Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-25
HERE AND THERE.

The drum that John Robbins beat
at Bunker Hill has been given to the
Bostonian Society.
Wagner's ''Parsifal" is to be pro-
duced with great magnificence at the
Munich Court Theater on Thursday,
October II.
Nine. Etelka Gerster is to sing at
the Paris Opera next season. She is
now in Italy, resting after the fatigues
of her American tour.
1t is shown by statistics just issued
that last year there were 17,251
known thieves at large in England, of
whom l,26O were in the city of Lon
don.
Adessa Wray appeared as an eques-
trlenne at fairs in Indiana, riding
horses in twenty-mile races. Mrs.
Owen spoke of these feats as ssbrazen,
shameless, and indecent" Adessa
has brought a suit for $4,000 dam
ages, and a jury will be called on to
decide whether the quoted adjectives
were just.
DIR. Dutrieux, the Belgian explorer,
was in Alexandria at the time of the
bombardment. When half the city
was in flames he calmly pursued his
work in the Government Hospital, and
did not leave it for moment, thou oh
his house was being burned and pill
laged at the time. He has been
awarded by the khedive with the tt
tie of Bey.
The Metropolitan Board of Works
in London controls an area of 1879
miles, covered by population of
nearly 100000. The royal parks
cover 1,742 acres, and other open
spaces, 1879 acres. The largest of
the ''lungs of London is formed by
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens,
which together cover GAS acres, or
little more than one square mile.
The opinion expressed by the for
eign officers who witnessed the recent
extensive reviews and mannnvres of
the Russian troops at St. Petersburg
is, according to the Norsische Zeitung
OF Berlin, that the infantry las great
powers of endurance, but is not well
disciplined, and that the cavalry,
while possessing excellent horses, does
not ride SO we'll as it should. In large
bodies the troops made fair showing,
but in detached battallions they did
poorly.
Chicago police justices are accused
OF protecting, criminals by changing
the charges against them from some
thing serious to something compara-
tiNcly trivial, SO as to inhict light sem
tences and thereby save them from
jury trials. In one day, three men
We're arraigned before as many JUS
tees, one for horse-stealing, one for
highway robbery, and one for forgery,
and in each case the accusation was
changed to disorderly conduct, involv-
ing NEARLY fine Of S. to $50.
Complaint is made in California
about the extortionate charges of court
stenographers. The Judges of the
Superior Courts get salaries of only
$4,000, but their stenographers fire.
quently make salaries of over $lO,-
600 a year. When the Judges forget
or do not attend to the testimony in
the case tried before them without a
jury, which is often the case, they re-
quire the stenographers to write out
copies of their notes at the expense Of
the litigants. In recent case Judge
at Alameda required this to be done,
and for transcribing testimony taken
during five hours trial the steno-
grapher charged $1l0. A San Francisco
journal intimates that some of the
Judges are suspected Of throwing
money into the hands of the steno-
eraphers and requiring them to divide
the profits.
Talmage is described as follows, by
the Boston Herald correspondent:
ellis mouth, like his church, is more
commodious than that of any other
American clergyman. Otherwise he
is communicating man. His hair
is straight, and reaches to his coat
collar behind, but not nearly to his
forehead in front. When he smiles
you know it, but you do not see the
idiotic grin of clown. He steps
high in walking to and from the plat
form, but does not jump up and crack
his heels together. He uses his arms
freely in gesticulation, but they never
look more than two. He is not a
jumping-jack-a least he was not on
this occasion. Perhaps there was
nothing in the sermon exciting enough
to pull the string" The same writer
credits Talmage with memorizing his
sermons SO perfectly that, without
copy or notes, his delivery is almost,
sentence for sentence, identical with