Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The poorer classes of Berlin eat
seventy horses u day Meanwhile
Bismarck is keeping American beef
out of the country.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to manufacture and deliver soup
in bottles, regularly or to order, from
house to house. as is done with milk.
Stanley's report has given public
men who abhor the interviewer a
"tip" as to where they can secure
absolute conclusion.
IT seems that Hon. G. III. Peldie-
ton succumbed to a stroke OF apop-
lexy. His two daughters were ores
ent when he died.
The largest body of fresh water on
the globe is Lake Superior. 1t is
400 miles long, 100 miles wide at it's
greatest breadth, and has an area of
$4,000 square miles.
The Egyptian obelisk in Central
Park, New York, is rapidly going to
decay, Notwithstanding the efforts
made to preserve it. The climate is
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
smokeless powder for smaller guns.
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A SAND pump near Boise City,
Idaho, recently brought up a flint
idol from a depth of 800 feet. 1t is
claimed to be the oldest mark of
human life on record by Professor
Wright, of Oberlin College, Ohio.
IT seems odds that any man, what
ever his faith, election, or calling
should speak of our public-school
system as zone of the great evils
threatening the destruction of the
republic"
SOME one suggests that New
Mexico be called New Grenada. As
the abreviation of this name would
be IN. g." it is not likely that the
New Mexicans will tall in with the
suggestion.
The young ladies of the normal
school of Ada, Ohio, were so shocked
by the appearance of n statue OF
Apollo that they had it dressed in
velvet knee-breeches by the town
tailor.
JUST what a full-grown black bear
can do in the way of hugging was
demonstrated in Maine short time
ago, when bruin seized q barrel of
beef, gave it a squeeze and crushed
it in pieces. 1t was estimated to be a
squeeze OF two-horse power.
A LINE drawn from the center ofthe
heel to the center of the great toe is
called the Meyers line" 1t shows
that the range of the feet is scarcely
ever the same in two individuals,
and, therefore, to expect n fit from
uniform lasts is to expect the i'm
possible.
A HANNIBAL, Mo, man picked up u
s. bill which belonged to a poor wild
owand kept it. This is straightfor-
ward, to say the least. Some men
take money from poor widows by the
roundabout chattel mortgage meth
cd and charge exorbitant interest
beside.
QUITE a complication of relation
ship results from q recent wedding
in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
The Stepmother OF the bride is the
sister of the groom, so his sister be-
comes his mother-in-law and his
brother-in-law his father-in-law and
his wife his niece. The bride married
her uncle and her stepmother became
her sister-in-law.
MOUNT ARAFAT has this autumn,
for the first time, been assembled by a
young girl. A forester, accompanied
by his daughter, only seventeen, and
his son, a boy offourteen, undertook
the ascent in the company of three
kurds. The boy was obliged to stop
at the height of IA, 900 feet, and the
father gave out at 1850 feet. The
girl and the three kurds reached the
top, 16,917 feet, but the girl was
overcome by cold and had to be as
sisted back by the kurds.
THE number of species of animals
whose track have been found in the
Trias of New England and New Jer-
sey by Dr. Edward Hitchcock and
Prof. C.. H. Hitchcock is now 165