The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-06-23
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In France there are special railway
cars for carrying bicycles.
Only per cent of surgical operations
in amputa.ion are fatal.
There are no known means by which
the scars made by smallpox may be
removed.
Almost IS per cent Of the men man
ming the British mercantile marine are
foreigners.
According 10 the Siamese belief 1t
takes the soul seven days TO reach
heaven after death.
Fasts of from thirty to forty days arc
of common occurrence among the re.
ligious fanatics of India.
The area of the cars individual pos.
sessions of land is greater than the en-
tire extent of France.
| James McCloud of South Dakota has
raised horse which has eight perfect
hoofs, two on each leg.
The District of Columbia has the
largest death rate from consumption of
any part of the United States.
Dwarfs live much longer than giants,
the latter usually having weak constitu-
lions and soft and brittle bones.
A fish caught and thrown on the bank
will rarely fail, when endeavoring to
escape, to jump in the direction of the
water.
British coach and carriage builders
import from America their choicest
spokes, hubs and ribs for wheel manu-
| facture.
| A microscopic examination of a hair
will determine with almost infallible
ertainty to what kind of animal it
belonged.
The gannet, or solan goyse, is pro-
vided with an air custom under his skin.
His body contains about 100 cubic inches
of air.
The Electrical Review says that the
electrical publication of sewage "is
complete success, chemically and bac-
teriologically."
Letters are whirled between Paris
and Berlin through a pneumatic tube
700 miles at the rate of twenty miles a
minutes.
DR.. Caldwell says that there are but
three known tobacco takers"-the
African goat, the hideous tobacco worm
and man.
The lord mayors of London, during
the past twenty years, have collected a
little over 2O,OO0,C0O for charitable
and benevolent purposes.
A girl died at Berlin hospital from
b lood poisoning caused by the light
blue tunic of her soldier sweetheart
touching scratch on her arm.
Window panes of porous glass, which
allow pleasant and healthy vcntila.
tion of a room, while preventing
draughts, have been made in Paris.
The lowest natural temperature on
record was registered in eastern Siberia
in February, 1892, when the thermome-
ter stood at 1877 degrees below zero
Among the Kondeh people, who live
on Lake Nyassa, in Africa, the favorite
form of suicide is to enter the water
and become food for the croccdiles
In Persia, among the aristocracy,
visitor sends notice an hour or two be-
fore calling and gives days notice If
the visit is one of great importance.
Russia is making such successful ef-
forts ia increasing her cotton produc
tion that within five years she expects
to raise all that she needs for home
consumption.
Hermann Harnes, who formerly lived
on farm near East St. Louis, but who
was last heard from in Minnesota, once
slept forty-four months without wax
ing.
In Berlin every cab has registering
machine that tells the fare exactly
what he has to pay, and tells the owner
of the cab what has been earned by
the driver.
The Bovista gigantea, pecies of
fungus, will grow in one night from
the size of pea to as large as water