The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-06

CALDWELL TRIBUNE.
sTEUNENBKRG Bros, publishers.
CALDWELL { IDAHO.
The duke Of Newcastle fell down
stairs in babyhood, and has ever since
been confirmed cripple.
PAULUs. the comic singer who has
made Boulanger, receives ar income
OF about 100. 900 francs g year.
Mr.. HART. the new mayor OF Boston,
never uses tobacco, but keeps supply
Of good cigars fer tho use of his friends.
LORD WoLsELEY has discovered that
negro soldiers are good fighters. This
was old news in this country twenty
five years ago.
M. CooUELIN says that Philadelphia
struck him as the intellectual center of
the country. Coquelin is a comedian
who Is funny when off the stage,
TINE has led Count von Moltke from
the battlefield to the rise garden. He
gives most Of his time now to the
cultivation of his favorite flowers.
RIDER HAGGARD's friends complain
that while he received only $3.50 for the
original edition Of "Ring Solomon's
Mines" the publishers have made $780,
900 out OF tho book.
GEORGE w. CABLE has six children.
One of them, Lucy, is quiet and shy.
81 really believe" said Mr.. Cable one
day, "Lucy gives us less trouble than
all the others put together!'
GEORGE GOULD is very
bicycle riding. fancy he probably in
herited from his fathers habit OF
making things go round in Wall street,
rarely ever taking header
The duke o. Westminster has made
deadly enemies OF the London doctors.
He has stipulated in granting new
leases to medical men that 10 brass
plates shall be placed on their doors.
Miss JEANETTE HALFoRD, daughter
Of the Presidcat-elects Private Secre-
tary. is living thoroughly rural life
near Orlando, Fla. She is frequently
seen seated upon a load OF hay and
driving team of frisky mules.
CE-PREsIDENT-ELECT-M MORTON pays
$500 for the use of furnished house in
Washington daring Inauguration week.
He will not be able to get into Prof.
Bellies residence, which he has leased
for term OF years, until late il March.
In letter to the Harvard Society of
Baltimore, Md, James Russell Lowell
says that his health is not what it was.
He writes: II have been compelled to
avoid, SO far as | could all excitement
and fatigue. ! have therefore steadily
declined all invitations that would in
any way expose me to the risk OF
either"
JOHN WANEAMAKER's country place
at Jenkintown, Pa, is his pride and
Joy. He has d fine collection Of cattle,
and his flowers are very valuable. His
roses and orchids are worthy of note
and his rhodCdendrons are famous in
Pennsylvania. He doesn't go In very
heavily for the flowers of rhetoric,
however.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been a most
profitable dealer in wood, which his
estates furnish in vast abundance, on
account of the special rates granted@
him by the railroads The other Ger
man woodcutters Lave at last struck
against this favoritism, and the prince
will now have to compete On equal
terms.
WHEN commercial fertilizers were
introduced il Georgia an agent at
Greensboro induced young farmer to
buy few sacks. The granger piled
them in his wagon and started for
home. A short way from town he
pitched every one OF the sacks into a
gully and reaching home wrote the
agent as follows: you'll find your old
guano in u eally near the depot. ]
wouldn't receive it, for when it get
here the durn stuff WAS spilled so bad IL
man couldn't get in half mile Of it."
The agent let him off from payment.
THE OvNdo (Fla.) Chronicle says
that firm there are about to engage
in novel enterprise in connection
with their vegetable garden. They
are taking glass bottles and training
cucumber vines, when they are ready
TO bloom, TO grow crcumbers inside OF
the bottles, so that when the vegetable
is full grown ]. will be much larger
than the neck Of the hottie. They will
then take ana pickle them and will
have the surprising thing OF having
picked cucumbers in bottles with
necks much smaller than the pickles.
THERE is :he little yellow bee in
Honduras thar is very much like the
little yellow iies found about corn
silks. The bees are without stilgs, and
the most Industrious little insects I'M
aginable. They build in hollow trees
and wherever they car find II lodgment,
and they gataer Il double handful oil
honey Of delicious flavor in these rests
of rough CONT. so plentiful IRE they
that person can take Ratchet and
cut into the k4ot hole in the trees and
soon collect Al the honey he wants 10
without the danger Of being stung by
the bees.