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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

i, for one, have always innocently sup
posed that gold table utensils were what
they pretended TO be- all gold; but lately
an expert and dealer in old silver has
Informed me to the contrary. Even Vic
toria's royal gold plate Is no better than
II should be. For such n thing as solid
gold is totally unknown. / must say
this knowledge Is a vast relief TO me.
Burglars may labor under n like delusion,
and fancy any piece OF gold plate Is better
worth burgling than the best silverware
in the market. But we have all made
mistake. The finest gold service In ex-
isrence is but silver, washed with that
precious metal. IL seems no less person
than Mr. James keene, when he returned
from England with the famous Ascot cup,
won by his horse Foxhall, also believed In
the solid business, for the trophy was
valued a. $4,000 by the custom house OFF,
cials Mr.. Keene paid the duties on those
figures and his cup was deposited in o
place OF safety. Shortly after came the
financial crash In Mr.. keene's fortunes,
and he found ii necessary to raise money
ON the Ascot cup The first jeweler and
expert in New York was dispatched to the
bank 10 examine, or rather 20 assay, its
intrinsic value. He found, TO his own en-
tire satisfaction, that the 1000 guinea cup
was worth precisely $600 including
metals and the price OF artistic workman
shipl Whether the United States Gus
toms ever reimbursed Mr. Keene my in-
formant did not know. Boston Herald.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
Parisian Dudes I'm Doubt.

Partisan dandles are greatly exercised
In their minds Just now rs to what style
Of stick they ought TO adopt during the
season. They are tired OF the gold
knobbed canes, the crutch canes and the
canes with ducks beaks, which were once
the rnge. An energetic inventor has there
fore started a thick stick which almost
aspires TO the dignity and dimensions OF
cudgcl, and the pomme, or pommel, OF
which Is the claw OF crayfsh. The
article Is already In the hands Of many Of
the gandens, and promises to be fashion
able success. While the members Of
metropolitan ''masherdom" are thus busy
about the mice conduct" OF crayfish
cane their female ecounterparts are puzzled
as to the style of walking which they
shall adopt for the season. AS furs are
worn at this period Of the year the car
riage prescribed is that OF short steps
with the 'wagglen Of the little bird
known as the bergeronnette, or water
wagtail. This ''waggle" should, Of
course, be as graceful as possible, the
undulating sweep OF the hips being well
accentuated. The Parisienne looks, as a
rule, adorable in furs, but she Is some
times tempted to put in too much "wag-
gle" The best dancing masters and pro-
fessors OF calisthenics In converts, board
ing schools, lyceums for sweet girl gradu-
ates and similar establishments, are, there
fore, engaged at the present moment In
instructing their pupils in what may be
called the art of "waggling. Paris Cor.
London Telegraph.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

We have arrived at a fair solution OF the
mystery Of the spleen, which is a blood
gland. and which seems to be occupied in
the work. among other duties possibly, OF
making blood corpuscles-but until very
recently the tonsils puzzled us completely
The opinion was hazar,ied that they might
be glands OF service In early life. like the
Thyroid gland in the neck, or the thymus
gland. which is big in infancy, but de
creases in size aud Importance as we pass
away from the first epoch Of onr existence.
This Is hy no means an unphilosophical
view 10 take OF organs which do not appear
To subserye any active duty in adult ex-
istence.
Early life has its own special demands
and duties, and organs which discharge
these duties would naturally decline and
appear before us IA useless parts when the
adult stage was attained. illustrated Lon.
don News
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
For Saving Life at Sea.

An act has been passed by the En-
glish parliament under which every
ship aud steamer going to sea must be
provided with sufficient boats, or with
life saving RATS, to accommodate every
person on board, crew or passengers
A London firm has opportunely pat.
ented raft which may be folded up
SO that it will take no more room upon
ships deck than does an ordinary
life boat. and which may, in fact. be
made a chuck for the reception Of the
life boat, and both boat aud raft, by
an ingenious, but really simple con-
trivance may be put overheard by the
same set Of davits. aud the raft follows
the boat so quickly that the two are
sent afioat within couple Of minutes
of each other.-New Orleans Picayune.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

An improved refuse des, ructor has ap-
peared in England. The refuse is put into
the destructor. and it contains sufficient
refuse coal and other combustible material
to keep the furnaces going when once
lighted, no other fuel being necessary. The
temperature Of the furnaces ranges from
400 To 900 degs. Fahrenheit, according TO
the firing, and considerably less heat than
the former in sufficient to effectually de
stroy any germs Of disease and To consume
the injurious products OF combustion be.
fore they are passed into the open air, Pat
ent flIme cremators are also provided
through which all gases from the furnaces
pass over a fire. the temperature Of which
sometimes reaches 500 degs Fahrenheit,
and they are thence conducted into chin.
ney shaft lG0 feet in height
The intense heat, which is estimated as
equal to the development Of forty y-five
horse power, is utilized for driving ma
chinery and generating electricity, As we'll
as in dealing with the clinker or rcsiduum
which is left after the burning. This
residuum Is ground mp for concrete NOR
tar made into paving blocks. or used In
the construction OF streets, aud suitable
boiler IL provided In the main flue OF the
apparatus. According to present working
+ the amount Of house refuse, street sweep
ings, etc. that can be disposed of by on,
machine in year is 10000 loads. Each
OF the eight cells Of the destructor burr
4 from eight To nine tons per day Of twenty
/ four hours. New York Telegram.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
How Egyptian Dog. Were Cared For.

In Egypt the house dog was shaved.
combed and washed lie was sometimes
tintSd with l~nna, as II he were woman
He wore fine collars on his neck. furnished
sometimes with an earthenware clasp in
the shape OF bell or flower. Children
played with him, became attached to him,
and the hero Of one story, TO whom his
fates had predicted at his birth that he
would die Of the bite OF dog. willingly
confronted the threatened danger rather
than be separated from the dog he had
raised. lie OF course had "A name TO which
he answered: Si-togai. the ferreter, kha-
oubsen. the lamp or star, Soubou. the
strong, and Nansi, the black.
He is seen with kings as well rs with
common persons. Rameses II. during the
earlier years OF his reign, was always es
corted by female dog. which was called
Anaitiennaktou, or brave as .he goddess
Anaitis, A petty king OF the eleventh
dynasty. about 1900 B. G., had i've dogs,
which he so loved that he carved their
names and engraved their portraits on his
tomb They were, indeed. blooded AMI
mails, whose names revealed their foreign
origin The finest of them was called
Abaikaron, faithful transcription Of the
word abaikour, by which the hunting dog
is designated in many Of the Berber dis
tricts Nature.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

The darky employed at the Laclede
bank was busily engaged polishing the
brass signs Of the institution. He
rubbed and secured and frightened
and wiped until the perspiration stood
out upon the black marble OF his
brow, Notwithstanding that the day
was chilly in the extreme. He fin.
ished his task with sigh OF satisfac.
ton, gathered up the utensils he had
employed and disappeared into the
bank Just as three ladies turned the
corner on a semi -gallop to catch ca.
BILE train which had already reached
Broadway.
Strange To say they made no attempt
10 stop the train The bright convex
brass surface, glistening in the occa
sional burst of sunshine, focused their
attention, and in just three seconds
the group were busily engaged in
front of it arranging their bangs, put
ting on their dabs of powder where
they would do the most good with a
powder rag and in sundry and divers
ways finishing their toilets. st. Louis
Republic.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10


sswhat field Is there in liie.ary work
for a young man or young woman whu
has some ability and yet has no knowlcslev
OF how 70 begins" was asked OF Richard
Watson Glider, editor Of The Century.
The only way for beginner 20 do Is
TO begin. To become professional writer
practice IL necessary
II want 70 know what field there is to-
day for magazine writing"
"For people without literary repnta-
tionssn
Eyes, people who want to make rcpu-
tation-who want to rise in the profess
sion; it is fast becoming a profession In IT.
SELF
well, the most constant demand IL for
fiction. A beginner always has the oppor-
tunity for practice In the field of short
stories, and out OF this he can graduate
into serial writer, novelist, publishing
either In the magazines or In book form,
or both. In this way the writer OF stories
has an advantage over the dramatic
writer, in that he can las MFR. Brander
Matthews saysl make his brief essays and
try them on the editors and on the public,
whereas In the dramatic art in this country
he does not get the chance that he does
abroad where they take one act plays
from beginners. That Is one reason why
there are so many good writers OF fiction
coming up all over the country and why
there are SO few dramatists, because the
former have a chance to practice-to try
their experiments upon the public--and
the latter have small chance
HAS not that been the case with almost
all OF our fiction writers Of the present
| generation; they began with short stories
and then blossomed out as the roses'
THAT has been the rule. Some Of them
have never got fairly beyond the short
story stage, but II they write good short
stories they have gained the rewards Of
fame. New York Mail and Express
Interview
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
NEVER STOLE BUT ONCE.
Then He Was Too Conscientious, Though
Hungry, TO Take His share.


An Atlanta dispatch says: Yester- !
into the Sheriff's office with a gray
haired and grizzly bearded prisoner.
who trembled with fear as the bailiff
announced;
Mr.. sheriff, here is an old man
who is charged by negro with steal.
ing dog last Christmas.
Can you give bondl" the sheriff
asked the prisoner.
Il can, sir, il will be allowed TO
see some Of my neighbors in De Kalb
county"
well, we can't fix that now. and
reckon you will have to go to Jail for
the present
The old prisoners eyes began to ill
with tears us he dropped wearily into
a chair.
Presently some one spoke to the
sheriff as Col. Thomas
The prisoner sprang to his feet and
asked, excitedly:
is this Col. l.. p. Thomasl"
II am, replied the sheriff.
Don't you know me, coloneli Don't
you remember old Newt Nolan, who
was in your command during the
warl"
An expression OF recognition came
over the colonels face as he held out
his hand and replied:
Newt, old fellow, how do you do
and where have you been all this time Z
Colonel. have been out in ID,
Kalb county working ever since ole
Company ID laid down her arms. Say
colonel, about this dog stealing busi
ness. All did was To take up stra,
dog, and when the owner called 70
him | wouldn't give him up until h
J paid for his board Colonel, neve
stole but one thing in my life. Don
J you recollect that night we went ou
and stole a sheepa"
, Yes; hungry soldiers are excuse
bic FOR foraging little.
Now. colonel, tell the boys what
did. Tell 'em, colonel, how homes
old Newt is"
why, you refused To eat any o
, the sheep because, SO you said, yo
couldn't eat mouthful of what diln
belong TO you.
And was mighty hungry"
"Yes, we were all half starved
Now. colonel, do you think woul,
steal a negros dog1'
, why, bless my heart, old fellow
OF course you wouldn't. Here, Mn
Bailif, I'll put up the amount Of tina
bond. Let my old comrade here g
free"
And the war Scared veteran hugge,
his old commander, and went out int
! tine sunshine proud and happy. Ma
con (Ga.l Telegraph.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
A Judicial testers Latest.

Judge Gary, the judicial jester, has been
making his friends laugh with new
Joke. Have you heard Of the latest abb
stract scheme' or course you have not,
and your curiosity concerning it Is stimu-
lated to an extraordinary degree by the
solemn, almost mysterious air of the
judge, who asks you the question. 'swell,"
he says, after you have pressed him TO
tell you. 1--WE are getting up q company
that will prepare complete set of books
from the records of the courts, and be
ready to furnish abstracts of titles to men
and women. Say woman wants to
marry man whom she has not known
very long, and she wants to make sure
that he has no wife living in Wisconsin
or Indiana, she comes to our company
and gets an abstract of title on him that
will show her just how many times he
has been married, how many times di-
vorced, how many wives he has had die.
what they died OF, and all about his
matrimonial career, II he has had one.
The abstracts, of course, will be quite
as useful TO the man who wants to
know what sort of title he can get to
the woman he Is about to marry, and ia
every way the scheme viii be good one.
There ~ great and an increasing demand
for just such an enterprise right here In
Chicago. Chicago Herald.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
An ObIIgInr Clerk.

There is a clerk in the New York
postofiice who could be elected presi
dent to morrow if the suifrages Of the
women folk who deal with him
through the square window behind
which he sits could send him to the
White House He is the politest pub
lie official ever saw, one woman en-
Enthusiastically exclaimed the other af
ternoon as she came down the stairs
from the meEzanine floor. 1T doesn't
make any difference if the thermom
eter is 60 and the humidity 100, he has
always just the same easy and polite
manner. He'll unite your parcel and
do it up again for you If he thinks il
isn't just right He'll tell you every.
thing you want TO know and look aud
act all the time as if it were the great
est pleasure imaginable. Today he
was seen 10 fix upa woman's parcel for
her-the string broke or something,
and he got fresh wrapping paper and
twine aud tied it up, addressed it and
then actually put the stamp on for
her. And he smiled all the time as If
he were as delighted as she. She was
not pretty woman, either II the wo.
men could vote he would be postmas.
ter general at least New York Even.
ing Sun.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
Napoleon and III. Enemies.

Il would be interesting 10 know exactly
how much Napoleon owed to his talent as
a soldier, and how much to his good fortune
In having had against him men Of inferior
capacity. For Of Mack he wrote, six years
before the campaign Of 1905, "a man OF
the lowest mediocrity | ever saw In my
life" lie WAS never able 60 use such Ian
guage Of Wellington, GneisenAu Blucher
or Scharnhorst; and had he met them when
drst consul. there would have been no
Mack and no AuSteElitz In 1905. -Poultney
Bigelow In Harper's
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
The Ilats, worst Enemy.

"A white rat" said friend Of mine re-
Gently who is supposed to know. is the
mortal enemy Of the common or brown rat.
II three white rats are placed In a dwelling
infested with the rodents they will drive
the latter away within a week. a white
rat will fight brown rat and kill 1t almost
a. quickly IA n ferret. In fact, think
white rata belong To the ferret family."-
Kansas City Times.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

Merchant-MrC Canesucker, can you
pay this little bill todayi
Dudely Canesucker = Not today;
some other day.
1T occurs 10 me that you should
try and save up, 40 as TO meet your
obligations.
That's what I'm doing; haven't
used any money to pay debts in more
than a year now. Texas Siftinga
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

Ears with curved hanging lobe nre
by far the most common. while no.
more than one person in fifty possesses
the straight lobed ear This peculiar
shaped ear is often hereditary, and can
be traced back in some families for
generations. People with musical
tastes generally have large and prom
inent ears, while the thin. angular
ear Is said to denote bad temper and
cruelty Pail Mall Gazette.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
when Gotta. We're Flr., Made.

Certain passages in the Iliad OF Homer
would lead TO the inference that coins OF
brass were struck as early as ls4 years u,
c. Tradition afiirms that the Chinese had
bronze coins as early n il0 b. c. But
Herodotus "the father Of history" as
cribes the Invention of coins TO the l.y.
dians, about nine centuries u. G., and there
Is no satisfactory evidence that coins were
known prior 20 thai flate-St. Louis Re
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
In.urance Aealn., Er,aem,sa.

Mutual organizations to insure againss
epidemics are being established In some OF
the large manufacturers Of Sheffield, Eng
land. Each workman contributes Cor 2 II
per cent. OF his wages, and in return Il
guaranteed payment equal to his nv-
erage wages should he be Obliged TO quit
work ON account Of any epidemic In hia
York Sun.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

A German engineer has paved bridge
with india rubber. and the result has been
so satisfactory that IL Is 10 be applied on n
larger scale. IL Is found to be more durable
than asphalt and not slippery. New York
Journal.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10

A manufacturer who makes tools fus
dehorning cattle can not produce them
fast enough to meet tho demand. One
large stockman has been dehorning nt tbs
rate Of 1900 psr week. Chicago Tunes.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-26
Afraid OF Taking the Disease.

The late H. l.. GUIDE, superintendent
of the city railroad, was one of the most
genial and large hearted men in San
Francisco. One day he contracted a se-
we're cold which turned into quick con
sumption. He consulted his physician,
who told him that Lis complaint was of
little importance and would pass away
In day or two with a little care and
rest, but realized that he was. already
beyond medical aid and that a change
of climate might do him some good. He
was accordingly ordered to Auburn,
which is the resort Of consumptives
from all over California. The doctor
was surprised day or so after to see
Kim back again, and inquired what was
the matter. "Well, p he said, ,s'there was
so much coughing around me that al
most thought l had consumption, and
came back fearing might possibly con-
tract it." The following day the poor
fellow was dead.-San Francisco Argo-
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-26
4 snenifio Arainst snakehita.

Twill mention ali extraordinary spe-
cific for the cure of snakebite which
General Sir John Bisset obtained at
Natal. It was called "Croft's Tincturc
of Life and was prepared and sold by
an old Scotchman who kept the nature of
its ingredients and preparation pro-
found secret. 1t was put up in small
bottles about the length and thickness
of q mans forefinger, and these were
sold for half guinea ($2. 75) each.
OF the efficacy the general declared
that there could be no question. He had
himself preserved by it the lives of two
of his servants, who at different times
had been bitten by venomous serpents,
to say nothing of great many oxen and
a beautiful and valuable horse. Unfor-
tunately, Crofts died some years ago,
and it is understood that the secret of
his tincture perished with him. 1t was
probably remedy the preparation of
which was impaired to him by some ono
of the Zulu witch doctors, whose knowl-
edge of the curative properties of all
African mineral, vegetable or animal
substances is known to be most extern
sive.
But they guard this knowledge jeal-
ously, and are seldom won to impart it
to any European. If the secret of the
tincture could be rediscovered its finder
might perhaps be enabled to claim the
reward of 10000 now offered by the
British government of India for specific
against snakebites. Cor. Phil
adelphia Telegraph.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-26
His Rehnka.

Much of the music sung in city
churches would scarcely be character
lied as sacred" If it were heard any
where except in the house of God. And
there are some odd people who even in
this age of progress consider that such
music belongs rather to the concert
room than to the church.
Parson Snow was one of these people.
and when he exchanged" one Sunday
with an old college friend who was set
tied over large city parish he was both
play--the anthem-with which the
members of the choir electrified the con-
gregation.
"They had fine voices, my, DEAR" he
explained to bis little wife when he was
safely back in his own home, "and /
presume they wanted to show them of,
and so took advantage of a time when
their pastor was away. / thought at
first of rising and requesting them to
desist. Then felt that perhaps it would
be my duty to report the matter to
Doctor Green.
"But finally concluded that, as it
was undoubtedly a first offense and
caused by an almost pardonable vanity,
! would deal gently with them. So ]
waited until they had finished, and then
/ rose and said, We will now begin the
religious services of the morning.
"And feel sure" concluded the sim.
pie minded pastor, ''that they felt my
rebuke and will not let such thing
occur againr'-Youth's Companion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-26
The "Flrst Edition. Craze.

Is this hankering after first editions
but a mere craze or fashionS-in which
case / would venture to predict that
when the book loving and book buying
public once begins to consider seriously
what it is that really constitutes the
value Of any first edition the ridiculous
and artifcially enhanced prices of such
issues will fall.
Upon this public weakness, whether
fostered by sentimental or any other
feeling, the booksellers are now trading
and are in the habit of calling attention
In Roman capitals in their catalogues to
first editions of almost every conceiv-
able book-of course at the same time
adding correspondingly increased
price to books which are hardly worth
purchasing In any edition.
For the present great demand for first
editions the keen competition among
English speaking peoples from abroad
for any book of special value now
offered for sale may be in q great de-
gree responsible, aided by large class
of unreasoning beings who buy books
merely because they are first editions,
and who by dint of their long purses are
able to 'trush in where angels fear to
tread" These are they upon whom
ordinary book lovers look with dread,
and the booksellers not always with
approval. Notes and Queries.