Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-17
HERE AND THERE.


byhaving her shoes BACKED, Just like
a man, in front of the Revere House.
A veterinary department is to be
opened at Harvard this fall. The
course is arranged to cover three wears
of theoretical and practical instruc-
ton.
DIR. Schliemann is suffering from a
malarious fever, contracted during his
excavations i'll the Troad last winter.
He is at Marienbad, in Bohemia, drink
ing the waters.
\ material supposed to be dccom-
posed coral is being used for build
ings i'll FIJI. 1t is soft in the mass,
and easily cut into bricks, which har-
den OH exposure and are very durable.
Hanson cabs, Of precisely the Lon
don pattern, are to be introduced in
Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. Two persons
may travel a mile and half in any
direction from the station for twenty
five cents.
On March %, 1879, Mr.. Coke, faith
er Of the present Earl of Leicester,
voted on the motion of Sir George
Saville, seconded by Mr.. Dunning,
afterward Lord Ashburton, for Cath
Ole emancipation. On March %,
1929, emancipation was carried, Mr..
Coke in his place in Parliament re-
peating his vote for it.
There We're lO5 men at political
meeting i'll Grass Valley, California,
to choose twenty-one delegates to a
State convention. All wanted to be
appointed. TO solve tie problem,
their names were put in hat and
twenty drawn out; and .sthe del
egates agreed that it was the best rep
resentation Grass Valley has had of
late years.
Charles Il. Ford had spent three
years in State prison, but he was re-
garded as a thoroughly reformed man,
and no opposition was made to his adj
mission to the Detroit bar. He has
since attempted to pass forged notes,
and been SO much of a disgrace to his
profession that hundred LAWYERS of
his county have signed a petition to
disbar him.
a curious miser was John Birdsall
of Rush, Ind, who brought 5000 in
gold from California twenty years ago,
buried it in an iron pot, and told no
body. His family have Of late suffer-
ed for food, and, when absolute star.
walton threatened them, he dug up his
treasure and went off with it, leaving
his wife and four children to the Poo,
master
The fight between Goss and Hill, at
jackson. Miss, was with new, heavy,
long-lashed whips. Two lines were
drawn, eight feet apart, and these were
toed by the combatants, who were
stripped to the waist. The victor was
to be the one who stood longest at the
scratch. \ great crowd witnessed the
brutal exhibition, which lasted three
hours, and resulted in draw. Both
were terribly laccrated and exhausted,
but neither would acknowledge him
self beaten.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut
has decided that women are eligible
to membership i'll the bar of that State,
and Mary Hall, by virtue OF this deci-
sion and the certificate OF the Bar
Committee that she has passed the
necessary examination, will be admit
ted to practice law in Hartford coun-
ty. Women have been already az
mitted to practice law in Missouri,
California, and the District of Column
bia, and may practice before the ST.
preme Court OF the United States after
three years practice i'll the highest
courts OF any State, Territory, or of
the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Sturgeon, though in much bet
ter health than when he preached last
spring, still bears traces of the suffer
ing he has undergone. His feet are
equity, and this dctracts from the
prolnptness and agility with which lie
assembled to the pulpit in former
times, when the female members of
his congregation would rise and peep
over each others shoulders to watch
his movements. His hands are swol-
len and twisted with rheumatic govt
SO that his gesture is no longer free
and unconstrained as of old, but his
voice still possesses that charm and
variety Of tone which III times past
have overcome the scruples of the
most obdurate.
Pasquale Farale of Naples, be-
queathed to Queen Victoria an un-
published q era, ito be performed for
the benefit of the poor of London"
and $4,000 for the purpose Of grant.
ing yearly forever three marriage por-
tons of $50 each for three poor girls
Of London between the ages of 16
and 20, who are to be chosen by lot.