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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-06-05

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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-06-05
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.

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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-06-05

George Smoot and Wife, of Collar,
Washington, are visiting on this side.
Farmers are about through re-seeding
for the crickets.
Geo. Moore's mother is visiting with
him this summer.
Orin Bentley left for the railroad
Monday to meet his brother-in-law.
just from Kansas.
Scarlet fever has about subsidized in
this neighborhood, for lack of recruits.
Buffers school is getting on very well.
Attendance rather slim as yet, owing to
the prevalence of scarlet fever and
crckets.
Jos. Gill and Roe Mclean have taken
their cattle up on Clearwater for sum-
mer range.
Jerry Smith has Browns sheep on the
divide between here and White Bird.
Elmer Remington has gone to Viola,
Washington, tr see his friend Dan.
Maj. Harris is seining some nice carp
from the lake these days.
We can go Surridge foot on his rye
ing the crickets have fed on it all the
year. Come again Tom.
Overman has a training track in his
field, and the other day he was rolling
his crickets with team of four bron-
cos when he started in to beat Curtis
time-three horses came through on
time but Cy and the other horse brought
up the rear
A minister of the M. E. church South,
from ll.ewiston, accompanied by Mr..
I Yandell, of Cottonwood, paid visit to
this neck of the woods last Monday.
Notice to Subscribers to the Episcopal Church
Building Fund.
The undersigned committee having
in charge the building of the Episcopal
church, beg to notify any and all per-
sons who subscribed to said building
I fund, that the church is nearly compile
ted. and that iu order to meet the obli-
cations they have contracted, they will
| in the next few days call upon subscribe
tions.
| The committee would respectfully
urge that everybody who has not yet
paid, would take steps to do so immedi-
ately. Subscribers coming to town can
pay the amount of their subscriptions
to A. f. Parker, treasurer.
(FRAFKLIN SHIssLER, Chairman.
| T. w. NICKEL.
IA. F. PARKER, Treasurer.
Grapgeville, May 81, 1891.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14

why she keeps her youthful bloom un- impaired, at the same time that sho preserves the interest that frequent appearance in public might impair.
 Lady Brooke has a most indulgent husband. Lord Brooke is member of Parliament of whom nobody ever hears He is complaisant individual. proud of his beautiful wife and Attorney cat tie and dearly loving fox hunt or . steeple-chase. He is about eight years older than his wife, to whom he owes his seat in parliament for Colchester.
 Lady Brooke first met the Prince of Wales in 1883, at dinner given by the Marquis of Carmarthen, in the town house of the Duke of Leeds. The Prince immediately began to show the most marked attention to Lady Brooke, It was also noticed that Lady Brooke treated the Prince with more than usual amiability. In the following summer the Prince of Wales was fre- quent visitor at Dunmore Lodge when Lord Brooke was known to be away from home.
 Lady Brooke paid visit to sAe con- tinent, with her husband, in 1888, and was introduced to the German Emperor and to the Austrian Kaiser, as well as the usual hock or prlncellngs. The young Prince Gonthier, of Schwarz- burg Rudoistadt, went half insane over her. He is a boyish fellow, with 8 lumpy sort of face. Lady Brooke seemed amused by his ardor and devo- tion. He followed her about Europe on hopeless chase, which ceased to be amusing when it set tongues to wagging about her ladyship.
 Whether Lady Brooke deserves to be called the most beautiful woman in Europe, is of course, matter of taste; that she is no lovelier than many Am erican women is certain. Lady Brooke's part in the baecarat scandal was the betrayal to Gordon-C Cumming, by a haunting remark, of her knowledge of the stain on his honor. 1t is supposed that the Prince of Wales gave her the information contrary to his pledge of secrecy.
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the members sit in lively session cor responds in shape. Above the table, dangling from a pulley, is trombone which is performed upon when pam pered menial is required to bring in some more of something. Skeletons, mostly of women, dangle here and there, and there are skulls each with its ghastly history, among them that of the only coiored man who ever com mitted suicide in Chicago. Nailed on the wall, half full of clotted blood is slipper of the Chinese merchant lately killed by highbinders in San Francisco. donation from the San Francesca police force, and there are the shackles worn by Martin Burke from Winncpeg, and lot of anarchists relies from the police force of this city. There are knives and pistols with which crimes have been committed. There are hideons Chinese masks and slung- shots, and sand bags, and any amount of such paraphcrnalia of red murder. The visitor is told tho story of each, and the very marrow in his bones changes it's composition.
 There is some dc bate among outsiders as to what the ceremony of initiation into the Whiteehapet club consists of. The obligation is said to be something extremely sulphurous, yet the actual exercises are said to be anything but tedious or complicated. One of the in- itiated was discovered later to have the imprint of n bloody hand upon his shirt front, but there is current U the ory
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THE MOVING ROCK.
Argentina's Wonderful Freak of Na.
 ture at Tandil.

When European tourists visit the United States they turn towards the Falls of Niagara as the greatest natural wonder of the land.
 Argentina, with its grassy plains and bare foothills presents few great works of nature to interest the stranger save at this quiet village in the southwestern portion of the province of Buenos Ayres, says Tandil correspondent. English travellers especially take a run down to Tandil from the capital to see the nov ing rock, a freak of nature which is quite unique and is as much of a sensa- ton for unfamiliar visitors as the great cataract of the Niagara River.
 Tandil is located l6O miles from Bue- nos Ayres. It is parochial town, named after famous Indian chieftain who waged incessant war with the Spanish colonists l came to Tandil over the Ferro Came del Sud and after a breakfast on pachero, the invariable native dish, mounted a Spanish horse and rode a league up the hills to the moving rock.
 The scenery along the path was picturesque. The river Tandileofie, flowing down from the Sierras and winding among the hills, irrigates the adjacent country and waters the nn- merous herds and hocks. The huts of the peasantry, shabby but quaint and attractive in their squalor. lay on the slopes, and the ragged children, with eager, gleaming black eyes, ran along the road begging for dinero.
 The rock is of granite formation and weighs according to the estimate of scientific authority, about 500 tons. It is poised on the sloping side of an enor- nous rock which is several hundred feet long and which rises high above the ground. The surface of the latter is smooth; in the vicinity there are signs of the passage of d glacier.
 The flu stration affords a good idea
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of the appearance of the moving rock The point on which it rests is about Is inches in diameter, and the stone was poised so exactly by the flood on the ice which left it in position that by pressure of the hand I was enabled to stir it with swaying motion amount ing to at least four inches. The wind was calm and insufficient to move the heavy mass, but when the blasts sweep dcwn the Sierras and impinge of the boulder it rolls to and fro.
 Notwithstanding the ease with which the rock is swayed, there is limit be- yond which it will not go by any power which has been applied. Gen. Rosas, during his dictatorship of Argentina, made a wager that he could pull the rock from its position by attaching 100 horses. The attempt failed and Rosas, becoming ineensed, swore he would overthrow the monster anyway. The number of horses was increased to 500 the rock, however went to the limit of it's motion and no further The supply of available horses being exhausted, Rosas was on the point of using gun powder to accomplish his purpose, when his attention was drawn elsewhere by political events, and the rock of Tandil remained unmolested.
 A terrible tragedy occurred beside the moving rock in 1873. A fanatic named Sala Dios collected nearly 150 deluded followers for the purpose, as he claimed of making an important revelation. Suddenly he commenced a massacre and killed forty-one persons before he was overpowered. He had hidden firearms in crevice of rock and shot women and children indiscrimi- nately.
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the private houses of the richer classes among the natives of India, has gener- ally been regarded by European visitors as n rather dull and tedious spectacle.
 Handsome young women, either per forming singly or in a company, heavi- ly attired in stiff and gorgeous robes, with as many jewels as they can procure, go through series of slow gestures which are supposed to be graceful, accompanied with music not 0. lively character, and their lan- guishing glances would not seem par ticularly seductive to men of West ern race.
 The esthetic sensibilities of Oriental nations are different from ours; vivac- ity in womanhood finds little favor with them: no gesture is charming that is not suggestive of submission, says an English writer. The nautch, as a mere exhibition, is perfectly decorous; but the ordinary professional female dan cers hired for the amusement of wealthy natives do not bear good reputation.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
LADY FRANCES EVELYN
SHE IS THE BELLE OF ALL
 EUROPE.
Hut Not So Falr fin Name-Attention from the Coming Ruler Of Eng- land-Hcr Narrow Escape from . Divorce Case.

Lady Frances Evelyn Brooke is said to be the handsomest woman in Europe. This alone would make her an object of interest. The fact that she is held responsible for the explosion of the Gordon-Cumming scandal makes her still more interesting. Lady Brooke missed being viscount by being born girl. She comes from family which had a most singular streak of luck for two generations in the abundance of female and lack of male offspring. Consequently, although there were plenty of children. the viscountry of Maynard became extinct in 1865. Had Lady Brooke's father lived five months longer he would have been viscount anyway, but he went to the grave in January, and the old viscount, his father, followed in May, borne down by weight of years and daughters. So that, according to the English rule, Lady Brooke was not even of noble birth But she amply made up for the extinction of the Maynard name by marrying Lord Brooke, son of the Earl of Warwick and descendant of the re- doubtable kingmaker.
 Lady Brooke is enjoying her twenty ninth summer. She does not look it. one preserves tHe peaches ana cream complexion, often met with among the pure British aristocracy, as fresh as ten years ago. Her eyes are grayish blue, her hair light brown, and her features just relieved from chilling regularity of outline by a gentle tilt of the nose, at once suggestive and saucy. Her lady ship is of medium height, and form that as yet shows no tendency to that nightmare of the British matron embonpoint. Everybody who meets Lady Brooke raves about her eyes. They would re- deem homely face. With features that can be called beautiful they are irresistible. No one understands dress better than Lady Brooke, She is never overdressed Perhaps she errs little too much in the other direction. But there is the excuse in her case that neck, shoulders and face, she can stand both the glare of the ballroom, and the light of noon, without danger of damage to her at fractions. She does not go out too much. And perhaps this is one reason
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LADY CLANCARrY.

less, knowing her to be his sons wife, in order that she might be forced back into evil ways. That was the case for her; and, after winning it, she proved that she had a right to win it, by work ing for the poor little brainless wis., count, whom she had taken to be her husband. It is true that, being now a notoriety, she received an enormous salary. and went down to her theater in a carriage. But she was conscien- tious and hard-working still; she went through the drudgery of provincial tours; she did what she was best fitted to do as well as she knew how; and by her exertions she maintained her husband in comparative aflluencc.
 The female members of the late Lord Clancarty's family. who were mere dullards and droncs, would have noth- ing to do with her. But the contrast between their idleness and the industry of Belle Bilton made 3 deep impression on the minds of Englishmen, and there Ia . general feeling that as Countess of Clancarty Belle Hilton will :sprove far moro worthy of esteem than many who wear . coronet by hereditary right.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
TAUGHT BY AN INSECT.
How the Great Thames Tunnel Was
 Suggested to Mark Brunei.

It has been said that the operations of the spider suggested the arts of spin ming and weaving to man. That may be doubtful, but it is quite certain that to hint from an insect was due the invention of u machine instrument al in accomplishing one of the most stupendous works of modern times-the excavation ofthe Thames tunnel.
 Mark Isambard Brunei, the great engineer, was standing one day about three-quarters of century ago in a shipyard watching the movements of an animal known as the terredo navales-- in English the naval wood worm when brilliant thought suddenly occurred to him. He saw that this creature bored its way into the piece of wood upon which 1t was operating by means of very extraordinary mechanical ap- paratus. Looking at the animal atten- lively through microscope he found that it was covered in front with pair of valvular shells; that, with its foot as a purchase. it communicated a rotary motion and a forward impulse to the valves, which. ac ting upon the wood like a gimlet. penetrated it's substance, and that, as the particles of wood were loosened they passed through a iissure in the foot and thence through the body of the borer to it's mouth, where they were expelled.
 Here" said Brunei to himself, lis the sort of thing l want. Can l repro duce it in an artificial form?' He forth with set to work and the final result of his labors, after many failures, was the famous boring shield, with which the Thames tunnel was excavated.
 This story was told by Brunei him. self. and there is no reason to dou bt it's truth. The keen observer can draw useful lessons from the humblest of the works of God.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
THE COUNTESS OF CLANcARrY
The Beauty. Industry and Depravity
 of the Ncwly.Risen Peeress.

Lord Clancarty has announced that he would not introduce hls wife into the house of lords until she had con- cluded her theatrical engagements, but he would then insist upon placing her portrait in the gallery of peeresses.
 Most American newspapers have been disposed to regard with levity the ele- vation of Miss Bilton as Countess of Clancarty. One of them goes so far as to suggest that when presented to the queen she shall sing one of her music hall ballads, and, in the language of the street, shall wink the other eye" :"
 Now this is all wrong. When Belle Bilton was unmarried her conduct was such as might have been expected from any other daughter of the gutter. For woman as pretty as she, exposed to temptations of which most women know nothing, she made fairly hon est showing. She had worked on the stage since childhood, and, whatever allurements she might have to leave it, she stuck to the stage and its pittance with tenaoity.
 The late Earl of Clancarty went to the witness stand and swore that he left her penni-
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THE EMPTY CRADLE.
The Woman Sat Rocking 1t and the
 BAby Was Safe.

The Woman Sat Rocking 1t and the
 BAby Was safe.
 It was a woman's voice grooming sweetly the old lullaby:
 "Hush-my- dear lie- still and -slumber, And as she sung she rocked an empty cradle with her foot keeping time with it's melancholy refrain. From the nestling of the blankets it looked as if the baby had only just been lifted out.
 A man passing heard the singing and retraced his steps so that he could look through the open door into the little plainly furnished room.
 ..Excuse me. ma'am,," he said re- soectfully. but I noticed that you were rocking an empty cradle reckon you never heard of the super stition"--.
 ..I am not superstitious," said tho woman:
 Holy angels guard.thy- bed"
 Excuse me. ma am but folks told my wife that if she didn't stop rocking the cradle when tho baby wasn't in it something would happen-an' it did. The baby died when he was a year old"
 My baby won't die" answered the mother. '.he's been an angel these three months. an when l feel so bad that can't live another minute come in here and make believe he's asleep. It does me good an mebbe God lets him know, and 1t comforts him. Is that superstition?"
 No. ma'am. I reckon not, Ian l hope you'll excuse me"
 The man walked on bearing his own burden of sorrow with him, and the desolate mother rocked the empty cradle and resumed her plaintivs monody:
 .'Heavenly- blessings s-without-number
 Gently tiy-fall-upon-thy-head.n
 Detroit Free Press.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
THE WHITECHAPEL CLUB
CHICAGO HAS A CREWSOME
 ORGANIZATION.
Jack the Ripper the Perm anent President, Hut or Course He Never
 Prcsidcs-The Unique Institution
 the Product of Newspaper Talent.

Such is the somewhat grewsome name of an organization which has lately come into prominence in Chicago. Who outside of Chicago would be guilty of originating such a name for a social clubf
 The Whiteehapel club is not rival of the Calumet, nor is it Browning club, though it is both social and liter ary. Its quarters are in rooms on the south side of the alley between Fifth avenue and La Salle, and it's butler has not yet been put in evening dress. It is unpretentious, so far as exterior is concerned. but its interior is different
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LEAVES THE MINISTRY.
Father McMahon, of New York, to Make His Home as Washington
 unfyerufty

Rev. James McMahon, pastor of St Andrews Catholic church in New York, who last April gave real estate worth half u million to the Catholic university in Washington, sent
 his library to that institution recently. Father McMahon, who is over seventy is considered one of the most learned priests in this country. His library is made up of books which he had been collecting for almost half century. It consists of 5000 volumes, and is worth about 5000 Many of the books in 1t are rare. One volume, Jaffe's "Synop- sis of the Transaction of the Popes," is said to be the only copy of the work in this country. In theological and
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
THE MOUSE SAVED HER.
It Was Only Bogus One, but
 Served Her Purpose,

Ae Was Only Wogus Ones but 10
 Served Her Purpose.
 A young society man who moves in the younger circles told story out of the usual run the other day. He is . handsome fellow, tall and erect, and . prime favorlte among the girls. He said that he attempted to kiss pretty girl and just as he got his arm around her slender waist and was about to kiss her, she said if he dared she would scream.
 Not wishing to have a scene, which such an action would cause, he with drew his arm and resumed his seat at the other end of the sofa. In m in- stant the pretty girl said, .Oh, thought you were braver than that" She, however, obstinately refused to let him kiss her, but she likewise threatened to scream if he should at- tempt it. He thought he would profit by his former experience and paid no attention to the warning.
 He kissed her; she screamed; her mother came in and demanded an ex- planation. Tho girl came to his reAcue, however. and said mouse was in tho room and she had screamed as it E61 across the floor. Furtherrhore by nAy- ing that the young man h6d gnllantly tried to catch the mouse ahc explained the blushes to the mothers satisfnction.
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Pats Idea or ls.
(Suggestei

Suggested by colored cartoon in Judge
 March IL lSei.) "A funny world is this" said Pat As on the curbstone fiat he sat,
 Eating his bread and meat Time was the dirt had to light From early morn till late at night
 To keep the pavement neat "But now it Is take me ease, Hold me broom upon me knees
 And eye the gay colleen With skirts so Ane 70 trailing by; laugh until aimost die,
 The walks arS all co clean. And pavement-sweepers everywhere Should thank, think, the colleens fais
 For taking s6 the dirt And Madam Easbion too. that same-- WS'll send her word fthe good old dameA
 Long live tho dragging -skirt"
 --CLAkA J. DBxTON
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14

It has an individuality as marked as that of the moon or the akoond of Swat.
 The Whitechapel club was organized by certain young newspaper men whose sense of humor. sense of the horrible. of good fellowship, of the grotesque and the ara besque. and of a variety of other things chanced to be well developed, and who had good deal of enterprise. They rented the rooms. held meeting, and organized club. In honor of the individual who has made White chapel famous, Jack the Ripper was elected president of the organization but, as he has been, so far, absent from all meetings and the club has not his definite address, the vice-president per forms the active functions of manage ment. Under the constitution two members of any profession may belong to the club-two bank presidents, two burglars. two preachers, two actors. etc. And the ranks have been much increased by additions to membership under this rule
 It is in interior decoration, as already said. that the club comes out strong, and by this allusion is not made to con- vivial habits exclusively. There are several well-known artists among the members, and they have contributed sketches which are, to use the vernac- ular, simply paralyzers. There are one or two portraits, drawn carefully from imagination, of the absent but honored president, and there are other sketches as striking. The police forces of this and other cities have been called upon and have contributed to the mural adornments. Even the fire de partment has become interested. and as for the members themselves they have become collectors with a mission.
 The banquet-room of the club is l. shaped and the long table round which
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The Theatrephone Company is the name of . company in Paris that fur nishes to it's subscribers telephones by means of which they can listen to the performances in the theatres. There are over thirty clubs, hotels and cafes connected with the system of the com pa1y.
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COLUMB BUS IN MARBLE.
New York to Have . Magnificent
 Statue of the Goo grapher.

New York is to have magnificent statue of Christopher Columbus.
 It is to be presented to the city through Il Progrcsso Italo-Americano. the Italian newspaper, and is to be the gift of the Italian citizens of the United States to the greatest city of the New World that Columbus discovered
 1t will be placed at Bowling Green and will be the most imposing piece of statuary in the city. 1t is now in course of ex- ecution at the studio of Gaetano Russo of Rome, under the supervision of Sen ator Monteverde and Profs. Ferrari Calderini, Sacconi, and other noted artists selected by the Italian govern ment.