The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-07
NO. 35.
PASSING EVENTS

The old Cincinnati postoifice is to DO
rebuilt at Eden park for an art school.
A Danbury, Conn, man swallowed
live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
proposition has been made to erect
monument to Gen. Grant in Buffalo,
N. Y, by popular subscription.
The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the BIZ
cycle, and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
ly as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared, and bring to the
work sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. l.. E. Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure.
Last year he made twenty-one hum
dred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is soon to open at Allegheny, for tho
use of its employees, library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open
ing of the Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as popular summer re-
sort the school is fast taking the place
Of the camp meeting.
In a recent issue of we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisements: "Wanted, dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
be 1cured patient in a doctors walt
lng-room. Address, etc."
AS two men we're fishing in mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw .
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into tho
pond six years ago, when small.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house OF represents
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after tho
manner of the whites.
In communication to the Academ-
ie des Sciences. M. Duclaux states tho
presence of micro-organisms in tho
earth is essential to the germination.
of seed. His experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on tho
surface as well as those which deVel-
op in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, tho
Indian residents are more sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of Justice. They surrounded the
houses of seven well-knOwn robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When tho militia arrived they only
found heap of ashes.
Tracing paper may be made by inn
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpcntine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint OF
turpentine is said to give good results-
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it
Within a few days 180 omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver,
age of $50, and one brought only $l5.
At later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average OF $50
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use of camping-out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Take a slip Of paper and place
thereon, in figures, your age in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days
Multiply the sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the figures $685.
add two, and then devide by two.
Subtract from the result obtained the
the number of your years on earth,
and see If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For it's private work the Bank of
Devils Lake. Dakota, has adopted a
rather peculiar but very suggestive
yignette. The base is a sheaf Of wheat,
on which rests a silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of JUS
tice and in the other lance. At his
left is map of the lake, which forms
the place for writing the amount of
draft or check, on which are the
words, "Give the devil his DUE"
A few days ago Watervliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by stranger to
act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents GER
tificate. Soon after two men visited
him and showed him paper, the one
he had signed. 1t was a contract to
purchase $4,000 worth of wire. He in
Yited the men into his barn, where he
snatched the paper from the hands of
the one that held it and drove both
from the premises with pitchfork.
1t is said that three or four thickness
es of common wire osquito-netting
painted or unpanted, and laid upon
one another, are utterly impervious to
lightning. No substance, whether
liquid or solid, however combustible.
inliamable, or explosive, that is pro-
tected by covering of this material,
can possibly suffer in anywise from
lightning or from any accidental spark
or Jet of flame from without.
As torpedo was being lowered into
an oil we'll near Riohburg, N. T., Sat
urday, the oil suddenly rose in the
well, and throwing the tor
pedo against the bull-wheel, it was ex-
ploded, completely demolishing the
derrick, boiler, and cngine-hpuses.
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