The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-01

The conviction has become wild,
spread tina: Ignatius Donnelly has no
saved his Bacon.
IT has been discovered that q flc,
uses only one eye at time. anil tina
he dies the hardest of any insect in ma
ture.
A BASEBALL player prides himself OF
stealing bases, but the Providenc,
Pitcher who stole 800. 900 from th,
Union Bank receives no applause.
ACHICAGo grain Spectator who ma,
made fortune in cereals says he never
saw a field of barley in his life. but ha.
an idea that the stuff grows on shrubs
PHILIP WHITE, a Heidelberg student
who married poor girl in Germany
ten years ago against his fathers will
and came to America disinherited. is
now blacksmith in New York city.
An attorney has just found him and
notified him that he is heir to one-sixth
Of 5000, 900, the fortune of deceased
uncle In Bavaria.
LIEUT.. Col. JOHN j. CoPprNGER, of
the Eighteenth United States Infantry,
has been detailed as superin tcndent of
the general recruiting service. with
headquarters in New York city. for
two years beginning October 1 next.
He is son-in-law of Hon. James G.
Blaine and is at present static ned at
Fort Gibson, Indian territory.
TArTERsALL's. the great English
horse market. was founded by Richa I'd
Tattersall in 1866. The present he ad
OF the firm is Edmund F. Tattersall. q
fine specimen of an English gentleman,
and justly esteemed and respected by
all who know him. He is 65 years old,
hale and hearty man. His son. Son.
er set brings to the auctioneer's desk
an education obtained at Eton and Ok.
ford.
THERE are number of warm sui
phur springs in Elsinore. Cal. and a
citizen OF that town Is utilizing them
for incubating purposes. He puts a
tin pail full of eggs in a spring whose
temperature is 102 degrees, and in
three weeks the chicks come out As
the temperature of the spring does not
vary, the eggs require no attention.
This beats the patent incubators all
hollow.
In the National Library at Paris
there is Spanish globe $50 years old,
on which the Congo follows in re-
markable manner the course now Civ.
en- to that river on the maps. All the
best maps in the sixteenth centu ry
showed the Congo as rising in lake
far inland, while in this century we
first tried to identify the Congo with
the Niger. and then for many years
made it flow north.
New York newspapers are call.
itention to the filth, disease. and
adation In New York's overcrowd-
ed Italian quarter. and pointing out
that these immigrants are the victims
Of spectators, who receive commits
sion Of $3 head. Italians are now
arriving at the rate OF $4,000 a year.
In May, 1878 males landed. In q
week five out of six deaths in the city
wero those of Italians.
Mr.. JIM BLEvINs, living near
White Rock, Tex, killed very large
chicken snake few days ago, and
noticing the snakes body was unusually
large and ill-shaped. made an incision,
and found 1t to contain a large COW
horn and in the COW horn prairie rat
1t is supposed that the snake chased
the rat into the horn. and to secure the
rat swallowed the horn.
COL DOM PIATT, who is equally
noted as judge, soldier journalist and
author. has lived during the past six
or seven years at his magnificent
country place in the Mac-o- Cheek VAL
ley, in Ohio. His house there, which
was built at cost OF SIS. 900. is de-
scribed as being as handsome as q
baronial castle. and is surrounded by
gardens. The place is we'll |
stocked with high-bred cattle and fine |
horses.
ONE OF the most interesting OF the
elderly matrons of the national capital
Is the wife of Justice Miller. Her ex.
periencc in the higher social sphere of
The seat of government extends over
greater lapse of years than that of any
other lady, save two. now in public
life at Washington. She went there
rs years ago. when her husband. from
the bar of Keokuk. Iowa, was raised
BY President Lincoln to the bench of
The Supreme court
The explorer of the Favum, Mr..
Petre, has discovered "a splendid frag-
nent of the Second Book of the Iliad,
written on papyrus in the finest Greek
hand. before the rounded uncial or
,ursive scripts came into use. This
precious document was found rolled
Up under the head of a mummy which
vas buried simply in the sand. with
tut the protection of tomb. 1t
measures apparently from tire e-and-
I-half to four feet in length. The date
# the manuscript Is about the second
II third century. 1t will be edited by
'rof Sayce."
AMONG the visitors in Chicago at
resent is Col. j. NJ. Norton, of Texas.
lie is about 20 years of age, and his
White hair falls in curls half way down
lis back. His white beard reaches be-
ow his waist In 1874 Henry Clay
vas q candidate for President and
,olonel Norton registered a VOW that
g would not cut his hair or shave his