The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-13
PASSING EVENTS.

London fashion of hiring empty house
for balls.
Over three hundred dwellings have
been built in Montgomery, Ala, dur
ing the past twelve months.
Eight little bootblacks, who had
beat their way from New Orleans, ar
rived at Los Angeles, CAL, recently.
The Washington Territory Insane
asylum contains at present 149 in
mates-11O men and thirty-nine wo-
men.
The United States possesses an 1tal-
ian population of 10000, of whom
over 10000 reside in the city of New
York.
Malarial fevers are greatly preva-
lent in Toronto, Canada, and there
have lately been numerous fatal cases
of typhoid.
VI the 275 students at John Hopkins
university 140 are graduate stu
dents" from nearly eighty different
institutions.
AT the New Orleans exposition the
electric lights alone cost about 81 ,250
per day the music $3.50, and the po-
lice about $3.50.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
gong to start another university in
western Missouri or eastern Kansas.
A Kansas citizen offers $500, 900 if they
will call it by his name.
There is great suffering and loss of
stock on the north and south sides of |
the Red river, in Louisiana, caused BIZ
Hoods from recent rains, At least five
thousand head of stock were lost.
A horse requires at least 400 cubic
feet of fresh air per hour The Eng
llsh army regulations allow in new
STAPLES, to each horse, 1,605 cubic feet,
and 100 square feet of floor space.
The Gem Social club is the euphon-
fous name of an opium den of large
dimensions recently established in
Philadelphia. White men are the
godfathers of the infamous resort. I
The faxseed crop of the past season
In this country is said not to exceed l
1000 bushels. Prices have ranged
from .68 in May to $1.33 in Noyem-
ber' and the average price for the
year was STAG. n
When house is to be let in Mexico ~
ttihe owner sticks an old newspaper in "
the window. 1t isn't very tasteful and T.
seldom improves the appearance of the a.
mouse, but it is economical and is I'M
1erstood by the community.
Sylvia Duboice, negress aged 116. =;
ives in restitution on the bleak sum- .,
nit OF the Sourland mountain, in Hun NJ
erdon county, New Jersey, in little -,
rame cabin, with one room, hardly ~ =,
arge enough for the swinging of cat. Of
In the New York pilot service there of
re nineteen boats, with 1873 licensed 10
llots, all but two of whom are in ac- lal
I'VE service. During 1884 6,O45 YES
BIS were piloted in and out of the har- M,
or at total cost to the vessel owners -
$415,51S45. ~
A handsome grotto, formed of rich ito
DID and silver bearing ores, has Just an
zen erected in the Colorado section i'm
the New Orleans exposition. The the
ais are composed of specimens from 70,
" mines, some OF the specimens hay ma
- - l. arnnn.
A young married lady of upper
says The Nail and Er- the
css, who has been addicted to paint ma
g her lips as well as her cheeks and Otl
clashes, is now under medical treat bre
ent to reduce the size of her lips. Prc
hich have become "horribly enlarg- OF
- by chemical noison less
r. 10 now 1oors vid
ms discovered in the office OF the L
dltor OF public accounts of Virginia say
IL at least reach 100000, and some the
those engaged in the investigation are
the accounts say they will not be onl
'prised If the amount reaches $780, IN L
}. per
There is charming absence of cir oen
nlocution about the following YER Vi
t recently rendered by an Arkansas Tor
onor's jury over the remains of a and
Unknown drunkard 1.-THE Teller Desl
ne ter his death by switchin' off tlon
m one kind O. whisky ter another. twel
9 moral o. this here verdick is, don't ance
tch." atfec
'exas is great state. The Ell Paso III
is out of fir and tbere 10 No 1,,,,,IS. MIA l
land to tinker it up with, and so larg'
'oners are chained by the neck. cioh'
innocent man was tied up in this plan
by mistake the other day. and on u
ted thirty-six hours for the easr of va
20 authorities to discover thc;r ply
nder. 1t
he largest bridge in the world scho'
'ses Lake Pontchartrain, at New OF 10
cans, and is twenty-five miles in pups
9TH. 1t is trestle-work, on piles. a iai
is made of cypress wood, which ana
hrst saturated with creosote oil. open
ch renders it impervious to moist 1t
and proof against the attack of side {
lacles. as tn
ne number of plant specimens the
wn to botanists has been placed at run e
hundred thousand, but it seems IL WI
g are many still unknown. Last poslt'
mer an English botanst made an The
lrsion of but fifty miles into the static
ntains from Canton. China. and Of in its
$40 specimens he procured, Is from
ed wholly new to science. earle
is remarkable story is rorohod single
oy correspondent of The Clere- Doc
Herald: Benjamin Giaque, who a rect
suddenly in Berlin, O., few DAYS hung
had large dog which was his from
friend in sickness and in health.