The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-02-18
FACT AND FANCY.

The next Ohio legislature will have seven
editors as members.
Scotch potatoes are now being imported La
considerable quantities.
The duke of Connaugtt will assume CON-
mand In Ireland 10 April.
The president has 10, COO imported cigars to
consume before next fail
Queen KapIolani OF the Sandwich islands
will invest So, 900 In American real estate.
The Empress Eugene has recovered her
health and now talks about tour In the Holy
land.
The conductors Of the New York elevated
trains are called guards" by the Anglo
msniacs
The marriage fees of some New York clergy
men are said TO amount to more than their
salaries.
Fifty hogshesds Of saurkraut were received
from Germany by Germans in Philadelphia
last week.
During the last few years the growth Of the
towns on the Pacific coast has been very re-
markabIe.
Kaiser William wants to abdicate In favor
Of bic son, the coronation OF the latter to take
place in May.
NJ. Grevy saw twelve cabinets, with 100 min
listers, serve under him while he was presi-
dent Of France.
There was found In the stomach Of the de.
ceased Alice, the eminent elephant several
dollars In pennies.
South Carolina has only two legs In the
United States senate-Butler has one and
Hampton the other.
A new academy and technical school for
homeless and destitute boys is shortly to be es-
tablished in San Jose.
Henry Labouchere says that the prince OF
Wales is furious over the publicity of his re-
ception to John l.. Sullivan.
At the Wesleyan university, Middleton,
Conn.,, J. R. Henshaw, sophomore, has be-
come insane from overstudy.
A well within twelve miles Of Cincinnati is
producing 5000 600 cubic feet Of gas daily and
roars like thunder storm.
The mayor of Harrisburg Pa, makes the
tramps who take lodgings at the station
houses sweep the streets after midnight.
1t appears that Bismarck has an elder
brother, who has been under perfect Of Min
gard since lS4l, and is about to retire, aged
H.
"While the lamp holds out to burn. the
Vilest sinner may return" as Mrs. Browning
remarked as she left light burning for her
absent lord.
General Longstreet Is In sad straits, and has
just applied for state pension under the law
passed by the last Georgia legislature, making
provision for such cases.
December the king of Spain, aged IS
months, was taken to the senate house and
placed in his fathers throne, with all the Par
aphernalia, amid great enthusiasm.
Rhode Island is not a good state for the
newly nutralized. Under her registry laws
no one can vote at any election next year who
was not registered prior to January l.
Mexican banquet may consist Of thirty
two courses or Of nothing but hard boiled
eggs. 1t is a country where the customs are
classic and the eggs reasonably fresh.
A hastings (Mich.) merchant has caught
the wishbone craze and is trading 50-cent
handkerchiefs for tie wishbones of turkey
gobbers. They are way up on the New York
market.
The health officer of Pittsburg reports that
during 1886 the cases of typhoid fever in that
city aggregated lob. while from September
of this year until the present time there have
been 1900 cases.
An immense locomotive has just been con-
structed at Paris foundry Its builder pre-
diets that 1t will realize an approximate speed
Of ninety three miles an hour. A trial trip Is
to be made In the near future.
Of tho Comte de Paris, who is now at Sand
hurst, is to leave England for New York on q
tour round the world, which is to include vie
its to japan, China and India.
In an after dinner speech, not long ago, Mr..
Gladstone said; whenever youth DESTROYS
of studying political life cousults me respect.
Ing a course Of study in the field Of history, I
always refer him to the early history of Ameri-
ca"
A man In western town hanged himself to
bedpost by his suspenders. The coroner's
jury, which was composed of mothers, decld-
ed that the deceased came to his death by
coming home drunk and installing himself
for his pants.
1t Is said there is minister In Saginaw
City who practices what he breaches. He
walks between the two cities on Sunday
rather than pay 5 cents to encourage the
street railway companies in carrying on busL
ness on that day.
A vein Of coal sixteen feet thick has been
found at Whitewood, Oak, twelve feet below
the surface, and seventy feet beneath that
another vein more than three times as thick
has been discovered. The coal is S aid to be
as good as any IN the country.
Says the Virginia New Enterprise: Hal
leck Is the coolest place on the line of the
Central Pacific. 1t is terror to railroad men.
At that point o current Of air Genes down
from the north through a series Of valleys-a
sort of trough that extends up into the Arctic
regions.
In writing of his youth to an autograph col
lector Gen. Lew Wallace says: Il fear you
wouldn't have called me good boy, and /
hunted fished and ran wild generally until
was eighteen, and then became a student,
and that is the course l would lay down for
every lifc."
A mortgage dated 1S4n, which effects the
title Of onesixth of the real estate of Shamo-
kin, Pa, has been found. 1t is for $40, 600,
aud has never been paid. The sheriff of
Northumberland county notifies the proprie-
tors of the property affected that the property
will be sold December 3d.
About twenty OF the richest residents of
the City Of Mexico have been fined under the
law forbldding religious ceremonies and OBJ
servances in the streets, they having placed
small affairs with lighted candles on the bal
comics of their houses on the occasion Of the
feast Of Our Lady Of Guadalupe.
Frederick Villiers, the Unknown war cor.
respondent and artist of the London Graphic,
has entered the lecture field. lie went with
Archibald Forbes through the Franco Ger
man, Servlan and Russo Turkish wars and
has great fund OF interesting experiences,
which he relates with graphic eloquence.
In q Spanish paper printed at Matanzas,
Cuba, appears the fol owing advertisement:
Photographs Of the most beautiful woman
in the world, Sonora Frances Folsom de Cieve.
land, the lady of the White house, the idol Of
G0,0oO, 600 people, the wife Of the president OF
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