The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-02-11
FACT AND FANCY.

master In West Virginia
The National Wowen's Christian Union now
numbers zoe, 900 members.
Miss Kurtz' wedding, In Berks County, Pa,
consumed thirteen turkeys
The Michigan pineries are overun by work.
hunters and wages are low.
The cotton crop In the northern part of Ala.
bama and Mississippi Is all gathered
A new undertaking in the fruit line Is the
shipment Of Florida oranges to Europe.
A German has invented and manufactured
paper which resIsts both Ere and water.
Four thousand pairs of pantaloons were
consumed in . fire at Plymouth, N. H., las,
week.
A Denver clergyman recently character
lied playing-cards as ''the devils new tesla
ment"
Adelbert College, Cleveland, Is wabblIng
again, and now Is going to 60 back on co-edu-
cation.
There are said to be more millionaires In
Bucnos Ayres than any other city in the
world.
Huxley's successor in the highest chair of
the Royal society of London IL Prof Stokes, q
Christian.
There is talk In Boston Of establishing q
new department to keep the streets clear of
ice and snow.
British land companies are disposing Of
their lands in Kansas. They don't like the
anti-alien laws.
The Natchez cotton compress had turned
| out 1894 bales up to December l, an extra
| ordinary record.
Lord Harrington, the. English tory leader
| has ordered a dozen carpet sweepers from
Grand Rapids, Mich.
1t was q little Boston girl who when asked
to define faith replied: 1T is believing what
you know isn't true"
A forest fire on one OF the mountains near
Salt Lake City surrounded and burned to
death q flock OF 700 sheep.
/ There are nine British missionary societies
now laboring In Africa, with an aggregate an
nual expenditure Of 100000
The best remedy for burns is now said to
consist In letting the contents OF q settler
siphon trickle over the injured part.
Observation-Disclosures forsjalningsmagasin
in Swedish, means in English, 'The Iron
Manufacturing Company's sale shop"
A social philosopher foresees the day when
the primary school desk will be supplied with
type writer's instead Of writing books.
A driver In Washington, D. c., charged
with cruelty killing horse, has been sentenc-
ed to serve six months In Jail and pay fine Of
SIPS
A Brooklyn Medium, who gave seance in
Rochester, produced an alleged pencil sketch
Of Jean Ingelow, which represented her "a
man.
A law has been passed in Waldeck, Germa-
ny, forbidding the granting OF marriage
license to a person addicted to the liquor
habit.
Jim Waldron, living near Arcadia, ILL.,, is
having a cage 80 by 40 built on his farm, and
intends to engage In the business of raising
wild cats.
Mrs. Job Jenkins, of Glen Gardner, N. J.,
was 100 years old the other day, and received
very acceptable present in the shape of $500
pension.
Pastor J. T. Wightman, of Baltimore Meth
odist church, told the junior sisters of his con-
gregation last Sunday to learn how to make
good bread.
A Krausje Is to be given in New Brunswick,
N. j., this week at the residence Of local
judge. A Krausje, despite its name, is en-
tirely reputable.
The St. Nicholas Society of New York city
have voted to put up in Central Park or the
Bowling Green $4,000 bronze statue OF
typical Dutchman.
Theater or lorgnette reticules grow more
dressy. 1t is now the fancy to trim them with
lace and an elaborate monogram in gold or
silver embroidery.
John Edman, an Ohio man, Is to start
Finnish daily paper at Ishpeming, Mich, JAN
uary l. 1t will be the only daily Of the kind
in the United States.
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing writes that she be-
lleves that SC, 900 women could earn a good
living In this country by the manufacture and
sale Of home made bread.
Fifty families of Newfoundland fsherme
win be moved next spring to group of the
Queen Charlotte Islands, Of the British Col
umbla coast above Vancouver
Ministers are 80 scarce In Idaho that they
have to be imported in many cases where peo-
pie wish to get married Trains are stopped
that they may be searched for ministers.
Once for all. let it DO distinctly understood
that Boston does not swear pantsr' II Bos-
ton wears anything, it wears trousers, and
they are turned up at the bottom on muddy |
days
A frightened deer dashed through She |
main street of Salina, Pa, tine other day, |
snd although nearly all the sportsmen In the |
town turned out as soon as they saw 1t, tine
deer escaped.
A prize of $500 has been offered by the |
Congregational Sunday School Publishing |
Company of Boston, for the best MS, suita-
bic for q Sunday school book, In fiction,
biography or history.
There is woman In jackson, Miss, so deep |
" affected by the loss of her husband, whose /
death occurred recently, that every day she |
writes him long letter, and with her own |
hands places 1t on his grave.
Andrew Robinson, a tramp who brought |
up In Braineard, Mimi, has marrieda wealthy
divorced woman for whom he acted as gener-
al utility man during the summer. He |
thus becomes one of the richest men In those
parts
The largest electric light In the
world is In q lighthouse at Sidney, Australia.
1t has the power of $4,000 candles, and can
be seen at sea fifty miles distant. Americans
largest light $4,000 candle power is at San
Jose, Cal
Hudson River boat builder, not having
the facilities to place the boiler aud machin-
cry in the huh of a steamboat he is construct
ing, has adopted the novel method Of build
Ing the hull around the machinery, and~ex-
poets to launch the boat already for use.
Fourteen years ago bottle Of milk placed
In well at Owensboro, KY, to cool, fell into
the water. The other day the well was clean
ed out, and under about six feet Of mud was
found the bottle, and the milk within was ap-
parentlY as sweet and good as the day It was
put In.
Ole Pslsen. who says he has fshed in the
River for eight years, caught near
Astoria. Oregon, recently, fish twelve feet
long, which he can't classify. 1t wasn't q
sturgeon, and between the eyes was straight
horn, thirteen inches long, three inches In
at the base, and almost as sharp as