The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-19
RRIFF MENTION,

Late studies in acoustics have been
in the direction of determining the
functions of the two ears in locating
the direction of sound. The concla-
sions deducted from these studies are
First, we are liable to judge of the d.
rection from which a sound comes be-
cause it reaches one of the ears before
1t does the other; and, second, that the
other ear enables US to determine the
direction in which the intensity of the
sound perceived is maximum without
turning the head.
Those who have made study of bird
habits say that birds of almost all sorts
are rather the friends than the enemies
of farmers and gardeners. Not only do
the song birds by destroying insects
earn their right to eat a few berries
but even the crow that generations of
farmers have scared and killed, is said
to prefer insects to corn, and often do
be in the very act of destroying pests
when farmers suppose they are malici-
ously bent on undoing the work of the
sower
The word 'manor" is OF frequent &C.
currence throughout rural Pennsyl-
vania, and it frequently marks some
one of the sixty-odd manars conferred
upon the heirs of William Penn by an
act of 1910. These manors, ranging
from 200 to many thousand acres, were
scattered thickly over the eastern part
of the state, and their ma mes have since
become the names of many townships
The manors aggregated more than $780,
GEO acres and included some of the finest
lands in Pennsylvania.
All bills for the determination of the
Russian thistle have been reported ad-
versely to the house. The committee on
agriculture says the determination of
the thistle Is certain if each farmer
gives sufficient attention to the destruc-
,ion of the weeds before they mature:
and state and local authorities destroy
them in the highways.
Ohio's floating debt is giving her tenn
porary trouble, but the general condi-
lions of her finances is good. Her
bonded debt is not large for a state of
her wealth and population. 1t is held
at low rate of interest, and under the
sinking fund scheme now provided it
will be entirely paid of before long in
moderate annual installments.
In France the ballet girl begins her |
GREER at years old. She is then paid |
at the rate of so cents for each ap-
pearance in public, as demoiselle de |
quadrille $40 to $40 month, as a cory
phee $50 to $50, and sujet from $3.50 to
$500 month, and star from IS, 900 to
$4,000 year.
A cat in Chattanooga has been In the
habit of tapping beer from a saucer in
a saloon, and is confirmed topper. 1t
gets drunk two or three times day
and sleeps of its debauches. The pro-
prietor of the saloon prizes the cat and
thinks of trying the gold cure on it.
According to the American Architect,
two chemists of Hamburg, M. M. Foster
and INLAND, have published some
studies on the cholera infection, from
which it appears that soap is one of the
best known sterilizers of water sus-
pected Of infection.
Two American pleasure boats, with
fifty members of the Cincinnati Fishing
club aboard, were seized by Canadian
authorities for fishing in their waters
The passengers were released. An.ap-
peal has been made to the Dominion
government.
The story of the Breckinrtdge case s
will be allowed to pass through the
nails. First Assistant Postmaster. Gen.
.ral Jones has notified the postmaster d
It Chicago that the department has no t
to exclude the book. c
The number of Chinese registered in
he entire country is 1OO,3l2, of whom
1877 are in California and Nevada, Il
1869 in Montana, Idaho and Utah, 1881 o
D Arizona. The Chinese population by
he last census was 1O7,4s3.
The roar of the lion can be heard o
arther than the sound of any living h
FEATURE. Next comes the hyena, then
be screech owl. The donkey can be
card fifty times farther of than the m
orse. Il
The strongest timber known is the
Billian" or Borneo ironwood, whose
reakiDg strain is one and ffty-two- II,
nndredths times geeater than English br
III. BY long exposure 1t becomes of AZ
'ony blackness and immensely hard.
The lecture business has vastly "A
Hanged in the last few years. 1t is fr
f1cult for any lecturer to get 500 a n,
ght now and season Of fifty lectures
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