Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-16

Of . mile away, noticed that wheneve,
set free tho turtle set off in Q bee.line
direction toward the pond. The boy
tried to confuse the turtle in every way
he could devise, but the turtle was too
smart for him and always started off in
the right direction as if he knew where
he was going and was bound to get there
in the quickest time possible. And
now the boy has puzzled the whole town.
ship by demanding to know how that
turtle knew in what direction his ances-
trail pond lay.
Tus abyss Jean Nouveau is one of the
most interesting in the world. It &C.
ours in the calcareous plateau of Ven
toux, and the mouth is about four and
half miles south southwest of Sault.
France. 1t is simply a vertical pipe. 3
feet to ~ inches in diameter, running
down into the earth for about 500 feet,
where it ends in kind of chamber,
from which another abyss. constructed
by debris, descends for an unknown dis
lance into the bowels of the earth. It
10 supposed to be the vent of an ancient
geyser.
A LIE MARS Qowa) genius has in.
vented and recently obtained letters
patent on very useful device. 1t 10 .
dog muzzle SO constructed that he can
not bite and an attachment goes with it
which prevents him from bowling. A
small rubber tube runs from the side of
his mouth to the center of his ears, and
whenever he banks or bowls the sound is
increased by mechanical arrangement
similar to q photograph. This multi
pied sound strikes on the drum of the
dogs ear and frightens him 80 he ceases
his bowling.
| The Caliph of Khartoum 10 in bad
way. He owns 700 watches, and not one
of them goes. In 1885. when the Nah
dists invaded the town, all the European
watchmakers left the place, and none Of
the natives understand Matchmaking.
To have 700 tickers and not know the
time-awkward, very. The Caliph has
sent a special messenger to Suakin to
engage a matchmaker, but he has been
received very coolly. The ruler of
Khartoum is said to be rather quick
tempered, and capable of cutting of
your head II all his watches don't keep
time to the second.
In private boarding house in Cincin-
natl live two small families of three peo-
pie each, two grown persons and one
child in each family, yet these two fami-
lies are SO connected that there is among
them one father, three mothers (two ara
widows), one mother-in-law, one grand
mother, two aunts, one uncle, one
nephew, one niece, two cousins, two
sisters, one sister-in- law, one brother-in-
law. one husband and one wife.
On John Kreutzer's forty acre farm
in Portsmouth, Ohio, there was re-
Gently terrible fight between bull and
stallion. The latter tore "great, quiz
ering chunks of flesh out Of the bull
with his teeth and pounded him with his
forefeet, and the bull gored the horse to
death. Then the bull was shot Cause of
the ruction: A blacksnake wound around
the bulls hind leg.
A SPANIEL belonging to a milkman
from West Keene, N. H., caught wood
chuck few days ago which was more
than q match for him in q rough and
tumble fight. So the dog dragged his
enemy to q ditch few feet away and
held his head under the water until he
was nearly drowned and became so weak
that he could be easily handled then the
dog made away with him.
IT is positively asserted that mosqui
toes were unknown in Atlanta, Ca, be-
fore the railroad companies began run
ming sleeping cars from Savannah to that
city. They avail themselves of the
opportunity afforded by them, and are
most apt to eongregatc there in Septem-
Der or October, when they come by the
thousand
A FARMER near Niles, Mich, had
seventy-fivc trout in his fish pond.
Wishing to transfer them to another pond
he drew off portion of the water, so as
to have free access to the fish. He left
for short time, and upon his return
found that flock of cranes had visited
the pond and killed and eaten every one
of the trout.
A DEATH from a remarkable cause &C.
Cured in Walker county, Georgia, re-
Gently. A lady who was riding to church
reached out her hand to pluck sprig
from the roadside and was bitten on the
finger by katydid. Her hand and arm
soon began to swell, and in few hours
she died in great agony.
THE Rocking Stone" in Sullivan
County, New York, weighs forty tons,
and is so evenly balanced on table of
rock that it can be easily set in motion
by the pressure of finger, yet so solidly
laid the combined strength of 100 men
without artificial appliances could not
dispace it.
JOHN BONNER, Georgia farmer, who
died the other day at the age of 81 years,
was the father of twenty three children,
all by one mother, and as they grew up
and married all settled on farms adjoin-
ing his own.