Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-14
HERE AND THERE.

"A man at an Ann ArbOr hotel, who
owed $40 for board, died of heart dis
ease while the landlord was gone for
q warrant for his arrest.
The pay of Mr.. Harrison, the Boy
Evangelist for his services at the
Loveland camp meeting, near Cincin-
natl, is officially y stated by the treas
urer to have been 800 week and
board.
The Wisconsin man of 80 who has
just married woman of 25 is not
rich, as is usual in such cases, but is
pauper, while the bride has little
money. "It's genuine love match" :"
she declares.
The Iowa prohibitory law will compel
some property to begin pay
ing taxes. The licenses of the ten
saloons at What Cheer have hereto
fore yielded enough money to pay the
tax of the town.
Ritchie was asked why he fired at
and killed brakeman on a train en-
tering Walton, KY, as the men were
strangers, and not word preceded
the deed. He replied, carelessly: 20,
! felt like shooting, and shot,
From the Rev. Mr.. Jackson's SER
mon on faith, in Boston: ssOh! I've
got great faith in de Lord" he cried.
"Ef de Lord was to say, Jackson, 90
butt yer head agin dat tree, I've got
faith to b'leeye dat de tree 'ud be re-
moved afore | got dere."
The Presiding Elder who went to
conduct the dedication of new
Methodist church at Grand Rapids did
not do it. The debt was not all pro-
vided for, and he said he had prom
ised God not to dedicate any more
due bills, mechanics liens, and mort
cages.
The question is being publicly dis
cussed in Quebec whether dentistry
is proper calling for woman. Some
OF the newspapers are condemning
and others defending woman who has
| become dentist, and the clergy of
st. John and Lewis Churches have
prohibited their people from patron.
izing her.
A girl was thrown out of wagon
and seriously hurt on the day before hel
wedding at Media, Pa. Therefore the
ceremony was performed while she lay
in bed, with the bridesmaids grouped
around, and as many of the guests in
the room as it would hold. AS graft.
fication to the company, sister Of the
bride wore the bridal costume.
A Cincinnati physician says that
diarrhea and summer complaints car
be cured by exposing water in blue
bottle to the sun for half hour o.
upward, and then giving one or two
teaspoonfuls each hour until symp
toms change. Water thus affected
by the sun he declares to be grea
nervine and refrigerant, as well as al
astringent.
Excitement was made in Boston b,
a newspaper item which said that the
yenerated Bunker Hill monument wa.
to be "repainted." The mortar ha'
in many places been washed ava,
from between the stones to a deptl
Of six inches, and the spaces are fillec
with growths of moss and vines.
| A man on a New Hampshire rail
road train accidentally sat down on
fellow passengers hat, and by som,
means was compelled by the con
ductor to pay 81 for it. He then de
manded the damaged hat which h,
had paid for, and was refused pos
session. His next proceeding was t.
bring suit against the conductor, an,
there for the time being the matte
rests.
| Mrs. Sharp, the widow of Mem
phis judge, fell i'll love with Capt
Leach and asked him to marry he1
He blushingly declined. She assure,
him that her estate was large enough
to support them both, and urged he
suit ardently, but he was immovable
reminding her that he had never glvel
her any encouragement, and hopin,
that she would not take his answe
unkindly. But she did. She wrote
statement of her sorrow for the Ap
peal, and attempted suicide.
An edition de luxe has just ap
, peared of NJ. Arsene Houssaye's curl
GUS book on the ''forty-first chair i
the Academic Francaise e"-that is t
say, on the illustrious authors VIII
. have never been elected. These in
clude the names of Descartes, Pasca
La Rochefoucauld, Moliere, lie Sage
Beaumarchais, Beranger, Dumas pert
etc. This edition, which is printe
for subscribers, contains etchings afte
the most authenic portraits.
!. William H. Armstrong, the ne,
United States Railroad Inspector, be
gan his duties few days ago by
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