The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-19
FACT AND FANCY

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jay Gould expects to be back in New Yors
By Anrli 20
In Buffalo Sunday wsisin9-match +
called sacred hoof concert"
| 4 New York. laundry located near church,
bears the appropriate lcgsnd on its sign board
Cleanliness Is next to Godlincss /"
| There seems to De an increase Of medical
advisers who now preach only two meals d
a2y, and mo nibb!ing' between meals
A religious paper on the Pacific Coast offers
communion sets as premiums to those who
secure q certain number Of subscribers for It
1t Is now an important regulation In Brazil
that persons Who die from yellow fever shall
be cremated the State bearing the whole Ell
pensG
The Vermont copper mines, located in the
town OF Ely for which u, 600, 0o0 was refused
IN 1850, have now been sold By auction fcI
$4,000.
The editor Of d temperance paper who
wrote: Getting drunk is folly" was horriaed
to read in his sheet next day that ''Gettine
drunk Is jolly"
Spoggs: 'Was It not disgraceful the way
which Smiggs snored In church to-day"
woke US all up"
"Was st. Paul duper asked Rev. Joseph
Cook in recent lecture. Aud Boston news
paper allowed him to appear In type a. asking:
'Was st. Paul aduder'
The most absent minded man 10 Cincinnati
is the hotel clerk who yelled Frontw In
church when the minister asked, "Who's 60
Ing to get In the gospel tramp
"What is the longest voyage recorded Id the
billet" asked the snake editor. THAT OF Nosh's
ark, /" replied the religious editor. mo, you
are wrong. It was the widows's cruise"
Leap year Is all right enough 20 far 40 help
ing February make an extra jump. but it is
doubtful II any girl living will take advantage
Of 1t to slip her arm around young mans
waist and ash him to be hera
There has never been any one killed on .
railroad in Norway, and 1t isn't likely any one
evet will be. The highest speed allowed ia
twelve miles per hour, and the train stops
whenever sheep or hog is discovered on the
track.
sThere wasn't square yard Of his BODY
without bruise," says q Connecticut paper
IL recording an accident. Do they measure
Nutmeggers by the square yardl And how
many yards can they figure on good-slzed
chap
There was queer exhibition In the highest
law court in England few days ago. The
tables In front OF the bench were covered with
wotnen's bustles A patent was involved, and
the various styles Of bustles we're examined
with curious interest by the learned Judges.
A Chinese woman who kidnapped two mar
ried women at Shanghai and took them to San
Francisco, where they were sold, on returning
to Shanghai was arrested and broken uti the
wheel. After two days Of fearful agony she
died. The kidnapping created great excite
ment in Shanghai.
A fashion paper tells Of a remarkable wedding
in London recently, where the bride was at
tended by lot Of little girls clad In black
velvet frocks, rcd stockings, black shoes, red
cloaks, and red, three cornered hats, trimmed
with black velvet, and carrying red bouquets
tied with red and black ribbons. Some
body said they looked like lot of little red
devils.
Saysa New York druggists ''Seltzer water
is something new In the treatment of burns
ana sealds, and l find 1t very speedy and effi-
catious in its effects 1t relieves the pain al
most Immediately, as you have seen, and, In
my opinion, accelerates the cure think the
carbonic acid gas, with which the water Is i'm
pregnated, is the chief agent In affecting such
good results"
A colored preacher tried his hand on a IA.
yorite text few Sundays ago. He entered
the pulpit and solemnly opened the bible. He
began reading: II was once young; I is
now old. / hab neber seed de righteous for.
saken, nor bis seed begging OBJ bread. But"
he said laying the book down and raising
his spectacles, ''pb seen them hustle like tho
debble for meat"
Out of 10000 Sioux Indians there are 81, 900
still in heathenism. There are SO tribes on
the western pralries for whom nothing Is yet
done. There are 10000 Ind ans Of school age,
but when every school Is packed TO Its utmost
only IL, 600 can be accommodated. This in
Guides government schools, Roman Catholic
schools and all, SO that those under mission
teachers would be far less number than H.
600.
In a paper on the strength Of different kinds
OF wood for building purposes, Prof. johnson
calls attention to the fact, as now demon
strated, that many cheaper kinds Of timber
may prove more valuable for structures than
more EXPENSIVE varieties which have been
supposed to be stronger, and, therefore more
desirable. Thus, pine supports or pillars have
been found stronger than oak ones, when
tested in lsrge samples.
Two years ago rich Englishman and his
wife came to Italy with foreign courier. In
Genoa the gentleman was taken sick and
died. He was buried in the town and his
wife stayed on at the hotel After a time
che married the courier, ana from that day to
this they have lived in Genoa, going In the
summer to villa on the Lake of Como, which
they purchased. Neither has ever set foot in
England for twenty years.
The largest Chinese mining camp In the
northwest is at Warren, Idaho. Hundreds Of
Chinese have been at work there for several
years, and each year from fifty 10 seventy five
90 back to China with from $4,000 to $1,000. q
fortune for them. Most Chinese miners work
over old mines, and are very expert at clean
ing up every particle of gold, but at Warren
they are on new ground, and their careful
system results In large yields.
medical journal states that new expert
ments have changed old theories upon the
best methods Of treating froet-bites. A ply
stefan froze sixty dogs in q condition of COM
pletely suspended animation; twenty Of these
were treated by the usual method Of gradual