Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-29

Premier.
There is rumor that the French
Government will give 100000 for
Munckasy's "Christ before Plate"
The stone over a grave at Sailield,
Conn, is cut into exactly the size and
shape of the coffin underneath.
Some London jewelers. are exhibit
ing a late Hungarian mobiles scarf
pins-759 in number, and very valu
able.
South Australia has population of
279,S66. It's debt has grown from
81, 100000 in 1872 to nearly $50 :
100000 in 1881.
Rheumatic Mr.. Burke bathed him
self in turpentine in Lyons, Iowa, and
then lighted his pipe for comforta
BILE smoke. He was burned to death.
Mr.. Duran said he was flattered by
the French Governments offer of ST.
600 for his "Entombment of Christ, :"
but he had worked at it four years,
thought it his best picture, and valued
it at $4,000.
Lady Frederick Cavendish tele-
graphed to Mr.. Holden, her husbands S
successor as member for North York
shire: "My warm congratulations.
The great ma jority 2,O27 has cheered
me and made me feel thankful"
There is an influential movement
in London to provide the people with
a better class of musical entertain
ment on a self-supporting basis. The
concerts at which Lady Folkstone and
others have played and sung have
been highly successful.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" has had a
run of three nights and half as an
opera in Philadelphia. On the frac-
tional night the singers struck for
their pay when the performance was
half through, and the audience of 81
persons was dismissed.
According to statistics just issued
by the Ministry OF the Interior,
since 1871 crimes and misde meanors
in Prussia have increased at the enor-
nous rate Of about Ill per cent. In
1880 alone the number of prisoners
rose by nearly $4,000.
The new Irish Secretary and Un
der Secretary are cousins. TIL.
father of the latter was the Rev
Macauley Hamilton of the Shetland
Islands, where Mr.. Hamilton was
born. Shetlanders do not consider
themselves Scotch-in fact, most o1
them dislike exceedingly to be SC
accounted.
The Mayor Of Philadelphia ha.
undertaken anew the job of closing
the gambling hells of that city, ant
with more than the usual success, as
the police are wholly under his con
troll, and therefore are in danger o
removal if they do not procure evi
dence against the gamblers. Ths
owners of the property, too, are be
ing proceeded against.
The Illinois Board of Health ha
decided that the diploma of a medi
cal college will not entitle the beare
to practice in that State unless tht
college has three years course, re
quires dissection through two years
has clinics for two terms in each year
enforces attendance on eighteenth.
of its lectures, and confers degree.
only after examination.
A Cincinnati husband said that hi
wife should devote her afternoons *
the care of her children instead O
going to matinees at the theatres
She disobeyed. He walked dowr
the center isle of theatre, took hel
by the ear, and led her out. ''Out O
respect to the parties" says the ac
count, "who are well connected and
generally well thought Of, their name.
arc withheld from the public"
The deepest mine in the world, &C
cording to Prof H. Hnfer Of the
Academic Imperiale des Mines, is
the Pribrand silver mine in Bohemia
The lowest depth is nearly $500 feet
below the surface. At this depth
the temperature of the rocks is onl,
j, 5000 F.; and the temperature o1
the air, according to the same au
thority, is 1853 r., so that up to tn.
present only natural ventilation has
been required.
Thirty eight of the Italian artists
who took part in the internationa
competition for the monument to be
: erected to Victor Emanuel have pc
titioned the Chamber of Deputies t,
annul the verdict of the jury. Sig
D nor Nicotera has demanded that thi
petition shall be declared urgent. Th.
jury gave the first prize to a foreign
: architect, NJ. Henri Nenot, of TIL
French Academy at the Villa Me
dici.
. The delay of a telegram cost lif'
in Albany. Meyer Schreiber wen
y y into a whisky speculation, and foun'
himself in such a position that 81, so