Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-01
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY

The Ameer of Afghanistan is introduc
ing the telegraph in his dominious
! 1t is reported that over fifteen hundred
letters were mailed from Vassar College in
one day recently.
"Mrs. Partington" is getting old enough
| to be serious. She-he is between % AMI
~. Age sobers humor.
! A man in Pennsylvania chopped his fin.
ger of, whereupon his vile danced for low.
! A divorce suit is pending
The only territorial delegate in congress
who was born in his own territory is An.
/ tonic Joseph, of New Mexico.
! Boston is already reckoning on hayin,
! the president attend the Grand Army of
the Republic reunion there in August
Mir. Spurgeon has been an industrious
man. He has published thirty five volumes
Of sermons. None of them has been A
failure.
Louis Bonaparte has received a commits.
sion in the Russian army. France is in
trouble about it and may ask the car for
an explanation.
The Argentine Republic was reinforced
last year by the arrival of more than 800
900 immigrants from Europe. A large Dor
| tion Of them were Italians.
| Noble Prentis observes that much valua.
BILE farm machinery is lying out in the cor
ners of Kansas fences with no other GOV.
ering than chattel mortgage.
Many newspapers are trying to explain
| "thc secret of the weather. He who tries
to be weatherwise is quite otherwise 1.-The
wind biOweth where it listeth."
Ex-President Cleveland will spend part
of the coming summer at the Martinsville
/ springs in Indiana. The Hoosier state
seems to be happy over the affair.
| Not many Americans become legal cit
zens OF England. Last year only three
took out naturalization papers in England
| They are probably ashamed of it by this
! time.
The pope is keeping up with the current
history of the world He reads the news
4 paper of all nation from to IL every eve
nIng He knows how TO remain young and
wise.
EX-Queen Isabella, "formcrly' Of Spain,
is always bound to excel in some way she
now boasts that she is more it debt than
any woman in Europe. She is worthy Of
the distinction.
Congressman Kelley always slept with u
quid of tobacco in his mouth. He says
| that gave him the trouble with his Jaw
SO tobacco reformers Will Auve another
shining example.
Charleston, S. c., for many years OBJ.
tanned its celery from Michigan and New
York, but now raises not only enough for
home consumption, but has surplus for
shipment to the north.
/ The New YORK Sun says: 1.-THE unlet-
cause he feared nothing but wrong and
/ trusted in the people" The popular opiu.
| ion is that jackson never feared anything.
| The scholar is slowly maxi ing his way
into politics. 1t is said that of the menu
! bers OF the present congress seventeen
are graduates Of the University of Michi.
gan, sixteen OF Harvard ana eleven: Of
, Yale.
! An usher who was going to remove an
Intoxicated man from the theater was told
by lady to "iet him alone He got AL he
wanted before he came in, and will not Oe
likely TO annoy people py going out between
the acts"
| New York talks of monument to Colum-
! bus 1t is doing the same thing about one
to Grant and another one to Washington.
In these matters New York is ever ready
to put out the talk. All it asks is that
others put up the money.
| On the roof OF the New York Hospital
building will be- IA garden probably inclosed
| in glass, where patients may enjoy the cool
breezes that blow over the housetops.
Here there will be flowers, plants, al
aquarium, seats and hammocks.
The development of the st. Lawrence
River as summer resort is indicated Dy
the following statistics printed i'll the
Toronto Mail. "There were in lSSy abou.
6U persons employed as oarsmen on the St
LaWren,e River: in is; there were per-
haps 1907.
Mrs. Albert Evans, of British Columbia,
is said to be the one woman Ill that regiol
vino can successfully fight the tiger She
fights with lead and not with gold, how
ever, and the winning so far has been or
her side. The last t.ger that she fought
weighed $50 pounds.
The Sidney Herald reports that during
severe storm at Louth, south Australia.
chunks of ice as large as cricket ball,
fell in the streets. The court house, Roya!
hotel, Telegraph hotel and all buildings no,
covered with iron roofs were perforated by
the falling hailstones.
full lac began with A. L. Stewart as aE
errand boy at 5! Per week. Tie is now
three score and ten years and counts his
millions. He is as eager to make IA dollar
to-day as when he was boy. MONEY max
ing has its attractions.
jeremiah Smith, of Morgan Couaty,
Ohio, has a cat which is known by the
neighbors as solar spectrum" From the
Nf 10 toll 70 h, tb.,r.A
are distributed all the co,ors of the rain
bow. Its nose shines like u carDuncle, and
there are several shades OF violet on tho
fore legs.
native movement to break up certain
Hindoo customs h rs been started in Bonn
bay. BY it no sons are permitted to marry
under sixteen, and no daughters under ten.
No man is to IN AIRY after fifty or marry
second wife during the lifetime of the first;
he is also not to drink spirits save under
medical advice.