The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-11-13

San Francisco contains 1O1 he
and she millionaires.
More than 100000 veterans have
visited Gettysburg during the last
three years.
Forty-two new ice factories have
been started in the south during
the past nine months.
Baltimore is to have a crematory.
Two years ago there was but one in
the country; now there are twelve.
1t is said that Prince Napoleon,
who is expected to visit Washing
ton before long, will make his home
while he is there with Jerome Bona
parte, and that he Will visit Border
town, N. J.
The strength of hand and wrist
necessary to the professional pres
tidigitator was illustrated by Her
mann recently. He took a new
pack of ordinary linen-back cards
and broke it in two, then broke one
of the halves into quarters.
Goethe's house in Frankfort is
now thrown open to all tourists
who pass through that city. 1t is
a sort of musium of curiosities re-
lating to the great poet. Among
the recent additions to these is a
Punch and Judy box that used to
be the great delight of the author
Of Faust when @ child.
During the last ten years the
total exports Of the United States
to France have averaged $5S, 100000
"a trifie more than the imports /;
our exports to Germany, $57 ,O0O,-
600, while theirs to us is $44 900, 600 !;
to Great Britain and Ireland, 1914
100000, while we take from them
goods worth $16O,OOO,OOO.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll pro-
nounces false and absurd the re-
ports from New York that he is
suffering with a disease of the throat
similar to that which caused the
death Of Gen. Grant, and that his
case is incurable. He says that he
has been suffering for some time
with sore throat, but that his con-
dition has never been serious.
Some romancer reports the dis
covcry of a remarkable spring near
Princeton, KY. 1t is claimed that
spinster born in 1776, who has
drank of this water, has changed to
a blooming girl Of 'sweet SIXTEEN
and that an old man of eighty, who
has several times drank of the wa
ter, feels as young as he did al
twenty years of age, and is deliver
ing temperance lectures.
1.-THE child of Alamo" the boy
who was rescued by girl from
slaughter by the Indians wher
Capt. Travis made his desperate
and unsuccessful defense, has re-
Gently had an affecting meeting
with his rescurer, Nine. Candeleria
who is now an active woman 81
years old. It was their first meet.
ing in fifty years, and it made quite
sensation in San Antonio.
Preacher Spurgeon in a recent
prayer said: 90, Lord, shut the
mouths of the blasphemous, espe.
cially those pretending to be preach.
ers of the gospel. and who are yet
blasphemers. Turn their hearts
that they may know Thy truth and
be able to preach in favor of it. y
This is interpreted as an allusion
to Mr.. Beecher, whose views con-
cerning the doctrine of eternal pun
ishment are not relished by the
conservative orthodox.
The smallest baby in Connecticut
is a New York state youngster, born
two months ago at Long Lake, in
the Adirondacks. She is the child
of David K. and Emily P. Mix, who
are visiting in New Haven, and
weighs two and one-half pounds.
She is we'll formed. sound of lung
and appetite, is 13 inches long, her
wrist is seven-eighths of an inch in
circumference, her hand is l inch
across the back, her ankles one
and one-fourth inches in circumfer-
ence, and her foot is one and one
fourth inches long. Her eyes are
hluo and hor hai. Ia fhick and dark