The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-04-19

House reports show that exhibits
were received at the worlds fair from
sixty foreign nations, valued at S2s,
900, 900.
The Chan-Santa-Cruz Indians In Yucca
have never been conquered No white
have ever seen their city, which is de.
/ Tended by a swamp.
Philadelphia's new broad street sta
ton of the Pennsylvania Railroad
when completed, will contain over 100
miles of concealed electric wiring
Two hundred new batteries of artil.
lery are shortly to be added to the
Russian army, which will increase the
number OF field pieces by 1000
Bulgarian peasants, it is said, have
given up grain growing to a great ex.
tent and are engaged in raising roses,
the altar of which is very profitable.
newspaper reads thus: "For sale-a
bull-terrier dog, . years old. VIII eat
anything; very fond of children. Apply
at this office"
The London Chronicle says that Oh
several occasions of late a lovely lady
has dressed herself up as a flower girl
and sold violets in Bond street, Lon
don, in the early hours of the evening.
James Bragg of Hawkinsvill, Georgia
trained his dog to drive horse. While
Bragg was absent from his team the
other day the dog drove it home and
the owner had to walk five miles.
1t is said by experts that practical,
even tempered men usually write a
plain, round hand, in which every letter
is legible, and that more ambitions men
write hastily and carelessly
kentucky's latest freak productions
in the animal kingdom are lamb with
ioui SAti ieSS siiShlnR lIOm us OdCK,
and another that resembles and hops
like Kangaroo, never using its hird
feet for the purpose of locomotion.
AS showing how easily London shop
keepers are taken in, Miss Halliday. a
young lady of 25, and with no visible
means of subsistence, has Just passed
her examination in bankruptcy with
$40 600 liabilities, and "no ass cts"
A big boquet of Australian cut
flow ers, which had been fl, zen, was re-
Gently sent to Queen Victoria by Lady
Duff. After the ice had been thawsu
the blooms are said to have presented
as fresh an appearance as though just
gathered.
Mrs. Kendall, who Is so instlv noted
for her lovely complexion, gives the
following as her complexion recipe
Ten hours sleep every night, a four
mile walk every day, vigorous rubbing
In cold water, brown bread, no sweets
and no coffee
The Boston Herald Is authority for
the statement that 1t is contrary to the
school commissions orders to wash the
windows and floors of a Boston school
oftener than once year. This surpris-
Ing assertion would appear to call for
an explanation from the commission.
ers.
Ninety-two days of a horseback ride
for pleasure, covering 2,1s4 miles,
from San Francisco to Galveston, is
the trip just completed by Harry La
Verne. He averaged nearly twenty
four miles day, the work was light.
the travelling inexpensive and the
healthful results great
horse can draw on metal rails one
and two-thirds times as much as on as
Phalt pavement. three and one-third
as much as on good Belgian blocks,
i've times as much as on good cobble-
stone, twenty times as much as on good
earth road and forty times as much as
an sand.
An old law in Paris for bids kissing In
public places. A man who only saw his
wife once a week gave her his weekly
kiss In front of restaurant the other
day. Both were arrested. The cab
man was fined IS. He CALAMITY paid
the hne, remarlsing that the kiss was
worth 1t.
Jicama root has been proved by Gen.
eral Aureliano Rivera, of Mexico, to be
a specific for typus, and he has been dis
triouting 1t gratuitously to the poor.
Now he announces that it will cure
and that he believes 1t will be
equal eficient in yellow fever. The
appearance of che latter epidemic is
iue at Vera Cruz and he has sent a
package there for trial
Dignity had to be sacrificed for safety
he other day at Kansas City when a
naddened bull broke from the stock