The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-07-07


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CALDWELL. I'D MIC
Gov. WATERMAN. Of California, wi
not permit paid attorneys to apes
before him in the interests of thos
seeking pardon.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT incom
from his capital is said to be In tn
noighborlood of $1,000, 900 a montI
while that of William X. is not ia
behind it.
SAM SMALL has accepted the editor
ship of the Southern Star, q prohibitio
weekly published in Atlanta by Charlie
ID. Barker. The Star is to DO the orga
OF tho third party movement.
THE Great Northern Railway Con
pany of England insists that its engir
ecrs snail take at least nine hours res
between one days labor and another q
a prccaution against accident
The city of east st. Louis is trouble
over the affirmation by the suprem
court of an order to compel the lev
and collection of tax to provide TO
the payment Of bonds issued by tn
city. which. with interest and costs
amount to 81. 000 900.
The National Association of Retail
Lumbermen met at Davenport Iowa
and elected officers as follows: Presi
dent. j. P. Smith. of Fowler, Ind.
vice president. j. N. Cunningham. O
Norborne, Mo-; secretary and treas
urer. w. c. Wright. of Chicago.
WILLIAM H. BEARD, the ANNA
painter, Is as full of originality, humor
quaintness. fancy and pomp as he wa.
when he went to New York from the
west twenty years ago. The visitor a
his quarters in the Tenth street studio
building is sure to see some striking
novelty on his easel or his walls.
NUMEROUS conger eels, killed by the
frost have been washed up on the
southern coast of England. Some o.
them weighed seventy pounds. being
seven feet long and twenty four inche.
in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sea-ser,
penis, in fact. No similar occurrence
has been known since the Crimear
war.
AN immense iron pipe is being laid
connecting the oil fields of Pennsyl-
vania with the city of Chicago. The
pipe will be eight inches in diameter
and 210 miles long. and will require
sixty-four barrels of oil to fill it The
largest pump ever made has just been
completed to force the oil through the
pipe.
The specific heat of snow Or ice is
nearly that of water. hence it requires
about tho same amount of heat to
raise the temperature one degree. The
latent heat of fusion is 140. that is, it
requires 140 pounds of water less
the one degree in temperature, to
change one pound of snow or ice at
32o F. to water of the same temper
ature. One pound of water at 172 , F.
added to one pound of snow at $50
would barely melt it. producing tota
mass of water at 500, or just ready
to freeze.
REPRESENTATIVES ALLEN. of Massa-
chusetts, is devoting a good deal of his
time In Washington to amateur photo
graphy. Recently poor widow in
Lowell wrote to him saying that her
husband. a private in a Massachusetts
regiment, lay buried somewhere in the
National Cemetry on Arlington Hill.
She had long wished to soc his grave,
but has always been Too poor to make
the journey to the capital. Mr.. Allen
thereupon seized his camera. found the
grave, and made a clever photograph
of the spot.
NITRo-GLYCERINE freezes at a tenn
peraturo considerably above the freq
ing point of water, and many accidents
have happened from the ridiculous
methods employed for thawing it. A
German heated q poker red-hot and
started of to thaw parcel of nitro
glycerine. Not only the surrounding
objects, but the operator were pulver-
lied. A man in New Jersey brought
some blasting cartridges to thaw them
out BY the fire. He accomplished this
result by holding them on the flame for
a considerable period. and is supposed
to have dropped one during the pro-
cess for his remains were found in O
fragmentary condition sixty feet away.
SKELETONS of two Akkas. the pigmy
people discovered by Schweinfurth in
1890. have been acquired by the Brit
ish Museum. and show that this race is
undoubtedly the most diminutive
known. The stature of the male skel-
eton is about an inch below four feet
and that Of the female about as much
above. The few previous measure.
ments recorded indicate that these
heights are rather below the average,
though living adult female of three
feet ten INCHES is known. Prof. Flow
or finds that the Akkas belong to the
black or Negroid branch of the human
species, and that they are not allied to
The Bushmen or Andaman Islanders,
which tribes they most resemble in
size.
Mosr people are aware that a piece
Of ice roughly hewn into the shape of
3 double convex lens will, if placed in
tho direct sunshine, concentrate the
rays of the sun to such an extent as to
gnite an object placed certain dis
sance behind it but the fact Is not
knoup thot IL Ia ohlo IN pro.