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

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calmly wait for crocodile to open its
mouth and show the way to eternity.
The ship Brittanic recently completed
her 2o0sh round voyage and 4OOth pas
sage across the Atlantic. This means
she has travelled distance of nearly
1,50O, 900 statute miles with her orig
inal engines and boilers, an achieve
ment probably without parallel In the
history of steam navigation.
Tnere was once man in Washing
ton who. through his bad habits, lost
every faculty he ever possessed except
the ability to write shorthand. That
he retained, and, by reporting debates,
continued to make money as fast as he
could drink it up.
A field measuring a fraction over an
acre belonging to the hospital for the
insane at Danvers, Mass, has produced
in one crop 1,434 bushels of the best
quality of onions, the exact yield being
equal to 1,os2 bushels per acre.
A section of sequoia gigantia sent
from California to the British Museum
has had its annual rings counted ana it
turns out that the tree was ,a3O years
old. Yet the diameter of the tree was
only fifteen feet.
Striking miners at colliery in Polish
Ostan attacked the soldiers who were
guarding the men at work. The gend.
armes opened fire, killing nine and
wounding twenty others.
The seven tourists imprisoned in the
Souraish cavern in Austria since April
% were rescued by government enei-
neers. They were almost insane from
the nervous strain.
The last census of India was taken
with marvellous celebrity and thorough.
ness. One million people were EN-.
ployed as census takers, and the huge
task was done chiefly in one day, the
Goth of Feb, uary, 1891.
Texas penologlsts claim that the de-
veiopment of the brewing interest
has led TO reduction of homicides.
They assert that beer doesn't stir up
murderous passion as whisky does.
A New York life-saver, after a series
Of observations extending over a period
Of twenty years, says that the super
'tition that drowning person rises to
The surface three times is entirely un-
A PENNSYLVANIA district attorney be.
ieves that no person can chew gum
Ind give intelligent testimony at the
anne time, and he will examine no wit
less who attempts it.
The "King of Water Moon" is the
lame given the largest gold nugget
:ver found in Australia. 1t wss found
n 1889; weighs 223 pounds and ounces.
There is vessel that was built on
he Clyde, is owned In Boston, halls
rom Honolulu, and Is named after
,hinaman who lives in Hawaii.
A French juggler Of vital statistics
avs that the number of deaths in the
'orld during single century closely
pproximates 5000, 900.
A Texas plant with grayish green
.af, resembling the left foot of an OK,
known in the lone star aud adjoining
tates as the "devil's cattle"
The residents of Frankfort. on.the.
lain are 50 superstitious regarding the
nmber Is that no house on any of It's
reefs bears that number.
Liverpool has just extended 1t bouu-
lries, taking in several suburban dis.
lets, and Is now the second largest
ty in the British Empire.
A horse that died IN Reading, Pa,
" days ago at the age of SO had been I
the habit of taking his whisky as
ten as he could get it.
Bosouit's late pamphlet, "Man Of the
neteenth Century" says that only
e man out of each 2O3 attains a
yht of over six feet.
Railroads in Holland are 50 carefully 6
mayed that the accidental deaths on n n
I'm average only one year for the la
tire country. 81
Patriotic women unveiled a mono.
to Mary Washington at Fredericks. r
rg, Va. President Cleveland made \
address. Va
Constant Coquellin. the actor, is
to be worth more than 1000, 900 n
mes, which he has amassed in his L
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