The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-01
FACT AND FANCY

Washoe county, Nevada. has ~
duced chicken with three leCs P'o-
The Hudson river ice crop viii r,
100000 tons this year, the largest ts an
Ell known.
At the Sitka Indian school there h.
been row and most of the pupils les s
in a body.
Twenty-one marriages are boolod
for Easter week at one church in Pa
latka, Fla.
Almonds and Strawberries in Mana
valley, Cal, show signs of early and
extensive yields.
An observing traveller states that !,
proportion to its size there are mora
idle men in Eureka, CAL, than In anr
other place on the Pacific coast.
Those now in London who were bsro
during the war say that the exci4.
ment and constant extras, cried some.
times up to midnight, recall to them
wildly 1929.
Mr.. Roebling, the engineer, saws
that heavy engines and cars must not
be run over the Brooklyn bridge. as
the cables have on them all the load
they ought 10 carry.
Mad dogs recently became so num-
erous in some parts of Alabama that
schools in one county were obliged 70
suspend, as twas considered dangerd3
to have pupils abroad.
The Boston Transcript says that tho
line of perpetual pie must now be
drawn to include Greeley, Col, where
they served fortyfive varieties of the
edible at dinner lately.
The Brooklyn bridge earns an aver
age of $40 a month, or SIS, 900
more than expenses, but electricity as
motive power and rapid transit in
Brooklyn may increase its receipts "a
100000 a month, at least half of it
net profit.
During the recent trial for poly
gamy of one of Brigham Young's sons
in the United States court at Salt
Lake, his second wife testified that
with the exception of coming to her
room once or twice week to wind I'D
the clock he had never visited her.
We had IN 1880 nearly 100000
common laborers." The number of
clergymen in 1880 was $4,000, agaiAstl
43, 900 in 1870; the number OF LAWYERS
81, 900 in 1880, 10000 in 1870; the num-
Der of physician increased during the
decade from 81, 900 to $4,000. In 1880
there were A, 800 actors and II, 900 jour
nalists IN the country.
A little girl in Pennsylvania who
had listened to temperance addreS
for the first time in her life was %
impressed and interested that she
went home and wrote out the follow
ing rather novel pledge: 81 promise
1ot to drink rum, or wine, or brandy
1r smoke, or swear, or cider either"
She signed it, and got several of her
olaymates to sign it also.
The mother of family consisting
# two grown-up daughters, living in
ioffstown, N. H., recently died, and
When the undertaken came to perform
lis duties the father was asked the
lame of his wife. His reply was
Mother" No other name could be -
emember, and the daughters were~
Gually ignorant, having never known
heir parent by any other name than
Mother"
1t is curious institution, the body
nown as the common council or
GARD of aldermen of New York.
here are twenty-five members, in
uding the president, who is electe4
Y voters of the city at large. or
lese fourteen are county democrats,
wen are republicans, and but four
hall followers. All of the
embers wear stove-pipe hats, kid
owes, and jewelry.
In boring salt well at East Aurorab
Y, bed of solid salt sixty-five
ct thick has been struck. This find
SAID TO upset the theories of scien-
It's regarding the salt-beds of west
n New York Down to the depth of
$50 feet the geological formations
e reported to be almost identical
th those of the oil regions in Penn,
lvania. At this depth the bed ON
1t was struck The brine stands in
Q well several hundred feet deep, and
rich in salt, a quantity evaporated
Gliding 80 per cent.
The claw of the road" as under
,od in Pennsylvania, was laid down
Judge Biddle of the common pleas
urt of Philadelphia few days ago1A
is to the effect that persons meetingN
the highway must each keep to the
hit. This rule is modified in the e
Sc of a footman or a horseman, who
n not compel a teamster who has
avy load TO turn out of the beaten
lck, or even light wagon with
avy draught. If horseman or light
hicle can pass with safety on the
t of a heavily-laden team it is their
ty to give way and leave the choice
the more unwieldy vehicle.
some years ago law was enacted =
ing license tax 1pon all foreign
'porations doing business in Penn
vania. The object aimed at was to
.ect revenue from parties in compe-
on with local manufacturers which ,
re heavily taxed. "The intention,
s The Philadelphia Press, Twas good,
as a matter of fact, q number OF
eign corporations maintained Of :
IS in this state chiefly for the pur-
e of purchasing supplies of articles
here, and the effect OF
law has been to drive them away
take the trade, amounting to oveR