The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1905-03-28
SOME CURIoS
ODDS AND ENDS
Some Good Stories Of the Queer
Things that Happen Every
Day.

Queer things happen In THIS :"
bre," said the board OF heaith iuii
gator. People come here ana want
me to do the most peculiar things.
He pointed to his fumigating appa-
--a,us-a metal machine about two feet
nigh i
DO YOU know what a woman asked
me to do yesterday? She asked me 10
s1upnigate her cat. She came IN mere
with the cat in a basket. There was
-4vphoid fever in the house across the
street from her. she said, and. although
the people in that house were Quaran-
tined, the animals in it, through some
oversight, were not A black cat from
the injected house had been parading
about freely and the day before she
mad found it playing with her cat That
vuzs dreadful Suppose her cat should
make the fever! Wouldn't l fumigate
TT Tor her?
well I said. 1T amt regular to
fiumigate animals. but I'll do 1t in your
case, provided you don't tell your
friends about it. I can't have this OF
fee turned into a dog and cat hospital,
yeu know
so I sprayed the cat, and got in
return for my work two scratches and
this small bag of cigars"
The fumigator smiled. Then he re-
stunned:
Men often come here for fumigation.
~Fumigate me; disinfect me- they
o,ay. I spent the night in a house
where there was consumption Or. "A
epan sat beside me in the car who had
some terrible disease. I believe 1t was
smallpox
I'VE fumigate all these people They
20 away from here smelling like ten
acre chemical factory. And they are
happy. for they set great store on FUN
Hgatlon. They believe that wef-fum-
Gxated person is invulnerable to every
-disease germ that exists.
1.-The strangest thing I ever fumi-
sxated was jar Of human ashes from Q
.<-rematory. mans wife had died Of
the plague in India Her body had
been cremated and the ashes had been
shipped to America. I fumigated them
ION their arrival here"
Hair boxes, leather breaches, COM
vsass, a sword, a finder box and a pad
uock were the concomitants of every
traveller in the eighteenth centcry,"
said an antiquary. II speak with au-
thority, the authority OF the brown
book here. My great grandfather would
no more have Travelled without his hair
bag and his paddock in 1910 than
would travel today without my hat"
The little old brown book was called
The Travellers Guide" 1t was dated
ITO. Two pages in 1t were given over
no advice upon the luggage question.
Take" said the guide. two suits o.
srlothes Zone coffee colored and thu
.ssther blue). chest flannel. agains
-.sh1ll air currents. pair of leather
oreeches. a sleeping suit three pairs o
:. stockings. two pairs OF gloves. TIVE
wigs. one hair bag. six undershlrts
'f,eur overshirts.
Take also II Bible. book of ser
,ruuns, a Travellers Guide, two albums
"a diary. auire OF white paper. quill
land ink. an almanac. a mirror. a silve
watch. a silver snunbox. a silver tie
--pin, knife and fork with silver han
dies. a sewing case. an opera glass,
.ecofpass. wax light and finder bc,
ia toothbrush. silver toothpick, 5
Sword. a silver mounted cane. pad
ucck with which to fasten your door a
Wight inside. a clothes brush. box {
medicines"
The antiouary said that the hair ba
mentioned in the Travellers Guide wa
IA heather box for wigs. The chest far
mel buttoned down the front. tn
brush part Of the toothbrush was thre
inches long and an inch broad-quite
nnouthfui. -.
1.-THE Car Of Russia" said dealt
I'm typewriters has the finest machir
I'm the world. All its keys are made ,
ivory and the Russian characters ir
laid on them are of blue enamel. Tt
steel parts are polished like Da
mascus or Ferrara blade and the par
that In ordinary machines are nicke
plated are in this machine of solid ST
Nver. T.. -
The car has had his typewrits
~over year. He was fond Of it frol
che start and by now, I am told. ne
a fairly expert operator. All his pc,
ssonal letters are written on it.
This typewriter cost 5000 to bull,
The car paid nothing for 1t. It was
gift to him from the humble manufac
turer.'
The latest novelty" said the cutie
is a skate with foot-warming n,
1szachment-
The skate was sumptuously mad
In donning it the foot slipped into
velvet shoe lied with fur. To the sol
OF this shoe the skate proper was fixe,
Altogether. the continuance appeare
excellent.