The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1882-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS MITES.

third house in Lowell, Mass, has an
amateur musician. Lowell has our
warmest sympathy
Joseph Cook says that most
Japanese students educated in
America returned bone as Chris
iians, while none Of those educated |
in England, France and Germany
have been converted.
Frank james has been presented !
with beautiful Brussels carpet to
cover the cold, cruel stones OF his
dungeon cell. His noble friends in
Missouri viii see to it that the dear
sconndrel does not suffer
A western preacher, whose con
gregation had begun to fall off some.
what, bad itintimated that be would
discuss family scandal the follow.
ing Sunday. As consequence the
church was crowded. The ministers
subject was Adam IS. Eve
The Sioux City & Pacific railroad
company has already expended sloO,.
900 in building the Blair bridge. 1t
will require the expenditure Of 81,
100000 for its completion, This
will be the third bridge across the
Missouri river on the Nebraska
front.
An astlUnomeris ST great pains to
convince the New York Herald that
the comet can dive into the sun
without inconveniencing the earth,
as the increase in heat or the distur-
bance Of solar dignity will not be
perceptible. This is encouraging to
pawnbrokers.
Dir. Caudeze has recently proven
the practicability OF photographing
landscapes from railway trains run
ming at as high rate as forty miles
an hour. He uses for the purpose a
modihed camera which he calls the
gyrograph, and. with winch it is said
wonderfully distinct views can be
obtained after a practice. An ex-
posure of only a hundredth OF a
second may be had.
1t seems probable that the cleo
trio light may be found very valu-
able III submarine works, such as
| the examination of wrecks. etc In
an APPARATUS devised Tor this purpose
1 by VI. Bazin q powerful arc-lamp Is
placed in cylinder closed by a
glass plate at the bottom and by a
reflector at the top, and cireuier
space at least 100 feet in diameter
Is brilliantly Illuminated. while the
light reaches much farther.
Now that the Utah and Northern
| is about completed to Little Black
| foot, it may be expected that work
/ will soon be commenced by the Nom
tana Railway Company on the line
to Helena via Big Hole and Jetfer-
son valleys, The maps Of the route
| which is to extend to Fort Benton,
have been filed in the Office Of the
Secretary of the Territory, and there
are several hundred thousand ties
already out in the Big Hole valley
ready tor use.
The Reno Gazette says, A China
man fishing in the Truckee yester-
day caught thing which astonishes
ali who see it. 1t has wings. fms
and legs. and flies, swims or walks
with equal fscility. Il is entirely
unlike anything ever seen before
and is really wonderful curiosity
The wings are like those of flying
fish; otherwise il resembles lizard
except that it is more pointed 1t is
about ten inches long and wiz weigh
two pounds OF So
Missoule has cow that has seen
o good deal of country Raised in
Wisconsin, she emignlted to Illinois
and after u year or 40 returned tt
her native stable, thence following
her owners fortunes through Wis
consin, iowa nnd Minnesota, along
the line ct Northern Pacific, as il
was built west TO Bismarck, through
Dakota to Miles City nnd BILLINGS
Montana Then ieaviig the snori.
ing locomotives behind, she followe,
her owners wagon on to Bozeman