The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-08-11
FACT AND FANCY.

called 'snowhlack."
A Georgia man has celebrated his golden
wedding with his second wife.
It appears that Rider Haggari went to Ice
land to obtain relief from headache.
Since January. 1887, 8S1 manufacturing
companies have been organized in Japan.
Rider Haggard has gone to Iceland for q
holiday. He Is Q sportsman as well as pen
man.
Princess Beatrice Battenburg is taking anti
fat to reduce her obesity, which threatens to
become abnormal
Andrew Carnegie says that the coaching
trip which he and Mr.. Blaine will take will
last at least till July /.
TIE weighing machines In hotels and other
public places in Philadelphia are said to av-
erage 4 net profit of $25 month.
The Chinese government intends erecting
monument to Gen. Gordon on the scene of
bis victory over the TAPPING rebels.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria having been
forbidden to take equine exercise fer some
months, now amuses herself with a tricycle..
The Mormon hierarchy is said to pay Mr..
A. NJ. Gibson a salary of $40 600 year 10
look after the interests of Zion at Washing
ton.
When Charles Dickens, jr., reached Port
land Oregon, last Tuesday he had made
27,OOO-mile lecture tour through the United
States.
Gen. Wade Hampton was thrown from his
horse In Washington the other day and suff-
cred compound comminuted fracture OF
his wooden leg.
Soft maple trees, planted on dry land and
cultivated, produce almost as much sap as
rock naples. and delicious sugar and syrup
can be made from it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr. Justice of the
Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,, is visiting
in California, and will closely study the Chi
nese cheap labor question.
1t is said that SIS, 0)0O0) worth Of tile has
been laid in Illinois, and that the tile, II
placed in continuous line, would reach
around the globe three times.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has CIV
en- $1,000 to the One Million Dollar Perma-
nent Fund for Ministerial Relief that 10 be.
ing raised by the Presbyterian Church.
There is talk of the Rev. Dr.. Bodine, pres
ident of Kenyon college. as the successor OF
the Rev. DR.. Geisey in the rectorship Of the
church of the Epiphany, at Washington.
General Boulanger and Mr.. Blaine met fire.
quenty when the General visited this coun-
try to attend the centennial of the surrender
of Yorktown. Blaine was the n Secretary OF
State.
Beiva LOCKWOOD, since her nomination for
the Presidency. has bought a stunning new
bonnet. A cunningly CONSTRUCTED artificial
lee is made to hover among the flowers that
adorn its crown.
Harold Brown, descendant of Nicholas
Brown, after whom Brown University was
named, and member of the class of 1885 OF
the University, has given 500 for Episcopal
missionary work.
Marshal Booth, son of General Booth OF
England, is conducting the movements OF the
Salvation Army in Albany,N.Y. He is tall,
thin man, with long, black beard, long arms,
and long tongue.
Alonzo Steele, of Grinnell. Iowa, has given
SEC, coo to endow the chair of mathematics
and natural philosophy of Iowa college, the
chair to be called in memory of his daughter,
the "Myra Steele" chair.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is the owner
of fine homestead farm, and he plants tree
there for every senator who visits him. Ed
munds' ia beech, Jones's mulberry, and
Sherman's soft Eastwood.
One of the wealthiest delegates at the
Methodist conference in New York is Amos
Shinkle, of Covington, KY. He leads many
Cincinnati enterprises, and ardently promotes
missionary and Sunday school work.
Large quantities of butter and cheese are
now regularly coming to English ports from
Australia and New Zealand. They are both
pronounced good, and the prospect is tina,
the trade in them will increase rapidly.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard, lately of Brooklyn
and now rector of st. Johns Church, Wash
ington, D. c., who has been elected Bishop
of Southern Ohio. will be the youngest mem
Der of the Episcopacy, being just 40 years
old.
Donald G. Mitchell, better known as 'Ik
Marvel" lives quietly on his farm at Edge
wood, Conn, and looks like little old
Scotch farmer or gardener. He is now 60, and
has comfortable revenue from his published
books.
Henry Willard is looming up again In the
financial world and is talked of for his old
position at the head of the Oregon Transcon-
tinental company. Mr.. Willard began his life
as a newspaper man and preserves bis
bounce.
A number of the street car employees OF
Indianapolis have petitioned the Chicago
syndicate buying the property to remove car
No. AS because it had had nothing but q
record Of incidents, robberies, and murder
since it left the shop.
The Gloucester fishermen expect to settle
the bait question by introducing a German
process of preserving herring and other small
fish used for bait In steel barrel containing
an antiseptic solution as substitute for ice,
which is far more expensive.
A St. Louis minister says the greatest feat
of baptism in the history of the Baptist
church In modern times, was that performed
in July, 1873, by J. c. Clough, a missionary,
who, with the assistance Of five native
preachers, immersed 2, 222 converted brethren
within six hours.
Empress Victoria has turned an inventor.
She drew plans from which writing desk has
been manufactured which enables the Empe-
ror to write whether lying in bed or standing
up. It is available In any position, and the
mechanism employed is said to be intricate
and remarkably effective.
Thomas Mooney, who was the first mission
airy to visit this country on behalf of Ireland,
is dead. For many years he was the London
correspondent of the Irish World of New
York, writing under the nom de plume Of
transatlantic" On April 81 last when be
laid down his pen he was 80 years old.
The Iowa farmer objects to giving his note
and having 1t discounted for cash. The latest
sharper says: 20. we'll keep the note" and
writes across the face ''not transferable" In
short time it is found in the hands of Q
third party with an Re" added to the ''not,
which makes it read mote transferable
Pig rearing is great industry in some parts
of China, and last year $500 were shipped
| to Hong Kong, where large demand exists.
A frequent fraud is often perpetrated on the
shippers. On account Of the shallow water OF
| the port Of embarkation. the pigs are fire.
| quently sent out to the steamers at night, and
| the boatmen take advantage Of their oppor.
tunity to exchange big pigs for small on the