The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-09-15


| public Insane asylum.
A biography of a Missouri politician
begins with these words: "Some time
along about the high water Of 1874 he
acquired a taste for ohic.."
Archbishop vilatte. the head of the
Polish Catholic church, Is about 40
years of age, and was for time clergy
men of the Episcopal church.
It il authoritively announced that
Cardinal Gibbons will visit Europe dur
ing the fall. He will visit Rome and
remain abroad some months.
1t cost George De Johan of New
Orleans fine of S117 the other day for
pluckirg three rare exotic flowers in
Fairmonnt park, Philadelphia.
Paul de Chatllu, who has studied
1900 sagas in Denmark, says they
record the description of i've distinct
voyages of the vikings from Iceland to
this country.
The Ohio Southern railroad has for
it's superintendent Homer G. Dick, aged
% years, probably the youngest rail-
way superintendent in the railway
line.
The widow of Senator Hearst Of Cali
fornia is said to be the most heavily
insured woman in this country. She
has policies amounting to 100000 on
her life.
The Warrior, the first ironclad built
for the British navy, was recently sur
veyed Portsmouth and declared to be
practically worthless. The ship was
built at Blackwell.
A Polish Roman Catholic clergyman
at Passaie, N. j., has gone into the gen.
eral merchandise business, and has the
name of his chur IA and the sign of the
cross over his store.
The oldest member of the forty i'm
mortals of the French academy is M.
Legrouve, who is nearly SO years old.
M Paul Bergen is the youngest member
and Is In his 42d year.
John A. Howard, democratic candi-
date for congress in the Wheeling, w.
Va, district, began his life as glass
blower and devoted his evenings to
study in a commercial college.
The university at Halle, Germany,
has conferred the degree of doctor of
philosophy upon Francis Amasa Walker
of Boston, president Of the American
Economic Association.
It Is said that Senator Dolph of Ore
goa never smiles. In the whole course
of his service in the senate nobody has
ever seen his eye light up or his lip
culver. Why 1t 10, no one has ever had
the courage to ask.
The pope's income amounts to % ,20O,-
900 yearly, exclusive of special gifts
like those Of his jubilee year. Peters
pense provide two-thirds of the amount,
the remainder being the interest on
various investments.
Prince Bismarck's newspaper cfici-
ally denies the story that Bismarck in
an interview compared the anarchists
of Europe to his pigs. When Bismarck
read the SANDER, he said: ~ would
not disgrace my pigs with such com
| parison." -
The pope has an egg which he re.
celved from an. English lady one
Easter The she'll Is made of ivory, the
lining Is of white satin and the yolk is
golden case containing a large rnbJ
set in diamonds; the whole Is worth
upward of e? 900.
M. Fonomarjeff, lately diseased at
st. Petersburg, left by will 1000 ,000
rubles with instructions that they are
| to be placed at compound interest for
ninety-nine years and then used in the
erection, equipment and maintenance
Of university at Irkustsk.
The Society of the War of 1912 of
Baltimore expects to have among its
guests on September IL Captain Hooper,
who Is believed to be the only surviving
participant living in that city. Cap
tain Hooper. now 96 years old, entered
the war when he was II years old.
Senator Butler of South Carolina,
whom Governor Tillman appears to
have completely knocked ont for the
ensuing senatorial term, is Senator Dan
Cameron's chummiest companion. He
lost his right leg In the confederate
service. in which he became . major
general. 80 ~
Many obituary sketches of the late
Mrs. Celia Thaxter asserted that she
married her guardian. The fact IL that
Mr.. Thaxter was a college student
when, happening to visit the Isle of
Shoals, he fell In love with the light.
house keeyer's daughter, who became
the distinguished poetress.
Louise Lease, the 11-year-old daughter
of Aunt Mary Lease, shows that she
has inherited many of the traits Of her
mother. In Topeka the other day she
gathered 100 boys of the refoI m school
uuder the trees and lectured them, tell.
ing them they ought to behave. At
the conclusion she announced she
would be candidate for president some
day and asked them to vote for her.
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