Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-03
HERE AND THERE,

cial Wiener Zeitung, ridicules the re-
port Of the alleged clandestine coro-
nation of the Car. The writer. who
speaks with authority, states that this
ceremony has been definitely fixed for
next May. The date of the event
will be formally announced to the
Cars subjects and to all the world
several months previously BY an i'm
perial manifesto. The Gar has or
dered plans prepared for a new and
magnificent palace, which he intends
to erect at St. Petersburg close to the
shores of the Gulf of Finland.
A disturbance took place at the
Opera Comique in Paris few nights
ago, during the performance Of 'Phile-
mon ct Baucis. Shortly after 8
o'clock, a military doctor attached to
the Third Engineers left his seat,
and rushing down to the ticket office,
inquired in violent language why
Nine. Bilbaut Vauchelet was not sing
ing in the opera. On being told that
the artistic did not sing for the simple
reason that she had no role to perform
that evening, the doctor flew into a
passion and inflicted severe punish
ment with his fists on the astonished
official. The police took the offender
to the station, where he was found to
be insane.
Geological examination of the delta
OF the Mississippi now shows that for
distance of about 800 miles there
are buried forests of large trees, one
over the other, with interspaces Of
sand. Ten distinct forest growths of
this description have been observed.
which it is believed must have sue
ceeded each other OF these trees.
known as the bald cypress, some have
been found over rs feet in diameter,
and one contained $500 rings; in
some instances, too, huge trees have
grown over the stumps of others
equally large. From these facts,
geologists have assumed the antiquity
OF each forest growth at 10000 years,
or 100000 years for all.
Privates in the United States mill
tary service who have disappeared
from San Francisco without leaving
any trace of their whereabouts are
now supposed to have been kidnapped
by press gangs for service on English
vessels. A private named Mcclure
was thus treated recently. He was
piled with drugged drinks, taken
aboard British ship, and when he
came to his senses was informed that
he had agreed to go along on voyage
to Cork as a man before the mast.
His efforts to communicate with his
officers ashore were fruitless until he
fastened a letter to piece of wood
and threw it aboard passing steam
er. The letter reached its destination,
and caused the mans release through
the interference of of Government Of
ficials and the British Consul.
Barry Sullivan, who, the cable tells
US, is about to enter Parliament as
SUI porter of Parnell, though generally
regarded as an Irish representative
actor, was born in Birmingham, in
1924, and brought up in England. He
made his first appearance in Cork in
lS4O, and after winning considerable
fame in Liverpool, Manchester, Edin-
burgh, and Dublin made a successful
debut at the Haymarket, London, in
Hamlet" in February, 1852. In
1857 he appeared in this country at
Burton's Theater, and made tour of
the States. From 1860 to 1866 he
devoted himself to dramatic affairs in
Australia, where he was chief actor
and manager of one Of the principal
theaters. He returned here in 1876,
and played an unsuccessful series of
engagements under the management
of jarrett & Palmer. He is a car, f 1,
correct and perspicuous declaimer,
but never startled his audience. He
will be the first actor who has held a
seat in the House of Commons.
The Dowager Duchess of Galleira
not long since bestowed two splendid
estates on the Pope. The way this
old lady became SO rich is curious.
The late Duke possessed fortune of
3OO,0OO,OOO francs, which would, by
the ordinary course of devoluton, go
to his only son. The heir, however,
in his fathers lifetime, declared that
he intended to renounce the world.
Instead of retiring to cloister, as he
would have done in the middle ages,
he went IN his twentieth year into the
territory Of Nice and applied for sit
uation as village schoollnaster. His
father regarded the thing as mere
freak, and sent his son every year
100000 francs. The young man, how
ever, sent this sum every year to Par
is, requesting it should be spent on
the poor. After three years the Min
lister of Instruction, finding out who
the schoolmaster at Nice was, ap-
pointed him to hioh official post.