Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-25
HERE AND THERE.

ne hOthSchlldS are said to hold
sixty millions in Egyptian bonds.
An educated Cherokee Indian is
editing a small journal at Fayetteville,
Ark.
The Madeira road at Brighton, in
England, has become a great place for
ladies on tricycles.
Newspapers throughout Kansas
claim that there is an unprecedented
scarcity of male help on the farm and
female help in the kitchen.
Representative of all the Protes-
tant missionary societies are being in
vited to missionary conference to be
held in Calcutta in Christmas week.
Judges of the Supreme Court in
Arkansas prohibit by formal orders
the sale of liquors within a distance
Of three miles from public or pri-
vate school.
1t is said that the invention and
subsequent improvements of the
American plough made saving on
last years crop in this country of $780,
100000.
Mount Eagle, Tenn, has been sell
ected as the site for the establishment
of a Southern Chautauqua, to be con-
Quoted on the broadest basis of BIZ
blical Christianity.
\ family has distinguished itself at
La Porte, Ind, by piecing three gor-
geous bedquilts from samples Of silk
obtained free by mail from merchants
in the large cities.
A waiter in Paris some time ago
swallowed large spoon, and he has
just recovered from the operation Of
an incision in the stomach through
which the spoon was extracted.
AS an evidence of the business
boom in Dakota, it is reported that
over mile of freight cars are daily
standing on the side tracks in Pierre
awaiting their turn to be unloaded.
A species of cactus is made useful
in Florida. Tie strong fibre OF it's
leaves is turned into rope, its juice in
to a pleasant beverage, and its trunk,
after the removal Of the pith, into
pals.
During August 2,l23 Chinese left
San Francisco by steamer, the greater
part returning home. Twelve passen-
gers and cighty-six sailors arrived,
but were sent back by the earliest con-
veyance.
Last year the Millers' Association
of Minneapolis handled about 10000
600 bushels of wheat, requiring the
use of $13,OOO,O0O. 1t has now in
the field nearly 300 buyers, and ex-
poets to handle 100000 bushels
during the present season.
DIR. Lovett and Judge Merriweather,
of Newton, Ga, married the twin
daughters of Bishop Andrew. Both
becoming widowers, they married two
more Of the Bishops daughters. Being
again bereaved, they have for third
time married sisters.
Since it was discovered that a
family at Logan, Kan, had lost FIVE
servant girls in succession by marriage,
the State Commissioner of Immigra-
ton is overwhelmed with letters from
Eastern maidens, asking the speediest
means of reaching that house.
The Mayor of Fayet lille, Ark, in
sists that he has no jurisdiction over a
drunken man, and declines to try any
one who is intoxicated; whereupon a
newspaper opponent remarks that the
new way to escape punishment is to
be on perpetual spree.
A marriage engagement between a
jew and Christian girl in Cincinnati
was broken through by the persistent
efforts of the mans mother, whose
objection was solely that of religious
difference; but she relented after the
girl had almost died Of poison.
Successful experiments are reported
at Champaign, ILL.,, in making sugar
from sorghum cane by new process
discovered by the Professor Of Chem
istry in the Illinois State University.
At the first run of the machinery it
yielded 1000 pounds Of excellent
sugar.
Over $S,OOO,o0O worth of cotton
seed meal is imported annually into
Great Britain, and English grazers
claim that through its excellence as
food they can compete with Americans.
1t appears strange that Southern farm
ers should allow so much of this choice
feed and splendid fertilizer TO go
abroad.
The Tichborne claimant has writ
ten letter from Portsmouth convict
prison to his wife, who is now in South
ampton workhouse, announcing his
intention OF suing for divorce. He
has probably been annoyed by the
fact that his wife has had three lille
gitimate children since he has been in
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