The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14
PASSING EVENTS

gO rOunu III tniS country every year.
A sturgeon seven feet long was
caught in the Hudson river at Troy.
Hay is selling for 800 ton In New
Jersey, figure heretofore unknown.
There are more than twenty-five
hundred women doctors in the United
States.
A train moving at thirty-fve miles
miles an hour clears fifty feet in one
second.
A largo drove of wild dogs is one of
the features of the mountains near
Altoona, Pa.
Two per cent of the voting popula-
tion of Bell county, Kentucky, is
charged with murder.
The princess of Wales is said to be
nearly bald, and the royal wardrobe
contains fifty wigs.
A Gwinnet county Georgian boasts
having eaten eleven pounds OF granu-
lated sugar at one sitting.
"Time works wonders" said young
man of 27 when he returned home and
found his elder sister only Is.
A boy has become demented from
,ndulging in too long a sea bath at
Oceanside, San Diego county, Cal.
Fourteen of seventeen pupils of a
class in school at Bronson, Fla, re-
oice in the euphonious name of Smith.
The value of one vote was shown at
q recent election in McDuffie county,
Georgia, when law was passed by
exactly that majority.
A Columbia river salmon, sent as a
present to Queen Victoria, went
through from Portland, Oregon, to
London in fourteen days, and reached
Windsor castle in good condition.
In prohibition towns in New Eng
land the discouraged but ingenious
topers have resorted to essence of pep
permint, which, being in solution of
alcohol, is diluted down to drin kable
point. The drunkenness produced is
intense and lasting.
An Indiana man who found his
sweetheart so well guarded at the pa
ment impossible married another girl
Just to turn away suspicion from him.
self, and in week deserted her and
ran away with the girl OF his choice.
By falling from wagon a China
man in California, whose life was in
sured for large amount, was serl-
ouslv hurt. There was some doubt as
to his ever getting better, and at
length one of his friends wrote to the
insurance company: Charley half
dead; likee half money"
The most romantic commencement
story from Yale college this year is
one Of southener who left college to
enter the confederate army, and was
thrown over by his lady-love in conse-
uuence. He returned to New Haven
this year, found the love of his youth
still true, and there will be wedding
at Christmas.
Nicholas Churchill, in Newfound-
land, century ago, by fishing and
profitable investments amassed for
tune of $40, 900. 900, which eventually
reverted to Miss Elizabeth Churchill,
who died recently at the age of 104.
Remote relatives in New York, Boston,
and Brooklyn are taking steps to get
slices of the estate.
Emma Longs father, in Webster,
n. c., is register of deeds, and left
ot of marriage certificates, all signed,
n her care, to fill out if anyone want
d one in his absence. So when Os-
,ar B. Coward came along and want
ID to marry the handsomest 14-year-
I'D girl in the county she inserted her
lame and his and skipped with him.
The "oyster bug is declared by Mr..
Judington, of Fair Haven, Conn, to
70 good sign, rather than one of
distraction. He says: "The story
lbout the brown, coral-like insects on
,ysters is all nonsence. The excres-
ence found on seed oysters a year old
S natural growth, and is always an
Indication that the young oysters are
Healthy and vigorous.
For over half year San Francisco
las had an insane judge upon the
'ench. trying cases and administering
ustice. Six months ago his actions |
egan to excite comment, but what
vas then considered willful miscon-
uct is now discovered to be due to
lienation of mind. This leaves lit
yants in cases which the Judge has
ecently decided in peculiar posi-
ion.
A girl at Harvard, Miss Brown, of
ne Annex, has led the entire college
1 all its departments. She pa ssed the
to enter on an equal
,oting with her brothers, has taken
lstructions from the same professors,
lough at separate rectations, and
eads them all in rank. She can not
Ike diploma, but she can have a
ertifcate of testimony of what she
as done.
The yield of grain in Texas for the
resent year has been the greatest
YER known in the history of the state.
he GalveSton Nea0S, commenting upon
le fact, says: with no untoward
isaster to the cotton crop the state is
n the eve of the grandest period OF
gricultural prosperity she has ever
NOV ed. The commercial and gener-
| business situation may naturally be
xpected to sympathize with this pros
Gritty"
Here is hot weather conundrum;
gentleman remarked the other day
lat if he were in all elevator and 1T
ropped from the fifth story he would