not rocog-
nize objects by LODGING at them, he at (
ones perceived and named them by
means Of tactiic or auditory i'm prcssions
from them.
"A Boston man has a friend who
wrote him that be had forwarded bar
rel OF spruce gum TO his address as a
gift This generosity completely over
powered the Boston man. lie knew he
could never dispose Of barrel of spruce
gum unatded In his whole lifetime; 40
he FASTENED 70 search out some dealer
b. whom, after hard days work, he
sold a quarter Of the gift The next
morning the postman brought the bar
rel Of spruce gum. and It was about two
inches tall,
kcliar. the magician saw a trick at
Calcutta which, hc eonfesses, haffled
him. He was In long vacant room
with four friends, and they were allowed
to examine 1t thoroughly There we're
four fakirs present The party took
seats on a bench midway OF the room.
The fakirs lighted censor, from which
exuded sick y, sweotlsh smoke, filling
the entire room Tho fakirs then bs-
gan a wild, whlrling dance, all tho
while chanting and beating tom toms
when suddenly the dancers appeared Va
increase in number until fuu Dozen
were dancing and whirliag about
These then decreased until but one
dancer remained ma old mau with flow
Ing beard. What became OF the other
dancers Kellar could not tell though
no tried by another search OF the room
10 discover the secret