The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06
FACT AND FANCY.

1Haiuo uurlHS 1cof.
Springfield, Mass, put $500, 900 in
buildings last year.
In Tucson, Arizona, the restauran
are conducted by Chinese.
Portland, Me-, fish-dealors pack,
5000, 900 Holsters last year.
Jeremiah Austin, of South Coventr
Conn, says he is 102 years old.
Six to ten tons of mail matter pass,
the Augusta, Me-, postoffice daily.
A citizen of Pittsfeld, Mass, latel
invested $500 in an African gray pa
rot.
Vermont has 113 Baptist churche.
with 1926 members and LOG ordaine
ministers.
A New Haven FISHERMAN found a
old rubber boot upon which were 2,
800 young oysters.
The Agricultural society of Soutl
Carolina will celebrare its hundredtl
anniversary this year.
A Connecticut genius has beer
granted a patent on a machine fol
harvesting potato bugs.
At Hill, N. H., a man makes a bust
ness OF extracting skunk's oil, for
which he gets 81 per gallon.
Fruit trees and vines are rapidly
taking the places of the redwood for
est in the vicinity of Guerneville, Cal.
Mrs. Ira jerks, of Lanesboro, Mass,
has pork-barrel, fifty-four years old
which has preserved $1,000 pounds of
pork.
The frightful condition of many of
the aforementioned OF Boston is
arousing the citizens of the Hub to the
necessity of immediate and radical
measures.
A piece of paper placed between two
blankets is recommended by physi-
'ian for light and warm bed-cover-
ng. Paper is poor conductor of
leat, and obviatethe necessity of undue
weight of clothing.
A trout taken out of the water COM
'any's reservoir at Virginia, New,
as two heads and portions of two
odies, these bodies ending in sort
f bladder, and the bladder culmi-
ating in sort of tail.
The erection of cotton-mills at the
outh has not been stopped by the
eneral depression. The year will
low considerable increase in both
oindals and looms, according to The
nited States Economist.
In recent letter to well-known
orontonian from friend residing a
W miles from Los Angeles, CAL, it is
i'd: at took four of the largest
cam thrashers four and half months
thrash the grain on his farm"
More suicides occur in San Francis
in proportion to its population says
he Alta California, than in any other
ty on the continent. The number of
icides in that city for the year end
g with juno last was over two and a
If times as many as occurred in New
'rk in 1880.
At an egg-eating match at Peter
rough, Canada, short time since,
e man ate Al eggs and the other 20.
9 eggs were raw and taken from a
,ket in grocery store. The basket
8 emptied, and the winner said he
lid eat a dozen more.
Ants will forsake any food for lard,
they can be exterminated by
Easing plate with that substance
l placing 1t in their vicinity. When
plate is well covered turn hot
Is upon it, and few repetitions of
process will clean them out.
Jews letters, in manuscript, were
d before newspapers were printed.
3 Italian name gazette was first ap-
I'd to these letters, and afterward
,he printed copies. DR.. Skeat saws
word is either a diminutive of
ia, "a magpie," meaning chat
box. or else derived from gazelta,
nall coin perhaps paid for the
Vilege of reading the news.
What are you doing, petp" liam
1yin' my Sunday school lesson"
it hardp" "It's awful hard.
'e's a question 1 can't answer. 1t
=, Who was it said all men are
sP' Do you know who it was, pap"
IS; it was David" david! How
he come to say that, pap" well,
~ nHS", pow Ah'J OC uo was Tuu-
: for office"
title boy has been swearing, and
NINA, to punish him, washed thor
hly the inside of his mouth with
osuds, "to," as she explains to him,
IAN away the nauty words" A
days later, while passing the bath
n, she sees the youngster with his r
one mass of suds, and his mouth X
all that she barely understands his Il
ttering EXPLANATIONS, "Getting
n all out, mamma! Swore five
ss yesterdayw
ne New York correspondent of
Troy Times, says the king of So
7 reporters in that city is natty
3 Hebrew, who is facially as hand
Q as doll and as stylish as Paris
He has entree to the e
society and can describe with
fidelity all she details of feminine
is, social innovations, and CASTRO
ical delights. He also has fac -
of distinguishing genuine aristo- M
c belle from an imitation ono in "
assemblage.
is claimed that England and
&c can make better grade Of fine
hnw L..