The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
PASSING EVENTS.

A large acreage of potatoes Will /
planted this spring by New York farm
ers.
| Chinese failures at Portland, Ore
gon, of late, have been frequent an
settlements small.
Two vessels are on the way fror
Hong Kong with seven hundred coolie
for Victoria, B. G.
Every county in Indiana except tw,
is represented by democratic Office
seekers IN Washington.
| Experiments show that the heating
value of wet coal is 25 per cent les
than of that which is dry.
1t is calculated that the Mazatlan
collect $4,000, 900 in revenue.
Byron's original MS. of his poem
"Fare thee well, and if forever" was
lately sold in London for about $88.
Only three hundred copies of the re.
port of Guiteau's trial were printed by
the government. and most of these are
in the hands of spectators.
The United States steamer Chicago,
the last and largest of the new steel
cruisers built at Roach's ship-yard,
Chester, will be launched June %.
Hon. Daniel Agnew, ex-chlef Justice
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
has been chosen to address the alumni
OF Western university. He is one of
the oldest graduates.
The Yuma Indians, who numbered
three thousand fifteen years ago, are
now reduced to fifteen hundred. Their
chief, Pasqual, IS supposed to have
long since passed his centennial year.
Danish the devil of modern arith-
metic from our public schools" said
Hon. Henry G. Robinson in a speech
on public education in Hartford the
other day. at assaults the brain and
imperils the life. 1t develops pre-
cocity, and precocity is immature, and
immature is monster"
The four-story brown stone resi-
dcnce, No. 1909 Chestnut street,
which was presented to Gen. Grant by
a committee of Philadelphia citizens
after the close of the civil
war, will be sold at auction on June
IL. The committee paid $4,000 for
the house in 1865, and furnished it.
Parlor-cars are now constructed |
with bay windows. Some on the line
between New York and Baltimore are |
lifted with series of five such win
lows, each about seven feet wide and
a trile higher than usual. They COM
promise central light about three feet
vide, from which two smaller lights
lefect in contrary directions. There
s no projection beyond the outer line
If the car, the DETECTION of the wings
,eing inward, and there is no extern
ion beyond the limit of safety.
The late Franz Abt, the seng-writer.
vas surprising gourmand. A
goose" he used to say, sis very
'retty bird, but it has one great fault;
is little too much for one and much
90 little for two" Coming out of a
estaurant the other day, looking SUI
remedy happy, 'Herr Kappelmeis-
err" said a friend to him, "you seem
, have dined we'll" ''Ycs, 1 had a
air dinner; it was turkey" "And
as there good company around the
Oardr' eyes, good-but small; Just
vo, indeed, the turkey and myself"
An intelligent physician has dis
)vered that color blindness is very
ire among girls, though it is common
nong boys. From this fact he draws
e conclusion that in most cases color
lndness is due to want of early ed
cation in discriminating between col
s. Girls are taught to become
miliar with every shade of color,
lille boys receive no instruction what
'er in colors. Hence, boys frequent
show an ignorance of colors which
COMPOUNDED with true color blind
'ss, but which girls rarely show.
The professional amuser" has be-
me an institution of New York So ,
ETY.. AT dinners, concerts, club BAN
lets, and parties they are in con-
lual demand, and popular artist in
is line is perperually on the 90. The
lpid half hour after the coffee is
rived, which usually falls on party
dinners, and which was formerly
ed with tedious or tiresome speech
is now admirably utilized by the
OCCASIONAL amuser. He goes in as
g of the guests, dimes. is profession
y jolly for an hour after the dinner is
er, pockets fee OF $50, and dis
pears.
The story goes that democratic
ngressman from Pennsylvania COM
lined because republican postmas-
in his district, whom he accused of
ng an offensive partisan" was not
ned out. The postmaster had de- n
red publicly that should Cleveland X
elected no man of character and no II
man of self-respect could enter the
lite house. He was asked how it
S he could consent to hold office
Ter man whom he despised SO
oh. "Tll tell you," said the post
ster. 'If Cleveland hasn't got
INK enough to turn me out I'm just
an enough to hold the office"
he people of Atlanta, Ca, are much e
ased by the visit of Gen. Hancock
their city for the purpose of pur-
sing land for United States bar
ks there. Congress appropriated -
,000for the purchase of tract of n
d, and 100000 for buildings and v.
1t is said that tract
sixty to one hundred acres, well
cred and well wooded and conven-
5ly located. ought to be obtained
the money, while the remainder of