The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-19
FACT AND FANCY

l. German Immigrants avoid the,
ton states.
:. A Columbia county, Florida. ~
} making vinegar from tomatoes .
: The largest ship ever built in \.
= was launched from Bath, Wedne'
Z Two Boston houses send abopt ,
!. 900 gallons of rum to the Conco y
year.
1t is predicted by Fashionable
York optician that ladies will ]
the single eye-glass very extenss
this winter. {
Escaloped lobster in she'll Ia M.
looks rather badly in print, but \
one of the most delicious dishes ~
bill of fare.
San Francisco has but just adoo
the new standard time. which, fmh
Pacific coast, is ten minutes. fasterez.
that of the city.
An Oregon Chinaman namedl
Chung fell in love with a GeEs
nursemaid, and on being rejected
came raving maniac.
The Presbyterians of New York "
trying to raise 100000 for Hand
college. If they succeed they will q
control of the institution. Il
The Kentucky tobacco crop is o.
and well matnred. 1t has been ho2ll
Connecticut has the largest cror
year it has seen since 1871. III
A watermelon may be saved in I'r'
condition up to the Christmas holS.
by wrapping it carefully in straw
burying it two feet in the sand. !.
Four sisters named Carr were =,
ried the same evening recently at
liet, ILL.,, by one clergyman, and
they call that parson a "car-coupl{
A laundry firm in New York cit
getting ahead of Chinese cheap IA
by employing women who darn
socks, mend the linen, and sew on ID
buttons of all garments ;ntrusted q
them, charging only the usual lau q
prices. p
A wooden Indian, stationed in ftej
OF Wilmington cigar store, killesR1
man the other day. As usual Rh(
Indian outrages, the white man ~
drunk and assaulted the Indian se'
who promptly fell on him and ~
tured his skull. =
Englishmen eat lat much shorteI
tervals than Americans are accua !
ed to. The farm laborer eats
meals day, and in some of the
onial halls in England the tables II
spread for meals at intervals of -
hours during the day and evening. Z
There is an old woman in Bossl
The widow of French marshal, ~
now grinds hand-organ, the to--
which is decorated with her husba1 y
She is said to speak the b
st French to be heard in the Hub.
Ter face resembles an English wal, &
Glass bearings for journal boz
lass shingles, glass pulleys, etc., b s,5
cen tried with favorable results. ~
els hava been sheeted with glass} NJ
tead of copper, with the most sd 4
actory results. With glass pulla q
specially for cable roads, friction <
educed to minimum.
The travel across the Brook f*
ridge is slowly but surely incseas!- "a,
he receipts for the month just clio
ere the largest yet, being $50, ~
asst Saturday was a red-letter u Tn
hirty-four thousand five hundred ~
'rty people crossed in the cars,
he total receipts were $2,O26. ~,
Little Rudolph one day begged ~
vitation to dinner at the house Il :
tile friend with whom he had h
aging during the morning. At u
BILE his little hostess anxiously 4.
Tired: Rudolph, can you cut yllt'
vn meat?" "Humph!" said Rudo
no was saving away, "can't IP
ten cut up as tough meat as this( ~
mer' ~
A novel experiment of carryinA
ilroad through forest has been I'd
Sonoma county, California. m
'es are sawed off and levelled Pa
ties are fastened on the stunt e
o of which are huge redwood v'
lnding side by side and reach4u
7enty-five feet from the groufIa
N is this support that heavily losdws
RS pass over with perfect securi nd
In Ontario passenger trains are w ~
rted on Sunday. Recently it ~ =
empted on the Credit Valley, =,
I'd, but so strong. was the pub S7
ling aroused that the COMPANY N
lstrained to abolish the Sund .,
In. When the Dominion gove9 -
mt directed that the Welland esd u
opened during twelve hours on Sd GO
Z. so strong was the expression
'lic opinion on the subject that in
weeks the order was count M
1ded.
is stated that ut none of the y er ,
DIS in Philadelphia have any " or
It's for new work been tai q "
'ntly, and where any vessel lfH4 fas
is going on hands are emplft pea
hing them up. and it is und1rH licf
unless new contracts are offenl befo
end of the year will witness 8 toy We ,
alton of vessel-building- in this
~ but at all-t-ya yards, sexSe 10
laps' at that of the Americana 4 ev
din1g, company, repairing On \ te
Will be carried on to limit' "a
discouraged carpenter, of NJ Ma.
being arraigned in the reool ~
: Tor an attempt at suicide, g
mat he wanted to die, Al
ky would not kill him hex
anum. He said if he was A$eu!!