The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-06-30

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semble those made by the electric per
and are o. dark brown color. Another
! fault of the machine, aside from its
wretched spelling, is that it will not re-
produce figures, but insists on spelling
out the numbers as spoken. Tais, with
the other defects, Mr.. Rumble hopes to
remedy in the course of time.
MISSING LINKS.
California has forty Chinese temples.
The black diamond is so hard that 1t
cannot be polished.
J. H. Day, suspected of incendiarism
was hanged by mob at Monroe, La.
The Egyptians consider it unhealthy
to wash a child until 1t is one year
old.
Moorish women never celebrate their
birthdays, and few of them know their
own ages.
There are eight edible and twelve
poisonous varieties of mushrooms in
the United States.
A perfectly proportioned man weighs
twenty-eight pounds for every foot of
his height.
Transparent leather is a new pro.
duction of foreign make, and its secret
is jealousy guarded.
The Ainu women in Japan tattoo their
faces to give them the appearance OF
men with whiskers.
In Scotland it was for long time
not unusual to place on a mans tomb
stone the symbols of his trade.
A bear weighing 300 pounds, with an
old rusty 25-pound trap attached to one
leg. was recently captured at Mt. Pleas
ant, Mich.
At the end of each hair of a cats
whiskers is a bulb of nervous substance
which converts the hairs into extremely
6a1i~aro foo1avc
A Paris physician who lived to the
age of 107 ascribed his loBgcviet to
placing his bed so that it stood north
and south, in the direction of the great
magnetic currents.
Visitors to the Mammoth cave of
Kentucky are less in number now than
they were ten years ago, although the
cave has been explored to depth of
eleven miles.
The wonderful Chinese encyclopedia
comprises 5000 volumes. A perfect
set-only one in Europe-is about to be
placed in library of the British mu-
scum. The work is very rare, and even
in China there are no more than four
or five copies of this edition.
Antonio Zanardo, an Italian marble
cutter, of New Nork, has invented
stone carving machine. The tool may
be given any required angle to produce
desired undercut, and may be regu-
lated to carve various embossed or in
taglio figures upon the same or Diff
ferent planes.
Bessemer, Ala, owe its origin to the |
fact that in the immediate vicinity
there is vein of iron ore from five to
twenty feet thick and inexhaustible.
The ore can be delivered at the fur
naces for IS cents a ton, Within
twenty-five miles there are GOO, 900
acres of coal fields.
more than Sao,oo0,Ooo. 1t covers three
and half acres, the dome is 9O7 feet
high and 1875 feet in diameter, and is
exceeded in size only by St. Peters in
Rome, st. Paul's in London and St.
1saac's in st. Petersburg.
The state, war and navy departments
at Washington occupy an enormous
structure, erected at cost of $40, O00,.
900, covering four acres of ground and
having twenty acres of floor space.
The treasury building cost So, 0OO, ZOO.
The interior department buildings
cover two large blocks of ground and
Its buildings cost s., ZOO, zoo, 1000.
Louisville, KY, has the largest tobac-
co worehouse in the world. It can
store 1000 hogsheads. 1t has also the