The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-06-28
Silver, $50; Lead, 1875.

-Challis will hold picnic at
the old picnic grounds on the
Fourth. All invited.
News comes in a round
about way that Alex Pfeiffer
died in California recently. Mr..
Pfeiffer was one of the early
settlers of Bonanza.
Idaho troops were to sail for
Manila yesterday, on the steam
er Morgan City. From San
Francisco it will take them a
month to reach their destination.
The boys are all in good health
and anxious to get to the front.
There will be strawberry
festival held at the Congrega-
tional Church next Thursday
evening, June 80.
Members of the Church and
Society will serve strawberries
and ice cream, lemonade and
cake from 7:30 until 1890.
All cordially invited to be
present.
According to the following
the wind blows occasionally in
Montana, as we'll as in Challis.
The Castle Whole Truth says
Monday southeastern wind
hurled tumble weeds and Rus
sian thistles through the air at a
fifty mile gait, and the gait went
too. Many stoves were drawn
through the chimneys, and the
wind blew into the neck of a
bottle and tore the bottom out.
Nebraska wagon trucks passed
over town by thousands. The
strain on wire fences was so
great that staples were drawn
out on the north side of the post.
The dirt blew away from around
a post hole on the hill side and
and left the hole sticking out of
the ground about two feet. Old
cellars tumbled and rolled up
against College hill, and will be
a total loss to the owners unless
they cut them up and sell them
for post holes.
The effect of cigarette smok-
ing as shown by the physical
examination of applicants for
enlistment, cannot be too strong
ly impressed upon our youth.
An exchange says: Nearly 90
per cent. of those persons who
indulge in that most vicious hab-
it of smoking cigarettes have
failed to pass the physical ex-
animation for the army. This
should certainly be sufficient
caution to young men and those
to some extent addicted to this
abominable habit. The result is
an affection of the heart or the
eyesight or an attack upon the
nervous system, dwarfng the
intellect and general deadening
and stupefaction of those prom
Using qualities of the mind itself,
and it cannot be doubted that
nearly the same percentage of
young men addicted to this habit
would fail in a mental as we'll as
in a physical examination if such
were made"
From SanFrancisco to Man
lila the distance is $500 miles. 1t
is 2080 miles from SanFrancisco
to Hawaii, and and about 1900
miles from Hawaii to Manila, SO
that if the vessel touched at Ha-
waii on her way across the Paci-
fic to Manila she would leave the
direct course slightly and incre-
ase her voyage to about 1000
miles. From Hongkong to Man
lila Admiral Dewey's ships had
strip of 600 miles TO make, al
most Directly southeast.
Manila is nearly the antipodes
of New York, being situated on
the 120th meridian east of Green
wich, as New York is on the 74th
west. The difference in time is
thirteen hours, or, in other
words, Manila clocks are thir-
teen hours ahead of those in New
York. The battle of Manila
bay. which began at o'clock
on Sunday morning, May 1, was
thus fought on Saturday after
noon by New York time, begin
ming at o'clock.
From Cadiz, the chief home
rendezvous of the Spanish navy,
to the Canary islands is 700miles;
from Cadiz to the Cape Verde
islands about twice as far, or
nearly 1900 miles. The distance
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