Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-27
HERE AND THERE.


A concert at public cost is given
on Boston Common every Sunday af-
ternoon in summer. There was op-
position by the orthodox church peo-
pie at first, but it has died out, and
this year it is fashionable to 60 to
hear the music on the way to eve
ming religious services.
Two young couples of Coshocton,
Ohio, thought it would be roman
tic idea to elope down the river to
Marietta by moonlight in rowboat.
The trip was only half made, how
ever, when the men were arrested for
stealing the boat, and the girls were
sent home alone and unmarried.
An ingenious Strasburg dentist
lately extracted a molar, and finding
it sound with the exception Of the
joints of the root, he sawed them Off,
filled the cavity with gold, and re-
placed it. 1t has established it
self. and is now said to be doing
business at the old stand in u most
satisfactory manner.
Ice frozen by machinery is now
used almost exclusively in Southern
cities, as it is cheaper than that
brought from the North, except at
seaboard places. The retail price
has fallen from 50 per hundred be-
fore the war to $l.5O. Ice is manu-
factured in some of the big breweries
in this latitude, but none of the pro-
cesses yet invented are cheap enough
in the North to compete with nature.
A Philadelphia suit for breach Of
promise reverses the usual order of
such litigation. 1t is the man who
sues. He is George Young, wealthy
and respected merchant. The de
fendant is the widow Sarah Jane
Fleming. Both are past the heyday
of youth. They were engaged to
marry, and the day was appointed
but before it arrived Mrs. Fleming
changed her mind, and said that she
would not have stepfather for he,
children. Mr.. oung demands $40 900
Tony Moore, of the Moore & Bur.
CESS Minstrels,is conspicuous Amer
lean figure in London theatrical life
driving a mule down Regent street
and Piccadilly to Yankee trottine
wagon. Moore & Burgess have
netted fully $4,000 yearly for the
last ten or twelve years. The No
hawk Minstrels are also popular, ant
do good business. They perform
in Islington, in the Philharmonic anc
A Agricultural Halls. 1t was in tn,
former that Emily Soldene achieved
her fame IN s.Genevieve de Brabant. ;
Most of the lager beer saloons an(
music gardens in New York are nov
more or less controlled, as in London
by big brewers. When Calvert
Co., an immense London firm, failec
for $7,500,000 i'll 1858, they returned
in their schedule $50 public houses o
which they had the freeholds or helC
leases, with stringent stipulations tina
that they took no other beer bu
theirs. Hence the "Calvert & Co
Entire,n Barclay, Perkins & Co. En-
tire" &C., inscribed over Londoi
public houses. The Calyerts wer,
soon Aourishing again.
The Militar Wochenblatt, organ o
the German General staff, record
Lieut.. Roder's ride, with his servant
from Strasburg to Grenada, l,56'
miles, in So days, including eigh
days of rest, the aim being to discov
er how far it was possible to draw
, under certain conditions, upon tn
strength Of horses. Lieut.. 4. wor
no spurs, and carried only saddl
, pockets and waterproos. The horse
men rode mares, English and Prus
sian, steel-shod, and went at a quic
walk or brisk trot, and the animal
arrived in such fair condition as to
sold to advantage.
1t is curious to read now in tn
Irish records of Mhrch, 1888: ''Tw
hundred families from the county {
4 Meath, weary of dragging on an e,
istence in cold, hunger and wretchee
0 ness, are fully determined to em;grat
: fully convinced that If they do not be
ter themselves, they cannot be wors
The Lord Lieutenant, justly sensibl
of this alarming event, has, we hea
represented this matter to his Maize
tvs Minister, and recommended a
: immediate session of the Irish Pa
I lament, that something may be d
vised to check i'll it's infancy this in
pending calamity"
10 Forty ragpickers of st. Louis hay
formed an association. "Gentlemen
said the President, 1.-THE object this a
: sociation was formed for was to pla,
ourselves in position to show the pu
: lie that men can be ragpickers al
~ gentlemen at the same time But
seems that ragpicking, like eve
fs fss other calling, is sometimes engage
in by men who are not really gentl
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