The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-12-14
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

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Chicago lumber dealers admit they are
losing their grip on eastern trade.
The Bellaire Steel Works, Ohio, have
gone back to coal from natural gas.
The agricultural products of Colorado
exceed the output of the mines, $40, 900, 900
France proposes universal telegraph
language. What is the matter with VOLTA
puks
Blood must be degenerating. BARRIERS
say more leeches are used now than for
merly.
William Black, the novelist, is making
study of Mary Anderson for his next
story
Silk factories are projected at Newark,
Del; Guadalajara, Mexico and Fredericks-
burg, Va,
! All of the Browning clubs are smiling,
Their idol mas thirty new poems ready for
publication.
| What is slower than s'waiting for the
train!' ''Sweet Patience is seldom seen
at the depot
| Losses by fire continue up to the average,
Notwithstanding all the fire preventing ap-
pliances in use.
Capitalists are about buying the Cumber-
land rail mill from the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company.
The project to erect monument to Sena.
tor Leland Stanford near San Jose meets
with favor in California
The majority of people would rather be
cunning and unfair than foolish. Few
sympathize with the fools.
Mrs. G. F. Neggsmith, wife of Harlem
IN. " policeman, has fourteen living chill
dren and is but AZ years old.
A man in the French army can not be
accused of being mercenary. His pay is
only little over cents per day.
An imported actress has brought over
with her a shot-silk dress. This looks like
she is aiming with her wardrobe to make
hit
Sir Henry Isaacs is the third Jew to serve
as lord mayor of London The others were
Sir David Salomons and Sir Benjamin
! Philips.
When man has made his ''barrel" the
boys try to convince him that he is politi-
clan. They are in favor of reducing the
surplus.
"a Georgia woman, aged 81, has never tast-
ed water" This would not seem singular
if the geography of the woman had been
Kentucky.
Tobacconists notice that not one smoker in
fifty uses the machine to clip off his cigar.
He prefers to bite it. Man is queer ami,
NAL any way.
Canine gloves are popular in st. Louis.
At least Philadelphia journal says: "Dog
skins for gloves are largely shipped from
this city to st. Louis"
Seventy-five steel oil tank cars are being
made to carry oil from Pittsburg to Cali
fornia, where it will be refined and shipped
to the Sandwich Islands.
Edinburg, Scotland, is poky old city on
Sunday. 1t is place of 800, 900, but on
Sundays no street cars are allowed to run.
The Scotch mind is conservative
Is the age of steam passing awaya Every
electric motor in the United States is said
to be crowded to its utmost capacity to
meet demands for electric power.
Robert Lincoln is modest man so far as
family relations are concerned. He has
never been known to publicly refer to q
single event in his fathers career.
The New England boot and shoe manu-
facturers find it difficult to keep up with
their orders. The iron and steel manufac-
turers are over crowded with work
Nine. Patti announces that her absolute
ly farewell concert tour will take place in
1891. She should then write book en-
titled "The Decade of Farewell Trips"
Among the mackerel caught off the coast
of Ireland was one which contained large,
live toad, which, On being taken out, hop.
ped about on deck and seemed quite at
home.
Frank B. Carpenter the artist, who
painted the portrait of Lincoln, is now at
work on large picture which he calls
"Arbitration" It is fine theme for the
brush.
Ferry Hanshaw of Portland, Ore, has
gone into the business of raising Mongolian
pheasants. He has score or two that were
Matched by an old black hen. They are all
doing finely.
Mrs. Charles B. Pope of Chicago will
give library to the town of Danville, VT,
to replace the one destroyed by fire last
May. Her husband, now dead, was native
of Danville,
The congress of orientalists at Stock
holm went lately to the grave of Odin at
Upsala where the minister of the interior
drank to the health of the congress in the
regular old Viking mead.
The various labor associations will prob
ably take action soon as to what advantage
they can possibly get out of the World s
Fair, to be held in New York in 1892. Pow
derby is anxious to have labor represented.
Edison's inventive genius has not been
asleep. He has been granted 4O3 patents
and has over 800 other applications pend
ing. Is there any inventive genius Of this
or any age that will begin to compare with
him!
Labor organizations are holding their own
in numbers. The recent strikes have been
discouraging on the whole. The percentage
of unemployed labor is lower than for many
years. More workmen are arriving from
abroad than can be employed
Massachusetts, makes many more books
than South Carolina, but it doesn't begin tc
compete with the latter in the way OF
watermelons. OF this dewy vegetable tine
Palmetto state sent to the Bay state nc
less than 5000, 900 this season.
Confidence may be dangerous Three
girls in East Liverpool, Pa, agreed to LEI
each other read the last love letters they
had received. Great was the excitement
! when it was disc syered that all were
| written by the same young man.
In her later life George Eliot inclined
towards agnosticism. Her latest biogra
pher says she was so religious when q
young woman that she would not go to the
theater or opera or even an oratorio, al
though she was devoted to music.
The desire manifested by the fair sex fol
miniature paintings set as brooches amount.
to almost craze. These paintings are i'm
ported, and leading manufacturers claim
that they have dificu ty in mounting then
fast enough to supply the demand.
The late Henry S. Leigh met an acquaint
ance who had recently lost his teeth, ane
whose utterances, il consequence, were al
most unintelligible. at was Greek to me, U
remarked Odell, as the man left "GreekF
replied Leigh; ':yuna arabic, l should cal
it.
The Shah's misconduct in Austria is sale