Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-15
HERE AND THERE.


were escaping from creditors and two
from wives, and it was thought that
modest privacy was becoming. The
six artists mentioned were secluded
in the hold when the steamer was
searched for them.
The Supreme Court of Leipsic has
just delivered an important decision
in view of the extensive Anglo-Ger-
man traffic. 1t refused to sanction
the enforcement in Germany of a
judgment obtained in the English
courts. There is no precedent in any
decision Of the High Court of Justice
of England guaranteeing reciprocity,
as is demanded by the German COM
mon law
Under a new law three women are
to be appointed in each county of
Ohio, in conjunction with two men, as
Board of Visitors for the charity and
correctional institutions. They are to
serve without pay, keep themselves
advised of the condition and needs of
the institutions in question, and make
report once year. 1t is hoped
that real philanthropists will accept
the appointments.
In Turkey the political poet still
exists, and is a politician subject to
party vicissitudes, who may meet the
fate of Ovid. Khari Etfendi, one of
the most distinguished poets, was
few years ago, like some of his pre-
decessors, exiled to kasireyeh. The
present Sultan having recalled him,
he Immediately on landing proceeded
to the palace, and may next be heard
of as guest in the palace and favorite
OF the sovereign.
Typhoid fever has been endemic in
Paris in recent years, and in 1880 and
1881 the mortality from this disease
was more than four times as great as
in London. During one week recently
only eleven deaths from cntcric or
typhoid fever were registered in Lon
don, against LOG in Paris. Judging
! from the French official returns,
typhus, however, is now unknown in
Paris, although the disease is still far
from extinct in London.
The will of the Marquis Conyngham,
who died this summer, directed the
funeral of the testator to be of the
plainest description, hat bands, scarfs,
feathers, and Grape to be dispensed
with, and the ceremony to be conduc-
ted without ostentation. He be-
queathcd f2UO to the Rev. Francis J.
Vine, to be expended, at his discre-
ton, for the benefit of the aged and
deserving poor of the parish Of Patrix-
bourne, and made this bequest as an
expression of his opinion that the
money SO given would be more bene-
ficially applied than if spent in osten-
tatious display at his funeral.
A negro woman was testifying in a
Tennessee court, when she was inter-
rupted by the Judge, who asked,
sDo you not know you are lying"
"Yes, sir" she replied. She was ask
ed a number of other questions, but
gave no answer, and the Judge order
ed her to be removed from the court
room. 1t was then discovered that
she was paralyzed, and incapable of
uttering word. She died few
days afterward, and the belief is pre-
valent among the negro population
of the neighborhood that her death
was visitation from God in punish
ment of her perjury.
A recent visitor to Winnipeg, on
the Red river, discovered the ruins OF
the fort which belonged to colony
founded in 1911 by Lord Selkirk, a
Scotch philanthrophist. He came over
with eighty families, and for several
years they prospered, but the destruc-
ton of wheat crop by grasshoppers
made them poor again. Selkirk jour
neyed to Prairie du Chen in the dead
Of winter to get seed for the next
years planting. AT this time there
were 1000 to 1900 persons in the
colony Conflicts as to the owner
ship of the land ensued between Sci
kirk and the Hudson Bay Company
and in 1925, bankrupt and disheart
ened, he returned to Scotland, some
) of the people accompanying him, anc
the rest scattering throughout Canada
The Carmelite Daughters of St
Teresa were instituted in Baltimore il
colonial times by a Jesuit father
This order of nuns is exceedingly
strict, and its members are sworn t.
voluntary privation. Editor McMas
ter of the Freeman's Journal put
forward plan to help them. Thei
specially is a prayer to St. Teresa
and he proposes that contribution
shall be sent along With requests 70
prayers for specified objects. TIL
first contributor of IS was Texa
priest, who wrote: Il have specia
favor to obtain, and could not place
in better hands, as advocates, than tn
!. daughters of St. Teresa One ma
!. sent $40 for a particular praye