The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-23
FACT AND FANCY.

e The bee can draw forty-two time
10 the weight of its body. A species {
y beetle can draw forty-two times il
y weight.
y There are reports that some distanc
- up the Yukon river, in Alaska, Their
|. are rich placers, but the season TO
!. work is short, and the mining difficult
n 1t is reported that gold-bearin,
a quartz mines have been discovered be
tween Wadsworth and Virginia City
o New, the exact locality of which ha
t not been divulged.
t If railway rates were the same fit
s teen years ago the cost of performing
t the 10000 miles of service now re
/ quired would be 81 900, 100000, against
6 $3.50, 900, 900, the current total.
r The work of enlarging the Dismal
A Swamp canal in Virginia, so as to
, make it veritable ship canal, will be-
; gin early in the new year. Six years
, is the limit fixed for its completion.
A California justice, beng puzzled
by case, put the lawyers who argued
it under oath as the correctness of
their Interpretation of the law. One
took the oath readily, but the other
declined and lost his case.
A conductor in Massachusetts, put a
tramp off his train and threw him a
bundle which he supposed was his bag
gage. The tramp threw it back, and
it was afterward found to be pack
age of bills containing 1880
Twelve-carat gold is made of coin
gold seventy-five parts, further alleged
with forty parts copper, and twenty
two parts silver. This makes a COM
binatiou of good appearance. and one
(which stands the acid test well.
The caprice of fashion involves no
end of expense to tho shoemaker. One
manufacturer will sometimes have
from three thousand to five thousand
pairs of lasts. These must be chang
ed with change of fashion at a cost of
hundreds of dollars.
The sorrel plant was recently
brought from the Bahamas to Florida,
where it is now ripening it's fruit and
promises to become valuable plant to
small farmers. 1t is prepared in pre-
serves, jam, and jelly, and is superior |
for this purpose to the cranberry.
In 1900 Romanists constituted one
third of the population of Great Brit
ain and Ireland in 1884 they consti-
tute less than one-seventh. In the
English speaking countries of the
world there are 100000 Roman
Catholics, and 8S,000,000 Protestants.
A way has been discovered by which
marble may be saturated with GER
tain paint so that it is possible to place
a flower or head upon a block of
marble, and then obtain as many slabs
bearing the imprint as one sees fit to
have the block sawed into. The pro-
cess is called "Endolithy."
The official catalogue of the officers
and alumni of Union College from 1897
20 1884 shows that the whole number
If graduates, classical and scientific, {
8 1867, and the number of alumni in '
he two departments not graduated is {
2, 1874 total of 1894. There have
been in addition 1919 graduates in l
,ivil engineering, ,
A list has been prepared of the mem
,ers OF the last graduating class at
Yale and their future occupations. OF
hese 46 are reading law, 81 are teach t
ng, 19 are in business, Is are continu- S
ng their studies, II are reported with t
tut occupation, are studying theolo- +
~, 2 are studying medicine, 2 are
ngaged in newspaper work, 1 is (
'ranching," and several are travel
az. v
The year 1885 is to bring two eclpses 4
t the sun and two of the moon. An t
nnular eclipse of the sun will occur a
n March 16, invisible in the United f
tates. On Sept. 8, total eclipse of b
he sun will take place, visible in Aus u
ralia, South Pacific ocean, and Cape
Torn. This will be followed on the r
4th OF the same month by partial 4
clipse of the moon; visible in the Uni a
I'd States. -
California is receiving from twelve L
} eighteen hundred immigrants per Il
eek, most of whom settle in the b
outhern part of the state and engage
| fruit and wine growing. The poor O
: class go to the northern counties, q,
nd devote themselves to agriculture. a,
bout 80 per cent. of the whole num- h.
or push up north into Oregon and /,
Tashington territory. The popula- .
ON Of California is now about one NJ
illion. r
Coraline, a substance now extern f.
vely used in manufacture in this fo
'untry, is made from the fiber of the n
tie plant, which grows in Mexico and ri
me parts of South America. In Ia
,neral appearance it resembles some ri
hat the American aloe or century, n,
ant, but its leaves are longer and n
ore slender. Scattered through the
inter of these pulpy leaves arc a %
imber of round, tough, elastic fibers. 10 10
nese fibers are separated from the 80
ayes, packed into bales, and shipped " "
the United States, where they are a.
oven into tough cloth. IT, IT,
"Woman," says DR.. Tuggles, cloves 90
ess and jewelry. Old Isaac knew it r.
well as anybody, and that's why he in
ut Rebecca the earrings aud brace
IS. Moses says the earrings weighed d,
If shekel apiece, which. according t &c
the Hebrew tables, made the pair -
st exactly 629 cents. Couldn't catch ~
becca now with such jewelry as 81
at. But they had a curious way of uu
urting in those primitive days, for re
len bashful lover yentured to kiss III