The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
uSEFIJL AND PLEASANT.

. New Haven FISHERMAN discovered
netrified oyster the other day.
The three selectmen of Wllmot. n
: d too ether weigh 649 pounds.
ronr sisters at Palmer, Mass, to-
uotber weigh eight hundred pounds.
/ yAmouth, Mass, boy recently ate
4 h;rty-six corn cakes in twenty min
uteS 90 90
20 have been stored Oh the Kennebec
: this season.
peute Indians are proving success
trI farmers on the Pyramid reserva-
ton in Nevada.
A Shelton, Conn, man drank eigh-
teen bottles of birch beer for wag-
lsr of 25cents.
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger, of Pitts
Held, Mass, if she lives, will be 100
wears old in May.
A Lancaster, N. H., man has cook
ktoye that has been in constant use for
Ehirty-three years.
Rockland, Mass. claims to have
more dogs to the square mile than any
other town in the state.
A man in Saco, Me-, mill sawed
k9. 100 feet of boards one day last week,
and thus beat the record.
College stuCeDts are preparing to
Enjoy the easter holidays with their
sisters, aunts and cousins.
Andover, Me-, at its recent town
meeting, appropriated just 81 for town
expenses for the current year.
The feat has been accomplished of
sending senty-two simultaneous mes
sages over one telegraph wire.
Among the many applicants for the
mRtership of Undertook, N. Y,
is a niece of Martin Van Buren,.
Frank Anderson, a Swede, at Had
dam Neck, Conn., lately carried one
hundred pound bag of meal thirty
rods with his teeth.
Pussy willows still determinedly re-
fuse to open their silver spring sig
rsls, and other early signs of the gen
tie season are wanting.
Miss Gertie Gardiner, of Canaan
daigua, N. Y, has accepted a position
as goyeraess of a young princess of the
royaNalAily in Honolulu.
A Maine prophet announces that the
end of the world will come on April
20. About twenty of his neighbors
believe him, and are nervous.
While New York has been discuss
ing the scheme of making a park at
Niagara, Canada is planning to allow
her sidSto be even more disfigured.
Writing will look like silver, it is
stated if the ink is composed of muci-
lage water intermixed with one ounce
OF fine pewter and two ounces of mer-
curry.
A little negro boy in Georgia killed
and cooked big lizard the other day,
aud foked smaller negro to eat the
reptile. His father gave him mild
cowhiding.
Triple and bone dust oleomargarine
and artificial manures, tallow and
' glue stock-such is the curious list of
E.99ductlons turned out by one factory
"a Hhpde Island.
Rents OF cottages at Newport will
be from 8 to 10 per cent lower the
coming season than for several wears
past, and hotel prices will experience
similar reduction.
The magnitude of the slate industry
in this country can be imagined When
it is stated that the total amount pro-
Vi roofing slate alone is 100000
yards per year. A square" is about
lOO feet, or sufficient to cover space
1OxlO feet when LAID on the roof 1t
covers the same area as 1000 shingles.
For nearly Il year, it is said, there
has not been a criminal case before the
district court of Douglas county, Ne
vada, and the last case in the JUSTICES
court was on the 18th of last Novem-
Der. The county jail has long been
empty, and the officers whose duty it
is to settle all disturbances find moth
ing to do.
A Pittsburgh loafer who spoke dis
respectfully of Gen. Grant on Monday
evening was dragged into stable bv
the crowd, rope put around his neck,
the end drawn over beam and the
man lifted off his feet twice. He was
soon out OF breath and blue in the face
and was at length released and sent
home in carriage.
Th2mas Mulvey, an old man living
near Blddeford, Me-, died a few DAYS |
ago, and after his death his family |
found secreted in his bed, greenbacks
TO the amount of $4,000, and bonds
and cash amounting to 900 hidden
In various parts of the house. None OF
the members of the family knew of tho
exlst$nce of the money.
Large numbers of Mormons, chiefly
polygamists, are moving southwark
from Utah into Arizona, where, they
give out, they intend TO settle. but
atteE they reach Arizona they continue
to move southwark and will not make
a permanent rest until they get in
Mexican Territory, where they will
make homes for themselves.
flerida oranges are being exported
rom Boston to Liverpool in large
Quantities. A lot of one hundred
'oxes, which were shipped some three
weeks ago, arrived in good condition
nd were sold at satisfactory prices,
although they came in competition with
ne Mediterranean oranges, which are
old i9 England at low prices.
1t iSvery fashionable in Washington