Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-09-26
WINGED MISSILES.
The American wheelborrow Is to be met
with In every part Of China and Japan

The Brooklyn Church union last year dis
tributed sl2,82l22 among churches which
needed aid.
The Oxford teapot has come into fashion
able favor as the correct ntensil for use at
the afternoon gatherings Of the ladies.
| The Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Maine receives a salary of sI.3eo, and
the bishop OF New York diocese receives
| $1,000
The czar Of Russia has in the Last five
| years spent 500, 900 in the erection Of a
beautiful church at Jerusalem in memory
Of his mother.
Thirteen years ago James Lick of Caiifor-
mia donated sl50.0O0 to give San Francisco
free bath-honse. The bath-honse hasn't
been built yet
Quick-frin Armstrong guns, 90 and 100
Founders, discharging ten and eleven shots
in a minute, have been finally adopted By
the British army.
The inside wall Of a Nebraska church has
been placarded with the names Of business
men in the town who seek patronage and
are willing TO pay for this exhibition of their
names and for public commendation by the
pastor.
member Of the Church Of the Heavenly Rest
has given s2O0, 600 for the establishment Of a
summer resort at some place near the city
for the benefit of poor mothers and their
children.
A new church has been opened In Shore
ditch, London Shops with cheap clothing,
free concerts, and club-rooms are provided
for the poor in connection with the church
The bishop of London preached the opening
sermon
| Micaiah Henley, the man who invented
roller skates, lives in Richmond, Ind He
was poor wood-sawyer and II took nearly
his last dollar 10 pay for its patent but the
craze for skating that spread over the coun-
try made him rich
! MIR. Whittier was 81 years old last Mon
day. One Of the birthday presents he re-
ceiyed last year, and which touched him
! deeply, was balsam pillow made by an In
/ dian girl from tree that grew by the grave
+ Of Helen Hunt jackson.
! A wanderer somewhere in the wilderness
OF New York has a ring whose like Is not 70
be found in any country, as il is set with
fye diamonds, respectively red, blue. brown,
canary and coffee coior-colors which il is
| out Of the jewelers. power 70 match
While the schooner William d. Marvel
was drifting toward the shore in the late
storm near Delaware Breakwater, having
| lost her anchors, the Captain took his galley
stove. filed with coal and scrap, tied cable
20 IL. flung il overheard, and by chance Sc
1 cured firm anchorage and saved the vessel
George Carpenter, Of East Kent, Conn,
/ when out hunting coons came upon wild
/ cat caught in trap He walked up TO kill
the animal. and the cat, by a mighty effort,
| broke from the trap and fell upon him tooth
| and claw The conflict was fierce, but al
length Kent killed the cal. which weighed
twenty five pounds
The temperance awakening in Denmark
has called forth active enthusiasm. The
last general meeting Of the Denmark tenn
/ pcrance society received reports from s06
local societies comprising membership Of
1890. The general meeting for 1889 win be
held al yeile, the birthplace Of the Danish
temperance movement
There is a sad and discouraged man at
/ Kneslin. Pa. Twenty years ago he bought
| q coffin for himself, Eat q bargain and
| kept 1t in his house until last week when q
fire came along and his bargain was con-
snmed. IF only had died two weeks ago.
\ he said. when he fully realized the extent of
| his loss, II would have saved my coffin
The non-conformist Protestant in Ireland
are almost unit against MIR. Gladstone's
home rule measures, as appears from the
fact that an address was recently presented
70 Lord Salisbury protesting against the
scheme and praying that il might not be
/ adopted. OF the 900 non-Episcopal clergy
OF ireland. including Presbyterians, Meth
| odists, Congregationalists, and Baptists, s0s
I signed this petition.
I BY the death of victorine Dernay, Gen.
! Boulanger has lost bitter opponent Der
/ nay was the most popular Of the Parish cafe
i singers, and was .relentlessly opposed to
Boulanger and his party. She eagerly
sought for songs which would offend him
/ and his friends, and her pleasing voice and
| manners enabled her 20 hit him many q
I hard blow which man could not have de-
liyered with impunity.
The Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst recently
said in a sermon: Enjoying people that
are congenial is not love; 1t is not loving
them for their own sakes II irrepressible
/ love toward men as such characterized our
church members in three months our church
! es wotld be filled; our whole present sanctu-
| AIRY methods would be blown up, leaving
/ too little to make a respectable funeral.
I Sermon gormandizing is the straight road
j to spiritual apoplexy. Whenever satan sees
/ a proselytizing Presbyterian or Methodist or
Baptist so into place and try to establish
] church where there is no room for IL he
takes weeks vacation.
Sidney Barcume Of Lapeer, Mich, the
4 other day redeemed an election bet by the
1 terms OF which Thomas Holmes was to kick
| him across the street A large crowd
assembled TO witness the fun. Barcume
took his position ON the curbstone, and
Holmes, after running start, fetched him
/ mighty kick. Barcume was bounced six
feet out into the street, while the kicker lay
down on the ground with one foot held fast
in Barcume's trousers and his other leg
trailing out behind like the rudder Of a
lumber raft, while Barcume kept right on
at 2;4o stride, dragging his opponent
through the slnsh and dirt to the opposite
side, where the heat was 70 end. Here
Barcume unrigged a concealed bear-trap
that had caught the kicker's boot at the first
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