The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-26
sAcr AND FANCY.

others have received notice that bv the death
OF a relative IN England they have fallen heirs
to 81, 500, 900. Mrs Silar's husband is flag
man on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The largest cotton mill in the world Is said
to be located In Kranholm, In Russia. The es-
Enlistment contains 800 spindles and 9,
200 looms, disposes Of force of G. 500 horse
power, and gives employment to 1000 hands.
The famous Bo tree under which Bud dha
sat and meditatcd until he became ''enlight-
ened and overcame the last temptation" is
said to be falling to pieces. It is believed to
be the oldest tree In the world, being credited
with 9, 800 years.
Jordan Little Wadesboro. N. c., negro,
trapped rabbit the other day, and in his de-
light held the frightened animal up to his face
saying: "Oh, Bre'r Rabbit kiss Bre'r Jor-
dam" Bre'r Rabbit thereupon grabbed Bre'r
Jordan by his ample lower lip and hung on
until another negro choked the rabbit to
death. Little's lip was badly lacerated.
Railroad men In California estimate that up
to Jan. $1,000 California excursion tickets
were sold in 1887, representing s., 00o, 900 prof
II to the transcontinentai railroads alone. This
does not include the frst-class and second
class, or emigrant single trip tickets that
have been largely sold, which are estimated rs
increasing the number of tickets to Sl00, 900
for the year.
The presents given to Pope Leo in honor of
bis jubilee already amount In value to 900Oo,-
Gn0 francs, and still continue to pour In on
him. The Pope intends to endow a museum
and send aid to poor churches and chapels
throughout the world. The Convent Of the
Grande Chartreuse stands at the head of the
list 90 far as jubilee contributions 60. having
forwarded to the Pope gifts amounting to
100000 francs
A vegetable new to American markets has
been introduced in New York. Il IL something
like one hundred years since sea MALE came
to be used as food in England, aANough y
was eaten by the ancient Romans. IN THIS
country 1t has scarcely been known until now
The vegetable 10 q delicious one OF the cab.
bage family and grows wild on the sea coasts
Of Europe, and In some manner Is said lately
to have made Its appearance along our Amer.
lean coast
Central Europe has still some immense
tracts Of uncleared forest lands. In some
Austrian provinces, such as Croatia and Sla-
vonia, the proportion OF woodland Is so great
to the population that II 1t were divided
among the Inhabitants nearly two acres would
fall to the lot Of each person. In the three
principal wood producing districts there are
nearly 1000 600 acres Of forests, the yearly in
crease of which Is valued at more than s., 50O,-
600. The export Of wood Is a large item in
Austrian trade.
New Bedford Is interested over tho prospect
Of new industry. It is discovered that ex-
tract OF whale is quite as good as beef extract,
and much more ecomicaL A whale, weighing
two hundred tons, yields five thousand pounds
of extract and one pound OF extract makes
one hundred pints OF SOUP Thus, one whale
win furnish five hundred thousand people with
dinners; and one hundred whales will give
oil the people In the United States old enough
to eat soup one comfortable meal apiece; and
five thousand two hundred whales would give
us a whale dinner once o week. There's
millions In II.
The people along the shore of the Hudson,
near Newburg, have been catching some
queer fish lately, which, for want of a better
name they call ''litt.e devils" They are about
eighteen inches In length and have
four legs with four toes. ahead like
q frog, a fiat tail like an eel
mouth that beggars description, and can
swim equally well on the back or stomach.
Three fms are found on either side, which are
fringed with hair. In some respects they re-
semble lizards, but the fishermen declare
they have never seen any creatures like them
until this winter.
Among the curlosties recently acquired by
a San Francisco museum are a number OF |
mummies, found Undecided In a stratum OF
lime In Mexico, just south Of the Arizona line.
Judging from their position they must have |
died In terrible agony. One of the bodies Is |
that Of woman, and her ears are ornament
ed with tubes stuck through them. They are |
covered with q coarse netting composed Of |
grace end tsaSszssss ss s-ecs. They are euppos-
I'd to have lain in the drFe6>Sp eeht,e. |
800 years, apd 1t 10 not known TO what race
hey bsioneAd The perfect + ,rm Of q rat ap-
pears, which shared their h,,drialYacc. d
Saba, the town at w{aiaNe been dis
covered tho sarcoph agus SUI ID to contain
the remains of Alexander the Great, who died
n 324 B. c., from a fever con trscted while
the marshes around Babylon, and
70 which he was more susceptible because he
,ad just got over protracted drunk, is about
miles from Beyrout In Syria,
md Is the ancient Sdon or Zidon. In 1850
.old coins Of the time of Alexander, valued
It $40, 900, were unearthed there, and 1t was
While all the head Of the French exploring ex
,edition there in 1869 that NJ. Rcnan picked
Up good many of the points which he used
n his famous Life OF Christ"
Salutations in Japan are something remarka
lie, and are thus described BY correspondent
4 the San Francisco Chronicle: The men OF
apan are always, excessively polite TO one an
ther. They bend their backs and bow their
eads and put their two hands back 10 back
etween their knees and have great time
Tut the most amusing thing is to see two old
aides in japan meeting one another on the
treet They catch sight Of one another three
r four blocks apart. The, immed lately begin
D make obelsance at one another. and they
eep bending and bowling at short intervals
ntil they come together, when they make a
ocular hiss by drawing in the breath, and
eep on saying "Ohavo" for about two min
ties.
A scientist has the following good word for
he earth-worm: HE needs for his support
My the poorest food. He eats the earth In
RIDER to assimilate little OF the soil that it
ontains. He harms no roots, and only uses
title Of the material in which he dies. This
,defatigable and silent laborer brings the
arth to the surface from below. and the pits
nd galleries which he makes allow heat and
,oisture and all the atmospheric agents to
enetrate the earth, thus rendering it lighter
nd consequently more favorable for the
rowth Of the roots Of the trees aud shrubs
s he enters these galleries he draws in with
i'm leaves and MOSES, and the very important
ssult Of his burying them is to hasten their
into mold. The earth-worm
rains, cultvates and enriches the soil, 90 one
rust not destroy him."
William Knox, of Santa Monica, Cal, who
as become rich through the boom out there,
ANTS wife, and sensibly goes to the news.
apers to help him In letterSto the San
francisco Examiner be says that at night he
wouldn't feel SO lonesome, If he had some
God woman to ''kind of cherk him up"
tile. 1.-THE boom has made me rich,n he
rites stbut aa far "a woman "a roncarpad n