The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-03-24
FACT AND FANCY.

II
0vereoats for dollar are advertised IA
New York.
A Massachusetts, man thinks he can maxi
copper from scrap Iron.
A Perry County Pa) yoang man has died
OF his Jaw coming nnhinged
The capital prise at recent fair In Norrs
town was won by Mr.. Prfzer.
Prohibition WILL rule in all bat about dozer
towns Of Arkansas this year
The Bspilsts OF Nebraska haze located
their university at Grand Island.
A New York boarding house madam has
seized baby for her board BILL
The salt consumed in the United States 1:
said to amount to IL, 000. 0C0 barrels per year
The hremen Of Plainheld, n. J., resigned In
body, because rum selling is to be stopped.
Manufacturing Industries in Boston are re.
ported unusually active for this season of the
year.
A great deal OF machinery h being r,ir.
chased in the North for Southern machine
shops
Water furnished by meter Is now five cents
1000 gallons IN Washington, in Baltimore
eight cent?.
Twelve Memphis pastors have come out
against Mardi Gras On the ground that at
tends only to esil.n
Sam Lee, aged eighty five, died in jail at
Corinth, Miss, last Tuesday. He was charged
with horse stealing.
The man who sent % to New York adver-
tlser Tor reliable method of reducing gas
bIlls was told to burn oil
This yesr opens badly for armorles. Detroit
Columbus, o., and Lowell, Mass, have sue
cessIvely lost arseuals by fire.
A pound OF the ordinary bronze pennies OF
the United States Is worth SLAP. A pound
OF nickel scent pieces is worth g. 551S.
At q ball near Hot Springs Ark, recent.
ly young lady. her mother. grandmother
and great-grandmother danced In the sait,e
set.
A sweet potato, measuring four feet one
inch In length and two inches in diameter,
was exhibited In East Gainesville, Ga, re-
Gently.
A Toledo baggageman, who checked an
old lady's trunk about seven years ago. has
just been left legacy Of $4,000 By the crate
full woman.
Dr. Vaughn, OF Michigan University, says
there are 10000 cases of typhoid fever 10
Michigan annually, and that nine.tehths of
the patients get well,
Chill papers IRE almost unanimous in the
opinion that the characteristics OF the cholera
which has been raging there is Of the dcadllest
type known to science.
A Tennesseean began coon hunting when he
was IS, and he Is now SO. In the interval he
has cut notch for every coon he has killed,
and the number Is 7,422.
The last sailing vessel built FOR the United
States Navy was the Constellation, completed
In 1885, She is at the present time the
practice ship at the Naval Academy.
Nothing has been said about the peach buds
in connection with the recent blizzard. Were
they all taken into the house In time, or are
we to have no peaches and cream next yearl
Capt. John Tobln, Of Kansas City, claims
eighty acres of land In the heart of Salt Lake
City. Tobn was an old scout and claims to
have purchased the land from the indians In
1850.
There 10 woman living at Hannibal No.,
who Is 20 heavy she can't walk, and is wheeled
about In cart by an abe bodied attendant
She weighs 40 pounds and otherwise is In good
health.
At a spelling school in Des Moines a report
er on a salary Of 20 per week downed the
whole crowd twice over. Among the worst
spoilers were two bankers, three lawyers and
a Judge.
The Mayor Of Boston has dyspepsia, and of
the three hundred remedies recommended him
all but two contained whisky. He can't see
how 1t is that some people suffer so long from
this complaint
A handsome young woman about twenty
Eve years old called upon Boston undertaken
the other day and had her measure taken for
a coffin. The next day she offered the uhder-
taker $500 to bury her
A Birmingham (Ala) man fired revolver
pelnt blank at negro's head, but the bullet
glanced of, passed through thick wall, and
fell to the floor In an adjoining room. The
negro escaped with slight scratch
The most profitable piece of fruit land for
Its SHE In the United States is said to be the
Seeer & CHM grove, near Sanford, Florida.
Il comprises four acres and half and this
years yield Of lines sold Tor $4,000.
A Portland tMe.) woman has read the Bible
through eighty-fve times; she is seventy-fve
years old and began when she was seven.
She reads from the same book with which she
began, and has read It at least once every
year.
A German woman, probably none too well.
to.do entered the express Office at East Sag
lnaw, Mich, aud paid $6 on a package ad-
dressed to "Unser Fritz" at San Reno, Italy
1t was some medicine for the Crown Princes
throat.
An expressman In Boston, who, last week,
lad a package stolen from bis wagon, at once
began scouting for the offender leaving his
team on the street While thus engaged
second rascal appeared and carried of a barrel
Of four
Lewis Masauercr, who was found dead In
bis bed at bis home In Greenpolnt. L. ,dedl.
Gated bis own monument last June. The
shaft contains flfty.four square feet OF letter.
ng, calculating his theory that the land
should be divided into sections and made pub |
lie Instead Of private property.
In Breslau. Germany a chimney ffty-fcur
Fect In height has been constructed entirely |
II solid blocks of paper firmly compressed to-
sether, the blocks being placed carefully one
IN the top Of the other and joined together |
with special cement The chimney is nom
nfamable. and, By the nature of the mater.
al, quite secure from lightning.
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman, had |
great adm ration for Gen. Grant. "Where- |
yer we went In China" said Col F. D. |
irant speaking recently about Gen. Grants |
'islt to that empire, I'VE were treated with |
.rcat kindness, owing to orders given by Ii |
lung Chang. One amusing feature Of our |
'isit was that wherever Ii Hung Chang could |
,rng It about he had his picture taken with |
hat OF my father. Looking at the two figures
u the picture on one occasion he said: You
md Gen. Grant are the two greatest gener-
lis Of the age.'Li Hung Chang has shown that
MS regard for my father was not temper ary |
me- Yearly the representative of China In
New York, by his orders, places handsome
lowers upon my fathers tomb In Riverside
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