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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Oyerstocked with Mediocres.

When any profe ssion or calling is
over-stocked it means, generally,
that there's too large an amount of
mediocrity in such profession or
calling. Or, in other words, there
are too many who can do the same
thing equally we'll There is always
a place for the better worker, the man
or woman whose individuality and
originality can strike out in some
new path and make an Improvement
on the old method, providing such
worker has force enough to keep on
pushing his or her talent to the front
and not use that same force up in
dwelling on discouragements.-
Prentice milford in N ew York Star. {
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Mr.. Vanderbilt's FlagstOnes.

There are now being shipped at
Oxford station, on the Ontario and
Western Railroad, a lot of the big
gest fiagstones ever quarried in the
United States. They come from the
Clark quarry, about a mile from the
station, and are intended to form
the sidewalk in front ofMr. Frederick
Vanderbilt's new house on Fifth
Avenue, New York. There are twenty
stones altogether, and each is twenty
feet long, ten to fifteen feet in width,
and about twelve inches thick. The
largest stones now lying in New
York sidewalk are the enormous
slabs in front of the Equitable Build
ing, but the Vanderbilt flags are
considerably bigger and heavier than
those. As they are now being ship
ped thy are in the. rough, and are
consigned to Hastings on-the-H ud-
son, where they will be dressed and
finished. The fat cars on which the
stones are transported were spec
tally built of a strength to bear the
great weight, and special machinery
ID required for loading and unload.
ing the Gags. 10 10 estimated that
Che stones whaf, laid down 10 the
Walk Ia New York Will have cost
s3ince apissei-aN, Z. Times
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Pleasures of Being Chewed by Wild
Beasts.

In recent letter to Junius Henri
Brown author ola paper of "The Fear
of DEATH" Sir Lyon Playfair writes:
81 have known three friends who
were partially devoured by wild
beasts under apparently hopeless
circumstances of escape. The first
was Livingstone, the great African
traveller, who was knocked on his
back by alton, which began to MUNICH
his arm. He assured me he felt no
fear or pain, and that his only feel
ing was, ,one of intense curiosity
as to which part of his body the lion
would take next. The next was
Rusten Pasha, now Turkish am
bassador in London. A bear at
tackled him and tore off his hand and
a part of his arm and shoulder. He
also assured me that he felt excessive
ly angry because the bear grunted
with so much dissatisfaction in MUNICH
ing him. The third case is that ofSir
Edward Bradford, an Indian officer
now occupying a high position in the
Indian office. He was seized ina sol
itary place bya tiger, which held him
firmly between his shoulders with one
paw, and then deliberately devoured
the whole arm, beginning ut the end
and esding at the shoulder. He was
beHitivr thnt he had nc sensation Of
bs,le;amd thinks tbas he isit heps
/, lftfrlnH ths itaussshlhg nfhte RFfssi"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
HO W Hunter Killed a Deadly Reptile
While Facing a Furious Tiger.

The beaters had been at work half
an hour, says the Times of India
when we heard a cry announcing
that the man-eater was making his
way toward the plain, hustled some
what by the volleys of stones, but
sharpening his claws and growing
defiance. In taking up our positions
it so happened that Lieut.. Earring
ton was on my right, in line with the
mouth of the gully and not more
than twenty feet from my elbow. He
had double barreled rife of heavy
caliber, while had a repeater In
three or four minutes after the cry of
warning the tiger appeared in the
mouth of the gully, head on to Far
rington, and looking him straight in
the face. :
"Hold on! He's my meatl" shouted
the officer, as he brought his gun up,
and it became point of honor with
the rest of us to hold our fire. He
took cool and careful aim, but the
bullet simply touched the skin be-
tween the tigers ears. He dropped
like a stone, but was up in an in
slant, and with a roar to shake any
mans nerves he sprang forward at
the lieutenant. In the tenth of a
second l turned my eyes from the
beast to the officer, and what was
my horror to see serpent twining
itself about his legs and rearing its
head to a level with his shoulder. l
forgot all about the oncoming tiger,
and for the first time in my life my
blood seemed to ice. harrington
stood with his left foot ahead and his
right foot braced, and as the tiger
touched the ground for his last
spring the rife spoke again, and the
beast rolled over with a ball through
his brain. Then, while we all kept
our places like SO many blocks OF
stone, he dropped his rife, seized the
snake just below the head with his
right hand, and came walking to-
ward us. The serpent writhed and
twisted about in his rage, and as it
uncoiled itself from the mans leg he
flung it thirty feet away. 1t was
rushing back at him, when one of the
party with shotgun at his shoulder
blew it's head off.
"Good shot," remarked Earring
ton, as he walked back and picked
up his rife.
We ran after him and shook his
hand and showered unstinted praise
on him for his nerve, but he would
not be a hero. 1t was the presence
of the serpent. which was of a highly
poisonous species, which had dis
turbed his first aim. He felt it under
his foot. and realized that it's bite
meant death, but maddened tiger
was before him, and he did not give
the snake a.second thought.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
A Tale OF An CHI

Charles Whynpsr, the well-known
engraver and animal painter OF Lon
don, told Pittsburg Dispatch man
the following story few. years ago:
81 dined at Alderman So-and SOS
last night, and as mark of honor
his eldest daughter was assigned to
me to take down to dinner. She's q
bright girl, but the way she drops her
his is enough to make a mans hair
turn gray. But / got along very
nicely with her, and Lady Blethering.
ton on the other side, until the ladies
were on the eve of retiring to the
drawing room. "The Alderman had
but recently moved out to Highgate;
and was talking about the beauti-
full scenery near the house, the views
to be had from the windows, the fine
air, and SO on, when Miss---sud-
denly said, 4 think l get prettier every
day, don't your"
"What didshe mean? I didn't dare
to answer her, SO / said, j beg your
pardon-what did you say?"
" Isaid l think | get prettier every
day
"There was no mistake in her words,
so said, Yes, ] think SO too, and no
wonder in such fresh air and
"But just then she caught her
mothers eye, and with the other
ladies she rose and left the room. AS
she went out she looked back over
her shoulder with such q whitening
scorn in her eyes that knew / had
put my foot in it somehow. Then it
flashed upon me that / had misunder-
stood her; she had dropped an b; what
she had said was not a silly compli-
ment to herself-the sentence really
was, 7 think Highgate prsttier every
day.m ....:l
I think ar. whympvr was never
, invita- " A'dssnAa ss'sad'ss's
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Brains or Beauty.

Dufresny married his washer-wom-
an.
Goethe's wife was woman of medic
ere capacity.
Emerson says, eft is not beauty
that inspires the deepest passion"
Therese Lavasseur, the last flame
of Rousseau, could not tell the time
ofday.
Racine had an illiterate wife and
was accustomed to boastfully declare
that she could not read anyaof his
tragedies.
Heine said of the woman he loved,
"She has never read a line of writing
and does not even know what poet
is"
1t is an oft-quoted saying Of DR..
johnson that "a man in general is
better pleased when he has a good
dinner on the table than when his
wife talks Creek"
"How many ofthe wise and learned"
says Thackeray, "have married their
cooks! Did not Lord Eden, himself
the most prudent of men, make o
runaway match? Were not Achilles
Ajax both in love with their servant
maids?"
Jean Paul Richter declared that he
would not lead woman into the
matrimonial moose whom it would
not delight to hear the learned reviews
of Gottingen, or the universal Ger
man library, when they sounded his
praise, though it might be in some
degree exaggerated.
Seven hundred people sat up all
night to see the beautiful Duchess of
Hamilton get in her carriage, but
would one in a thousand lose a wink
ofsleep to get a glimpse of the
learned wife ofthe pundit Yainavalka,
who discoursed with the Indian in
Sanscirt on the vexed problems of life?
John Stuart Mill regarded the
institution of marriage in it's highest
aim and accept as 50 union to per-
sons of cultivated faculties, identi-
cal in opinion and purposes, between
whom their exists that best kind of
equality, similarity of powers with
reciprocal superiority in them, so that
one can enjoy the luxury of looking
up to the other and can have alter.
nately the pleasure of leading and
being led in the path of develop
ment."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Thou art travelling to Eternityl
To
Everlasting Happiness
or to
Endless Misery.
WHICH?

In spite of his secretive methods
the man talked freely about himself
and his cards.
IL am commercial traveller" he
said. live in Crillia, Canada. All
my life / had been O wicked scoffer,
much given to lying and profanity.
Two years ago was redeemed and
regenerated, and l take this means,
as am travelling almost all the time,
to atone as far as possible for the
past. / never enter car or coach
or hotel without distributing my
card"
"Do you find that people pay any
attention to them ?"
ooh, yes. You would probably be
astonished to know how many fill
up the blanks as requested. Most OF
them, of course, do it in a fippant
spirit. At least half of the replies
read that the person will go to Chi
cago! That doesn't offend me at all,
though l am grieved to seeit. Young
men, too, have a way Designing ficti-
tious names. Last night card was
soberly returned to me with Salt
Creek written in the first blank and
Grover Cleveland in the second.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
The Cranky German King.
From London Truth.

From London Truth.
As the King of Wurtemburg has a
wife, don't suppose that he will be
''suicided." But you may look for
ward to his being obliged either to
abdicate or retire to a madhouse.
He is imbued with the idea that
thrones were made for kings, andnot
kings for thrones. Being fond of his
ase, of retirement, and of the socie-
ty of a few American mediums
smart" fellows all-he Is satisfied
with drawing his salary and helping
them to make fortunes. All that Is
saved by cutting down expenses goes
to the Americans, one OF whom has
cot hold of the old Chelsea and
Wedgwood ware-to say nothing of
the pictures by famous English art
lists, which one of the princesses roy
I'll of England brought with her into
Wurtemburg.
The Bismarckian journals are begin
ming to proclaim King Charles un-
worthiness to head state. They
talked exactly as they did when it
was resolved to place the late King of
Bavaria under the care of maddox
tors and keepers. Some of the at
lacks are wholly based upon 1.-THE
virtual abdication of King Charles,
who leach year retires more and
more into solitude, lives away from
his capital and hides himself from his
subjects"
The kings of Wortemburg were,
from the first of the line who owed
his royal title to Bonaparte, poor
creatures. Prince Napoleon's grand
father was stingy boor, unamiable
in all his private relations and gross
in his pleasures, which he managed
to take without spending money, He
became, as he advanced in life, q
''Falstaff'' in corpulency, and was
nicknSmed the"Two-legged Spider"
because the limbs remained thin and
long. When his daughter Catharine
was betrothed to Jerome Bonaparte
her royal father gave her a home
made trousseau, the materials for
which cost $11O, and $500 in her
pocket when she was setting out for
Paris. She gave the latter to the
Charity Board soon after she got
there, Napoleon having decided to
give her 1000 worth of clothes and
Jewels. AS she was very sensitive,
Napoleon told her that French ladies
were SO bigoted to their own fashion
as to expect all foreign princesses
who married French princes to wear
nothing they brought with them.
Her son, the present Prince Napoleon,
tnherits the pounding, awkward gait
which won for him the nickname OF
"Plon-Plon" from his Wurtemburg
yrandsire. The second King of Wur-
5emburg was tho father of the late
Queen of Holland, the first wife OF
the now dying Dutch King William.
She was half-sister to King Charles,
the third and reigning monarch OF
the dynasty who is now the cause OF
I'll the trouble in his kingdom. The
Queen of Wurtemburg is the Russian
Grand Duchess olga, a daughter OF
5he Emperor Nicholas of Russia,
grandfather of the present Car. She
las no children and q nephew is the
aeir to the throne.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02


DR.. A. T. Hudson, of Stockton, Cal.
writes. "Having, often seen the state
ment made in the public press, ana
sometimes in medical journals, that
whisky and ammonia We're the ac-
knowleged antidotes to rattlesnake
bite, feel it duty to administer d
corrective to the above fallacious
teaching. About thirty years ago
Professor Weir Mitchell, of Philadet-
phia, spent over two years in care
fully experimenting with the virus of
snake poisons. Taking a few drops
of the pure virus from the sac of the
stake, he mixed it consecutively with
alcohol, ammonia, iodine, bromide,
mercury and otherreputed antidotes,
then injected the solution of each into
birds, rabbits, dogs, goats and other
administration he found that the
poison was not altered in its power,
but would produce it's specific toxic
effect Just the same as when 1T was
undiluted. He found also that the
virus fatal only to certain extent,
that is if it took halfa drop to kill an
animal Of thirty pounds weight, it
would require one or two drops to
kill one of sixty to eighty pounds.
Its action is immediate, and it kills
only when the animals too small and
weak in resistive vatility. 1t is rare
that an adult person dies from the
bite of q rattlesnake.
"Thevirusofthe Observation-Disclosures
and fatal. Several years ago prom
lent minister in Philadelphia died
from the bite OF a young cobra. As
a given quantity of the rattlesnake
virus is necessary to oyercomea GER
tain amount of physical force, it is
seldom that such quantity Is ever de-
posted by the snakelbite upon an
adult person. Ifalarge snake should
bite a goat offifty pound weight, and
soon after bite two children of about
the same weight, the goat might die
but the children would not, for the
reason that the goSt would receive
the largest amount of the virus, when
there would be but little left topoison
the children. In such>a case, whisky
being used on children Sheir recovery
would be attributed to the whisky;
so the friends and neighbQrs would
think they have positive pSoot OF q
sure antidote in whisky. Hero is the
fallacy which science alone can dehQo
strate. If, when whisky is mixed whs1
the poison directly, it is no antidote,
how can it become so when taken into
the system remotely, the whisky in,
the stomach and the poison in the
goat fhysiiogicuffy,, whisky is AN
tidotal so far as it will sustain the
tagging powers during the time the
poison is being eliminated by the
excretory organs.
In the light of the above scientific
demonstrations, how doctor can
gravely on frantically proceed to
treat a rattlesnake bite 'by injecting
around the wound permanganate of
potassa, or any supposed antidotes,
or order a chicken split open and ap-
piled to the wound, or the anus of the
chicken applied over the wound, using
q number Of different fowls for the
purpose is problem hard to under
stand in this age of reason. Medical
Record.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

A NOTEWORTHY feature of the Fifty
first Congress will be the presence as
members of the House of Representa-
tive of four ex-Speakers OF that body.
Should the Republicans organize the
House, Speaker Carlisle will have to
return to his seat on the floor of the
chamber. He will find with him Sam
uel j. Randall of Pennsylvania, who
was chosen Speaker at the Forty-fourth
Congress, and served until the begin
ming of the Forty-seventh; Nathaniel
P. Banks of Massachusetts,, who occu-
pied the Speakers chair during the
Thirty-fourth Congress, and Samuel S.
Cox of New York, who was elected
Speaker pro tenn. during the first ses-
sion of the Forty-fourth Congress, when
Speaker Kerr was absent because Of the
illness which resulted in his death. The
list OF living sx-spcalsers Of the House
will tAsn iaGiGse, sssiass those man.
uespd, Gsigsbs A. t3aaw ri pssnsyivsa
hla, IL Wsstsa i;slssf al sahas kaa
hsisss q HiA:aa es ssaiaas
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

AN ingenious stopper has lately been
patented for use in bottles containing
poisons. The stopper is made of India
rubber and is surmounted by perforat-
ed ball of India rubber brightly colored
so as to render it distinctive in the light
and containing bell which rattles when
the bottle is moved, thus attracting
attention to the character of the
contents, even though it be impossi-
BILE to see the label. Such a warning
stopper. would have rendered impossible
many of the accidents which have from
time to time taken place; notably only
few months ago, when distinguished
surgeon lost his life owing to mistake
as to bottle containing poisonous
medicine,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

The Nun of Kenmare is living at O
quiet clearinghouse in Utica, N. Y.
She busies herself reading proof-sheets
of her autobiography, soon to be pub
hshed. In answer to an inquiry if she
had deserted the Catholic Church for
the Protestant, she said, 81 have done
no such thing. 1t is true, have resign
ed my Office as Sister of the Order of
Peace, and have sent u formal letter to
the pope; but / have not left the Church
nor joined any other"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

IT is reported that Cornelius Wander.
bilt intends to become permanent resi-.
dent of Newport The statement is.alsc
made that he will be followed by his
brothers, Messrs. William X. and Fred
erick w. The value of the three sum-
mer residents belonging to these broth
ers amounts to nearly $1,300,000.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

Mr.. A. HOWARD CLARK of the Smith.
sonian Institution at Washington has
been appointed a scientific expert t.
study and report on the food products
OF the world at the International Ex-
position to be held in Paris next year.
Professor Langley has designated Mr..
Clark as representative of the Smith
sonian Institution at the exposition.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

Miss NORA PERRY has returned to
Boston, and is at work on an historical
ballad of some length. The "writer's
cramp," from which Miss Perry has
suffered for years, nearly prevents her
using her right hand.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

Mrs. HANNIBAL A. HOPKINS of Lans-
ing, Mich, has in her possession the
military trappings of Ethan Allen, and
will sell them for $1,000. 1t is suggest
ed that they ought to be bought by the
state of Vermont and preserved in the
state capital. Among other articles
are the sword which he carried at
Ticonderoga and in many other engage
ments, breastplate and epaulets.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

The degree of doctor of divinity has
been conferred upon Bismarck by the
university of Gresen. The dedication
which accompanied the address began,
''To the great unique man, who has
dedicated, and is still dedicating, his
life to the services of three emperors
in unrivalled devotion, who never
wearies, never loses courage, and fears
no one but God, to whose providence in
the destiny of nations he trusts"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

LORD TENNYsoN's illness is now ad-
United to have been serious, even dan
gerous. 1t is fortnight since Sir
Andrew Clark, one of the three doctors
attending him, declared it doubtful
whether the poet would pull
through, though he thought
the chances in his favor. He
had rheumatic fever of a severe type,
brought on by the old mans persis-
tency in walking two hours regardless
of the weather.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

In the federal court at Fort Smith,
Ark, verdict of guilty was rendered
against Henry w. Miller and William
Woods for the murder of John Hantz,
an old schoolmate of Woods. while
hunting in Indian Territory year ago.
The trial was full of sensational Incl
dents. The body of Hantz was found
by a searching party in Vendegras
River, face down, with bullet hole in
his head. His watch was found in
Miller's pocket. The evidence was
purely circumstancial, and the recov-
cry of the body was due mainly to the
devotion of pointer dog belonging to
the murdered man. The dog refused
to leave the place of its masters muir
der, and bayed continually until too
weak to move and the body was found.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

A farmers man brought the village
doctor a note the other day, and
with some difficulty Medicus spelt
out, please send me bottle of fls-
Sic" Halo" exclaimed the doctor,
"F.lss.ssl.o, dosen't spoil physlc,n
npontit, answered ths rustic, Hshss
DO ID spell, thsafn The auster rave
IL up
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
ROW, rs BlII i LIN on NOT,
From Time.

I'm Time.
"Bin Jones is n liar"
Sud father to Joe;
"l'm sure that he is,.
For be told nc So"
"Fer that very cause"
Said Joseph apace,
w1l prove that Bill Jones
Is off of his base"
"He says he's q liar,
Well, now, II that's true
There's no sort of sense
In what he told you.
because, don't yon see"
Continued the youth,
"He can't be O liar
And tell you the truth"
"If Bill tells the truth
He's liar, you see;
And if he's liar,
It's quite plain to me.
What on his own word
1--WE cannot go higher)
He lies when he says it,
And he isn't liar"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

LORD SAcKvILLE and the Misses
West have Abandoned their proposed
trip to Ottawa. The governor general
has received a dispatch that they will
sail from Hew York for France at an
early Gate.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02

THE Nineteenth Army Corps has pre-
scented Mrs. Sheridan a beautifully
bound album containing the resolutions
adopted on the death of General Sheri.
dan.