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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01

TERRITORY OF IDAHO,
lk. County Of Alturas. o.
s,ued h.ni;. l; Lewis, President Of the above
tsve sta,aa, taank, DO solemnly swear that the
saosle edps un Is true to the best of my
,tvxcr;bstS tSSAAC l. LEWIS, President.
!N a. A. .osd % and sworn to before me- this
Correct SSts, n, ssov, Notary Public.
Go. Sss' j. ! tsS.s,' taaH.s' Directors.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01

Jones looming from party gwen
by temperance host brown, teA
between my shoulders. IL there z
hump there? Brown-No. Why1
Jones-I think they took me in
there for q camel, that can 60 =
week without drinking.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01

A wicked man has to be forced
to nav his honest debts. His dis
honest debts are called debts Of
honor among thieyes.-New o..
leans Picayune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01

Teaeher-Children, thereis some
thing within you that tells you
when you have done wrong. What
is it? -
Small boy-(gorged with green
apples) / know, sir. It's the collie
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01

A woman, unlike q needle can
stab with her eyes, and like q mos
nnito wound with her nose.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-09-01
Latest Way Of Announcing Il.

Mr.. Welch is now fast recovering.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
The Wrong Pair Of Pants.

SAYS the Calhoun 0n) Herald: A
queer thing happened at Fred Perry's,
which perhaps ought not to be told, but,
the joke is too good to keep. Three
or four good fellows had sampled
Hardin's best frequently during the
day, and more so during the evening.
Cash, too, had become scare, probably
on account of our general freeze-up.
Weariness finally induced the gentle
men to retire, one of the parties oc-
cupying Fred's best front room. Dur
ing the night a travelling man came
in, and Fred wishing to put him in the
best room, took him upstairs and put
him in the room with retired visitor.
The travelling man went to bed, leav-
ing his pants on a chair near the other
bed. Very early in the morning,
wien the cock crew for 4 o'clock, the
bibulOuS visitor awakened from over
thirst and concluded to 90 out and
hunt up a "good snort for his
stomach's sake, He uuconsciously put
on the travellers pants. He went
down and reused up the kind of man
he wanted. No sooner were the
lights up than in came the other fei
lows, who had got dry about the same
time. Drinks were ordered, and our
man went down into his pants pockets
to hunt up some loose change, and to
his great surprise he drew forth a lot
of bills. He stared at the money, then
at the barkeeper, then at his compan-
ions. Boys" said he, "this beats
anything l ever knew. Last night l
went to bed with only 80 cents,
and now here's $50 that l never knew
/ had. 1t beats thunder! I've heard
the gods are good to those they love,
and | must stand in with 'em. So
here goes-we'll blow 'er H." And
they did blow her in lively until the
traveller wanted his pants, when the
ridiculous mistake was discovered.
The matter was hushed up and fixed
up, but "our man" now declares that
the gods had nothing whatever to do
with it, but that he must have had q
drop too much.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
Points on Leap-Year Proposals.

A young lady comes to us with a
very curious request. Il want you,
she writes, "to tell me how to proceed
to make leap-year proposal. | do
not mean anything farcical, but real
matrimonial proposition, and | desire
to do it in such way the effort will
not be a failure. Please give me few
practical directions"
OF course we will, dear Miss Gym
thia," of course we will. Evidently
you have never made leap-year pro-
posal and you naturally feel nervous;
but, never fear, its nothing when you
get used to it. In the first place, you
must catch your man. From the tone
of your letter we infer that You have
got him. Well, the next thing is to
surround the man with favorable con-
ditions. Never propose in the morn
ing. 1t is worse than useless. To
nine people out of ten there is no more
romance in the early part of the day
than there is sunshine at midnight
The evening is a good time. When
the young man Is alone with you and
his face assumes a sentimental look
pop the question. Force an answer
at once. The average man needs time
to frame excuses and equivocations.
The best plan is to make him commit
himself, and after he does this get him
to write few sckly love-letters. The
sicklier the better.
Then, Miss Cynthia, you must make
few presents to the young man. A
cluster diamond ring is quite accepta-
BILE; gold watch and chain would not
be amiss, and most anything that
costs from $500 to 81, 900 would not be
likely to freeze his love. You must
also pay for tickets to the drama and
the opera. Booth tickets at So for the
two for six nights in one week would
be slightly expensive, but you must
remember, Miss Cynthia, that court
ships are very expensive, especially
leap-year courtshipS.
And, after all, if his love should
wander away from you and he should
try to defeat matrimony by innumera-
bic postponementS, Your course would
be entirely clear. You would merely
have TO get those sickly love-letters be-
fore jury and the verdict would fol-
low. Forty-tive thousand dollars is
the fashionable figure. but as Balti-
more is more sympathetic than New
York there is no reason why YOU
shouldn't get $50, 900, and any young
lady who has $50. 900 in her own name
need not remain unmarried long
Baltimore american.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
Contents of a Ton of Coal.

A careful estimate by an English
chemist of the contents or constituents
of a ton of coal presents some interest
ing facts not familiar certainly to un-
scientific minds. 1t is found that, be-
sides gas, ton of ordinary gas coal
will yield 1900 pounds of coke, 20 gal
Ions of ammonia water, and 140 pounds
of coal tar. Now, destructive distilla-
ton of this amount of coal tar gives
about 20 pounds of pitch, Il pounds of
creosote, IA pounds Of heavy oils,
about 9! pounds of naphtha yellow.
6.3 pounds of naphthaline, A pounds
of naphthol, 2,25 pounds of alizarine,
"a pounds of solvent naphtha, 1.5
pounds of analine, 0.79 pound of tolu-
dine 0.46 pounds OF anthracine, and
0.9 pounds of toluches-from the last
named substance being obtained the
new product, saccharine, said to be
$50 times as sweet as the best cane
sugar.-Sgety VGtre.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
NO More a Mystery.

The murder of Mr.. Smell in Chicago
recalls the murder of Mr.. Nathan in
New York. Both were men of solitary
habits, large real and larger reputed
wealth, and both were believed to
keep great sums in their houses. Mr..
Smell is known to have been killed by
burglars. whom first he tried to kill.
Mr.. Nathan was found dead at the
foot of his opened safe. He had been
Drained by the ugly short and heavy
iron weapon, which police and thieves
slang calls dog" The character of
the Smell murder is known. The
Nathan crime remained for long
time mystery and bred cruel and
false suspicious against Washington
Nathan. son of the murdered man,
at odds with his father and benefited
by his death. The son proved an
alibi which identified him with viola
ton of the seventh commandment and
acquitted him of the charge of infract-
ing the eighth.
Probably the murderers of Mr.. Smell
will be found. Putting the criminal
classes in sieve and shaking them
through will very likely secure the
guilty in this case. 1t is not generally
known by the public that the police
and law authorities have long been
aware who killed Mr.. Nathan. Billy
Forester killed him. He entered the
house by the basement, made a noise
on purpose to bring the old man down
stairs late at night to where he was,
killed him with dog" to get the
keys to open the safe, found nothing
in it worth speaking of, and left the
premises by the front door, which was
found open at 3 o'clock in the morning.
He was observed by an Irish woman
next door, who was being served by a
milkman.
The authorities learned these facts
in queer way. The dog was de-
scribed in the newspapers. 1t had
singular scratches on it. A convict in
Sing Sing knew it was Forrester's
dog" He offered. for a pardon, to
identify it among any number of
'dogs" the police might lay out on a
table, and to describe Forester as
well. The police painted large num-
Der of "dogs" red so as to make them
all look alike. The convict at once
picked out Forrester's dog" The
country was secured for the criminal.
He gave himself up in New Orleans in
the hope of being taken to JolieI
prison, Illinois, from which he had
escaped, aud of not being brought to
New York. He was brought there,
however, but he had grown thin; had
cut off his hair and beard; had dyed
his skin and the woman, though she
said that he looked very much like the
man she saw, could not positively
identify him. The charge was dis
missed for want of evidence. He went
to Joliet and died there of consump-
ton, but to his counsel in New York
he confessed the facts herein stated to
make their defense of him more in
telligent, and these facts have never
before been published.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
GEOLOGICAL ARCBTrECuRE.-A

GEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE curi.
Gus effect of the wear and tear to which
the earth's crust is ever being subjected is
exhibited in the singuiariy capped pin
nacles existing on South river, in the
Wahsatch mountains. There are huad-
reds of these slender pillars, ranging in
height from 40 to 400 feet, most Of them
crowned by large caps Of stone. They
are not works of human art, as might al
most be imagined, but are the memorial
monuments of the once ronnded hills,
from which they have been cut by the
action of air and water. These pinnacl-
es alone remain of some square miles Of
solid rock; which has been washed away
to dept of 400 feet. The greater hard
ness of the surface has caused it to resist
corrosicn more than the underlying rock,
thus leaving the huge stone caps perched
high III air on the points of the thin
columns. At one point, while this cary
ing process has been going on, thin
wall of rock was penetrated, leaving a
lofty natural bridge or arch, which adds
to the picturesqueness of a remarkable
landscape --irkansaw Traveller.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
Better Than De!monico's.

A very pretty story which we be-
lieve has never yet appeared in print.
is told of a young lady of Coldwater,
Mich. She was visiting her well-to-do
cousin in New York City, who took
pleasure in showing her the sights of
Gotham. After theater one evening
he thought to show his Western ''coz"
how they dine in New York latter the
opera is over" and took her to Del
monico's, where he ordered a neat lit
tie supper for two.
The viands were dispa tched, and the
waiter brought the check, with which
was returned to the cashier a $50 bill.
The young lady''from out of the West
was watching operations, and observed
that the waiter brought back but So. so
in change, of which he was given the
half dollar. Afterward seated in the
carriage en- route homeward, the
Western belle timidly ventured to ask
her cousin:
Excuse me, cousin, don't want to
appear inquisitive, but you know we
Western folks want to learn-was
that a $40 bill you sent with that
check?"
Yes" was the reply.
"And you only got back three dol
lars and fifty cents?"
Yes"
well, l declare! it may be all
right, but at the Southern Michigan
Hotel in Coldwater l can get Just as
good dinner as that for 80 cents
with two kinds of pie. Hotel World.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
ELECTRIC BITTERS.

This remedy is becoming so well
known and SO popular as to need 10
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song Of
praise.-A purer medicine does not exist
and it is guaranteed to do all it is claim
ed. Electric Bitters viii cure all diseas-
es of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove
Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other
affections caused by impure blood Will
drive Malaria from the system and pre-
vent as we'll as cure all Malarial fevers -
For cure of Headache, Constipation and
In digestion try Electric Bitters-Ent;rp
satisfaction guaranteed, o. money refund
ed.-Price so cts. and $1.G0 per bottle at
Fl. Hinrichs' Drug Store 5
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03

THE VAQUEEo's FAvoRITE TRICK =
The tail twist is favorite trick and it
takes a strong wrist and nice horseman
ship. The vaquero nrges his pony to the
flank of the running bull, and reaching
down grasps the tail. A touch of the
bride rein alters the pony's course, the
bulls hind legs sweep off the.ground aud
he fop5 upon his side after making a
complete roll over of the tumble if the
grip has been good one. To vault
from the saddle to the back of the bull
is another joke of the vsquero, and be
enjoys the mad plunging of his victim
until he sees good chance to spring off
on one side and run to his waiting pony.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
Servants I'm China.

The ways of the housekeeper are in
deed made smooth for her in China,
indeed so smooth that, unless she has
children to care for, her time often
hangs very heavily on her hands. The
interior management and care of the
house is entirely intrusted to the ma
jordomo, or butler, called the ''kwan
Su," or chief of the bottles. But more
frequently he is simply called "boy."
Bells not being much used in China,
you often hear the cry of "Bhoo0y"
coming from the neighboring houses.
Do not be alarmed. 1t is pro badly
only madame calling for her sedan
chair, or the master who wants a glass
of brandy and soda, the standard
drink of foreigners all over the far
East.
In taking a house in China the first
thing is to get good boy, the second
to have him secured" The securing
consists in getting some reputable or
wealthy Chinaman to agree that if the
boy runs away with anything, ne will
either produce him or pay the amount
of the loss. The servants in the East
are all of the male sex, and women
al hSfCl Gil piOsO about b hOboC ga
cept where there are children, or
where lady has an dnaab as her per-
sonal attendant. The dnlah's duties
lie in keeping her mistress room in
order, dressing her hair, in short,
performing the duties of lady's maid,
and, if there are young children, in
looking after them. In most cases
there is one GDldh to each child. She
receives, according to qualifications.
from s. to $40 month as wages, out
of which she feeds herself, her wages
in fact being higher than those of the
other servants. Female servants are
in China, as everywhere else, source
of internal discord, as they are con-
stantly carrying tales or making mis-
chief. and lady who can do without
an Gn3ah thereby gets rid of almost the
only vexation in her housekeeping life.
Good Housekeeping.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
A LONDON FOG.
Fifty years ago, when we first became

Fifty years ago, when we first became
acquainted with them, London fogs were
bad enough; but they were on COM
paratively limited scale. They have
since attainded marvellously grand dim
ensions and intensity, according to the
increase OF houses and population.
What we ordinarily cali London, but it
Is more correctly styled the metropolis,
has spread and spread, till it covers
space of about one hundred and twenty
square miles. In the winter months
every house has a coal fire, some of them
two, three, or four; and there are num-
erous manufactures and public works
with furnaces and tail chimneys, all of
which less or more emit quantities of
smoke. This smoke miDgles with what
fog there happens TO be and produces
curious mixture, that Is now beginning
to be understood. Like every other
mist, the fog which raises and Is waited
along the valley of the Thames is COM
posed of small particles of water, that
ought properly to be dissipated by the
heat Of the sun. Only with difficulty
is the sun able to undertake the duty.
The smoke poured out from hundreds Of
Thousand OF chinmeys does not mere
~ mix with the fog. 1t coats each wat
cry particle with tarry, oily finn, giving
to it an unnatural character, and preserv
ing it, SO TO speak, from Immediate dis
parsion. \ genuine London fog, there
fore, IS something more than fog. 1t
Is a prodigiously large volume of mist,
held in kind of thraldom by oleginous
ingredients hoated from the tops Of
chImneys. When we say oleaginous, We
say couveDice, take the readiest word to
express a condition thai would involve
some chemical explanations, which need
not be gone into. Every one will under
stand that the smoke from the coal fires
somehow unites inextricably with the
particles of mist, and keeps tie whole
thing hovering III a dense cloud over the
metropolis. Not only so. The dingy
cloud darkens and poilutes the air, fills
the street, and, to a certain extent, the
houses and the lungs of the inhabitants.
On such OCCASIONS the darkness even at
noon is so great that dwellings and
places of business have to be lit with gas
as at night As the London gas IS more
remarkable for its volume than its pur-
ty, it aids in deteriorating the atmos
phere during fOgs, already sufficiently
tainted with the exhaiatious of domestic
sewage. At times it is as difficult to get
breath of fresh air as it is to procure
good drink OF palatabie water.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
------sss ~'.'~
The Sense OF a Butcher Bird.

OF all the birds of Florida there is
one that will afford an idler lots Of
amusement if he will spend an occa-
sional hour watching closely. 1t is
the shrike or butcher bird. A few
days ago | was in an orange grove a
few rods from the house. where an old
darky, with the assistance of Il mule,
was plowing, and butcher bird was
flying from tree to tree, following up
the newly plowed furrow looking for
insects. Every few minutes he would
so to pick up a beetle or insect, and
for some time he simply swallowed his
victim.
After little he seemed to have
had enough to eat, and just then a
little flock of Iarks were seen running
along in the newly-turned furrow, at
times almost touching the old darky's
heels. Now and then they would
come across an insect too large for
them to easily manage, and then would
begin little scutf1e. Then the butcher
of the little flock, snatch up the insect,
and fly off with it before the larks
knew what had happened. The
butcher bird had eaten all he wanted
and so, with the beetle in his beak, he
flew to the nearest orange tree, and,
selecting a long, sharp, thorn, he i'm
paled the insect upon it. | watched
this bird put at least ten insects on
different thorns. During an hour, be-
sides numerous large insects, the
butcher bird captured two snakes, the
largest of which was two feet long and
very lively. These snakes, although
they squirmed and twisted, were taken
with difficulty to an orange tree and,
after a good bit of hard tugging, they
were left with a thorn through their
bodies.
When the butcher bird is not looking
for food or for victims to stick on
thorns he Is looking for other birds
for the purpose of fighting them, and
thus he keeps busy from daylight till
dark.-Jhe Nationalist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
For the Most Beautiful.

A mighty lovely girl who is not un-
known to critical Bostonians, re-
ceived 4 unique present recently from
a devoted admirer on the other side of
the water. 1t was an exquisitely en-
ameled box in the form of an apple. tied
with white ribbon, on which IN sill
yer lettering were the legendary
words, "Jugement de Paris" This
highly complimentary fruit was in
closed in n white satin box fastened
with silver clasp having the fair ones
monogram engraved upon it. And
yet cynics and croakers would have US
believe that that enthusiastic senti.
ment was dead.-Roston Herald
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
Cocoanut Milk.

A woman of fine complexion has ad-
mitted that it is due to the milk in the
cocoanut. Her formula is this: Take
a fresh cocoanut. CRATE it. place it in
cloth. and squeeze out the milk. Wash
the face and hands with the liquid,
rubbing a great deal, the more the
better. and wipe with soft cloth.
The effect is wonderful and instan-
taneous."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03

Didn't you meet father in the hall
last as you went out?' she asked in
cold. sarcastic tones. NO" he re-
piled sadly, didn't meet him. We
were going the same way, and l was
only short distance IN front of him."
90" she said with cruel, significant
smile, and sailed away Washington
Critic.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
STEPHENSON IpEAoF RAPID TRANSIT

STEPHENSON S IDEA OF RAPID TRANSIT.
When Stephenson the inventor of tue
locomotive engine, started out, he
thought that an cr CINE could not be run
except by an expert machinist, one who
understood the machine scientifically,
aud at the same time, was q practical
engineer, and could if necessary, make
little repairs on the road. lie took his
men from the machine shops They
worked all right, but were terribly aris
tocratlG; worked with kid gloves on, and
would not associate with common work
men. They could not be induced to
wipe au engine or do work but just the
running Of it. Pretty soon it seemed
as If they owned the road.
Then Stephenson called his board of
directors and said they would not do.
He said: "Let ms train our own men.
After fireman had served for q few
years he knows how to handle an engine.
Let us put them on as engineers, and
after they know that trade they will be
useless for anything else; they cannot t
make their living any other way" And
it is fact. Outside of his engine this
kina of practical engineer is the most
helpless creature on earth. Stephenson s
idea was carried out. But The legislature
got weary. Parliament thought that it
was not safe TO intrust that class of men
with the running OF engines and with the
lives of their passengers. A committee
was appoincd ard an investigation or
dered. Stephenson, of course, was one
of the witnesses before the committee
In his testimony he said: "GcutlemeD,
the matter is simply this: Tue public
demands rapid transit. If I put man
on on engine who knows all its workings
lie will refnse to work it hard enough to
make the necessary time. He Will not
run the risks. We have to put on men
who do not know the engine as thorough
ly. They do not know the risks they
run, and they will make the time Tagnir-
ed. Chicago Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03
LARGE STOCK Of FIRST GLASS FARM IMPLEMENTS
First publication April II. 1851
TIE OF CONSIN.-GIRCUIT COURT

CIATE OF WIotDNSIN.-tIhCIIJI COURT,
- MANITowOC COUNTY.
Heinrich poppe plaintiff. vs.. Megialana Wah1
Joseph siaas and Nicolaus Mas. defendants.
the State of Wisconsin. TO thesaid defendants
and each of them: You are hereby summoned to
appear within twenty days after service Of this
summons. exclusive of the day of service and de-
fend the above entitled action in the court atore-
sald: and IN case OF your failure so TO do, iudg-
ment VIII be rendered against you according 10
the demand of the complaint. of which COPY is
herewith served upon you. may24
SCHMITZ & KIRWAN Plaintiffs Att'ys.
z. o. Address, Manitowoc, Manitowoc Co.. Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03

Remember. my boy" said Uncle
James, as he gave Bobby coin, "that
if you take care of pennies the dollars
will take care of themselves" Bobby
looked 2 trife dubious. Il do take
care of the pennies, he replied, "but
as soon as they grow to be dollars pa
takes care Of 'em. Detroit Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-05-03

4 TToRNEYAND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
n Office in Torrison's brick block, north end
,tn street bridge, Manitowoc, Wisconsin Jollec-
.ons promptly attended TO.