The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-21
FACT AND FANCY.


send home $4,000 a year.
Hundreds Of Canadians are said to be await
ing naturalization In Chicago.
The Italian silk crop Of 1887 surpasses the
unusually large crop Of last year.
A movement is on foot to indtice the col
bred people to emigrate to South America.
KIdderminster, Worcestershire, England, be-
came renowned for its carpet manufactures
about l735
In New York 5000 girls are engaged In strip
ping tobacco at average wages Of about forty
cents day.
Georgia farmers In progressive districts have
planted their corn crops, and expect to plow
In few weeks.
The university Of Pavis, italy, which was
founded by Charlemagne, Is said to be the
Oldest in Europe.
Cheeserne Is the latest fraud IN England
It has q suggestion Of cheese as American
oleomargarine suggests butter
A Turkish porter was seen at Adrianople
walking briskly down the street with heavy
American piano strapped to his back.
The foliage of great white oak tree at
Vernon, Ala. is half dark green and the 9TH
er half yellow throughout the summer.
| According to the latest statistics, there are
In France 13,275, OIL cattle, 2, 6SS $50 sheep,
l,42O, liz goats 5,774,9ai pigs and 2, 7Ss, 4ss
| tarm horses.
Some people are wondering just now wheth.
| er It would be easier for herd Of camels to
pass through the eye Of crochet needle or
| for coaldeale to yo to heaven.
TIE coming orange crop Of southern CALI
fornis Is now expected to be greater than last
year. The official estimate is 22OO to $500 car
loads, against 1870 carloads the past season.
A 4-year.old little. girl trembling with fear
IL recent terrific thunderstorm, suddenly ex'
claimed: Mamma, every time It lightens
does the sky open aud show little bit OF the
| golden stree:m
Sam Small claims that the cowboy style OF
p7eachng does good. 1t may be. Perhaps II
the founder Of Christianity had travelled
around with a variety show he would have
made more conyer;s
Brazil shareholders are opposed to the ex'
tinctiou of SLAYER, because of the impossi-
l.li,y OF carr, lug on the coffee plantations
profltabIy with pad labor. They should study
the result In the United States.
Free soup has been source Of trouble In
New York, and Is no longer provided for the
poo- 1t was found to bring tramps to the
city, and to aid the undeservlng poor, As In
all indiscrimnate charity giving.
At the late convention OF farmers at Hart
fort, CT, Prof. Alvord remarked that the In
auence OF the breed on the constitution OF but
ter was of the highest order, and that food
was Of comparatively small effect
The reason that the use OF coffee has de-
creased so much iu England Is said to be that
1t Is seldom properly made. People make
their coffee as they do tea, and they are dis
J gusted with the disagreeable concoction.
A Young preacher picked up Bishop Pierce's
hat and put it on his own head, and 1t was ex'
sctly fit. "Why, bishop" said he, ''your
head and mine are exactly the same SIZE !"
YES" replied the bishop, ION the outside"
Parson Ftzroy is nothing II not elegant In
his pulpit dlction; but he rather surprised his
! parishoners on Sunday. when be rose to the
supreme felicity of referring to Lots lady,
who was transformed into monolith OF chic
, | Iluc Vi eOuluLu.
The British Government declines emphati
cally to join the Australian Government In ap-
propriatng So, 900 for an Antarctic exploring
expedition, on the ground that the combined
sum of $50, 900 would be too small for such an
expensive undertaking.
Prof. johnson stated, at the meeting OF the
Connecticut Board of Agriculture, that III
Germany, where this subject had been studied
I at experiment stations palm cake meal was
the only substance which mud appeared 70 In
crease the butter fat In milk.
The desert of Sahara is becoming inhabita
BILE, and colonization is encouraged through
the aid of science. After a period of thirt,
years, forty.three GASES have l3,OOO inhabi
J tants, and 100 900 trees between one and sever
years old and 200 fruit trees.
Fruit trees acquire most Of their growth by
night. The fruit Of the cherry laurel, for In.
s;auce, increases at the rate OF ninety per
cent. at night and only ten per cent. by day;
while apples increase eighty per cent oJ
night and twenty per cent. In the day TIM.
DO YOU intend to hear the new minister
I ,o-morrowa" inquired member OF the dea
! con. mo, ! don't. Pm not going to heal
an, new preacher until know what folks
think about him. But you ought to use
your own Judgment" II never work on Sun
day."
. A peculiar feature of Long Lake. in Wex-
D ord County Mich, is that 1t gradually rises
aud subs dos once every few Years. 1t hat
b. EN- rlsin for the past four or five years, aud
the Grand Rapids & lndan Railway ha'
cen obi gcd to aban ion Its old roadway along
: he shore.
Manitobans are agitating scheme to trans
| port tn whole population of Iceland, abou
5000 to that countrt. together with thei
: d,cks and herds. This would be remarkable
I ,xodus Tn re has been steady flow OF Ice
: a,uIic emigration to Canada for the last fiji
: | teen years.
O Since 1889 all lighthouses on the Unitet
,, States coast have been maintained By the ma
tional government Previous 10 this Ugh
dues were levied upon commerce. The frs
coast ght In America was established In 1913
G md the first lighthouse on Little Brewste
|. | Island, Boston harbor, Ills 10.
r The largest diamond ever found In the UnI
!. ted States was D cked up by laborer EN-
poved In grazing u street at Manchester, Va
;. 1t weighed 23sl curats in the rough aud 1ls
| carats when Gu. 1t passed ,nto the posses
:, sion of Capt Samuel Dewey, and John Nor
d rissey once loaned 5000 on 1t.
The Ameyican Brewer says 1t Is now excep
. tional where brewer uses over one to \
pounds of strong hops to the barrel Of beer
:, !" In old times, SIX pounds Of hops were used
u the barrel Of stock ale, which is nearly twice
l. much as is now used by brewers. Upon III
II present systems Of brewing less hops are use
|. than formerly.
While some of the Western States are no'
ordering a quarantine against Eastern cattle
under an apprehension of pleuro-pneumonis
$ the cable announces that an epidemic ha
d occurred among hogs In portions of Denmar
O and Sweden, and that the lsndiug Of hog pre-
~ ducts from these countries Is officially prohibit
;, ed until further orders.
Englishmen are still foundering through til
difficulties of the introduction OF the syster
u of selling cattle by weight, as simple as
seems to the American mind. At the LAT
d London Christmas market, cattle to the valu
y of s65O,OOO changed hands on the CUES
= word plau,a plan by which Engl sh producer