The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-08-25
FACT AND FANCY.

';Justice Of the Peace. War claims special
N.".
It IL said there Is q single county IN Iowa
that raises moro wheat each year than al the
! New England States
! forty-eight years Pennsylvania man has
asked to have 1t changed.
Bellite is the new explosive Invented By
Lamm, Of Stockholm, which 10 destined 70
knock dynamite and melinite out entirely.
Out Of 900 boiler explosions In the New
England States all but thirteen were traced
directly back to the engineers carelessness
IL took over two columns Of fine print in .
Boston paper to describe the general ugli0ess
OF camel, and bis habit OF biting was left
out at that
| A Georgia woman claims to have been mar.
ried for forty years without once asking her
husband for money. She IL q widow now and
open to offura
Connecticut: claims parrot sixty years old,
but as the average age Of Poll Is only thirty
years 1t is evident that some one has started
! Q campaign lie.
Passenger elevators have killed of thirty
! eight people In the United States since Janu-
airy ], and are averaging four victims per
week right along,
1t is q general desire Of the veterans Of
+; Pennsylvania to erect on Gettysburg field one
| big State monument instead Of many regi.
mental memorials.
Mrs. Hattie Marshall, Of Jacksonville, Fla,
! opened a swelling on her nose with an
Mi &,
and her death followed.
The June winds not only bloweth whers
they llsteth, but when plug hat Is carried
away 1t goeth where It pleaseth and It's owner
sweareth all he caneth.
New Orleans man found 0 valuable
satchel. and upon taking IL to the owner,
who had advertised the loss, was made
! happy with a brand new 800 bill.
Edison has thought which never came to
him until be was the father Of baby. 1t Is an
electrical apparatus for turning youngsters
howl into a low, sweet chant OF praise.
Mr.. Gladstone has been compelled to fore.
close mortgage on piece Of land on the
Canadian side Of Niagara Falls and the hack
drivers are writing for him to come over.
DR.. 8. Weir Mitchell has sailed for Europe
His first errand viii be to represent the Uni
vcrsity Of Pennsylvania ct the centennial of
Bologna, whose rectors make up dynasty Of
700 years
Mrs Sarah Rothschild, of Chicago, cele-
bratcd her hundredth birthday anniversary
the other day. She Is q native Of Hesse
Darmstadt, and remembers when Napoleon's
soldiers marched by her home on their return
from Moscow.
The bushel measures used In England 300
years ago weighed eighteen pounds OF them.
selves, aud anyone who walked across the floor
while wheat was being weighed was liable to
Imprisonment
Down at Anderson, s. c., they have two
boss curiosities-a gourd that holds 13h gal
Ions and grass that exudes gum which
will hold any furred Or feathered thing that
tries to get over 1t.
Chris Ahrens, German farmer who died
near Clinton, Iowa, vas the largest man in
the county. The coats he wore measured
seventy inches around the chest and eighty
inches around the waist
A Kentucky woman has patented guild
girls will no longer be obliged to stick their
guilds Oh door-caslngs and window-shutters
when their jaws demand rest
A rattesnale, two feet long, was wander
ing about the main street OF Chester, Conn.,,
the other dav when polio ,man dubbed him
to DEATH 1t stopped the women from going
barefoot to the town pump.
lnto al Lox h.o Al h.
fire inside OF six months, and total of
thirty lives have been lost thereby. Few
would have escaped alive anyhow, and per
haps sudden death Is better.
A number of society girls In Mobile re-
Gently organized themselves into q minstrel
troupe, BACKED their faces, donned the pro-
iesslonal wigs and gave performance for |
tho benefit Of charitable society.
Passengers forgot more than 10000 differ
ent articles In the cars Of the New York ee. |
vated roads last year. They included gold |
Watches umbrellas. underwear, etc., and
were sold at auction last Thursday.
"Therc isn't deader live man in this |
country than John L. Sullivan" says Bos-
ton sporting editor. "He has fallen from |
the champion slugger to the champion bum
mer and brute, and has not one true friend |
left.n
The will of French advocate contains the |
bequest: II give 100000 francs to
the local madhouse. got this money out Of
those who passed their lives in litigation; In
II for the use of lunatics, only |
make restitution"
1t Is told of Gov Rusk, Of Wisconsin, that
when he was member of Congress he was
to mortal combat by hot-headed
Southern member, and that having the choice
of weapons he named sausage machines.
The duel was never fought
museum fakIr In Western town recent
iy announced that he would exhibit an edu-
Gated man, born and bred 10 Chicago, who
could nevertheless speak only broken English.
When the people went In to see the curiosity
they found that he was Q stammerer.
Donald G. Mitchell, the author, has habit
Of jotting down valuable thoughts as they
occur to him, but II Is said that often, when
be has bcen unable, after few minutes
search through his note books to find the
particular thought be wants, he angrily casts
The books into the fire. N.Y.
Not 100 miles from Boston lives an energetic
farmer and milk peddlcr The day before
Fast day he was married. Fast day morning
be carried his bride to tue railroad station on
bis milk wagon, and babe her an affectionate
adieu as she started on her three weeks
wedding journey-aloue
Rev. Albert C. White, Of Amesbury, Mass.,.
Is the latest claimant to the honor OF being
The youngest soldier who enlisted during the
war of the rebellion. Probably his clairc is
good, for he was but nine years and twenty
nine days old when mustered In as drum
mer In Company d, SIxty-fourth Ohio Vol |
unteers.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the brave young
Nebraska school teacher whom the blizzard
made famous, has decided TO make Cali
forna her home for the future. She has re-
ceiyed $2.7c0 In cash from the subscription
raised for her benefit besides two costly gold
Watches three diamond pins and many pieces
IF jewelry.
A remarkable freak OF nature, a mare
known as the "Oregon Beauty" was recent
y on exhibition in Louisville. Her color is
,orrel, and that Of the name, tail, and fore
ock creamy tint. The name Is ten feet in
orofh fha foraIock four feat while sha tail