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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
Where It Really Is Cold.

Frederick Schwatka saws: "The
coolest spot is probably around tn,
magnetic pole. myself found II
degrees below-and moved camp
twelve miles that day. Therefore.
it is quite possible that at the pole
itself there is open winter"
How co d is such a temperature
as judged by results?"
at is pretty cold but one gets
used to it. There is peculiar
misunderstanding about S, ch low
temperature in tt scientific world
l remember read n : in the Popular
Science Monthly, which is supposed
to be accurate, a statement to the
effect that in such cold, meat taken
from boiling pot viii freeze solid
before it can be put in the mouth.
This is nonsense. Why, l have
been naked in temperature of IS
degrees below. It was inside a
snow hut as l took off my clothes
and got into a sleepingbag. 1t is
the wind that plays mischief with
everybody; but, fortunately, the
colder it gets the stiller it gets, and
when it gets away down it's pretty
quiet, | can tell you. But when it
gets to ordinary temperature, Their
comes the torture. When | got on
the whaler and began to get south
| began to suffer excruciatingly and
thought I should suffocate; fish
out of water is nothing to it,"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS.

"Could a man with an income of
800 a day get rid of that amount
in Macon?" asked a gentleman who
was one of a group who were dis
cussing incomes the other evening.
Easily" replied one who in his
younger days had played some i'm
portant game of poker
II know a man whose income is
$40 day, and you will admit that
you rarely see him with dollar.
He gets rid of his money some way"
said a gentleman in the group.
Il know a man." said another,
"who is worth $4,000 in cool cash,
and it is his boast that he lives on
800 month, and yet there are
four or five in the family"
Must be pretty close" observed
one.
mot at ALL His tastes are SIM
Pile, and that amount gives all he
cares for. He buys what he wants,
and $95 is all that is necessary to
spend"
II know man." said one whoes
income was salary of about
thousand a year, "who is worth
every cent of $4,000, and yet |
spend twice as much money in a
year as he does"
There's more than one Of that
kind in Macon," said another.
IL have a family, pay no board
and yet | do not spend less than
$25OO year. The summer trip for
my family costs me $1,000" This
from we'll known insurance man.
II have a family" said a mer-
chant, "and employ only one SER
want. 1t costs me $2500 a year
to live, and l live as poor as any
body. Don't know where it goes,
but it goes.
For the last thirteen years." said
a member of the Macon Construc-
ton Company, "it has cost me on
an average $4,000 year. and no
man tries harder than do to be
economical. I"
II get $45 a month";" said a me-
chanic who was we'll known to the
crowd, sand I'll bet that amount
that, barring the cigars and wine,
| / live better than any of you.
.'There is lawyer in Macon"
was observed, "who enjoys as good
a practice as any in the state, and
he says that he has never spent as
much as $1,000 year since he went
to housekeeping, and he has a snug
little family now Macon Tel.
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All Jim Was a Slogger.

"Chinaman jim" is well-known
character around the pressrooms of
this city, being connected with a
local book-binding house in the ca
pacit7 of paste-maker. The other
morning All Jim happened to drop
into the pressrooms of a high tariff
but moribund morning journal,
where the boys were enjoying few
minutes rest, and were passing the
time sparring with a pair of large
gloves which one of the boys had
on when Jim entered. The boys
thought they had good chance Of
having some fun al Jim's expense,
and they tried to induce him to put
on the mittens for little go, but
Jim disclaimed all knowledge Of
their use and tried to get away
The boys would not have it. SO
after considerable coaxing and bad
gering, Jim consented, provided the
boys would not hurt him, which
they readily promised to do. Iim's
opponent was real bad man from
way back, and kept telling the boys
how he would do jim up, and how
the firm would have to look out for
a new paste,maker, etc. In the
mean time the boys had the gloves
on Jim and had given him a few
words of advice as to how to act
and the fray began. One short but
fierce round settled Mr.. Freshie, as
no sooner had time been called than
the representative slugger from the
Orient sailed in, and whack, whack.
the bad man from North Beach re-
ceived one in the face, another in
the stomach, and jaw smasher
that felied him like a log and SO
completely knocked him out that
it required fifteen minutes of hard
work to bring him back to con-
sciousness. Jim calmly surveyed
his work and said: He too d-n
freshie me foole him, me heap sabe
slugee, allie same John L. Sullivan,
sabe." 1t is needless to say that
since that encounter Jim is treated
with more respect on Clay street.
Alta
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Social Tactics. /.

There is thirteen-year-old boy
in Cambridge who is great ''socie-
ty man." and who is referred to by
his friends on all points Of etiquette.
He was overheard one day giving
some pointers" to boy about his
age, but who had, apparently, none
of his aplomb. Boy No. 2, whom
we will call Fred, was saying anx-
iously: But l never know what t.
say to girl at party. What do
you talk about, anyway"
'.Oh, that's easy enough" replied
the society man. First you say
that it s alovely night for party
then you ask her if she doesn't
think the rooms are little warm.
..Yes?" interrogatively from Fred
"Well, then ask her if she's fond
of waltzing; then-oh, say that the
floor is very slippery
swell, what next?"
"Qhv'-evidently little strained
tell her you like her step; then
sudden inspiration-"ask her i
she doesn't want glass of water
be a long time getting it, and by
the time you get back some Other
man'll be with her.
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Are Tea and Coffee Foods?

Tea and coffee are not foods in
the sense in which we use the word.
They contain, it is true, very small
quantities of materials similar to
the nutriments of ordinary food, but
so few of these get into the decoc-
tions which we drink that they are
not worth taking into account.
The aroma of the tea and coffee
ia mainly, and the taste largely, due
to minute quantities of oily sub
stances-essential oils, as they are
called. The effect of tea and coffee
upon the nerves and brain seems to
be chiefly due to substance called
caffein when it comes from coffee,
and them when it comes from tea.
1t is the same chemical compound
in both, and belongs to the class
called alkaloids. Like the extract
ives of meat, it has, in moderate
quantities, an invigorating effect,
and may at times aid digestion.
The expression which long usage
has applied to tea and coffee, "The
cups that cheer but not inebriate,"
is true statement of fact. Tea
contains tannic acid, or tannin, the
substance which, in the bark Of
trees, like oak and hemlock, is used
to tan leather. The skins of ami
mails contain gelatinoid substances
with which the tannin unites, CIV
ing it the properties of leather.
Tannin may likewise unite with al
buminoid substances, such as occur
in meats, fish. milk, eggs and SO on.
The natural inference is that if
we take tea with albuminous foods
the tannan will unite with them
and form indigestible compounds.
The newspaper statements we some
times see about tea making leather
in the stomach are grossly exag-
gerated. But experiments imply
that it may sometimes interfere
with the digestion of some album
inous foods. 1t is said, however,
not to interfere at all with the di-
gestion of dry meats, such as ham
and tongue. One objection to Steep
ing tea for long time is that the
longer it is infused the more tannic
acid is extracted. Coffee contains
tannic acid, but less than tea
Century.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
COULDN'T FOLLOW SUIT.

Forty years ago the great Baptist
divine, Elder Knapp, was preach
ing a star engagement at Burling-
ton, Iowa. Daddy" NARROW was
city treasurer and noted infidel;
One afternoon he met with a friend
he had not seen for many years,
and got pretty full. We were city
recorder that year, and at night
Daddy" coaxed US to go to knapp's
meeting.
We went we'll forward and as the
liquor began to die in the old man
he got sleepy. We beckoned Knapp
up, whispered to him that NARROW
was a great infdel. but was getting
under concern Of mind. So Knapp
began to coax NARROW to 80 forward
to the anxious seat, and by our
persuasion, half unconscious, ne
did.
Sitting near was young merch-
ant named Copp, a great wag, out
one who never smiled himself. his
face always looked serious. and e.
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are like gypsies, they are shiftless
and love to wander from place to
place, content if they can supply
the absolute needs Of the passing
moment. think that the cheap
lodging-houses ought to be abol-
ished by the board Of health.
| would like to see more public
works than there are. but, strange
to say, the poor who dwell nearest
to the parks seldom resort to them.
Residents of Yorkville and Harlem
will visit the Battery, while the
people who dwell within a stones
throw of it do not see it once a year.
Tenement dwellers living near Cen
trail Park seldom walk in that mag
nifcent breathing place On week
days it is patronized by strangers;
on Sundays, to their credit be it
said, by Germans and their families
It is the same with libraries; they
are not patronized by the poor who
would receive the most benefit from
them.
What are the causes Of intemper-
ance? Sometimes a mans success
will lead to him drink, and drink
ing will lead him to poverty. Then,
again, if a man gets very poor he
will try to drown his sorrow in
drink; he wants to become oblivi-
Gus of his surroundings. But we
must remember that in this coun-
try there is no occasion for poverty,
because there is really work enough
for all. The aged and decrepit
must, of course, be taken care of
by the public.
l believe, however, that promis-
cuous alms-giving is wrong. The
public would be showing more
charity and humanity by giving
nothing to street beggars, because
if a tramp can make dollar or
two a day by begging he will not
work.-Judge Duffy in the Epoch.
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Y, IDAHO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1888.

from one years end to another.
The young children have a habit of
falling overheard and thus cause a
great deal of trouble in efecting a
rescue, while in many instances this
is impossible and child is drowned.
China is an over-populated country
and the Chinese have profited by
this drowning proclivity in reduc-
ing the surplus population. They
attach floats to the male children
so they can be ished out when they
tumble into the river. The females
are without such protection and are
usually left to drown.-Philadel-
phia Times.
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American Titles.


Once a Senator, always entitled
to be called Senator" is the rule.
With Congressman the title lapsess
at the expiration of the term, and
the man who has been State Sena-
tor and then Congressman at the
expiration of his term in Congress :, g
can relapse into Senator" Once
a Mayor, Judge, Colonel, Major
Coroner or Alderman, man Is al
ways entitled to use the appellation
of the Office. An ex-Coroner may
he called Doctor" or Coroner,
according to the kind of man ne IS
Some men naturally gravltate to
the one title, and other men incline
to the other. Having been Coroner
or Coroner's assistant, entities one
to be called 'Doctor," unless higher
titles supervepe. IN. Y. Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
HOW THE KINGS DIED.

The New York Star tells how
some Kings of England died as
follows:
Henry I of gluttony.
Henry III naturally.
Edward vi of a decline.
Charles l on the scafold.
Richard III was killed in battle.
Henry VIII of carbuncles, fat
and fury.
George III as he had lived-a
madman.
George " of gluttony and drunk.
enness.
Henry VII wasted away, as a
miser ought.
James ! Of drinking and the ef-
fects OF vice.
Charles II suddenly, it is said, of
apoplexy.
Edward V was strangled in the
tower by his uncle, Richard III.
William Rufus died the death OF
the poor stags which he hunted.
Henry II of q broken heart, oc-
casioned by the bad conduct Of his
children.
George I from drunkenness,
which his physicians politely called
an apoplectic fit.
William III of consumptive hab-
it's of body and from the stumbling
Of his horse.
Edward III of dotage and Rich
ard II of starvation-the very re-
verse of George ".
Henry VI in prison by means
known then only to his jailer, and
now only known in heaven.
William the Conquerer from
enormous fat. from drink and the
violence of his passions.
George II died of rupture of the
heart, which the periodicals of that
day termed a visitation of God.
Richard Ceur de Lion, like the
animal from which his heart was
named, died by an arrow from an
archer.
Edward II was barbarously and
indecently murdered by rufians
employed by his own wife and her
paramOur.
John died, nobody knows how,
but it is said from chagrin, which
we suppose is another term for
dose of helibGre.
Henry V is said to have died OF
painful afliction," prematurely
This is courtly term for getting
rid Of king.
Edward / is also said to have died
of natural sickness s'-a sickness
which would puzzle all the college
physicians to denominate.
Henry " is said to have died OF
"fts caused by uneasiness." and un.
easiness in palaces in those times
was very common complaint.
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SCIENTIFIC DREAMING.
You Can Have Horrors or Enjoy Your.
self, as You Like.

"Ah, if our dreams only came
true !" sighed the young man that
uoards on Soath Division street.
Last night | dreamed that | called
on lord. l find that l can con-
troll my vision to a certain extent
by dieting For instance, if l wish
to enjoy a calm night, with dreams
of a pleasant character, | eat toast
or bread and. milk just before retir-
ing. If | wish to have a little ex-
citement, quarreling, disputing, or
a little active exercise, | eat squash
pie. l have found from expert
ence and observation that squash
pie acts strongly on the posterior
part of the brain, where lie the
bumps of combativeness and ac-
quisitiveness. | have known times
when the consumption of two pieces
of squash pie has led me to slay
man for his money within fifteen
minutes after going to bed.
"To make my brain a chamber
of horrors, however, l sit down an
hour before bed time and eat three
sardines, six olives, a little Roche
fort cheese and crackers, washing
the whole down with bottle of
Bass. Before morning I charge
with my razor on
herds of wild horses and jump from
sundry steeples. Oh, yes, it is pos
sible to control ones dreams, and
when we understand psychology
Alright we can lie down and map
out our dreams as we now map out
Il days work. Buffalo Courier.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole repre-. entative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawt0oth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the eal tn. and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters of local
Importance i'll the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is an invalua-
bic guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position SUBJ
scribe for 1t, read it. and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

"Did you KNOW said a cunning
Gentle to Jew, "that they hang
Jews and jackasses together IN
portland?" ..Indeed y retorted Sol
omon. oden it ish veil dot you una
| ish not dere."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

If your griddle gets rough when
you are frying batter cakes take q
raw turnip, slice off the end and rub
the griddle all over with it, and IT
will be as smooth as glass.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

Mother want you to be good
this week. Freddie-What
will you give us if we are good?
Mother-If you are right good you
can look on when your father shaves
himself Sunday morning.
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1 TERRITORY OF IDAHO.
RESOURCES.

TERRITORY OF IDAHO,
leo County OF Alturas.
named diatc &c l Lewis, President of the above.
above sang, sank, do solemnly swear that the
'"'eo'e and belief. " 'e 'e'' - NY
:, subscrihaiIS iISAAC l. LEWIS, President.
0sy OF July, 1883. s "e S
'ecs-Attest: 4' : fuo'ac'
JOSEPH PlNkHAM,l
Gs Isaac !. LEwls, Directors.
GEO J. Lsw1s,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

The man who thinks he lives by
his wits is generally supported by
his friends.-Texas Siftings.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
Floating Homes in China.

At Canton, China, some 25O,OO0
live continuously upon boats.
and many never step foot on shore.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

Customer Tin restaurant) - A
brailed spring chicken, waiter, and
a small bottle, vintage "a.
Waiter-Yes. sir. Later Find
everything right, sir?
Customer-No; you've made a
mistake. You've brought me spring
wine and a "a vintage chicken.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

There is no fool like an old fool,
unless it is the Niagara Falls fool.
He never lives TO be very old.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

When stung by a bee or wasp.
make paste Of common earth and
water, put on the place at once.
and cover with cloth.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04

Cony Foster of Orono, Maine was
sick. He had made all arrange
ments for his death and burial,
when he began to gain. One day
he remarked to his wife that as he
felt better he thought it likely that
he might recover. "Cony," said
his wife, 'as you are prepared and
l am resigned, I think you had
better go now
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-08-04
Hugging the Stove.

It was one of those "cold spells"
which have visited us frequently
this summer, and they two had met
quite in an unprecedented way
on the avenue.
"What are you going to do this
evening?" she asked. turning the
batteries of two beautiful eyes full
upon him.
20, l suppose I'll stay at home
and hug the stove," he answered
gloomily.
Come up to our house" she said
sweetly, in suggestive voice.
And the beating of their own
hearts was all the sound they heard.
, 1888-07-01

The v%igilant imp, indigestion, goads us
with his many dashed scourge. Each lash
is a diabolical symptom. No comfort in
eating, misery afterwards, little or broken
rest at night, visitations of the nightmare
during fitful intervals of sleep, an upris-
ing unrefreshed and without appetite,
s~leepiness and yawning during the day,
and irritability of temper,
even monamania in extreme cases. Hard
to bear all this. Necessary No a
thousand times no, so long as Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, the notions specific for
indigestion, acute or chronic, is procura.
BILE. The commencement OF a course of
this medicine is the commencement of a
cure. Prompt relief first. absolute era
dication subsequently. The truth of this
statement, backed up by irrefragable tes-
timony, is well known to the American
peaple. So are others. viz: that the Bit
tiers averts and cures fever and ague and
bilious remittent, and removes nervous
ness, billiousness, constipation and kidney
and bladder troubles.
, 1888-07-01

securing 5000 square miles of the rich
est soil on the globe; In acquiring bound
less forests of valuable commercial woods,
worth as they stand to-day fully
1900, DOC, 900; in owning the most
marvellous tobacco lands in the
world; in securing sugar lands pro-
ducing 100000 tons of sugar annually,
nine-tenths of which is now consumed by
us, without impinging on the market of a
single American sugar grower of to-day;
in possessing coffee lands capable OF an
annual production of 500, 900 tons, but
1000 0 less than the worlds annual
yield, or three times the whole amount
We now annually purchase and consume;
in acquiring asphalt and mineral deposits
unequalled in the same area on the globe;
and, finally, in protecting our own 10000
citizens now engaged with 5000, O00, 900 of
American capital either in Cuba or in
direct trade with Cuba, so that within ten
years $1,000, 900 of our citizens and 81
900, 000, 900 OF our capital would thrill
and thrive in boundless human progress
in this land. if free, of illimitable posi-
bilities.
There is no hope for Cuba unless
through the active, forceful sympathy of
the United States. 1t is needless to sug-
gest expedients. She has. been PROSTATE
since 1868, with the ~tigress. Spain, suck
ing at her very hearts blood. History
cannot furnish another SO hideous a spec
tacle of governmental diabolism. The su-
preme function of ownership Is asona
Bile protection of the thing possessed.
Nineteenth century laws wisely punish
men for cruelty even to brutes; and the
state deprives parents of children they
may abuse. Spain, forever a detestable
and retrogressive power, riots in rapine
and murder in the very portals of humane
republics. AS we have been the salvation
OF millions, and, re~fiectively, tempered
the force of monarch's blows upon groan-
ing peoples around the girdle of the globe,
the superlative shame of this ever pres
ent barbarism is inexpressibly revolving to
every true American. The irrevocable
logic of civilizations progress and our
own destiny decree the end of tyranny
upon this continent. If that u%nctuous
and cowardly hypocrits, diplomacy, may
be invoked and speedilyIutilized, that will
be well. If not, there yet remain Ameri-
can virility, valor. power. Cuba is no
longer SPANS. She is ours-for the
asking. Not a more etfulgent star could
CLEAN and glow in our splendid galaxy OF
states. EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.