Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-27
HERE AND THERE.

Since 1850 eighty-tw people have
thrown themselves from the Vendome
column in Paris.
An Illinois COW swallowed 5000 in
greenbacks. She was killed and the
money recovered.
Seventeen thous and FIVE hundred
and forty-fve stray dogs were taken
into custody in London during 1881.
A Boston deacon is to be put under
discipline for inserting in his dry goods
advertisement the line: ''High, low,
jack, and the game
England has thirty electric light
companies, with a capital Of over $780,
100000. Nearly as much money is
81 milarly sunk in France.
Two hundred youths belonging to
the best families in Paris and the north
Of France have left Calais for the Jes-
uit college at Canterbury.
Prof. Tyndall has built himself an
iron house at Hind Head, on the
Hampshire Downs, within walk Of
Aldworth, Mr.. Tennyson's residence.
Not only did Michigan woman
lose her husband by elopement, but
his companion in flight was the hardy
servant girl, and he took along an
able bodied son, leaving a helpless
cripple with his wife.
The shock of finding out that her
lover was horse thief, instead Of the
rich gentleman that he had represent
ed himself to be, destroyed the reason
of girl at Dallas, Texas. A week
later her father followed her to the
asylum, crazed by sympathy and grief.
The official returns regarding the
army show that the education OF Ger
man recruits has been yearly on the
increase since 1875. In that year 2.31
per cent. Of the recruits could neither
read nor write. In 1881 the percent
age Of illitcrates had sunk to l.54.
No slight Indignation has been
caused in patriotic circles at Paris by
the news that the French residents in
Berlin intend aft King memorial tab
let to the house in which Voltaire
, chiefly lived when in Berlin, as the
Court fool, so to speak, Of Frederick
: the Great.
c. P. Bailey, Of San Jose, Cal, Col.
Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga, and
Col. Robert Scott of Frankfort, Ky,
are regarded as the goat kings OF
America. Mr.. Bailey alone having .
: herd of 5000 .Angoras on his ranch III
Nevada. Last year he shipped east
ward 10000 pounds of mohair at &c
cents per pound, and during the pas1
two years he has sold $4,000 worth
: Of goats.
The idea Of piercing the Isthmus o1
Malacca, which is matter of consd-
cradle interest in France, is being ac
} lively pursued. The French Consu
: at Siam, DR.. Harmand, the celebrated
explorer of the Indo-Chinese PENN
, sula, has just surveyed the ground
with the cooperation of the King o
that country, and has reported tina
: the scheme is perfectly practicable
!. The King, it is stated, is perfect,
: willing to make concession to NJ. d.
Lesseps.
. In Sir Garnet Wolsely's little man
: ual entitled "The Soldiers Pockc
Book" this extraordinary passage oc
ours: "As nation we are bred VI
i to feel it disgrace even to succee,
by falsehood. The word spy convey
q in it something as repulsiye as tn
word slave. We will keep hammer
= ing along with the conviction tina
honesty is the best policy, and tina
! truth always wins in the long run
> These pretty sentences do well for
child's copy-book, but the man VIII
acts upon them in war had bette
= sheathe his sword forever"
Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, ha
declared the doctrine that no one ca
convey away property to the preJu
si' dice OF his affianced wife. The cas-
was that of the widow of James BAR
ers who was astonshed to find that, ju.
. before marrying her, Baird had mad
an assignment of his entire propert,
His intention was to prevent hlmse
n from squandering it, but his relative
improved the opportunity to deprls
the widow of her right of dover. If
q conveyance was decided to be II
valid, on the ground that it contiicte
sst with the equities between Beard an
{ his intended wife at the time it wi
made.
1t seems that the spiritual medium
are suffering an onslaught by believe
). in spiritualism. Traps are laid f
y. them, they are caught while persona
-. ing materialized spirits, and the
table tricks are exposed. 1t appea
to the Banner Of Light ''precisely
if certain dissatisfied and constitution