The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-06-13
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Indians declare that, prior to attack
ing some large animal, the alligator
always swallows heavy stone to in
crease its weight in dragging its victim
| under.
| The cylinder head of a Connecticut
locomotive blew out while at full speed.
The trains momentum carried it to the
station five miles away without a pound
of steam.
In parts of France species of Rab
bit is utilized for the wool, which Is
said to be softer and finer than that
of sheep. 1t is obtained by combing
the animals at intervals.
| a Roman custom. At Roman mar
riage the bride was expected to pre-
pare part, at least, of the wedding
feast with her own hands.
Neither Missouri, Texas nor Arkan-
| sas, possesses a worsted mill or a car
pet factory, nor has Texas or Arkansas
single specimen of paper mill or an
iron or steel industry.
The largest cave in Mexico, If not in
the world, has been found by a French
engineer in the wilds of the northwest.
In it he found cemetery, proving that
the cavern had once been Inhabited.
OF the recruits in the British ar
last year 32,O94 were born in England,
1867 in Scotland and $500 in Ireland.
One thousand three hundred and five
of these young soldiers were under II
years of age.
1t is said that all the gold in the
world, not counting that in Virginia
state, would not make a block more
than 6l3 cubic yards. A cube of the
above Dimensions could be put in a
room "a feet each way.
Electricity has been adopted for tow
ing the canal boats on the summit level
OF the Canal de Bourgoyne, which con-
meets the Siene and Soane, crossing in
its course the divide between the chan
mel and the Mediterranean.
The seal hunters kiak is simply a
piece of boat shaped costume. The oc
cupant slows his legs away beneath
something like carriage apron, tuck
ing it tightly around his waist. He
can take his skin canoe under his arm
and walk away with it.
Cinnamon when they refer to their
wives-which is as seldom as possible
speaks of them as "my dull thorn" or
''thorn in my ribs" or "the mean one
in the inner ROOM" Children are sim
ilarly styled as insects" or "worms,"
much as we say "chicks'' or "cubs."
In some of the most exclusive and
fashisnablie cluba in the West End, Lon
don, which usually has three lotteries
for the Derby. with an entrance fee of
$25, $40 and S. respectively. The pres
sure of poverty this year was 50 strong
upon the members that the first two
were discontinued, as the entries were
insufficient.
May saw all the saloons in Fitch
burg, Mass, closed, the town having
last fall voted by narrow margin for
no license. The night before the pro-
hibition went into effect was one long,
wild deba UGH the streets and saloons
were crowded and there was free beer
for everyone.
There has just been successfully
tested at Holloway, near London, the
largest balloon in the world. It has
a capacity of 100, 900 cubic feet, weighs
2 $3.50 pounds, and will lift an additional
ton. 1t is to be used in making meteor
illogical observations for a period Of
ten days without descending.
Very curious is the suicide Just CON-
mitted by Levantine millionaire of |
the name of Semama, at Marseilles. |
In the garden of his superb oriental
palace on the Parade he had caused a
marble sepulcher to be built, fitted with
iron doors and furnished with divan.
He has wont to retire here from time
to time, but the other day he failed to
reappear. and on the iron doors being
broked open he was found lying on the
divan, asphyxiated by the fumes of the
burning charcoal.
One of the deadliest serpents In the
tropics is the fer-de-lance, of which
there are at least eight varieties.
These snakes are of precisely the same
color which will enable them to hide
among the foliage or roots of trees.
Sometimes they are bright yellow
and can scarcely be distinguished from
a bunch of bananas within which they
lie coiled. Again, the reptile may be
black, or Yellowish brown, or of any
hue resembling tropical forest mold,
I'D bark or decomposed trees. The iris
If the eve Is orange. With red f1ashes |