Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-05
HERE AND THERE.

DcIS dulOHS It's IHHldtcS ecu euuuucI
under the age of Is. These children
associate, as do the other prisoners,
with the abandoned and the vicious.
A hygienic commission has been
appointed to visit the insalubrious
lodging-houses of Paris. All old
houses will be carefully examined, and
the proprietors compelled to under
take such alterations as may be or
dered
The wearing Of jewelry is going out
of fashion in England. 1t is regard
ed as vulgar to be seen with display
of jewels, unless it be on great occa-
sons. Bare arms and throats arethe rule
in fashionable society, the wearing Of
bangles, bracelets, and chains being
left to those who do not follow the
newest styles.
The sending of medical women from
England to India is likely to be an
established custom. The Indian wom-
en- are averse to treatment by physi-
clans not of their own sex. The sta
tistics of the British medical service
in India shows that the women have
rarely availed themselves of prescrip-
tons or attendance. "A staff of train
ed women is proposed as part Of the
public service in India, a department.
coordinate and not subordinate to the
existing medical bureau.
The Niagara Falls hackman comes
in for more than his usual share Of
blame this season. Ordinances have
been passed fixing the rates that shall
be charged for hackmen, and forbid
ding them to solicit on the streets. The
admission charges at the various
points of interest are plainly posted
up in conspicuous places. Yet, in
spite of this, hackmen worry tourists
by their vulgar importantly, and the
keepers Of curiosity shops demand a
fee, after assuring the visitors that
there is no charge.
A Chicago police justice fined a
girl IS for being alone in the street
at 8 o'clock in the evening. She was
on her way home from the store where
she worked, and had deviated slightly
from the straightest route in order t.
get air and exercise when police
+ man accosted' her insultingly. She
, retorted saucily, and an arrest for spit'
followed. The magistrate said that i
was doubtless true that she was en-
tirely respectable, but that she de
served punishment for being out un
attended after dark.
The business of the Canadian Pos
: Office Savings Bank for the past yea
was larger than at the previous year
by 1858 deposits, and the aggregat,
sum of $2,26O,947. The Bank wa
established in 1868, with 81 brancl
offices. There are now 30s. Th
: rate of interest allowed is four pc
cent. The losses in the busines
have been only $6,517 in fourtee
wears. In 1881 the cost of maintain
: ing the business, including intercs
allowed depositors and expenses {
management, was but four and one
third per cent. of the balance in tn
y hands Of the Government.
: Papered veneers have come to b
an important article OF manufacture
, the extension Of the industry bein
> largely due to the new and wonderfu
process of cutting. The mechanisl
: cuts the legs to lengths of twelve fe,
;. which are then halved or quarteret
and boltcd securely on a revolvin
iron table. As the table and WOO
. revolve, the surface Of the latter com,
= in contact with knife twelve feet
length ground to razor edge an
perfectly true, secured on rigid ire
d frame-the entire cutting apparat'
weighing about thirty tons. The "
10 neers roll off in sheets at every reyt
: luton, of from one ne-ninetieth to OF
one hundred and seventy-fifth of a
inch in thickness, and of the widt
c, and length of the log. There is n
the slightest vibration of either IL
~ knife or log, as the sheet of wood
es such case would be either broken
- take up the spring like wedge. III
sheets are backed with paper.
y The death of remarkable reclu
is reported to have occurred in the CIR
clan monastery on Mount Athos,
Macedonia. He was "a years Of az
he at his death, and for sixty-eight yea
. had been an inmate of solitary ce
from which he never emerged exec
to attend chapel services morning al
n evening, and he there always provi
~ ed himself with the food needed I
the following day. He passed !
=. time in devotions and in painting pi
" lures of the Virgin, which the offici;
= of the monastery then sold. His bod
pursuant to his wishes, was buried b
fore the door of his cell. The olde
among his brother monks could i
.. remember ever to have seen him !
ceive communication or visitor fro
the outside world. For sixty-eie
wears he was practically buried in
s,&or,, Ja d;e1 with a reDu