The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-09-11

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On Saturday night an interest
ing scene is to be witnessed in
every town and village in Scotland.
1t is a stream of the natives in
their Sunday clothes making for
small grocers. The puzzled visitor
little thinks that an inquiry into
the meaning of this would give him
the secret of Scotland's reputation
for being a kirk going people.
What every one is off to buy is a
bag of peppermint lozenges, and he
always tells the shopman to give
him the change in halfpennies. The
halfpennies are for the plate, the
lozzenges for church consumption.
Many pounds of the kind known as
extra strong" are eaten through
out the country at every service
There is great art in slipping
them solemly into your mouth,
and long practice has made some
devout people so good at it they
can do it though the minister's eye
be on them.
An Autrian newspaper relates
that royal eagle recently swooped
down upon two children aged
respectively 13 and s years, who
were minding cattle in the Alpine
valley near Wippach, in the dis
trict of Goritz, i'll Illyria. The
eagle, seizing the smaller of the
boys with beak and talons, lifted
him from the ground and tried to
carry him Off His screams brought
to his assistance his companion,
who struck the eagle on the head
with knotted stick he had, partly
stunning it. 1t endeavored to fly
off, bat its injuries inpeded it, and
few minutes later it was shot by
a huntsman. The wings measured
nearly eleven feet across.
The regular congregation of Wip-
bingham church consists princi-
pally of the queens pensioners and
employees. She paid for the entire
cost of its erection. 1t was designed
by the Prince Consort, to whose
memory it contains beautiful
mural monument, put up "by his
devoted and broken hearted Vic
toria." 1t is under the shadow of
this monument, secure from the
vulgar gaze, that the queens chair
is placed, in view of the members
of her own household seated in tho
chancel, but completely hidden from
the curious crowd who throng the
little church whenever there is
prospect of her majesty attending
one of the services.
Ponson du Teraille once said to
the elder Dumas: We are going
to build monument to you dur
ing your lifetime" "Indeed " !"
replied Dumas, what is the design?"
"Well," said Du Terille, there will
be big statue of you on pedestal,
and on three sides of the pedestal
we shall put portraits Of the Three
Guardsmen. We haven't decided
yet what we shall place on the
fourth side" "I will said Dumas,
inscribe there list of my works
if there is ROOM"
A magnificent diamond, weigh
ing $50 carats, of the finest water,
and free from all flaws and imper-
fections, has just been cut in Eng
land. 1t is owned by syndicate,
and is said to surpass in weight and
quality all the historical diamonds
on record. Some idea of its value
may be gotten from the fact that
piece sliced off the end to improve
its shape produced brilliant of
nineteen carats and was sold for
$4,000 to diamond merchant.
A singular custom obtains to
this day in some of the towns on
the Lower Rhine, namely, that of
" selling" maidens at public auc-
ton. For nearly four centuries,
on Easter Monday-auction day
the town crier or clerk of st. Goar
called all the young people together
and to the highest bidder sold the
privilege of dancing with the chosen
girl, and her only, during the entirs 4
year. The fees flowed into the pub
lie poor-box.
Aromantic young lady in London
obtained recently the desire of her
heart-she met the poet laureate at
dinner, and the sympathetic hos
tess even arranged that she should
be placed next him. One remark,
and one alone, did the poet address
to the gushing msiden at his side,
and it was this: 81 like my NUT
ton in wedges"
A new and plausible explanation
Of the destructive fires occurring in
pine forests is offered. The pine
resin exuding from the trees is Of
ten of lens shape, and before it