Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-03-07

remain.
The Kansas soap weed may have a rival .
right az home A Yankee has discovered !
that cora makes a soap Of first-class
quality,
Sir Edwin Arnold is man Of unbound
ed hospitality and gives hearty welcome
to any fellow countryman in his beautiful
japanese home.
John Ruskin says; The good book OF
the hour, then, is simply the pleasant talk
Of some person whom YOU cannot converse
with, printed for you y
Stanley has become member Of the
English society for psychical research.
He will find much more darkness there
than in Darkest Africa
A San Diego county (Cal) horticulturist
is going TO graft the many live oaks on his
place with chestnuts which he has learned
| will succeed well on oak trees.
! Mrs. Marshall o, Roberts, who lives
now in Spencer house, London, is said to
receive as many offers Of marriage as any
widow in the British metropolis.
Mrs John d. Rockefeller, wife Of the
4 Standard Gil millionaire, is one Of the most
modest and unpretentious Of women. She
is active in good works of many kinds.
George w. Colby, who was in the Salem
/ custom house with Nathaniel Hawthorne,
| died recently. Whoever was with Haw-
thorn secured fame if not immortality
Familiarity with leprosy has made Sand
witch Islanders so careless that they some
times allow school teachers suspected Of
the loathsome disease to ply their vocation.
The period OF "a generation has been
heightened. II used to be 80 years. Now
a scientist says the mean term OF human
life has increased in the last fifty years
from "a to Y years,
\ tunnel between Scotland and ireland
is one Of the projects discussed by engin-
GERS. 1t would be thirty miles long and
would cost 10 millions. In these days all
things are possible.
The Joker wrote: Those hardy per-
petual ANIMALS, the summer resort girls, J"
and the ahiable compositor set ita up,
Those homely, perpetual animals the
summer resort girls
Some years ago Lady Assingtou philan-
thropicaliy sent twenty-four British fami-
lies TO the cape 10. found an improved col
ouy. She bought land for them, but the
result was failure. The men would not
work.
The water system Of the Amazon affords
not less than 5000 miles Of free naviga-
ton within the great Brazilian territory.
That beats the navigation system Of the
: Missouri, but it is not so important to this
j section.
; A life Of case does not satisfy some rich
J girls, Miss Mabella Young Low Harlem,
, n. Y, girl and college graduate, mas pur.
chased a nursery and will devote her time
and energies to the cultivation Of roses and
mushrooms.
Senator Voorhees,, who in his youthful
days used to say negro never wrote 9
poem nor carved statue, may now reat
: Louis Janvier, a Haytian negro, has re
: Gently published in Paris novel which i.
1 said to show considerable ability.
d A very extensive domestic industry il
t Russia consists in the manufacture o
q spoons which are made to the extent Of 3
A million annually, mostly Of birch, Tht
Z poor Of that land are happy if they can &c
Z something to eat even in wooden spooas.
So 10. as is known, tea outranks coffe
rs a beverage By many centuries. Accord
q ing to Chinese legend, the virtues Of te
Y were discovered BY the mythical Empero
u Chinung 2737 B. G., to whom all agricuI
cured and medicinal knowledge is traced
Won Moltke married an English girl
d Mary Burt. His love and tenderness 10
: her while she lived were among the nobl
n traits for which his countrymen love an
admire him. Now the old man spends a
= hour each day in meditation beside he
- tomb.
r, The hunting costume for women is d
ig such clerical stamp that when a lady wa
Is thrown lately in Ireland a countryma
IL rushed up with the remark: IF you
y reverence will Just kape along the bank
bit there is handy rail you might elm
y ever"
= Does literature payl Zola can answer
~ Yes, it has paid me-" Twenty-Five year
to ago he was clerk esteeming himself pass
lie ing rich on salary Of eighty francs
month Now he is practically millionaire
all made by painting in realistic manuc
10 the underside Of life.
he In England they give their foot ball pIaJ
"a ers sl5 to $50 week regular salary wit
~ 1900 bonus at the end Of the season If the
conduct has been creditable. The plan
p putting premium up for good conduct h;
'ts a wholesome effect. The plan might
'st tried ON base ball players.
r. Friedrich Wilhelm, the little crow
n prince Of Germany, is handsome boy
ag seven, who is every inch Hohenzoller
.r- He wants his own way as much as any b.
! in the kingdom. He does not like must
1. He would much rather play horse or Sc
~ dier, but it is his fathers orders that
St must learn to play the violin, and he da
lty not disobey.
on Ernest Renan, the French religious hi
nd torian and critic, lives in a modest hou
eD that seems almost lost in the woods
St Brittany. He is a tall and very stout ms
with curious long hair. His welcome
most hearty, and his face beams wi
-, kindness. Never q bitter word crosses +
y. lips, and he is greatly beloved by h
ay peasants Of his neighborhood.
ah President Eliot Of Harvard, addrossiI
lr- the Massachusetts Teachers associatio
lily says that the school children Of our citi