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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10
THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
Items About the Blockade Of Snow
aud DELAYED Trains.

WIN. G. Lane, the Wood River
conductor has had a great time buck
ing snow on the branch, and for the
past week has been on the road or in
y big snow drift most every night.
1t has been all two engines could dc
to pull through to Ketchum and some
times they would stick in the cuts
where the snow is three or four
feet deep. Trains on the main line
are all behind time owing to heavy
snow from the Cascades to Cheyenne.
-Shos',one Journal.
T-legraphic reports to the Offices
Of the Southern Pacific company state
that the fall OF snow on the Sierra
Nevada mountains, on the line of the
Central Pacific railroad is unprece-
dented. At the summit there is six.
teen feet on the level and twelve feet
at Enigrant Gap. With their huge
rotary plows' the railroads have, in
general, successfully kept their lines
eastward open this winter.
A gentleman from Rocky Bar in
forms us that the snow at that place
was seven feet deep on a level NOR.
than a week ago. 1t must be mu,h
deeper at the present time. In the
street at the Bar there Is a libert,
pole, or flag staff, upon which is nailed
a strap placed there several years ago
indicating the fall of snow at the
time. 1t is over thirteen feet from
the ground Boise Democrat.
The trains have been having hard
time for the past two or three DAYS.
At Beaver the snow is said to be seven
feet deep on level, and it takes but
few moments to fill a ten foot cut TO
the top. Both passengers due at f,e
in the morning, yesterday, arrived
about noon.-Eagle Rock Re gister.
There is considerable trouble ex-
perienced by the various stage com
panes III getting their stages over
the mountains, in many instances the
companies being obliged to refuse
to carry passengers. The companies
say that thu great difficulties they
have to contend with on account of
the cold weather aud heavy snow
would cause them to abandon their
trips for the present were it not owing
to the mails as they lose money on
every journey thy make Montpelier
Observer.
So far more snow has fallen before
Christmas than during any previous
season in the history OF the camp up
to the same period. BY careful COM
putation we place the fall at two feet
at the Wallace elevation. In the
higher attitudes the fall was heavier,
and the rains here turned into snow
there. On Sunset Peak, or rather in
the basin just below the peak, where
the principal mines are located, the
snow is now represented to be from
six to seven feet deep on level,
which implies fall of from niue to
ten feet.-Wallace Free Press.
Chief Justice Beatty with the bal
ance of the good people Of Haley,
Bellevue and ketchum, are now snow
blocka1ed. Trains from the Wood
RIVER have not reached Shoshone for
several days. The snow storms re-
Gently have been the most severe
since the settlement Of the country,
preventing travel and causing much
Inconvenience to the public. The
railway people are always very reti.
cent about their troubles, but it is
learned that some twenty locomotives
have been derailed and piled up by
the roadside during this storm
Boise Statesman, 8th.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10
Dancing Class.

Prof. Dan. Needs, will open a
Dancing Class in this city this
evening, at the Alturas Hotel. The
Professor is a first. class Dancing
Master, and Invites all who wish 10
take lessons to be present. Terms
reasonable.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10
How La Grippe Came.

Chicago Tribnne.l
You murmur How came %"
In sad caaenza.
Why. the door was left open,
And influenza.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10
A Free Dance.

Will be given at the Altuas Hotel
this evening for the opening of
the Dancing Class. The dance will
only continue til II o'clock, midnight.
All are invited to come, and no charge
will be made.
PRoFRsSoR NEEDS.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10

$75oo to M1ST r.. csn be .SsD,.
preferred who can furnish q horse and give their
whole time to the business. Spare moments may
be protitably employs also. A few vacancies in
towns and cities F. JOHNSON Il CO., 1909
Main ST., Richmond. Va
n B-PLEAsK STATE AGE AND BUSINESS EXPERT
EN"E. NEvER MIND ABOUT SENDING STAMP ron
REPLY. b. +. J. l. Gu.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-10

naT CARROLL SEMINARY tcsrron Co III
~ in thoroughncss Of work is unexcelied. Lo.
cation delightful; easy of access. "OTesdsr' free
Send for one. See advertisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
Analysis of the Apple.

Chemically the apple is composed CT
vegetable fibre. albumen sugar, gum
chlorophyil, malic acid, garlic acid.
lime, and much water. Furthermore,
the German analysis say chat the apple
contains a larger percentage of phos-
phorus than any other fruit or veget-
able. This phosphorus is admirably
adapted for renewing the essential
nervous matter, lethicin, of the brain
and spinal cord. 1t is, perhaps for the
same reason, rudely understood, that
old Scandinavian traditions represent
the apple as the food of the gods, who,
when they felt themselves to be grow
ing feeble and infirm, resorted to this
fruit for renewing their powers of
mind and body. Also, the acids of the
apple are of signal use for men of
sedentary habits, whose livers are slug
gish in action; these acids serving to
eliminate from the body noxious mat
ters which, if retained would make the
brain heavy and dull, or bring about
jaundice or skin eruptions and other
allied troubles. Some such an expert
ence must have led to our custom of
taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich
goose, and like dishes.
The malic acid of ripe apples either
raw or cooked, will neutralize any ex-
cess of chalky matter engendered by
eating too much meat 1t is also a
fact that such fresh fruits as the apple,
the pear, and the plum, when taken
ripe and without sugar, dimishes acidi-
ty in the stomach rather than provoke
it. Their vegetable salts and juices
are converted into alkaline carbonates,
which tend to counterfeit acidity. A
good ripe raw apple is one of the easiest
of vegetable substances for the stomach
to deal with, the whole process of its
digestion being completed in eighty-five
minutes. Gerard found that the "pulpe
of roasted apples mixed in wine-quart
of faire water, and labored together
until it comes to be as apples and ale
which we call lambeswool = never
faileth in certain diseases of the raines.
which myself hath often proved, and
gained thereby both crownes and
credit" The pairing of an apple, cut
somewhat thick, and the inside where
of is laid to hot, burning, or running
eyes at night, when the party goes to
bed; and is tied or bound to the same,
doth help the trouble very speedily, and
contrary to expectation-an excellent
secret. THE Hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
THE QUEER CITY OF SOCOTA.
Ruled By the AUTHORIZATIONS Write for
Fun-Policemen Carry Lassoes.

Bogota is city of paradoxes. of
great wealth. of great poverty. and a
mixture of customs that often puzzles
the stranger. The foremost men in the
mercantile, political, and literary cir
Giles are from the old Castilian families,
but so changed by intermarriage that
all bloods run in their veins. In the
legislature, on the bench, the forum
and behind the bankers desk. you will
see the characteristics of all the races,
from the Anglo-Saxon 10 the African.
The ruling class is the politicians. but
it is more under the control of the mil
itary than is generally the case else
where.
Among the leading minds are highly
educated men who can converse fluent
ly in several languages, who can dem
onstrate the most difficult problem in
astronomical and mathematical formu-
las, who can dictate a learned philo-
sophical discourse. or dispute with any
body the influence of intricate history.
Their constitutions, laws, and govern
ment were modelled after those of the
United States; their financial policies
after England; their fashions, man
ners, and customs after the French;
their literature, verboSity, and suavity
after the Spaniards. Patriotic elo-
quence is their ideal and well it is
realized in most of their orators.
Almost anybody in Columbia is a
writer or poet. The number of daily
and weekly periodicals published, in
addition to the many loose sheets is
sued as occasion may require, indicate
this. Editors, as a rule. have other
business, and take this post in addition
as a recreation. Colombian authors
have furnished textbooks on political
economy, grammar, geography, math-
emetics and art. while philosophical,
historical, and biographical essays and
works of fiction and poetry furnish
much interesting reading. Some of
the textbooks are subsidized by the
Government, and all authors are pro-
tected by copyright law.
The police do duty only at night,
leaving the citizens to take care of
themselves by day. Four policemen
are stationed at the four corners of
each plaza. Every fifteen minutes
bell rings, which causes the guardians
of the city to blow their whistles and
change places. By this system it is
impossible for them to sleep on their
beats Besides short stout bayonet,
the policeman is often armed with
lasso, and by the dextrous use of his
formidable weapon the prowling thief
is easily pinioned when trying to es-
cape. Petty thefts are the chief crimes,
for the natives are neither quarrelsome
nor dishonest. Those who will steal
little things sometimes make the most
trusty messengers, to his care you need
not hesitate to commit any amount of
money.-BOg0t0 Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
Russian Hebrews.

A curious and important appeal case
has just been decided by the court Of
cessation of the senate. which affords
a striking example of the complicated
disabilities of the Jews in Russia. saws
the London Times. A law student of
Jewish race executed deed of trans
fer by which he made over his proper
ty in Kieff, consisting of house and
land, to his wife in her own right. but
the notary public refused to legalize it
on the ground that the wife, who was
also of the Jewish faith, had no right
to acquire landed property in KieH,
whatever might be the right of her
husband.
The matter went to court and it was
decided that although Jew possessing
a diploma of either of the three learned
degrees had a right to reside in all
parts of the empire and in virtue of
such right might acquire property in
the district of his residence, vet this
right to acquire property was the re-
suit OF an exception to the law granted
in favor of the Jewish doctor or master
of law or arts, as the case might be-
individually, and was not communica-
bic to his wife or children.
This decision was upheld and con-
firmed on appeal to the senate in St.
Petersburg. Possibly we shall soon
hear of the wives and families of Rus
sian Jews not having the right to re-
side with their husbands and fathers in
districts where the standard of their
education gives them the privilege to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07

But the women can decorate. en-
broider. and sew pearl and turquoises
all over anything they want to, and
they do it as labor of love. with
exquisite care and delicacy of taste.
Their own garments are such an odd
incongruity- feet and legs, or
socks and slippers. pantaloons of COM
mon gaudy chintz. a shalvar or skirt,
of which the breadths are not sewn up.
great wad of shawl tied about a
waist guiltless of corsets, a Jacket
covered with gold, pearl. diamonds,
and other precious jewels, mingled
with strings of common beads ear
rings, rings, and bracelets four inches
wide, the brilliant sorvotch above their
foreheads stuck full of gay flowers and
jewels, and over all the feridjee, with
its shapeless folds, and the beauty Civ
inc. refiling, and mysterious veil or
ya5hmak. which makes of a Turkish
woman at once a most ravishing and
ridiculous creature in the world.
Beautiful in the face as an angel, ugly,
and awkward, seen from behind. as
hippopOtamus-- PittS5Hrg Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07

slx-ounce gloves, puts them on. ana
stands up before the dog. After little
training the dog will jump at the gloves
and the trainer will attempt to keep
him off by blows. Another method is
to swing the dog by his grip on a straw
bag or stuffed cushion. BY this means
a dog is so trained that in a fight when
he gets hold of an antagonist he can
keep it.
When dog is in perfect trim he
should be able to run thirty miles with
out showing that he is tired. and should
be able to go into a ring and fight from
one hour to one hour and quarter be-
fore he loses his wind. Everything is
done with clock-work regularity, and
the work the dog is required to do must
take off the extra flesh without reducing
the daily allowance of food. He must
be bathed and rubbed every day, have
clean bed and plenty of fresh air.
Dogs that are generally put into the pit
would be better fighters if they had not
been subjected SC much to the fumes OF
the saloon"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
HOW TO TRAIN DOGS.
Some Interesting Facts About the way to
Teach Game Dog to Fight.

A well-known dog and chicken fan
cier was exercising a tWentv-eight-
pound bull terrier dog the other day
The fancier when questioned as to
the mode of training generally adopt
ed in conditioning dogs for a fight,
said:
The time generally occupied in fit
ting Il dog for contest is sixty days.
The objects to be obtained are to re-
move all superhuous flesh, get him into
a perfectly healthy condition, and de-
velop his muscles and his wind so that
he can fight a long time without stop
ping to rest. His muscles are harden
ed, his wind made strong. and extra
flesh removed by hard work. which
should be as systematic as a man train
ing for fight.
The apparatus used for training
consists of wooden disk balanced on
a center pin so that it will turn. The
dog is put on top of this disk. The
trainer sits facing the dog, starts the
disk so that it will tend to take the dos
away from him, and the dog has to
run while the disk turns so as to main
tain his position near the trainer.
Again. there is the old-fashioned tread
power which a dog is put into and
made to work. But there are dogs
that will neither run on the disk nor
work in the tread power. and these are
sometimes chained to buggy and TAX
en- out on the road. The distance is
generally increased, and by the middle
of the training season the dog should
be able to run twenty minutes without
hanging out his tongue. Then the ex
ercise is gradually decreased until it
has reached the minimum again, just
before the fight. After each run the
dog has his breakfast. then bathed and
blanketed, his feet oiled and he is put
in clean bed. Most trainers. object
to running dog behind wagon to
work off flesh. They claim that walk
ing and rubbing are better methods,
because the running behind a wagon
fills dog with dust. After an hour or
two of sleep during the forenoon the
trainer gets him up and walks him
around until dinner time. After din.
ner he is allowed another short sleep
and then exercised. Some trainers
fight the dog with boxing-gloves to
strengthen his jaws and muscles of the
neck.
ITO do this the trainer gets pair of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
SHERIDAN AT WEST POINT.
A Disobedient Student Who Was Given Ono
More Chance.

1t is good to give the bad boys an
other chance, says the IOWth's C0n1pd11-
ION. Gen. Sheridan, when he was a
West Point cadet, committed an Of
fence so fragrant against the discipline
of the school that he afterward thought
himself that it ought not to have been
forgiven, On parade one day his ser
geant, who was also cadet, ordered
him to dress is, to stand in
line with the rest of the company.
1t was proper ORDER. and young
Sheridan, who had very fiery temper,
took exception to the tone in which it
was given, and in fact was so incensed
at it that he rushed toward the SER
geant with his bayonet in his hand. in
tending to assault him. Fortunately,
before he could accomplish his purpose
his reason regained the upper hand and
he returned to his place.
The sergeant reported the efense,
proceeding which infiamed Sheridans
wrath anew, ard the next time he met
the sergeant he flew at him: with his
fists. They fought until they were sep
arated by an officer. :
Here was fearful breach of military
discipline-one which at most military
academies would have been punished
by dismissal. But the officers, lenient
toward the earnest student o. 90 years
-"too lenient," he thought instead
of expelling him gave him another
chance by rusticating him for a year.
But for this the services of Sheridan
would have been lost to the country
during the late war. when his peculiar
and very great talents were Of inestima-
bic value. =,
His experience at West Point did not
! lessen his sense of the necessity of dis
cipline. He knew when to forgive Of
| Tenders and when to enforce military
| law. In his memoirs" he tells us what
he did with four officers who displayed
criminal cowardice at the battle of
Stone river:
When their guilt was clearly estab-
lished, and as soon as an opportunity
! occurred, | caused the whole division
| to be formed in hollow square. closed
in mass, and had the four officers
marched to the center, where. telling
| them that | would not humiliate any
army officer or soldier by requiring
| him to touch their disgraceful swords,
| l. CUul tGllCu ltlCul W ucuNtI luelIS
up to my colored servant, who also
cut from their coats every insignia of
| rank.
Then, after there had been read to
the command an order from army
headquarters dismissing the four from
the service. the scene was brought to
close by drumming the towards out
of camp. 1t was a notifying spec
tacle, but from that day no officer in
that division ever abandoned his col
ers.
In the case of Cadet Sheridan the
authorities at West Point were the
more inclined to leniency because they
saw in him the stuff out of which a
good soldier is made-love of his call
ing and great energy in preparing him
self for it. Not few of the bad boys
at school are bad from having a little
too much of the vivacity and resolu-
ton that conquer the world, which
only need be rightly guided to bring
them fame.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
Too Much for Her.

Among the servants of well-known
house in Lewiston is one young woman
of native ''Old Country wit who never
is at loss for an expedlent. She at
tended call at the door the other
day, where stranger presented him.
self and asked to see the lady of the
house. What name shall 1 say?n
Mr. tiltzenheimer," said he. BEG par
don, sir" said she. ''Stiltzenheimer,
repeated he. The girl hesitated at the
name, which was evidently beyond the
intricacies of her speech, and then
opening the door to the parlor said,
with laugh, Step in. sir, if you
please, and-and bring the name with
you. '-LeWiston Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
Ola DObbin.

] see old Dobbin through the fence; how weak
he looks, and old;
His hair is falling off in spots, he feels the
damp and cold;
He bangs his head, his step is slow: it's plain
enough to see
His thirty years are more to him than fifty are
to me.
He shall not work another jot not that he
would complaint;
But from this hour he ne'er shall know the
touch of whip or rein.
Of all the horses on the farm he's been the
very best;
should have thought of it before; but now he
shall have rest
call to my mind the colt he was, and how 1
whew! how he kicked and pranced, and
plunged; twas doubtful which would win
But was young, as well as he, and would not
be de- ed:
And since, he's been as safe nag as man
would wish to ride.
He never lacked in spirit, nor in steadiness,
Many the time his willing feet have answered
urgent need,
He knew what precious minutes meant, and SO
defeated death.
Then, in my happy counting days, he knew the
That / would swing the stable door and greet
He knew the girl / loved was waiting far away
and fair;
He seemed to say: "'TwilI not be long before
| take you there!2
Then on my wedding day he stood with others
at the church;
No doubt he thought for just that once / left
him in the lurch;
One face, one form, that day of days, was all
that | could see,
did not think of Dobbin then, whate'er he
thought of me.
And when the years had brought their grief,
and learned joys reverse,
He drew the little ones and me behind the
gloomy hearse. -
j cannot say that he OWNED how lonely was
my lot; .
But since he has not been the same; II know
that | have not!
And so, through gIadness and through grief
old DObbin has been near;
No wonder that he looks so old when L have
grown so scrr.
know full well that fifty years is youth to
many men;
TITS not the years, but that my heart has reach
ed three score and ten!
So, while / live, his failing life shall naught
but comfort know;
Old Dobbin, rs ! said at first, shall ne'er feel
rein or blow.
The best of oats, the sweetest hay, the field to
wander free
Shall all be his; poor return for all he's been
to me!
Ladies' Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
The Wrong Address.

Among some old papers sent 20 a
Texas jail for the entertainment OF the
inmates was the election circular of
one of the local candidates. One of
the prisoners, who has been in Jail for
over year, looked at it and said:
Look here boys, this is not intended
for us. 1t is is addressed To the peo-
pie at large That don't mean -
Teas Sitinas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
"ConjuriD g" a Mule.

A Thomaston (Ga.) negro tried to
take out warrant for another sable
brother for ''conjuring' his mule, and
was much disappointed when told that
no such offense was recognized.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07

At the present time the colored peo-
pie of the United States control about
100 weekly newspapers. which have an
aggregate average circulation OF S0O.-
600 copies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-16
NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R.

The Dining Car Limo to Fargo,
Winnipeg, Helena, Butte and
the Pacific Northwest.