The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-15
PASSING EVENTS.

to Harvard college, Cambridge.
There is bed of clay in Greene
county, Alabama, which is said tc
possess valuable medicinal properties.
Dressmakers' rooms are now got up
In a high style of art and called
''atelers." The customers pay hand
somely for the luxury.
1t is estimated that there have been
almost as many trees planted this sea-
son in the vicinity of Tucson, Arizona,
as the total of the last six years.
Weddings can be had cheap in
Georgia. Uncle Calvin, Clarke
county justice of the peace, only
charges plug of tobacco for marry
ing couples.
While eating its food a horse belong
ing to citizen of Williamsburgh, N.
T., was bitten in the lip by rat, and
died from the effects of the wounds
thus inflicted.
In Arizona any person who uses pro-
fame, indecent, vile, or abusive Ian
guage, or threats, within the hearing
of women and children, is held liable
by law to fine or Imprisonment.
Jupiter will be worth approaching
as an evening star this month, for he
looks larger than he will for six years,
because he is going away from the
sun and wilt not return until 1892.
One hundred and forty thousand
eucalyptus trees are being planted
near Los Angeles, Gail, for fuel. 1t is
said that an acre of them after lapse
of four or five years will yield as much
as an acre of grapes.
Maine papers say that Bath board
ing mistress surprised one of her
boarders, who was learning to play on
the banjo, by reducing the price of his
board, on the ground that his
singing and playing had frightened |
away all the rats. The compliment
has discouraged the young man SO
that he has given up practice.
The managers of the Franklin in
sttute, in Philadelphia, have decided
to hold during the fall of the present
year an exhibition to be devoted, as
their announcement declares, ''to such
recent inventions, improvements, and
discoveries in the sciences, arts and
manufactures as may be deemed
worthy of the name, the place, and the
occasion. "
The election of the governor of Rhode
Island is proclaimed by the sheriff
from the balcony of the state house in
Newport to the citizens assembled in
the square below; evening bells are
tOlled throughout the state to announce
the event, and there remain other
vestiges of the ways of the old English
settlers. Rhode Island is the only state
in the union which makes the owner
ship of property condition for voting. |
A good story is told in lions Herald $
of wedding in Methodist church /;
wnereat prominent divine who was
to officiate, finding himself and con-
in the church considerably in L
advance of the bridal party, finally e
asked that some one should strike up il
a hymn to improve the time. A good
brother started off just as the bridal
party entered the church, with the f,
hymn beginning {,
"Come on, my partners in Distress" :,
One secret of the decline of the :,
southern cotton-mills, which The Neao u
Orleans Picayat,ae admits and deplOres, u
IS that there was too great a ''boom" p
IN these enterprises. Those that were al
earliest in the field made heavy divi- nj
lends, which induced others to crowd !.
n, until the production of the coarser 10
grades of goods, to which these mills
ire chiefly devoted, was pushed be- g..
7ond the demands of the market. -
A young doctor IN Abbeville county, 81
South Carolina, was called to treat a w
,atient i'll with pneumonia. He left pl
mall vial of veratrum, to be taken in 10
ernally, and linlment composed of A
lartshorn, turpentine, and chloroform, III
o be applied externally. The next ~
ay he was gratified to find his patient '"
etter and able to sit up, but he COM lz'
lained of terribly sore throat. On al
Investigation he discovered that the
atient had taken the liniment and
ubbed with the veratrum. tn
Those desiring to check tendency at
o obesity may now choose between flo
our systems. 1. The original Bant- a.
ng, which consists of eating nothing NJ
starch, sugar, or fat. 2. IA
he German Banting, which allows yi'
1T, but forbids sugar or starch, 3. A So
lunich system, which consists of sol
ressing in wooden clothes and of nm
eeping between flannel blankets in ~. ar
-ead of cotton or linen sheets; and 4, '"'
le Schweninger system, which in
SITS on an interval of two hours be-
Yeen eating and drinking. we
Paul Howes, Georgia drummer, Is
lille travelling in South Carolina, dr.
,ined with fellow drummer in buy BILE
lg thousand ticket. The tbe
)nductor refused to allow but one of -.
lem to ride on the ticket, saying that ~
lille it could be issued to two or more H.
arties, only one person could ride on fou
at one time, and Mr.. Howard was tn,
ut off the train. He at once took Vol
cps to sue the road for damages, ito
hen the managers concluded they
I'd better settle the matter, and paid I
N $1,000 to drop the suit. The adj we,
nture proved a very profitable one col
r the drummer. S"i'
Somebody in writing of old trees o''
VS. some have been found in Africa tee
1T are computed to be $3.50 years the
|, and cypress in Mexico is believed per
have reached a still greater age. cen
q pVprpSs of Santa Maria dol Tn1o