The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-30
NO.. 8.
FACT AND FANCY.

Ihe coal-helds OF Arkansas have an
area OF $4,000 square miles.
Guanajuato, Mexico, has 166 free
schools, with 1871 scholars.
1t costs from 5000, 900 to $500, 900 to-
mend break in an ocean cable.
Seventy-five newspapers have come
into life. sickened, and died, in New
York, within the past thirty years.
Theatricals are dull in every part of
the country. The New York mana
gers are talking of reducing salaries.
The Cincinnati Associated charities
las lately organized volunteer force
Of one hundred ladies to act as visitors
to homes of the needy.
An old log Jail which was erected in;
Crescent City, CAL, thirty years ago.
was recently blown down by the wind
and completely wrecked.
The latest wall decorations seen in
new houses in New York represent
pastoral scenes, very beautiful in con-
,eption and faithful in detail.
Prohibition seems to be gaining
ground in Louisiana, especially in the
interior parishes. 1t is estimated that
B4, 100000 is spent for liquor in that
state every year.
Electric clocks were started last
yeek in New Orleans. They have met
nth public favor, and are being intro
iuced into a number of public build
.ngs and private residences.
The Episcopalians of Charleston, S.
O., have started a Church Burial as
sociation, in which the membership
,ost 81 year and insures hearse,
,ofiin, carriage, and grave in case of
ieath.
Rev. Jacob Hildebrand, Fisherville,
Roanoke county, Va, has in his pos
session German bible printed in the
year 100. Mr.. Hildebrand proposes
20 present it to the library of Roanoke
college.
A deaf-mute, who is blind, attended,
religious service for deaf-mutes in
Baltimore recently, and was made tO4
comprehend the entire service by a.
ieaf-mute who interpreted by certain
pressures on the blind mans hand.
1t is said that the wood on the north
,ide of tree will not warp rs much as
that from the south side, and if trees
are sawed in planes that run east and
west, as the tree stood, it will warp
less than if cut in the opposite direc-
ion.
A distinguished divine of the Quaker
sity was asked the other day whosei
style he would prefer to have, Emer-t
sons or Oliver Wendell Holmes III
would PREFER" was his answer, "tOi
write like Holmes, but to think like
Emerson"
A Louisville man has just been un-
ucky enough to serve on a jury with,
,leven obstinate men, but he brought
hem around. They all wanted the
ulprit hanged, but the one stood out
Until twenty years Imprisonment was
greed to.
American apples 60 abroad in great
Quantities this season, mostly to Eng
and. They sell on street stands In
.oudon at from to IL cents apiece.
lone go to Russia or Italy yet, but it
, expected that they will soon find
heir way to both countries.
The sales of relics of the Washing
On monument has become quite an
ldustry. Some ingenious persons are
aid to have obtained carload of
le monument stone came and to be
fragments of it into
hips from the Washington monu-
ent.
A venerable and respected lady of
melia county, Virginia, Mrs. Susan
owlett, now in her 84th year, has re-
,ntly cut her third set of front teeth,
I'd has in large measure regained
Or eyesight, which had greatly failed
' reason of her advanced age. The
Use is naturally regarded as a most
,markable one.
A Buffalo man who became blind
We years ago has applied for patent
i an invention to serve as an aid to
e blind in writing. 1t consists of
n pad with shot in it, in which thei
IN or pencile moves across the paper,f
i'd screw at one side, by which the
lper is moved up the distance neces-
ry to take fresh line.
In Piedmont, Ga. there is a Accent
an. If he hires anyone he only pays
m 40 cents per day if he hires him
If to anyone he only asks 40 cents Il
he makes bid or an offer for any
ing it is only 40 cents if he swaps
rises, cows, or anything he either
ks or pays 40 cents difference,
lere are 40-cent men in other towns
an Piedmont.
The superiority of American dredg-,
g machines, which has been shown
the work on the Panama canal, has
to orders for them by foreign
The last of these is
om Spain. A drag-boat, with
rev propeller of 1O0-horse power,
e iron barges, and two tow-boats
We been called for to be used at the
rt of San Juan, Porto Rico. Three
)nths are allowed for sending in pro-
sails, and eight months thereafter for
ilding the apparatus.
cable rates have varied con-
erably since the opening of the SER
,e in 1866. The first rate was 500
twenty words or less. From this it
s gradually reduced to $25 for ten
rds, $40 for ten words, SO cents per
I'd, and, in the summer of 1880, Ow-