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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
For Sale at a Bargain.

The improvements on Q ranch situated on Rock
cree. about eight miles below Bellevue. Ranch
co.'.sts Of $40 acres and the improvements of u
miles of one wre-and- pole fence, 40 acres under
cultivation, good log cabin and barn, etc, About
100 acres more is good hay land. Tho whole ranch
10 irrigated from Rock creek. Also, two two
horse teams. wagons and harness, q good mover
and rake harrow and plow.
The whole will be sold at a great bargain for
cash. Apply to j. KELLEHER.
)e3ow2 on the ranch
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
The Baxter Hotel, Ketchum

PAUL P. BAXTER proprietor, is the Oldest
and best kept hotel on Wood River. The dining
room Is the largest in the Territory and the tables
are supplied with every thing the market Affords
The rooms are large, airy and well furnished
Charges very moderate. This is a HOTEL, and
when in Ketchum don't forget the fact or the loca.
tion Main street. below First National Bank s2tf
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
Dividend Notice,

OFFICE BELLEVUE, IDAHO, MINING Co.,
SALT LAIE CITY, May 2Sth, 1886
At meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Bellevue, Idaho, Mining Company, a dividend OF
ten (l0) cents per share was declared on tho capt.
tai stock of the company payable on the 3lst DAY
OF May, 1886, at the Office OF the company.
+. o. HORN, Secretary
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
THE DOLLAR COLUMN,

Advertisements not exceeding an inch Tor ten
zines of small type) in length will be inserted In
this column for one dollar per week. or fifty centa
the hrst insertion and twenty-five cents each ad.
ditonsl linsertion-psyable In advanced
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
Wanted.

Lady agents actually clear $40 daily with nv
wonderful new patent rubber undergarment for
females One lady sold so in FIRST two hours
Madam d. M. LITTLE, L B. 449, Chicago
je15d6tw2t*
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-03
Work Wanted.

reliable young man desires work of any hon.
orsble character. Inquire at this ONCE. je2l.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21
THE HOME DOCTOR.

An excellent relief for hiccough for
young and old is granulated sugar moist
ened with pure vinegar. For an infant
give from few grains to teaspoonful.
Put five drops of chloroform on little
cotton or wool in the bowl of clay pipe,
then blow the vapor through the stem
into an aching ear anil instant relief will
be afforded.
1t is computed that twelve inch wall
of hard-burned bricks and good lime and
sand mortar could be built /, 900 feet high
before the bottom layers would be
crushed. If Portland cement were
added to the mortar, the height might
reach 300 feet.
Walking, running, horeeback riding,
lawn tennis, swimming, rowing, skating,
bowling, hand-ball and general gymnas-
tics are the exercises best adapted to
girls, and, for that matter, to any persons
who wish healthful and well-balanced
rather than an abnormal physical deysl-
opment.
The Medical Times says that good
way to remove irritating particles from the
eye is to take horse hair and double it,.
leaving loop. If the object can be seen,
lay the loop over it, close the eye, and
the mote will come out as the hair is with
drawn. If the irritating object cannot bo
seen, raise the lid of the eye as high as
possible and place the loop as far as you
can, close the eye and roll the ball around
few times, draw out the hair, and the
substance which caused the pain will be-
5ure to come with it. @
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21
The Shah Of Persia.

Probably the most restless man on the
face of the earth is Nussir-u-deen, shah
of Persia, asylum of the universe, and
king of kings. These two titles, as
seriously given to the absolute monarch
of Persia as we apply the more modest
term a;esty, are not inappropriate, for
from the royal fiat there is no appeal.
Swarthier than most of his subjects, of
middle height, very short-sighted, he is
seldom without his spectacles, and until
he opens his mouth he gives rather the
idea of the mild Hindu. But when he
speaks in his loud and imperious way, all
idea of mildncss disappears. The loud
tone, however, is more the effect OF con-
slant habits of command; and the Gus.
tom of addressing bis majesty in low
tone, that is observed on all occasions,
probably tends to make it more noticea.
BILE by contrast. Although the king Of
Persia has larger collection of jewels
than any other monarch-save on state
occasions, such as the public salaam OF
the new year, he very seldom displays
any of them. He is striklngly plain in
his dress. The full skirted frock coat OF
black cloth, or, at times, of finest CASH
mere shawl, which in winter time is trim
med and lined with priceless fur, is hie
usual wear: but the colors are generally
dark. k.-L0ndon World.
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A Carriage Drawn by Sheep.

Almost every American in Paris who
has ridden out toward the Bois has seen
the old man in the little carriage drawn
by sheep pottering along in the Avenue
du Bos de Bologne. These sheep are
two fine fat South Downs, but the occu-
pant is cripple named DR.: De Reroy.
He has been by turns a soldier, trav.
eler, politician, journalist and man
of letters. A nephew Of the Abbe Lam
menais, he was for while private secre.
tary of Lamartine, also an intimate friend
of the Marquis of Hertford, at whose
place in the Bois he frequently met
Prince Napoleon. During the war he
volunteered to carry important dis.
patches out of Paris for the government
of the Defense Nationale. he started
alone in balloon, which was caught in a
hurricane, carried into Switzerland, and
came down in the midst of the Mer de
Glace glacier, where his legs were sc
frost bitten that they had to be ampu
tated. Beside his legs, lie lost his for
tune by the war,
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The Shah's Harem.

A letter from Teheran, Persia, to the
London Globe says: Most of the ladies
Of the harem have small separate estab-
lishments, but all live in the palace, the
doors and windows of their rooms look
inc out into a large quadrangular court.
Some wives occupy suites of apartments,
others have only one or two rooms. The
shah's harem, like other well-conductcd
establishments of the kind, is shrouded
in mystery, and the European ladies who
have occasionally visited it cannot tell US
much. These ladies visit the harem on
certain holidays, when every inmate Is
gay and happy, and they therefore see
only the bright side of harem life. There
is, of course, dark side; but Of this
nothing certain is known to the outer
world, and the members of the harem are
discreet, and do not blab. The shah Is
said to be kind master, and his wives
speak of him with affection and respect.
Extraordinary precautions are always
taken to prevent males from getting in
side, and the European ladies who visit
the harem are, on entering, examined
bv eunuchs, who also inscribe the names
of the visitors and those of their attend
ants. In spite of the great precautions
taken, it has once or twice happened that
man has been smuggled into the harem,
and I lately heard a story of a laborer
having been found on the roof of the
womcn's apartments. He was advised
to affect madncss-which was hardly nee
essary, as fear had already made him
idiotic-and it was explained that he had
got into the harem through an under
ground water canal, in which he had
been working 1t speaks we'll for the
shah that the man was let off scot-free;
in former times he and several women
would have been executed there and
then. 1t occasionally happens that the
shah GENES into the women's apartments
when European ladies are there on
visit. He then asks who the visitors are,
what their age is, and makes some obser-
vaticns on their looks. He is not very
complimentary; and some time ago lady
was Mortified at being told by his majesty
that che was old. ugly and lean. The
shah also occasionally asks ether in
discreet questions, and makes some cyni-
cal remarks. Every wife has separate
yea1ly allowance varying from e2OO to
81 900, and cften receives presents ex-
ceeding her allowance in value.
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An Errand Of Charity.

sUncle Stead" is what they called a
shrcwd old gentleman who used to live in
Winthrop, little way out of the village,
up the side of the pond, near Read6eld.
One of his fellow-citizens was man
named Lovejoy. Uncle Stead met Love-
JOY in the village one day, and he said to
him: ."Lovejoy, there's poor woman
lives out on the edge of the town that
needs some provisions. I'm willing to
supply her, but I've sold my horse and
have no means of getting the stuff to her.
Now, I'll buy her barrel of flour and a
ham and some other supplies if you'll
carry them out to her with your tenn"
Love JOY said certainly, he'd be very glad
to do it. Accordingly, Uncle Stead
bought barrel of -four ham, bucket
of sugar, etc., and telling Lovejoy where
the woman lived, sent him off on the er-
rand of charity with the good things in
his pung.
Lovejoy easily found the house where
the woman lived. He unloaded the
goods, putting like grampus as he rolled
the barrel of flour in, and said to the
woman: ''Mr. Steadman sent you the pro-
visions. He's mighty kind-hearted
man to send you all these things"
"Well, I don't know why he shouldn't
send them to mel" exclaimed the woman
in surprised accents. "He's my hus-
band. ."-Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
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A RAINY DAY.

Now just take peep at the window and
Oh, dear me!
How cloudy and dark, and how dreary and
grayl
What day!
The rain seems to frown
As it comes pouring down;
And the wet, muddy earth looks as cross as
the sky.
how could expect to be happy and gay,
Such day!
When things are as dull and as still as a
In the house.
Oh dear, if knew
Of something to do!
The world looks as if it were having cry.
So am I.
II only the sunshine would smile out again
And the rain,
And the dark, gloomy clouds, and the mist,
and the gray
Go away
Why, then you would SEQ
How merry Id be!
II only the sun and the weather would ~
So would I.
Sydney Dayre, in st. Nicholas.
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Swiss AcQaisitiveness.

Everywhere throughout Switzerland
the traveller finds people who wish to sell
him something, or who continually vol
unteer to do something for which they
wish him to pay. As he drives along
the country roads, little girls threw.
punches Of wild flowers into his carriage.
and then run by its side expecting some
money in return. By the roadside, in
the most lonely places, he will find
women and girls sitting behind little
tables on which they are making lace,
which, with a tiny collection of Swiss
chalets, and articles of carved wood,
they are very eager to sell. When the
road passes near precipitous mountain
side, he will find a man with a long
Alpine horn, who awakens the echoes
and expects some pennies. At another
place fenced pathway leads into little
wood ard notice informs him thst he
may enter and get view OF the Black
Falls for four cents.
When was at Grindelwald, little
village among the Higher Alps, l went
part way up mountain, to visit glacier.
In the one which visited, long tunnel
had been cut, and this led to
a fairly large room hewn in the very heart
of the glacier, and called the ice grotto.
There were lamps placed about, by which
this frigid passage was dimly lighted.
The walls and roof of the tunnel were
transparent for considerable distance,
and I could look into the very substance
of the clear blue ice around me. I fol-
lowed my guide to the end of the tunnel,
and into the grotto, which was lighted
by single lamp. The momcnt I set foot
inside this wonderful chamber, with
walls, roof and floor of purest ice, | heard
a queer tinkling and humping in one
corner, and looking there I saw two old
women, each playing on doleful little
either. They looked like two horrible
old witches of the ice. Of course I knew
that they were playing for my benefit;
and wondered if they always sat there
in that enormous refrigerator waiting for
the visitors who might enter and give
them few cent.mcs in return for their
mournful strumming. But when went
out, found that the old women soon fol-
lowed, and I suppose they 60 into the
glacier and esconce themselves in their
freezing retreat whenever they see tour
ist coming up the mountain-side.-&.
Nich0Lns ~,
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Father and Son.

A few days ago fine old British
soldier, residing in Canada. but widely
known and respected in two hemispheres,
entered the prisoners dock in a court
room and stood beside handsome young
man charged with forgery. "Colonel,
said the public prosecutor, edo you
know the prisoner2" II do; be is my
only son," was the reply; then the stal.
survived more than half century OF
campaigning gave way, and the old
colonel fell dead-killed by Degenerate
son. The denouement was more sudden
than is common, but only in this respect
did the tagged differ from hundreds
that have been enacted in New York,
and more t',at are how having their dis.
NAL course.-Nes York Hour.
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Fifty Cents for q Shave.

The custom of having a barber call at
ones house has become quite the fashion
within the last few years. 1t is rather
expensive, but rich men can stand it.
Fifty cents is the average fee de-
manded. Some men have fitted up spec.
ial BARRIERS rooms at their homes. 9th
ers have easy chairs for the accommo-
dation of their BARRIERS at their down
town places of business. 1t used to be
Ferdinand Wards regular afternoon Gus.
tom to SUNNI IN his barber as soon az
business wa, over; he was sort of pi-
oneer in this line down in Wall street.
Now there are dozens of spectators and
clerks who follow out his aristocratic
cxamp,e.-Neao York Times.
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Life Studies by Lige Brown.
The brightest eyes have wept.

The brightest eyes nave WepC.
The pocket is poor savings bank:
Even tramp can accumulate real es-
The "watch"-word to bankruptcy
sstick."
Don't argue with fool, or the listen
ers will say there is pair Of you.
Spiders are affectionate little creatures.
The f.males eat up their lovers.
When the poet sang of something that
was "strong without hands," he prsba-
bly, referred to butter"
Solomon had lots of wisdom, but be
didn't know anything about the conven-
ience of hip pocket.
The teacher who makes his scholars
ssmart' Is not always the one who i'm
parts the most instruction.
The heroism that can wear old clothes
until able to buy new is said to be the
most lonely feeling on earth.
It is said that vigorous motion OF the
Jaws will cure nose bleed. No wonder the
women folks are seldom troubled with
that complaint.
Dio Lewis says man needn't sneeze
unless be wants to. He most generally
wants to, though, by the time the sneeze
gets fairly on deck.
Before Boston goes entirely crazy over
her female BARRIERS she ought to pause
little between beans and ruminate upon
the trouble Samson got into by letting a
woman cut his hair.
It is well-known fact that woman
can never hit the thing she throws a, and
vet the world is full of blue-nosed fogles
who do not believe that everything has
been ordained for the best Chicago
LedQsr.
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WASHINGTON as q Sportsman.

George Washington was always ready
for fox-hunt. AS in his younger days
he had ridden with Lord Fairfax and the
Fairfaxes of Belvoir, so later, when he
was master of Mount Vernon, he and his
friends were always out in the season, and
when night came, the party would meet
at one house or the other, for a merry
supper, to be off again behind the hounds
early the next day.
In a letter describing Mount Vernon,
Washington speaks of it as ''oa one of
the finest rivers in the world; river well
stocked with various kinds of fish, at all
seasons of the year." The borders OF the
estate were washed by ten miles of tide
water, and the whole shore was one entire
fishery. In the season of canyas-back
ducks, also, Washington was out with
his fowling- piece early and late. The
storyis told that he had been much an
noyed by lawless fellow who came with.
out leave to shoot on the estate. He came
over from the Maryland shore, and hid
his boat in one of the creeks. One day
Washington heard the report of gun,
and guessing it to be that of this man,
who had more than once been warned to
leave, he sprang on his horse and rode in
the direction of the sound. He pushed
his way through the bushes just as the
man, who had seen him approach, was
pushing his boat off. The poacher
raised his gun, and aimed it at Washing
ton, who spurred his horse at once into
the water and seized the boat before the
man knew what he was about. Then
Washington, who had powerful arm,
seized the fellow and gave him sound
thrashing, and was never troubled by
him again.-St. Nicholas.
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his navigstors attempt to start him by
prying his feet off the ground with q
crowbar. The more they pried, the frmer
the mule stood, and smiled smile that
foated over his countenance and melted
softly in his ears, while the birds filled
the air with their German-silver notea
"Get up there, you -!!!!---
!!!!?2??!!!" shouted the driver.
But still the mule stood stock still, as
though intending to gather moss.
"-!?!2!!!!!" shouted the driver once
more.
"I'll bet can start him, " said small,
thick-set man.
"Let's see you," replied the captain.
SO the thick-set man approached the
hind-end of the dreaming quadruped.
He had formerly been deck-hand on
the Catskill boat, and thought he could
start the mule as they start refractory
COWS up the gang-plank, namely, by
twisting his tail. Every eye was on him
as he took hold of the mules tail to twist
it. The mule himself looked COM
placently around, with twinkle In his
eyes that seemed to say: 81 am not 8
stem-winder." He also seemed to be
calculating the weight of the man, and
deciding which county he would drop
him into.
"He'll be in Chemung county direct
ly," said one.
cor Sullivan county," remarked an
other.
"Look, look, now," they said to-
gether. -.
By this time the tail was about half
wound up, and was beginning to tighten
at the roots. He seemed to wind up as
slowly as a Waterbury watch. Finally
the man got it all twisted up.
The birds still sang their sweetest
songs, and the sky looked like blue
watered-silk dress. All nature seemed
to smile. So did the mule.
Then the man gave the tail a twist
that caused the mules spinal column to
contract, and he just let 60 all his feet
together
And didn't stop running until afternoon,
when Re fell exhausted, after having
pulled the canal-boat half way up a
mountain. .-Puck.
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Embalming.

A St. Louis undertaken tells Globe
Democrat reporter that there are prob
ably eight or ten undertaSers in that city
who are competent to properly embalm
bodies after death, although all under
takers attempt it, and only one is on.
posed to it. The exception IS very
prominent undertaken, and he thinks en-
balming is wrong and icing is the only
true and successful way of preserving
remains. The cost of embalming is $40
for mere injection, and $25 when the
work went SO far US to remove super
abundant gases. The cost Of putting on
ice $40. Only about one person in every
ten who die is embalmed. The method
employed most generally is to open a
brachial artery and pump in the preserv-
inp fluid.
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The Lawyers Friend.

One of the brighte.t lights of the Aus
tin bar was standing on the corner of
the avenue, surrounded by group of
admiring friends, when a man with a
peculiar stride and lose-cropped hair
walked up to the lawyer, and, taking one
of his hands in both of his, shook it as if
he was going to wrench it from his body,
saying:
'Its ten years since I saw you, but I
knew you as soon as laid eyes on you. "
The lawyer was embarrassed, but the
rough-looking stranger helped him out.
"You did me kindness once, Jedge,
and eff I ever forgit it may my right arm
Glove to the roof of my mouth. Don't
you rememcer when you practiced law
ten years ago, up in Dawson County2
You did me kindness I never shall for
get"
The friends of the lawyer cast admir-
ing glances at him, and one of them said
to the other that he, the lawyer, always
had good heart.
Eyes, " continued the stranger, still
holding on to the lawyers hand. Il had
shot man in self defence and the sheriff
was going to lock me up when you nobly
volunteered to 60 my bond. And you
didn't know me, either"
The lawyer said he thought he recol-
lected the circumstance, while the ad-
miring friends said: "Just like him. He
is always goin a1out doing good"
"You offer d to 60 my bond, but the
sheriff said he would be blessed if any
jack-legg.d shyster could shove straw
bond off on him. and if you remember,
Judge, he refused to approve the bond, and
l was locked up, but l was always grateful
to you just the same. You tried to help
me to swindlc justice according to law. |
broke Jail that night and crippled several
people getting away, but, thanks to you,
I got away"
Where have you been since9" asked
the lawyer, seeking to change the conver-
sation.
IL am just out of the Kansas peniten-
tiary. would never got in thar if you
had been about. A feller refused to drink
with me and l had to shoot him. Let's
step across and have something" and
running his arm through that of his legal
friend they marched across the street, the
judge keeping step like soldier, while
the friends on the sidewalk swapped
opinions about what bad eye that man
had.-Teras Siftings.
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How He Gould Take Revenge.

'Life," said the cynic, ''life is not
worth the living"
"No2" said the damsel at his side.
"Why"
"Life is bore. Human nature is so
tame, insipid, ridiculous, in all except
the vicious classes. Society in the &C
cepted sense does not live, my dear Miss
Jones. It passes the time"
''And has lots of fun sometimes"
"Never. It believes it has fun; but
it's very sorry, stupid, dull fun. l am 8
cynic. People bore me to death. Of
course there are exceptions, such as you
-but-others. They talk and talk and
talk, and II sit and listen, and think
what empty, brainless things men and
women are. They weary me-
"Well, why don't you take your re-
venge9"
''How"
''Talk back to them"
And the cynic grinned sickly grin
and dropped the subject.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Had Been Interviewed-A Big Dog
How he Could Take Revenge
An Errand Of Charity
The Lawyers Friend.

"Why, good gracious, Daringer" You
look as if you had been shot through
grain elevator"
'I was out in the country, Bromley,
arranging for summer boarding."
"WelL but what happened to you2"
sT-I-was interviewed.
'TnterYiewed! By reporter9"
''No."
"a slugger, then9"
'No. BY Farmer Watson's bull"
Philadelphia Call.
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Starting the Mule.

It was a soft, bright day when the
crocus lifted its cup of flame from the
twinkling grasses, and the sky was dotted
with small white clouds. All was balmy
and serene, and the uncorked soul of the
poet was overfowing like a bottle of
champagne.
The old canal mule stood upon the toe
path as solid rs rock. 1t was impossible
to move him even to tears. In vain did