The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-28
FACT AND FANCY.
Henry Irving Is so years Of age having been
born February D, 1855

ed Europe last summer.
Dom Plat is said to have first applied tn
word 'csank" 10 eccentric people.
A crusade" against cigarette smoking ha
! begun in several localities along the Hudso,
/ River.
The MAJOR of Brooklyn declines to perform
the marriage ceremony, although he 10 o!tel
applied to.
A New York Judge says there Is no law tina
will reach green goods men. Then Their
shouid Be-
M. Cafnot says that any Frenchman VIII,
would declare war against Germany Will,
Moltke and Bismarck are alive ought to b,
shot
Ex Governor Paul Dillingham; of Vermont
wi o is nearly SO years old, has been re elected
president OF the Waterbury Vt) national
bank
Nina Van Zandt, :he proxy wife of Anar
chist Spies is going on the stage in a dyna
mite iradgcdy. II she would only do that BY
proxy too!
Congress has four members who part theii
hair in the middle. Two, Belmont and Ray
uer, are democrats, and two; Fhel ps aid Long
are REPUBLICANS:
An American Clergyman observes tLst there
are three parties Id his eongregatloh-k m s
sion party, an anti-mission psrty, and On
mission party:
The gossip Of q single sewing society In
Ohio has broken up four families and caused
suicide, and yet the good work for the
heather goes on.
Ou;da has at last consented to write novel
"W ith a pical American family III it, and
TALL The sprightly Freedom Of customary Amer
lean love-fnaking."
Parrots are fashionable pets 10 Philadelphia.
One young woman has parrot named ''Dude''
who sa!ites gentleman visitors by shouting
out, ''Helld; chappier'
Il hear that several mcmbrs Of the church
have gone crazy over the subject OF religiona'
Yes. sir, our revival gatherings arc meeting
with glorious surcess.n
Uncle Sol passed the tobacco to his neighbor
and said it was strange that the weed could
be made wandering chew-and after that
the iistehefs all wandered.
WI lie latter receiving a severe reprinand
from this father) "Pa, wish was Adam"
Mr.. B: "And why do you wish that, my sonI'
"'Cause he had no daddy to lick 'im."
Mrs. Julia G. R. Dorr the poet. has just lost
a brothcr, CHARLES Ripley by shipwreck. 1t is
a strange aud sad coincidence that Mrs. Dorr
lost sister In the same way not many years
ago:
Il Is sad, but true" said Christian young
m in on the West side who likes the world and
vanity fair pretty well. TT is sad, but true,
that Experimenting seems pretty tame after d
Orpheus ball:''
Labouchere says that Mime, Carnot. wife of
the president of France, is mot petite, but she
has neat figure and pretty way of bearing
herself that nature generally denies to the
tall persons of her SEX"
Lord Rothschild lost sl5),000 worth Of
pictures the other day by fire Id a furniture
van. One OF the paintings was worth $50, COO
The baron was moving works Of art from his
suburban villa to his town house.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley is almost as striking a
figure as her renowned father She must be
hard upon s., but there is an electric force
about her, splendid vitality, which perpetu.
a;ly renews and multiplies her charms.
The duke of Westminster and the Baroness
Burdelt-Coutts have gone into partnership as
cab prorr;ctors as the London improved cab
company. They have placed go of their cabs
On the streets of the British metropolis
''Give us this day our daily beer" said Flos
SIC, as she was repeating her nightly prayer
what do you mean BY that, Flossie" sharply
demanded her mother. ~ was praying for
papa. / didn't care much for bread, any
how.n
The little 6-year-old daughter of Dubuque
justice Of the peace, upon hearing her father
tell her eldest sister that Blaine had refused
to run for the presidency, sagely remarked:
"Well, suppose Cleveland will have to take
it again."
In Milwaukee physicians demand a percent
age from the druggists to whom they send
their prescriptions. and the druggists paw It
and collect just that much more from the Gus.
toner. The discovery has aroused consider
able indignation.
An Ann Arbor student suspected that some
one as stealing his coal. He loaded one Of
the Jumps with charge Of gunpowder, and
and the next morning his landlady's stove
blew up and his breakfast executed a beaIti-
full fresco design on the kitchen ceiling.
Prince Barclay Of Russia, who was dis
missed from the army of his country by the
czar for allowing his child to he christened
In the Lutheran faith, has now been notified
that the infant will be taken from him by the
government unless he consents to have the
child rcchristcned in the Greek rite
Valentine. Neb., has unique ghost. When
some of "ihe bows" with whom It, when In
the flesh was a crony, go into saloon to take
a drink about midnight the ghost suddenly
became visible, standing up against the bar
along with them. The boys have been too
scared each time thus far to ask it name the
poison"
An ancient japanese coat Of mail was re-
Gently unearthcd in the vicinity Of Victoria,
B. G. Some workmen engaged in digging
well came upon the interesting relic four feet
below the surface. 1t is a complete piece Of
chain arlDor. composed of thousands of links
OF dminutive iron rings the diameter of q
common pencil.
1t Is suggested that fashion, II she will, can
confer great boom on Australia, Idaho and
other portions of the globe that are ruinously
overrun by rabbits, by issuing dictate to
the effect that rabbits ears for the adorn-
ment of feminine apparel, shall be in the
height OF style. It Is believed that the result
would be rabbit famine.
Two Illinois farmers living near Tuscola
went to law over a % pig three years ago,
and the case was appealed until It reached
the circuit court. That court has just de-
cided that one of the litigants shall paw for
the pig and the other pay the costs Alto
gether, In costs and attorneys fees, the pig
has cost the two men 81, $50
Mrs Merritt Trimble, Mrs. George +. Can
field, Miss Ellen Collins, Mss Helen Isclin,
Mrs. Henri E. Peiew, Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler
and other New York ladies are raising
scholarship fund of 5000 whose interest
shall be used to paw the collere expenses OF
the New York woman who each year shall
pass the best examination for entrance to
Harvard.
The princess OF Wales is again suffering
from an attack of deafness She 10 now com
PEELED to use an ear trumpet, necessity
VII 'ch she very unwillingly submits to. The
king OF Greece. the princess of Wales brother,
Is troubled with like deafness, although the
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