Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-17
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

JULIAN HAWTHORNE has chartered
= low, Iakish, piratical looking cralC
and is about to start for Sargasso
Sea, the scene of so many weird ana
uncanny sea stories, He does not ex-
pect to find the lost Atlantic, but
will, of course, try to find material
for hair-raising tale after the style
OF THE Green Hand" or ''Iom
Cringle's Log"
CHARLES FAIR, son of the bonanza
millionaire, is a dipsomaniac OF the
worst type. He has tried all the
remedies or cures for drunkenness,
but has fallen by the wayside eacn
time. The Kelley cure kept MIN
straight for two or three months, out
when he fell from grace he signallzeo
the event by drinking fifteen COCK
tails in rapid succession as fast as d
bartender could make them. lie Is
now IN an inebriate asylum.
SENATOR MILLS is said to be the
only rival, in either branch OF Con-
gress, of Joe Cannon as an acrobatlc
orator. AS he warns up in debate he
begins to hitch up his coat sleeves In
turn until he has them both rolled
up above his elbows. He gallops up
and down the isles at a good rate OF
speed until he is in profuse perspira-
tlon and at the conclusion OF his
speech he is as completely exhausted
as if he had been debating the
Qucensberry rules with Prof. James
j. COrbett
LORD DENMAN. one of the heredi-
tary legislators of Great Britain, is
an amiable but eccentric old noble
man who appears in the House of
Lords wearing blue velvet skull
cap lavender gloves and Scotch
plaid that suggests an explosion in a
paint shop. He is very deaf and
moves about from seat to seat so as
to hear the various speakers His
Midway Plaisance costume and &C.
centric orbit cause much amusement,
but the amiable old peer is in no way
disconnected by the attention he at
tracts
ROBERT WILCOX, the husband of
Ella Wheeler, the poetess of passion,
is drummer-just plain, ordinary,
two-grip l,O0O-mile-ticket drummer.
His veracious variations have, it is
said, furnished his gifted wife with
ideas for many stories and poems, aEd
he is the critic upon whom she most
relies to point out defects in her
work. Mr.. Wilcox is stout and heavy
set, with full round face and a bald
head. How he captured the affec-
tions of the modern Sappho is a mys-
terry to everyone and most OF all, as
he admits, to himself.
AN Abilene newspaper man boasts
that he has written seventy-six saluta-
tories in eleven years This ap-
proaches but does not equal Opie
Reads Kentucky and Tennessee
record. He started new paperevery
two weeks during three years and
boasts that he didn't have to walk
out OF town except on two occasions,
when his departure was accelerated
by indignant citizens who deemed
themselves libeled by some of his
able editorials. As for Col. Nisscher,
his newspaper ventures reach into
four figures and he is only resting
until after the Worlds Fair, when he
will begin again.
MR. GLADSTONE'S recent attacks
upon the House of Lords are no doubt
due in no small degree to the ingrati-
tude of the peers who owe their Gre
alton to him. OF sixty-four men,
hQrS Df T
has been instrumental in elevating
to their present position. twenty
three either voted against the home
rule bill or absented themselves when
the vote was taken. 1t is natural
that the premier should doubt the
advisability OF creating any more
liberal peers only to have them be-
come tories of the rankest stripe as
soon as they get used to the atmos-
DlSre of the pildpd chamhar