Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-21

saloon, an intoxicated man fight q
hack-driver, and two men drink
whisky from q bottle. He concluded
it possible that the Maine prohibition
law is sometimes broken in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yarnall lived in the
same house for forty years, at Media,
Pa, without once speaking to each
other, each adhering stubbornly to
resolution not to make the first ad-
vancs toward reconciliation. When
the husband was stricken by fatal ill.,
ness the wife was asked to relent, but
she refused, as did be, and death soon
made their separation complete.
The London bakeries used to be
visited by parish officers. Now they
are controlled by Government inspec-
tors not numerous enough for the eff
cient performance of the work. Re.
cent Investigations showed that many
bakeries are in horrid state. Three
of the more lately built have water
closets in them and forty-fve had ac-
cumulations of refuse under the
troughs.
Prof. Pon6ck, of Breslau, has been
clearing up some of the popular
doubts concerning mushrooms. He
says that all the common ones are
poisonous, but that cooking deprives
them of much of their poison, though
the water in which they are boiled
should be carefully thrown away, and
the esculent washed in two or three
waters. Dried mushrooms are only
safe after four months keeping.
In 1851 the Lord Mayor, at the in
stance of the Privy Council, took a
careful census of London. The re-
suit showed 13O, ,268 inhabitants. In
1886 what we know collectively as
London contained 700, 900 inhabitants.
Sir William Petty estimated that by
1910 London would contain 1O,718,-
800 souls, but that it would reach its
maximum in 1880, and then begin to
decline; but while it has only reach
ed half his estimate, it shows no sign
Of decline. The population of the
city proper has declined $4,000 in
twenty years, and is now 10000 less
than in the reign of James ].
The geological survey of Great
Britain is proceeding at so rapid a
rate that It has been computed by
Prof. Ramsay that the mapping Of the
solid and superficial portions of Eng
land and Wales which still remain
unsurveved will be completed, on the
scale of one inch to mile, eighteen
months from the present time; that of
Ireland in six and half years, and
that of Scotland, to which seven sur
veyors are to be transferred on the
completion of the English survey, in
eleven years. The re-survey, how
ever, for those portions of England
and Wales which were originally only
surveyed for their solid geology will
then take, it is reckoned, twenty
years.
A London paper says: "Sir Garnet
Wolscley's action in first feigning to
take measures in the direction of
Aboukir and then promptly descend
ing on Port Said and 1smailia, is in
accordance with maxims he has him.
self embodied in his Soldiers Pocket
Book. He keeps his counsel that his
army, and even the staff round him,
should be not only in ignorance of his
real intentions, but convinced that he
aims at totally different objects from
what are his true ones. He adds that,
What you lead your army to believe
will soon be credited by the enemy,
whom it will reach by means of spies
or through the medium Of those new
ly-invented curses to armies, l mean
newspaper correspondence In an
other part of his book Sir Garnet
points out how by spreading false
news among the representatives of
the press General may use them to
deceive an enemy"
| A letter has lately been published
by several Partisan newspapers, signed
Alfred Naquet. Alfred Naquct is a
leading Republican Deputy, and the
inventor of a dye for the hair. A
prominent Partisan contemporary hav.
ing called attention to the possible
identity of the legislator and inventor
NJ. Naquet wrote letter avowing the
fact. NJ. Naquet says that he com
bines the occupation of Deputy and
chemist, and that his devotion te
science is as indelible as his hair dye
He further claims to be public bene
factor, because most hair dyes are in
furious to health, whereas his owl
transforms the color of the hair with
out causing the death of the dyer
Feeble humanity, says NJ. Naquet
will dye its hair. It is an unrepubli
can weakness, but that is no reason
why the punishment of death shoult
dog the dyer's footsteps. NJ. Naquo
does not dye his own hair, but he con
fesses to have passed . happy quartz
of an hour when he discovered com
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