The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-11-02
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

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New Jerseys annual crop Of oysters Is
valued at 8, 100000
Rain has almost ruined tho Hudson River
Valley grape crop.
English capitalists are trying TO buy
breweries in Germany.
Sisours in . days work.
St Louis is to have an elevated railroad
II miles long to cost s7,Ooo,0OO.
OF. New York city's 100000 people, l.
100, 600 live In tenement houses.
New York school book publishers deny
that they have formed u trust"
Rochester, N. Y, fines milk dealers s3l
, or 25 days in prison for adulteration.
Tho Angelus" picture has finally been
sold to an American society for $4,000.
The Sunday closing movement in Balti.
more is causing considerable excitement
An ice trust, to control tho manufacture
and sale Of artificial ice in the south has
been formed.
Cattlemen report that the Texas fever is
playing havoc among the cattle in the In
dian territory.
Earnest efforts are again being made in
the New York wholesale drug trade tc
organize drug exchange.
monument costing s,OoOoO, erected to
the Pilgrim Fathers, was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass, last week.
Tho new postal cards arc to be nude in
three sizes, one smaller, one larger and one
the same size as the present one.
The ranks of the Knights of Labor arc
to be swelled by the 5000 tailors and cloth
ing cutters Of tho United States,
Americas not given to iewelry, gauds or
trappings, but those familiar with the bust
ness say that she has seal ring.
Natural gas has been struck in Buffalo.
N. Y. Experts believe there Is sufficient gas
underlying the city to supply its wants.
In New York city so, 900 persons walk tho
streets at night for want of home, and as
many more are not sure OF their breakfast
A Nebraska justice has discharged man
accused of stealing an umbrella on rainy
day, on the ground that he acted in self
defense.
The train robber does not always worl,
single handed when he uncouples, nor does
he always Ego broke" when he puts down
the brakes.
Emma Abbott has ordered n, 900 gown
In Paris. This may not affect the quality
OF her low notes, but it will make her moro
high toned.
A man named Gabriel, living at Mon
terey, Cal, claims to be $50 years old. The
Gabriel family has weakness for blowing
its own horn.
The newspapers of the United States owe
an apology to A. Bentley Worthington.
Many Of them have credited him with less
wives than he has.
Queen Victoria has been appointed to the
command OF the First Dragon Guards Of
Berlin. The troops will be at once instructed
In tho broom drill.
Tho product of pig iron in Alabama for
the first six months Of this year was $685.
946 tons, against l9j,695 tons for the same
period Of last year.
The Judge of probate Of Candor, d. T.,
has disappeared with a large amount Of the
peoples cash. Candor will cop1pel him to
return, if he is found.
The forest fires which have been raging
in Montana have destroyed timber and 9TH
er property to the amount OF several hun.
dred thousand dollars
Massachusetts factory laws are being ca
forced. Children arc not allowed to cloan
the machines, and girls must tic up their
hair to avoid being scalped.
An Ohio man is accused Of having traded
his wife for thrashing machine and
windmill With these he will certainly
not feel like grass widower.
Two mines of mercury, covering fifty
acres, have been discovered in Cuba. A
hot weather trust will probably now be
formed to cause the mercury to rise.
The latest Tascott is under arrest at La
redo, Tex. A Chicago man, just returned
from Paris, says tina. he saw Tascott and
Charlie Ross on the Eiffel tower, together.
It is stated that there are nearly l
varieties Of mosquitoes in the United
States. No matter with which of these
ones preserves are stocked, he is willing
to trade.
A man in Chicago threatens suicide il that
city does not prove to be larger than
Brooklyn. His felIow-citizens do not care
what he does, IL he will only live long enough
to be counted.
An Arkansas hermit with q criminal
record is guarded by six dogs and six
goats Any man OF experience would pre-
fer to meet all six Of the dogs rather than
one of the goats.
The number Of cigarettes manufactured
last year was 2, $50 600 600, nearly 800, 600 600
more than during the previous year. Re
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awaited with interest.
The undertakers fear that they cannot
live if the Brown -Sequard experiment be-
comes demonstrated success. In that
case let them take the Brown-Sequard
treatment and they cannot die.
Great Britain is negotiating CONNER
cial treaty with japan, by which the whole
interior Of Japan is to be opened to British
trade, and Great Britain will surrender the
present judicial privileges Of her subjects
in Japan.
The brightest of English magazines have
but small calculations compared with those
of America. The New Review, into which
Archibald Graves is putting so much ener-
gy. starts of with only twenty-five thou
sand copies.
1t is stated that the fossilized hand of
gigantic man recently found at Kearney,
Neb., being broken open, was found to con-
tain number Of diamonds Perhaps he
held too many for the others in the game,
and hence is fossil.
The University Of Oxford commands
facilities for printing in $50 languages.
just how many languages the editor COM
mands when speaking Of the proof-reader
Is not stated. Fifteen thousand would be
about the comparative figure.
The ice cream terror is reported to have
given place to new and even more formid-
able obstacle to the happiness Of young men
at the summer resorts 1t is all the style
now for young gallants to buy little balloons
TO match their young ladies' dresses.
One Of the best tributes to the regard in
which women are held is found in the fact
that men, the world over, revolt at the
thought Of hanging one of that sex, even
though she may have committed murder.
This feeling is SO strong inEngland that
Mrs. Maybrick may escape the full penalty
Of the law.