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

THE CALDWELL TRIBUNE
w. J.. CUDDY, Ed. and Prop.
CALDWELL, lDAho
HERE AND THERE.
In some regions of Africa girls mus
be six feet high before they are allow
ed to marry.
In Germany steam is often used to
extinguish flames. 1t causes much
less damage than water.
THERE is said to be more crime in
Rome and vicinity than in any other
region of the globe having the same
population.
The income of Baron Mayer Karl
and Willy de Rothschild have been re-
spectively rated for taxation, at Frank
fort, at 81, lao, 900 and 81, 100, 900.
SCOTTISH milk is now sent to Liver
pool and Manchester by thousands of
gallons, and may be bought on the sta
ton platforms at 6 pence per gallon.
AN musrca. congress
is to be held at Antwerp toward the
close of the present year. Papers on
musical education will be submitted,
and discussions will take place on sub
jects relating to the modes of spread
ing musical knowledge.
THE ruling passion is illustrated at
many odd moments. Birch, the ne
gro singer, was speaking of the funer-
al of his associate, Backus: 'Were
there many present, BillyP" "Many
PRESENT. exclaimed Birch; "why, we
turned 'em way before the first hymn"
The curious effect which the placing
of a fertilizer on one side of an orange
tree at Lake Jesup. Fla, and none on
the other had on the fruit is noted by
a Southern paper, which says that the
side that was fertilized bore large,
bright oranges, and the other small,
rusty ones.
THE autobiography Of the Able
Liszt has long been expected. Four
out of the six volumes are already
completed and will soon be published.
The book contains details of Liszt's
life, and "reminiscences of nearly all
the progressive musicians of the past
half century.
WITHIN the past few months Fran !
cesco, Maria, Carmelo, and Mario :
Bellini, brothers and sisters of the /
composer of Norma: and ia Son. c
nambula," have died at Catania, in s
Sicily. Mario Bellini was organist q
and choirmaster of the Domo Chapel, !
and was the writer of several church q
L
THE Italian papers reported the q
of the aged Josep Melotti, the r
known n most popular of the il
personal conductors" OF strangers o
Rome. He threw himself from a y
wall on the Monte Pincio. The :,
of foreign visitors in Rome 5,
his winter kept HIM unemployed. He p
vas in his seventy-sixth year. p
A SERIOUS epitemic of whooping D
ough has run through the islands of Il.
he Fiji group. The malady has car II
off all the very young native chill re
rem, and left a decrease in the pop SC
lation of 5000. A few years ago n;
0 900 persons in FIJI died from an le
pidemic of measels. Since then the ~
peal Government have done much to r.
the people in the laws of tn
ealth. tn
A YOUNG secretary of legation, di
hose duties required his attendance as
t a recent white-house reception, was VI
!, unwilling to lose a moment of the an
oera, with Theo in the cast, that he an
it the theater, changed his evening in,
ress for a diplomatic costume in the tn
while driving to the white ca
ouse, saluted the president, and re- W,
as he had come to the opera. m,
e was absent from the theater lust on
lirty minutes.
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Mr.. TLDEN's private secretary say OO(
r. Tilden for the last two months has on
joyed health not usually bestowed ny
,on men of his advanced years. The ind
mily physician has not visited Grey AS
in two months, and the indica- me
ms are that his services will not be mes