The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-26
PASSING EVENTS.
Nashville has 1879 lawyers.


: walking match craze.
The Good Templars have seve
thousand members in Virginia.
!, A widow in Wilton, Conn, says sh
! never intends to marry again. She
= 104.
, Nevada prohibits boys under 2
: years of age from carrying dangerou
r weapons.
J The house of commons at Ottaw;
: had its longest sitting on record on tht
I franchise bill.
Even baseball has been turned tC
the advantage of the Barthoidi pedes
tai IN some places.
Steamboat communication between
ternandina, Fla, and Savannah, Ca,
has been discontinued.
The pearl fisheries off the Lower
California coast are said to have pro-
duced S15, 100000 last year.
All of the public school buildings in
New York are to be connected with
the citys fire alarm system.
The Bostonians are kicking terribly
against the enforcement of the new
law curtailing drinking hours.
An enterprising hen belonging to r.
L. Pardin, of Hawkinsville, Ca, has
produced quarter of pound egg
Three physicians of New Haven.
Conn.,, utilize the bicycle as mode of
conveyance in making their daily calls.
The western recipe for planking a
shad is, plank down your money and
let the restaurateur furnish the shad.
Corn planting has been completed in
the southwestern counties of Virginia.
The acreage is much larger than usu-
al
An cnterprising creole of New Or
leans is said to have had three hundred
articles rejected before one was pub
lished.
A sea-gull measuring feet inches
from tip to tip of wings was caught in
q trap on Wolf island, Quebec, a few
days ago.
Dandelion parties. at which young
ladies and gentlemen hunt out the
weeds on the lawn, are the latest
amusement in Philadelphia.
The Indians on the Bad river, en-
couraged by the success of the pale
face, are preparing to plant large
acreage of corn the coming season.
South Carolina people complain that
hey are unable to buy good strawber-
lies IN their markets for the reason |
hat the best are shipped north for bet
er prices.
A smile went round the supreme
court room the other day when the
judge announced that for the
est of the term the court would prob
.bly be consecrated to divorce.
Floridians are much exercised abont
he proposed convention for the
of the state constitution.
lettings for the election of delegates
o the same are being held all over the
tate.
Knoxville, Tenn, is said to be the
My city in the United States of thirty
thousand inhabitants, and having rail
Dads, steamboats,, telegraphs, and
that publishes no paper on
Ionday.
A New York wedding is to be cole
rated with the addition of fox hunt J
fter the breakfast, in compliment to
lie bride, who is ga fine equestrienne
uch a unique affair is characteristic
New York society. {
A wonder in confectionery was a
igar scene of the camp of the survi-
DIS at Cape Sabine, with the relief
lips Thetis and Bear in the distance
Id sledge of supplies being drawn
the starving men.
The first shipment of red slate ever :
70 l.
7 j. S. Herbert, of North Granville, 8
Y. 1t is fact not generally known c
at the only red slate in the world is +
und in four towns of Washington II
unity. fl
A citizen of Ithaca, N. Y, had been &
orking for five years to obtain back b
nsion money, and a few days ago a.
pers granting him 81, 800 were re- te
ived. But he had been dead for sew n
al weeks. Red tape cheated him Z"
t of his due.
A considerable number of shad have
en- caught in the Alabama and Ohio
Ters this season as result of the =.
operations of the uni -, ~
l States Fish commission on the N N
tomac, from which the young shad n !"
re distributed. an
child was born IN Napa county, of
lifornia, which weighed but two W,
unds. 1t is boy, perfectly organ pr
ID and formed. An ordinary finger DO
q could be slipped over his hand WI
d clear up to the elbow. His total vi vi
lgth is not over eleven inches.
Hero is problem that has puzzled
ne of the best arIthmeticians: "If w,
nan puts 800 in bank the day he is DR.
years of age, what sum must he add 70
it yearly to have $4,000 the day he ~;
80 years of age, receiving per cent in
npound interest on his money!" M,
new law concerning I'm
scene and immoral publications pro- w
its the sale, gift, etc, not only of m,
ecent and obscene books and pa 90
s, but also such as are devoted IA.
oily or principally to the publica- 90,
4 of criminal news, or pictures and str
ries of deeds of bloodshed, lust and oil
NE. NO
| curious denizen of the deep was we
ely caught in shad net at Ocean mi
Nj 4.