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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
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Forty Dollars TO Pueblo and return
to those wishing to attend the open
ing Of the Colorado Mineral Palace at
Pueblo, July 4th, the Union Pacific
will sell tickets at one fare for round
trip on July LIST and 2d Tickets are
good TO return until aud including
July goth.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
APPLICATION TO CUT TIMBER
From The Public Domain.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that tho under.
AN signed will apply to the Honorable Secre.
tary OF tho Interior for permission to cut, for
the honetit of settlers IN the vicinity. timber
growing on lands along Wolverine Crock. a
small tributary of nlaoKtoot river, said lands
being unsurvcyed and situated cast OF town
ship 2 south, range 81 east Boise meridian.
n, A. JUST.
Presto. Idaho, June 18th, 1891.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
DaaiISOn' 5 Bargains!
Note the Prices /:

Children's shoes from 75 cents
to 1850 per pair.
Ladies' shoes from $l.50 to
$500 per pair
Children's plush caps 40 cents.
BOYS skull caps 80 cents.
Gents half hose from 10 to 65
cents.
Children's long hose, 3 pans
for 25 cents and upward
Gents shirts Is cents, sl.00
sl25, 5000, s25O and $500.
SIX shirts s4.O0 each. Gents
gloves Of all grades and prices.
Special bargains in embroid.
cries. from 2 10 IL cents per yard.
And many other valuable bar.
gains. Call early and get first
choice
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
BARGAINSI =" !: BARGAINS | |!

l6 yards of Calico 81. II yds. new ChaIlies 81,
rs pieces of Embroidery at cost
Gents Congress Shoes for only $3.50.
Ladies screwfastened grain shoes for only $l.5O.
Childrens seamless back screwfastened grain shoe
sizes 8 to II for only $l.25.
Gents good cheviot shirts for only IS cents
Gents good colored seamless hose, pair for 25c
Finest line of gents Neckwear 25c to $l.00.
Before purchasing give us a call
c. BUNTING & COMPANY.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
ChIIdren's Day at the Baptist Church

Will be appropriately observed next
Sabbath evening by a programme of
Sunshine and Song. The music for
the occasion will be in charge of the
Glee Club. The recitations by the
school will be
Our Ovation. ...... Arthur Smith.
Sunshine and Shower. Lizzie Watson.
Something Great. Mrs. oh. Biethan.
Some Wonderful Children's Days
............T Three Little Girls.
New and Sweet. -. Willis Reeves.
How to BE an Angel. Caddie Forbes,
Gods Message in the Flowers.
....... Ida Ssgers.
The Song Of the Lilies. Esther Behle
Nell and Joe. ... Rose Benjamin
The Chlld's Message. Mabel Herman
The Church Spider Pearl Sagers
Give e............. Alice Schuyler
This service is given in the interest
of the Baptist Sunday School work Of
the United States.
Sermon TO the children in the morn
ing. A cordial invitation to all tC
attend both services.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
Sleep and Beauty.

Patti and Lucca, and all the great singers and actresses and famous beau. ties who,, like Mime. Recamier. were wondrously beautiful at an age when ordinary women retire from the festive scenes of the beau monde, understood the value of this great restorer, and owed their wcll-preserved beauty to sleep. An unusually handsome St. Louis woman, who has at the age of al. most fifty years the fine, well-rounded figure and elastic stepand carriage of a girl, the delicate, rose-hued skin and the brilliancy of youth in her eyes, says that she has made it rule to retire at nine o'clock, exec )t on very rare occa. siOns, and then she takes nap in the afternoon to prevent the i'll effects of the late hours which are to follow. Our American women of all classes need more than any other people in the world the rest and refreshment which only sleep can give to overwrought nerves and overworked systems, for no- where else do the women live under e much physical and mental strain.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
Cost of an Ocean Steamer.

More than 300 different industries enter into the building of every ocean steamship. To build 2,5OO-ton steam. ship requires 600 men in direct and con- stant employment, averaging $500 DOT man. The sum of S3O,O0O is thus dis t:ibuted to the trades. To run such a vessel costs about $50, 1000 outside of the salary list, which is over $4O,OOO From the steward of an English steamer I learned that the supplies for such a vessel in trip across the ocean and re- turn are about as follows: Twelve thousand five hundred pounds of fresh beef, 5,320 pounds of fresh mutton, $50 pounds of veal, $50 pounds of pork, 2,OOO pounds of fresh fish, 100 ducks, 50 geese, 80 turkeys, l5 tons of potatoes, 80 ham, pers of vegetables, 220 pints of ice-cream, 1000 quarts of milk, 11,60o eggs, canned goods, coal and ineidentals.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
HAZARDOUS DIGNITY.

Perils Incident to the Position Of Chiei
 of Police of 8 Large City.
 In discussing the perils incident to the position of chief of police of large city Chief Deitsch, of Cincinnati, said to an Atlanta Constitution reporter:
 ''I had narrow escape once, and I'll never forget the time was nearly mur- dered. It was just twenty-two years ago, when I was lieutenant at Ham. mond street police station. A man named Wolf Cohen kept clothing store in the bottoms. He had done something against the law and had to call his attention to it. He imagined l die him wrong and was very sore. Two or three evenings after that was sitting in tho station-house. It was in the fall of the year and was just getting cold There was a light fire in the big stove and Jim White, who was my sergeant, several officers and myself were toasting our toes around the stove. The door was just ajar, and while we were sitting there talking the door sud- denly flew open, and who stood in the doorway but Wolf Cohen. He was pale and excited, and I'll never forget the look on the mans face. There was murder in his cyo, and he shook like a leaf. He stood there second, and then said: Lieutenant Deitsch, you did me a wrong, and I'm going to kill you. Without another word he pulled a big revolver and fired. The bullet missed mo, and all the boys jumped to their feet. made for him and he fired again, but the bullet again flew wide of it's mark. I then seized him and began to wrestle. He was after my life, and I was trying to save it. While VIC were fighting for possession of the weapon he fired again and the bullet passed through my jack ct, just missing my stomach. I finally disarmed him, and he was locked up. never had such narrow escape, and I'll never forget it. If he had been a better shot, or had not bcen so nervous, he would have killed me sure; but I'll never forget the incident as long as l live"
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
BATHING AT TROUVlLLE.
Beautiful and Eccentric Costumes Seen at
 the French Resort.

Beautiful and Eccentric Costumes Seen at the French Resort.
 To give an idea of the care that is be- slowed upon a bathing dress at Trou- vile, let me describe one among many that I saw, writes Julian Ralph in Harper's Weekly. The wearer came out of her bathing machine wrapped in a cloak of Turkey red silk. Her hat was of white straw, with Turkey red ribbons and flowers. Her sandals were white, laced with red tapes that crossed above her ankles, and were there tied in 8 bow. The silk cloak shone in the sun. It did not even partially reveal her fig ure; in fact, the women in these cloaks looked at distance like Bedouins. As this lady's feet touched the water she raised her arms and spread them, and the gossamer cloak fell into the hands of the bathing attendant Then she stood revealed to the concourse of On- lockers clad as for a spectacle on the stage. She wore loose blouse of Tur- key red flannel, short tight red breech- es and red stockings. Her blouse was opened in front by two great lapels, be- tween which was white shirt with red stripes across it. Behind, it had great broad sailor collar, white and banded with red.
 The extravaganza and eccentricities of the costumes on that beach were won derful, and altogether they helped to form as brilliant and gay scene as one could well imagine. Some of the cloaks were striped, some were green, some yellow. Sometimes the suits worn be- meath them matched the cloaks, yet often they did not. But while the skirts were often short, the arms were often sleeveless, and l even saw two or three shirts that were somewhat dec0l- lete; there were no costumes worn in the water that justified the pictures con- monly seen in the Parisian illustrated papers. I doubt whether many of tho costumes at Trouville would startle the : bathers at Narragansett pier, except that they were much more costly and artistic than the bath robes worn at the pier.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
FUNNY MISTAKES e5f CHILDREN.

"What pretty flower you have, dear" "Yes'um, it's mongolian."
 A LITTLE girl at supper one night cre- ated a ripple of merrjment by asking for the catnip.
 LAURA (aged five, wiping drops of precipitation off her forehead)-"What makes my face cry sof"
 ToTTIE Gin church) )--"Is that the new minister, mamma?" Mamma-"Yes, dear" Tottie-'Why, he isn't any newer than grandpa, and l guess he's about sixty. Why do they call him new?"
 "WHERE's papa, Tohnny?" "He's up- stairs asleep" "Were you upstairs, dear?" 'No, ma'am." "Then how do you know he's asleep2" "I heard him doing it. He's sleeping out loud."
 "MAMMA, you haven't given me any dimes and nickels," complained Jimmy Shattuck, after the physician had gone. "What do you mean, Jimmy" asked Mrs. Shattuck, in surprise. "Why, the doctor said needed little change"
 "MAMMA, what's twins?' asked the smallest child. "I know" replied an older one, before the mother could an- swer. ''Twins is two babies just the same age; three babies arc triplets, four are quadrupeds and five are centipedes."
 PUPILS who learn "by ear," without thought as to the meaning of things, contrive to afford good deal of amuse- ment to their teachers. Recently teacher in grammar-school asked one of her boys: What is the meaning of 'topaz?' "A topaz, said the boy, ''is where the mules walk when they're drawing canal boat"
 A LITTLE girl had been to church and on her way home she was very thought full. The last hymn had been "Even Me, Even Me-" Finally she asked her mother, who was holding her hand; Mamma, did Adam write that hymn?" "Why, no, my 'child; why do you ask that?" "Because it says: Eve and me-"
 TEDDY is little city boy who paid a long visit to his grandpa's farm. He stayed until harvest time and was, of course, very much interested in every thing he saw. One day grandpa was husking corn. Teddy wanted to help, but he wasn't quite sure how to ask about it. Pretty soon, however, he burst forth. eagerly: "Grampa, may may help you undress that corn2"
 A CLASS was reciting lesson in an- cient history, Says schooltcacher and one of the pupils was upon the topic of Olympian games. "A G'eat many peo- pie went to see them,' she said, "be- cause it was put in tho paper when they were coming off," 1.-The papcr!' ex- claimed the teacher, ''did they have newspapers in those days?" "Why, yes!" was the replyi ''it says so in the book, anyway; 1t says the Herald pro- claimed thomn
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
INGENIOUS APPLIANCE.
1t Keeps Tab on Messengers and Performs Other Useful Duties.

Other Useful Duties.
 There has lately been put in success full operation on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange model electric recorder, the function of which is to re- cord the time and arrival of messengers. It's province of automatically recording the time of day is but one feature of it's adaptation to other and wider uses, such as recording the day of the month and year, which records are very desirable and frequently indispensable in trans actions of the stock exchange, fire and police signals, the delivery and recep- tion of telegraph and cable messages, the recording of legal documents, and generally it is valuable addition to the office equipment. The apparatus in question is simply stamp, the various characters of which are mounted as type- wheels at the end of swinging arm. There is an armature with an electro magnet placed at the other end of the arm to which these wheels arc con- nectcd. The electro-magnet is actu- ated by electric impulses controlled by the clock, which is arranged to close the circuit for a fraction of a second at the beginning of each minute, the result being that the type wheels are correspondingly revolved to accord with the indications of the clock. Two cells of an open circuit battery supply the energy. This apparatus has been designed in another and more useful form, in which the type wheels are re- volved and the recording as we'll are effected electrically. There is wide slot which allows the insertion of large sheet. The instrument is connected with the clock in the same manner as the one first described. By pressing the button in front of the case the time is stamped, thus energizing the electro magnet, the movable arm of which gives the desired impression. This model has been so modified as to permit the stamping of time on a continuous paper tape, such as is employed in the recep- tion of cable or automatic telegraph messages. As the clock is entirely in- dependent, any number of stamps can receive their time impulses from a single clock. This is especially applicable to the issuance and reception of railroad orders, where the entire section of the road can be controlled by single time wire. One of these instruments is now in use in the office of one of the Atlantic cable companies.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
A GOLDEN CHANCE,
How Western Highwayman Was Cheat
 ed Out of His Meat.

uOW VoHteru Wao Cn60t-
 ed Out Of His Meat.
 We had got through to Silver City by stage without adventure, writes New York Sun correspondent, and perhaps lhad more reason than any other pas senger to felicitate myself on the fact, as was carrying SS,000 in greenbacks for friend who was going into busi- ness. The day after arr lying strange man came to the office and asked if he could have few minutes private con versation. He looked like prospector or silver finder, and took him into the inner office, where he quietly sat down and began:
 "I am no hand to beat around the bush, but believe in coming straight to the point"
 "Well?"
 Well, you brought ss,OO0 with you yesterday"
 Suppose did?"
 ''I knew you were coming, and for three days was posted to intercept you. intended to hold up your stage and take every thing"
 "Why didn't you do it?"
 That's what I'm coming to- My in- fernal burro stumbled with me at bad place and pitched me off, and for whole day hardly moved a rod. I'm so sore and lame now that can scarcely get about"
 "Well?"
 ''The kernel of this thing is just here. You were my meat, fair and square. Them SS,000 was as good as in my own pocket. Owing to circumstances beyond my control you pulled through. It was stroke of luck. lost my animal and both my revolvers, and am hurt besides. Are you honorable enough to give me a per cent. on that money to go into busi- ness again?"
 He wanted per cent, but I finally got of with $50, and he bought revol- yer and some blankets with it and went off and stopped stage and was shot through the head.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
SALIENT SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

AN Englishman proposes laying deep. sea electric cables by means of subma. rine boats.
 IT is estimated that one horsepower of electric energy will furnish ample heat for a street-car, without smoke or dust, or reduction of seating capacity.
 CHARTS have been prepared showing that the eye has seven hundred and twenty-nine distinct expressions, con veying as many different shades of meaning.
 IN every teaspoonful of human blood there are about 15,00O, 100000 red cor puscles, but only SO,OOO, ,0O0 white ones. The blood of clans, Holsters and nearly all other invertebrates, contains no red cells, but only the white. |
 THE Academic des Sciences has sub mitted new system of musical notation in which twenty-seven characters re- place the two hundred and three sym bols now employed to represent the seven notes of the gamut in the seven keys.
 A RECENT novelty is the production of paint from potatoes in France. A kilo of peeled potatoes are boiled in water, mashed, diluted with water, and passed through a fine sieve; on adding two kilos of Spanish white with four kilos of water the result is color of beautiful white. Different colors may be pro- duced by adding the various ochres or minerals. .f..,t THK use of electric light in. sub marine exploration, by divers and others, has been successfully estab- lished. A novel proposal is the use of an electro-magnet for indicating the exact site of submerged torpedoes, lost anchors or other iron masses. The magnet is lowered into the sea, within few feet of the bottom, by line and a delicate strain dynamometer. It is excited by a battery. and allowed to drift with the boat over the suspected place, when the sunken iron attracts the magnet, and the dynamometer re- veals the fact by tn increased strain.
 TASTE is not equally distributed over the surface of the tongue. There are three distinct regions or tracts, each of which has to perform its own special office or function. The tip of the tongue is concerned mainly with pungent and acid tastes; the middle portion is sensi- tive chiefly to sweets or bitters, while the back or lower portion confines itself entirely to the flavors of rich, fatty substances. This subdivision of faculties in the tongue makes each piece of food undergo three separate examinations, which must be excessively passed be- fore it is admitted into full participa- tion in the human economy.
 THE steno-telegraphy, with which people are now xperimentingi in France, is creating much excitement among news gatherers. By it shorthand re. ports can be transmitted to any distance, just as they come from the desk of the stenographer. The invention also effects rate of telegraphic speed, either in long or short hand, never obtain able before. In an hour, for instance, by means of it, 25,000 stenographed words were transmitted from Paris to Brussels, 1s,O0O words to Lyons and 15,OOO to Marseilies. Stcnographcd words can be sent at the rate of 200 words per minute; ordi nary words, 100 or 120. Further experiments are eX- pected to give still moI astonishing re- ou1tc
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
ELECTRIFIED ROCK.
A New Yorker Who Has Natural Elec-
 tric.Light Plant.


 L. A. Dixon, of Sodus, N. Y., says a letter from Syracuse, has made the dis covery of a wonderful ore called ''elcu, tric rock," which contains hidden force that puzzles and astonishes all who see it, and expert electricians in particular. The rock is of dark slate color and somewhat lighter in weight than sand. stone. It is composed of iron, alumi- nium, calcium and other minerals, and particles of gold are found sometimes. MT. Dixon says it will generate un- limited power and give any desired amount of incandescent light. For Illuminating business places and resi- dences it would be considerably cheaper than kerosene; in fact, after the build ing had been wired and the batteries prepared the cost would be merely nomi- nal, and the light would be equal, if not superior, to that produced by manu- factured electricity. The making of the battery is very simple. Tho rock, in any quantity that is desired, is placed in jars containing solution the chief ingredients of which are salt and water. The circuit is then completed and the battery is ready for active business. The inventor claims that one charge of four hundred pounds of rock will last and produce light and power for at least a year before losing it's force, and that it is perfectly harmless, making insula- tion entirely unnecessary. In MT. Dixon's office nine-pounl piece of rock has been ringing ben since last November. A piece weighing half a pound was placed in pint tumbler and wires attached to the cail-bcll which it caused to ring as loud as an alarm clock. The test was made in the presence of several gentlemen who pronounced it a wonderful discovery.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
Great Australian Estates,

Among the large estates, three ad- vestised for sale in Queensland may be considered. The first has an area of 454 square miles, of which the rent is S1, 600. The second has GAS square miles, and the third 55S. The one most advan- tageously situated is within 100 miles of q railroad"
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
She 1Iust He ExploaiyA.

Jimsey-I say, Weekly, I've got ter blow up that big rock in my medder. Whatll do it the best, dye think?
 Weekly (frcsh from an interview with Mrs. M.)-Waal, I dunno. I should think, though, Dinah might.-Cbicago Times.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
An Old Bach's Opinion,

The dress has deal more to do with the making of the young lady than the young lady has to do with the making of the dress. "-
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1891-01-24
Sale J | !

l2b arpents of nigh rolling land,
shout two niles of the town Of La
fsyette, 100 hundfsd sroents ii cnltiya-
ton and 2t arpen4s IL wood land. with
GOOD residence, corn house, small resi-
dcnce, etc.
For terms apply 1t this Office
Sept 20. 1890.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1891-01-24
A WONDERFULsCLO

Another wonderful peice Of smeehan
nism has recently been exhibited ln
Paris. It an eight-day clock, which q
chimes the quarter, plays - tunes,
playing three tunes every hour, or 81
any interval required, by simply.
touching a spring. The hands g A
follows: One once a minute. one once
an hour, one once week, one once =
month, and one once year. Il shows
the moons age; rising and setting Of
the sun, the time of high and low tide
besides showing half ebb and half
food. A curious device represents
the water, showing ships at high water
tide as if they were in motion; and, as
it recedes, leaves them high and dry
on the sands. The clock shows the
hour Of the day, the day Of the week,
Che day of the month. and the month
of the year. The mechanism is so ar
ranged as to make it's own provisions.
for long and short months. 1t also
shows the signs Of the zodiac, equation
and the difference betw cen the sun and
railroad time for every day in the year
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1891-01-24
SAVED BY DUCKS.

GREENspoRr, December, IA.
fire broke out in the large stone man,
sion at Arshamogue, belonging to the
to the estate Of the late Richard B.
Conklin, the former owner of Rarus.
The fire originated in the chimney and
the destruction on the building SEEM.
ed certain, as there was no way to
reach the flames.
At this point young R. B. Conklin
ran to the duck pen, and, startling
the sleeping occupants with the sud-.
denness Of his appearance among
them, proceeded to seize number Of
the largest.
Despite their vigorous protests the,
ducks were hurried off towards the
burning building.
A ladder was secured, and almost,
before any one could realize what.
the young man was about to do he had
mounted to the top Of the house and
had made his way to the chimney.
The fire and smoke was still, pour
ing from the shaft. Young Conklin,.
with quick motion, tossed one Of the
ducks into the chimney.
The flame in an instant seemed
checked, and the volume Of smoke,
became more dense. Then another
duck was offered as sacrifice to save
the house, and quackihg and duttering
/ was hurled in the chimney. J,
The cloud of SCOT raised by the flap
ping wings Of the duck as it sank into
the fiery crater through the narrow
stone shaft effectdally smothered the
fire. and although the life of the duck
went out IN a few minutes, the novel
expedient was found to have worked
to good effect Before the smothered
flames cound regain their lost ground
the advantage gained was followed up
and the fire was subdued.