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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
His First Voyage.

Aman from the far north, who had
never seen either ship or sea in his
life, had to cross from Kinghorn to
Leith on q very stormy day. The
vessel rolled heavily, and the poor,
frightened Highlander ran TO the cords
and held them down with his whole
vigor, TO keep, as he thought, the
boat from upsetting.
For te sake OF our lives, shentles,
come and hold town." he cried; cor,
if We will pc helping me, I'll let you
all to the potion in a moment.
And you ploughman Snere" Ito the
man at the heinz cannot you keep
te howe of te furr, and no gang over
the crown of to riggs avawY Heichgn
The steersman laughed at him, and
the Highlander, becoming Eritated,
seized handspike and knocked him
down.
Nov, laugh you Lowland rogue
said he, land you well deserve it all,
for it was you made oil the too-hoo
knitting the poatie's tail with tat pinl"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
EDITOR ANANiAs.
The Truth-Stretcher is Stlil on Deck
Surprising the World.

The Truth-Stretcher Is Stlii on Deck
Surprising the World.
A California exchange editor had be-
gun to think that lying was played
out in the Pacific slope press until he
encountered the fullowing item:
A couple OF weeks ago Mono coun-
ty farmer had 1000 barrels OF pop.
corn in a barn. The barn caught fire
and the air was filled with dense show
ers OF popcorn. This extraordinary
exhibition caused an old mare in the
adjoining field to think that winter
was at hand. So she lay down under
three feet OF popcorn and froze to
death.
Eureka he murmured, 1.-THE coun.
try is safe" Afterward followed, in
quick succession, the veritable ac-
counts that during the past week have
enlivened the monotony OF the coun-
try crop reports, and divided the hon
ors OF public attention with the grass
hopper OF the San Joaquin and San
Jose scale. There was the Winters
woman, whose turkeys got drunk on
branded cherries thrown out as waste.
and who, thinking them dead, plucked
those misguided birds as many anoth-
er booty bird has been plucked, and
was filled with horror, some time lat
er, to see them recovered from their
spree, walking about clad only in their
own manifest embarrassment.
There was the petrified girl from
France, found after many years with
her feet grown fast to the solid rock,
Of which she had become a part, and
who still maintains stony silence as
to how she came so. There was the
man who crawled into a hollow tree
to escape a storm, and who was
wedged tight by the swelling of the
wood upon being wet. There was the
tree cut by loggers up on the Columbia,
the trunk of which was found to be so
full OF bears, and which was headed
up and rolled down to town with its
overload Of Ephraim in good shape.
In fact, enough evidence passed be-
fore the exchange EDITORS searching
eyes to demonstrate clearly that the
journalistic Annanias of the Pacific
coast is doing business at the old
stand
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Twenty-Five OFF.

A want OF familiarity with business
practices sometimes leads to amusing,
and sometimes TO embarrassing re-
suits: and occasionally to both. A
woman who kept small seaside hotel
thought it would be profitable to bring
the fact to the attention OF the public.
Accordingly she drafted suitable adj
vertisement, and carried it to
the countingroom of a newspaper,
NJ ere she inquired the expense OF sew
eral insertions.
IL was the custom OF this paper,
where advertisements were inserted
more than four times, TO deduct twen-
ty-fiye Der cent. from the usual rates.
The clerk read over what she had writ
ten, estimated the space it would re.
nnire. and said, at will be twenty-six
dollars: but as il is going in over four
times. It will be twenty-five OIL"
"Ohln she exclaimed. why, that's
very reasonable; and putting down a
dollar she started for the door.
IL was difficult to tell which was the
more embarrassed, the landlady or
The clerk, when he called her back and
explained that"twenty-iive off" meant
twenty-five per cent? and nottwenty-
five dollars.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Conscientious.

Many agood story is told ola school
where the boys are remarkably con.
scientious. One day the principal
was lccturing them on the subject Of
cleanliness, and asked, els there any
boy here who has not taken bath
this morning." One lad only, apattern
OF neatness, pleaded guilty.
"You, Harris, said the teacher. 81
am surprised"
III tried, sir, said Harris, stoutly,
''but there's one spot under my shout
der blade that Pm not sure | touch.
ed. So lcan't call it athorough bath. "
Harper's Magazine tells a story OF
an equally good little girl.
Marion, child ofsix orseven years,
attends the primary school. She was
reciting in mental arithmetic, and the
teacher told the class to write the an
swers on their states. Finally, there
came hard problem:
add four and three"
al couldn't do il, mamma" said
the child, us she afterwards related the
incident, "tillIput down three straight
marks ON my slate, and said, -Four
FIVE, six, seven. But then | thought
that wasn't mental. So, though
knew the answer was seven, ! wrots
down five.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
SCIENCE AND MECHANIC Arts

Chloride of ethyl is being successfully
used as refrigerant and local anesthetic.
The artificial incubation OF eggs origin
ated in Egypt, where it is still carried ON.
An apparently inexhaustible supply of
silica has been discovered near Allentown.
Pa.
Experiments lately made in Hartford,
Conn, show that light can be seen through
clean cut opening of not more than one
forty -thousandth of an inch.
Scientific men rely almost entirely apon
the regularity of the motion OF the moon
for fixing and determining dates among
the people of earlier civilization.
For blind stsEgers in horses the process
of bleeding at the mouth has been super
seeded by that of applying ammonia to the
nostrils by means of a sponge or cloth.
The largest dam of any kind in the
southern hemisphere is that at Beetaloo
South Australia. 1t is built of concrete,
has a capacity of 500, 900, 900 gallons, and
cost 1856, 900.
The zinc tannin process of preparing
wood to resist decay is proving great
success. 1t hardens the wood and makes
it much more useful, especially when used
for railroad ties.
To form an idea of the experiments that
take place from abroad in the way of test
ing new devices in warfare, the station at
Liege, Belgium, consumes nearly 4, 600, 600
cartridges and forty tons of powder year
in testing firearms.
In sandy soil the greatest success is met
with in utilizing a stream of water from a
hose to bore the way for the sinking of
piles. The nozzle is secured TO the heel
of the pile and the stream turned on. The
pile sinks rapidly, and the sand packing
about it renders 1t perfectly solid.
Machines for opening and cleaning cot
ton have recently been improved by an
automatic feeding apparatus, applied TO
the feed apron, and by means of which
one man can tend two machines when be-
ing fed with raw or bail cotton easier than
he could heretofore tend one. A large
amount of seeds and leaf is distracted by
this device.
From number of careful tests lately
made to ascertain the precise strength of
anchor bolts set in Portland cement in the
ordinary way, the fact appeared that the
joint was really stronger than the stone.
Two-inch iron rods were set into the stones
some eleven and one.half inches, and then
subjected to the test. The first rod had a
screw thread to improve the grip of the
cement, and the cement began to yield at
a load OF 81, 900 pounds, the breaking of
tho stone taking place at so, 900 pounds.
With plain, smooth rod il was found that
the cement began TO yield at "a, 900 pounds,
but tho rock broke at $4,000 pounds.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
An odd Certificate.

English visitors to Vienna will per-
haps remember a curiosity shown them
on the Graben. near ST. Stephens, the
Stock in Eisen. 1t is a knotted tree,
said TO be the last ash cut down in the
Vienna forest when il covered the
ground on which the oldest part OF the
city now stands, 1t was once the GUS
tom of every smith and locksmith of
the city at the end of his apprentice
ship to drive one nail into the trunk
and, and in case of the locksmiths, to
try to open the paddock which hung
from The iron band round the middle
Of the trunk. In the course of centu-
ries the tree was studded with nails
from top to bottom. so thiclSly that at
last it was declared impossible to in
sert another nail. This covering of
iron gave the trunk great durability.
The old houses which stood on this
spot have been purchased by an lnsur-
ance company and an enormous build
ing of five stories. surmounted by a
cupola, darkens the Graoen, The
other day the old Stock in Eisen was
taken away and deposited in a corner
of the new building, where niche has
been reserved for it. A handsome iron
gate will be erected In front of II.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
SILK THAT MAKES DANCER.
The Liability TO Spontaneous Combustion
Makes IL Very Risky Freight.


The Liability TO Spontaneous Combustion
Makes II Very Risky Freight.
The recent discussion as TO whether
ocean liners should carry cotton as
well as passengers has brought out
another fact '.At present importers
here" a gentleman said to a New
York Recorder reporter. are receiv-
ing large consignments of heavy dyed
silk, known as French twist The
French manufacturers do not spare
the dye on the goods. for it adds to
their weight. In this dye chemicals
OF a peculiar kind are used, and it is
this fact that makes this silk danger
Gus freight.
There is always fear OF spontan-
eous combustion unless the greatest
care is taken packing the goods.
These come in bales of various sizes,
sat generally averaging 500 pounds.
They are wrapped in cotton bagging.
with undertaking layers of straw and
brown paper, and are made compact
by hydraulic pressure. There have
been cases where bales have been
destroyed from the causes mentioned
and not many years ago serious fire
was caused on a French steamer by
these goods"
Steamship men generally say that
they are aware of the danger of carry
ing these silks, and that the greatest
care is taken whenever they are car.
ried as freight One or two lines, in
deed discriminate against this freight
and will not carry it.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
WAKE" M'ouADE.
A Queer Character Who Spends
His Evenings With The Dead.

Queer Character Who Spends
His Evenings With The Dead.
A tall, decently dressed man passed
the little brick houses opposite police
headquarters on Mulberry street the
other night. Seated on the steps of
one of the houses were several news
paper men waiting for news from the
big white building across the
way.
A Grape sash hung on the door bell
OF the next house, and the tall man
looking at it said.
sis there wake in there?"
81 believe So" answered one OF the
men Intercepted, and the inquisitive
stranger darted up the alley in the
rear of which was the house where the
dead person lay.
do any OF you know him?" inquir-
ed a policeman who was passing.
Everybody shook his head.
That's McQuade the Walker, +"
said the officer. "He never misses a
wake in the ward, and the amount OF
liquor and tobacco he can stow away
is remarkable. OF course, at an
arrangement oil that sort no ques-
tions are asked and McQuade goes in,
| stays an hour or SO and departs.
He has been at as many as a dozen
a night, and although he works as a
plasterer during the day. he takes in
the wakes at night"
A World reporteIimet McQuade as he
emerged from the house of mourn
| ing.
II go to wakes" he said, because
sometimes l can be OF service to the
relatives of the deceased. Anybody
who says | 60 for tobacco or whisky
says what is not true. ! know am
called Wake McQuade' and / have
been 70 as many as seven wakes in
one night, but ! do no harm and II
| pleases me.
There's a woman dead around in
Mcdougal street, concluded Me
Quade, "and ] think I'll drop in and
see II / can be Of service" and away
he went.-New York World.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
THOUGHT OF HIS FAMILY.
II He Were Killed He Didn't Want
Any Financial Complications.

Any Financial Complications.
The road was uneven and there
were numerous sharp curves, and as
the train was running at a high rate
of speed it was anything but comfor-
table for the passengers. Sometimes
it actually seemed as though all the
wheels on one side of the Pullman
were off the rail at once.
This didn't serve to put any OF the
passengers at ease, but 1T seemed to
have a particularly bad effect on
little old fellow near the middle of the
car. He grew more and more merry
GUS with every jerk of the car, and
finally called the porter to him.
"How soon win we reach a place
where | can send q Dispatch" he
asked.
Bout ten minutes, sah," was the
reply.
IAN tight. Bring me telegraph
blank"
1t was brought and he hastily scrib-
bled the following message to New
York broker:
''Sell all my stock in X and q road
at once and at any price you can get"
you don't seem TO have much con-
fidence in the road, said the man in
the next seat, who had read the dis
patch over the little mans shoulder.
81 haven't; was the terse reply.
"You don't think it has much of a
future, apparently"
Future be hanged" returned the
little man. II was thinking Of the
present and my family"
Your family exclaimed the stranger.
What has your family got to do with
it,"
Everything, my friend, everything"
explained the little man, "and if you
were anything" OF financier you'd
see it I've got to ride 200 miles on
this road yet, aud how would it look
for my family TO sue the road for
damages that, if secured, would prac-
tically come out OF my estate? No.
sir, I'll allow this dispatch twenty
minutes to reach New York, and I'll
allow the broker twenty-five minutes
to dispose of the stock. Ifthis blamed
car keeps the rails for forty-iive min
utes more some one else will be stuck
| for damagesi if Iclimb the golden stairs.
And if she holds the rails for the
whole 200 miles, can buy the stock
back if / want it and go back by an
| other road. st. Louis Star Sayings.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Great Thoughts.

When a man takes cigar out ofhis
mouth to tell an editor to stop his
paper because he "can't afford it"
the editor may say nothing but he
thinks a great deal. And when he
orders his paper stopped because he
''hasn't time TO readit," and then goes
down and whittles n dry goods box
for two hours, the editor may say
nothing but he thinks great deal,
And when he stops his paper because
two line item did not suit him and
then posters his neighbor by borrow
ing the paper, the editor may say
nothing but he thinks o great deal
Kissimer Leader Fla.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14

To find Guinea nest was the very
poetry Of egg-hunting. The creatures
are half wild, and feed far afield.
The bush pasture was their chosen
haunt. and had such store OF hidden
hooks. such clumps of brake and brier,
such steep grassy banks. such tangle
of sedge and dew-berry and plumb
thicket that we would never have
found an egg but from the birds queer
habit When the hen goes TO the nest,
her mate stands guard over her on the
nearest bare spot; and fills the air
with his harsh buzzing cry.
Following the sound. we came upon
the pair Madame chooses her home
daintily. and deeply hollows the clean,
dry earth of it Flowers often nod
above it, grass is sure to spring green
ly about the edge. Overhead is always
shelter of some sort for the maker
knows instinctiyely that sunshine will
addle her precious eggs. Her small
cousin. the partridge, so admires her
taste that sometimes she decides to
share the nest Sometimes, too, hen
OF independent mind comes a-grass-
hopperlng into the bush pasture and
puts her eggs into such shelter. Very
often we found forty eggs to the nest,
And when we took them out it was
always with a silver spoon. Black
nanny fought US "Et yer puts han
in dar. de guinea II smell it an quit
de nes'.n Whatever the reason, the
fact was none the less act-Harper's
Young People.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Great Opportunity for old Maids.

There is a great chance for old maids
in the Argentine Republic. There are
about sixteen men to one woman
there and the unmarried males are
more than anxious TO secure wives.
When ''new woman, as the welcome
arrival is called, comes to town about
fifty men make wild effort to secure
her. 1t is quite aninterestingeontest,
and the one who captures the prize is
looked upon as something of hero.
The local papers write columns about
it, and almost everybody in the city
turns out to the wedding. 1t doesn't
matter much about the woman's age
or looks, she is received with open
arms and married off in a jiffy to some
real nice man. The woman will have
about fifty good-looking suitors to
pick from, so she need not be anxious
about not finding the kind of a man
she wants. The love-making doesn't
last long, however. Three days is the
usual limit.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
THE MYSTERIOUS EMERALD.
Story of Valuable Gem Picked Up
by a Boston Lady.


by Boston Lady.
There is the theme for a romance in
the experience OF a Boston lady in the
matter of finding a ring about year
since.
She came across the Common and
just as she was about to leaveit by the
Boylston-street gate her eyes caught
the glitter of a gem on the pavement
and STOPPING she took up one of the
most superb emerald rings ever seen
in this part OF the globe. 1t is not
necessary to describe it too accurate
ly here since in answer to her adver-
tisements there has been more than
one attempt by pretenders to get it
fraudulently; but it is sufficient to say
that it is literally such a ring as
might be the gift of king. 1t is the
sort of jewel which figures in romances
of the Disraeli sort, where no expense
is spared, and it was naturally worth
sum of money which to ordinary
mortals is something pretty big in any
light and really tremendous to have
locked up in a single ring.
The lady took the Jewel to all the
leading dealers in gems in the neigh
borhood, and they all agreed in say
ing they had never seen it, but that it
was impossible that ring of so much
value should long want for an owner.
The jewel has been advertised in all
the papers, and the finder has kept q
careful lookout for advertisements in
her turn. The police and the dealers
in gems are fully informed about it,
and yet for more than a year the ring
has been in her possession without a
sign of its owner appearing to claim
it. 1t is true that there have been a
number of applications for it, but no
one who has come to claim it has been
able to come anywhere near correct
description of the ring, and what its
history was before it landed in the
dust of Boylston street is still mys-
| terry.
Since the ring is of so great a value,
it would be supposed that the owner
would endeavor to find it for its pecu-
MARY worth, even ifthere be no senti-
mental value attached to it, but moth
ing of this sort seems to have happen
ed. Some day the mystery may be
solved, but at present there is no clew
toprevent the romancer from weaving
about the jewel any web offancy which
his BRAIN can spin. Courier.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14


notP' she exclaimed. "Areyou a wild.
ower?p
"Well, MOI but my wife, you see, has
no tact about her, and
"And that settles mel" interrupted
the girl, as she rose up to 20. II
thought there was something behind
all that soft talk OF yours!'
WAS that another woman selling
church festival tickets?n. asked Mrs.
Bowser as the girl left.
Mrs. Bowser, think Pm capable
Of running this business" he frigidly
replied. "Only two girls have yet
called, and | instantly discovered that
neither was such person as should
like 20 take under my roof in any ca
paclty, You would have undoubtedly
hired the first conner, but r.
The third applicant here appeared
and MIR. Bowser had 20 break of to
recelyeher. Heshook hands ms before.
and after asking few questions, re-
marked:
II run my house somewhat differ
emily from the average. For instance.
you will be regarded here more as a
companion than servant
will !? IL does me good to hear
you say that sir! I'm great hand to
sit Ia the parlor when have a
chanoe!p
You will be given opportunity to
| cultivate your mind.
"Wili II That's beautiful That 3
what | wanted TO do at my last place,
but when they found | was reading in
bed they turned the gas out on
/ me"
"sIy wife has an idea that a cook
has no griefs or sorrows, but
But she has, sir, I've got over 40
| OF 'em at this very moment"
"Some ladies insist on keeping their
help at a distance, but ! don't be-
lieye"-
That's quite true sir. At my last
place the lady was 30 miles distant
from me, at her mothers. most OF
the time. You don't believe IN itg
Neither do !. Are We to go TO the
| theater together"
"How-Eh-ahat?" queried Mr..
Bowser,
and il the old lady makes kick,
fire her out, sayl"
Are you speaking about my wife?"
he asked in an uncertain way.
"Oi course. You'll come down into
the kitchen and read poetry TO me as |
thnmp the dishes about, and then I'll
come up TO the parlor and play and sing
for you, and Il the old lady gets her
back up fire her out"
IL don't think you'll quite fill the
place" stammered Mr.. Bowser as he
rose up.
You don't Then ia like 10 know
what in Tophef You mean by giving
me all that soft talk, What sort Of a
game is this you are playing"
MY dear girl, began Mr.. Bowser in
reply, I'm think over the matter and
drop you n line.
You will, ehg And III think over
the matter aud send my brother here
20 see youl
She had scarcely banged the door
when MIR Bowser bounced into the
back parlor with his face on fire and
exclaimed.
Well. l hope you are satisfied
what have doneg" asked Mrs,
Dowscr.
Done done' You've caused me to
bcinsulted and belittled in my own
house,
Didn't / tell you that
"Nevcrl Never told me anything
and now you may so without a cook
until you are starved TO death and
won't raise my finger 10 get one. I'm
patient man, Mrs. Bowser, and
I'm a long.suiiering man, but there il
a limit. You've reached it. Tn,
worm now turns, and IL don't com,
up to luncheon nor dinner
But he returned ut the usual hour
and when he espicd new girl passing
through the hall he hadn't a single in
quiry TO make-New York World.
I --aaa-a=-a-aa-azaaa=azaaa--
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Good Evidence.

Mrs. De Tone; "Iwant to have an
asylum appointed for my poor hus-
band. His mind is failing
Attorney: Have you any partie-
ular evidence OF the decline OF his
mental faculties?"
Mrs. De Tone. eyes, indeed. l
asked him Tor $40 for a new bonnet
this morning, and he said / had better
take S25, so l thought | would come
to see YOU"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
Give rs HcIr.

Travis-''There was a row in the
royal family Of England the other day. +"
''Dumby-''What caused it?n
Travis The Prince of Wales APP
peared before the queen with his trou-
sers rolled up at the bottom"
Dumby-''I don't see anything in
that to make row about
Travis Well. you see the queen
took it as an insinuation that she had
reigned too long. New York Chic.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
ssreat wen Buried rThcrc,

Lowell was buried in his family lot
at Mount Auburn. Longtellow is
buried there, and Sumner, The great
men, almost without exception, are
buried, though n feeling has for some
years been growing in favor Of entomb-
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-14
,,arN MARY CLIMBED THE TREE
A rAsroRAL.

A PASTORAL.
a., avery bough ripe cherries hung,
AZ every breeze they sRayed and swung
And
Ma
Ky
Climbed
The
Tree.
The feeding robins flew away
A. Mary climbed that summer day
Aud
Jack
He
stopped
TO
See.
watching The feat with open eyes,
watching her feet in valid surprise
while
Ma
RV
Climbed
The
Tree,
Ana then he drew beneath the shade
0fthe cherry tree and chaiied the maid
Who
Cried
Mis-.
Il.
go way. She said, and held her gown.
But he said, Il II stay ill you come down;
Ney-
Er
Leave.
R Soa
sing hey. lor the yolSel who laughed In glee
Al lie Weeping maid In the cherry tree
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