Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-12-25
This and That.
DO NOI KNOW


the author OF "Trilby', smokes
cigarettes and is blind in one eve;
that Lewiston had population OF
l 900 in 1862, and that without
a redeeming feature signifies the
lowest stage of degradation; that
Hon. John Silcott was the first
government agent of the Nez
Perces, and that
SWEET MARIE
was written just after the author
had gone broke in poker game;
that l.. Mcclure is now court
bailiff in the place of Sam Hutch
ings, who is i'll; that the most elab-
crate ice palace ever erected will be
open to the public at Leadville,
Col, on Jan. Ist, and that the
date of execution OF Theodore
Durrant has been set for Feb. 2Ist;
that the man who does all the talk
ing never benefits by the know
ledge of others: that woman has
been convicted of nearly every
phase Of crime; that Lafayette was
married at the age of fifteen years
and fought the battle Of Brandy
wine at nineteen; that the Their
mometer registered four degrees
below zero in Uniontown Sunday
morning and that Johnnie Wiggin
SWears that the
MEADOW LARKS
were singing in Lewiston at the
same hour; that when Horace
Greeley said go west, young
man, 60 west" he meant that
honesty and integrity should ac-
company the subject; that Judge
Piper has been engaged in the prac-
tice of law for thirty-6ve years,
and taught school four years be-
fore taking up that profession;
that upon the standard of our pub
lie depends the standard of our
nation; that o. A. Kjos' big sign
now hides the view of Main street;
that England has 90
TORPEDO BOATS
United States only 3; that the
Lewiston FIGURING Mills have
shut down for the winter, and that
the smiling bicyclist still controls
the right-of way of Main street;
that Harry Hayward before he
was executed confessed to having
committed four murders; that
wit, like charity, often hides a
multitude of sins; that Harriet
Beecher Stoves
sunny MEMORIES
of Foreign Lands furnishes the
choicest reading for young ladies';
that the adept at thievery is in
these times termed "a shred 6nan-
cier;" that conservatism is the
best patriotism; that Judge Clag-
gett made the trip with Mark
Twain" that prompted the writing
of that famous authors Rough
ing IT, and is frequently men,
toned in the story; that Uncle
Sam has moved his residence
between John Bull and Miss Ven
ezuela; that the same
RABBLING PUBLIC OPINION
which lifts the pedant to positions
of prominence buries honest genius
with its mud. and that Eddie Wag-
goner is surfeited with interesting
hunting and fishing lies" that
Edgar Allen Poe is as prominent
in prose as in poem; that Lewis
tons talented singer, Miss Kester,
sang the Ave Marie" at the All
Saints Church in Spokane last
Sunday; that the bachelor is never
afflicted with that humiliating
condition of the husband who gives
his wife money to buy him.
self Christmas present; that the
Lewiston Commission Company
has temporarily closed its doors,
and that Felix Warren now sports
a bran new suit of soldier clothes:
that Albert Coburn has sued for a
divorce, and that, in social ethics,
it is proper for the lady to speak
first; that horrid old bachelor
editor referred to 81 newly married
couple as launching out on the
sea of difficulty" that Caesar
ranked next to Cicero of Rome 5
great orators, and that Storm is
king in the Palouse country; that
the silent giver Is Charity's favor
lite child; that Lewiston is located
at the junction Of the Snake and
Clearwater rivers, forty miles
northwest of Nez Perez City; that
it is about this time of the year
that the lines 1T was the eve be-
fore Christmas. good night had
been said, etc. drifts to our mind
that every mail route into Lewis.
ton, except the Mt. Idaho, is
biockaded with snow, while in
our favored valley the ground is
hare. that Tho Salvation, ~, =,