The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

J A red yam grown at Tocoi, Fla.
weighs seven and a half pounds.
A project for starting a larg
public library is on foot in Charleston
S. c.
The new Indian industrial school Of
New Mexico will be ready to receiv'
pupils on April 1.
Knoxville, Tenn, claims 20 sci
twice as much beer as any 9th
er town of the same size in the
south.
Pierre Duval, of Rutherford county,
North Carolina, is dead. He fought
under Napoleon and lost a leg at
Waterloo.
1t is said that the ladies are very
much d~ispleased at the change that
has been made in the state flag OF
North Carolina.
The seal is gentle and harmless, and
rarely retaliates when attacked, says
an exchange. This is because it is a
~fur-bearing animal.
Suppose" says an exchange, "all
the world went to bed every evening
at sunset" Oh, well, the worlds gas
bill would be just as big at the end of
the quarter.
Some farmers of Independence,
Ark, have a new variety of cotton
which they found growing wild in the
woods. The stalks grow ten feet in
height, and it yields five thousand
pounds per acre.
In Dooly county, Florida, a 14-year-
old boy runs a six-mule farm and plows
oil of tho rar1or I.-cof IL
cultivator which cuts a swathe six feet
in width in one through. He prepares
from six 10 twenty acres a day.
SIS your master busy P" asked the
tailor. mo, he is out" "But l just
saw him at the upper window"
"Well, 1 just asked him for money,
and he said he was out. ''Oh, if that's
the case am out too"
Every dog has his day, the cat takes
the nights, the iceman and the milk
man takes the early morning hours,
and the scissor grinder with his bell
and the fruitman with his yawp takes
the rest of a lifetime that is worth liv-
ing.
There is said to be a regular trade in
human skeletons in New York. There
are a great many boardipg-houses in
the metropolis, and therefore there
should be no difficulty in keeping the
supply Of skeletons fully up to the de-
mand.
A man in Wayland, N. Y, runs a
bar in connection with an undertaking
establishment. By this means he Sc
cures money from everyone in the
town. If people won't patronize one
part of his business they invariably do
the other.
The state of Arkansas derives
S25, 600 per annum from its peniten-
larry by leasing the labor of eighty
,onvicts to cigar manufacturers, and
over 280 others to farmers,
he consideration being 1915 per
month and all expenses.
A scientist says that in three million
the earth will be one gigantic
Unless the good book errs,
n three million years a large number
# the present residents of this earth
will have peculiar reasons for wishing
hey were back here again.
There are 81, 694 Irishmen in the
British army. The rest of the male
of the emerald isle are
catered over the face of the earth,
ither acting as policemen, or running
be political affairs of the country IN
7hich they happen to find themselves.
A curiosity in the shape of a well
7hich produces warm water is excit-
,g no little interest among the resi-
of Quinton, N. j. The well is
in a window-glass factory,
nd it Is supposed that the water from
le springs feeding the well passes
nder the furnaces and is thus heated. |
George Lewis, colored, of Dooly |
ounty, Florida, has a tame gopher,
'hich has made its home in a hole in |
is yard for four years. He has man,
l it lobe, and in warm weather,
hen the children go to the hole and
Ill him by name, he will crawl out
follow them all over the yard, eat
g from their hands and doing other
lnny tricks.
The sanitary side of our school sys-
m is examined in The Andovar Re-
cD, and the conclusion is reached
hat there are evils connected with
'mmon schools which are more than
g necessary incidents of a nearly
'rfect system" The point insisted
is that the present school manage
ent contributes largely to the increase n
nervous disorders, and interferes h
with he health of the pupils. II
The pastor of a colored Baptist
urch in Baltimore was charged by
emsers with having run away with
oney belonging to the congregation.
l his return he showed that they had
yer intrusted him with more than
at a time, intended as a fortnightly
of his salary, and then
nshed his adversaries by asking some e
e to explain how he could support
nself and run away upon such an
The writer in The 81. Louis Medical i.
xrnaL advises young practitioners
yer to make fun of an old woman's "
nedy. lie will not only give Of
Use, but may miss a valuable aid in
practice. The writer adds: SIN
30, while practicIng in Madison
lnty, Illinois, l was induced by the
presentations of an old m to