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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
A Blissflll Pair.

When Lytton went down to his
constituents to be reelected after his
appointment as colonial secretary, his
wife appeared on the scene He him
self related the story thus: ''She
was dressed in a complete suit of deep
yellow, this being the color of my DO
litical adversar1es. Her voice was
loud, her tone menacing leaned
forward. placing my right hand to my
ear. The first articulated words I
caught were Monster William Cow
ardly wretch Outcastn l said:
Madam. allow me to ask your name
MY name, you fiend! am your
wife Now, you scoundrel, don't ask
me who [ am. am told you have
been sent to the colonies; il they
knew as much about you as 1 do, they
would have sent you there long ago.''
When Lytton was shut up in his
chambers, engaged in a book, he
wrote impassioned letters about Sol
itude, his only companion. Lady
Lytton called at his chambers uncx-
pectedly ~ found my wretched
husbands statement was partly true.
The monsters only companion was
Solitude, but Solitude was dressed in
white muslin, and was sitting on his
kneei"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

THERE are two wonderful linguists
holding unimportant positions in
Washington. One is Ivan Michel, a
Russian, who is clerk to the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs He
is familiar with twenty-six languages,
and has stock of information almost
encyclopedia upon European finances
and diplomacy. The other is George
Joannini, a clerk at the Normandie
Hotel. He is but % years old, yet
he is master Of seventeen languages,
including Chinese, japanese and Hin
dustani. He speaks nine Of these
automatically and almost without ac-
cent, and the Others we'll enough to
carry on ordinary conversation. He
is born linguist and acquires lam
guages without difficulty.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

IN Freeport, L. l., the Presbyte-
rian Church is in trouble. The men,
bers OF the sewing society, at a gar
rulous meeting, freely criticised the
dress, manners and conversation of
Mrs. John Hutchinson, wife Of the
pastor. Industrious tongues carried
reports Of the gossip to the pastor
and he resented it from the pulpit.
He preached a sermon on @The
Tongue" in which he reproved with
severity the members of his congre-
CATION who had exercised that organ
with too great freedom. The men,
bers of the sewing society who were
present arose while he was describing
the hideousness OF their conduct and
left the church in a body. Then
Rev. John Hutchinson resigned. and
the church is without a pastor. 1t
Is questionable whether there was
not too much tongue" in the pulpit
as well as at the sewing circle.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
TOrYllcntOrs.

The man or woman who seems to
have adopted the function OF DESTROY
ing the peace of every one who allows
himself to be disturbed by rancor-
GUS tongue is generally a coward, and
carefully avoids those who are not
afraid to retort upon their tormentor
Nothing Is safe from people of this
order; they love to destroy a friends
faith in his friend, girls faith in
her lover. They overthrow the
harmless egotism which makes man
stand fairly well in his own esteem
by off1ciously holding the mirror up
to nature. They are the terrOrs of
clubs, the scOurges of married life.
the causes Of disunion among friends,
the sources of most evil-speaking, ly
ing and slandering, and the objects
OF timid hate and fear wherever
they 60 Alas! poor souls, through
what unhappiness have they dragged
themselves before they learned to
hate all happiness in others? More
over, the end of the general torment
or is that he becomes the self-tor.
mentor, like Hoods hedgehog,
~Tormenting himself with his pricklesn
But the art and pleasure Of torment
ing is not only known to such as
these People torment with a differ
ence, and the practice is not always
ill-natured. The amusement which
is best known as getting rise out
of somebody" is one that is very
often enjoyed by the kindest and
most genial of men, who have never
quite lost certain mischievous spirit
which they possessed as schoolboys.
Not even the most demure of woman.
kind are entirely free from this same |
spirit of mischief. 1t is impossible |
to torment a man who is absolutely |
free from self-esteem; and this, too.
may be pleaded as an excuse for tor
menting those whose vanity is thin
skinned. One may love a friend
with perfect sincerity and yet take a
wicked pleasure in occasionally prick
ing the most vulnerable side of his
character. 1t is not easy to ext.ain
the exact nature of the enjoyment
derived from his contortions. We
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

be completed by May l next, accord
ing to contract, hence the contract
ors being pressed for time can not
afford to waste any of that valuable
article. The walls of the first three
stories are to be of stone, and as this
portion OF the work will not be COM
pleted for two months yet. the con.
tractors can't wait for it, so they
started the terra Gotta section of the
walls where the stone will leave of
and are travelling upward with this
leaving the stone work of the lower
stories to follow. The terra Gotta
blocks are 80 made that they fit ex.
actly around the big upright steel
beams. At the same time steel rods.
or anchors as they are called, are run
through the interior Of the blocks
and through the wings of the beams,
thereby anchoring the former to the
latter. 1t Is these anchors that hold
the terra Gotta walls in place and fur
nish the supports for the blocks to
rest upon. From this it can readily
be seen that this kind Of a wall can
be started on any part of a building
without waiting for the lower part to
be built upon.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
Weather Glass.

Nitrate of potash and sal ammo
MAC, Of each half dram; camphor,
two drains; rectitled spirits of wine,
two fluid ounces. These ingredients
are to be put into an old-fashioned
eau de cologne bottle or tube Of glass
eight or ten inches long and about
three fOurths of inch in diameter,
and the mouth covered with per-
forated bladder. The following are
the changes which are observed. If
the weather promises to be fine, the
insoluble matter will settle at the
bottom Of the tube, while the liquid
remains pellucid; but previous to a
change for rain the compound will
gradually rise, the fluid remaining
transparent. Twenty-four hours be-
fore storm or very high wind, the
substance will be partly on the sur
face of the liquid, apparently in the
form of leaf. The fluid in such
case will be very turbid, and in a
state resembling fermentation.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

ness and solitude of the night, is we'll
calculated to strike a chill into the
breast OF man. Now the plant
ceases, but in an instant it breaks
forth with renewed vigor, yelping,
bowling, crying, strangling, and
dying away like the wall OF lost soul
sinking into hades.
Wherever easy prey, dead or alive,
is to be obtained. there the coyote
will be found. In the days when
herds Of tuffalo existed, the sneaking
coyote prowled at their heels in great
numbers, eagerly watching for a
wounded or dying animal. In strong
bands they would fall upon the un-
fortunate creature which Jagged in
the rear and tear its quivering flesh
before life had fully departed. IN
firing, lean, gorging to repletion
when the opportunity offers and again
starving to the verge of death, these
scavengers Of the plains may become
dangerous when driven to extremities
by famine or rendered unusually
courageous by large numbers. Ordi-
narily the coyote is shy and has a
wholesome fear Of man. 1t is only
upon rare occasions that the lone
traveller is attacked. The scent Of
the coyote is remarkably keen, and
the animals travel very rapidly to
any place where they expect feast.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
The Little Rock Gazette has M

The Little Rock Gazette has got
everybody mixed up by bringing for
ward new pronunciation of the
name Arkansas. No one but Eng
lishmen or Bostonians pronounces
the word as 1t is spelled. 1t was un.
d.rstood that the Legislature of the
State some years ago officially fixed
the pronunciation as Arkansaw. Here
comes the Gazette. however, with a
.,'em entitled, MY Happy Little
Home in Arkansas" in which the
final syllable of Arkansas is made to
rhyme first with flow" and then with
below" This indicates that the
native pronunciation Of the name Is
not Arkansaw but Arkansow, and
We are all at sea again. The Arkan-
sawyers or the Arkansowyers should
settle this matter once for all. 1t is
becoming puzzling and ANNOYING.
Perhaps Mr.. Opie Read, the "Arkan.
saw Traveller" could put an end to
the dispute.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

The owner of sandstone quarry
on Lake Superior conceived the idea
Of sending to the Fair a shaft that
should far overtop the Cleopatra
obelisk in Cnntral Park and all the
similar works wrought by the ancient
Egyptians. He successfully accom-
plished his purpose at a cost Of about
$4,000. The shaft was 40 feet
long, 10 feet square at the base and
tapering to feet at the top. The
tallest Of the Egyptian obelisks, that
of Karnak, is los feet inches. But
the Minnesota quarter could not
float his monolith to Chicago, as the
Egyptians used to float their works
on RATS down the Nile. The lowest
estimate for moving the great stone
to the Fair was $25. 900. The money
could not be raised, and the disguised
quarter has begun to cut up the
greatest Of obelisks into building
stone.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

New Architectural Laws.
There was ! time when it was
thought absolutely necessary in the
construction Of new ediflce of any
kind to begin at the bottom in the
building of the walls, proceeding up
ward direct from the foundation.
This was one of the invariable laws
of architectural construction, but
they don't follow it any more in Chi
cago Chicago contractors are liable
to start the walls of a big sky-scraper
anywhere but at the foundation, and
complete the exterior OF the upper
stories long before work is even
started on the lower stories. A case
in point OF this kind is furnished by
the big New York Life Insurance
Company Building now in course of
erection at the northeast corner of
Monroe and La Sale streets. The
massive steel skeleton framework is
finished up to the twelfth story and
the stone work is done from the
foundation to the first story. Then
there is skip of two stories and the
exterior walls of terra Gotta, in imi-
tatiOn OF stone, have been started at
the third story and are being run up
from that point.
This building phenomenon, for such
it is to the majority of the people,
while strange is not an unusual one
In Chicago. Several of the city's tall
buildings have been constructed in
that way in the last year or two.
The New York Life Building must
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
Floral Mystery,

The Chinese. japanese and Siamese
are peculiarly skillful at botanical
feats. One of their wonderful
achievements is known as the
"changeable rose" This bloom is
white in the shade and red in the
sunlight. After night or in a dark
room this curiosity of the rose family
is pure, waxy white blossom. When
transferred to the open air the trans
formation Immediately steps in, the
time OF the entire change of the flow
er from white to the most sanguine
of all sanguine, hues depending on the
degree OF sunlight and warmth. First
the petals take on kind of washed
or faded blue color, and rapidly
changes to a faint blush of pink. The
pink gradually deepens in hue until
you find that your lily-wbite rose of
an hour before is as red as the red
dest peony that ever bloomed.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
SKELETONS IN A MINE.


Rewains Of . Horse and Rider Found In an
Miners employed in cleaning out an
old shaft near Silver City exhumed
the skeletons of a human being aud
horse, says a Virginia City, New.
dispatch. The skeleton OF the horse
was lying on its back and the human
bones we're underneath. The latter
were covered with the waist and skirt
OF silk dress, over which was lace
netting. indicating that the wearer
was woman. The teeth in the skull
OF the human skeleton are perfect.
small, and regular. A portion Of the
underclothing found Is Of fine tex
ture. Particles of matted blonde
hair on the skull show that the re-
mains are Of the Caucasian race. The
skull of the woman is blackened by
the action OF time and shows frac-
ture on the right side, evidently
caused by the fall into the shaft The
saddle blanket and skirt are of fine
cloth, and the steel portion of the
stirrup shows that it belonged to a
lady's saddle. The shaft where the
skeletons were found is on the ground
formerly known as the Carson mine,
and is located about one mile south
OF Silver City and mile and a half
west OF the site of JOhntOwn. the
Oldest town in the State. The loca-
tion is now designated as the "Mon-
arch" The CHASTITY discovery was
made at depth of about twenty feet
below the surface The shaft where
the remains were found was sunk in
1863. None Of the old residents of
Silver City remember the disappear
ance of any person from that locality.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
Sweet Dream.

IA golden age of bonbons was the
period of the Restoration" says a
bright French writer upon the history
and evolution of candies Then the
Rue de5 LON bards, which may be re
garded historically as the cradle OF
French confectionery, outdid Itself
in pompous and elaborate sugar
decorations The taking of Granada
and the siege Of Gibraltar were por-
trayed in sugar, and there was an in
teresting representation of an agri.
cultural fete in Pekin where the EN-.
peror OF China surrounded by his
court, was blowing field all in
marshmallow paste.
A rare book of that period gives
some curious items about the popular
candies of the day. The author de.
scribes dream in which the New
Year appeared to him in the guise OF
a candy man.
"a tall and aged phantom with
rather silly air appeared TO me-" he
writes, ION a shining caramel char
lot, drawn by four stucco horses.
whose harness and teeth were OF
hardened Narbonne honey. He had
long white beard. Around his head
was crown Of little sugar demons.
He wore bonbons for earrings, and
held a vanilla chocolate scepter.
In the distance l saw a barley
sugar temple The ground was OF
beautiful light-brown sugar. Syrup
of bananas spouted from apricot
marmalade fountains. From two
horns OF plenty poured forth bon bons
a la Marie Therese, pistachio candies
a la duchesse d'Angouleme, sugar
apples a la heroine OF Bordeaux,
sweet tablets la Louis XVIII.
amber horns OF peace, prune Jelly
ships a la Jean Bart and guava Jelly
a Ia Russo.
"There was statue of Voltaire.
which, in spite OF his sharpness when
alive, was made of fine sugar,
Fieron, his rival, appeared in Savoy
sponge cake. On burnt almond
pedestal stood Turenne with a spice
bread sword, and all the lesser per,
sonages were composed of EXCELLENT
sugar paste"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

Mr.. j. TROLL, a teacher in Belle
vile, ILL.,, has perfected a simple ap-
paratus which shows with great ap-
proach to accuracy the path of the
moon in space relative to the earth.
1t is all the more interesting as it
truly shows the popular conception
OF the movement to be an erroneous
one. 1t was shown by high mathe-
NAUTICAL authority fully century ago
that, as the solar attraction on the
moon exceeds that Of the earth,
therefore the path Of the moon must
be always cOncave towards the sun.
But numerous compilers of textbooks
seem to have been unaware Of this.
and give diagrams representing the
moon as performing a cycloidal move
Uent,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

THE Vigilant has won the great
international yacht race, and the
Americas cup remains in the CUSTODY
OF the New York Yacht Club. This
has been the most determined chal-
lenge for its recovery since the yact;
America carried it away from Eng
land in 1851. American skill in shin
building and superiority in the art of
navigation have been demonstrated
in this great race. Neither the pc
culiar winds nor the power of the
waves in American waters, nor both
combined. produced this result. 1t
was accomplished by greater success
in naval architecture and by the ex.
cellence of seamanship. 1t is said
that Lord Dunraven will build an
other yacht to succeed the Valkyrie
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

VARIOUS people took it upon them
selves to say hard things about the
late Millionaire Ames, OF Massachu-
sets, because no charitable requests
were found in his will. The truth is
that Mr.. Ames had during his life
time given away hundreds of thous-
ands OF dollars in benevolence of
which no one had ever heard. He
exacted secrecy in regard to the
gifts. Further than that, at the
time OF his death he was preparing to
donate a reading-room to Harvard
College and provide for its mainten-
ance. This work, it is understood,
his heirs will carry out, despite the
omission to provide for it in the will.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

w. J. GILBERT, the author Of "Pin-
,afore," Patience" and the latest sue
cess utopia Uimited)," is growing
old, but is still a tall, well-built,
handsome man, with grayish-white
hair and mustache and lively bright
eyes His bearing would lead stran-
ger to take him for military officer
rather than barrister, but when he
talks the crisp, smart manner of con-
versation characteristic of the alert
practitioner is recognized at once.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

The remnant of the Leni-Lenape
Indians, made famous by Fenimore
Cooper, number ninety-flve and live
among the Kiowas ana Comanches in
Indian Territory. Each one Of them
has 30, 2O2 in the United States
Treasury, eighty acres of land, be-
sides horses and other stock and i'm
provements on their farms. Com
pared with the per capita wealth of
the richest nations ON earth the pos
sessions Of these people make them
by far the wealthiest race in exist
Nnco
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
Two Wits.

One day, while his apparatus for
deed-sea soundings, by means of steel
pianoforte-wire, was being con-
structed, Lord Kelvin entered Mr..
Whites shop in Glasgow. along with
the great DR.. JOule, celebrated for
his determination of the mechanical
equivalent Of heat. Joule's attention
was called to bundle of the piano
forte wire lying in the shop, and
Thomson explained that he intended
it for sounding purposes" what
note?" innocently inquired Joule, and
was promptly answered. ''The deer
CO
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

AN ex-BOulangist named Mermeix
is being roughly handled by a female
journalist who is much distressed be-
cause he is not permitted to fight her
with pistols or swords. His sense OF
politeness is overdeveloped. A wom-
an ought not to object seriously to
the light exercise and invigorating
morning air that are chief features
of the field where wounded honor
finds healing.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

WHAT higher praise can we bestow
upon any one than to say Of him that
he harbors another's prejudices with
hospitality so cordial as to give him,
for the time, the sympathy next best
to, If indeed it be not edification in,
charity itself. For what disturbs
more and distracts mankind than the
uncivil manners that cleave man
from man?
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
How Egyptian Women Ride.

Absorption of the horseback riding
Of Egyptian women will not serve to
render more popular the suggestion of
Col Dodge that American women
advpt the same style. An Egyptian
woman takes a mans saddle, short
ems the stirrups until the feathers are
only couple of inches long, sits on
the saddle as far forward as she can.
throws her feet to the rear and rides
solely from balance. Syrian women
ride as men do.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

F., ADVERSELY is medicine which
people are rather fond of recommend
ing Unfortunately as a panacea for
their neighbors Like other medi-
'cines, it only agrees with certain con-
,stitutions. There are nerves which
1T braces, and nerves which it utterly
skaters.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

~ - -
of Health of New
York City for six
years, a position
which he resigned
last March. While
a health commits
sioner he did
much to improve
the sanitary con-
'ditiOn Of N e W
York. DIR. Bry-
ant and Secretary
DAM, amOnf, mar
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

ried sisters, and it was through the
Secretary Of War that DIR. Bryant
became intimate with the President,
whose family physician he now is.
During the summer he and President
Cleveland went on many fishing ex-
petitions together.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

discover that we have power over our
friend. and VIC exercise it. A con-
temptible practice, serious people
will say. Very likely, but then Sc
rious people are generally the vic
Tins. The suggestion of superior in
tellect in their manner is in itself a
provocation, and all unconsciously
they invite attacks which they can
neither understand nor parry.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

&, AN Indianian got off his wagon
long enough to shoot pair OF high
waymen Then the enthusiastic pop
ulace bought his peaches for 81, 900.
Yet there are people who think that
Embarrassing does not pay
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
THE COYOTE.

The Lean, Hungry. Keen-scented scsven-
ger Of the Plains.
The coyote. now fast disappearing
before civilization, was formerly the
scavenRer of the Western plains, and
still flourishes in the vicinity OF small
settlements. Its cry is one of the
most dismal, and, heard in the dark.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

and will try it again next year. He
should not fail to return. He has
made manly trial and need not be
discouraged by a single defeat.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
BUILD FROM THE TOP.
NEW WAY OF ERECTING CHICA.
GO SKY.SCRAPERS.

Walls Started from the Upper Stories and
Carried Upward Instead OF from the
Foundation-Mystery of the New York
Life Insurance Building Explained.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20
THE WHITE HOUSE DOCTOR.

The Physician to Whom the Presidents
Health Is Intrusted.
DR.. Joseph d. Bryant, to whom
the health OF the President is in
trusted, was a member of the Board
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

EMMA GOLDMAN must be a very
bitter misanthrope. She is quoted
las saying there is nothing she loves
better than a bath.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

SOME women will tell you their age
very pleasantly when asked outright
wnat IL Is, but they never have the
same kindly feeling towards their
1uestioners afterward.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

THE man who can take in the stu
lation at a glance is the man who
bought never to be out of Job
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

A MANUFACTURER of fly paper has
failed. He was never stuck on his
business, anyway.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

THE population of America in
creases by 1000 persons a day.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

A COMPROMISE with evil Is but a
limited partnership with wrong.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-20

HAS Colonel Phoebe Couzins been
chlOrofOrmed?