The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-26
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.
Dakota farmer holds that the failure OF
wheat crop is largely due to the work OF

Eopks-s
At Cambridge, Mass, three theological
students captured burglar who was at
tempting to rob a preachers house.
A Danbury, Conn, photographer has
greenhouse the glass roof of which is COM
posed of old negatives from his gallery.
Arthur Blackford, of Chattanooga, was
arrested and jailed for stealing two silver
dollars covering the eyes of dead baby.
A San Francisco jeweler has just received
500 for diamonds which he sold twenty five
years ago. The purchaser was honest, but
he had bad luck.
A Mussulman woman has just died IL
Meean Nicer, India credited with $50 years
of age. She was blind, deaf, and dumb,
and nearly inanimate. She died in tho
house of a grandson who is over 80.
A Bombay newspaper announces two
marriages, in one case tho bride being aged
two years and in the other ffJecn months,
while the bridegroom was thirty. This is
the system which Pundita Ramabai is
struggling against.
The irrepressible sea serpent has bobbed
up again. This time at Cape May. Tho
was of immense proportions, with fappers.
fins and feelers like crabs, and mos
ugly sight to behold.
The tallest chimney in this country Is tho
new stack Of the Clark Thread Company, a.
Kearney, near Newark, N J. 1t is circu
lar shaft S35 feet high and 2S15 feet in
diameter at the base. This chimney cost
$50, 600, and contains 1907 900 bricks.
Two former Vassar students are tho
editors and publishers of weekly paper
, at Atlantic Highlands. They are said to bc
practical, enterprising girls who are run
ming their journal on strictly business-liko
principles, and are making it success.
The most forgctful young man in Snyder
county, Pennsylvania, recently went TO
! town with his best girl, and when the time
came for his return, actually left without
her and proceeded several miles before he
happened to think he had forgotten some
thing
1t does not pay to be a hog. Two thieves
appeared at house near Montreal where
peddler was spending the night and de-
| manded money. The peddler gave them
his pocketbook and contents, but they said
this was not enough to pay them for their
trouble, whereupon he shot them both
| dead
Taxidermist W. w. Stoey, of Harrisburg,
! is mounting q white egret, bird seldom
seen IN that locality. It was shot in the
vicinity of McCormick's Island. Though
! only a young specimen it is thirty-four
inches in height. Afull.grown bird OF this
species attains a height of forty-e'ght
| inches
| The statistics Of the Salvation Army,
! furnished by General Booth at the last
grand concourse which took place at Alex
| andra Palace, showed an increase OF 2S3
corps and 1866 officers, The march past
General Booth was performed by body OF
over twenty Thousand soldiers, and was
marked with intense fervor
| There were numerous casualties during
| the erection of the Paris Exposition build
ings. 1t is estimated that 300 worlmep
: hurt their legs, $50 received severe inlurie'
| in the eyes from projecting timbers or bars
of iron, ia were scalded or severely burn.
ed and fifty had their fingers cut of. The
deaths from falls are put down at twenty.
four.
The practice of cremation is spreading
! rapidly in Italy. In forty.two communities
it has been adopted to the exclusion OF every
other method of disposing Of dead human
bodies. In twenty-one communities furnaces
have been in operation for several years.
! In nineteen communities the authorities
are trying to raise money for tho erection
of crcnatories.
Samuel Abrahams, Swedish peddler,
was struck by New York Central train at
Croton Landing and lost a. leg. He was left
all night on the floor of the freight house,
because the station agent did not wish the
bed clothing in his own dwelling stained
with blood, and was not taken to hospital
in New York city until a. m, although
several trains passed before that hour
Camping out is capable of much luxury.
A large camp at the Adirondacks contains
about forty acres The sleeping apartments
are all in separate tents, the drawing-room
and dining room being in very pretty log
cabin overhanging the lake. In one place
is an artistic children's play house, and in
another a perfectly rolled tennis court
shaded by lofty birches. The stables are
near.
A few mornings ago the ground under an
elm tree in Brazil, Ind, was covered with
the dead bodies OF English sparrows,
numbering several hundred. These birds
have been in the habit Of ongregating in
immense focks in this tree, and it is sup
posel that they were killed at single
stroke of lightning during the mornings
storm as the bodies we're entirely stripped
of feathers.
During a heavy thunderstorm the other
| II - szyar
pool town in Perry county, Pennsyl-
vania, saw a fiery ball drop from the clouds
and land on the street in front of the Com
.aercial Hotel. There it lay like piece Of
red hot metal or live coal, but gradually
its brightness died. At daylight she went
to the place and found it to be meteoric
stone, or an aerolite, nine inches in circum
ference.
Red rain fell recently In the province Of
Lublin, Russian Poland. The shower last
ed for about ten minutes. The peasants,
who mistook the red liquid for blood, be-
came panic stricken, and crowded this
churches. where they were quieted by thc
priests. Several bottles of red rain were
sent to chemists and microscopes in War
saw for examination. For several days
after the shower all the the surface water
in Lublin was of dark pink color
The only house built by George Wash
ington at the capital city of the nation is
!, still standing in Washington City. 1t was
originally three-story brick, but when the
street on which it stands was graded two
more stories were added, making it a FIVE
story building, which is now used for q
hotel Some of the rooms are pretty much
in the same condition as they were when
occupied by Washington in 1892 A few old
pieces of furniture are said to be still Sc
GREETED about the house.
An interesting table exhibited at the
Paris exposition shows the relative civiliza.
lions Of the several countries from the post
office standpoint, by showing the number of
letters per capita passing through them.
Great Britain leads with forty per head
Australia is next with thirty five, and
Switzerland with thirty. The United
States. Germany and Holland have twenty
and Belgium leads them at twenty-five.
The other countries of Europe graduallyIde-
scend in the scale till the zero mark is
almost reached in Russia, which reports