The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-14

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mushrooms are selling at 81 per quart IA
New York city.
New York cltv ia the fourth largest shipping
port Ia the world.
business mems association has boon organ.
ICED at Rochester, N. Y.
The Ohio Dunkards are holding their annual
love-feast In Miami county.
Asbestos cloth ia being used for wearing ap-
parel by the fremen of Paris
female tramp has excited the curiosity Of
The people of Lynn county, Oregon.
spepsis greatly increased in this country
last yeas. according to medical statistics
The charming daughters of Minister West
have two handsome beagle hounds for pets
''Cslebrsted ancestry without cash does not
amount to much nowadays" remarks Mrs.
Grundy.
- taxidermist at Chatham, N. J., breeds owls
to prevent running short of such birds for his
business.
Heavy rains have been frequent in many sec
tions of Oregon and Washington Territory du-
ring the past fortnight
Irving Il. Mason. of PoughkeepsIs, n Y,
deserted his wife and children last week and
eloped with his hired girl
European piaEo-player recently played
tbirty-six hours without rest, beating his own
previous record by eleven hours
Engineers have a superstition that even
numbered engines will always meet sooner or
later with some terrible accident
he hn.r II 80
trying to settle the difficulties between the
Ban Pedro ship-ownsrs and settlers
Poor old Philadelphia is said to be the
birthplace Of two very queer dishes One is
cheese-caEe and the other sweet-potato pie.
The managers OF the New York insane asy
lum ct Buffalo deny the charges Of cruelty
and Encouragement Of affairs In that institu-
tIon.
Fourteen million cans Of corn have been
put up by the canning factories of Maine this
season. There are eighty factories In the
state.
The day Miss Lizzie Bell Sinclair, of Ever
tttstown, N. j., celebrated her twelfth BIRTH
day she completed bedquilt that contained
liz, 10 pieces.
Twenty business men of Cohoes, N Y, are
charged with violating the law relating to the
employment OF children in factories They
will be prosecuted
The consumption of coffee Is not near so
great In England as 1t was years ago. The
Inability Of cooks to make 1t as 1t should be is
the reason assigned.
1t is estimated by a Vera Cruz paper that
~. O0O,0 900 damage was caused by recent
runs on the Gulf coast Of Mexico Crops
etved the most injury.
Il has been estimated that the number of
ing ladies who find regular and profitable
ployment as typewrters in New York alone
rhes beyond two thousand.
Bell county kentucky paper describes
en HendricksoD, who has killed three
md wounded another, as being IAN in
Rl citizen, church member, and dead
the expectancy Of finding a pot con-
r. S1, 500, which Henry Woods, a hermit,
to have buried near Hartwel Ga,
have dug up the ground for rods
hg the courses served at the recent Chi
hner at Washington In commemoration
Anniversary OF the empress Of China
he famous "birds' nests and "Sharks
treat delic acies In the Flowery kingdom.
New Haven Comm bar has decided to
lawyers who have practiced in other
In all cases where the same rule is OBJ
toward them. David Callahan, Of
esota, was admitted In this manner Fri
ar Auraria, Ga, one day recently, William
~kzl- A.
huddled together on q stream and blaz-
56SwaY at them with both barrels of his gun.
It took his dog twenty minutes to retrieve
eleven Of the birds.
Mrs. Nancy Coley, of Easton, Mass, will be
10s years old on the Goth inst She was born
on Greenfield hill In 1779 and is the mother of
twelve children, all but two of whom are dead.
When she was babe her nurse put her into
pewter teapot and closed the lid
Although 20 years old, Mrs Mary Mcmahon,
Of Vineyard. N. j., has undertaken the build
Ing of house. She will be her own architect,
carpenter, and plssterer, and 1t is hoped that
she will encounter nothing in the way Of
strikes before the eGfce Is completed.
A monstrous wolf that escaped from q
menagerie some months ago was shot at
Clark's mills, near Wellsville, O., by q
farmer named Thomas McGarry. Sheep dogs.
and poultry had suffered considerably In the
ueighborhood ever since the beast was at
large.
At the Boston library a few days ago q
woman inquired for 1.-THE Lady and the
Rooster when she wanted 'The Lady of the
Aroostook." while Philadelphia woman re-
Gently asked the librarian for the ''Picture of
a Woman" but meant 1.-THE Portrait Of Q
Lady"
After having buried three wives and become |
the father Of twenty-four children and spent |
$4,000 In trying'to get another helpmate, |
Griffith Pond, an aged farmer, near Celina, O., |
became insane, and Saturday, at the request |
OF the children, Judge ordered him to be put |
In, charge OF guardian.
Mention has been made of q new mill In |
Sweden for the manufacture of paper from |
moss. Paper of different thickness and paste
board made of the white moss have already
been shown the latter even In sheets three
fourths of an inch thick 1t Is as hard as
wood, and can be easily painted aad polished.
An American visitor to Japan says that the |
japanese viii be the greatest railroad builders |
In the world In five years He says they are
great patrons Of railroads, and that even when |
they have no business to attend to they ride
back and forth on the cars. Beggars in the
large cities, he says, spend their money in this
curious way.
In Westport, Conn.,. lives J. L. hurry,
veteran aged 81 years, who once worked in a
tailoring establishment with Andrew johnson.
In 1874 hurry Yves a tailor in New York. He
was drawn on a jury, and lost 90 much time
that be afterward Joined the volunteer fire de-
ment to escape jury duty. Soon afterward
occurred the great Broad street dre, at which
he received injuries that laid him up for six
teen months
As q train was whizzing along toward Say
brock. Conn.,, the other day, from Midd!etown,
e Swear. old boy was found sitting barelegged
and happy, on the rear platform Of q car, with
his little, fat legs dangling on He had
wolirnd from, HE hnrna 70 hfi6dlatnvp dia |