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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28

hs,w,.n,s July 2L-Ths race announced to he on
and thew wenooners the Josephine Capt. Tovnrsud)
him. 20 Ihhsime. ended to day in favor Of tho Joss
wv tonvrrss s, We La,sret'o here ~ r, NJ The
three nl,,,.H Of - ions tie ". ". Gonver.s If a
ton Bar JUS Il n tnhs, Tho former crossed Charles
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28

burglary at u broadway Drug store.
Thieves smashed pane OF glass In a
window on the Pine street sido OF William
Wilson's drug store at Pine street and Broad
way last night aud raised the sash.
After midnight the police discovered the
broken window and saw lot VI postage
stamps scattered on tho floor near the
GAahierS desk. The uiOprietOr was sent for.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28

A. H. Scribnrr is; July THE sloop yacht Harsch.
@Hrsd he.s To- day. from new YORK Tor hysnnis
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28
G0rham Plate

We are constantly introduc.
ing new and exclusive patterns,
and would call the attention Of
purchasers to tho high charac.
ter of the goods. the beauty Of
design, and perfection of finish.
These advantages, combined
with the fact that the quality
is without equal, make them
the most desirable wares in the
market.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
oninm Cultivation in Persia.

Opium occupies the first place in the
foreign trade of Persia Papaver so1nni-
forum, or white poppy, of which opium is
the inspissated juice is grown principally
in and about Ispahan, Iezd and Shiraz,
that of lspahan being superior both in
quality and quantity The preparation Of
the land begins about Sept. o. and consists
in blowing, narrowing, fertilzing abund
antlv with ashes and detritus, and laying
off into squares to facilitate irrigation
After sowing, the fields are irrigated three
times, at intervals of fifteen days After
that there is only one more irrigation,
about the middle of the winter, In the
spring irrigation takes place on March 20,
after which the land is repeatedly har
rowed and hoed in order to eXtirpate all
parasitic weeds The plants are thinned
and then watered every ten days until
Towering begins, when all work must
cease
When the heads have formed and have
fully ripened last flooding is given.
Then six slight missions are made at
about the junction of the stem with the
head This should be done at noon. The
mice that exudes is collected the next
morning and the morning following at
davbreak. When these first incisions
have ceased discharging, others are made
lower down, and the operation may be
thus thrice repeated, the opium obtained
after each successive incision being pro
portionately inferior in quality. Next
The plants themselves are cut down anc
the heads sold, the natives using the seed
on bread as a substitute for butter The
end of May is the season for harvesting
Chemist and Druggist.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

There are usually at least two ways
OF looking at a thing, and it is well now
and then to change ones point of view
Little Hans had just begun his school
life, and his mother was ambitious to
have him keep high standing in his
class.
why, Hans, she said regretfully ut
the end of his second week, last week
you gave me SO much pleasure by get
ting to be at the head of your class, .a1
now you are only number four, l see. "
"Yes'm, l know" admitted the little
fellow, with great gravity; but then,
he added, some other boys mamma
mad the pleasure this week, so l thought
perhaps you wouldn't mind so very
much"
You're quite right, Hans" said his
mother, giving him an appreciative
smile, Il don't mind it at all-noww-
Youths Companion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

Foul dust in rooms cannot be got rid Of
by any amount of sweeping and carpet
beating. The only thing that will remove
and replace it is current of compare
lively pure air from the outside. Except
in vely cold weather there should always
be two open windows in each room on
opposite sides. of we should follow that
advice, the Mortified reader will exclaim.
I'VE should all catch n fatal cold. Don't
| remember a dozen colds l got by being
exposed to sudden draft? Only few
nights ago, when | occupied a seat near
the door of theatre, the door was left
open during the intermission, and the
draft, though pleasant enough, gave me a
bad cold. No, thank you, no drafts for
mer'
This logic seems good, yet it is utter
sophistry. As metaphysician would
say, the draft was only the occasion, not
the real cause of the cold. The real cause
was tbs foul, hot air in the theatre, which
demoralized your skin and relaxed its
blood vessels, so that they We're unable to
react suddenly and endure the healthful
cool air from the street In other words,
it was not the draft that gave you the
cold, but the sudden transition from hot
to cold air. Such a transition is always
injurious to the skin, whether it be from
both to cold or from cold to hot air But
if you are not overheated, current of
cold air is never injurious. -The Epoch.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

The rich old costumes are coming, or
have come, to be regarded as ridiculous by
the islanders and are only put on to please
strangers or by way of Joke In another
generation or two the curious traveller will
be unable to find them Those that have
gold and lace upon them will be bought
up by Jew dealers. who have been for
years securing the A1gean like the corsairs
of old. The rest will be torn up or thrown
away 1t is just the same thing in Pelo
ponnesus The men who are the great
handles all through Greece still don their
Albanian costumes in Sparta and Magalo-
polls, if they have not seen the world.
But among the rich scarlet and white of
this splendid dress you see the really
fashionable man, the member of parliament
or local magistrate, in black dress coat
and a chimney pot hat, perhaps with a
gray plaid wrapped about his shoulders.
And this hideously dressed person is
looked up to as the glass of fashion by the
people around him, whose national dress
gives them that dignity of mien and of
manners which always accompanies rich
costume.
So it is with the women. About Mount
Paruassus and its neighboring Alps you
will still find the women dressed on holt
days in colors and coins quaint and beauti-
full to behold In Peloponnesus gaudy
arsenic green, magenta and puppies of the
most nauseous hue are worn in i'll made
dresses copied from the Bavarian court
taste of twenty years ago. To see such
people on a Greek island in the midst of
Mediterranean blue dancing a national
dance with its curious spiral form is like
seeing a beautiful engraving daubed over
with water colors by an experimenting
child. Good Words
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
Virtue in Onions and Reef.

What is the most strengthening food
for & convalescent2 Well, you know, the
beef tea theory has been exploded. The
most life giving and digestible food that
can be given to one just recovering from
an illness is chopped beef. Just take a
pound of the finest round of raw beef, cut
off all the fat, slice two onions, and add
pepper and salt. Then chop the onions
and meat together, turning them over and
over until both are reduced almost to a
pulp. Then spread on slices of rye bread
and eat as sandwiches. People talk about
celery being a neryine, but let me tell you
that there is nothing which quiets the
nerves without bad results like onions.
The use of them induces sleep, and much
strength is obtained from them. That is
my ideal food for those conyalescing or
for any one who is in weak state OF
health.-kansas City Star,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

The average American will be aston
ished to learn that the number of steamers
plving on the Volga and its tributaries Is
greater than the number on the Mlssls
sippi; that $40. 600, GOO worth of products
annually come down a single tributary Of
the Yolga-namely, the Kama, stream
of which few Americans have ever heard
and finally. that the waters of the Nolga
river system annually float nearly, 5000; oOo
tons of merchandise, and furnish employ
ment to 1000 vessels and nearly 2OO'o90
boatmen. 1t may be that an ordinarily
well educated American ought to know all
these things, but certainly did not know T
,bcm. and they came to me with the shock
of complete surprise, George herman
in The Century.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
Snow rrifts to Talk About.

"Those fifty foot snow drifts down
east" remarked an old resident after
reading the dispatches from Pennsylvania,
care pretty tall for the country, but
they are ordinary and tritling compared
with those of the early days. Back in
1910, when Omaha was only the land
ing of ferryboat, we had winter.
There weren't any drifts, but solid snow.
1t filed the valley from the Iowa bluffs
on dead level to the high school hill.
1 freighted between st. Joe and Council
Bluffs those days, and many a time l
dropped through the roof of deserted
dobies. When the April rise of the Mis-
souri, came down we mad to blast a path
through the snow bank to let the water
run out. Omaha Bee.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
Un.yinmelrieal physical De,e,o.m..,.


Perfect symmetrical development ia
rarely found in man or woman. or
course, those who work with their hands
and are much on their feet generally excel
In form, but there is a tendency in all for
some limb or parts of the body to become
stronger and better developed than the
others. To occupation can be attributed
this disparity, which, however, unless
marked, is not of great significance. Ex-
Guiding from consideration that class
given to hard manual labor, we find that,
in the majority of men and women, a ar
the age of maturity is reached, the upper
half OF the body does not retain its rela-
tive development and strength as com
pared with the lower half.
or course, the solution is easy, the
labor put upon the lower limbs is greater
than that which falls upon the arms to
do. The business man, when told by his
physician that he must exercise, insists
that he has all that he needs, for he is
ION his feet from morning until night, -
and the hard working housekeeper thinks,
too, she has quite enough, and gives the
same reason. We flud these people strong
ON their feet, but comparatively weak in
their arms. Circulation in the lower half
of the body is good, but in the upper part
1t Is less free, and less blood is attracted
to 1t. The natural adjustment Is de-
stroyed. Nature intends that certain
portion of blood in the human body should
enter and distribute itself throughout the
muscular system. If, however, large
muscles, like those of the arms and trunk,
are insufiieiently exercised, and as con-
4 sequence grow smaller, then the blood in
I tended for them is diverted elsewhere II
must be taken up by the internal organs,
and the liver is the one organ which,
/ from Its peculiar construction, will bear
the greatest increase in the blood supply.
Boston Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
a Writer OF obituar, Poetry.

cne oi the very queerest ways OF earn.
.nB i'Vlng among the endless eccentrici-
rvs Vi ingenious necessity in this CITY Ia
.na' y woman Who lives Ia a little eat
~ NHeteehlh street, and who writes
oDii nary poetry thereby avoiding the
no'esaily OF an obituary for her own tornh
stone one Is genial person on ordinary
oeoa1i IONS ana possesses notable facility
'or rhymes When she Is interyiewins,
customers this geniality subsidies into p
uelicate ana dramatic sympathy which is
very soothing to the bereaved She COWS
~ M herselt You see, | am not poet
Inc newspapers and magazines won't bry
my poetry, and don't wonder at Il h,,,
az the same time | have a penins for
rhymes ! have found rhymes for win.
aoW ana silver even-the two nnrbvmo
oie "oras-and quick as fash can find
word In assonance with anv name
DiHlstlan or surname | am q liohtnino
rnymef In short can make verses too
Vi certain sort with the same facility
anu happily the people who come to see
iIe ooh demand poetry up to the level of
IN Memorlam, and 'Lycidas There's
my Hoods Rhymster,' Roeet's The,
sanrus' and Crabbe's synonyms. They
are my tools, and by their aid make a
living ''"Ne
Inc most curious people come to me. all
tine way from an afflicted washerwoman
iameIting the late bibulous Patricl, to
Ola gentlemen who have lost their grand
chlidren bereavement, like love. seems
10 loosen the intellectual fiber, and when
people are In the first throes of grief they
ma comfort in the strangest thipps
iney IKE my verses more than you would
oeueve possible, and make me read them
over again and again, the feeble lyrics
ana hating lines evidently soothing them
more than volumes of the most eloonent
prose My prices? OH they are in
Siding scale For celebrating the mari.
tai virtues of the late Mr. OFDonovan in
SIX four line stanzas charge 50. but as |
rise III the social SCALE and the measure
used is more complex, why | ask all the
way from S. to $25 On one occasion
asked and was paid $50 for memorial
ode to the dead bride of a sorrowing
widower 1t was something like two hun,
dred lines. and if do say it myself. it
was very nice poetry and fully worth the
money The widower is married arain.
put he didn't seem to think any epitha
lamIum was required, or at least | wasn't
asked to write it. Poetry about dead
children is the sort oftenest asked for.
and ye | don't like to write it be
cause really throw more feeling into it
| than any other Over some of nv best
ones I've wept myself But mothers will
take anything They don't seem to know
whether it's good or bad. New York
World
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
"stirring Up" an Oil Wen.

When the first flush Of well is gone.
the torpedo agent is called in to increase
the production. III shooting a well from
go to 200 quarts of nitro-glycerine are
used. This is lowered into the hole in
shells cleverly contriyed to prevent a pre-
mature explosion, and then the Ego
devil" chunk Of iron for exploding the
cartridge on top Of the glycerine, is
dropped. In a minute or two an explo-
sion about as loud as a firecracker will be
heard, while the casing in the hole will
rise few inches above the derrick floor
and then settle back. The response from
the shot will not come until ten or twenty
minutes later, then the well flows freely
and at an increased rate. In the course
of time the well refuses to flow of its own
accord end is classed among the pump
ers." Two-inch tubing is run down to
the producing sand, and the same ma
chinery that was used in drilling the well
is called in to do the pumping. From
time to time the tubing and sucker rods
are drawn and the well cleaned out or
treated to another dose of glycerine. This
explains why the derrick at a completed
we'll is never torn down.-Rufus r. Will
son in San Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
POISONED ARROWS OF The pYcmlEs
Terrible Havoc and Suffering Caused by
the Weapons of Africans.


the Weapons of Africans.
When we first encountered the tribes
who fought with poisoned arrows we
were not prepared to be greatly i'm
pressed with the danger, but we re
ceived a severe lesson in August, 1882,
during a fight with the Avisibba saw
ages, Young fellows, inspired by the
example of Lieut.. Stairs, r. e., rushed
with brave homicidal intentions to the
front, and the tiny arrows sailed in
showers past them, but some of them
found their intended billets and were
arrested quiyering in arms and shout
ders. With contemptuous smiles the
young men drew them out and flung
them away, and some continued an
swering the savages with riheshots
while others sought the surgeon, bear
ing with them the arrows with which
they had been wounded.
When the days fight was over of
course we had more leisure TO examine
the missiles and our anxiety was great
when we observed that they had been
freshly sineared with a brown, gummy
like substance which emitted a subtle,
acrid odor, with a suspicion Of asafmtida
in il. The arrows seemed to have been
plunged into Il pot containing a goodly
quantity of a resinous substance, and
twirled around in it and well soaked
and then lifted up in bunch and Gov
cred over with banana or piece Of
phrynium leaf Quivers full of the
arrows showed US that the weapons
were considered by their owners to be
/ dangerous, for those so smeared were
tied together, head downward, and
apart from the Others.
| Yet the wounds made by these slen-
der arrows We're mere punctures, such
as might have been made by finely
pointed butchers skewers, and being
/ exceedingly ignorant Of the effect, we
contented ourselves with Swinging
them with warm water and dressing
them with bandages In some instan-
ces aTectionate men sucked their com
rades wounds, to make sure that moth
ing of the substance should be left to
irritate them. In no instance was this
method of any avail. All who were
wounded either died after terrible suf-
ferings from tetanus, or developed such
dreadful gangrenous tmnors as to in
capacitate them from duty for long
periods, or wreck their constitutions so
completely 10y blood poisoning that
I fbair lives bnp0n1a a burden To than -
Henry NJ. Stanley in Scribner's.
According to insurance statistics more
Ern- ", II, bnd b1t thn n1Sc NJ mills
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

The teeth of whales furnish one of the
remarkable features Indicative of the
origin of that animal They form a COM
plete but rudimentary set, characteristic
of a more perfectly developed land NAM
NAL, but disappear shortly after birth,
performing no junction whateyer.-Globe-
Democrat.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

The true burial place of Columbus
mas been a mooted point for many
years, and it would seem that the re
mains of that illustrious discoverer
rest IN two places-San Domingo and
GENOA. However, the truth of this
statement has never been satisfactorily
proven. Detroit Free Press.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
Her domestic Affections.

Mrs. Hobson Ito eallerl-Your husband
has been dead nearly two years, has he
not, Mrs. Amidon?
Galleries, quite two years. He
caught q severe cold which developed
into pneumonia. But l really must be
going, Mrs Hobson. Go dog)-Come
Fido, get your blanket on, Dear little
fellow, after all the trouble I've had, l
wouldn't like you to get pneumonia
Tho Erropb
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

An affectation akin to rudeness is the
refusal to sing or play when asked to do
so. Ii is the mark of good breeding to
acquiesce without demur, even if oae is
an indifferent performer; to wait to be
pressed rather detracts from than en-
hances the enjoyment of the audience.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
He Had Eighty Nurses.

The present emperor Of China, when he
was baby, had eighty nurses, twenty
five tanners. twenty-five bearers for his
nanlanouin. ten umbrella holders, thirty
musicians and surgeons, seven chief and
twenty-tbree inferior cooks, fifty walters
and messengers, fifty dressers and other
servants and attendants to the number OF
over four hundred or more. His spiritual
welfare was looked after by a corps OF
seventy-fye astrologers, sixteen tutors
TALL of high rank), and sixty pfIes's'--ot'
Stephens Gazette.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

MRS. Muggins-And so you are an
"',of' What are you playing nowl
Handsome Stranger-The dual role
IN the "Corsican Brothers"
MRS Muggins-Oh, yes, I've seen
,hat, and l remember there was n duel
N it--New York Weekly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
Close Enough.

"Thev are working on a new telescope"
observed De Smith, 'that will bring the moon
within sixty miles Of the earth.
III the moon is really made of old cheese
remarked De Cautur, that's close enough"
Chicago Tribune
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

Two Migrants called on kind lady in the
suburbs of New York. ,.-
40 which of You two shall give this
nicl,elr she asked.
First Tramp-Give it to him, madam. lie
hos purchased the route from me, and l am
inst taking him around to introduce him to
tbe customers Time.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13
ADVICE TO AUTHORS.


CANNON History.
The following letter, written IN a nervous.
crampei hand, on an empty stomach. with
red ink, vas received some months ago. but
politics and other matters Of greater import
ance, yielding more money than literature,
have crowded out an earlier reply. do not
use the full name, which is that Of young
woman, judge. At least, her first name IS
Jennie, and, as nearly as one may be able to
approximate ones age by simply knowing
ones NAME should say that she was no
doubt 10 years of age on the list day of last
April
HULMBoLDT Minn Aug IL 1893 DEAR SIR-wfn
you pleas to tell me what would be the price for a
good sised book not to large nor not very small
now this Is Just one chat have commenced to
write myself aud think 1t is going 10 be a very
good one Pleas 10 tell me where could get il
printed and also ell you know about il as | am
very proud Of this one pleas be kind as to not
mension this in closed gnd stamp for a nanswer
pleas to obledge me l am Yours truly Pleas &c
address it to at st Vincent IN care Of sII
Tho's Brown es am here now Yours Should
write it on both sides of the paper It being so yol
can tear It out and turn it over p S The name Of
it is The Folly Of BlGckeyed Nell
The Second Daughter
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

Paterfamiias tsternly)-Seems TO me you
are becoming quite interested in that Mr..
Goodfelow
Daughter demurelyl Why, pa, he is
homely enough to stop clock.
"Ahl That, then, may account for the
fact that when he is here in the evening you
never know what time it is. n-Philadelphia
Record
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

What must have been the leeiInss VI a
Portland family who after moving ttnu he',
ting we'll settled discovered tl"' 1ngs ai,,u
moved into the wrong nouSe' 7e"is'0-'
Journal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

ats perfect angel of house sala she,
"All wings, | suppose" said he'-harper
Bazaar.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

Customer-These handkerchiefs are
not half large enough.
Clerk-They are as large as we sell tC
anybody.
Customer-That may be, but my bust
ness requires something more ample. /
sir, am an undertaken Clothier and
Furnisher.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

According to insurance statistics more
fires are extinguished by the use of pals
of water than by all other means.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-13

Several years ago the Rod and Gun
club of Portland Ore. imported few
Chinese pheasants and set them loose on
Protection island The pheasants have
since multiplied until the island is well
stocked with them The birds are about
the size of common prairie chicken, with
long tail. and their plumage is remarkably
beautiful New York Evening World