The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-07-21


ed on his career as proof-reader.
A circular saw cut Charles Edgar into tw'
slices lengthwise at Burbank o.
Near Lemars, Iowa, Philip Held shot ant
killed his mother and then himself.
The street cars of Rio Janeiro are not com
PEELED to turn out for royal carriages.
Queen Christina of Spain has mania TO
being photographed with her children.
Dan Rice the old Snowman, owns $50, 0O(
acres of land in Texas and New Mexico.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has worn the
crown during 40 years of the IS he has lived
Rev. Robert Collyer, at the age of q, came
to this country with his bride in the steerage.
King Humbert's favorite recreation is rid
ing on horseback through the parks Of
Rome.
Sullivan lost none of his brag, 1t seems.
After another defeat he'll want to fight in q
barrel.
Mr.. Bonner will not put monument at the
head Of Dexter's grave. He stops at poor
relations.
United States Senator spooner, of Wiscon-
sin, is q millionaire-made so by saw mills
and lumber.
Mrs Hicks Lord viii sail for Europe soon
to fash her diamonds in the courts of the
effete monarchies.
Jenny June Mrs. Croly) is 81 years old.
The first ten years she spent in England; the
rest in this country.
Gen. s. C. Armstrong says that to make q
Christian out of an Indian is much easier
than to make him work.
The wife of President Diaz, of Mexico, has
given $500 for a public clock In her native
city of Tula, Jamaupilas.
The Chinese Minister. accompanied by his
suite, will soon leave Washington for three
months tour through Peru.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, sold
tickets to his daughters wedding at S. apiece
and realized a handsome sum.
George NJ. Pullman has high opinion of
women's executive ability and pays them
mems wages for mems work.
Ex-senator Conkling was known by none
of his friends of the years of manhood well
enough to be called Roscoe"
1t is charged that Rhode Island has more
ghosts than any other State in the Union.
Ghosts and clans go hand in hand.
Taken all together, seven feet of snow fell
in Minneapolis last winter. and most Of it
was worn off the sidewalks by strangers
II have been prescription clerk for twen-
ty-six years and this is my first p,istake." 1t
was in New Orleans, and he killed his man.
There is an old law on the statute books of
Connecticut making it misdemeauor, pun
ishable by fine of 500, to fish on Sunday.
Oscar Wilde declares that no married man
can become a dude, and he might add, that
no one of common sense would be If he had
the chance.
French fats have had their day in New
York. 1t is about the same thing as hotel
life, and one bowling baby can disturb a
dozen families.
1t takes Chicago belle thirty-fve minutes
to work pair Of gloves on her hands, and
then she must keep every finger straight
until they come off
If the sympathy which is wasted on crimi-
nails was bestowed upon the rich they might
be brought to look upon the world as not al
together heartless.
The New York Neos offers 500 reward for
any well authenticated case of faith-cure. 1t
is a perfectly safe offer. There never has been
one-except In somebody's eye.
One branch of the New York Legislature
favors electricity as a means of executing
while the other doesn't seem to care how,
where or when they are got rid of.
ssThe year 1888 will be year of war;" is
the prediction of a seventh son in New York.
Show US year in the last twenty in which
there has not been war somewhere.
Lady Colin Campbell will not deliver two
lectures in America for S., 200. She doesn't
exactly want the earth, but she wants $40,
600, and she will want for good while.
A railroad passenger from New York to
Chicago is expected to give the sleeping car
porter at least 81 and to spend three more
for fruits, candies and reading matter.
Itmay do you some good to learn that there
is no country on the face of the earth with
out horse-fies and mosquitoes. They are
worse in Iceland in summer than in winter.
King Humbert, of Italy, goes out o'nights
in disguise to hear what the people say of
him, and he often hears criticisms that lead
to reforms. He is, in the main, bully boy.
Pinkerton counts up 1873 American bood-
lers: large and small, in Canada, and he adds
that IT'S of them would make almost any sort
of sacrifice to be restored to home and coun-
try.
A Tennessee farmer plowed up jug con-
tanning 5000 in gold and went crazy over his
good luck. Had the jug contained an even
thousand he would probably have died on
the spot.
A PENNSYLVANIA mining boss offers to wager
$500 against 500 that he can so place one
pound of dynamite in the center Of block as
to blow every building in it into one grand
heap Of debris.
King Solomon's wisdom was all right as far
as it went, but the trouble is he didn't live
long enough to decide anything worth argu-
ing over. This day and age would prove
stumper for him.
If the doctors of Colorado don't report
cases of small pox they are liable to heavy
fine and imprisonment and If they do report
them friends of the afflicted hunt for them
With sbot-guns.
Prof. j. A. Lintner placed the total num-
Der of insect species in the world at 800, 600.
Of these found in the United States 1000 or
5000 species are fruit pests, and at least 2lO
attack the apple.
The human heart has to do as much work
In twenty-four hours as a machine would to
lift 125 tons of iron. Just take this into con-
sideration when a fellow forgets to pay back
that borrowed money"
The Dutch are still taking Holland. Prob
ably 10,OOO. 900 acres of land have been re-
claimed from the sea during the last two CEN
turtles, and the good work is going on at the
rate Of eight acres day.
Detectives have already travelled over H.
900 miles IN search of Tascott, the Chicago
murderer, but thus far not one reliable clew
to his movements since the night of the
murder has yet been discovered.
Albert Foss, New Hampshire man, bought
him a tombstone and had the fact put on
that he died April 2, 1888. On the I'd he
took poison and tried to die, but the doctors
pumped him out and now he has useless
slab on hand.
Thomas Stanley, gypsy, lies in the Green
bush On. ~ lookup for having sold his