Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-14
8 OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A Hope (Me.) physician has lived
for eighty years on a strict bread-and-
milk diet, never having occasion to try
his own prescriptions.
A farmer Of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County, Cal, pulled a beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and fifty-sour pounds. 1t was seven
feet long.
About A. ID. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves, and two hundred
years after they were multiplied by
printing. The Chinese furnish books to
each other for next to nothing.
1t is well-known that whales can
remain long time under water, but
exact data as to the time have been
rather lacking. In his northern trav-
els DIR. Kuckenthal, OF Jena, recently
observed that a harpooned white whale
continued under water forty-hve min
utes
Recent observations OF the waters
OF Great Salt lake prove conclusiyely
that the statements made that no form
Of animal or plant life exists In the lake
are erroneous. No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence OF vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered fact
from the abundance OF animal exist
ences
The testimony OF medical experts
has lately been discredited in England
by reason of the diametrical views taken
by distinguished physicians and sur
geons when testifying in murder trials.
1t Is said that zone point only Is de-
termined by this evidence, and that Is
that the physicians have no clearly de-
fined and fixed scientific basis on which
to found their opinions"
I'm Bowling Green, KY, there is a
very sagacious dog. The other morning
. horse was left standing hitched to q
buggy, aud while its owner was In an
adjacent place Of business the animal
took fright and ran away. He was go
ing at breakneck speed, when the dog
saw him, jumped the fence, headed the
horse, grabbed the line in his mouth
and held him fast until the owner o.
the beast came up and relieved him.
1T is little singular, with all oul
mutual benefit societies, that mutua
dowry society was never established
Imagine the effect upon the matrimonial
market OF q thousand young women de
voting ten cents a week, fixed per
centage to be given to those who ART
married within the year. The apxiou
and aimless could not then become
drug in the market, Something OF TIL
kind Is In vogue in Europe, whore it l
stimulated that a beneficiary must hav
been a member OF the society for fiv
years before reaping dot.
I'm Algeria every girl born OF nativ
parents Is tattooed on her fore
head between the eyebrows an
,ust at the root OF the nose with
cross formed OF several straight line
OF small stars running close Il
gether These tattoo marks are dar
blue color. Algerian women are ais
considerably tattooed on the backs
their hands, their forearms and chest
as we'll as on their shoulders, the
wrists being especially adorned vii
drawings representing bracelets al
flowers strung together. AS a rul
women are the operators and 1t is pri
cipally on children between the ages
seven and eight that they have to Q
ercise their art. They use sometimes
needle, but moro frequently Barbal
hg-tree thorn. They employ kohl as
ooloring substance IL is kind OF III
powder made from sulphur of antimon
which is also in great request by Il
Algerian women for the purpose OF fac
natutinU