The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-17

| A General Hospital association has
been Incorporated at Seattle, w. T.,
with $50, capital.
,Happensberger' statue of Garfield
will be unveiled in Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, July 4.
Monroe H. Corbin, census taker in
Webster, Mass, has found one woman,
40 years old, who is the mother OF
nineteen children.
An Arizona man has stopped taking
an agricultural paper. He wrote to
the editor asking how to get rid of
gnats. The answer came in the next
issue of the paper, ''Kill them"
A druggist at Quincy, ILL.,, advertis-
e d kauff- drops to those suffering with
colds. Abraham Kauff, citizen of
the town, called on the druggist, and
put out his left eye as reward for
being funny.
A large painting representing Gus
work of Virginia artist. was the
chief work of art contributed by the
south to the New Orleans exhibition.
1t drew we'll.
In Sinaloa, Mexico, a woman is be-
ing exhibited who is seven feet high
and weighs five hundred pounds.
She is as young as she is charming, be-
ing only 26 years of age. She was
born in Pachuca.
An experienced educator says that
the ideal commencement programme
should always contain three features
a production bv a member of the class,
hu alI1r nd hu a
well-known speaker.
ga curious negro superstition Is
that man who has been struck by
lightning can not swim" says an ex-
change. We have noticed the same
thing, too, about negroes who have
died from yellow fever.
The cash ier of the East Saginaw
Savings bank, who recently skippedto
Canada with $780, has just sent
back check for 10000, to be used in
enlarging the almshouse at that town.
He says that no one shall accuse him
of not feeling for the poor depositors.
John, did you 60 around and ask
how old Mrs. Jones was this morn ing,
as 1 told you to do last nightp" Eyes,
SIR "Well, what was the resultp"
''She said that seeing as how you had
the impudence to ask how old she was,
she'd no objection to telling you she
was IA"
The huge group of sun spots which
was seen coming around the eastern
edge of the sun several days ago has
now nearly advanced to the center of
the disk. 1t is large enough to be
seen without telescope aid by pro-
tecting the eye with dark glass. In
the telescope it is wonderful phe-
nomenon, and rough measurement
shows that its length exceeds hun
dred thousand miles, and its breadth
thirty thousand.
II have sold hundreds, | might al
most say thousands, of lots to Ger
MANS" said Buffalo real-estate man,
land have noted one significant fact.
The moment a German takes to whisky
he's gone He may swallow beer, ale,
wine, and cider enough to float ship,
and yet pull through and paw for his
lot, but old rye will lay him out.
When whisky-drinking German
wants to deal with me l say mo- with
an emphasis that makes his teeth rat
tle."
"Yo' wan ter know what fust
started me fer to preach de gospil,
sahP" repeated an old darkey minis
ter. "Yes, Uncle Jake" 81 will
tole you 'zaetly all bout it, sab. One
day l war workin' out in de co nield.
an de sun war berry hot, an de
groun' war stony. an it's mighty
pow'ful work hoein' con in de hot
sun on stony groun', boss, an war
berry tired, an leaned back on de
hoe an got ter thinkin'. an all oh a
sudden, like, feel dat de good Lord
called 'pon me fer ter preach de gos.
pil, sah."
Why do the rev Users of the Old and
New Testament. asks The London
La,o Times, insist on using the SPELL
ing '.judgement' instead of judg-
The word being one of special
ly legal use, it says: We should have |
thought the universal practice of law
yers in modern times, supported as it
IS by all contemporary English litera-
lure, ought to have been followed.
We can only answer our own question
oy supposing that the revisers have
gone back to the spelling of 1911; but
his is n totally insufficient reason for
mode of spelling which
must be an eyesore to every lawyer,
lot to speak of literary men in general,
md which gratuitously adds to the
,onfusion through which every school
10Y has to struggle his way to mas
cry of English photography"
The Yaquis hold their title from tho
ing of Spain and do not recognize the
epublic of Mexico. No taxes or i'm
'orts are levied on them, or if levied
hey have not been collected. They
re hardy, agricultural race. living
n small patches of fertile soil on the '
'aqui river. They steal stock when {
n opportunity offers, but have rarely {
d the last few years committed any |
lurders. Cajemo, their chief, is of t
air education for Mexico, and is a
tern ruler. He has absolute control t
yer them. The nations combined I
umber over fifteen thousand, of which v
t least five thousand are adult males. S
heir principal arms are bows, arrows, I
nd fbraa-onrna hind OaOn |