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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

BONANZA MACKAY says he is in no
sense Spectator. II doubt" he
added, ''if l ever bought 10000
shares of stock in Wall street in my
life. l do not believe in specializing. :"
This quiet, modest man of twenty
million dollars, who prefers tea and
beefsteak to champagne and terrapin,
shuns society with the same deter
mination that other less wealthy and
popular men seek it. His wife
is devoted to it. 1t is an
open secret that she spends in
London $75, 600 to 800, 900 in enter
tanning her friends and the nobility.
Mr.. Mackay is happy to supply the
means as long as his popular wife
forgives him for not participating IN
her gayeties.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

| The wine-cellar of the House Of
Commons is capable of holding some
$3.50, 600 to 5000, 900 worth of wine.
1t Is over two hundred feet long. with
innumerable small cellars branching
from the main avenue. In this store
house there is seldom less than Si5,
600 worth of wine. The various
brands are selected in curious way
Two or three well-known merchants
send In samples of the win s they
can supply. A napkin is fastened
round each bottle and number
given to it. The Judges then meet
together, each having by his side
sheet OF paper. AS the wine is
handed around the judges record
their impression Of it, and the brand
that is most generally liked secures
for the owner a lucrative order On
the way to the cellar is a cigar-room,
little apartment containing So, 900
worth of the best weeds In the
Parliamentary session of average
length, 1850 luncheOns and 1850
dinners are served to members, ard
!, 100 luncheons and l, 1893 dinners in
the strangers room.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

RELIGIOUS thinkers who have been
analysing the vote in the Briggs
case ind that the liberal feeling is
strong in the cities, but that the con-
sentative tendency predominates IN
the country districts. This is easily
explained. Religion is more senti-
ment in the country, while in the
cities the tendency is to take each
man for what he is, rather than what
he believes. 1t is more than proba-
BILE that more than one local divine
would find himself defendant in a
heresy trial If he thought it wise to
say what he thinks. Star Savings.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
A PAIR OF GOLDEN SLIPPERS.

You have no idea what little feet the
children of Constantinople have, especi-
ally the girls. In the Turkish Building
at the Chicago Worlds Fair, there is a
beautiful booth at which golden slippers
are sold. The slippers are the tiniest
things you ever saw. They are very
harrow and turn up at the toes, making
point like the top of Chinese pagoda.
They are made of something which looks
like cloth-ofgold, and they are en-
broidered with cunning lite gold roses
surrounded by little gold leaves.
All the boys and girls who pass the
Golden Slipper Booth go crazy with de-
light at the ''angel slippers" as they
call them, but when they try to get
pair to wear, then they realize what very
small feet theCopstantinople women and
children possess.
Last week. a real funny thing happened
at the Golden Slipper Booth. A party
OF Americans passed the booth and adj.
mired the slippers, as no one who sees
them can help doing; but they did not
lny any, although one of the little girls
in the party said she would like to have
o pair.
About five minutes after the American
people had gone past, one of the older
boys Of the party came running back
with girls overshoe in his hand.
"Please give me pair of your golden
slippers just the size of this overshoe,"
said he. "They are for my sister, the
little girl who passed here just now, and
who said she would like to have q pair
of your golden shoes. l stole an over
shoe of hers out of my mothers hand
.atchel so as to get just the right size.
Please. MIR. Turk, give me a pair just
the size of these"
The little, dark-skinned Turkish sales
man took the overshoe and tried to find
slipper to match it. But although the
overshoe was not large one by any
means, there was not single pair of the
golden slippers in the whole booth that
could match it in size. Yet the little
girl who owned the overshoe was only
ten years old.
When the boy saw that he could not
buy his sister pair of golden slippers
to wear, he was very much disguised.
and some one heard him telling the clerk.
that he did not believe girls with such
small feet could possibly have any brains.
1.-THE Ledger.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
Some Stupendous Eruptions.

Few people of this country imagine
what terrible work volcano of the regu
iatlon size can do when it once gets fully
aroused. In 1888 Cotapaxi threw its
iiery rockets more than 1900 feet above
the crater and, in 1857, when the blazing
mass confined in the same mountain was
struggling for an outlet, it roared SO loud
that the awful noise was heard for dis.
lance OF 600 miles. In 1897 the crater of
Tunguragua, one of the great peaks of
the Andes, flung out torrents of mud and
ava which damned up great river,
opened new lakes, besides making a
deposit of seething mud, ashes aud lava,
ioJ feet deep over the whole area of
'asley which was twenty miles long and
averaged 1000 feet in width! The stream
II lava which flowed from Vesuvius in
S37 and passed through the Valley
u Terra del Greco is estimated to have
'een $4,000. 200 cubic feet of solid mat
or. In 1860 Etna poured out flood
i melted stones and ashes which
overed eighty-four square miles of fer
lie country to depth of from ten to
orty feet. On this occasion the sand,
coria, lava. etc, from the burning
mountain formed Mt. Rosini, peak
wo miles in circumference aud over
5000 feet high.
In the eruption of Vcsuvius in the year
"A. d., the time of the destruction of
Doinpeil, the scoria, ashes, sand and
ava vomited forth far exceeded the size
u the volcano ITSELF while in 1869
E.na disgorged over twenty times its
'wh mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes
n'o Syria, Egypt and Turkey 1t
luried stones Of 800 pounds weight to
:ompeii, distance of six English miles,
Turing the eruption of 70 A. ID. Coto-
oaxl once projected block of stons
containing over 100 cubic yards dis
ance of nine and half miles.-(Phla-
ieIphia Record
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
Hypnotic Frauds Exposed.

In the Popular Science Monthly d.
Hart discusses subject which, Whatever
one may think of its merits, 10 certainly
attracting wide attention. OF his exno.
sure of certain frauds he SAYS:
'Skeptic as l was, but willing To be
convinced, had purchased two rather
pretty little sailor dolls, twin brothers of
the nasy, at neighboring toy-shop.
One of these she (Madame vix) held un.
til it was sufficiently charged with he,
sensitiveness' by contact l then ran.
idly substituted the twin doll from nv
pocket, and put away the sensitized
doll for future service To make the
performance quite regular, Lieut. of n
minute lock Of her hair and pretended to
attix it to the doll. To this proceeding
which had seen Col de Rochas gravely
go through, she rather objected in her
profound sleep, much to our quiet amuse
ment. 'C'est trop, c'cst trop, she muir
INJURED, apparently thinking that was
taking too much hair for the money.
need not say that did not aifix it to the
head of the doll. although went through
the motions of doing so. have now and
shall preserve, the two little doll wit
nesses' and the valuable tress of hair as
mementoes Of this interesting perform.
ance. 1t may take its place by the side
of the famous tress cut from the locks
of the spirit form of Katie King. We
then produced, with the aid of the I'M
touched doll, just unrolled from the It's.
sue paper Of the toy shop, all the phe-
nOmena of the enyoutcment of the sorcer
ers, OF which so much has been heard
lately and which have figured SO largely
in the pages of the great newspapers OF
England and France. She felt acutely
when its imaginary lock was touched ant
pulled, whether by myself or DIR. Sajous
by NJ. Cremiers, or by anyone else in the
room. She greatly resented its being
pricked she felt all sorts of indescribabl.
ana generalized heats and pains whcl
the doll was touched in places of which
she could not well make out the locality
owing to our backs being turned to her,
and she was duly suffocated when w,
pretended to sit down on the doll. an
ashamed to say that the real doll wa.
lying there all the time, cruelty stabbed
by M. to the heart with stout pin. o.
which she was unconscious. Its NAL
treatment, which ought theoretically t.
have been fatal to her, produced no visi
bic effect Those performances she went
through three times"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
DESPITE the action of the Presby-


DESPITE the action of the Preshy-
terrain General Assembly in suspend
ing DR.. Briggs, there seems to be, even
in the church itself, a lively differ
ence Of opinion as to the Justice Of
the sentence. At Philadelphia Rev.
Thomas A. Hoyt declared that Briggs
was a convicted hereto and would
sink like lead under the ecclesiastical
waters. AT Wilmington. Del, Rev.
A. N. kewein characterized the trial
as a traveSty OF justice and said that
more absurd verdict had never been
rendered. Rev. ID. b. Gregg enter
tanned a similar opinion and told his
congregation at Baltimore that
within three years the General AS
sembly would be glad to take back
the man whom it had branded as a
heretic. Here, therefore, is case
where doctOrs-doctors of divinity,
toO-disagree. Who among the laity
shall decide? Does u majority vote
in theological body carry with it
the impress of divine truth? And, If
so, how about the DEGREES of the in
Vulnerable councils of the early church
which have been twisted. kicked, and
buffeted until scarcely a shred of the
originals remain?-Chicago Herald.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

Cyrus C1fngman. OF Danville, and
then you may stop the paper Mr.
Cllngman is a well-to-do citizen of
Danville and has read the paper for
many years. He did not withdraw
his subscription because of any fault
he had to find with his paper: on the
contrary he signitied his apprec lation
OF the Hawkeye by repaying his SUBJ
scrlptiOn for two years in advance.
Mr.. Clingman is 93 years Old" Mr..
Clingman's long and presumably
happy life is accounted for. May he
live to "renew" several times more.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
THE Pennsylvania State authori-

THE Pennsylvania State authori-
ties have refused, or at least
neglected, to pay the expense of ex-
traditing two criminals from Canada,
and now Canada refuses to arrest any
more fugltives from the United States
until the old bill of costs is paid; and
payment must be made in advance or
secured before any new expense will
be incurred under the extraditlon
treaty. Two murderers named Har.
ris Blank and b. G. Rosenwig were
wanted year ago in Pennsylvania,
were found in Canada, to which they
had fled, were extradted on rcquisi-
tion, were tried, convicted, and
hanged. The bill of costs in Canada
was sent to the United States Secre-
rotary of State, who made the reoui-
sition for the prisoners; but he re-
ferred the Canadian officer to the
State of Pennsylvania. While COM
planning that he was showed off in
this way, application was made to
Pennsylvania, to which no reply was
received. \ part of the amount was
due to a typewriter and she has since
died in poverty. Recently there was
a reQuisition made for man in Mon
treal. charged with murderous as
sault in New York City. The police
refused to make the arrest, and we're
justified by the local courts. Penn
sylNania should hurry up and make
for its neglect and shftless-
ness. Or. rather. the United States
should pay these little bills and lock
to the States for reimbursement
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
Strict STRONG stenhen strinaer snarea

Strict strong Stephen Stringer shared
Sticky six sckly silky snakes.
Swan swan over the sea; swim, swan
SWIM swan evan back again, well
swun swan.
1t is a shame, Sam these are the same,
Sam. IT'S all a sham, Sam, and shame
it is to sham so. Sam.
A growing CLEAN glowing green.
The bleak breeze bighted the bright
broom blossoms.
Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks
and shoes shine Susan. She ceaseth
shining shoes and socks, for shoes aud
socks shock Susan.
Robert Rowley rolled round roll
round; , round roll Robert Rowley rolled
round: where rolled the round roll
Robert Rowlcy rolled round?
Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and
oyster. Did Oliver Oglcthorp ogle an
owl and oyster? II Oliver Oglethorp
oged an owl and oyster, where are the
owl and oyster Oliver Oglethorp ogledl
Hobbs meets Snobbs and hobbs;
Hobbs hobs to Snobbs and Nobbs Hobbs
nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs's fob.
''That is" says Nobb, "the worse for
Hohbs's jobs" and Snobbs sobs.
Sammy Shoesmith saw shrek ing
soncster. Did Sammy Shoesmith see a
shrieking songster! If Sammy Shoe
smith saw shrieking songster, where's
the shrieking songster Sammy Shoe
smith saw!
went into the garden to gather some
blades, and there saw two sweet pretty
babes. "Ah, babes, is that you babes,
braidino of blades, babes2 If you braid
any blades at all, babes, braid broad
blades, babes. or braid no blades at oil,
babes. ~ Arronaut.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
An Extraordinary Diet.

A German contemporary states that
very peculiar patient is at pres ent under
treatment at the Augsburg State Hos
pital. A man, aged forty, had set him
self the task of swallowing some $50
fruit stones. Having finished this ex-
traordinary meal, he experienced ex-
circulating pain. While under treatment
on the first day in the hospital, the med
zeal men succeeded in removing 200
haze nut'stones. The man had taken
oil this trouble to place his life in jeop-
ardy for wager OF five shillings.-(Lon-
don News.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
An Arithmetical Puzzle.

An arithmetical puzzle much used by
would-be mind readers and bogus
mediums to foretell the result of an addi-
ton is the following: Ask anybody in
your audience to place row OF four fig
ures on paper. He may select, for ex-
ample, 1856. Turn the paper over and
on the reverse side write 1854, which
you may confidently assert will be the
final result of an addition whose remain
ing numbers have not yet been written.
Now get him to place a second row of
figures under the first. Beneath this
you must yourself place u line, being
careful that it and the one Just previously
written add up 9999 Let your an,ago-
mist place another row of your figures,
after which you again put down your
row, making as before 9999.
Adding up the five rows produces the
predicted result. For example:
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
THIS little true story from the Bur.

THIS little true story from the Bur-
lingtOn Hawkeye will be interesting
to newspaper publishers: ut is not
often that journal receives an order
from subscriber to stop his paper
under circumstances like those at
tending an order OF that character
received by the Hawkeye last week.
\ believe will pay for the Hawkeye
Tor Two years in advance said MIR.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

A Delicious DIsH.-When the cold
ooiled ham has appeared so often that
you are getting little tired of seeing it.
try the following: Cut the remains in
slices. Place in a stewpan can of
tomatoes, few stalks of celery and two
onions. Boil these until the product il
sufficiently soft; then pass it through
sieve. Thickcn to proper consist
ency with generous lump of butter
rubbed in some cornstarch. When this
now clear starch is boiling put in the
slices OF ham. being careful not to break
them. When they are thoroughly
heated, serve with the sauce in the same
dish.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

The Nebraska City National Bank
owns herd OF butfaloes. What a
pity that the species is so nearly OK
tinct. Otherwise the financial insti
buttons of the Zimri Dwiggins order
throughout the country might sur
round themselves with securities of
this kind and raise very formidable
in case of a run
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

SOME newspaper man started the
report that Brookheld, N. j., girl
kneads bread with her gloves on. An
exchange answers: 1--WE also need
bread with our shoes on, with our
pants on, and our clothes on. We
need it badly, too and il our deiin-
quents do not soon pay up we will
need it without any pants on"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
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Luxury and Modest lncOmes.

A man with a moderate but certain
income in this year of our Lord can
have luXuries, conveniences, and ad.
vantages that were not within reach
of the greatest potentaJes on earth in
former days. BY using ii few dollars
he can get as many conyeniences from
a railroad, for instance, as il he ow a ed
the entire road, and for few dimes
as many from the street railways as
il he owned all the roads in the city.
and then leave them for others to
look after For few more dollars
he can visit t theater as often as
he likes, ride upon OCEAN steamers.
live in hotels that cost tens of thou
sands of dolla S, walk or ride in paved
streets, and, as the hotels say, 'have
all the luxurie' the market Affords"
There is II } leasOn why IN IF mod
crate but certain me ms should not
en- Oy them elves as much a ; million.
aires do.-Dallas News.
In spite OF their proverbial slow
ness. telegraph messengers go about
with II Urpat. dQli ~ diSpatch
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

The lnfanta Eulalie is said to have
cOmplimented New York hostess
who gave a ball in her honor by 90.
serving that it was the SWEETEST thing
she had attended since the great So
cial bull fight at Havana. Any sort
OF royal compliment would be appre-
ciated by the New York snobs.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
An African Argument.

Herbert Ward, the African explorer.
was once chatting some of the natives,
declaring that they were direct descend
ants from monkeys, alleging their dark
color as one of the evidences. Zone old
fellow went quietly over to a captive
ape" says Mr.. Ward, "and turned back
his fur. Then he looked quizzically at
me. The apes rkin was white. FAR
g0naut.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

UPON ono thing the Worlds Fair
city can justly pride itself. Next to
its mOdesty its most conspicuous trait
Is its magnanilnity There is no
other pork packing city in the world,
probably, that would extend cordial
welcome to vegetarian convention.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
TONGUE-TWISTERS,

Read the following aloud, repeating
the shorter ones quickly half dozen
times in succession:
Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh OF freshly fried flying fish.
The sea ceaseth, and it sutficeth US.
High roller, low roller, lower roller.
A box of mixed biscuits, q mixed
biscuit
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

A PARIS cablegram states that
Lois Fuller has taken out patents on
several new wrinkles in her serpen-
tine dance. If this craze ever strikes
the United States the patent Office
will have to double its fOrce-and
it will probably register fresh kick
every ten minutes at that.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

SOME philosopher remarks that sin
Is its own detective Perhaps that's
the reason SO much Of it Is never
found out.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
Add this together you have. .27S54

The reason for this is simple. You
have added to the row of figures 99G9
plus 9999 equals 1898, which is virtual,
" 10000 less 2. Therefore by prcfixing
a two to the original row and ubstracting
2 from its right hand unit you have prac.
tically added 10000 less 2, which must
bring out the result. = philadelphia
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

The Warden OF the State Pcniten-
tiary always has felons on his hands
Compared to him Job had a very COM
Portable time with his bOils.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

1T is unquestionably true that
some OF the greatest diplomats Of
the age are lightning rod agents
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF IN
TERESTINC ITEMS.

Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
<he Happenings Of the. Day Historical
and News Notes.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

In spite OF their proverbial slow
ness. telegraph messengers go about
with q great deal Of dispatch.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-09

In a large majority Of cases mon
ocle Is the glass front of fool
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-20
III tina. fellow is really

tinuei, dryly. III tina. fellow Is really
spy. he made WY with his proofs ON
capture. These are dccoys only"
81 think. general, he swnllowcd"-
the provost blurted out-odding. very
quickly, Ibis tobacco"
The keen blue eyes shot only one
glance at the speaker, now eagerly
scanning the papers by light of the fire.
ole did? TIM! send him to my tent"
ayes, general win you examine
thcsc?"
"No, sir Send him 90 me-" This
shortly, "a the young leader took the
papers carclessly and turned into the
small dingy tent beyond the blaze.
Seating himself on "a campStool, he
merely glanced ut the papers, 10y the
pale CLEAN Of lantern. They were n
srrawlcd letter from soldier, u far
ricr's receipt, and weeks liberty,
signed toy the captain Of II troop, but
without date. lie pitched them on the
rough camp table with contcmptuous
gesture, muttcring:
"Dccoys-if s6c Ice q spy! Curse these
mustangs! Politics hobble the service,
no end
A shadow i'm the tent door raised the
generals eyes, rs Miss Clay entered,
erect and calm, followed 10y Evan, lean
ing ON the sergeant.
Kcenly the cavalry leader scanned
the pair, his eyes passing from the girl
after quick inventory Of her points
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-20

major rctortcd, rather impatiently.
"lrM you answer, or note What Is your
name. and what were you doing here
about with cavalry soldier2'
~ told you, majori That's my cousin
from the farm" Evan began, only 10 be
cut off 10y the scrgeant's stern call:
"Silcncc in rnnlIsl Riley, guard your
prisoner"
But the quicl, woman's wit caught
the fact Of her cousins capture. and his
cue. az the same time; and she folded
her arms quietly, remaining silent
Every well, madam" the major said.
81 will send you 10 headquarters with
your cousin there, and let you discuss
military ethics with the general Capt.
Granger detail one man Of your squad
To guard this lady. Corporal Doyle, re-
port with both prisoners to provost
marshal at headquarters: the fires will
guide you To- the river bank. Captain,
"a word"
And soon Evan Fauutlcroy and his
cousin were again riding side by side,
mcrrily, hopefully no longer, but he in
physical pain, and in greater mental
distress for her, she with guld-crowrod
head dropped upon her breast, and tears
Of mingled modification and despair
forcing their way between the long,
curved lashcS.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-20
August.
Flower"

For two years ! suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that / would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of friend / procured
a bottle OF August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. l gained
strength and flesh rapidly. l feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me.
Jas. L. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.9