The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-07-20
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.


crop may be expected this year.
Four new furnaces just finished near
birmingham, Ala, cost s., $4,000.
A copy of John Eliots bible has just been
purchased by the trustees OF the British
Museum.
There were 1G,9S6 pictures submitted for
this years exhibition at the London
Academy.
Experiments made by NJ Mosso, Of Turin,
prove that cells blood is as poisonous as the
venom of snakes.
A Greek professor, Paresi by name, has
found in the milk and pulp of the cocanut a
specific for tapeworm.
A Goldendale, w. T., colt fell into
shaft and its mother went insane with
grief before it was rescued.
T. Burwell Green, of Washington, Ga,
has biscuit that was baked at Manassas
Junction in 1861. 1t is little stale.
A nugget weighing 5O4 pennyweights and
worth about $500 has just been taken FROM
the gold mines hear Gainesville, Ga,
Saccharine, the new sweet will not
crystalize nor ferment; consequently it can
not hope TO supersede the plebian sugar.
1t is estimated hat Americans viii spend
s4O,OOo,0o0 in Europe this season, of
which probably =, 600, 900 will so for tins.
''Ardenbr.te,n the new invisible lacquer
Just brought out in London is proof against
weather, steam smoke, sea air, or sea
water.
Chrysanthemums are largely grown in
Dalmatia and worked up by chemists
there into the well known Dalmatian insect
powder.
A devil fish weighing 1000 pounds was
caught some days ago in the Gulf of Next
co at ST. james, Fla, by u party of tourist
fishermen.
John Battles, who died recently at
Dorchester, Mass, aged sevcnty-si was
one of family of eight who all became
useful school teachers.
Railroad men say there arc between two
thousand and three thousand tramps of the
most desperate order along the line OF rail
road between Ogden and Reno, Cal
A circular has just been issued by the
French, Botanical Society inviting foreign
botanists to take part in the Botanical Con
gress to be held at Paris in August noxt.
Cancstco, n. Y, raised SO many onions
| last year that growers arc now dumping
them into ravines and gullies to get rid OF
| them. New Yorker bought enough to
| load d car for 81.
Barmaids arc going out of fashion in
| England, much TO the disgust and amaze
| ment of the old FOUNDERS, and they threaten
TO emigratc unless speedy check IS put
upon the absurd mandate.
Several head of cattle were bitten by
| mad dog which passed through Merritt
township, Michigan, the other day. Some
| sheep which were attacked by the animal
| butted themselves to death.
1t is an old saying that politeness costs
nothing, but the man who originated II
| never had to give up his scat in street
| car to the wife of man who black-palleI
| his application for admission to club.
There is only one train per day over the
Marthas Vineyard railroad, and yet IL
manages to have two or three accidents per
week in which the train hands are hurt.
| It's in the business somehow and can't bu
| avoided.
HE was trying TO give me The cold
shake,n explained a young woman who was
before Syracuse Judge for disorderly con-
| duct. "He was, eh!'' replied his honor
as he in the employ of the ice or cold
| storage company"
A couple of Springfield (Mass.) men have
| devised metal roll for drawing out sllvers,
that not merely does the work better than
| the old leather covered roll, but will save
the spinners the pretty penny now paid out
| in repairs upon them.
Hereafter the boats TO be carried by At
| lantic steamers instead of being made OF
| wood will be made of steel IN one piece.
] Wooden boats rot and are easily crushed.
| The new boats will be built by machinery
especially made for rolling them out in all
| sizes in single plate.
| Joe Kemp, of Buena VISTA Ga naa a
very large rat the ether day that was CAP
tured and killed by his cat. Its shoulders,
neck and a stripe. down the back to the tail
wero the color OF tbs common graz rat;
the balance of the body and feet were
white, like the white rat.
| A ghost has appeared near Akron, Ala,
at point on the railroad where man was
run over and killed last summer. ghostly
| figure in white with arms extended, was
seen there by young couple who were out
riding the other evening. Both were badly
| scared and so was the horse
l. A new fence is made of soft steel, cut
| while in the plate and drawn out after the
| fashion of paper love baskets. 1t is pro
posed also to make iron lathing by the same
process, which, it is said, will be fire. resist
| ing and capable of being bent and hammer
ed into corners and around curves in way
| to put wood quite out of cOuntenance
The military custom of saluting by
bringing the hand into a horizontal posi-
| ton over the eyebrows is thus accounted
for: 1t is supposed to date back to the
| tournaments of the middle lagos, when,
after the queen of beauty was enthroned,
| the knights who were to take part In the
| sports of the day marched past the dais on
which she sat, and as they passed shielded
their eyes from the rays of her beauty.
| Among precious stones the ruby, the
| topaz, and the sapphire are composed main-
| ly of alumina, cclored with different earthly
and metallic salts. The diamond is car
bon crystallized, as everybody knows; the
| garnet is mixture Of silica and alumina;
the opal, silica anu water; the turquoise,
phosphate of alumina, colored with salts OF
copper, which also turns silicate of mag.
nesia into the cleaning green malachite.
| John Rausch, a San Francisco express
man, believes that marriage is failure.
He married a pretty girl, after investing
about twenty-five dollars in bridal outfit
| for her, and established her in comfortable
fiat They spent Saturday night together,
and Mr.. Rausch went to his work Sunday.
When he returned home Sunday night his
brand new wife had disappeared, taking
with her everything of value she could lay
| her hands on.
| Fourteen years ago farmer living near
Defiance, Iowa, struck huge tusk at the
depth of twenty-s six feet while ne was dig
cling we'll. He laid the wall of the well
| on top of the tuslz, bnt fancying afterward
| that the water had queer taste, filed the
hole up. Recently some people OF scientific
bent unearthed the farmers find. Improved
TO be seven feet long. 1t is very brittle, but
pieces broken from 1t are susceptible of
very high polish and resemble ivory.
| 1t is not often that rooster has any par
| f;cu lar desire IN take n hath hut few DAYS