Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-16
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opera house advertises as a special in
ducement to theater-goers that he will
keep them warm or refund their money.
Another Liberia colonization scheme
Is being worked up among the negroes
of Atlanta, Ga. Fifty of them, it is pre-
dicted, will be sent out within thirty
days, and others are to follow later.
A red-eared rabbit weighing seven
pounds was killed in Boone County,
Missouri, graveyard the other day, and
the left hind foot was at once forward
ed to William ]. Bryan at Lincoln,
Neb.
An agent Of the Massachusetts So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals daily paraded the streets of
Boston last winter bearing aloft the
appropriate banner: please blanket
your horses"
The north Georgians are shipping cat
tie to Kansas City to be butchered and
Shipped to the Georgia cities. This is
like the Georgia cotton mills that put
an Eastern label ON their sheetings to
make them sell.
A young woman in Virginia got out of
q second-story window in her home and
walked three miles in her stocking feet
in the snow to join young man. They
eloped to Hagerstown, Md, and were
married.
A man who runs skunk farm near
Otisville, N. Y, says that there is one
element of loss he is not compelled to
take into account in estimating his
profits, and that is any fear from loss
by thieves who come in the night or
daytime.
At trial in Louisville involving
great deal of racy testimony the judge
had the court room cleared of all spec
tators and stated that this procedure
would be followed in all cases in which
the idle curious should seek to feed on
vulgarities.
A vigilance committee has been or
ganized in Knobnoster, Mo-, with the
purpose Of making use of stringent
measures, If necessary, for the reduc-
ton of the surplus of immortality and
general cussedness that has prevailed
there for some time.
The City Missionary Society of Bos-
ton has been in existence eighty years,
and in that time has collected for the
poor $1,21S,620. For many years Rev.
Daniel W. Waldron has been it's eff
Gent secretary, and last year twenty
three missionaries were employed.
Tombstones are usually regarded with
a certain kind Of veneration, but some
body stole costly monument from a
cemetery in Lancaster, Mass, one night
last week. 1t was traced to the railroad
station, and thence to a marble dealing
firm in another town.
Gypsum has been discovered in large
quantities in Big Horn County, Wyom-
ing, and is being used by the settlers
for roofing their houses. Mixed with
thin mortar and spread upon the roof it
soon becomes as hard as adamant, and
makes excellent protection against the
elements.
Coal mining is promising to become
an important industry in Arizona. In
the northern part of the territory ex-
tensive bodies of bituminous coal are
encountered north and east Of the
Painted desert region. This coal crops
out in many places and at one point
has thickness of twenty-three feet.
The groom tainted twice at fashion
oh xxn6Iipu in NV onH
forgot the ring, but otherwise, a local
paper says, the marriage was a pretty
affair in pink and white, there being six
bridesmaids and a maid of honor, and
the knot was quite securely tied, the
groom's father being one of the officiat-
ing clergymen.
A Barton County, Vermont, farmer
has wife who is the envy of the whole
community and is certainly a priceless
treasure. From one barrel of -four she
made last year $50 pies of all kinds-5
chicken pies, 80 apple dumplings, sc
loaves of bread, 1000 biscuits, 100 doz-
Ell doughnuts, II jelly rolls, a couple of
gross of ginger snaps, 400 Cookies"
300 pancakes and Sax dozen gems
In England they have n permanent
official known as parliamentary coun-
sci, who aids legislation by perfecting
the form of bills. A commission charg-
ed with such duty is being contemplate
ed in the Pennsylvania Legislature 1t
is reckoned that the counsel would earn
their salary in insuring accuracy of bills
and lessening the labors of Supreme
Courts in examining laws.
The London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian, in commenting
on the expedition sent out by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania for the purpose
of eXcavating on the site of the ancient
city of Nippur, in central Babylonia,
says that the members "have completed
their work in a manner the like of
which has never before been attempted
by any expedition" and that the results
of their discoveries may revolutionize
early Chaldean history"
This years Paris salon will be the one
hundred and twentyfourth. Under
Louis XIV. ten exhibitions were held,
under Louis XIV. twenty-six, under
Louis XVI. nine, under the first repub-
lie nine. under NAPOLEON l. five. during