The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-27
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

Inere are not less than 20U telegraph
offices in New York city.
BY her new city directory Louisville
claims 159, 1877 inhabitants.
A Philadelphia newspaper reporter
has fallen heir to $40, 1000.
Strawberries are selling in Jackson
vile, Fla, at so cents quart.
The white lead in the white house is
about quarter of an inch thick.
The policemen of Atlanta, Ca, are
wrestling with fully-developed cock
pit.
Another petrified forest has been dis
covered in the Sweet Grass hills, Mon
tana.
The best school of any size in Ten
nessee is governed by the old-time
birch.
Over fourteen million pounds of
dynamite are made annually in the
United States.
A recent census gives the population
of Japan at 37.442. 966, of whom 49,
$50, $50 are males.
1t is said to cost more to print a
newspaper in Arkansas than in any
other state in the union
The new treasurer of Habersham
county, Georgia, has given his bond
for $4,000. There is just $3.50 in the
treasury.
A gardener near Mobile, Ala, is
said to have raised ripe watermelons
out of doors from seeds planted in
December.
There are nearly eleven thousand
officers and subordinates in the depart
ments of the New York city and coun-
ty governments.
Several New York managers have
been notified to at once build brick
walls between the stage and auditorium
of their theaters.
Mrs. Cynthia Griffin, of Waycross.
Ca, is the mother of twenty-six chill
dren, all of whom she reared to man
hood and womanhood.
Mrs. Rodman, of Theresa, Jefferson
county, N. Y, the aunt of ex-senator
S. G. Pomeroy, of Kansas, has just
passed her 103d birthday.
Peanut farmers in North Carolina
complain that present prices do not
pay for the cost of raising, and they
threaten to try some other crop.
FATTY degeneration of the con-
science" is a new phrase used TO ex-
press an aggravated form of moral
disease. The disease, however, is not
new.
Prohibition is evidently much desir-
ed by the business men of Athens,
Ga, sixty-seven firms there having
declared their intentention of closing
on election day and working for 1t.
The total quantity of tea exported
from Japan from May l to the end of
1884, is stated to have been Is, 151, 900.
against Is, 153, 200 pounds for the cor
responding period in the preceding
year.
A Chinese reading-room, to be
known as the Characterization union,
has been opened at Philadelphia. Its
library is mostly made up of bibles,
testaments, and hymn books, in both
languages.
Here is pretty conceit of child,
noted by an exchange: "What does |
God send the snow forp" asked little
girl of another. "Why, the snow
flakes are the umbrellas He covers His
flowers with" was the answer.
The life of quadrupeds generally
reaches it's extreme limit when the
molar teeth are worn down. Those of
the sheep last about fifteen years, of
the OK twenty, of the horse forty, and
Of the elephant one hundred. Many
inferior species die as soon as they
have laid their eggs, just as
herbs perish as soon as they have
lowered.
Legislatures all over the country are
being appealed to by those interested
n temperance agitation to Introduce
nto public schools instruction as to
he effect OF alcohol, and it is charged
hat in many cases the bills are so
ramed as to create market for un-
alable books, or provide a pleasant
OBJ for some philanthropist in COM
'iling n new one.
The largest vacuum-pan ever con-
tructed has just been made for San
'ancisco sugar refining company. 1t
J a pear-shaped vessel, made from
ections of cast-iron. 1t is seventeen
eet in diameter inside, reaches
eight of over forty feet, and will
,eigh 140 tons when empty. 1t will
Oh wv toHS VI sugar Nv ouVo, ~ CoH- 8
aims sixty coils of four-inch copper
,ire, arranged in the form of a hollow :
,verted cone, providing 5000 square
set of heating surface, To carry off
,e steam, four openings ten inches .
/ diameter are provided for connect
lg with the vacuum pumps, and a .
onstant stream of water that fills !
'n-inch opening is needed to absorb =
le heat of evaporation. ;,
A railroad company ran two cars =
etween Memphis and Covington, one p
them for white persons and the l.
her for negroes. The one assigned =,
blacks was practically the smok- II
gear, to which the blacks and h,
@ whites were alike in the a;
lbt of resorting for smoking n
i'd drinking. Ida Wells, a col bi
ed teacher, took her seat in the re
hite car and was forciblv removed. tb
le sued the company, and the court lv
Id that she was wrongfully elected, ii
cause she was refused the iirst-class to
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