The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02
, FACT AND FANCY.

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to Maine to pass the winter.
Up Agriculture has increased quite rap.
Ut idly in Maine the last decade.
:; ~ A young lady "lathers and shaves
IN 'em" at Seattle, Washington terri
- tory.
g. There are 161 patients in the Nevada
insane asylum and 161 convicts in the
:. state prison.
IS Walla Walla, Washington territory,
a has forty. six Chinese students at q
) school there.
: Fourteen boys made ropes of blank
s cts and escaped from the Louisville
: house of refuge.
l Skin grating has been proposed as
, a means of securing a new crop of hair
, on sterile scalp.
A New Haven, Conn, man pawned
his false teeth for a quarter recently
to buy theater ticket
Camphor trees are growing thrifty
at Quincy, Fla. The plants were OBJ
tanned from Washington.
A company of Scotch capitalists
have invested 100000 in mining lands
in White county, Georgia.
A saloon at Laredo, Texas, recently
received a turtle measuring 81 by 81
feet and weighing $50 pounds.
Peach and Japan plum trees contin-
ne to bloom at Greene Cove Springs,
Fla. So do big-mouthed alligators.
Christmas trees are already on their
way south from northern forests and
will soon make fir groves on city
streets.
There is a band of elk in the
Mogollona mountains of New Mexico
which many hunters have tried in
vain to capture.
Salinas, Cal, is troubled by a plague
of frogs. They hop in at open doors
and windows, and are nuisance and
terror to nervous housekeepers.
'.The Working Girls vacation
society is new charitable society in
New York. whose name, at least, is
suggestive of needed good works.
The red sunsets have again made
their appearance in San Francisco.
and are interpreted by some as the re- I
lection of the war cloud waited from
China.
The Chinese have introduced opium
lmok1ng among the Indians of British
columbia, and it is said they are more
infatuated with the drug than the
Jhinese.
Eighty-fve schools are now sup
orted in Utah by outside aid. These -
mploy 1856 teachers, who are paid
$4,000 year, and give instructions -
, $500 children.
Philadelphia girls wear silk stock
lgs upon which snakes, toads, and
! kinds of bizarre designs are paint
l. Another case of fem mime imita-
on of masculine styles.
A Louisiana negro man attempted IN
shoulder five bundles of cotton ties All
once the other day.. He succeeded
getting them nearly up, staggered,
I'd fell dead from over-exertion.
New Orleans papers say that dozens
small. low-priced restaurants are
ing opened all over that city, and
many of them avery decent and
ling meal can be had for 25 cents"
The term cut-glass is incorrect.
ass can not be cut, not even by the
amond. The diamond cracks It and
ables one to break it. What is or a
,arily called cut-glass is really a
ound glass.
A jury at Fort Worth, Texas, has
ZEN a brakeman who had his head
lshed while coupling cars, $4,000
images. The road thus heavily as
sed is the Galveston, Harrisburg
San Antonio.
l forty-ton rock fell from the arch
The natural bridge of Virginia, thu n
er morning, with noise like the VI
OK of doom. This. is the first fall NJ
record since the bridge was struck III
in 1879.
York on the walls of the Mormon
'ple in Salt Lake City is about sus-
ded for the winter. The main
lcture IS up to the square, but the
trail spires have yet to be reared a
ance of ninety feet
r. Thomas Jordan, of Lisbon
ne, who is 81 years old, is one of
smartest of the smart old gentle
!. One day last week he held
4king-up pillow all day, and the day
re he had spent fighting fire in the
DIS.
lie springs in Los Angeles (Califor-
mountains are said to have more Doo,
n flowing from them at present fh1I
az al liiuc IOr the last twenty
S: The Los Angeles river is also
ming. considering the amount of
that has fallen.
Texas man made bet that he
4 invent question to which fifty
lie would all give the same answer.
ION the bet. The question was
We You heard that Smith had COM
I'd suicideP" The answer in each Sc
was: "What Smith,"
Florida paper is responsible for
tatement that the phosphoresence
gssho%ss i 1 mover a@a 's SE Hsas Oliver
ever known; that 1t night the
m OF the river can be plainly seen
person is on the water in a boat.
the old days when senators took
two boxes filled with the article
placed on the presidents desk,
q each side nv orde- of a ,,o~x-