The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-22
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the cost on one size mas dncauy AO"SA
ed half million dollars.
A New York physician says he is con:
tinually surprised by the increase OF
wealth and power among the Jews.
A ton of ropes made from the hair
of Japanese women are used IN build
ing a 100000 Buddhist temple at
KiotO.
A German paper says thata company
has been formed to manufacture watch
es to be run by electricity instead OF q
spring.
Gen. Boulanger. whom lola calls the
peoples savior, has in conspicuous Po-
sitions in his Office busts OF Bismarck
and Won Moltke.
Lightning entered house at Eagle
Point, Pa, and stripped the shoes from
the feet of a young girl. Her feet were
severely burned.
The little town of Kliningen, in Ba-
varia, is perfect example OF soclal-
istic community, all the Land beng the
property of the citizens in common.
Walter Besant finds that there are 3d.
600 more women than men in the Brit
ish Kingdom, therefore that number OF
GIRLS and women must go without hus-
bands.
The Parisians are so dissatisfied with
the weight of the English high hat that
their hatters have invented silk hat
weighing little more than an ounce and
half.
A Mount Vernon, n, Y, man, who
has made the trial, asserts that any
man of ordinary intelligence can mas
ter Volapuk so as to write and speak 1t
correctly in a months time.
A Catholic pastor of Albany testifies
to legislative committee, 'Beer has
extended drunkenness to women, and
men ask me to save their homes which
their wives are wrecking."
There is a natural rock house IN
Swain county, says the Mount AIRY
Neags, which is used as church. Seats
have been placed in it by'citizens OF the
vicinity and regular services conducted.
A sharp Maine constable opened a
cement barrel the other day on suspi-
cion. He found it packed solidly with
sand, wet down, and in the middle OF
the barrel was a twenty-gallon key OF
whisky.
A man named Findley is wheeling a
barrow from Glasgow to Rome by way
of Paris. He proposes to walk from
italy back to Glasgow. His motive for
undertaking the walk was want OF en-
ployment.
ssThis is strange" remarked Billy
Bivins thoughtfully after he had tasted
the contents of his butter-dish. Strange
indeed" what is stranger" That
such delicate, pale butter, should turn
out to be sorobust. "-Merchdnt IrGveter.
According to Rev. DR.. de Costa, sthe
commander of the Pinkerton force can
gather in days notice a larger num-
Der of armed men either in New York,
Pittsburg, or Chicago than the general
commanding the army of the United
States"
The W. c. T. U. vice president for
Burmah, Ruth Quamsey, Baptist mis-
sionary, has forwarded from RangOon
10000 Burmese signatures to petition
pleading for the liberation from the liq-
uor traffic and the better protection OF
women.
G. L. Cana, of Chattanooga, carries
as highly-prized relic badly batter
ed watch. He was in the battle of Mis-
sion Ridge when an ounce bullet struck
the watch in his pocket, breaking the
case in two, and was left sticking in the
back half of the case.
Black and muddy rain fell at Naples
recently. Professor Palmieri, of the
Vesuvio Observatory, says that the
strong winds from Africa raise into the
air any amount of dust, and the rain,
passing through those clouds of dust,
falls down blackish, colored by it.
Professor W. Mattieu Williams of
fers as a better explanation than the
old one of the zig-zag course Of light
ming. that owing to variations of moist
ure the conducting power of different
portions of air is variable, and the cleo
trio discharge follows the course of
least resistance.
A physician in the american Maya
zine, illustrating the evil custom of
talking to an invalid about his pains,
says that once he requested a mother
to mark a stroke upon a paper each
time that she asked a daughter how
she was. The next day to her incredu-
lous establishment, she made JOG
strokes! A three months visit away
from home was recommended.
At Bournemouth, England, the streets
are sprinkled very successfully with
salt water, which is conducted from
the ocean to certain hydrants. The salt
water is found particularly advantage
Gus for macadamized roads, as it seems
to make the immediate surface more
compact. It is further found that the
surface holds the moisture about three
times as long as when watered with
fresh water
A Sioux City man who had been bald
for years was surprised lately to discov-
er patch of fiery red hair about the size
of a silver dollar growing from the
crown of his head. 1t came forth with
surprising rapidity, and in few days
was several inches in length. The queer
thing about it is that what little hair he
had before was jet black. and the red
lock covers only small part of the
bald place. 1t is so funny that he
scarcely dares take his hat off.
The New York Sun finds that the
proportion of women murdered in New
York within the past few months has
been abnormal. In accounting for the
frequency of woman murder the Sun
remarks: unfortunately, the murder
CT of woman comes to receive a great
deal of gushing sympathy from other
women, to get from them testimony
calculated to relieve him from punish
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