Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-30
HERE AND THERE.

SouoSuS WIN P@SSHhSht - I'll
healthy.
Preparations on vast scale are
making for celebrating the silver we'd
ding OF the Crown Prince and Princess
of Germany on Jan. 25 next.
Casseli's Family Magazine Justly
observes that actual knowledge Of
household work makes mistresses
more reasonable in requirements of
servants.
The Philadelphia Music Festival
Association has been organized with a
guaranteed fund of 100000 for the
purpose Of getting up festival in
April. '-' -e--ss.-4--
Revivalist Penn prayed fervently
for the death of two Texas ruffians
who disturbed his camp meeting, and,
as one died next day, the followers of
Penn believed that the prayer was an
swered.
A portion of the Jackson, Mich,
copper mine accidentally caved in, re-
vealing large body of excellent ore,
the existence Of which had been sus-
pccted. 1t is clean, and nearly forty
feet thick.
In Harvey county, Kansas, many
hundred buxom Mennonite girls may
now be found in the extensive broom
corn fields. They appear to like the
work, and present splendid pictures Of
good nature and robust health.
The immense cost of living in
Egypt is very serious matter for the
British troops who will have to re-
main there. The prices for every
thing are enormous, and the whole
days pay of subaltern will purchase
him but one meal at hotel.
A Providence woman found that
whipping did not subdue her son,
and so she made him drink quart OF
dishwater. As he was still obdurate,
she burned his tongue with a red hot
poker, and he succumbed. He. is now
in a hospital, and she in Jail.
Kate Tompson was so eager to mar
ry Andrew Van Horn, at Hope, Ind,
that she eloped with him; but when,
within an hour of the ceremony, he
got Mlariously drunk, she was SO
eager to get rid of him that she went
home alone, and has sued for = di.
vorce-
In the old times, when people trav-
eled by diligence in France, one trav-
eler was killed in every $4,000 and
one wounded in every 10000. Now,
when travel by rail, one is killed per
5,17S,4 ,490 and one wounded per $780,
455. Railway travelling is thus near
ly twenty times as safe as travelling
by diligence.
Many of the leading mercantile
men of London are among the most
active and interested supporters OF
scientific societies. The Stock Ex
change and Lloyds include enthusias-
tic botanists, scientific agriculturists,
&c. Some years ago the first Hebrew
scholar in London was asserted to be
retail tradesman.
The Prince Of Wales killed three
splendid stags on October at Brae-
mar, in Scotland. The Duke of Cam.
bridge killed four stags. A stag
dance by torch-light took place in the
evening in front Of the Castle, in pres
ence Of the Prince and Princess oi
Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and
the other distinguished guests.
ice.Admiral Orenga, commander
of the Italian squadron at the Piraus
has visited the works of the Isthmus
of Corinth Canal, which he found ad.
vancing very slowly, only 200 work.
men being employed. But next
spring the steam engines and perfora
tors now in course Of construction vii
come into action, and it is hoped tina,
the canal will be finished by 1887.
If the Indian tea trade has an
enemy, a stone ready to his hand may
be found in an advertisement in a
paper published in the Punjaub. l,
begins in these terms: ITO tea plan.
ters in Dehra Doom and kangra Val.
ley. For sale-Soapstone, very usefu
for ooloring green teas" and proceeds
to give the terms per maund at which
this very useful article can be deliver
ed at certain railway station.
A passenger in Boston street-cal
pulled the vest button of the con
ductor and was surprised to hear a
bell ring. 4 new device for stealing
fares was thus discovered. Bell
punches are used on that line, and the
old plan Of carrying small gong ir
the palm Of the hand to strike wher
pretending to punch slip has becom.
dangerous. So the plan of conceal
ing the gong in the vest and connect
ling it with button was invented.
Owing to the rapid increase in mum
Der of speculative matrimonial, birth
day, and short endowment insurance
companies in the southern States, and