The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-03
PASSING EVENTS.

SoihihS
In Charleston nine strawberries can
be purchased for 25 cents.
The town of Spartanburg, S. c.,
will be one hundred years old in 1887.
The Pennsylvania legislature passed
four bills in eight weeks and has taken
a rest
The Spaniards shout "Oye oye'r'
("Hear hearr') when using the tele-
phone.
The frost in the ground is nearly
three feet deep in the vicinity Of
Boston.
There is a negro in Yalobusha
county, Mississippi, said to be 122
years old.
Springfield, Mass, is excited because
span of horses for the fire department
cost $1,O35.
Eggs are quoted in Montana at
ten cents each; in Georgia at ten
cents a dozen.
Only one American out of eighty has
perfect teeth; fewer still cut their eye
teeth properly.
Mail bags from Cincinnati were re-
Gently delivered in Berlin in the short
space of eleven days.
The death of Cardinal McCabe
leaves the government only two sup
porters in the Irish hierarchy.
The cities of Baltimore and Phila-
delphia are declared by medical au-
thority to be ripe for cholera.
A Macon, Ga, man is trying to de-
wise method of saving wood by
electricity of which he dreamed.
The Salvation army began opera
tions in Hartford, Conn, with what
they advertised as "a big kick-up."
Hot Springs, Ark, has eight thou
sand resident population, and last
year had twenty-one thousand visitors.
Nevada has 14O postoffices, one of
which is second class and eight third
class. The remainder are of the
fourth grade.
On Bayou Fordoche, La, in neigh
borhood of over one hundred people,
a physician has not been required for
over two yes
A Georgia woman boasts that she
has in use, unbroken, sitter which
she bought when she was married,
sixty -one years ago.
One of the jurors drawn in Rich
mond county, South Carolina, last
week, was found to be woman. She
was not required to serve.
The moss crop of Florida, says The
Pensacola Commercial, is worth more
than the cotton crop, and can be put
on the market at less expense. The
demand exceeds the supply, and there
IS not county in which this product
IS not going to waste.
The opinion of Prof Lockyer now
'avors the theory that several remark
lble seas-including inland seas, some
II them connected and some not, by
traights, with still largers seas-are
It present definable in the southern
of the planet Mars.
According to the report of the
bureau of statistics Texas has only SO
yer cent. the number of cattle there
we're in the state year ago, and 95
yer cent. the number of sheep, but
here has been an increase of IL per
ent. in the number of hogs, 5 per
ent. in the number of horses, and 10
,er cent. in the number of mules.
Alpharetta is young Georgia city,
mt it is remarkable in some respects.
is population is at present two hun
red, and of them five are LAWYERS
nd two physicians. There are also
wo churches. If New York was as
yell supplied with professional men
he would have $4,000 lawyers and
9, 200 doctors.
A North Carolina woman, who dis
overed that heifer which had been
tolen from her was in the possession
neighbor, went to a magistrate
,r the purpose of instituting legal
roceedings for the recovery of her
but the magistrate told her
,at the cost of legal proceedings
ould be considerable, and, as the
eifer had been taken from her illegal
:, she had better raise a sufficient
rowd to go and take her back by
'rce, and thus save expenses.
The parish records of the town of
fired, Mass, contain the following
ntry: "April 6, 1874. The inhab-
ants of this parish met, pursuant to
and passed the follow
< vote: Voted. To purchase two
arrels of rum, one barrel of pork,
'ur bushels of beans, ten gallons of
ten pounds of coffee, and
pounds of sugar, to raise
le meeting house. Voted. That
Conant was desired to pro-
Ire said articles"
A number of young society ladies of
have organized an
hletic club, and will fit up gymnas-
m. At Il recent meeting roller-skat-
g was discussed. OF the thirty-nine
embers, fourteen denounced the
nusement as vulgar and prejudicial
health, and the opinions of several
the leading physicians of the city
ere read to back up their argument,
It as twenty-five members voted in
vor of roller-skating a rink will ad-
in the gymnasium. The club mem
rs will also form a riding class in
3 spring. and daily rides will be
Ken through the park in pleasant
'ather. The bylaws of the associ-
on say that gentlemen will not be
mitted to the rink or gymnasium.