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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

The use OF reading is to tighten the
load of life and TO open vistas of thought
which otherwise would be closed to us.
Nobody who has any sense waits to go to
school again and 'stodgen himself with
mere information. There are, of course,
persons who yearn to learn the names of
the kings of Judah in their proper order,
and to hear how backing is made; but
they are no better for il when they have
acquired the knowledge, even If las often
happeus) they are not seized with dis
trcssing desire TO impart IL to their fellow
creatures. 1t has been whispered to me
by persons moving in intellectual circles
that the effect of even "the higher cult
ureh is not necessarily eNhilarating 1t
may improve the mind without improving
the man, aud as Il companion in fact it
often leaves him duller than IL found him,
because he has been educated beyond his
wits. The mind Of man is very curious
and cannot he catered for without ones
inqurng into its character
What makes me laugh in my sleeve Is
to see the fury into which preachers and
teachers and lecturers all lash themselves
because nine out Of ten Will persist In
taking fiction out OF the lending libraries
instead of improving literature" 1t
seems to be quite ineXplicable TO most of
them, though some, | see attribute II to
original sin. In connection with this sub
ject 1t is pleasant, but 10y no means sur
prisiug TO those who are really acquainted
with it, to learn that Darwin was 4 de-
yourer of novels After middle life he
lost his taste for music, painting and even
poetry. ION the other hand, " he writes,
"novels, which are works of Imagination
and even those which have nothing re-
markahle about them-have for some
years afforded me prodigious relaxation
and pleasure, and | often bless the race
of noyelists \ large number of novels
have been read aloud to me, and | love
them all, even II they are only middling,
II they end well A law ought
to be passed prohibiting them to end
badly. "-lndependent.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

The intellectual and imaginative Jack
st. Maur has been telling some interesting
stories about Lotta's Unprecedented col
lection of shoes
"Why, gentlemen, said the enthusiasts
tic relator, there are velvet shoes, satin
shoes. silken shoes, canvas shoes, grass
cloth shoes, Turkish and morocco slippers,
and sandals from Borneo and far of Sara.
wax, where Rajah Brooke, whose charm
ing wife is an old schoolmate OF Lolita s,
holds supreme sway over his heather sub
Jeets. There is one particular pair OF
slippers made from the skin of favorite
cat that quilted catterwauling and noe
turnal adventures some two years ago. II
you ask Lolita what these slippers are
made of she will tell you with mis-
ehieyous smile that they are 'peau de
pusse.' You can't imagine anything
softer or more comfortable. Ii really must
be that the spirit OF that departed tortoise
shell animates those slippers; for as truth
is my witness, have heard Lolita make a
sort of purring sound when putting them
on. Lotta's size7 Oh come now, what's
the use of making all the women in the
world enyious? You probably don't re-
member Cinderella's size. Well, it's my
belief that the glass slipper would fit Lolita
very well. Anyway, her feet have played
as lively part as her face in the extra
ordinary success she has won. Detroit
Free Press.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
Manted-An Endnrahln Pen.

As for pens, VIII mankind ever invent
an endurable pen' The quill makes a
dreadful noise, as Dora found when she
tried TO keep accounts in the presence of
David COpperiield. Indeed the advent
ures Of Dora with her pens are only those
OF less feather headed scribes. The quill
splutters a small shower of ink, "A murky
drizzle, over the fingers, as over the lace
.utlles that Button wore when he wrote.
The descending drizZle dots 100 rs where
no i should be, nor indeed is and per
plexes printers. Meanwhile the steel pen
begins rs badly as a lame cab horse, and
rusts readily. After an hours work the
wretched instrument needs TO be taken
twice over every stroke, otherwise II does
not mark al ali One Of its legs becomes
shorter than the other.
Paper is the only thing that has made
an advance on birch ba. k, sheets of lead,
potsherds and parchment; nor can paper
bear comparison with the vellum Of the
past. A kind OF pad, " otherwise useful,
has become hairy, and the hairs cling 10
the pen. No fountain pen has yet proved
successful You have to blow down
them, to thump them, TO humor them in
"a dozen ways, and they explode in your
pocket and flood you with ink. The
wonder Is that when writing is so difficult
10 much is written. Nature may wisely
desire to handicap authors. But it is the
business Of Silence TO thwart nature and
10 invent and perfect tout ce gun faut
pour ecfire. Saturday Review
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

at is good thing TO keep an account
of your small expenses ex-Minister
John Bgelow once said TO an acquaint-
ance, rs lie entered an item in his note
book. His listener smiled at the remark
but took it TO heart. In recently telling
the story Of his experience he said that
mp to that time, he had never thought of
the amount it cost him annually for cigars
and drinks and treats and other sundries,
He began to itemize the cost daily. Tie
was amazed at the end of the year wien
he footed up the sum at $3.50 A change
was wrought in him He determined
that, for the next year, he would keep
such expenses down TO one-third of the
sum In question. "And now" he said,
within ten years ! have protltcd by Mr..
Bigelow's advice to the amount of $1,000,
which | have handed over 10 my wife 10
keep for hard times. And l have not be-
come mean, eli her. New York sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

Any man thinks he can teach school
The college hoy teaches in the intervals OF
his vacation To bring in a little money, or
makes pastime of IL for a year or two
after he gets his diploma. and while he is
deciding upon profession. The man
who can do nothing else feels that he can
always fall back upon teaching. 1t is no
disparagomeut to the many able and con-
scentious instructors To say that there is
large number of incompetents III the
profession, men and women who are not
qualified either by natural gifts or train
ing for their work, who, while they may
have the technical knowledge required
lack entirely--and this is the worst of an
that warmth OF nature that would
enable them to kindle the sacred fire of
children under their care. They have
nothing in them, and so they give nothing
out.
How many teachers there are of this
type-empty as drums You knock at
the door of the soul, and get nothing but
sound back for your pains. In some re-
spects the teacher is invested with a
grayer responsibility than the preacher.
These young minds are SO many fresh
tablets on which the first impressions of
life are to be written down. What shall
they be' Shall they make for intellectual,
and above all moral growth, for generos-
ity, nobility, manliness and womanllness,
or shall they cramp the soul rs well as the
mind, and leave the better part of both
inert2 1t is largely in the teachers power
to say. There is II responsibility to make
the conscientious man tremble at times,
and yet how many men there arc who set
about teaching with as little thought us
other men set about saving wood New
! York Trihune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

A young artist in New York is winning
a reputation all over the country for tai
ent in peculiar field. 1t whatever city
an art exhibition is under discussion the
first move is to send for her to take in
hand the details. 1t is an unusual genius
which she possesses for hanging, cata-
loguing and-what is quite as much to
the point with people as impecunious as
the artists of literature and tradition
for selling pictures.
She is really evolving a new profes-
sion, that of conducting art exhibitions.
of which she has in course of the winter
probably half dozen on her hands
Grim necessity, they say, has invention
for her pretty daughter, and the need
that has set half the younger artists to
boiling their kettles with the proceeds
Of illustrated soap and trouser advertise
ments while they wait for fame to bring
them fortune has pointed ont to clever
woman an equally convenient way
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

The common bean was cultivated by the
ancient Egyptians, but their priests re-
garded it rs "uucleau.n The Old Testa-
ment mentions the bean twice, and it is
certain that the Hebrews knew of its cX-
istence at least 1000 years Il, G. The
ancient inhabitants of Switzerland and OF
Italy, in the age Of bronze, cultivated II
small fruited variety Of this plant. II
was also known to the ancient Greeks and
to the ancient Latins, and it grew wild in
northern Africa in the days of Pliny.
The first cultivation Of the bean is pre-
historic, 1t was probably introduced into
Europe, says De Candolle, by the western
Aryans Celts and Slays) ut the times Of
their earliest migratious. a century be-
fore the Christian era 1t went into China,
and still later into Japan, and only re-
Gently into India. There were probably
two places where it grew wild before cul,
tivation-south Of the Caspian sea aud
the north Of Africa. The bean would long
ago have become extinct had nor man cul-
tiyated it.-Good Housekeeping.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

Some years ago there was a popular
actor in Petersburg, one of whose warmest
admirers was the car Meeting him upon
the street one day the czar stopped him,
and after little chat asked him to per-
form certain piece at the theatre that
evening, promising to be present. The
car came, but to his disappointment the
performance announced was not the one
he had requested, and the actor he was SO
fond of did not appear in the cast. Send
ing an aide-de-camp to the manager to in
quire why his request had not been com
piled with the ear learned that the actor
had mysteriously disappeared. The police
were called to hunt him up, and promptly
reported that lie was in prison.
"What for?' roared the cZar.
For addressing your majesty on the
street today answered the head of the
third section. An order for the actors
release was at once written and carried to
the prison. The actor was brought into
the emperor's presence. An apology was
offered him, and the ear, much mortified,
asked what he could do to compensate the
actor for the annoyance and modification
he had suffered.
Nothing" replied he, "only please
don't speak to me ON the street again. u
William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
Tricks of Chinese Traders.

book might be written upon the
palpable frauds and tricks, of which the
Chinese trader is guilty With a goose
quill he blows up his mutton so that the
Neriest old scrag cf IA carcass looks fat
and tempting He tucks cobble stones
into his heads of cabbage which he sells
by the pound. He sells dwarf orange
trees loaded down with fruit, nine-tenths
of which is cleverly wired on to branches
which never fed and developed it. Or, IL
10y accident, hole has been knocked in
the side of an old porcelain vase, he grinds
the hole into some sort of shape, cleverlv
grlnds, fits and CLUES any bit of old brick
into the opening, and then so accurately
reproduces in every detail and Shade of
color thee outside decoration and glaze
that by the application of acid alone can
the fraud lie detected. The smallness of
the profit to be derived from the fraud
never deters him Chester Holcombe in
Youths Companion
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
A vine Point in nuelIng.
IDAHO

MY Virginia friond--I was going to say
my old Virginia friend, but he is only 10,
and doesn't live in old Virginia. but in
West Virginia--was telling me of the
code duello in the south He raised his
hat, and with his forefinger traced deep
scar on his forehead just MT the roots Of
the hair. 1t looked as IL made by a red
hot brand.
"That," said he, twas received in a
duel. The duel is going out of fashion in
Virginia, but there are still some hot
headed men who think that their wounded
honor can only be satisfied with blood
Ssid |: GLOW did you get that scarY''
Said he: "I'l tell you, was making
stump speech one night in the heat
of political campaign. Excitement
ran high, but l was keeping my
temper right along and never got
angry at the frequent Interruptions.
In the crowd was u man who was
power in the coInmtfNity, and he was
Just drunk enough To be offensive. He
had interrupted me several times and /
passed it off good naturally, until at last
he said something that stung me. Well,
/ am Virginian born and bred, and
answered back that when he was made
his mouth was put in the wrong place,
that ii should have been fastened on top
OF his head and filled with hogs lard and
sawriust There was no wit in the reply
1T was brutal, but it turned the laugh
on the fellow, and knew was In for IL.
The next day he sent me n challenge,
and / accepted, naming pistols at
ten PAGES. He was a good shot, and
know that | am. We We're both ex-
cited, and. when we got the word TO fire,
both pistols cracked at the same instant.
! shot him through the lungs, and the
ball frcm his pistol struck me on the fore
head. plowed this ear, and glanced up
ward. had aimed to shoot him through
the leg, but the pistol jerked up with the
pressure on the trigger, and my ball went
through his body. He had aimed to shoot
me through the breast, but his pistol
went MP from the same cause and struck
me on the forehead I'm glad to say he
did not die. and haven't better friend
IN the world. -
Then my southern friend explained to
me ;hat short armed man fired quicker
than a long armed man because the dis
tance from brain to the finger tip was
less and he also said that the better class
OF people in the south were bent on ex-
,inguishing the duello, and its death was
only matter of time. Harrisburg
Telegraph.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

~, ,r,,,l1 ,,nI-a very re-
Many men VIZ ~ ,be limited States
spectacle presileats9 ~ ann retafl oro-
could not s n,, ,'is,ias ~ tho ,,rocery
Gerry store. , me nnt Nor consider the
would we9r .i! 4'n. V ,"n or1rery reouires-
varied aoll,'y e oIn,t ~ markets. To- take
the ioIeslg"t "D "a rer cent off or
adVah,asc - w. a,a yiedlnnce reouired to
on mere or r''T ~; and NOT oyerstock, to
Keep LUZ - Ia hefare tLev spoll or the
DISPOSE y. e ,.i,anges. tha suayjty and
popular .a' 'S S,"niic;tv and fairness and
INTEGRITY ~" ,no,il.d IN Get customers and
auap' ti''. tho no,ver Ia bear the daily
Keep lne,n, ,lU The eouraqe to face the
anu io"ily ,,, e,,scfer Of "failure.n which
Wv r. - ,,,,,.,, on ,,,orchnnf i'm 100.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

Success, that magic world Who does
not long to emblazon It upon his shieldf
Young Jack had gone home to the farm
house for visit, in all the bravery of his
fashionable clothing and elaborate man
ners.
Succeeds guess I've succeededr' he
answered to an old neighhor.
"DoEe little o. most everything, amt
ye Jackr' queried the neighbor.
Eyes, uncle. begun low; begun with
writing poetry for the magazines"
Ever make much by it?''
"Not Il cent
"Git much publishedr
'Not IA line. -
Left the business, then, I'll ventura
Left it to its own destruction. Went
into trade. Had position in n wholesale
dry goods firm
"An' that's what you made your money
in, III be boundp'
"No, uncle, no! They turned me of
because | couldn't tell cashmere from
serge. But my star has come up, in spite
of that
"Riz, has it? Well, boy, what did you
settle down into at last?''
'Uncleh said the prosperous young
man with solemnity, 81 simply found my
niche. l gave my faculties full scope
and invented a patent boot blackingl And
now ! sell it, wholesale and retail. AL
that's necessary in this world is to find
your nichep-Youth's Companion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
Fashionable but Impecunious.

There n number of fashionable but i'm
pecunious youths from Philadelphia and
New York spending the season in Wash
ington at the most trihing expense. They
get cheap lodgings, have their letters adj
dressed to one Of the hotels or clubs and
get their meals by accepting all the in
vitations that come in. On days when
the supply of bids TO breakfast and
lunches fall short they make the regula-
ton calls, going from one house to an
other, eating and drinking everything
from claret punch and chocolate to sailed
almonds and chicken salad. Young men
are scarce in Washington, and with ready
wit and good dress suit man can swim
very wei in society New York Press
every Day Talk
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
Old Fashions Revived.

DR.. Julian j. Chisolm, of Baltimore
has been inspecting the Babylonish cyl
inders in the British museum, and has
found from the intaglios cut on them
that the street dress of society lady and
presumptive leader of fashion in the
year $500 b. G. had tight fitting waist
and sleeves, and a flounced or accordion
plated clinging skirt, such as hangs in
all women's wardrobes today. Moreover
the hat was high, and a general slender
ness and length of line was visibly
sought, the Babylonian Worth having
anticipated his French successor by near
ly 1000 years -Harper's Bazaar
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
The Craze Tor smeiIing not,le,

a comparatively new craze is the taste
for smelling bottles filled with salts Of
ammonia STEPPED in lavender water. The
odor Is extremely sweet and pungent
and large smelling bottle of this sort
If left open in room, soon impregnates
the atmosphere with a delightful and re.
freshing perfume. The bottles used arc
plain, large mouthed affairs, mounted in
silver and varying i'll size from two o,
three ounces to pint. The demand TO,
the larger sizes is so great that one famop.
fashionable establishment has been ut
terly unable to fill its orders.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
Modjeskn's Amusing Husband.

Count Bozenta, the husband of Nine.
Modleska, is source Of innocent amuse.
ment for the members of the later's trav-
euns company, by his quaint and witty
remarks, At one place, during the win
ter, they struck the coolest house Of
the season During rehearsal one of the
young ladies remarked that she could not
sing, and she was afraid she would catch
her death cold. ''Never mind Eat" said
the count; think of re splendid acous-
tlcsi' At another place, during the per
lormance, the stage was found to he on
hre underneath. The count rushed down
stairs and eXelaimed: "FireP All, hal
w, we must cut re oguel''-Frank Les
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
a EOmnm Recipe for Rrnnd.

II you want to taste wheat bread, such
as the Romans used to chew upon about
two centuries before Christ, here is Mar
Gus Portius Cato's recipe: "Panem dep
sticium sic tactic. Manus mortariumque
bene lavato, Farinam in mortarium in
ditto aqua paulatim addito, subigitouue
pulchre. Ubi bene subegeris, defngto,
coquitoque sub testu." This may be a
tribe obscure if you do not happen to
"know Latin but perhaps that bright
school boy or school girl can help you
out. II not, this win have to do MAKE
kneaded bread thus: Wash well your
hands and trough. Put the meal into
the trough, add water gradually, and
knead 1t thoroughly When you have
kneaded it well, mold it and bake it under
cover" Therel Clip this out, hand it to
the wife, and when the first mouthful of
the result has safely passed through your
esophagus, don't swear, but rather give
thanks that you We're allowed To enter
this world as n Nineteenth century Amer
lean instead of "A poor yeastless Roman of
Cato's time.-rhe Roller Mill.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
New Apparatus for Transmitting Force.

a French engineering professor, NJ.
Raymond Suyers, of the Louvain univer-
sity, has invented an apparatus for trans
hitting force between bodies moving at
greatly varying velocities without accom-
companying disadvantage of violent col
Esion. The method consists in furnish
ing the contact surface with steel brushes.
which, by the ENHANCEMENT of their
'bristles," are enabled tc grip one an
other. In this way the swiftest motion
may be impaired gradually to perfectly
stationary body, and maximum of
shock can be arranged for which can
never be exceeded. be the impelling force
and velocity what they may. The inven-
tor has i'll view chiefly the requirements
OF quickly moving lifts, railway trains
and other bodies moving ut high speed
and with great momentum; and if it be
possible to produce in this way an effect
i've brake, or 10 obtain an automatic
working of railway signals, much Will be
done TO minimize some of the most seri-
Gus perils which at present threaten life
and limb in industrious occupations
Chicago News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20
The Pneumonia of Old tee,

In advanced life the lungs are especially
prone to Inflammation. The pneumonia
OF old age is excessively fatal. Even an
ordinary cold ON the lungs" is liable to
become very serious halter. The ribs
and breast bone lose most Of their elias
ITCHY, and breathing is not so deep or so
free as 1t is in earlier years. Hence one
OF the reasons for the fatality of bron-
chitls and catarrhal pneumonia in the
aged. One remarkable fact connected
with the pneumonia of old age is that it
may run its course to a fatal termination
and give but little notice of its presence by
significant phenomena. Hence this dis
ease is frequently overlooked. A large
number of cases of ''senile debility, "
"senile marasmus," death from old age, "
are, in reality, due to pneumonia. 1t is
proper to call such cases deaths from old
age, for If this factor had been absent the
disease would probably have been recog-
nlZed and properly treated; the element OF
old age having been the really important
one IN determining the fatal result
Globe Democrat
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

A certain barber in this beautlfu cry
has been veNed in spirit because SOM M, =,
his trade seemed in b fair way 10 s"f
away from him. The manner OF II Is ,I,,.
He has among his customers large h".,
Der of Yale freshmen of tender YEA
These frisky youths insist upon p,% az
shaved, although their chins may o s,i
smooth as the surface of billiard 9 ,Sn,
The barber saw that in order to keep ,N II
class of trade he must convince II tna IN
had hair on its face, so he bethouSh. Ht ans
self of n scheme. He took yer! an. sns
razor and honed it down toa Ne.! Inn Inn.
edge. This accomplished, he SO i'' s"a,yn
lated the tool that when it WAS u."' az
along the smooth flesh it made i,o, 81 a
if the points were being scrapeN '''
barbed wire fence. that
He tried it on the first freshman o,t ,n,
came in. and the man went away iuI in,t
rs pleased as if his mother-in'laW, Va" 3bes
died The tonsorial artist now no', .,;ei,.
and the freshman goes on MS Wa! ~
ing.-New Haven News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

The market value Of Alaska's products
in 1887 almost equaled the purchase price
paid by the United States for the territory,
$3.50, 900. There were sent TO market
from Alaska last year furs TO the value OF
So 500 600; gold, 81 $50 600; fish, So, 600,
900; lumber, etc, STANDARDIZATION
Budget
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-20

A correspondent of The St Paul Pioneer
Press wrote, asking If there is any prep
grafton known that win turn hair gray
and the editor answered mo-" without
trying the effect Of printing a portrait of
its subscriber. Exchange