The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-09-18
FOR El(:N GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
A widespread notion has of late
prevailed among the lower clases in
Madrid that the world would come
to an end on the 25th of June,
when the sun would rise for the
last time two hours after midnight.
Accordingly, about that time over
a thousand persons had assembled
on the Vistelles hill, which may be
termed the Montmartre of Madrid.
However, the sun did not think
proper to ante-date its rise, yet the
people fingered on through the
night watching the clouds as they
fitted across the moons disc in
fantastic forms, which to their be-
wildered vision seemed portentous
of coming events. The excitement
among the populace is by no means
abated, and the end of the world is
expected to be close at hand.
The public baths of Vienna are
said to be the finest in the world.
The building itself, says the
English Mechanic, is situated
in the heart of the city, and incloses
a basin 100 feet in width 10y SIS
feet in length, and varying in depth
II feet. The enormous quantity
of water contained i'm the basin is
renewed three times n dav. The
whole establishment has accommo-
ton for 1900 persons, and is open
from May to October 81 and from
) in the morning until dusk. There
is also bath, restricted to ladies,
open from 8 in the morning until 1,
and the Vienna ladies are especially
good swimmers.
James Lowe, of Manchester, went
to London to collect $4,000 which
was due him. On his return by
rail he asked the guard to lock the
carriage doors, as he wished to sleep.
When the train arrived at Leicester
the guard found a pistol on the
carriage footboard. The door was
opened and Lowe found dead on
the floor in a pool of blood. He
had been shot through the head.
The buttons of his coat were torn
off and the money pocket ripped
open The $4,000, which it was
aiterward shown he had collected,
was missing, but his gold watch
was not touched.
Carolus Duran, the portrait pain
ter, "the Spaniard from Holland,
who is more of Partisan than any
Partisan born," is a person of varied
accomplishments. He rides like a
circus artist, shoots like a prize
winner, swims like Captain Paul
Boyton, paints SO that the Valas-
quez portraits in the Louvre nod
to him from their frames as he
passes, and is a very hadsome man
to boot. Before he was a painter
he was musician, and he keeps n
large organ in his studio upon which
he plays to entertain his visitors.
M. de Lesscps, when he was at
the Panama shareholders meeting
in Paris the other day, was ready
to faint from the pain in his side
caused by the breaking of rib
when he was returning last spring
in a trans Atlantic steamer from
Colon to st. Nazaire. But he never
flinched or showed a sign of suffer-
ing. His wife peeped in anxiously
from behind a door at the back of
the platform. She is beginning to
look careworn, and the anxiety Of
The boy Matthew for his father made
his face thing for picture.
The etiquette classes are an inn
Dortant part Of the instruction in
girls schools in Japan. In the
course of a generation a code of
etiquette has been worked out which
regulates the smallest details Of
ife, and there are proper phrases to
Use in meeting people; there is a
proper way of making tea, serving
t and receiving it; there are pre-
'cribed attitudes to be adopted by
young persons in the presence of
heir elders. All these details are
aught to the little maids at school.
Archduchess Valerie, the young
laughter Of the Austrian Emperor,
S not beauty, but she has deli
:ate bloom and youthful brightness
hat make her attractive. She has
he same wonderful quantity Of
lair possessed by her mother. She
S good natured, loves dogs, and is
IS much at home in the saddle and
s as much attached to her horses
IS is an Arab of the desert. 1t is
hought that she will marry tho
luke of Modena.
In Cuba the goods are brought to
he lady shopper: she does not 90