The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-06-09
FACT AND FANCY.

Detroit thieves steal Grape from the doors
| OF the dead.
Russia's cavalry equals that Of Germany
and Austfia COMBINED.
Over ninety per cent of all Cuban sugar Is
consumed By the United States
Leading members do not expect that Con-
gross win be adjourned before August
Thousands of persons are dying of starva-
ton in the inundated districts Of Hungary.
California peaches aud grapes can DO
cisco
The potato harvest Is now In progress In
southern California, the crop selling at about
81 busheL
| II 10 said that the strike has already cost
the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy 81, lOS, soS,
and the strikers $500, 246
A Neutrality-suspicious. announces In the
newspapers that he has "a cottage to let con-
tanning eight rooms and an acre Of land"
Included In the shipments from New York
city during the past week were 1.oS6 live cat
tie, s,6ss quarters Of beef and sixty two live
sheep.
A New York banking firm shipped $500, 600
in gold to Europe last Tuesday, which was the
| hrst shipment OF gold from America for some
months.
| A petrified snake ten feet long with horns,
has been dug up at Granada Col. 1t will be
sent to the Smithsonian Institute at Wash
ington.
| Cremation Is very popular In Toxic. ia
pan. During the last year 10, 240 persons
were cremated, OF whom SOL died from infec-
tlous diseases.
It 10 stated that 1000 camellias were cut
| from the White House conservatories for use
| at state dinners and receptions during the
month of February.
Letters received from France state that the
season has been so cold that peas have frozen
! In the ground, and farmers have been obliged
| TO do second sowing
Paul Rosso, of New Haven, Conn.,, inter-
prefer In the courts, has been sued for 81, 600
| by man who charges that Rosso as inter-
prefer misrepresented him.
A correspondent In California says the out
| look for vineyards this year Is good, as there
has been abundant rain and the cold weather
has checked the premature budding OF vines.
There being nothing mean about New
Jersey farmers brethren of this guild sold
sandwiches to the passengers OF snow
blockaded train at half dollar and dollar
| apiece.
Eleven Perthshlre, Scotland, farmers, who
had cattle inoculated last season as preven-
| tive against pleuro-pneumonis, with one ex-
ception, report favorably Of the result Of the
experiment.
The largest cotton mill in the world IL that
| of Krabnholm, in Russia. This colossal es-
tablishment Is said to contain $40, 600 spindles
| and 22O0 looms, and gives employment to Z,
| 900 hands.
A party Of French scientists has started for
Australia and New Zealand, commissioned by
M. Pasteur, to demonstrate to the Colonial
Government the utility Of his proposed method
Of destroying rabbits.
sCool as q cucumber" says an exchange, is
scientifically correct. An Investigation In
England showed this vegetable to have a
temperature one degree below that Of the
surrounding atmosphere.
The late SHOWS, extending all over the State
OF Pennsylvania, were highly beneficial to the
wheat fields of that part Of the country, which
had suffered from the severe weather and
high winds that prevailed.
The past week Mr. Flaherty introduced In
the New York Assembly bill raising the
salary Of the dairy commissioner to s., 900,
and empowering him to enter any place where
butter is used or sold and to open any pack
age.
new law which goes into effect In Ger
many next October prescribes that coins must
be prepared neither entirely nor partially of
lead, nor of any alloy Of metal which contains
in 100 parts OF weight more than ten parts of
weight lead.
Mrs. Claus spreckels remains strong advo-
cate of the sugar beet culture as one Of the
industries of the country. He says that "what
we want is 400 factories all working on sugar
raised by ourselves, and SO stop the sending
out Of money to other countries"
The lumbermen In Ottawa, Ont, are uneasy
In regard to the logging supply An enor-
nous number Of logs has been cut, but 1t is
feared there will not be sufficient water in the
tributaries to float them down to the Ottawa
River. Over 400, 600, 600 feet Of logs are now
cut.
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been the most used language on the globe
Prof. Kirchoff Of Halle find that 1t is now
spoken by over 100000 600 peopls; Hindu
stani, which comes next In extent of use, by
over 100 900, 600; Russian, by over 70, 600, 600;
German, by over 1900, 900; and Spanish, by
over a, 900, 600.
A curious speculation has been made con-
corning what would happen should the earth's
rotation cease. The equatorial diameter
being twenty-six miles more than the polar
diameter the earth would present an equator
ial zone, of solid ground miles high above sea
level the water all being drawn to the poles.
This land zone would then be like our
Attic regions, and be banded by ring Of per-
manent ice and snow.
The influence of the moon upon vegetation
Is an interesting problem awaiting solution.
A recent writer upon the subject mentions
that wood cutters In Cape Colny and in India
insist that timber is full of sap and unfit to
be cut at full moon. Another observation Of
lunar influence in Cape Colony is the rapid
spelling of meats and other provisions when
exposed to moonlight though this may be
due to the fact that the light serves as guide
to insects
Prince Edward Island potato dealers, hav-
ing found trade with the United States In
somewhat unsatisfactory condition during
the present season, recently held meeting
for the purpose of consultation looking to
remedy They recommend that farmers i'm
prove the quality of potatoes by changing the
variety of seed and growing larger proper
ton of white grades, that greater care be
taken in culllng, handling and shipping, In
order that the stock be put upon the market
In the best form possible
The New York bulletin says, according to
sdvices at hand the new cheese season is
about commencing. A letter from western
New York states that nearly all the factories
in that section are under way, and another
from Utica thinks great many are at work,
including most of the large factories. In cen
trail New York full cream stock is in some
cases being made, but the temptations arts
Ing from the condition OF the butter market
lead to great deal Of Swimming.
Perhaps the most curious battalion in any