The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-12
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

Washington claims 10 nave the hauu-
soonest equipages drawn by the best horses
in the United States.
One thousand two hundred and sixty six
persons died from violence in New York
during the year ending June.
The different manufacturing establish
ments of Ohio produced S3iS, 1919, 40 last
year from capital of SOC, $780,
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse who
was hanged as witch in 1922, had re-
union in Danvers, Mass, recently.
A succession of unusually frequent and
heavy thunder storms in Paris has led
people to blame the Eiffel tower as tho
cause.
A century ago only 800 species of orchids
were known, and those very imperfectly.
Now the latest authority gives the extreme
number of known species rs 10000.
1t has been found that nickel plated
bullet will 60 through a man, where one
without will stop short and England will
hereafter nickel-p plate all her bullets,
Inspector Byrnes of New York says that
thirty five years of observation have salts
fed him that only about one person in 100
respects the rights of the general public.
Since the flood receded an island near
York, Pa. has become so dersely infested
with serpents that owners of timber
which has drifted there are afraid to 60
after it.
Two years ago q man near Lexington,
KY, had twenty four sheep bitten by dogs.
Since that he has poisoned and shot over
200 CANNES and is still engaged in the
slaughter.
Russia has fixed doctors charges. Ply
sicians making $50 pcr year will get
forty five cents per visit; others twenty
five cents. In country towns ten cents Is
the usual charge
Among the revolutionary relics exhibited
at Paris is the mask of Marat, nodded
after tho death of rAmi du Peuple, The
mask of Isobespierre which is shown Is
thought not to be authentic
A new species of bird has appeared In
the vicinity of York, Pa. 1t has white
cap red breast and long tail. It eats
voraciously of locusts, and even the heads OF
wheat and huckleberry stalks.
Col. F. d. Hit, OF Ottowl, ILL.,, possesses
some rare relics of the early French ex
plorers of the Mississippi valley. Among
them are the camp kettle of La Sale and
the Jesuit cross of Father Marquette.
The fashion of wearing false hair, which
was all the rage for number of years, was
started by a bald headed countess in Paris.
She had to hide her badness, and one silly
woman after another took it as ''the style"
until the craze swept the earth.
Matters at Samoa have settled down so
quietly that the "hurrahp' of man-of-
wars man ashore on liberty no longer sets
the drums to beating all over the harbor.
The natives have new watchword. 1t Is,
"Bully for the Yankees and u.s."
During short thunderstorm at Antrim,
Tioga Co., Pa. two or three days since,
lightning broke telephone wire, turned
one end back and welded it solidly, making
o loop. 1t is said the weld was as perfect
as any expert could have made it,
The city of Berlin is far ahead of Lon
don in telephonic progress, there being
10000 subscribers. The entire net of wires
in the German capital has reached length
of II, s04 kilometers, and the average num-
Der of calls amount to 196,69l daily.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that a Gin
cinnati saloonkeeper the other day paid 81
for sealed envelope containing directions
that would enable him to sell more beer.
When he opened it he found on small
card the words, Don't sell SO much
froth."
Emotional insanity is flying into a passion,
being annoyed over dunning letter, feeling
respondent over bad news, being put out at
a crying baby, or almost anything else you
can think of, and a jury who acquits a
murderer on that plea perfumes itself ten
times over.
The landlord of Texas hotel turned an
Ohio man out doors for complaining about
bugs, but the guest took the case into court
and got verdict of 500 damages How
ever, four times that sum wouldn't have
rid the hotel of the pests, and the landlord
got off cheap.
The Emperor Of China has presented his
bride with an immense tiara of gold, with
a very lofty cap of Siberian sable, embroid-
cred with rows of pearls ana the feathers
of the golden pheasant. Twenty skilled
workmen were employed for two months
in making the head dress.
Three men have been badly injured at
Martha's Vineyard this year by being
struck by the words of sword fish.
Nature gave the fellow his sword as
an offensive and defensive weapon, and if
he permits an old salt to bulldoze him
around it's his own fault.
No man can tell what he can do until he
lets himself out Louis Grenwald, young
man in Chicago, was arrested for stealing
an umbrella the other day, and he confessed
that he had stolen an average of 500 per
year for three years. On one occasion he
stole thirty in twenty-four hours.
If you have ever murdered tin peddler,
don't confess it on your dying bed. That is,
don't confess it until at least three doctors
agree that you can't live over day or two.
This confessing on the predictions of one
doctor has got several men into trouble Of
late. They confessed to get well and be
hung.
Public opinion in New York is beginning
to lean toward asphalt for the repaving of
the streets. There is no such traffic any
where in America, or anywhere else in
the world, as on Cheapside in London, and
there asphalt is exclusively used When
ever a little wear begins to show repairs
are at once made on the principle that "a
stitch in time saves nine.''
The editor of western weekly wrote up
an account of the death Of a good and prom
inent citizen, putting over it the one hon
ored heading: "a Good Man Gone"
After the issue was printed, but before it
was distributed, it was learned that the
dead man had been an embezzler So the
editor sat down and wrote the word
"wrongn after the word "gone" in the
headline in every paper of the issue.
A miller in Teschen, in Silesis, was
twenty one years ago sentenced to death for
wife murder. but by the Intervention of the
emperor his punishment was reduced to
twenty years Imprisonment On being re-
leased last year he married again, and q few
days ago repeated his crime. Being pur-
sued by gendarms he set his house on fire
and offered desperate resistance The
police had to use their firearms and the man
was killed.
From Warasdin. in Croatia, 1t is reported
that spinster named Cathrina Dominica,
aged So, has been led to the matrimonial
altar by a tramway conductor Of that dis
trict, thirty-seven years her junior To
make the case still more imposing the bride