The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-05-28
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| Tame snakes are used IN Morocco 10
clear houses Of rats and mice.
A Sicilan tribunal sentenced noted
forger to Imprisonment for 199 years.
The Seven Star Inn at Manchester,
England, boasts of having been IL
censed for $50 years.
In 1881 the London birth rate aver
aged 1922 a thousand. 1t steadily de-
clined to 29.5 in 1902.
A man turns $4,000 spadefuls of
earth in digging an acre and moves in
all weight of $50 tons.
The Russian governments revenue
from the liquor trade this year will
reach about $359,OOOOOO.
The Swiss Alpine Club has within
the last four years spent $4,000 in
building refuge huts on various noun
tains.
Diamonds have been found recently
near Pretoria, but it Is considered
doubtful whether it would pay to open
mines.
In the schools of Rhenish Prussia a
change Of stockings and shoes is pro-
vided for the use in school Of children
who arrive with wet feet.
An old gentleman In Australia broke
off the engagement between his daugh-
ter and a young man because the
young man led the thirteenth trump at
whist.
Taxes are paid on 10000 dogs in Ber-
lin. In addition to these there are
2,163 dogs. 221 belonging to blind and
deaf people, 2,651 used for drawing
small carts and 118 belonging to the
Kaiser.
Don't bury me on Thursday" were
the dying words Of John Penn, an Eng
lish member Of Parliament There Is
little girl opposite who is going to be
married on that day, and it would be
grewsome."
The smallest conscript, at the latest
drawing for service in the French
army, was Joannes Chabaud, of Yer
pilltere. His height Is two feet eleven
inches and he weighs sixty seven and
one-half pounds. His age is twenty
one.
There are at present over 100000
Jews in Russia. 1t Is estimated that
since the Laws of May" more than
100000 of them have been driven out
Of the villages and compelled to in
crease the oVercrowding in the ghettos
Of the city.
The archivlst Of Montecassino has
just discovered in that famous abbey
a parchment containing historical mat
ter Of Importance hitherto unknown,
and bearing upon the period of the
struggle between Gregory VII. and
Henry w.
According to statistics compiled In
Havana, Cuba exported baled leaf to-
bacco to the value Of $12,OO0,OOO and
cigars to the same value. America took
more than one-half of the tobacco in
bales, and received less than one
fourth of the cigars.
The London Daily News wants to
know whether the Napoleon statue in
Washington will represent the Corsi-
can in his uniform as a general of the
republic or in the uniform he designed
for himself when 1.-THE pear was ripe"
and he overturned the republic in 1904.
Japanese postage stamps are rated
as the most artistic In the world,
There is great demand for them In
London at present. The first stamns
were issued in 1871. There are few
rare ones, the highest price ever
known to have been paid for one being
$50.
The Japanese women are as activa
and strong as the men. An English
writer on physical culture suggests
that this may account for the Jan,o
courage in war. After he has settiad
his domestic problems with a wife ss
muscular and agile as himself wor
has no terrors for him.
Boston, Mass, is called tho C,+u
Notions from the amount of yoD,,o
notions manufactured there. The c,tr
was nrst called the Hub of the IT,;
verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
!" ASneu 10 convey the idea that the