The morning times., 1896-08-12
TOLD BY TRAVELLERS.
A group OF gentlemen at wilIard's Ho,s
whiied AWAY the afternoon yesterday D.

A group OF gentlemen at Wiliard's Hotel
| whiied away the afternoon yesterday by
entertaining each other with their stock
of tales. or course there were snake
| stories, and hot-weather stories. and big
game stories. but tine story winch was unan-
| imousIy v declared the palm winner was one
J relating to the rinDy tribe MIR. Robert L.
Langhorne of Boise City. Idaho, told it
| in this fashion.
several years ago, when Idaho was a
Territory and the country was Just be-
ginning to settle in a manner promising
and gratifying to the old po1ecrs, who
had the interests OF their section at heart,
one spring big flood occurred and
made the country almost impossible in
every direction. The mountain streams
and the more pretentious rivers quickly
burst their banks and filled the pasture
lands 10 the depth OF several feet. convert
ing rbe,p INTO huge inland lakes. Along
one OF the streams recently arrived
New Yorker had bought u ranch, surround
ing the property with barbed wire fence,
the barbs being something like fish nook
in shape. There were seven strings OF
this wire, running for distance OF over
two miles along the right bank or the
creek. and wi hen the waters rose the fence
was entirely covered.
What with the anxiety Of the New
Yorker to save his steers rrofu drowning
and the long duration OF the flood-about
two weeks, il my memory doesn't fail
ne-he had almost fOrrotten about MS
fence, and not until the posts stuck their
tops above the water did be turn his mind
in that direction. That was late one after-
boon, when he was rowing around ~ his
boat that he noticed the posts. and as night
was fast coming on be determined TO re-
turn to his dugOut, on the only dry piece
OF land on his whole ranch, and IN the
morning to investigate il the fence had
withstood the ravages OF the raging tor
rent
bat the next morning our rancher and
all the people in the water-soaked sec
ton were treated to an agreeable surprise
when they awUke- During the night the
Hood had receded as fast Us 1t had come,
and everywhere the pa>ture lands cuuid
be seen covered with a rich. black deposit
Of silt But the New Yorker, standing in
his cabin door, espied all over his b1rbed
wire fence something which had not been
there before the flood and which looked
IN the distance like pieces of plank about
two feet in length and several inches in
breadth What was his great astoBish-
inent, when going to the fence To inyesti-
gate the curious sight, fo find the fence
strung with fish its whole length. Every
one of the 1900 barts-how do I know
there were that many barbs7 Didn't
say in the beginning that the fence was
two miles in length and that there were
seven strands Of wire. and as there WIS
a barb for each foot OF wire, don't yoa
see how 1 get the exact number?
well. every barb hal hookeI a fish and
held HIN fast. every barb but ttIree. in
the whole two miles of wire. Curious that
those three barbs should have hooked no
fish, isn't it. but wouldn't you say il were
Igore curious still that since this phe-
ns,menai catch of fish ten years ago but
three fish have beea known To have been
caught in this same stTcam?''
why can't somebody, in this age of
genius and invention, devise an automatic
razor?" questioned Mr.. james K. Leating. OF
Des Moincs. Ia, in the corridor of the
National. The present day razor. while
stilia great improyefh en-, upOD the stoneand
glass ones used by our remote ancestors to
rid them OF their hirsure adornments, is
get an instrument dangerous TO la ndle and
productive of much discomfo and worry.
Its slash. slash. slash, and paIi, pull.
pull. about all the time. even by persons
reckoning themselves as expert earbers.
This 4 fternoon got shave In reputable
shop up the venue. nd just see the result.
Myface issore and irtlamed fromtiI pulling
of the razor and it bears just two cUts.
Now with good automatic r. zor all this
Inconvenience would be done away witt,
for then there would be 10 troubling aud
uncrrta in nerves required 10 manipulate the
instrument. dream! Oh, don't know,
stranger things have HAPPENED in the course
OF time"
Mr. A. s Holly OF Boston is in the
city.
Mr.. W. B. Franklin and Mr.. L. c
Bepcditte, both OF New York, are stop
ping at the Arlington
Mr.. C. c. Marsh OF Wilmington Del,
is registered as the Cochran.
Mr. wiiham l.. surrey az Omaha Neb.,
is guest ut La Norma Ddie.
Mr. X. W Davenport OF tie South Beth
lehcin Pa, iron and steel wor ks, is
stopping 1T tae shurcham.
Among the guests ct the Riggs House
are: Mr. Robert j. Linton of Pittsburg Pa,
and Mr. james Kearney OF New York.