The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-02

earned.
A safety vault is the best place for a
lockout.
Prize fighters are "counted out" in
decent society.
Every trust is 4 recruit office for the
tramp's army.
The which kills soonest is the best
and cheapest.
The professional liar Is 4 proof that
advertising pays.
| would not feel as poor as some rich
men do for 81, OOO, 200.
| There are million rainbows In bot
tie of rum, but they are only raiubows.
The man who Is sometimes too pussy
to hear the whistle blow is seldom ont
| of work.
A genuine reformed drunkard would
make the biggest kind of dime museum
attraction.
There are almost four times as MANY
Americans living in England as there
ara In Erapra
1t Is serious question whether the
corkscrew is not mightier than the pen
and sword combined.
The old Jefferson Davis mansion in
Richmond is to be used as a museum for
relics OF the confederacy.
The city of Cincinnati increased her
population $4,000 the other day by the
annexation of five suburban villages.
Judging from the way they fight with
their mouths, there is nothing the mat
ter with the champion pugilists' wind
There are about 10000 Hungarians of
one sort or another in New York, in.
Guiding 10000 Hebrews from the King
dom of Hungary.
The hungarian harvest of last year
was, with the exception of that of 1891,
the best for ten years. The potato
crop was the best since 1882.
The census of ghosts in the old town
of Alexandria, Va, numbers ten souls,
the latest to be enumerated being !
wrath in white clawhammer coat.
While Mrs. Stent of Branford was in
a New Haven lawyers Office having
divorce papers made out Mr.. Stent was
dying of injuries suffered in a railroad
accident.
Argentine has "wheat king"-an
Italian immigrant of the name of Qua.
zone-whose land is In the south of the
province of Buenos Ayres. His last
harvest crop of wheat was grown On
3,72O acres.
A wonderful nugget of tin has been |
discovered in the mines of North Dun.
das, Tasmania. 1t is estimated TO weigh |
5,4O0 pounds. The assay of a small
piece shows that the large mass of ore |
contains 81 per cent of metallic tin.
GermanO's revenue return from post
oh1ce and telegraph service and from
railways during the eleven months of
the current financial year show respec-
tive increases of 9,137, O44 and 2, 800 900
marks as compared with the same period
of last year.
1t was stated in a recent number of
Bradstreet's that "Convicts from the
New York state prison at Dannemora
have constructed 3,4OO feet of macadam
road and $3.50 feet of cobblestone gut
ter, set 5000 feet of curbstone, and
made 4, 1850 feet of earth sidewalk since
June 10 last"
Any one may easily calculate for him
self how many shingles are needed to
cover given space. As a rule, a thou
sand shingles, laid with four inches ex.
posed to the weather, Will cover 100
square feet Of surface, and Eve pounds
Of single nails will fasten them on.
With footrule and five minutes fgur-
Ing anybody can ascertain the expense
of new roof.
One secret of the willows marvellous
tenacity Of life Is to be found, perhaps,
in the fact that It sends It's roots long
way In search Of moisture. 1t was dis.
covered, after an important aqueduct
had caved In, that its walls were cracked
md filed for many feet with roots.
These roots, 1t was discovered, came
rom willows at least thirty feet distant.
The Tyrians were the most expert
lyers of ancient times. The fabrics ,
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