Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-09
FLoTsAM AND JETsAM.


| Interesting InformatIon Condensed From
the Columns of Many Papers.
The oldest inhabited town in the
world is said to be Damascus
Five varieties of the alternanthera. .
plant native of the Cape Of Good Hope,
are used to border flower beds and lawns
IN the Alcazar grounds at st. Augustine.
/ Inc bright colors produce pretty effect.
An aged lady OF Elmwood, near Gin
efnnati. being taken i'll while out driy-
ing. requested her driver to take her to
the office of an undertaken whom she
knew we'll. He did SO and she died
few minutes after her arrival
New York dry goods merchant saws
that frequently some of the subordinats
employees receive larger remuneration
than the men in whose hands rest the
main responsibility for running a bust
ness. The men who usually make the
most money in the very large firms are
not the superintendent and his chief as
sistants, bnt the buyers OF departments.
The biggest edible oysters in the world
are found at Port Lincoln in South Aus
tralia. They are as large as dinner
plate and the same shape. They are
sometimes more than foot across the
she'll. and the oyster fits his shell 50 well
he does not leave much margin. 1t is a
new sensation. when a friend asks YOU
to lunch at Adelaide, TO have one oyster
set before you. fried in butter or eggs
and bread crumbs. But it is a verv
pleasant sensation, for the flavor and
delieaey of the Port Lincoln mammoths
are proverbial in that land of Injuries.
hal acr
could not have been more successful
than 1T was. The season only lasts
twenty-five days, and during that period
100000 oysters were brought to the
surface by fifty divers. They are paid
by one-fourth of the number. This sea-
son the whole produce was sold at the
rate OF - shilliugs per 1000 shells The
Government received 500. 200 as their
share and the divers 81, 100. The largest
pearls are worth in Ceylon from $40 to
200, and in Europe they fetch three
times the price or more.
At Ansonia. Conn. some old women
got together and cured a child of menu
branous Group after the doctors had
given it up. The patient was thorough
ly wrapped up in fannels and his head
and throat were rubbed with goose
grease. \ dose of the stuff, mixed with
vinegar. was with difficulty forced down
the ehild's throat. In a short time he
yomited up a large portion of the mucus
and broke up the clogging matter in the
throat Being placed in bed, he soon
went to sleep, aud the next day he was
playing about the house and appeared
to be far from dying,
Salem. Mass, formerly had a large
trade with Africa. All that trade was
gradually transferred to Boston 1t is
just as large as it ever was, but because
the country has grown so enormously it
has become small in comparison with
other lines of trade. One of our modern
ships will take cargo TO Africa as large
as all the ships of Salem in the old days
could carry in a year. There are over
dozen vessels engaged in African trade
from Boston. There is close competition
with the English for this trade. Ships
take out miscellaneous goods Rum is
the chief thing. Then bright calicoes,
beads. music-boXes, and so ON. The re-
turn cargo is mostly palm oil, gold dust,
furs and ivory.