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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Spread a cloth of blue, and put
thereon the dishes and the spoons, and
the bowls, with the bread in the bas-
ket.-Num. iv. Z and Lev. viii. 81.
Salt without prescribing how much,
and oil in a cruse.-Ezra vii. % and L.
Kings xvii. u.
The bright shining candle giveth
light,-Luke XII. SO.
Tell them who are hidden 1 have
prepared my dinner.-Matt xxi. A.
They are strong of appetite.-Isa.
vi. II.
Let us eat and be merry.-Luke XIV.
%.
Ye hear all kinds Of musician. iii.
5.
Grace-Give us this day our daily
bread.-Matt. vi IL.
SOUP.
Pour out the broth.-Judg. vi. 20.
Feed me with pottage.-Gen. ky. 80.
Eat this roll.-Ezek. iii. 1.
FISH.
We remember the fish we did eat
freely.-Num. XII. 5.
They gave him a piece of broiled
fish.-Luke xiv. AZ.
ENVIRONMENTS.
Bring on the fish which we have now
caught.-John xxi. 10.
Hare.-Lev. XII. 6.
Chickens.-Matt. xiii. 81
Beside harts and fatted FOWL.
Kings iv. %.
Kidneys.-Ley. tx. 10.
Olives.-Mic. vi. 10.
Give a little water, for l am thirsty.
Judges iv. 10.
ROASTS.
All manner of baked meats.-Gen.
xl. II.
Roebuck.-Deut. xii. 10
Wild goat and wild ox.-Deut. xiv.
VEGETABLES.
Wheat, lentils and millet.-Ezek. iv.
After hat the full corn n the ear
Mark iv. %.
The leeks and the onions, and the
cucumbers and the Curriculum. xi. 8.
Coriander-seed.-Num. x. Z.
GAME.
Partridge.-Jer. xvii. IL.
Two young pigeons.-Lev. V. Z.
Quails.-Psalms CIV. 40.
Ten cheeses.-I. Sam. xvii. IS.
DESSERT.
A basket of summer fruits.-Amos
viii. /.
Mrs. Miner in the Advance.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
lost In the Discard.

Gov. Tod, the war governor of
Ohio, was generally considered to be
conscious to the full of his Official i'm
p%ortance. He was under discussion in
the lobby of a Columbus hotel when
a stranger to the city remarked:
"'Tod'-all the Tods l ever knew
wrote their name 'T-o-double d."
There was silence. then an old
acquaintance OF the chief executive
explained:
"Well to tell the truth. that used to
be the governors way of writing 1t.
but one day, as It happened, a man
told him that God spelled mis- name
with only n "a That settled IT,
1henceforward the governors final D
wal lost in the discard"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

SpI'''dRT>E.llNf

Terry McGovern whipped Dave Sui
livan in the fifteenth round in the
fight before the Southern Athletic club
at Louisville. A fiercer fight was never
seen in the prize ring. The winner
was given the hardest and most Cruel
ing battle of his career. The loser
fought gamely and lost only after he
had slowly been beaten down to the
verge of insensibility.
Sullivan was not knocked out in the
sense that he was prone on his back
and temporarily dead to the world. He
was knocked down, but Immediately
rose to his knees. He stayed there
while Referee Bob Fitzsimmons count
ed up to nine, and then started to rise.
He was groggy and blind, but still
courageous. He barely lifted a knee
from the carpet when McGovern sprang
at him. Sullivan Immediately went to
the floor again and Fitzsimmons de-
clared McGovern the winner.
The end came after less than one
minute of fighting in the fifteenth
round. For fourteen three-minute pc
RODS they had struggled about the
ring. For just that long the watching
throng, tense or frantic, had hung on
every movement, and in the intervals
between the rounds the men outside
the ropes were almost breathless. They
had forgotten the necessity for breath
ing during the active progress of the
fight.
They had seen the e~x-champion start
from his corner with his usual rush.
They had seen a hunched, active, smil-
ing little Irishman in green tights meet
him, hold him, drive him back. They
had watched every movement Of what
followed the wrestling about the ring,
the roughing it of the first few rounds.
Sullivan, the one-time master, strong
in their memory of past victories,
would not give back a foot. McGovern,
with the stigma of his defeat at the
hands of Young" Corbett to wipe out
and the hatred of an e~x-sparring part
ner for his opponent, was wild. And
so round after round the fight went on.
McGovern was rushing head down,
now hitting straight, now swinging
wildly, but always coming in. And
the defense he met was the most per-
feet that could have been offered.
From the first tap of the gong until
the end 1t was slam-bang, hammer and
tonss nearly every second, both men
working away with all the energy they
possessed.
There has seldom been seen a battle
where the issue was more in doubt.
In n round it would be Sullivan and
in the next McGovern. Then Sullivan
would come strong again and even
things up onc more.
McGovern, knowing that the fight
meant his position in the front rank
as a fighter, was after his man every
second. In the majority of the rounds
be was on the aggressive, and Sullivan
was forced to do far more defensive
work than his opponent. He put UP
a wonderful fight, however, was game
to the core and lost the fight more
through q blunder of his own than be-
cause he was knocked out. When the
finish came, however, he was groggy
and going fast. The chances are that
ne could not have lasted many more
rounds, ever had he risen to his feet
before F1tzsimmons called ten.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
Records on English Books.

The following stand in England as
literary records: The largest circula-
ton of any English novel in copyright
is that of East Lynne" of which the
public have bought nearly half a mil
lion. The earliest published work still
in copyright is Tennyson's Poems by
Two Brothers" which dates from 1897.
The largest amount ever given for Sc
rial rights in England is $1,000 $685.
000), paid by Cornhill for George Ell
lots "Romola." The largest check ever
given to an English author is $40, 900
$500, 000), received by Lord Macaulay
for his history. The most expensive
single volume lately issued is Morris
"Chaucer," published at $50 (S100).
The thickest single volume in print is
the Catalogue of Current Literature, .
which measures ten and a half inches
across the back. The highest price
given for a first edition is 545 guineas
($2, $500 for an uncut copy or the Kill
marnock Burns"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
rurnlp,s wonderful Growth.

The seed of the globe turnip is about
the twentieth part of an inch in dame
ter, and yet in the course of a few
months this seed will be enlarged by
the soil and the air into 1000, 900 times
its original bulk, and this in addition
to a bunch Of leaves. 1t has been
found by experiment that a turnip seed
will, under fair conditions, increase it's
own weight fifteen times in a minute.
Turnips growing in peat ground have
been found to increase more than 49,
600 times the weight of their seeds in
a day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
ssts now nlnlard RECORD.

Henry J.. Avery, who set a new
worlds record at th~ree-cushion caroms
in his game against Thomas at Chi
cago, has long been devoted to the
angle game. To average n at a fifty
point game OF three-cushions is a per-
Torrance which has never been accom-
plished SO far as the chroniclers have
been able to learn, but Avery came
within a point of it, making his fifty
in ffty-one innings. Thomas, the ar
lists opponent, made a total of only
fourteen points. The best record which
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

difference to him. With patience born
OF experience he stood ready to discuss
the solar influence of the planets, the
proper method of building a pie or how
to referee a prize fight.
i am" began Mr.. Fitzsimmons,
matched to fight Mr.. Jeffries for"
What do o think of Prince Hen
w interrupted the reporter.
1 " met the gentleman" replied
the famous %discoverer of the solar
plexus, which remark shows him to be
a humorist. Many who have met him
professionally, notably Mr.. Corbett,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
WHERE HE GOT OH.
Bad Omens We're Too Much for this
Phiia deInhIa narLav

Bad Onions We're Too Much for this
Philadelphia Darkey.
Detective George Fall of the city hall
force was riding up town in a Thir-
teenth street trolley car last week
when a colored man of his acquaint-
ance came in and sat down in the
next seat. After a brief that the de-
tectiye said: Are you superstitious.
SAM" mo, subj" said Sam. well,
it's a good thing you're not" said Fall.
There's a cross-eyed woman sitting
opposite" "Ya-as, sub, OATS right"
chuckled Sam. And up in the corner
is a hunchback." "Yas, sub, l sees
him. See the number Of the car up
there? It's 313." "Yas, sab" "And
this is Thirteenth street we're on, you
know" You go long, sub" "The
cash register, as you may observe.
shows the figures 1313.' "Ya-as, sub"
And this is Friday" "Ya-as." "Also
1t is the thirteenth day Of the month"
quit yo %foolin', man" 1T is now"
said the detective, pulling out his
watch, Just exactly thirteen minutes
past" The colored man had risen
to his feet. Il amt supahstitious. Mis-
tab Fall" he said, but heah's where
gifts off. You do make a man mighty
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Strange things are found among the
plants and vegetables. A well-known
student of nature once tried the grow
ing force of a squash. When it was
is days old, and measured q inches in
circumference. he fixed a sort of har-
ness around it, with a long lever at
tached. The power of the squash was
measured by the weight it lifted. the
weight being fixed to the lever. When
it was 20 days old, two days after the
harness was fixed Oh it, it lifted so
pounds. On the nineteenth day it lifted
5000 pounds.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

A curious custom in Seoul, Korea.
is the law which makes it obligatory
for every man to retire to his home
when the huge bronze bell of the city
has proclaimed it to be the hour Of
sunset and the time for closing the
gates. No nan is allowed in the
streets after that hour under pain of
logging, but the omen are allowed to
go about and sit their friends.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
Remarkable speed of F1Iss.

There is a certain little fly that was
observed to run three inches and make,
in doing 1t, 440 steps-all in one-half a
second of time. To equal this, in pro-
portion to his size, a man would have
to run at the rate of twenty miles a
minute.
The COMMON flea leaps 200 times its
own length. To show like agility a
man six feet tall would have to leap a
distance of 1900 feet. The cheese mite
Is about one-quarter of an inch in
length, and yet it has been seer to
take the tip of its tail in its mouth.
and then, letting go with a jerk. to leap
put of a vessel six inches in depth. To
equal this a man would have to jump
out of a well from a depth of 144 feet.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
sullIvan want. Another 60.

Dave Sullivan would like to get
on another match with his conqueror,
Terry McGoyern. He attributed his
defeat to overconidence, and to not
taking advantage of McGovern's weak
condition in the rounds in which he
was all but out. Sullivan said he
knew he had McGovern going in the
third and fifth rounds, but waited too
long to finish him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
round Few Bodies OF Animals.

1t has been a source of much sur
prise to Prof. Nordenskjold that dur
ing his expedition within the arctic
circle, in regions where animal life is
abundant, he has found very few re-
mains of animals which died a natural
death. No one has any idea of what
becomes OF the bodies of such animals;
and it is indeed very strange that on
Spitzbergen it is easier to find bones
of a glgantio lizard of remote geologi-
eel time than those of a "self-dead"
seal, walrus or bird. The same is also
true o. some places not so far north.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

money"-that is to say, It was to
courage fidelity of service and, 1t must
be feared, a spice of gambling. So the
other day Clara Howard and Florence
Ansell, both of whom mad been in n
service over eight years, threw against
one another. and Clara, casting seven
to Florence's five, received a check for
twelve %guineas $500
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

simmons has shown
himself possessed.
Hence he has won
the highest point OF
mans ambition,
which is to have
other men point
him out to their
d s on the
street and shake
hands indiscrimi-
nately.
During Mr.. Fitz-
simmons recent
visit 70 Chicago he
readily consented
to be interviewed,
the subject being a
matter of entire in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Concerning the culture of Sumatra
tobacco under cloth in the United
States, 1t is generally anticipated that
Connecticut inventive genius will sue
coed in devising some available paper
substitute for the cloth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

There are indications that the Span
fish throne will be sadly out of repair
by the time King Alfonso is ready to
take possession. Alfonso, by the way,
As a royal thirteener.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
left Money for odd

Two hundred years ago John How
of G~uildford, England, left property,
real or personal, upon curious terms,
Its income was to reward "the female
domestic who remained at least two
years in one situation within the bor-
ough, and who should throw the high
est number with two dice in competi-
ton with another aspirant for the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

A New England railroad has issued
$500 0 worth of free passes to a state
legislature. This is one of those ex-
traordinary accidents which are liable
to happen in the best regulated rail-
road presidents office.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

A Brooklyn lawyer tried twenty-five
cooks from an intelligence office in n
week, and then made In attempt on
the remainder of his life. The simple
alternative Of Staying the COOKS did not
occur to him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
"Rescuedr Dead RodIs.

Chicago bremen who CROPPED their
way through fire and smoke and drag
ged six bodies into the street from
Bennett hospital, thought that they
we-1 res ling persons wno had been
asphyxiated and not until the flames
had been subdued did the learn that
the rescued bodies wero from the dis
sectir tables of Bennett medical col
lege.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

President Harper says he is in the
East only to secure a president for his
law school, but that will not prevent
cautious millionaires from taking the
opposite side Of the street when they
Gee him sauntering careIessly along.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

matched to fight Mr.. Jeffries-"
Have you any thought of challeng-
ing Senator Tillman, champion of the
senator"
Il stand ready to meet all Corners.
Tillman is not barred if he will prom
Use not to bite. At present l am
matched to fight Mr.. Jeffries@"
mi. Fitzsimmons, what do you
think the most necessary requisite to
success?"
"Brains?"
"What about health?"
Il am at present conducting physical
culture classes by mail. My terms
are"
you are also considering opening
a sanitarium?"
Il was. Kindly mention my classes
will be continued while 1 am training"
you are not like an ordinary pu-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

The Albany Times-Union encourag-
ingly remarks that If SPANS new
navy will keep near shore and avoid
ibelligerent people 1t may have a long
and honorable existence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Last week a Brooklyn clergyman
asked the trustees to reduce his sal
airy from $4,000 to $4,000. Hopes are
entertained that the trustees will
shortly De able to partake of solid
food.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
Smallest Bank Notes Issued.

Bank notes for about a farthing each
circulate freely in Paraguay. It takes
two notes to get ones boots blecked
and eight to pay the postage of a letter
to England. Yet one Of them will buy.
in the season fifteen oranges. three
bananas. or a water melon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

1t isn't necessary for one gentleman
to jump over chairs and hit another
gentleman on the nose because one
gentleman is called untruthful In a
high place. 1t is sufficient to say, with
emphasis on the 'ir'-"If the gentle
man will repeat that remark outside
the house"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

A Cleveland genius has invented a
smokeless furnace-at least one that
will not produce black smoke. This
shades all the other inventions of the
current year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

An Atchison Christian Scientist is
bold enough to say that If Father Time
approaches him he will snatch the
scythe out Of his hand and break 1t.
That is being done every day by un-
scientific resolute persons of the other
eax.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

In his capacity as general pacifer
Uncle Sam might be willing to tender
his good Offices in the present I'M
happy controversy between Spain and
the anarchists. If called upon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

The judge may nod on his bench; the
Supreme Court has said so. If Justice
is blind what harm can there be in a
Judge closing his eyes for the much
needed forty winks?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Maryland once grew the finest figs
in the world. In fact, some of those
vain-glorious Baltimore people do say
that Eve imported her apron from that
state.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

If Japan made it's alliance for the
purpose of borrowing money it should
have selected j.. Pierpont Morgan
rather than Great Britain as it's part
ner.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

of mine. l like top-notchers, and run
with them. The four hundred are my
style. 1 may become one of them some
day"
you never opened saloon?"
mo, l am the only worlds cham
pion that has not. The business is
not edifying enough. 1 am at present
matched with Mr.. Jeffries-"
"How do you like refereeing fights? 2"
81 like it and l don't care what GER
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
cod champlon.hlp Mntoho..

The Glenvlew Golf cub Of Chicago
was selected for the holding OF the
amateur championships for 1902 at
the meeting of the United States COLI
association.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

gilist, Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons.'
Il am not an or
binary one. l hold
mpionshAps-"
"Y o associate
with people in a
very different line
of work."
You would not
have me associate
with pu 6 il s t s,
would your" Mr..
-Fitzsimmons was
very s%cornful.
81 was referring
to Mr.. Biddle of
Philadelphia"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

1t is considered a notable event in
Italy that when parliament was open
ed there no ink wells were thrown at
1.-THE presiding officer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

There is also the c%onsenting wire
less message that the lady flashed to
the throbbing signal station in Mar
lconi's heart.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Porto Rico had a good-sized riot
recently. 1t is hard for a people to
break up long-establisned customs all
at once.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

King Edward is to receive seventy
water color paintings as a coronation
gift. Has not the king power enough
to avoid this?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

had been made before Hank Avery
did his great stunt was that of Way
man G. McCreery, the st. Louis anna
teur, who had run fifty in ffty-three
innings. Avery has made a run of
fourteen at three-cushions, which
equals the amateur record. In Avery's
game he had amassed sixteen points
at his twenty-seventh inning. Then
he ran three, and he ran eighth in his
thirtieth. He had forty-hve points in
forty-four innings, then ran five ciph-
ers, and wound up with runs of two
and three.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Count Boni de Castellane has just
written-no not for money-a letter
on the Panama canal question.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

John Chinaman is likely 10 md that
Uncle Sam is merely changing the
lhme-lock.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Mr.. Sharkey or Mr..
Rubin, will doubt
this statement ana
affirm that he is a
o serious propo-
sition. Nevertheless
humor is the most
distinguished char
acteristic of the fa-
m o freckled-
faced one. 1t lays
all over his good
natured t e.
nance and fairly
beams out from his
clear blue eyes.
"As 1 was say
ing" continued the
fighter, 81 am
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Even the little banks throughout the
country will be Obliged to put on fend-
ers or the trusts will get them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Sir Robert Ball Of Cambridge pre-
diets another glacial period; and he
was not lecturing in Boston, either.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Now that Minister WI has been in
a railroad wreck he may be regarded
as thoroughly Americanized.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Senator Clark is said to be unhappy
because he has so much money. Evil
IDENTIFY he does not greatly desire hap
piness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
The Real nob FItn.Immona.

When Fitzsimmons was In Chicago
recently he was interviewed by a rep
resentative of the Chicago American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

1t is toe bad that the fight couldn't
have been pulled off while Teddy was
running the senate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

vhis is how the reporter describes tina
1aterview:
Human greatness consists in exercis-
ing extreme energy in battling with
the world and extreme patience in be-
ing interviewed by newspaper men. or
both these qualities Mr.. Robert Fitz-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

The Wilkesbarre Times is raising a
howl about dirty bank notes. Well,
lucre is proverbially filthy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

That Detroit case merely goes to
show that the bank director who di-
rects is still a rare bird.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
Re.trIct Landlord.. Rln..

In Holland no landlord has the pow
err of raising the rent or of evictins
a tenant.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10
l never opened a saloon?"

tain sporting writ
ers who bet their
money the wrong
way may say. l de-
cided the fight ac-
cording to the
rules. l am at pres
ent matched with
Mr.. Jeffries-"
What do you
think of the situa-
ton of Cuba and
the Philippines?
Cuba is situated
in the West Indies
and the other near
the China sea. l
at present matched
to fight Mr.. jeff
ries."
"What about it?,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

What about 1t? | intend to knock
is bloomin' block Off"
Then Mr.. Fftzsimmons said good
by and turned to grasp the hand of 4
man who assured him that he had
seen" him at Carson City.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-10

Collections of scarf or tie pins is
one OF the fads of New York men.