Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-31
HERE AND THERE.

lncneS IN 1904.
Prince Coffee Jutch, the son of
King Coffee Calcalli of the Ashan-
tees, is being educated under English
tutelage, but the climate of that coun-
try being thought too severe for him
he is to be sent to Trinidad.
Defending the action of Bishop
LaAeche, of Three Rivers, in assail-
ing women's frizzes, Montreal rec
tor said, in a sermon: "There is
such extravaganza nowadays that we
cannot tell the difference between
mistress and maid. ! defy any one to
do it,"
AT bull fight in Mines, France,
the visitors, deeming that the beasts
displayed lack of ferocity, protest
ed against the poorness of the exhi-
bition by hurling their chairs down
from the galleries. Finally they set
fire to the properties, and committed
damages to the amount of $1,000.
According to native japanese
paper, the picturesque old junks
which have SO often figured in stories
and pictures of maritime life in the far
East are rapidly disappearing, at least
as far as Japan is concerned. Ship
building in japanese style is so far
giving place to foreign construction
that by and by there will be no such
thing as junk except in paintings.
Italian papers announce the dis
covery at Dorgali, in the island of
Sardinia, Of great stalactite cave.
Fifteen galleries have been already
traced. In one of them there is row
of pillars like white marble, and the
floor is smooth, resembling the finest
basalt. When lit up with torches the
combinations and varieties of coloring
are wonderfully beautiful.
Another famous English collection
is coming into the market, for among
the numerous private bills that have
been quietly smugglcd through Par
lament is one giving power to the
trustees of Sir Henry Hoare's settled
estates to sell the heirlooms at Stour-
head, most Of which were collected by
the well-known Sir Richard Colt
Hoare, who died in 1888. Some
years ago the collection was valued at
$25O,OOO.
The Belgian Academies offer prize
Of 5000 francs for the best essay on
the destruction of fishes by the pollu-
ton of rivers. Competitors will be
allowed till October l, 1884, to send
in their papers. Among the topics
suggested for treatment are the in
vestigation and indication of practical
means for purifying water issuing from
particular industrial works, SO as to
render them compatible with the life
of fishes without compromising in
dustry.
Prof. Simmons, an English eronaut,
made an ascent in which he crossed
the English Channel. The balloon took
a southeasterly direction over More
cambe Bay, but came to a standstill,
and then slowly drifted back again
over the town toward the Irish Sea.
Simmons, being anxious to avoid being
taken over the sea, threw out the
grapnel on Walney Island, but it
caught stone wall and jerked the
car SO much that he was thrown out,
but sustained no injury.
An amusing instance of the inabil-
ity of Englishmen to understand
American exaggerated humor, was
furnished by Mathew Arnold in an
article on America, published in the
Nineteenth Century. Mr.. Arnold says
some harsh things of Americans, and
to make out his case, gravely quotes
from the Nation to the effect that in
the United States, "not one man in a
hundred thousand has either the man.
ners or cultivation of a gentleman, or
changes his shirt once week, or eats
with fork
The acting Chief Justice of India
is Baboo Romesch Chunder Mitter.
This Hindoo gentleman's appointment
to the bench gratifed the native pop: :
lation, and now, in the temporary alb
sence of Sir Richard Garth, the Chief
Justice, native is the highest judi
cial officer. The English journals are
glad to regret this appointment as a
typical case justifying the necessity of
British methods of rule in India.
Administering justice after the En-
glish traditions is quoted as severe
test of the capacity of native to
adapt himself tothe spirit of the legal
institutions of Breat Britain.
A Bristol English bookseller recent
ly catalogued Bible, which is assumed
to having belonged to John Milton.
On the margin of page, apparently
in Milton's own handwriting, are the
following lines:
When the day of death shall come
| then shall nightly shades prevaile-
| soon shall love and music faile-
soon We fresh turfes tender blade
| shall flourish Ger my sleeping shade.
J. MHroNIus. N. A. c. Coll.