The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-26
FACT AN DFANCY.

more popular in New York.
The National Par; hotel at Yellow
stone is closvd for lhc season.
The ceolcr Of %aA rtv in New York
society Is at l.lc- at at Lenox.
The Univer- - of Pennsylvania has
just opened !. veterinary school.
Maj. Sherry is the name of promi-
nent prohibitionist in Portland, Me.
Some of the oldest inhabitants of
Newport say the town is going down
hill.
In Hudson, N. Y, there is a whole
sale stealing of milk-pails off door
steps.
The new game of Photographic whist
has carried fashionable circles by
storm.
In Canada the warmest opponents of
annexation to the United States are
Americans.
The latest night-shirts for gentle
nen are trimmed with percale, figured
either with bees or roosters.
A lawyer in Pennington, N. j., has
been east in damages of $3,443 for
neglecting the interests of client.
A New York lady purchased $4,000
worth of bric-a-brac in Japanese es-
tablishment in that city in one day.
Eating in hurry. John Mulhall, of
Port Chester, N. Y, was choked to
death by large chunk of beefsteak.
A Philadelphia dentist says that in
mechanical dentistry women can find
a profitable and suitable employment.
The youngest guest this summer at
the Summit house on Mount Washing
ton was months old baby from Bos
ton.
The annual consumption of imported
and domestic cigars is sixty to every
man, woman, and child in the United
States.
Scott Madkins, youth of 10, was
married to Annie Ingersoll, his 12-year
old step-sister, at Snowhill, Md,
| Tuesday.
Nelson Plant, a New Bedford, Mass,
boy, years old, was choked while
eating corn at dinner, and fell dead
from his chair.
The town of jug Tavern, Wyoming,
has no prohibition club. The public
sentiment seems to be rather averse to
| the movement.
Two tigers escaped from circus at
Portsmouth, Va, and after killing two
valuable trained goats plunged into
the Dismal swamp.
A little colored piper recently piped
to members of the New York stock-ex-
change to the tune of $40 that the
brokers had given him.
A store in San Luis Obispo, Cal,
exhibits an aerolite weighing twelve
pounds. containing minute veins of
silver and occasional colors of copper,
1t is a serious thing to wear cork
leg. If you ever fall into the water it
is sure to drown you by holding the
end wrong up, as it did a Virginia
man.
The German opera will begin in
New York in the middle of November
in the Metropolitan. 1t is hoped that
its fate will be kinder than that of the
Italian operas last winter.
The tramps that have been scattered
over Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Neva-
working their way across the Sierras
into California for the winter.
1.-THE people are as a rule poorly
dressed" remarked a cashier of
Boston savings bank, "but l have al
ways observed that it is the poorly
dressed class that deposits the most
money"
A queer fish came ashore at Camp
Goodall, Cal, last week. 1t had
neither fins nor scales, and in many
ways resembled a seal. None of the
local fish sharps knew its name, and
never saw one like it.
An attorney at Pendleton, Oregon,
Fred Page Tustan, was engaged by
three horsethieves to defend them. In
the examination he ascertained that
they had stolen four of his horses. He
will be witness against his own
clients.
The oldest person in Connecticut is
said to be Isaac Clarke, colored, who |
is 1O6 years of age. After working as
a sailor and whaleman for about fifty |
wears, he became physically disabled, |
and entered the New Haven aims /
house, where he has outlived two gen.
erations.
The superiority of the mule is shown
in his absolute refusal to put his foot
into a hole in a bridge or crossing.
Horses seem to endeavor to find hole,
if there is any lying round, and break
their legs. This mule will not do,
nor can he be forced to advance if there
Is danger. The horse has more cour-
lge, the mule more sense.
1t is great financial blunder," says
The Los angeles (Cal. Herald, ''for the
people of southern California to neg
act to open and work the tin mines in
our mountains. Thirty million dollars
worth of tin and tin products were
imported into the United States last
7ear. and still our mountains, which
lave vast iedges of tin, are unworked
Ind almost unknown"
This IS the way in which the critic
# Montana paper described the pri-
na donna of burlesque opera COM
any. "From her clear, birdlike up
er notes she would canter away down
0 tie bass racket, and then cushion
aek IN q sort Of spiritual treble that