The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-12
FACT AND FANCY.

The Princess of Wales is compelled to uss
an ear trumpet
/ Mrs. Cleveland was presented with fawr
when she reached St. Augustine.
/ The Israel Putnam monument at Brooklyn.
Coun., is to be dedicated June IA.
| A Washington attorney says the quaintesi
patent ever issued was for tspeworm trap
The total number of patents of an electrical
nature issued in this country during 1887 wal
1,24a
A Connecticut man who has traded horses
| 2120 times now has an animal worth $50 foI
his cuteness.
An Albany girl has had the skin of her de-
ceased pug dog tanned and uses it as q rug
] to stand on when she is out on the ice
Fifty thousand glasses of beer are said to
have been drank during the recent municipal
festivities at the Paris Hotel de Vile.
There are in the Sunday schools of the
| Christian world Is Al, $40 scholars and l..
$50. 167 teachers, making q grand total OF
Is, 100000.
An eminent firm Of soap-makers offered to
supply the British census gratis IL they should
| be allowed to print their advertisements on
the back. Not accepted.
During the past ten years no less than six
species of North American birds have become
extinct and it is claimed that the English
sparrow has been the main cause OF their dis
appearance.
The largest block of granite ever quarried
d., cd Loft al Of AMI
Me. 1t is seventy feet long, thirty-flve feet
wide. and twenty feet thick, and weighs
about 4 900 tons
1t is said that fully one-half OF the people Of
Maine are non-church-goers, and one-third OF
the churches In the state are closed because Of
lack of support. Out of 1852 churches in the
state All are vacant
The deepest well drilled in the United
States is that of George Westinghouse, at
Homewood, near Pittsburgh, which reached
a depth of 1913 feet when tine tools were lost
and the drilling ceased.
Lord Rothschild lost $4,000 worth Of
pictures the other day by fire in furniture
van. One of the paintings was worth $50
QUO. The Baron was moving works of art from
his subur ban villa to his town house.
Mrs. Cleveland has q most delicate appre-
citation of ''the fitness of things" as the ex-
preston goes. When asked by druggist at
Jacksonville, Fla, what fayoring she would
have In her soda water, she said: "Orange,
please"
A number of New York ladies have SUBJ
scribed a fund of S. 600. whose interest shall
be used to pay the college expenses Of the
New York woman who each year shall pass
the beat examination for entrances to
Harvard.
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes maiden name
was Amelia Lee Jackson, and at the time of
her death she was in her xty-ninth year. She
was a small woman, dainty and precise and
always, even as q girl was called ''old-fash-
ioned." She was not at all literary.
Reuben DALEY, editor of the Jacksonville
Qnd.) New<, heretofore noted infidel of that
region, has united with the Presbyterian
church. Mr.. Daley was SO radical in his
views that he would not permit the name of
God to be capitalized in his paper.
The three Ewing brothers of Luxembourg
Ind, were born at the same time fifty-four
years ago. They are said to be the oldest,
largest and best-looking triplets In the United
States. Abel weighs 225 pounds, Joshua 243
and Putnam PAS; total, 7l6 pounds.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, recently sent
an emssary to Asia to purchase Arabian
horses. The emissary has just written home
from Jerusalem that his mission is q failure,
as the Sultan has recently issued firmau
prohibiting further expectations of Arabian
horses.
1t is reported that the Prince of Wales, on
the occasion of his silver wedding banquet
will announce the betrothal of Prince Albert
Victor to his cousin, Princess Alexandra, Of
Greece, and the betrothal of the Princess
Victoria to the Duke of Sparta, the Crown
Prince of Greece.
Prince Barclay, of Russia, who was dis
missed from the army of his country by the
Gar for allowing his child to be chrstened In
the Lutheran faith, has now been notified
that the infant will be taken from him by the
government unless he consents to have his
child re christened in the Greek rite.
The baby son of an officer at Perleberg,
Prussia, was put to bed by his nurse, who gave
him his whip to play with until she returned.
During her absence the child tried to hit the
kerosene lamp with his whip, and succeeded
In knocking it down and breaking it. The
bed clothes were ablaze In moment. and be-
fore the nurse answered bis cries the poor boy
was burned SO dreadfully that he died in
few hours.
A pair Of tiny buskins was privately exhib-
tied BY New York shoemaker the other day.
They were lined with white goats fur and fin
ished with while satin on the outside. They
buttoned with real gold buttons, and there
was cord and tassels twisted Of gold thread
somewhere about the top. They were for the
only baby that only wears such things, the
pride and hope of the Gould family, Edith
Kingdoms little boy
Princess de Metternich is one of the ugliest
women imaginable. She said of herself
when in Paris: Il am the best dressed mon
key in the city," and she really had the cour-
age to found the "Club of Ugly Women"
4 club In which there was only five members.
A correspondent describing her. says: The
uncovered to the last degree, were
with scars of every size and
shape the mouth was like that of an African,
but the grace and elegance could not be de-
Med.
The intercourse between South Germany
Ind Alsace during the tims of the occupation |
If the latter by the French, that is from 1870 |
i'll 1870, was so limited that three bridges |
we're enough to accommodate It. Since 1870,
when Alsace was reunited with Germany, the |
imperial government has built three solid and |
light pontoon bridges, and established four
more ferries. But the intercourse between
he right and left banks Of the Rhine is In
ressing at so rapid a rate that the means of
are even now already deemed
insufficient and the building Of new bridges
s considered necessary.
At the brewery Of q small place In Saxony
n apprentice boy had the other day fallen in
o caldron of boiling fluid and was scalded
o death The news spread that the fluid had
lot been thrown away, but was finished in the
Usual way and regularly drawn off In barrels
nd bottles. Thereupon the Inhabitants were
realty alarmed, and a boycott was laid upon
he brewery's drink. The brewer then pub
shed q declaration that not q drop of the
uid in which the boy had been boiled was
old to the public, but that in consideration
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