The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-07-14

AhObAbLH bhO younSOos DahA AAoS1
dent In the world is j. M. Baily, IT,,
who. at the age of twenty-three years,
has been placed at the head OF the
Minnehaha National Bank of Sioux
City.
A DEED for a piece of land in Wind
sor, Conn. has recently come to light,
which IS made valuable and interesting
by the fact that it bears. the name oil
Matthew Grant the first American an.
cestor of Gen. Grant. Its date Is
April 9. 1861.
The length to which some men will
go to avoid labor is almost beyond COM
prehension. Thomas Cosgrove. e
prisoner is Santa Clara. Cal, rather
than work. has lived on bread and
water and in solitary confineme mt for
two weeks. mo sweat-of-the brow
racket for me-" he says.
GEORGE MULLER, cele brated through
out the world as worker for the good
of his fellow men, is now eighty-two
years old and as full of zeal and activ-
ity as ever. He has just returned to
England, after preaching tour of ST.
600 miles through Australia, China,
Japan and other countries. Two.thou-
sand children greeted him at Bristol
upon his return, the little ones being
inmates Of his orphanage in that city.
CAPT j. N. COFFIN, of WATERFOWL,
Mass, has been around the world, and
Just returned to Boston, from which
city he sailed in April, 1886. for Eng
land, thence to the Continent and East
Indies, via the Suez Canal China and
Japan. He was eight months In China
and two months in Japan. The return
trip was across the Pacific to San Fran
cisco and down through Mexico. Such
a trip as that is liberal education to
man with mind capable OF digest
ing what his eyes take in.
The editor of the Abbyville Is c.
Medium has challenged either Presi-
dent Mcbride. Prof Davis or Prof. Pat
ton of the South Carolina College OF
Agriculture, to meet him in plough
ing match. to come off in November
next on the fair grounds at Columbia.
1t is understood that one of the three
college mon will pick up the gauntlet.
The contest is to be public one and a
vast multitude is expected to represent
to see the contestants turn somersaults
over the hidden roots and hear them
swear at the mules.
CUBBAGE WILLIAMS and severa
others cut bee tree near Troupville,
Ga. The hollow, which was tolerably
large, was found to be filled with honey
and comb for the distance of fifteen
feet After securing the honey one OF
the boys cut into the tree above the
portion used by the bees and found 6
rattlesnake three feet long. AS there
was no hole in the tree except the one
which contained the honey the sup
position is that the snake crawled VI
the hollow before the bees began tc
hive, and the honey comb had effect
ually blocked his exit
FAIR HAVEN, CONN.,, is in a queer
predicament if O story on the rounds
is true. 1t recits that there is lot o.
land there for which no one has ever
been taxed and to which the city ha!
no title. The assessors and official
have spent much time and money il
efforts to find the owner, and now hav,
begun TO unwind ball of red tape Il
gain possession. The city has ordered
sidewalk built opposite tho land. ant
will then advertise for the owner t
come on and pay for it A lien cal
then be placed on the property. whicl
in due course of time will come int
the city's possession.
The uses of saccharine, which is 8
hundred times sweeter than sugar, ar
thus set down by tho American Drug
gist: Not being carbohydrate like
sugar, it does not affect the digestiv
process. and passes out through tn
urine without change. BY means OF II
the food of diaLetio patients may b
= swee lensti without uafavorable effects
Saccharine is also likely to be found
seryiceable anti fat substitute TO
sugar. From its anti-fermentive pro
perties it will be valuable rs substi
tute for sugar in food for dyspeptics
infants and convalescents. As an adj
dition to preparations for preservin
the teeth. saccharine will improve tn
taste of these compounds without In
PRODUCING a fermentive process.
In Australia and the neighborin
islands are seen many large mound
of earth which were formerly suppose
to be the tombs of departed natives
These remarkable tumuli, reachin
as much as fifteen feet in perpendicula
height and sixty feet in circumference
at the base, are not the work of man
however. but are now known to be tn
incubators built by the jungle fov
and other species of the small famil
of megapodida, or great-footed birds
Each of these great piles consists Q
fallen leaves, grasses. &c. which tn
birds deposit in place by THROWN
backward with one foot. Though th
mounds are usually in dense SHADE
the decaying vegetable matter hi
been found to raise the temperatul
at the center as high as $50. III
cggs are carefully placed with Il
larger end up. about twelve inche
apart and are all covered to dept
of at least two or three feet.
The recent marriage in Philadelphia
of Mr.. George r. Foulke to Miss Jea
Kane gives occasion for the mentio
of many prominent people. Miss Kan
says the Ledger. is a daughter of tt