The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-12-07
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

The best diamond cutters make $50 per
week.
Alaska cost the United States govern
tnent cents an acre.
Bronson Howard has refused $4,000 to
srite play for star.
Eighty thousand Americans have sailed
from New York this season.
A Maine man has raised q blue pig,
which he will exhibit at the state fair,
An immense deposit of mineral soap has
been found near San Diego, Cal.
Critics accuse Frank Stockton of marry
ing his hero in his last novel to the wrong
girl
Mrs. Maybricks mother says she doesn't
propose to leave England until her daughter
is set free.
There ought to be field for woman in
Australia. There is only one woman's
paper in that country.
The daughters of Julian Hawthorne are
named Hildegarde, Gwendolen, Gladys,
Beatrice, and Imogene.
Nine. Garnet wife Of the French presi-
dent, is of medium height, with olive COM
plexion and Roman features.
Colored Cadet Flipper, who acquired con-
siderable notoriety at West Point some
years ago, is now an officer in the Mexican
army.
1t is said that thirty-six millionaires re-
side in the territory between Dobb's Ferry
and Tarrytown, N. Y, distance Of only
six miles.
Kansas has one school house for every
lS5 of her population, while Massachusetts
has only one school-house for every 60o Of
its population.
A Mrs. Fanny vertun claims that she
holds the deeds for the entire ground on
which Minneapolis is built and has begun
suit for possession.
Orchids run into money. J. Gould's
group, and it is small one at that, is worth
$4,000. Only the wealthy can indulge in
profusion of them.
Miss Helen Gould always believed she
lad mission to teach, and even now in
structs four music pupils, members of her
fhurch, at her home.
Emperor William says that the Hohen-
lollerns never let go what they have once
yrasped. Did none of them ever clutch the
lighted end of cigar'
A clergyman as rule, doesn't feel COM
pimented when he secs it stated in paper
Ina there is always great awakening at
the Che of his sermon.
An Oh>gon hunter reports that while
camping ousat Craig Mountain, l. T., he
was attacked h the night by owls, and he
killed seven withN~ club.
Mrs. Kendall tells uein her new book of
"Recollections' that, >aying married an
actor, she vowed that she>sould never play
iove scenes with any one bu>her hrsbaud.
There are ruins near Galluh. Cal, tho
foundation walls of which can be t.aeed for
two miles, indicating the existenceNof q
targe town in the locality in bygone tim.
California is trying to become self sus
tanning. The state now manufactures
nearly all the iron it needs, though only
few years ago it depended on the East foi
its supply.
Rosa Bonheur who is over seventy years
of age, is making studies of Buffalo Bits
Indians and ponies for large painting.
Partisan art is willing to give the Wild
West show.
Young wife: "uAhl how fortunate / an
In posse ssing husband who always stays
at home in the evening"" Boston friend
eyes: your husband was never much ad
dicted to pleasure"
Mrs Ella Dietz Clymer says: "Womer
live in their houses more then men, what
more fitting than that they should deslgr
them!" Mrs. Clymer advocates the study
of architecture by women.
w. X. vanderbilt's steam yacht Alva
which is easily the handsomest and mos
perfectly appointed pleasure boat in the
worldscost $500, 900, and the expense OF run
ming her is said to be about $l5O,OOO year
Whitelaw Ried finds little pleasure in be
ing minister to France, drawing a salary
ST., 500 and paying $4,000 house rent. IL
has found out that what he wants to d
more than anything else is to run news
paper.
AT Deland, Fla, few days ago, Armand
Worthy (colored) fired at coachwhi
snake. which was chasing one OF ne
chickens, and shot Methodist preacher
who was sitting at his writing table ~
yards away.
The artful Disraeli believed in the efficac
of flattery. He said lit was the secret
his success in life. The higher a ma
climbed the thicker it could be laid on, unit
II one could approach the throne, it migt
be laid on with trowel."
For every trunk carried 500 miles by ra
In the United States, one is smashed 10 In
: extent of 50. There has been no improve
, ment in the matter Of handling baggag
from the time the first trunk was unhinge
and split from .op TO bottom.
Some men desire to be consistent wit
their crankiness. DR.. Schlieman is infatu
ated with old Greece, and he wants notnin
| not Grecian about him. His servants hav
Greek names, and he never changes thes
even though the men may be different.
Sir Edwin Arnold recently paid visit
Walt Whitman and pronounces him tn
handsomest old man he ever saw. Sir Ee
win SAYS: 81 am more than ever convince
that he is one Of the greatest Of your Anne
lean writer's His poetry is wonderful
The clay pipe industry is remarkabl
from more than one point OF view. If
. manufacture is essentially French and II
: importance is daily increasing, despite tn
y formidable competition of wooden pipes az
, cigarettes. One pipe mandatory occupi
an area of about one hundred thousar
: square feet and gives employment to fro
; five hundred to six hundred persons.
]. tits said that the secret OF the productit
r of cheap aluminium has been lost by Il
q sudden death of the proprietor OF the WORK
Mr.. Seymour. He used some unknov
chemical at certain moment of the acti'
e of the fusing and separation. All the 81
g ployees were excluded from the room VIII
]. he went through the mysterious process
and anxiety is expressed lest the secret oil
with him.
A steamer arrived at Philadelphia u
l. other day with cargo of fruit and numb
9 of tarantulas on board. Members OF
crew were often obliged to keep watch
night and sweep the vipers into the ocei
as fast as they crawled upon deck. i
r. vessel was loaded to its hatchways.
times the deck was literally covered wi
J them, and some were as big around t
5 body as a good sized orange.
'r Aerial navigation has reached this 81
l. prising stage OF progress: At the Ia
o sParisian congress" on the use OF balloo
!. and carrier pigeons in time Of war 1t "
resolved that .'aeronauts in time OF
y should be treated as belligerents il tn