The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-17
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The Gar of Russia and the Prince of
| Wales are said to be no mean perform
ers on the banjo.
Two citizens of Harris county, Geor-
gia, have each become the others ia
ther-in-law. They lost their first wives
by death, and for second each mar
ried the others daughter.
Flossie Moss, an American girl, aged
IS, is the heroine of the summer in the
Alps. She made the ascent OF the
highest peak of Mont Blanc. She IS
the youngest person of either sex who
ever put foot there.
Lord Wolseley tells of soldier who
was the bravest man he ever knew.
He was so lazy that in battle he would
expose himself to the most eminent
danger rather than to move ten PAGES
to place of safety.
One hundred years ago the Presby-
terian Church consisted of 178 minis
ters and $4,000 communicates. The
last minutes show that there are now
1854 ministers, 6,436 churches, and
696, ,757 communicates.
Ralph King, Kansas City 10-year
old, is kept under lock and key in his
fathers house for the reason that when
at liberty Master Ralph is an incorrigi-
BILE horse-thief. He has been arrested
many times, but always discharged on
on account of his youth.
Samuel w. Longley, of Greene, Me-.
gave party the other day on his sew
enty-fifth birthday, and had twenty
six of his old friends at his house.
The youngest guest present was seven-
ty-fve and eldest ninety-three.
A soap mine has been discovered at
Charlottesville, Ga. 1t is said to make
as good lather as manufactured soap,
and to be fully equal to it in cleansing
powers. 1t is exactly the color of tur-
pentine soap and has peculiar smell.
Earn Harris, of Port Jervis, is
bootblack and gentleman, too; and
that he wants others to be gentlemen
is evident from this inscription on his
box: "No ungentlemanly, drunken,
or disorderly persons boots or shoes
will be polished.-Earn Harris.
A woman capable of teaching chem
istry we'll can get good job at the
Womans Medical College of Penn
sylrania. The trustees have left the
professorship of chemistry vacant, and
appointed q lecturer for the present,
hoping to find woman for the place.
A quarrel with funny cause took
place recently in water-submerged Au-
gusta, Ga. A gentleman paid a negro
81 to carry him on his shoulder to the
hotel, and serious misunderstanding
arose about the position the gentleman
should occupy on the negro's shoul-
ders.
While jeremiah Haley, blacksmith,
of Westerly, r. L., was shoeing
horse, the animal caught his foot in
rent in Haley's leather apron, and in
struggling to free himself threw Haley
upon the floor, trampling upon him
and breaking his collar bone and bad
ly cutting his head.
Mr. Philip Zecherie, whose death at
Weiner, Waukesha county, has been
announced, was between one hundred
and seven and one hundred and ten
years of age. He had smoked tobacco
for ninety years and had not been con-
fined to his bed by illness until two
weeks before he died.
A citizen Of Washington, Ca, has
carefully preserved the coat in which
he was married twenty-five years ago.
He says that it is his mascot, and that
if he wears it when about to engage in
any new speculation, make any invest
ment, or take any important step in
life, he is invariably successful.
Mrs. Bohan, wife and victim of the
unspeakable long Island wretch who
gouged out her eyes, said to him in
their last interview before his depart
ure for the State prison: 81 was a
good wife to you and you had a COM
Portable home. l would take your
place if you could give me back my
sight"
A novel electric railway is undergo
ing construction in suburb of St.
Paul. The railroad is an elevated
structure, and the cars are hung below
it close to the street level. They hang
from sets of wheels taking their power
from the tracks, which are charged
with electricity. A speed of from eight
to ten miles an hour is claimed for the
cars.
The Duke of Marlborough, it is said
in London, keeps private cab ON
somewhat economical method. His
cabman receives no wages, but is priv
ileged during the Dukes absence from
town to ply for hire The young fell
lows of Picadilly are fond of riding in
''the Dukes cab," SO that the driver is
fairly well compensated for the want
of regular wages.
A new disease has broken out among
the grape vines of the Santa Ana and
San Gabriel Valleys of California. 1t
is termed the sapsOur, and the cause OF
it no one knows. The vines begin to
wither and in short time die. The
disease is infectious, and spreads very
rapidly. The best remedy is to dig up
the vines as quickly as they show the
blight and burn them.
Levotchko, a Russian peasant, has,
after ten years work, discovered treas
ure upon land that formed part of
the estate of Prince Ptersky, whose an
cestors were plundered and driven from
their homes by the Tartars q long
time ago. The discovery includes
manuscripts and other articles of value
besides the gold. The peasant gets
one-third and the Gar the rest of it
The quaintest thing in Bremen is
its statue of liberty, the "Boland," as
it is called. 1t is colossal figure.
eighteen feet high. and was erected in
the center of the town in 1412. In one
huge hand the giant holds shield
r.14 hat hal