The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02
PASSING EVENTS.

well-formed cat at Sinola, Mexico.
Philadelphia is to have Scent stree
car fares, with l cent more for tran
fers.
10, A silver geometrical spider perche
in the center of his web and mounte
ID on plush is the NE west pen-wiper.
ID No more professional coachers wi
,y be employed by Harvard athletes,
Ill course adopted some ten years ago
ar Cornell.
lie A resolution was recently presente
t, in the Alabama legislature to establis
1. commissioner of fish and fsherie
N for that state.
IS The Vermont legislature has jus
IS voted-113 to 69-against giving wo
It men the right to vote at municipal ant
: town elections.
On Thanksgiving day every convic
at Sing Sing, n. Y. was given two
= cigars, besides dinner of chicken and
plum pudding.
Thomas Lahey, 10-year old lad al
, Hamilton, Ont, has been sentenced to
, five years in the penitentiary for habit
ual thievery.
Seven Philadelphians out of ten wear
badges of some sort One Chestnut
street jeweler makes $4,000 worth of
badges annually.
j. E. Fem, of Columbia, S. c., has
just cut bullet out of his leg which
he accumulated in one of the battles
of the ''late" war.
A member of the Manhattan Ath-
letic club earned his Thanksgiving
dinner by jumping twenty feet and six
inches on one foot.
Stuffed canaries are now being util-
lied for left shoulder ornaments on
many OF the imported evening dresses
of Partisan dressmaker.
AS celery is known to be beneficial
for nervousness, it is now claimed by
those protesting fair trial that cram
berries assist in curing dyspepsia.
Pittsburghers find much fault with
the quality of gas supplied them, as
sertlng that the companies mix natu-
raj gas with the manufactured article.
A Chinaman who was arrested for |
drunkenness frankly expressed COM
mon disposition. He said "He no
workee, blut likee dlinkee alice
samee."
Sleeping-car companies enjoy having
railway companies cut rates. The
man who gets his ticket at one-half or
one-third the usual rate is pretty apt
to take berth in sleeper.
The farm known as "Sprinpfield.
l61 acres. in Fairfax county, Virginia,
originally part of the Mount Vernon
estate, was last week sold to j. G.
way for the apparently small sum of
81, no.
A collection of bugs and insects for t
the New Orleans exposition is being I
made at Austin, Tex. 1t will include, t
also, various stuffed birds and animals, {
and rattlesnakes, centipedes, tarantu- \
las, spiders, fish etc. F
correspondent of The Richmond, $
Va.) Dispatch a few DAYS ago saw L
group of more than twenty men stand
ng accidentally together at Tazewell
courthouse, not one of whom was less ST
han six feet in height. n
a leading New York dealer asserts n
hat drummer rarely lasts over v
alf-dozen years, at the end of which =,
lme he is generally worn out and ~
aust give place to some beginner who W
nj
The democrats of Prince Georges h,
ounty, Virginia, are making arrange tn
tents to erect a monument to the
lemory of DR.. George E. Rives, who
'as a candidate for congress at the
tie election, and died during the can
ass.
There are probably a million stamp We
)llectors in the United States and fo
anada, and the number is increasing tn
yer year. All the way from $50, 900 80.
$500, 900 have been spent by veal M
y gentlemen in making the most
,rfect collections. fsi
A new wrinkle was introduced at the SSss
st dinner of the Clover club, at the ne,
jou Hotel Bellevue, Philadelphia,
hich was the serving of different Ioi
nds of shelled nuts after each course. OK @a
he idea is credited to the CASTRO ser
'mic ingenuity of the proprietor of
e hotel n
The gavel which the secretary of Int
ite called the New York electors to !
der is an historic one. The handle chs chs
rs piece of mahogany from the bal fire.
'trade of the staircase in the old tan
pitol, and the hammer from a piece I'M, .he
oak out of which the furniture in '"y
court of appeals new room was one
lde. all
Few people have any idea of the size f MT,
the exposition building in New Or I
ms. The Centennial main hall at y
iladelphia was considered an enor- +
JUS structure, but it is said the Gen. Pr
lnial buildings all together could be jou
'ily stored away in the main hall in day
W Orleans, which covers between bio
rty and forty acres. T He
novel table decoration designed by be
New York florist was miniature mel
est of spruce, pine, hemlock, and ON or',
er branches, beneath which were
tered pine needles, cones, leaves,
SIS, and twigs, as in a natural forest; '
perched among the foliage were tor
tridges, squirrels, owls, and other oiti
finders of forest life. was
he farmers of Utah are worried to the
market for their crops. In u's g.
mer years-that is. up TO last year, G.
Ievada, Idaho, and Montana fur trait