The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
PASSING EVENTS.

@ tablished at Toni stone, Arizona.
. There are fifty-three newspaper,
q pu blshed in Washington territory.
n Custom compels an Icelander in his
o native island to kiss every woman he
f meets.
The city of Hartford claim. that it
pays one-fourth of the Connecticut
state tax.
The drill-room of the Goth regiment
at Buffalo, N. Y, is 27S feet long by
l78 feet wide.
Many young men who enter drug
stores with ague are merely shaking
for the drinks.
The hand-organ has seen 10S years;
since its inventor died. Verify, the.
evil that men do live after them.
There are many counties in Tenncs-
see without even a carriage road, and
horseback is the only mode of locomo-
ton.
Don't wish I was senator, mar,
"Why, Johnnie?' because when
senator's want recess, all they have
to do is to vote for it. -
The coolest weather ever expert
enced in the northwest was at Fort
Benton in 1880, when the thermometer
marked 50 degrees below zero.
In none of the southern states do the.
receipts from the postoilice pay the ex-
penses of the postal service. In Viz
ginia the deficit is S407, ZOO and in
Georgia S32O.O0O,
| A plumber has been indicted for
manslaughter on account of defective
work done. Next they II indict them
for larceny for collecting their bills.
The world moves.
Massachusetts now pays its COVER
nor 50, 600 year. The salary was re-
1uced to $4,000 in 1879, but restored
last year, 10 take effect with the be-
ginning of this year.
A New York prison convict has in
vented hat-pressing machine which
he patented and sold for $4,000, half
Of which sum has been placed in the.
prison safe to his credit.
In Canada-"Well, wife, suppose.
we ought to call on the Mandelbaums,
hadn't we?" ''Yes, dear, | suppose.
so, but they are horribly common peo-
pie; just think, they only stole S13, O00."
LILO &lootCl-Olu NOu take I1CSp
boots OF mine to be soled, LarVp
Irish Valet-I did sor; and see the
thritie the blag yard give me for'mt
Said they was purity nigh wore through.
Snake-skins are now extensively used
in the production of purses, diary
covers, and the like. Albums and
scrap books are also made OF snake
skin, and sometimes slippers and even.
shoes.
1t will be noticed that whenever a
writer misspells word to give point
o Joke, the composltOr sees to it
hat the word is spelled correctly.
This is why SO many editors have dys-
'epsia.
The next annual convention of tht
1usical association of Virsinia and
Worth Carolina will probably be held
t Petersbug, the necessary guarantee
und OF $1,000 having been already
ecured.
Waterbury, Conn, records a case
7here man who supposed he was
eng cured by holy water was actue-
cured of the rheumatism by the con-
ents of bottle of common blue wash
1g fluid.
In December, 1870, the price of the
est grade OF graduated sugar was 10
ents per pound. Five years later it
'as 1O9 cents. In 1880 it was % centA
nd now it is 81 cents, the same price
S in England.
The sites of Richmond and Peters
lrg, Va, were selected as locations
,r cities in 1888. The latter was NAM
l, not for the duke of Richmond, as
IS been claimed, but for Richmond,
lie suburb of London.
A big snowy owl who lodges in the
Urn OF AL Nichols, in the Sierra val
y, California, had in his larder for
e winter the other day eight big
Ice, several large rats, and chip
inks without number.
At each rise in the Ohio river large.
ms of coal are made from Pitts
lrSh to points below. On the Las
sc ten million bushels were sent to.
ncinnati, the cost for transportation
ing Sl25,0O0 ard the time required
little over four days. The saving by
e river over rail transportation vas,
this shipment alone, about S72I.-
0.
The Brooklyn bridge has seriously
with the New York and
ooklyn ferry traffic. The ferry COM
ny owning the five lines most affect
paid New York in rents during Thea
az Immediately preceding the open
, of the bridge S145, 225.76. and for
year after it was opened Sl26,971.-
"a loss to New York from ferry
! l1al on account OF the bridge, OH
oscar Wild said the other day in his
ture at Glasgow, that nothing dis
ssed him more than to see in para
Jpn that such and such color was
ng to be fashionable next season,
l he held that it would not be more
lculous to read in musical mag4
Q that .'R fiat" was going to beH
note. certainly think,
s Labouchere, that if ''B Hat" can
possibly make itself fashionable,
Hat" can, and very often does.