The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-06-16

serial publication 10 Hdrper'S Magazine.
Miss Grace Arlie, q white girl, of Toledo,
had typhoid fever and when she recovered
her skin was as black as that of a negro.
st. John, the Prohibitionist, has purchased
a tract of land near Chico, Cal, with the in
tention of making 1t his permanent home.
The first slave labor within the present
limits of the United States was that en-
ployed at the founding of st. Augustine In
1855
At the Queens first drawing-room this
year "more high bodices were worn by special
permission than had ever been observed be-
lore"
A mushroom was recently cooked at
Santa Barbara, Cal, that measured eight
inches In diameter. It was said to be deli
cious.
The total value of glass products imported
into the United States In 1887 was 81, $50,
Isl, against $6,757, los worth imported in
1885.
The choirs of the Church OF England In
clude 154, 600 voluntary and $4,000 paid male
singers and 1000 voluntary and 2, 100 female
singers.
The swords in the possession of Mrs.
Shields, belonging to her late husband, Gen.
James Shields, are to be purchased by Con-
gress for $4,000.
Mr.. Carlisle is now in his third term as
Speaker, and when he has completed it
Kentucky will have had the Speakership
twenty three years.
The average time of 5000 New York bust
ness men at their downtown luncheon is
eight minutes. This is matter of record in q
leading restaurant
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts,, is past
seventy, and his health is breaking down. He
has spent more than thirty years in the two
Houses of Congress.
A San Francisco suicide left note request
ing that his body be not put on ice, ''for,"
said he, II am always cold and would like
once to get warm"
By the will of Prof. Asa Gray, of Cambridge,
all his copyrights of books, his portraits of
botanical subjects are presented to the Her
barium of Harvard College
Mrs. John w. Mackay's gift to the Prince
and Princess of Wales. on the occasion of their
silver wedding, is a toilet mirror heavily
mounted and embossed in silver.
Louisa, the mother of the dead Kaiser,
wrote in 1908: ''Our son William will turn
out If I am not much mistaken, like his
tather simple honest and intelligent"
Henry Wick, who recently took charge of
The plant OF the Warren Rolling Mill Com
pany, at Warren, O., will expend about $30,-
700 In putting the works in shape to run.
Henry Clay is the only man who sat more
han eight years in the Speakers chair. He
presided over the House for twelve years. and
&C was elected Speaker at the age of thirty
four
A check for 50. 100000, drawn on national
bank in Sheffield Ala, recently passed be-
Iwecn two merchants Of that place. 1t was
probably the largest check ever drawn in the
State.
A notable event in the history of the Uni
versty Of Michigan lis the election of DR..
Hattie Allen, of Waterloo, Ia, to fill the po-
sition Of Assistant Professor of Medicine in
that institution.
Oliver Lays portrait of Edwin Booth upon
which he has been long engaged, is now on
exhibition at Richards Gallery, in New York
1t shows the actor as "Hamlet' seated in the
soliloquy scene.
New York retail merchants find the dogs,
which are led by chains by fashionable wo-
men, such nuisance In their stores that many
have put upa gilt sign reading: Dogs are
not admitted here unless in arms"
A large sawflsh, fourteen feet in length, was
caught in the bay at the mouth of the N.Y.
alkka River, Florida, last week. DR.. King,
Of Boston, made the unusual catch while FISH
ing for tarpon with a hook and line.
Rev. Mr.. Chenoweth, Of Montpelier, Ind,
who has been suffering from a serious gastric
Affection, attributes his illness to a silver
quarter which he swallowed six years ago and
which he believes is still lodged in his
stomach.
John Farrell had courted an Illinois wo-
man IS years When he finally decided
that the time had come for them to part she
dung a swill pail after him and broke his hip,
and the jury who tried the case returned a
verdict Of mot guilty" without leaving their
seats
George Webster, the historiographer ceIe-
brated his eightieth birthday few days ago
at Heidelberg, Germany. He is probably the
most popular Of all the German historians, his
compendium Of the history of the world form
Ing part Of the library of nearly every edu-
Gated German.
A recently imported French artist consents
to prepare the dinners of the Vanderbilt
family in New York for money consideration
Of $40, 900 per year and the distinction of be-
ing known-not as 'the cook" but as "the
81 ~ o,,l u,
him the salary and the title claimed.
Albert Frazer, a convict in the Michigan
peni;cntiary, escaped and a reward was
offered for his capture. He communicated
with his wife, who was having hard struggle
with poverty, and induced her to deliver him
up and get the reward. So she did, and
Frazer is happier than he has been for years.
Miss Mary Hankey was the first woman to
graduate from Columbus college, taking her
legrce Of Bachelor of Arts last summer. At
Columbia she took Latin, Greek, Anglo.
Saxon, French, German, italian and Spanish,
aud yet withal was a practicle honsekeeper,
good musician and clever draughts-
woman.
A neat and handy receptacle for the soiled
clothes can be made Of a small sized barrel
that has been well cleaned, and from which
all nail ends have been removed. This should
De covered with figured calico, plated from
TOP 10 bottom, and with small ruffle around
The top. The lid may be covered smoothly
with the same, and have small knob screwed
n for a handle.
The following are the ages of the principal
Jules of the world William III. of the
Netherlands, IL; Christian TX. of Denmark,
70; Victoria of England, SO; Peter II of
Brazil SO; Nesser ed Deem of Persia, go;
francis Joseph of Austria, So; Oscar Ii. of
sweden, So; Carnot. President of France, 40;
Alex tnder III. of Russia, A; Humbert of
Italy, A.; Mutsqhito Of Japan, 81; Kuang su
AZ China II