Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-09
HERE AND THERE.

The sale of intoxicants has been
forbidden in all restaurants on the
Grand Trunk Railway.
A Kansas joker has to pay $4,000
for destroying a mans eye with an
explosive cigar.
The liquor dealers of Topeka, Kan
sas, shaved the tail and name of a
horse owned by prosecuting attor-
ney, and made kindling wood of his
carriage.
Morrison Heady, Kentucky blind
man, is fond of chess. He has chess
men with projecting points, so that
he may distinguish by the touch be-
tween them. He is hard to beat.
A hyena which escaped two months
ago from . menagerie At Tulu, in.
Russia, has been doing immense hav-
oc in the neighborhood of that city.
1t tore to pieces a shepherd and sew
eral children.
The Rev. Thomas Motley recently
wrote of Herbert Spencer's system of
philosophy as "filling several yards of
shelf in most public libraries" The
author, apparently shocked by the in
accuracy of the statement, wrote a
note declaring that less than two feet
was the actual space covered by his
thirty years Of philosophical work.
The family Of the late Deacon
Within, of Whitinsville, Mass, who
left an unsigned will, are carrying out
its provisions as if it had legal force.
The Massachusetts Home Missionary
Society has received $4,000, the per-
manent fund of the American Board
*25, 900, the Church Erection Society
$4,000, and the University of New
Mexico $4,000.
A suit of interest to people Of pray
er is threatened at Morris, Conn. A
good widow, who was noted for her
faith in prayer, was offered $40 by an
unregenerate man if she would only
fetch rain in three days. The next
evening it sprinklcd lightly, and the
widow presented her bill. But the
man claimed that the rain wasn't of
contract amount, and refused to pay.
The widow has brought a suit
A recent visitor to the Hermitage
plantation, Andrew Jackson's home,
found it attractive, the house "a sub
stantial brick building) in fair condi-
ton, and the general aspect of the
place far from poverty-strickcn. The
tomb is in secluded corner of the
garden, but there were 'sno marks of
footprints to show that any pilgrim
had very recently offered homage at
this shrine" 1t was intended to make
the place the site of military acad-
envy, but the project failed.
The water drunk in Haverhill is
now drawn from Lake kenoza, of
which Whittier wrote:
Long be 1t ere the tide of trade
Shall break with harsh. .resounding din
And hills that fold thee in.
The poet has his wish. The enly sound
Of machinery heard is the engine at
the water works for part Of the
year, and whose tasteful grounds are
pleasing feature of the scene.
Johnny Sullivan, the pugilist, is to
be the chief attraction of theatrical
show which soon starts out from Bos-
ton. In many cities laws against any
form of sparring exhibitions are rigidly
enforced, but the manager expects to
overcome the prohibition by means of
a brief play, in which Sullivan will
appear as an actor. "Thus,' he says,
81 can proudly point to my boxers as
actors in a mimic struggle. The
authorities can't get back Of that
In accordance with ancient custom
the Lord Mayor of London has re-
ceived from the Crown a present OF
four bucks from Windsor Park, and
other city officials have been remem-
bered. The venison warrants had
their origin in the guarantees to Lon
don citizens that their hunting in the
royal parks and forests should be
secured to them. This is one of the
ancient formalities which seem trivial,
but in an Englishnan's eyes stand for
the integrity of chartered rights.
The belief is firm in Ireland that
both the Judges and the landlord par
tisans, in their denunciations of the
Irish jury system, did not aim at its
utter destruction, bat at what they
would call its reform, and what Others
would call its degradation. They
wanted, it is charged, the power oi
packing juries restored to the Crown
confident that, if juries could be
packed, verdicts Of guilty would be
cial office.
There is good deal of illusion
about the rise Of the Nile. 1t seems
to be thought that for few weeks tn.
delta and the valley of the Nile are I