The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
FACT AND FANCY.

toxicating drinks in force in Brooklyn
The ''oldest inhabitant' says this
: the earliest season ever known in Cal
!, fornia.
Ten million base-balls will be knock
! ed to shreds by the batsmen of Americ
this year.
1t is stated that the weight of on
ostrich egg is equal to twenty-eigh
hens eggs.
The Mormon church has more mis-
. sionaries than the American board O
foreign missions.
The Georgia Gazette, the Oldest news
paper in the state, was founded il
Savannah in 1868.
Los Angeles, CAL, finds market
for oranges in New Orleans. This is
sending "coals to Newcas tie
Swans have been known to live to the
age of 800 years, and Cuvier thinks it
probable that whales sometimes live
900 years.
A monthly allowance of S1.50 for
the support of cat was recent
item on The payroll of the Lexington,
Ky, fire department.
Frank France, of Wicklifle. KY, as
a possible warning to spring poets.
advertises himself in his own paper as
''editor and undertaken"
Probably the oldest deed on record
in North Carolina is that at Hartford,
given by Kucatenaw, an Indian king,
to George Durant, dated March l, 1861.
A Raleigh, N. c., sportsman re-
Gently went out with lis cartridges
and returned with Ill robins and
one rabbit, having missed only three
shots.
A late device for checking the col
! lections of street-car conductors is a
photograph apparatus that at intervals
photographs the interior of the car and
its passengers.
A sarcastic clergyman in ministers
meeting predicted that time was COM
ing when everybody who took active
part in prayer-meeting could de-
mand pay for his services.
Hop vines usually a waste product
in this country, are said to have proved
not only good stock for fine paper,
but the best substitute yet obtained for
rags in French paper-mills.
A scientist claims to have made the
discovery that if a fiddle be played in
the midst of geese they will immedl-
ately begin marching about in circle. |
He was spectator when he made the |
discovery.
The ruins of Fort Sumter are now
but one story high, and there are but
half dozen guns, not one of which is
fit for use. The government pays 5000
per month for watchmen, who keep
lights burning for the guidance of
mariners.
The Massachusetts legislature will
be asked to pass a law protecting the
types and forms of newspapers from
for a certain number of
hours before going to press, providing
that the proprIetors furnish other
or satisfactory bonds.
At Faurinberg, N. c., hog ate
heavily of dynamite, and then entered
| lot where there was drove of mules.
The hog was kicked by one of their
and Immediately exploded
Ind killed twenty of the mules. This
5 vouched for by the local paper of
he place.
|
oreign ministers President Cleveland
las only changed 10; out of 1872 con-
uls but seven have been recalled;
.mong 120 marshals and district at
orneys only half-dozen changes
ave been made; and of the 1850
residential postoiiices he has filled
nut So.
According to The Philadelphia Press
here is about S4.0O0,0OO invested in
Wild animals in the United States, not
elephants. There are thirty
Elephants in this country, ranging in
rice from $4,000 to $4,000. An ele-
liant trained and acclimated is worth
10000, but the stupid and untractable
ever bring over $4,000.
Fire-trap hotels are discussed in
he american Architect, which suggests
lat sit might not be wholly bad
Ian to authorize building inspectors
, advertise such places in the daily
apers continuously as VIGOROUSLY un-
lfe. Almost anything would be bet
n than the cruel destruction of life
nd property that goes on year after
ear almost unchecked"
The fact that Carlyle did not escape
dyspepsia by eating oatmeal has at
acted general attention to that ar
Gle of food. A French physical has n
)inted out that the Scotch, VIII o eat X
ore oatmeal than any other people,
e pre-eminently a dpspeptic people
long as they remain at home and
there to their oatmeal diet, and he
Chilly argues from this fact that
ltmeal is exceptionally difficult to
gest
The California orange-growers have
scovered new process for removing
| substances that injure the appear E
ice of their fruit. They put half
lshei or so of dry sawdust in barrel
i'd then pour in two or three boxes o.
anges, and turn slowly with crank. !,
re fruit comes out as clean and II
right as a gold dollar. One man can "
can about eighty boxes a day,
nile washing ten boxes is good
VS. work.
The old story about the size of