Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-26
HERE AND THERE.

1uTiiSI green diiu SupPciy paw
ment.
The Mexican Consul at San Fran
cisco is returning to their native
country many Mexicans, who, like
hundreds of people Of other national
tiles, cannot find means Of support in
that city.
A fve-year-old boy in Noble Coun-
ty, Ohio, Levi Helms by name, is four
feet six inches in height, and thirty
four inches around the chest, and
weighs 121 pounds. He is still grow
ing.
ePatience" has reached and passed
its FIVE -hundredth consecutive perfor-
nance at the Savoy Theater, London,
without change in the cast of the
female characters and only one in the
male.
Nearly all the farmers in the dis
tricts traversed by the recent Iowa
cyclone have guarded against future
loss Of life, in case of such disasters,
by digging pits near their houses for
places of retreat.
A citizen of Cincinnati has discov-
cred that small quantity of Linz
burger cheese taken to bed with him
at night keeps the mosquitoes away.
This certainly shows good taste on
the part of the mosquitoes.
William Young, aged 50, won
wrestling match and ran a mile in five
minutes at an Illinois fair. 1t is
charged that the other wrestler was
bribed, and the timekeeper for the
race is also accused Of corruption;
but all agree, including Young him
self, that Young is wonderful old
man.
An Ohio boy daubed a mans wae-
on with paint. Then the man caught
the boy, stripped him, and covered his
body with ripes of the same color
that had been used in disfguring the
vehicle. Next the boys father went
over to whip the man, and got whip
ped instead. At that point matters
rest for the present.
1t is sometimes costly amusement
to tie firebrand to cats tail, as is
shown by recent occurrence i'll Eng
land. At Hythe two boys engaged
in this amusement. The cat took
shelter in wooden building contain
ing straw and other infammable mater
ial, and the result was fire, in which
the shed and it's contents were destroy
ed, the owner, whose property was not
insured, losing about $500 thereby
Lombardy, althoug gh one-half of il
: is occupied by arid mountains, con.
tains, probably, the densest agricul.
tural population in the world. Ac
cording to the recent official reports
the provinces of Milan and Cremons
have 161 inhabitants to the square
kilometre, and even in the mountain
region Of Como there are 67 dweller.
on each square kilometre. On the
, same area England has only 80
France 40, and Ireland so.
The prohibitory liquor law is still
, openly violated in nearly all the cite
OF Kansas, though pretty strictly en-
: forced in the rural districts. Leaven
j. worth has III barrooms, in whicl
business is not interfered with, an,
!, the owners pay the old city license
} just as they did before the law wa
passed. Topeka has l04 public bar
and Atchison 70. The largest plac
where liquor is sold only out of sigh
d is Emporia, with 5000 inhabitants.
= The farmers of Nairnshire, in Scot
y land, have been greatly annoyed b
= the rocks and wild pigeons, and earl
in the season formed an associatio
. for their destruction. In order to pa
- the cost of killing these birds the
assessed themselves Is. Cd. per ploug
s ss and then offered rewards of penn
per head for rocks and three farthine
for pigeons. 1t is estimated tn,
some 1900 ROOFS and 1000 pigeol
, have in consequence been killed /
the game,;eepers of Nairnshire.
The tax returns of Frankfort-ol
II. the Main SHOW that it possess
weather residents, and larger nun
Der of them in proportion to its pop
lation, thar any city of the German er
N pire. N'ill.nm Won Rothschild pa
y, n income tax o. a'put $4,000, al
his b.other Meyer Ha-l, about I!
sane. These are the largest ta
W. payers, but there are numerous cthe
. bankers, manufacturers, n:erchan
and members of the nobility, who
taxes run up in the thousands.
A physician at Lawton, Mich,
O. also clergyman. In bill which
~ recently rendered for profession
services" was an item of IS for Wis
which, as the patient claimed, We
made solely to administer spirit'
10. consolation, and therefore payment
bet. refused. The doctor, on the otf
81 hand, declares that while it is tt
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