Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-02

cede and put an end to the torture,
was thrown into prison by order Of
that fuctionary, and heavily ironed.
On the third day by order of higher
officials, who had been informed of
these doings, the two brothers were
released. Such occurances are not
rare among the densely ignorant
country populations of eastern Eu-
rope.
Although the Scotch profess to
idolize Burns, they allowed their
greatest poet to spend his time in
drinking beer, and at this moment
they are permitting his nephew to
die in the workhouse. Gilbert Burns,
an old man-of-war's man, is now, in
his Slst year, in Glasgow poorhouse.
A couple Of hundred pounds would
enable him to end his life in peace
and comfort; but the money does not
seem to be forthcoming A Perth
shire paper is organizing move
ment' to wipe off national re-
proach,' but as yet it does not APP
pear to have met with much success.
TrichinR continue to give a SUR
prising amount of trouble in Ger
many. Inspectors have been ap-
pointed in every district, stringent
rules are in force for the microscopic
examination Of pork, and negligence
or evasion of the law is severely pun
| IShnI Nnvart baI hn In r,fir
fected meat often with fatal results,
is thing of frequent occurrence in
all parts Of the country. If Ameri-
can pork were half as likely to be in
fected with with trichine as that
raised in Germany, it would not be
admitted into single Eurpean port.
By comparison the American meat,
free as it is from government inspec-
tion, is singularly pure.
The ordinary high hat has gen
orally been denounced as grievous
imposition Of fashion, but it has at
last been turned to a really useful
purpose. The Swiss Federal Coun-
Gil was at its wits end to know what
to do with the requests 70: invita-
tions to the st. Gothard festivities,
and there were 900 gentlemen at
: least whose claims were undenia-
bic, but all of whom the Council did
not see its way to feeding and lodg-
: ing for three days" In this emerg-
G ency the Council has intimated that
"cylinder hats and black coats will be
. de rigueur,' and this costume is so
!. abhorrent to Switzers that many will
e stay away rather than wear the hat.
: Journals Of Prussian Poland la.
ment the rapidity with which that
country is becoming Germanized
:. Language, property, and population
| are all falling into the control of the
dominating Teutops. The Polish
peasantry is emigrating, large pro
| portion coming to the United States,
J. and German farmers and handi-
8 craftsmen are being sent for to take
6 their place. This, together with the
fact that German is the official and
: judicial language, is enough to
:, :, crowd out the original vernacular.
: AS to the landed estates of the old
! Polish nobility, they are fast being
= = bought up by German capitalists
: During 1881 nearly $4,000 acres ol
!, land were sold by Polish owners to
:" German purchasers. In the pas,
four years nearly 100000 acres went
J that way. Polish patriots endeavol
$ in vain to stem the tide. The dream
1 of restoration of the old nation is
y fast falling.
:. Most people who see that 2s6,O0(
:. = young men are brought forward an
: nually for military service in France
attach an exaggerated significance tt
4. this number. As a matter of fact
. not one-third of them go just nov
= into the ranks for five years service
IS Out of every hundred Of these youth!
O. seventeen serve only for year or 81,
= months, twenty are exempted
at for family or educational reasons
p five or six are set aside for auxiliary
service because of minor bodily de
Il fects, nine extra small and of weak,
is make are put back for two years, AM
ce twelve are declared totally unfit fo
es service. Thus we have the signiti
in cant fact that the large proportion 0
m y per cent Of the young men 0
he France are, at the age of 20, more o
'r. less physically untitled for militar,
b, service. The standard Of education
Il may be judged from the fact tha
Mt one in every seten recruits can nei
ther read nor write. Ten years ag
ne the proportion Of the iliterate wa
ng about one in five, and fifty years ag
'e. it was so per cent. As to height
ed or rather the want of it-36 per cen
of of the recruits are between feet an
ng half an inch 1.-THE minimum arm
as height) and 5 feet inches; and tn
ng general average is less than 3 feet
n inches.
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