The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-28
FACT AND FANCY.

Tie Crawford house, in the White mountain
no rll, New Hampshire, ballt In 1913, is to b
rep red for a summer hotel
j Los Angeles, Cal, the city council is con
sill pfng proposition 10 levy tax Of $50 pc
m;i;h on real estate dealers.
7 Baltimore school board has just yotet
dove motion to abolish corporal punishment
in L. public schools-yeas s, nays ..
iii has been introduced In the soutl
Car Ina legislature to reduce the salaries o.
nil & state officers and their clerks.
CaFl Werner, "straw bondsman," Wal
sen.enced to seven years In the penitentiary
by New York court the other day.
number of spurious postal cards found re-
zen ly in Pittsburgh were so skillfully execu-
ted that their detection was very difficult
One hundred farmers Institutes will be held
Glll. winter Ia Ohio as part OF the commemora-
tiol of the one hundredth anniversary OF the
fou aiding of the state.
Ministers are so scarce In Idaho that they
have to be imported In many cases where peo-
pie wish to get married. Trains are stopped
that they may he searched for ministers.
il the center of the dning-room of a Mos
cos (Russia) hotel is large fountain stocked
with fish, from which, when he received an
ORDER the waiter takes fish alive with dip
me-.
A patriotic and devout citizen of Newark, N.
J. aving given plat of land worth $40, 900
to Tie First Baptist Church society, now offers
to put up SIS, 900 structure at his sole ex-
pense.
The important discovery has been made by
the bureau of labor statistics OF Maine that 81
will purchase now as much rs could be bought
IN SIT for S1.1z It will also purchase twice
rs much labor
4 plthy definition of lover is the follow
I'M: "a lover is a man who endeavors to be
more amiable than 1t is possible for man to
be, and this is the reason why almost all lovers
appear ridiculous"
At Amsterdam, N. Y, one day recently, q
be. w stone fell from a wagon, and the next
mfrning nearly every newspaper in the coun-
try contained accounts OF the fall Of q three
ton aerolite in that city.
There is talk of stocking the rivers Of eastern
Maine with black bass. The plan Is opposed
BY many persons on the ground that the new
abound in those streams.
A colony Of. swedes has purchased several
lots In the city of Tallapoosa, Ca, and will
erect on 1t malleable iron foundry, which
VII be the first of its kind ever put up south
Of the Mason and Dixon line
While George Lindley was working on the
banks of the Sangamon River, near Decatur
Ill, he pulled a hollow log from the water and
found in 1t a catfish three feet six inches long
which weighed forty-two pounds.
Beef cattle at Tucson, Arizona, are cheap
and In big demand being brought up by San
Francisco dealers. The cattle are In splen-
did condition. Stockmen are realizing 4 and
8 cents per pound on foot at tie railroad
depot.
Large numbers Of pauper children are ship
ped annually from England to Canada, and
inspectors have lately been appointed by the
British government to come over and see how
The Dominion is treating her friendless
charges.
One Of the finest high-school buildings In
the world is owned by the city OF Fall River,
Mass. The half million dollars, which was
used In its construction, was given by e
wealthy friend Of education. 1t is ad-
mirably equipped, and fire-proof.
The largest passenger engine, perhaps, In
this country was recently completed at a To-
connective factory at Paterson, N. ]. 1t weighs
$4,000 pounds, and has only four drlve-wheels.
The heaviest freight engines weigh but little
over 10000 pounds, and they have eight
drivers.
A farmer near Albany, whose vineyard had
suffered at the hands of thieves, arranged q
system of wires among the vines, connected
the wires with a powerful battery and gave
the grape stealers shocks that proved entirely
satisfactory to himself and salutary to the
thieves
A Boston mother was putting her little ont
to bed and said: II think Fossie, you are
old enough to learn an evening prayer. Pm
going to say it for you, and you will repeat 1t
after me-" "Yeth'm," lispcd the little one.
swell, Wen begin. Are we readyg' 'Yeth'm.
Let err go, GallagherW
certain Sunday school superintendent
goes to see little Clara's big sister quite often.
"Chlldren," said he to the school last Sunday,
I'VE are told in your leaflets to-day to love the
Lord Do you know what love Isl" TITS
when you hug my sister In the parlor, sir"
spoke up Clara from the front row.
The object Of the masquerading professions
on New Years day at Philadelphia may be
learned by perusal of the mayors permit,
which was granted this year on condition that
the maskers 'refrain from kissing woman |
against their win, smashing the hats of citi-
zeus, and making themselves generally OBJ
noxious'
A poor New Yorker got rid Of some rich |
country relatives who had came to see the |
city at his expense In short order the other |
day by presenting them, shortly after their ar
rival, with a little red-covered guide-book |
with the legend 1.-THE way to see New York In |
half your intended time" inscribed In gold |
letters across the frontispiece.
Ocean steamship companies are said to be |
making but little money this year. There are |
too many steamships of the old type. re- |
volu:ion is going forward in steamships. The |
new triple-expanslon engines by which the |
steam Is worked over three times instead of i
once, as formerly, makes all the difference be-
tween dividend-paying concern and losing
one.
John Owen Snyder, the walking freak, has
given up appearing in museums, and Is back
al his humble home, near Hartford City, Ind.
He Is wearing out under the tremend-
GUS strain caused by his curious disease, and
can't live long He must walk; but bis steps
are feeble His disease has been blessing to
his family, for he has made enough money
from museums to support his family in COM
fort
A mule deer and fallow buck, whose pens
In the Philadelphia Geological gardens were
separated by a fence, got together the other
ght, and were found in the morning with
their horns interlocked In deadly combat. 1t
required the exertions Of three keepers to sep
crate them, and when this was accomplished
the deer chased the men from the pen. The
keepers triumphed in the end
The United States has been, without doubt,