Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-13
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brick hotel at Bristol, Conn, adver-
tises that he will demolish it on April
l, 1883, unless in the meantime the
town reversss its vote of no license to
sell liquor.
Glue, when mixed with one fourth
glycerine, is found to have an elias
ITCHY and pliability which prevents
cracking when dry. a German chem
list in Nuremberg has called attention
to this.
The Rev. Mr.. Waite, of Savoy,
Mass, wrote letter to "Darlinr
Truey," and as the person thus low
ingly addressed is a giddy girl of 20,
who had accompanied the parson to
camp-meeting. Mrs Waite is trying
to get q divorce.
The authorities of Haute Alsace
have issued list of the drunkares in
the town of st. Marie aux Mines and
neighborhood. The list has 81 names;
the youngest is % and the oldest 6S.
lnnkeepers are forbidden. under pen
atty, to supply any liquor to any thus
advertised.
A man shot himself accidentally at
Middletown, Mass, and was likely to
be confined to his bed month by the
wound. To excite sympathy and
bring contributions, he gave an ac-
count of having been fired upon by a
robber. The story was believed until
he got confused in the minor details.
The Bergh Society Of Providence
has prosecuted man who buried a
cat alive. lie dug up the body and
broke its neck, SO as to make people
believe that he had killed it before
interment; but science was too much
Tor him; a post-mortem examination
by experts showing that death was
caused by suffoca.ion
A young man started for drive of
twenty miles with his sweetheart,
through an uninhabited tract in Min
nesota. At point about midway
of the lonely route the pair had a bit
ter quarrel. The fellow unhitched the
horse, mounted it, and rode away,
leaving the girl alone in the wagon,
where she remained all night, and
next day walked home.
The French Sleeping Car Company
has concluded arrangements with the
different Continental railway com.
panics by which through train will
be run from Calais to Vienna, thence
branching off to Russia and the East.
The carriages will consist solely of
sleeping cars, restaurant and a sa-
loon, communicating by means of
passages and platforms. The time
occupied in going from Paris to Vi
emma will be twenty-scvcn hours.
DR.. Hedges, who held winning
hand in the $4,000 poker game at
Newburg, is visiting in Kentucky.
IF he is looking for it, says the
Louisville Courier journal, she can
find a game Of poker somewhere in
the Bluegrass which will make him
think that 100000 isn't crcum-
stance. When one Of Joe Black
burns constituents shifts his home
spun and remarks, 'l'll go you my
hull farm BETTER the man with $780,
600 and four aces had better pass
out"
The curious case against the Ro-
man Catholic Archbishop Of Boston,
brought by the parents of sick girl,
whose religious images the prelate
took away and retained, is at last to
be tried before jury. The child
was strangely soothed by the objects,
and superstitious persons attributed
power to them. The
bishop meant to discourage this be-
lief, and refuses to restore the things.
which are figures of saints cut out of
cheap pictures, and intrinsically val
ucless.
The latest Russian census shows st.
Petersburg and Its suburbs possessed
Of a population Of 927 ,46s, living III
lO,929 stone houses, 9,31S that are of
wood, and 9l3 that are partly both.
The city has IS hotels, go restau-
rants, l,4l6 beer rooms, 10 grog
shops, and .93 wine rooms. Out of
Isl 900 tenements, 1910 are occn-
pied. There are 645 schools, and
100000 children between the ages of
and Is who ought to be attending
school; but as matter Of fact 4. per
cent. Of the boys and 81 per cent. of
the girls get no schooling.
At recent banquet of the Illinois
Pharmaceutical Society, Mr.. +. S.
Baldwin said: "On entering modern
drugstore you walk boldly up to the
and bejeweled clerk,
md, if you know onr business, and
is temperance town, you wink at
he fellow and say something about
Malaria. 1t is matter of inditfer-
'nce just what you say, the single