The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-18
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1t requires 1890 silk worms 70 pro-
duce one pound OF SILK.
IRON was discovered In Virginia Stne
4 Acct metals found in America) in ITO.
The custom Of numbering houses N
cites did not begin in Europe I'LL the
eighteenth century.
birmingham manufacturers OF CONN
furnishings complain that AmeElcah
competition is injuring them
The British appeal courts have de-
cided that it is Illegal to include IN
the weight Of tea the paper In when
1t is sold. s..-...
Eyery Christmas the Kaiser sends
fo King Edward the head OF Doar'
and the King sends the Kaiser TUT
keys and beef raised on the roya' 90
tate. 49,
The British consul at Foo-ChoW re-
ports that the Japanese can make
matches cheaper than the Chinese ana
are driving the native article from Chl-
nese markets.
According to the st. James GazetVe
II is now Smart to be supersuaous'
Hence English society would regreE
20 see an English princess married 70
an Alfonso XIII.
In the course of law case In Len
don the other day the Judge asked a
witness whether 1t was fact that
people had begun to collect old weath-
er cocks. The witness said 1t was.
In Tunbridge Wells, England. a man
read in his Bible the passage; "And II
Inv right hand offend thee cut 1t on
and at once went into his yard, took
cieaver and chopped his right hand
OF. -.
A band Of robbers succeeded IN
stealing a quantity Of valuable gold
quartz from a mine at Bendigs' New
south Wales, though they bad to climb
1000 feet of ladders to accomplish the
theft. .....
The London Academy Of Music med
al for pianoforte playing counterpart
and harmony has been won by Max
DarenskI, 8 years old. There We're
thirty-nine other competitors, the
youngest of whom is IS years old,
$50 The city Of Cashel, County Upper
airy, was illuminated to celebrate the
arrival of the first railroad train re-
Gently. A railway from Cashei TO
Dublin was authorized by Parliament
in 1914, but it has only just been built
All the Ave planetary satellites dis
covered since 1S48 have been found
by Americans. They include Hyperion
the seventh satellite Of Saturn; Diemos
and Phoebus, the little moons Of Mars
and Phoebe, the ninth moon Of Saturn
In 1908 the Hei-Ti sank near the
Elliot Islands while carrying to japan
g115,0O0,000 in treasure, which was
.portion of China's indemnity. The
Swedish Salvage Company has recOv
cred eight chests of the gold and ex
poets to recover the remainder.
There are ten degrees Of proficiency
In jiu-jitsu in Japan, few attaining
even to the second. Recently, whel
an officer who had shown great prof
cheney In the art died heroically a
Port Arthur his name was advanced
a degree in lu-jitsu, as that was deem
cd the highest possible honor to hi
memory.
According to Mulhall's Dictionar.
Of Statistics, the amount of money an
nually expended on alcoholic liquor
In the United States Is 1925, 000, o0(
S15,000,000 going for wine, $210,000,O0
for beer, $5,000,000 for cider and 500
100000 for spirits. One hundred an
eleven million dollars are estimated t
be paid in taxes,
Failing 10 appreciate recent Ne1
York newspaper joke, the London S
James Gazette gravely announced
IAN Irish schoolmaster on visit I
New York week or two ago was di
covered by a policeman in a sewe
At the police court he explained thE
he thought it was the entrance to tt
new underground railway"
President Roosevelt is Ave feet mir
inches in height and weighs II
pounds. He exercises daily, If 1t
only a series of movements witho,
apparatus, executed in his bedroo
before his morning bath. He is
full-blooded habit-the kind Of mt
who grows very stout-but throus
exercise he keeps his chest measu
eight inches greater than that OF b
waist, and has no superhuous flesh.
The English Church Missionary s
ciety calls attention to the fearful IA
ages of pestilence in several countri
In which its agents are at work.
Uganda the sleeping sickness has d.
olated Busoga and the northern shor
Of Victoria Lake and is fast depor
latlng the Sese Islands. The plague
the Punjah has been claiming as ma
as twenty thousand victims a mon
while cholera, which has laid tht
sands low In Palestine. Is new ragl
I'm Persia.
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