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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
Strange Conveyance Of Cholera.

The cholera appeared at Albano, near
Rome, on July IS, 1866, under very sin
gular circumstances. 1t was on the
occasion of some religious ceremony
that attracted great number of visitors
from the Eternal City, who were gath
cred together in the grounds of the
Papal Castle of Gaudolfo. 1t was after
the ceremony and the crowd were walk
ing through the grounds, admiring the
beautiful fountains and listening to the
music of military band. All at once
some of them perceived in the sky COM
ing from the direction of the African
coast, great black cloud, divided down
the middle so as to resemble the two
wings of an enormous bat. A feeling
of intense cold over-powered the spec
tators. In less than an hour hundred
and four persons had been stricken
down by the disease. The cloud SEEM
ed to be charged with cholera as other
clouds with electricity. Scientific men
explained this curious phenomenon by
asserting that the cloud had formed
over great stagnant pools in the neigh
borhood of Tunis, that are filed with
the excrement of countless hosts of
locusts and grasshoppers. The disease
did not spread beyond the gates Of
AlbanO
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
The Names OF Nations.

These are derived principally from
some peculiar cause or object. For in
stance, Ireland-which Julius Cesar
first called Hibernia--is a kind of
modification of Erin, or the country of
the west.
Scotland, from Scotia, tribe which
originally came from Ireland. 1t was
anciently called Caledonia, which means
a mountainous country-forests and
lands.
Portugal, the ancient Lusitania, was
so named from a town on the river
Douro called Gale, opposite to which
the inhabitants built city called Porto
or Oporto. And when the country was
recovered from the Moors the inhabi-
tants combined the words and called it
the kingdom of fortucale-hence Por-
tugal.
Spain, the ancient Iberia, from the
river Iberius or Hispania, from the
Phenician Spaniga, which signifies
Astounding with rabbits, which animals
are very numerous in that country
hence Spain.
France, from the Franks, people of
Germany, who conquered that country.
Its encient name was Celia, Gaul or
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
Schwatka's Scheme.
Omaha Herald.

The many friends of Lieutenant
Schwatka, IN this city, and especially
those in army circles, who have ex-
pressed establishment at his sudden
resignation from the military service,
will find in the following sufficient
explanation of his apparently hasty ac-
ton. Last year after exploring the
Yukon river in northwestern
Alaska, Schwatka descended to
the sea, striking the central channel
of the noted Japan current and examin-
ing the Aleutian Island group. Those
islands are said to aggregate about
1000 square miles, with perennial
climate of about 600 farenheit the en-
tire year, and covered with grasses and
verdure adapted for indefinite grazing,
and having no parallel on the planet
for stock ranges. On the lieutenant's
return from the Yukon expedition he
stopped in Portland, and entered into
confidential terms with "Scotch" Reid
in respect to using those perennial is
lands for cattle ranches, to be con-
Quoted under the auspices of a corpora
ton to be organized in Scotland with
"slathers" of capital to back the en-
terprise, for which purpose Reid left
Portland several weeks ago.
Schwatka, it is understood, is to take
special superintendent of the business
on the islands as a sort of resident man.
ager, on scale that will make him the
major general of cowboys. This is
what he meant when he limited at en-
.ering ''foreign service"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
How the Bedouins Conouer Thirst.

In an article on "The Rescue of Chi
nese Gordon" TO be found in "Open
Letters" of the September Century, ~
General r. E. Colston, late of the
Egyptian general staff, says: SIN the
Waterless Land, water is the para
mount question. If it be asked how q
large body of Bedouins like the ten
thousand who nearly destroyed the
British squares at Tamai manage to
subsist, the reason is plain. In the
first place, they do not need the enor-
nous trains required for a European
army. They are the most abstemious
of men. Each man carries skin of
water and small bag of
grain, procured by purchase or barter
from caravans. Their camels and
goats move with them, supplying them
with milk and meat, and subsisting
upon the scanty heritage and the foliage
of the thorny mimosa, growing in Sc
cluded wadies. These people could
live upon the increase of their fiocks
alone, which they exchange readily for
other commodities; but being the ex-
elusive carriers and guides for all the
travel and commerce that cross their
deserts, they realize yearly large
amounts of money. AS to water
hey know every nook and hol-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
Where Hawthorne Died.

Plymouth IN. H. Letter.
"There," said the clerk, ''if you care
to, you may sleep in the room where
Nathaniel Hawthorne died"
We were all surprised, and showed it,
even at the cost of displaying our ig-
norance. The schollma'am was de-
lighted, and blushingly begged the
privilege of taking just a peep before I
took formal possession. We all went
up stairs together, and were shown into
large airy bedroom, furnished about
the same as rooms in a good country
hotel usually are, with big black wal
nut bedstead and snowy white counter
pane and pillows. It faced the main
street of the village. The furniture in
this room is about the same as it was
when the author of "The Marble Faun'
breathed his last there, just twenty
years ago. Hawthorne had been riding
with ex-President Franklin Pierce, with
whom he was travelling in search of
health. He went to his room feeling
very much refreshed. Mr.. Pierce
found him the nextmorning lying upon
his side dead, as though he had passed
peacefully away in slumber. Travellers
who know the facts and stop at the
House always ask to be
shown the room in which Hawthorne
died.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
A QUEER PICTURE.


The happy mother sits
With folded hands, her weary work all
done,
With the last smiling Of the harvest sun,
And lists, her eyes love-lit,
To the low prattle of her eldest born,
Whose cheek is dewy as the early morn.
In homespun garb Of gray,
The farmer sitting by the window wide,
Unfolds his paper with an honest pride,
And In his homely way
Reads Of the pomp Of state-its wealth and
art
With scarce one envious longing in his
heart.
Upon the lowly steps
The grandame watches for the coming
moon,
While murmurs of some hslf-remembered
tune
Drop from her faded lips;
She dreams again of olden days more fair,
Nor marks the shadows fitting o'er her
hair.
o baby, glad with playl
o mother, knowing not the hearts recoil |!
D father, wearied only by your toll
o grandame, old and grayl
Would that the quiet of your days decline
Might hush the throbbing Of this life Of
mine.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

low in the mountains, away
from the trails, where a few bar
rels of water collect in some shaded
ravine, and they can scatter, every man
for himself, to fill their water-skius. On
my first expedition, near the close of
the three years. drought, reached some
wells on which 1 was depending, and
found them entirely dry. 1t was sew
eral days to the next wells. But my
Bedouin guides knew some natural re-
servoirs in the hills about six miles off.
So they took the water camels at night
fall, and came back before daylight
with the water-skins filed. An invad-
ing army would find it hard to obtain
guides, and even if they did, they must
Keep together, and could not leave the
line of march to look for water. Be-
sides, the Bedouins, accustomed from
infancy to regard water as most prec-
ious and rare, use it with wonderful
economy. Neither men nor animals
drink more than once in forty-eight
hours. AS to washing, they never in
dulge in such wasteful nonsense. When
Bedouins came to my camp, water was
always offered them. Their answer
would frequently be: mo, thanks, 1
drank yesterday They know too well
the Importance of keeping up the habit
Of abstemiousness. No wonder they
can subsist where invaders would quick
w perish.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
The Sea of Galilee.

At 2:30 p. m. we get our first view of
the Sea of Galilee-profound moment
and sacred lake! Calm and blue in the
deep valley the historic waters sleep
the arena in which history got its in
SEPARATION and religious and moral truth
their noblest illumination.
The day is exceedingly hot, but we
are refreshed by cooling breeze over
the fat PLAINS. Our first view is the
northerly end Of the lake and includes
the side of Capernaum-with snowy
Hemon fifty miles to the north, sentinel
ing the sacred scene. The surface of
the lake is now slightly ruffled by the
breeze.
Our only welcome is the silence of
utter desolation, broken only by the
songs of birds. The shores of the Sea
of Galilee are shallow, but in many
places the lake is 100 feet deep. That
CHASTITY, bare and billy region on the
opposite side of the lake is the country
of the Gadarenes where the swine ran
off a steep place into the sea. nearly
twenty centuries ago-which caused
the Gadarenes to beg Jesus to leave
their coasts. Such an intimate connec-
ion is there between a mans faith and
his pocket book, in all ages of the
world. see the north part of the lake
is widest-say eight miles, while the
extreme length of the Sea of Galilee is
about twelve miles, north to south.
The Jordan enters the lake yonder a
little over half way across the north
side and you cannot tell where the river
re-emerges, so obscure is its resurrec-
ton on the south side, twelve miles
away. The Jordan loses itself in. the
Sea of Galilee only to find itself, and
there is slow current in the lake near
the south. The Jordan evaporates
finally in the Dead Sea. 1t creates the
the Sea of Galilee as great reservoir
that again feeds the river, but when it
falls into the Dead Sea it is slowly re-
solved into vapor under torrid sun
and dry atmosphere absorbing all
moisture as sponge.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
A SUCCESSFUL PEER.
Tho Now English Envoy to Egypt and How
He Got His Fortune:

Boston Transcript
The new English high commissioner
to Egypt belongs to u family which has
been closely connected by marriage
and business relations with this coun-
try. The earl of Northbrook is Bar
ing, and his vast wealth has been large
ly derived from the accumulations of
the great commercial house of which
his grandfather, Sir Francis Barring,
was the founder. An uncle of the pres
ent Lord Northbrook was that Alexan-
der Barring, the first Lord Ashburton,
who negotiated the famous treaty with
Mr.. Webster and who married Miss
Bingham of Philadelphia, daughter of
the rich merchant and United States
senator, VIM. Bingham. A cousin of
the present Lord Northbrook-only son
of his fathers brother Charles, the
bishop of Gloucester and Durham
married daughter of the late Robert
r. Minturn of New York. The present
peer owes much of his political influ-
ence to his connection by marriage
with the great whig house of Grey,
and he is an excellent example Of
what wealth and social position
can accomplish for plodding
and faithful, but not brilliant
man. The Right Hon. Thomas
George Barring succeeded his father, Sir
Francis Thornhin Barring, as second
Baron Northbrook in 1866, being then
forty years old. Twenty years previous
he had graduated second class in class
les at Christ church, Oxford. He was
successfully private secretary at the
board of trade, the home Office and the
India board, and at the admiralty till
1857, when he became member OF
parliament for Penrhyn and Falmouth
in the liberal interest. His successive
honors as lord of the admiralty,
lnder secretary of state for India and
lnder secretary for war were crowned
~ his appointment of viceroy and gov
,rnor- general of India in February,
1872, after the assassination of Lord
Mayo. 1t was a critical position to fill,
md as encouragement then took |
lis life in his hands and ran the risk of |
osing whatever political repute he had
,ained, there was a good deal of won
Ter expressed at the reform club that |
nan with Lord Northbrook's wealth |
hould have accepted it. Fortunately |
or his fame the crisis was averted, and
fter four years of creditable service,
ord Northbrook resigned the governor
of India in February, 1876,
nd was succeeded by Lord Lytton.
renewed honors now awaited him; he
Jas created Viscount Barring of Lee IN
be county of Kent, and Earl of North
rock in the county of Southampton,
nd on the formation of the Gladstone
abinet in 1880, he was appointed first
ord of the admiralty.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

Gallia- Dracchata, the latter signifying
tripod breeches, which were worn by
the natives.
Switzerland, the ancient Helvetia,
was so named by the Australians, who
called the inhabitants OF these noun
famous countries Schweitzers.
Italy received its present name from
renowned prince called Italus. It
was called Hesperia, from its western
locality.
Holland, the ancient Datavi, a war
like people, was so named from the
German word hohl, the English of
which is hollow, implying very low
country. The inhabitants are called
Dutch, from the German deutsch or
teutsch.
Sweden and Norway were anclently
called Scandinavia, which the modern
antiquarians think means a country the
woods of which have been burned or
destroyed. The appellation Sweden is
derived from Sictuna or Suitheod. The
native term Norway or the northern
way explains itself.
Prussia, from Peuzzi, a Sclavonic race,
but some writers suppose it took its
name from Russio, and the Sclavonic
syllable pc, which means adjacent or
near.
Denmark means the marches, ter
ritories or boundaries of the Danes.
Russia is the ancient Sarmatia which
has been subsequently named Muscovy.
it derived its present name from Russi,
a Sclavonic tribe who founded the
Russian monarchy. The original saw
age inhabitants used to paint their
bodies in order to appear more terrible
in battle: They generally lived in the
their only habitations.
Turkey took its name from the Turks
or Turcomans, which signifies wander
ers, and originally belonged to the
Scythians or Tartars. 1t is sometimes
called Ottoman Empire, from Ottoman
one Of its principal leaders.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
A Journey to the Sun.
st. Nicho,as.


As to the distance of ninety-three
million miles, cannon ball would
travel il in about fifteen years. 1t may
help us to remember that at the speed
attained by the limited express on our
railroads train which had left the sun
for the earth when the Mayfower sailed
from Delfhaven with the Pilgrim fathers
and which ran at that rate day and
night, would in 1884 still be journey
of some years away from its terrestrial
station. The fare, at the customary
rates, it may be remarked, would be
rather over two million Ave hundred
thousand dollars, so that it is clear that
we should need both money and leisure
for the journey.
Perhaps the most striking illustration
of the suns distance is given by ex-
pressing it in terms of what the physi-
ologists would call velocity of nerve
transmission. 1t has been found that
sensation is not absolutely instanta-
neous, but that it occupies a very
minute time in travelling along the
nerves; so that if child puts its finger
into candle, there is certain almost
inconceivably small space of time, say
of a second, before he
feels the heat. In case, then, child's
arm were long enough to touch the
sun, it can be calculated from this
known rate of transmission that the in
FAINT would have to live to be a man of
over a hundred before it knew that its
fingers were burnt.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

The state department has received
from Mason, United States consul at
Marseilles, report upon the situation
at that place and Toulon since the abate-
ment of the cholera epidemic. He says
the finances of Marseilles and Toulon
have been strained to the utmost in
cleansing the streets and tenements and
caring for the sick and burying the dead.
The presence of impending financial
ruin weighs heavily upon the business
community, and even ordinary re-
sources of charity are seriously cur
tailed.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
A BUCOLIC STORY.
An Old Farmers Adventure With An En-
ragged Bull.
Binghanpton Republican.

Binghanpton Republican.
One day last week there occurred in
the town of Brookdale, Susquehanna
county, Penn, one of the most exciting
incidents we have for some time been
called upon to narrate. Charles
Adams, an elderly but still powerful
farmer of that place, with his son, a
lad II years of age was going along a
lane some distance away from his
house, leading by q ring and rope a
blooded bull, which, though three or
four years of age, had always been con-
sidered perfectly docile. Near the end
of the lane is hay barn, and as they
passed before it father and son chatted
together, when suddenly, with hoarse
below, the bull turned, and catching
the old gentleman in his horns, pinned
him against the barn. The boy was
almost frightened out of his wits, but.
the old man kept cool.
The angry animal, when it turned
and caught him, had, instead of goring
him, pressed one of its long horns on
either side of his legs, just below the
hips, and, with deep, reverberating bel
lows, flashing eyes, waving tail and
I'LL YOU cRAAOS ooOOo ~ OocihS3 Aeo lOAAo
deeper and deeper into the boards at
the old mans back, while the hard
earth beneath its feet was torn up and
thrown far TO the rear by its furious eff
forts to crush the object of its blind
wrath. Thus matters stood for ten Sec
onds. The frightened farmer did not
expect to escape alive, but the boards
held, and he shouted to his son to run
to the house for the gun. The boy
started a few steps, but as the house
was quarter of mile away, the old
man called him back and told him to
run to the back of tie barn and get a
stout fork there. He ran, and, coming
back, went on the left side of the strug-
Cling animal, placed the fork tines as
near the region OF the heart as he knew
and, as his father gave the signal,
pushed with might and main. Deep
sank the sharp tines and the animal
dropped to its knees, and, with a gasp
If agony, rolled over on its side. The
inc had gone through its heart. The
I'D man hobbled to the house saved,
,ut bruised, weak, and faint. The boy
aid down and cried.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
ga Tinker's Damn"
Western Letter.

western Letter.
General Butler gives the following
amusing explanation of the origin OF
what is generally accepted as profane
remark:
The editor of the Boston Herald does
not seem to know enough to be wicked
when he wants to be. He closes an
article upon your humble servant in the
Herald of Sunday as follows: Scan
anybody believe that man with his
record cares tlnker's malediction for
the principles of any partyP" Now he
evidently thinks that a .stinker's DAM
is a cuss word. Will you inform him
that in the olden time, when travel
ing thinkers went about the coun-
try mending the holes in the
tin kettles and pans they fire.
quently found one that was ragged
and rusty, so that the soldering iron
would not take, and he was obliged to
fill it up with mass of solder. To
keep that solder en- masse over the hole
while in the melted state, he was &C
customed to take some crumbs of bread
and moisten them and make a little
ridge around the hole with the mois-
tened crumbs, to hold the solder in its
place as he melted it in. This was
what was called s'tinker's DAM"
which he brushed away after he had
as it was utterly useless. So
that our Pilgrim fathers used the words
''not worth tinker's dam," never
that they were profane. The
editor of the Herald evidently thinks
ne has been swearing all his life, when
he hasn't, and that he must soften the
word down to ''malediction."
Yours truly,
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
It O Minnesota lakeside hotel fiji

At Minnesota lakeside hotel fine
looking roast spring chicken was
brought on, and on being attacked by
the ahead of the table," suddenly took
a notion to dart from the plate, and
after wildly leeping about the dining
room to the CONSERVATION of rybody,
disappeared out window. 1t appears
that the spring Of this chicken was coiled
mp inside, and that this time it was the
landlords joke.
The largest organ in the world has
just been completed by Walck of Lud-
wigsburg, and placed in the cathedral
church Of Riga. The instrument meas
ures thirty-six feet in width, thirty-two
feet from back to front, and sixty-fve
feet high. 1t contains no less than g.
s26 pipes, distributed among 124 sound
ing stops.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, the singer,

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, the singer,
obtained judgment by default
against George R. Blanchard,
vice-president of the Erie rail-
road, for $1,000 damages, with in
terest from May 1, 1888, for which price
she had paid twenty bonds of $500
each of the London mining company at
the earnest solicitation of Blanchard,
who was president of the company.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

The Marine hospital bureau is in
formed that yellow fever is prevailing
with great fatality on the island Of
Porto Rico. The disease is not con-
fined to recent immigrants from Spain,
but also attacks the Creole population.
Governor General Marquis De La Vega
Insclan died from yellow fever after five
days. illness, and several Spanish citi-
zens are down with the disease.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

A judicious estimate of the irrigable
lands of Colorado places the number at
100000 acres, which, with ordinary
farming, will produce sufficient food
material for the support of 100000
people.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-06

The Gage county fair opens Septem-
Der 30th and continues four days. Over
s., 900 is offered in premiums.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-10
Apartment Houses.

New YORK, April 9.-Some-
thing like a panic prevails among
the tenants of lofty apartment
houses in consequence of the rap
id destruction of the St. George
and the hair breadth escapes of the
inmates. The papers this morn
ing are full of the subject and de-
mand the passage by the Assembly
Of bill limiting dwellings, to sew
enty and eighty feet in height. The
St. George is the first Of the tall,
eloquent structures claimed as fire.
proof in which fee has broken out,
Had the fire occurred at night it
would have been impossible to
save the occupants on the upper
floors. The annual rents of the
St. George we're 81. 800 to 81 800
per suite of rooms. Permits were
granted lastyear to erect over sixty
similar houses above Fourteenth
street some of them to be over one
hundred and forty feet high.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-10
Don, Shoot.

The amended law of 1881 III rela-
ton to the protection OF wild game
went into effect Oh the first Of this
month. The Legislature amended
the law 50 that Section 2 now makes
it unlawful for any person at any
time between the lat OF April and
the LIST of September Of each year
to catch, kill or destroy in any way
any pheasant. woodcock. quail or
wild goose, wood duck, teal, NAL
lard or plover, curlew, snipe,
grouse, robin, meadow lark, yell
low hammer or bittern, and after
April and before August l. ex
cept in the counties of Elko, Eu-
reka and Lander. any sage cock,
hen or chicken. The penalty is
very severe.