Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-02
HERE AND THERE.

unknown 20 years ago.
It's reported that Sarah Bernhardt
has had rockers attached to the cof-
fin in which she used to lie occasion
ally.
Over eighty years ago Lord Corn
wallis wrote: 1.-The life of a Lord
Lieutenant Of Ireland comes up to
my idea of perfect misery
The only persons who have found
this particular month of May very
merry have been the doctors, whose
trade is marvelously thriving.
Mr.. r. Power has introduced bill
for the abolition of the Viceroyalty
of Ireland and the appointment of
an additional Secretary of State in
stead.
Patrick Troy, being about to die,
at Joliet, caused priest and two
friends to carry him out to shed.
There he moved board, and So, 500
rolled forth.
A gentleman of st. Louis named
Baby has applied for leave to change
his name to Barbee, the orthodox
pronunciation of Baby, because his
fellow citizens persisted in calling
him Baby.
"A peculiarly worthless race
Blackwood's Magazine dubs the
Irish. The Scotch hate the Irish
far more bitterly than do the English.
They have absolutely nothing in com
mon with them.
An ark 200 feet long is being built
by an Iowa man who believes that a
second flood will take place in 1885
He intends, however, to take passen-
gers at $4,000 each, and expects to
make fortune.
In the Scotch highlands 40 years
ago the people were cleared out to
make way for sheep. Owing to com
petition from Australia, wool became
barely half what it was, so that sheep
have since had to give way to deer.
Abernethy's Good heavens! what
is to become Of you all.' when he
looked around at the inclpicnt doc
tors in his crowded lecture theatre
begins to come home with increasing
force to the heavy additions to the
curing brigade.
The various election commissions
: in England that have been held dur
ing the last eighteen months, have
cost the ratepayers of the guilty con
stituences about $l26,225. The mos,
expensive process was at Maccles
I field, where S25, 230 has to be paid
f Edward Rosner's wife deserted
him five days after the marriage, at
Pennington, Mo-, drove him to sui
eide by her heartless pertidy, ant
married his rival one day after be
coming a widow; yet she claims hi,
entire estate, and will get it, ther,
being no other heirs.
DR.. Treiber, the German physician
who attended Lord Byron III his las
illness at Missolonghi, and who sub
sequentlv settled at Athens, has jus
died there. DR.. Treiber is said t
have left behinl him some interest
ing notes of his acquaintance witt
Lord Byron.
At Buckland, in England, a yer,
fine elm tree Of great age, which wa
, the principal ornament of the church
: yard, was blown down and split b.
the recent gale, when it was disco.
cred that the enormous trunk was
beehive, containing an accumulate
; Of honey weighing over 5 cwt.
The most remarkable point in cor
nection with the racing in Englan
of the first week in May was the a
= most unbroken series of successe
scored by the jockey Archer, VIII
out Of twenty one mounts, won thi
: teen races-cleven out Of fifteen !:
= Chester, and two out of six at kem)
ton Park.
Mr.. Linton is to receive 1000 gu
meas from Queen Victoria for hi
painting of the marriage of Prime
Leopold. There is regular serit
Of pictures Of every similar event
= her Majesty's reign. Most of the
hang in the grand corridor in Il
private apartments at Wlndso
Among others is hideous dau
IL representing the old Duke of We
lington giving godfathers presel
~ to Prince Arthur.
. They have primitive way in son
parts in Hungary of proceedir
against persons accused of Grim
Miksa Trailla, boy Of Is, employt
as servant in the neighborhood
Temesvar, was suspected Of stealth
about $s from his master. He VI
:, handed over to the police, and beil
~ suspended by the feet, head dow
ward, from a hook in the ceiling, w
belabored for two hours with W
. rope. The next morning the ha
40 dead boy was stretched on the flo
and beaten on the legs and kne
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