The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-08-18
HERE AND THERE
Japan 70 building 81 new railroads.

syndicate has been formed to build
tunnel under the Detroit river at Detroit
I'm the lumber enterprise of Minneapolis,
Mimi, there are over 10000 men employed
Nearly 400 people have been killed on rail-
road grade crossings in Philadelphia since
1878.
Over 10000 chickens Matched In incubators
are shipped from Hammonton, N. j., every
month:
The reported rich gold discoveries ir Lower
California are discovered to be without foun-
dati6r.
4 phenomenon only half as old as Josef
Hoffman,, Leopold spielman, is having 9
great run at Vienna. He is only i've.
Chautauqua county, II. Y; has ffty-Hre
cheese factories, and the total product Of
these last year was worth $744, 25L
Switzerland has 66O, 900 milch cows, all
of native breed, and divided into two
sharply defined races, the brown and the
spotted
The slaughter OF aliieators In Florida seems
to increase, and more than 1900 alligator
hides we're sold at Fort Ogden in one week re-
Gently.
From the list of new enterprises being start
ed all over the country. published from day
to day, the manufacturing outlook is very
promising.
San Antonio, Texas, is claimed to be the
largest wool market In the Southwest, the
largest horse market In the country, and the
largest pecan market In the world.
A 5OO-loom cotton mill for the manufacture
Is ~ % 10, 81 nh
etc, will be established at Columbus, Ga. It
will be the first mill of the kind In the South.
The Canadian Government estimate for tho
construction Of canal at Sauit Ste. Marie.
of the depth of sixteen feet, is 81, SOC, 600
The work will not be commenced until next
year.
The export Of apples from New York for the
week ending SATURDAY., May 10, included SO
barrels, valued at $1.s5a There were also
1854 packages of dried apples exported, which
were valued at Sl2,7l4
A New York ocu!ist asserts that the great
est enemy to the eyes of young men Is the
cigarette. 1t causes disease known to the
profession as the cigarette eye" which can
be cured only by long treatment.
It has been found In California that q cold
air blast dries fruit In the most satisfactory
manner. Samples of fruit dried In this way,
prunes, apricots and apples, two years ago.
are still in perfect state of preservation.
The New York Experiment Station is Of
the opinion that the increase In the quantity
of timothy after the period OF full bloom ID
not sufficient to overbalance the lower diges-
tibilty of the albuminoids and the large In
crease in fibre.
Included in the shipments from New York
city during the past week were 1870 live
cattle, $3.50 quarers of beef and twenty-five
live sheep, against 79l live cattle, 1850
quarters of beef and $50 live sheep during
the same week in 1887
A New York business man has Q novel
method of refreshing his memory. When he
has something important to attend to the
next day, he writes himself postal card, re-
minding him of the matter, and. finding the
card among the mail the next morning, at
tends to it the first thing.
Prof. W. A. Henry, Of Wisconsin, In q
series of experiments, produced 179 pounds
OF milk from one acre of pasture, yielding
eighty-two pounds of butter, while one acre
of soiling crops gave him 47S3 pounds of milk
yielding 1876 pounds OF butter.
A Justice in Indiana, who had endeavored
vainly to recoverer $50 he had leaned an &C
| ouaintance, had the latter before him as q
witness recently, and managed quietly to stir
him up to an outburst of Ire that just fitted
fine of $50 for contempt Of court
DR.. Dunhoff is authority for the statement
that In new comb the thickness OF the sides
of the cells Is but 1-1S0 part Of an inch.
| Such delicate work Is hardly conceicable, and
vet bees often make It In the dark on
damp. cloudy days, and seem never to stop
working.
California farmers increased their acreage
in prunes this year, but the unfavorabls
weather during the poisoning period dmln-
| ishcd the yield considerably. 1t Is, however,
expected now that the quantity will be
double that secured last year. Santa Clara
county is the principal pruue section.
Cardinal Howard Ia hopelessly insane. He
has been removed from Rome by his cousin,
the Duke of Norfolk, to Arundel Castle. The
| Cardinal is six feet tall, OF great learning,
and most popular prelate. He was formerly
a captain Of Life Guards, and took to the
church after being Tilted by a beautiful Irish
| girl.
Edward Everett Hale's poor health has
| caused him to give up his position rs one OF
| the Harvard college preachers. The number
| of preachers has been increased from four to
| five by the appointment of the Rev. 7. G.
Williams, OF New York, Unitarian, and the
| Rev. William Lawrence, of Cambridge, an
Episcopalian.
A party .. New Jersey gentlemen who re-
| turned from recent visit to>Florlda have de-
| cided to introduce the cocosnut tree IN Flor
| ida, and have secured a long stretch OF
territory In the southern part of the State.
They have entered actively upon the work
| of planting, and promises in few years to
supply our Northern markets with an abund-
ance Of this fruit
The export demand In wheat has been al
most entirely stopped, but 1t will take q con-
siderable addition to the surplus carried over
to the end of the crop year to encounter the
shortage in that production. 1t 10 doubtful,
too, If enough wheat can be spared from In
dis and Russia to supply the wants Of the
United Kingdom, so not withstanding toe
| loss of our expors trade at present, there will
undoubtedly be revival Of 1t in very few
| weeks.
In Utah there are said to be 2,00l owners Of
sheep. who have an average flock Of 2S2 anil
mails, which is an increase of eight per cent
in five years. In Oregon there are 4, sos ranch.
men, who have an average Of $50 animals, an
increase in five years Of ninety per cent In
California there are 1926 owners Of sheep,
| who have an average flock Of h43O, an increase
| of eleven per cent Texas shows record OF
| $3.50 wool growers, who have an average flock
| of 9, 40 sheep, an increase of 11S per cent In
the last five years
The best varieties and species OF buckle
berry. SAYS A. 8. Fuller in the New York Tri'
| bssse, may be grown In every garden where
blackberries and raspberrles are cultivated.
| Plants found growing on high, dry ground
can be taken up with less labor than those
growing in low ground, and usually with a
| bah of earth about their roots. There IL no
| risk in moving such plants; at least never
| had plant fail when moved in early spring,
and have handled many hundred during
the last twenty years. A huckleberry plan
tation Is very much like an asparagus bed
as to permanency, for with ordinary care
! either will last lifetime.