The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
PASSING EVENTS.
Wildhowers are in blossom through
out California.

wheat and flour in the world.
A fishing party at San Diego, CAL,
caught $50 barracuda recently, weigh
ing in all 1900 pounds.
1t may be the irony of fate, but it is
true all the same, that whip-lashes
are now almost invariably made of
horse-hides.
A new locomotive turned cut the
other day at Albany on her trial trip
attained speed of over seventy miles
an hour. Her wheels are seventy
inches in diameter.
There is a great difference between
the uncultured and the cultured owl.
The uncultured bird, you know, says:
''Tu whit tu whoo," but the cultured
one says "Tu whit tn whom"
1t is said that corundum, the new
metal, is found in every county in
North Carolina west of Iredell to the
Tennessee line. In some localities it
is so abundant that it lies on the sur
face and may be picked up by the
basketful.
A newspaper which has twice re-
Gently erred in announcing the death
of people announces that hereafter
any young man bringing news of a
death at an hour so late as to make
yerifcation impracticable must be ac-
companled by the remains, not neces-
sarlly for publication, but as guar
tee of good faith.
The English university constituent
cies include the whole mass of gradu-
ates who choose to keep their names
upon the books, the lawyers and the
physicians, the squires and the par
sons, the bankers, merchants and
writers-men of every trade aud of
every rank in educated England. Ok
ford has 8, 400 such electors, and Cam
bridge about 1000 more.
Sarah Story, of Ludlow, Mass, who,
according to her own statement, was
10S years, s months, and 81 days old,
died recently. She was part Indian
and part negro. She was in the habit
of saying that her mother told her
that she was ''born in old Connecticut
the before independence was declared,
that her folks were going to move In
dependence day, but she came along,
so they could not"
A Baltimore oysterman the other
day fished up bottle to which a large
bunch of bivalves had grown. Inside
the bottle was a fish too large to go
out of its mouth. 1t is supposed that
the fish went into the bottle and either
liked its quarters so well that it tar
ried too long or before it could find
its way out had grown so large as to
nearly fill the bottle. The bottled fish
will be sent to the Smithsonian insti-
tuition as curiosity.
The report of the New York Society
for the Suppression of Vice for 1885,
classifies the crimes of the youth of
both sexes, under 21, as follows: Muir
der. Il; attempted murder, 104; burg
larry, 179; highway robbery, 81; grand
larceny, ~; larceny, 230; forgery, Is;
arson, A.; manslaughter, 2. counter
feiting, 5; n-wreckers, 6; mail rob-
berry, 4; picking pockets, 8. suicide,
81; attempted suicide, "a. A band of
a dozen boys is mentioned-all under
10 years of age-who had voted to kill
their mothers. One of them proposed
to practice upon a servant girl first,
but she objected, and the plot was dis
covered.
For the last twelve years one of the
most regular applicants for letter
at the Bath, Me-, postoifice has been
a man wearing blue army coat, who
is upward of 70 years of age. He has
hardly missed day during this time.
He is expecting his papers giving him
2 pension. He enlisted in 1864, the
e hn onH nn1u n
Augusta where he claims he contract
ed what is known as the ''straw rheu-
matism," and Immediately at the
close of the war applied for pension.
He is diving in hope" as every day
he has an idea that the papers will ar
rive. He makes scanty living by re-
pairing umbrellas, and people assist
him in many ways.
Talking about the sudden death of
Inspector Thorne, the other day, a
Kentuckian said: ''Il is remarkable
low quick men know when death seizes
hem. / remember the case of Judge
Ballard, of Louisville, who was caught
much like Thorne. He was standing |
n the bank, when he was seized with
twinge IN his side that nearly bent |
lin double. Pm done for, boys, he |
aid; order me carriage quick. l
hall he dead man in an hour He |
vas a man of wonderful nerve and self
possession. When he got home his |
wife met him with scared face at the
loor. BE calm he said; 'yoa must
,e calm. | shall be dead in an hour,
nd you must know all about my af-
airs by that time Then he sat down
nd told her all about his money mat
ers, kissed her, and was dead.
The atlanta Constitution fishes up a
ood many queer things in Georgia.
lere is the latest: ''Dr. L. G. Mat
OK, of Clinch county, has IN owl that
oams around loose at his house and
terror to rats and mice. Not only
he useful for this, but he is rare
ird, the doctor having taught his
wlship some rare tricks. For in
lance, he will take the owl and
-hirl him around and about in his
ands, and will then put him upon the
oor or table upon his back, side, or
ny other position he may see proper,
,lling the owl to sleep, and he re-
,ains perfectly quiet. The doctor