The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
PASSING EVENTS.

The actual membership of the Mo
mon church is 1886.
The skating-rink fever has reache
the Sandwich islands.
Base ball clubs are being organize
throughout the country.
One ostrich egg makes good par
cake meal for three men.
There are ninteen metals that ar
worth about $1,000 pound
Tennessee farmers are at least on
month behind in their work.
This country controls three-quarter
of the corn-fields of the whole world
Early fruit and vegetables in Missis
sippi have been destroyed by heavy
freeze.
The value of wood used annually in
cooperage IN the United States is $33,
ia, no.
Pleuro- pneumonia has broken out
among the cattle in the vicinity OF
Marietta, Pa.
A poplar was felled at White Fern,
Tenn, that made over ten thousand
feet of lumber.
There are 250 disabled ex-confeder-
ate soldiers living in the poorhouses
of North Carolina.
A Jacksonville, Fla, merchant has
disposed of ten thousand marbles with
in the past three weeks.
Thirty thousand writer's are employ
ed on the fifteen hundred daily news
papers published in the United States.
A blue seal on letter indicates love.
This is probably because when a man
is in love he is blue more or less all
the time.
A Manitoba farmer who tills thirteen
thousand acres of land communicates
with his employees by the use of the
telephone.
The legislature of Massachusetts re-
fused to permit woman preacher at
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
1t is understood that, for several
causes, comparatively small number
of Americans will 60 to Europe the
coming summer.
A Colleton county, South Carolina,
woman is boasting of the fact that
twenty-five hens of her flock laid
dozen eggs in ten weeks.
There are altogether some six hun
bred glaciers in Alaska, varying IN
size, but IN nearly every case having |
dimensions far greater than any in |
switzerland.
Baltimore is to have an electric rail-
way between Huntingdon avenue and
he union passenger station. The cleo
ric conductor will be third rail, and
he speed ten miles per hour.
Western lumbermen are poking fun
1t Tom Nast's picture in Harper's,
where single span of horses are rep
esented as drawing a sled loaded
With fifteen large logs-a quite impos-
ible and improbable feat.
Smyrna, Del, has a public school
costing $4,000 which was so
'oorly planned and constructed that
Iurlng the cold weather the schools
ad to be closed, because it was found
impossible to keep the building warm.
Someone has discovered that five
ut of the twenty-one presidents of
ne United States were of Scotch-Irish
Polk, Buchanan,
and Arthur; two of Scotch,
rant and Hayes; one of Welch, JEFF
srson, and one of Dutch, Van Buren,;
ne remaining twelve being of Eng
sh descent.
Near Chickasawhatchee Ga, line
{ earthworks can still be seen which
ere thrown up by Gen. jackson
DID Hickory as protection against
le Indians on his march to Florida
trough that section in 1878. These
are scarcely perceptible
4 first sight, but by close observation
lev can be traced.
The aggregate number of carloads
peaches shipped out of Delaware
ON 1867 TO 1884 was SO, 064, the
'eatest year being 1875, with 9,072
lr-loads, and the smallest, 1881, with
lily rs. A carload is $50 baskets.
he bulk of the crop is shipped by YES
Is to Baltimore. During the past
,ar evaporators have been erected
roughout Delaware and MARYLAND,
hich are both profitable in them
Ives and useful in preventing gluts
the market. The crop for 1885
omises in both states to be large.
Hattie Ketchum, 5-year-old girl
ing near Syracuse, N. Y. is said to r
hopelessly addicted to the use of /
oacco, and has been since she was 2 L
ars old. When between l and 2
airs of age the girl was afflicted with
nat is known as wind collie, and at
g suggestion of a friend, tobacco
loke was blown into milk and given
+. This remedy proved effective,
t created an uncomfortable desire
: tobacco, and by various subter-
ges the child has ever since found C
cans to satisfy her craving for the
ed.
Every stop of train costs money to
allway company. Recent statistics -
pit on a certain trunk line showed II
1t during given year the $50 v
lily trains made 1000 extra stops
cry twenty-four hours, the traffic
ng largely suburban. Experiments
owed also that each stop cost AZ
ITS, reckoned largely in extra time
employees, who for that number of
ps put in the aggregate of $50 ex-