The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1882-08-03
EXCHANGE EPIToME.
Crumbs Condensed and Clipped
from Pa ers from all Parts.

Three hundred thousand gallons /
Of .coal-oil are used daley.
Pullman is hard on poor laborers, |
and yet he was poor once.
The machine guns in front of AL
exandria have proved that they are
a-stecess.
The outlook for wheat in Kansas
is better this year than it has been
since 1872,
S3,50O,000 worth of property are
said to have been destroyed by the
recent tempests.
America spends fifty thousand dol
lars to be represented in the iish OK
hiDition in London.
Russell Sage's annual income is
about s4,00o,00o Jay Gould 5000,
900, Vanderbilt S1o,000,000.
Mosquitoes are as thick in the
Arctic regions. They discover the
discoverer and explore the explorer.
On the question Of the next pota-
to crop the eyes have it, on the ques-
ton Of the next potato crop the
nose have it.
Captain Eads has secured q CON
| tract from the Mexicon Government
1 to improve the harbor at Vera Cruz
at u cost s7,50o,ooo
Paul Boynton, who has swan
over twenty-five thousand miles in
! his inIia-rubber suit, has saved y
persons from downing intais country
The Washington monument has
reached height Of two hundred
and seventy teet, twenty feet OF
stone having been added since May
first
sThc day wore on. says the mar
rative. We'll, what did it wear2-
Ex. "Wore the close Of the day, OF
4 course. is the response of y contem-
porary
eIaImed, holding up glass OF fresh
sparkling water, All, if it were
only wicked to drink this, how nice
| it would taste. I
/ 1t is sail that tho Bodie Company
has recently purchased for i've
thousand dollars some ComstoelS ma
cllinery that cost one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
i Alexander Stevens is said to have
no less than fourteen young men
I and women under his charge, de-
pendent upon his large hearted gen
tir.,sitx- fnr .,n adf,p.tftnu
s'If Jones undertakes to pull my
ears he'll have his hands full, said
| Il l0ud-voiecd young man, ''nell have
his hands full. Those who looked
at his ears agreed with him.
Chieago's new directory contains
1S0. 0.951 names, oil which her entfu-
siastlc editors estimate q population
for the city Of GIT 500, bringing her
| up III rank us second city in the
Union.
Vessels Of one thousand tons will
soon be steaming up the Welland ca
nal. The worNof enlargement WAS
Z begun ten years ago, and Canada mas
/ e9pendent thirteen million dollars
up to date.
The Boston Pilot deserves credit
4 for tic following: AMr. Ingersoll
says the Church has reduced Italy
to Ii hend organ Then she ought
surely be thanked by the class, of
whom he is one, who have reduced
man to monkey
/ Stockings divided so as to sepa-
rate each toe, as glove does the
fingers, are now being introduced.
An eminent medical authority rec
/ ommends them. rs they afe liable to
promote cleanliness, prevent trouble
some soft corns and abolish foot de
f0rmity.
T The project ofeonneeting the Mis-
| sissippi with the great lakes via. the
Illinois and st. John Rivers, is con-
stautly gaining ground. The latest
proposition is Tor Il much larger wa
ter way than was at first suggested
nothing less than frst-elass
ship.canal, with extensive wharfage
room, etc.
1t is estimated that $50, 900. .000to
! S100.000,000 will be necessary TO
make the Mississippi a highly servi-
! clble stream tor Western commerce.
The immediate result will be to re-
claim So, 900 acres of land, worth
at ten dollars per acre twenty mil
4 Ion dollars, and capable Of tproduc-
/ ing three hundred million dollars
worth of products.
/ The simplest and most effective
article for cleaning silverware is ac-
eording to Prof Davenport, hypo-
sulphate OF sutphate of Soda 1t acts
i quickly. and Is inexnensiye 4 ,ase