The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-10
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

formerly, are enough 10 10TH Wctk-
iy transatlantic line.
Louisville, KY, with 100000 inhab-
itants, has 18 wide-open gambling
bells, 100 policy-shops, and 100 poker
rooms.
In the pyrometer heat is measured
by the expansion of metals, and the
instrument will measure heat accur-
ately up to 1000 degrees.
Thermometer tubes have to be seas
oned. This requires year or two.
When glass is new it changes, ex-
pands, contracts, and warps almost as
badly as green wood.
Ivory leather is the latest novelty in
card-cases, purses and bags. 1t is very
stylish and elegant, and may be found
IN two shades, one cream or ivory color,
and in a deep, rich shade or yellow.
Reports received from the fruit
growing districts in the Hudson val
ley confirm the previous accounts Of
the failure of the peach crop, and, it
may be, of one or two varieties of
small fruits.
The doors of rooms in Denmark no.
tells have no locks. says traveller, and
the inference is that the landlords
stand in with the thieves. Thus his
tory repeats itself: "There is something
rotten in the state of Denmark"
To avoid as far as possible risk of in
lection in surgical procedures, Prof.
Esmarch is said to have discarded
wooden operating tables and to en-
ploy only those made of metal. All
the instruments used are nickel-plated
and metal-handled.
Stonewall Jackson's war-horse,
"Fannie," has been taken to the New
Orleans exposition. On its journey it
received almost as many ''ovations"
as the liberty bell. At Bristol, Tennes-
see, s'forty young ladies surrounded
the horse and kissed him."
A literal fashion of picking up
language" has been adopted by re-
cent traveller in Central Africa. He
carries monograph with him, and
makes point of persuadIng the ma
tive chiefs to talk into the instruments.
Thus he gets lasting record OF the
tribal dialects, which he can bring
back and submit to European philolo-
gists.
The great bell of st. Paul's, London,
never tolls except at the death or fu-
neral of some member of the royal
family, of the bishop of London, of a
lord mayor dying in office, and of the
dean of St. Paul's. 1t weighs about
five tons and has diameter of nine
feet. At the recent death of the
bishop of London the solemn boom OF
the great bell called out large crowds.
At convention of psychologists,
held at Dayton, o., Feb. 8-9, the Amer
lean Archaeological association was
formed, with Theodore H. Wise, of
Wheaton, ILL.,, as president. The num-
Der of members has reached 20l, and
is rapidly increasing. The object OF
the association is the exploration OF
prehistoric remains in the United
States.
The secretary of Mr.. Surgeons
Sunday-school lately made the highly
original suggestion: ut would be
very good thing if the scripture texts
given to the infants were to be printed
Upon lozenges instead of upon the little
bits OF pasteboard. as at present; for
not only would the gifts be more highly
valued, but it might be truly said,
GLOW sweet are Thy words unto my
taste.
A prospector in the Chirlcahuas,
New Mexico, had rather novel ex-
pertinent recently. His dog started
ND a band of musk hogs and brought
them to bay. Upon his approach they
made so furious rush for him as to
compel him to seek safety in tree.
Being armed, he commenced firing in
to the band, and as the brutes, with
swinish obstinacy, refused to raise the
seige he was enabled to kill them all.
The people of Haverstraw, N. T.,
are very much surprised by an increase
in the size of the loayes of bread fur
nished by the village bakers, being the
result of sermon recently preached
in the Methodist church by Rev. DR..
Harcourt, who took for his text the
commandments, "Thou shalt not steal,
and in illustration claimed that the
bakers profit at the present price OF
flour was unreasonable and unjust,
and was equivalent TO taking so much
money from the pockets OF the poor.
If-Christ-Had Not Died-For Three
st-Been-Damned Dobbins
was the name of a man in England in
the DAYS of the Roundheads, but Dor
chester county, Maryland, presents
two names almost as odd. The own
ers of the names still live near Cam
bridge, on the Choptank. They are
Julia Jane Augusta Dominica Rustis
Ro Bo Bustis JACK and John Henry
Land Runner observation-disclosures
Bandana Beaver Dam Rendezvous God
Bless Busticue.
General Judson Fitzpatrick, says the
army and Macy Journal, used to relate
the following of himself: Soon after
the announcement in the newspapers
that he had been appointed minister
to Chill, he was met by an old lady
who had known him from childhood,
and to whose bucolic mind the gallant
generals large way of stating things
had sometimes seemed like exaggera-
ton. "Wall, Jud." she said, 81 hear
YOU have been called to the ministry.
Glad TO hear it. You'll make real
good preacher. But (solemnly) Jud,
you must stop your lying"
Mr.. Labouchere says In Truth: