Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-22
HERE AND THERE.

n IarlS manufacturer claims to
have found an excellent cigar wrap
per in eucalyptus leaves.
Suicides in London averaged last
year one per diem. The bodies re-
claimed from the Thames were two
per week.
Epping Forest, East London's s
playground, is a little more than
seven times the size of Central Park,
and includes lakes. ~ ~
Twenty-Five cases Of insanity in
France are known to have been di-
rectly caused by the panic which
resulted ih the failure of the Union
Generate.
The Bulletin de Thcrapeutique re-
ports case of severe lead poisoning
in an inveterate smoker. He had
been in the habit of using matches
eolored with chromate of lead.
The Lancet says that Jumbo is
not mad, adding: Gas a matter OF
fact, there is not the smallest ground
for supposing that elephants are par
ticularly prone to insanity. What
Jumbo requires for the next year OF
two is to live among his kind"
knowledge addresses these alarm.
ing words to the modern burlesque
writer's who make horrid puns and
their equally inculpated audience
who enjoy them: "It is not, per-
haps, commonly known that ten
dency to make puns is regarded by
many students of mental physiology
as a sign of cerebral disease"
According to an official return
which was published last week. 4,O44
persons were drowned within the
limits of Great Britain during 1880.
This large number does not include
deaths from shipwreck. There were
3,274 males and ITO females, and
l,Ol9 of the whole number were chill
dren under IL; Ala were suicides,
424 bathing accidents, and 81 were
murders.
The London Spectator says, re-
specting Cyprus, "'the strong place
of arms, which, through the wis
dom of Lord Beaconsfeld, we now
possess conditionally as tributaries
Of the Sultan for safeguarding India,
and regenerating Turkey. and which
was to be mine of wealth for Brit
ish enterprise, costs us $3.50, 900 a
year, without any compensating ad-
vantage whatever
The Labor Standard, organ of the
English trades unions, raises the
question Of sending some of its sick
poor to the south of France during
the coming winter. The unions do
not ask for aid in doing this; they
simply believe, in accordance with
late hygienic teachings, that in many
cases the money for the sick would
be better employed in this way than
in paying for beds in hospitals.
1t having been stated that the
Duke of Argyll intended to join the
Conservative party next session, His
Grace has been communicated with
on the subject, and has replied as
follows: II can only say that l ad-
here to the principles which l con-
slider to be liberal, and that l desire
to be free from all ties which would
hamper me in the assertion of them,
whether by one Minister or by an
other.'
A Salzburg wine merchant was re-
Gently fined 1925 and imprisoned for
two months for adulteration. He had
purchased 5000 small casks of wine,
which by additions of water, alcohol,
potato sugar, wine dregs, and salt in
enormous quantities, he had in
creased to $4,000 casks. This mix
ture, which was sold at five times its
value, recalls the dying yintncr's ad-
vice to his son: "Always remember
that you can make wine out of any
thing wine."
A London lecturer on female attire
said recently: Dressed as women
are, the less exercise they take the
better for health. In fact, they arc
seldom fit to stand erect or walk a
block, but should be rolled around or
carried on palanquin. Not one
woman in 10000 has room inside hel
clothes for the rise and fall Of the ribs
in breathing, and there is not one III
10000 whose vital organs are not dis
placed by external pressure. While
this is so, the less exercise the better.
Announcement Extraordinary.