Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-29
HERE AND THERE.


Canon Farrar says that the Saliva
ton Army is composed Of rowdy
Christians.
A Mayence frmhas contracted to pay
Wagner nearly $4,000 for the right to
publish the score Of "Parsifal'
There is farmer in Ohio who has
not sheared his sheep in five years,
because, as he claims, Providence in
tended the sheep to wear their wool.
Sixty-one thousand acres more of
Adirondack lands have been sold to
men who will strip them Of their tim
Der and spoil them for hunting or
fishing
Buhaloes III Dakota scratch their
ponderous foreheads against the tele-
graph poles SO vigorously that much
damage and inconvenience are caused
to telegraph operators.
The Victoria Cross is special dec
Grafton for personal valor under fire
in the British army, and though it has
occasionally been won by a Lord it
has never yet fallen to a prince of the
blood.
A negro congregation at Austin,
Texas, thought their pastor had their
color in mind when he frequently
spoke of the "powers of darkness" and
requested him to stop such talk or re-
sign.
In the northern part of Chester
county, Pa, the farmers boys use
snake skins for cart whips. They find
the snakes six feet long, and their
skins being preserved for while in
alcohol, make excellent whips.
!, An air tight clock is being made
for Wesleyan University. 1t winds
itself by means of an electric appar-
atus, and as the air is exhausted from
the case when it is started, atmos-
pheric disturbances are avoided.
An order to the Russian army for
bids any officer to wear eyeglasses
, while in uniform. The fashion for
them, which has lately sprung up in
the Russian army, has made four
ffths of the officers claimants of bad
sight.
, A Dublin woman has been for years
drawing money from the public charity
fund, and food from two private chari
/, ties. The money she has lent at
usurious rates, and the food she has
i. sold, and added the proceeds to hel
II banking capital.
# 1t is very hard to get rich in theat-
: rical management. George X. Good
\ win was for years the foremost man
ager in Philadelp phia, latterl y controll-
ing three theaters, and regarded as
highly successful in his business; yet
his will shows an estate of only $2O,.
600.
Deacon Smith of the Mount Cal
vary Baptist Church was fined 81 ant
costs at Hartford for whipping ,
brother Baptist, who had charged hin
: with fondness for policy shops. "I's'
bang-up Christian, and Brudde
Lanes liar,'' was the deacon's de
fense.
"A 4NGW ollCdIlo llldIl illACHlSu di
intoxicating beverage, which he SAT-
was bound to revolutionize the pro
cesses of pleasurably getting drunk
n He invited some friends to dinner am
y tried the new liquid on them. The
drank it with avidity and rolled com
fortably under the table; but mex
', day they had to be put under ply
sician's care, and the host has gone t
. work to perfect his invention.
!. Nabant, rocky peninsula nea
= Boston, where few rich people G
every summer in quest Of pure Sc
o air, had severe outbreak of typhoi
. fever last year, there being about s
cases. Nearly all, an investigate
shows, were due to bad drinking W,
1d ter. These people, who gave muc
attention to upholstering, sunk wei
10 and let the water take care of itsel
Out of 100 wells and cisterns exam
ined, Ill were bad.
Lawn tennis has become so sciel
&C. tifc game, with the "volleying" no
in practice, that English clubs a
ss ss; considering changes which will lengt
en- the rallies, and leave it less depe
dsnt on sheer strength and swiftnes
It is proposed to make the net Il
= same level all over, thus helping Il
base-line player considerably. II
play would then no longer be cram
ed by the necessity of returning sw
the balls over the centre of the net f
- fear of striking out of the court.
The Irish constabulary, which h
Just been in semi-mutiny, and {
Gr which the preservation of law in II
W land depends, was created in 1Sl
and was borne equally by the cou
ntv. ties and the consolidated fund.
1876 the whole expense was undert
ken by the Government and the for
made semi military. 1t consists
an Inspector-General, a Deputy