Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-31
HERE AND THERE.

OF Minnesota was surprised at St.Paul
by receiving fifty -one bags, weighing
several thousand pounds, filed with
Congressional documents, dating back
to 1920, and intended as contribu-
ton to repair the loss by the late fire.
Mr.. Mitchell Henry, the well-known
Irish NJ. P. who last month entertain
ed Lord Spencer in Connemara, where
he has large estate, was formerly
surgeon to the Middlcsex Hospital.
His great wealth is understood to be
derived from an interest in a Man.
chester medicine making house. /
At one Of the registry courts at
London, recently, a Jew old clothes
man from Hounds Ditch proved his
claim to vote from the city. With
out pretending to trace this Hebrews
genealogy to any particular tribe, the
simple and singular fact is recorded
that he gave his name as Izaak O'Don-
oghue.
The rosebush which tradition al
leges to have been planted by Charlie
magne, at Hildesheim, never bore bet
ter than this summer. 1t stands on
the outer wall of the cathedral crypt.
Its branches extend about thirty eight
feet upward and thirty-four in width.
Shoots grated on it's trunk in recent
years are growing.
Hemminway called on Miss Steven
son in Pittsfeld, Mass, and his rival,
Steele, saw him sitting beside her on
sofa. The sight drove Steele to a
ncighboring saloon, where he drank
recklessly. Full of rum and jealousy,
he broke into Miss Stevenson's parlor,
by this time empty, and cut the sofas
upholstery into ribons with knife.
Great fetes will be given toward
the end of the present year in Paris
in honor of the founder of French
unity-King Louis XI. That mon
arch, whose eccentric and by no means
amiable personality is familiar to most
readers through the pages of Scott,
and also through the well-known play
founded upon that Of Delavigne, died
in 1882, just 400 years ago.
In the Madras Presidency, during
1881, f2,O25 was paid as rewards fer
destroying 1856 tigers, $50 panthers
and leopards, and 43 other animals.
One thousand three hundred and two
persons and 1898 animals were killed
by wild animals and snakes. tigers
killed 1876 people and 1898 cattle.
The cattle killed by wild animals in
the Presidency during the year are
valued at fl7,S76.
The biggest blast ever undertaken
on the Pacific coast was exploded on
the Oregon and California railway
track. Nearly G,00O pounds of blast
ing powder were used, and the shock
was SO tremendous that an adjacent
stream was thrown out of it's bed for q
, distance of half mile; the highway
= was badly injured and effectually
blockaded for the same distance, and
damage was inflicted in the workmen's
camp 900 yards away.
A young lady in Dakota has lately
advertised for husband in this ex.
, ceedingly practical fashion: 81 mean
business. If there is any young mar
in this county that has as much sand
, in him as pound of plug tobacco, ]
= want to hear from him. have tree
claim and homestead, am good cook
and not afraid Of work, and willing te
d do my part. If any man with like
amount Of land, and decent face anc
@ carcass, wants a good wife, l can face
the bill.''
= In his work, "Le Mont Blanc,
Charles Durier says: alt rises in th'
center Of the most populous and civil
> lied States of Europe. 1t dominates
everything in its vicinity, and to max
its appearance the more striking, it
= summit, though placed in a favored
temperate latitude, is ever covered
with mantle of snow. And yet
during twenty centuries, no historian
FL no traveller, no savant, no poet eveI
as much as alludes to it. A map o
ry the region published about l57'
: utterly ignores it,"
The Rev. Sunrise Dana, an Oneid
Indian, is travelling as revivalist. H
a. tells his congregations that his piou
mother called him to deathbed an,
asked him to go to secluded plac
D. and pray. He did SO, and heard
loud voice from heaven commandin,
rt him to throw away his tomahawk an
scalping knife. A great ball of fir
- burst over his head, and other phen
omena marked his conversion. H
adds that his tribe refused to believ
n his story, and remained scoders.
The French Academy of Meteor
n" logical Aerostation has decided I
celebrate next month by public bar
quet the centenary of the inventio
of the balloon by Montgol6er th
- elder. 1t appears from book calle