davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
Wonders Of Nature.

The polypus, like the tabled by.
dra, receives new life from the knife
which is lifted to destroy it, says
the New York Telegram. There are
four thousand and forty-one mus
cles in a caterpillar. Hook dis
covered fourteen thousand mirrors
in the eyes of the drone. To effect
the respiration of a carp, thirteen
thousand three hundred arteries,
vessels, veins, bones, etc., are neces-
sary. The body of every spider
contains four little masses, pierced
with a multitude of holes (imper-
ceptible to the naked eye) each hole
permitting the passage of a single
thread all of the threads, to the
amount Of 1000 to each mass, join
together when they come out and
make the single thread with which
the spider spins its web, SO that
what we call a spiders thread con-
sists of more than 1000 threads
united. Leuwenhock, by means Of
microscopes, observed spiders no
bigger than a grain Of sand which
spun thread 80 fine that it took 1000
Of them to equal in magnitude a
single hair. The fly spider, it is
known, lays an egg as large as itself.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
A Scientific Mosquito Bar.

Word comes from Paris of the
invention of what may be called
the alternating mosquito-bar. This
consists of a mosquito-net made of
extremely fine copper wire woven
into cloth, which is strong and
at the same time almost as pliable
as netting made of vegetable fiber.
This net is made in the usual form
of a canopy, and falls in shining
folds about the bed. In the dome
of the canopy hangs a small elec-
trio lamp. Wires connect the net
ting with weak pile battery placed
under the bedstead, and by means
of a converter are carried into the
lamp. The lighted lamp attracts
the attention of every mosquito in
the neighborhood, and he comes
sailing over the lights upon the
wire canopy. The battery presses
the button and the mosquito does
the rest. NJ. Scberer, the inventor,
says that on the first morning after
his net had been put into use, his
servant took up 1922 liters or nearly
three quarts of dead mosquitoes.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
A Joke on the Jokers.

A member of the Congressional
party which visited Yorktown to
celebrate the university of the sur
render of CORVALLIS, says the
Washington Post, tells a good
Joke at the expense of Representa-
atiye Baker of New York, whose
geniality is proverbial. When the
! steamer Charlotte of the York
River line reached West Point the
captain announced that an oppor-
tunity would be given those who
wished to inspect the town for an
hour. So Mr.. Baker invited Rep
resentatives Morrill, of Kansas and
Sherman to join him in a drive,
and accordingly chartered one of
the ancient hacks left by CORVALLIS
to drive them about for half an
hour, or "a dollars worth"
AS Mr.. Baker never neglects an
opportunity to play a prank on a
colleague-especially ON Mr.. Nor
rill-he waited until the venerable
darky, who was doing the ''jehu
act" had closed glowing descrip-
ton of West Point, and quietly re-
marked to Mr.. Morrill,: "Now, Mr..
Blaine, if you could only get Presi-
dent Harrison to recommend an
appropriation for the building of
college here it would be the making
of West Point" The remark visi-
bly, startled the driver. Appreciat-
ing the joke and desiring to turn it
upon Mr.. Baker, Morrill, replied:
''Oh, certainly, Mr.. Morton, will
do that; but why don't you pass
bill through the Senate appropriat-
ing the money and get Speaker
Reed here to pass it through the
House?" Representative Sherman
promptly remarked that he would
rush it through the House." The
darky nearly fell off the box in
fit. Here he was driving about in
his hack Vice President Morton,
Speaker Reed and Secretary Blaine.
Whispering to the boy on the seat
with him, the news was soon scat
tered among the entire colored pop
ulation of West Point, which gath
cred on the wharf to see the dis
trio. With hat in hand
and bowling and scraping in the
most profound manner as they
alighted. the old man remarked to
Mr.. Baker as he handed out the
dollar, "Look heah, Mr.. Morton,
Use always been stiff Republican
and voted for you and Marse Harri-
son-two years ago, and if you has
no objection-please 'scuse de old
man for asking it, case he's awful
poah-can't you make dat $27"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice Of Forfeiture.

To J. w. LANE and WILLIAM LANE, their
heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that | have ex-
pended the sum OF one hundred 1907 dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
MORNING STAR lode mining claim,
situated in Sawtooth mining district. and
adjoining the Telephone and Emma min
ing claims on the southeast, in Alturas
county, Idaho Territory, in order to hold
said premises under the provisions of Sec
tion 1924, Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required to hold
the same for the year ending December 81.
1889; and if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety days
after this notice by publication you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion Of
such expenditure as cO-owners, your inter
est being an undivided one-third, amount
ing to $3333H, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the subscriber
under the provisions of said Section 1924.
JOHN COLLINS.
hetchum, l. T.. January q. 1880.
First publication, Jan. 25, 1890
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
A Pretty Story of Mrs. Cleveland

Mrs. Cleveland is clever con-
versationalist and always delights
her guests with the brightness and
originality of her ideas. One morn
ing while she was mistress of the
White House q party called upon
her and were received informally
in the Blue Room. A gentleman
addressing Mrs. Cleveland remark
ed: "Mrs. Cleveland, we are all
very sorry for one reason that you
are the wife of the president, and
that is, that we never have the
pleasure of your presence at the
entertainments outside the White
House,"
Mrs. Cleveland hesitated q mo-
ment, posed most bewitc hingly and
replied:
"Mr. c., l don't know but
that / myself am sorry ! am the
wife of the president, but am not
sorry that / am the wife of my hus-
band. st. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
river chase themselves through M,

river chase themselves through my
brain till I long for rest or respite
but find it not. It seems to me ir
my dreams that / am existing
through q space of endless years
In one night I live for centuries
and awake in the merning feeling
weary and tired and weak, longing
for the opiate that has so strong q
hold upon me.
"Again some familiar face will
arise unbidden before me, perhaps
the countenance of some one once
dear to me. The face will pass and
repass before my troubled mind,
and will gibe and twist till | feel
that | am on the verge of selfde-
struction. Perhaps in moment
the gibing face Of my friend will
disappear and in its stead will arise
some loathsome, detested, distorted
countenance with sores and erup-
tions upon it. It will be as repulsiye
as serpent; and yet it will insist
on nesting close against me in
spite of my efforts to drive it back !;
it will lick me with it's horrid pimply
tongue, and fondle me with its re-
pulsive lips.
"Oh," said the speaker, trembling
with nervous emotion while perspi-
ration streamed from every pore, "if
l could just rid myself Of these aw-
full faces | might be able to undergo
my other tortures."
He sat down dejectedly on his
hard, comfortless bed as he finished
speaking, and seemed incapable of
further effort. After waiting few
minutes the reporter arose to go.
He tried to comfort the old man
little before leaving, but it was all
in vain. So he left, and as he went
out the door he looked back and
saw the opium eater sitting help
lessly and with vacant stare,
where he had fallen exhausted af-
ter the prolonged effort necessary
for him to make in talking contin-
uously for half an hour.-Nashville
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
A sagacious Canine.

Among the valuable dogs owned
by J. F. Coope Of Ben Lomond vine
yard is a family of thoroughbret
wire-haired terriers. These ittl,
creatures are very bright, and among
other achievements are quite exper
at snake killing. That they have
an intuitive knowledge not only 0,
how to kill snakes, but how to hea.
themselves if the snake gets the
better of an encounter was proved
not long since by an incident no.
ticed by some of the employees.
The mother terrier having dis.
covered a rattlesnake ready coiled
for spring placed herself at a safe
distance and began barking loudly
for an assistant. One of her family
of terriers responded to the call,
when the two dogs placed them
selves one ON either side of the rat
tier, barking at it and slowly ap-
preaching it from opposite direc-
tions until within about striking
distance for the serpent. The ex.
asperated rattler at last sprang at
the younger dog, when the mother
in great fury pounced upon the
snake. The terriers seize the SER
pents about midway of the body
and shake them without mercy
until life is extinct.
In this case the mother terrier at
tempted the usual mode of proceed
ure, and was fairly successful, but
the fangs of the snake in some way
struck her, inficting wound. It
was evident to those watching her
that her suferings began at once,
but she did not lose her head with
fear. She made for a bunch of
snake weed not far off and ate free
ly of it. Her next move was to a
pool of water that made small
muddy spot. Into this she plunged,
herself about in every direc-
ton and covering hersalf with mud.
The onlookers gave her up for lost,
but the canine physician had healed
herself, and the next morning was
entirely all right, asif she had never
met his rattlesnakeship in deadly
combat.-Santa Cruz Surf.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
The Goat Spoiled It.

A Christianbug IVA. dispatch to
the Philadelphia Times says: Our
little town had quite sensation in
it's best circles at the marriage of
one of its most prominent young
men to young lady whose beauty
and wit made her belle, but whose
nuptials were nearly prevented BY
billy goat belonging to an Irish
family living in the suburbs. The
bridal party was followed into the
church by the goat, which proceeded
to quietly and peaceably inspect the
guests and the edi6ce, and probably
would have retired in like manner
had it not been for the injudicious
efforts of one of the groom's at.
tendants to induce it to leave by
an impertinent shoe.
This was more than his goatship
meant to tamely endure, and to
soothe his wounded honor he made
a break at the bridegroom, who
happened to be nearest him, and
without that gentleman having sus-
pected his proximity, made him
painfully aware Of it by a we'll
directed blow that caused the cam
didate for matrimony to alight sew
eral feet distant, though hardly
with the grace Of posture he could
have desired. The animal then
turned his attention to the bride.
but the lady escaped by climbing
the pulpit stairs.
The clergyman, wedding party
and guests dared not stir, for every
movement caused the goat to make,
for them with lowered head, 20 for
q while the animal vas monarch of
all he surveyed, bp: the arrival On,
the scene Of one Of his infantils mas,
ters speedily reduced him to SUBJ
mission, and be followed the yonng
stepson Of Erin from the church
a. meek and humble 4 goat - ever
dined on q tomato can. The bride
groom, though much b1uised and
with one arm broken, iplieted On
having the interrupted aan1s
completed. 49,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
A Country Boy.

/ | have always found it an advan.
tage to me that part of my boy
hood was spent on a farm, or rather
on several farms, says Edward Egg
gleston, in the American Agricul-
turist. There are so many little
domestic arts that a farmer boy
learns and to which the town-bred
lad is stranger. One day, when
there happened to be nobody else
left in the place who could milk the
COW, and the prospect was that my
grandchildren would not have cup
of milk for supper, | was glad to
show the skill in that line | had
acquired on an Indiana farm. NV
neighbor, Mrs. Murphy, passing by,
exclaimed :"Och, now, Mr.. Eggle-
son, and it isn't livery jintleman
from the city that could lind a
hand and milk cow that way p
l remember to have read of two
great poets, Wordsworth and Sou
they, who once went on an excur-
sion with their publisher, Mr.. Cave.
All three of them tried in vain to
pull the collar off of their horse,
but it seemed impossible to them to
get it off without taking the horses
head along with it. They finally
concluded that the horses head had
swelled after the collar was put on.
But a milkmaid came up and turned
the collar round, and so pulled it
off to the surprise of the great men.
who had not thought of that plan.
There is no reason why farm life
should not be favorable to educa-
ton. That which makes an educated
man is the habit of thinking about
what he sees, hears or reads. Read
ing alone will not do it. There were
many men working in a stone-quar-
ry with Hugh Miller; but Hugh
was the only one of them that
thought about anything beyond his
wages and his dinner. He studied
to find out about the fossil animals
which he saw in the rocks under
his hand. By the time he had work
ed in the quarry sixteen years he
had become a great geologist, and
the world delighted to read the
books which he wrote.
There was once living in Penn
sylvania, before the Revolution, a |
Quaker farmer by the name of John
Bartram. One day in blowing he |
plucked violet and pulled it apart.
Here" he said, ssare the various
parts of this flower, the names Of |
which do not know, nor their uses.
1t seems shame that have walked
over violets and other flowers all |
my life without knowing anything |
about them" He then made M
his mind that he would study bot
any. But as all the books on bot
any at that time were in Latin he
had to begin by studying Latin
grammar. Nevertheless, he became
! very famous botanist before he
lied, and he remained to his death
! very good farmer, and did much
10 improve the methods of farming
n his time.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
F0RERuINERs OF Death.
Many Ways by Which the Grim
Monster Announces Himself.

The signs Of impending death
are many and variable. No tive
instances are precisely identical, ye1
several signs are common to many
cases, says the Medical Journal.
Shakespeare, who observed every.
thing else, observed and recorded
some of the premonitory signs oi
death also. In the account Of the
death of Falstaff the shrpness of
the nose, the coldness of the nose
gradually extending upward, the
picking at the bedcloths are accu-
rately described.
For some time before death indi-
cations Of its approach become ap-
parent. Speech grows thick and
labored, the hands, if raised, fall
instantly, the respiration is diff
cult, the heart loses it's power to
propel the blood to the extremities,
which consequently become cold, a
clammy moisture oozes through the
pores of the skin, the voice grows
weak and husky or piping, the eyes
begin to lose their luster.
In death at old age there is
gradual dulling of the bodily senses
and of many of the mental faculties ;
memory fails, judgment wavers,
imagination goes out like a candle.
The muscles and tsndons get stiff,
the voice breaks, the cords of the
tabernacle are loosening. Small
noises irritate, sight becomes dim,
nutrition goes on feebly, digestion
is impaired, the secretions are in
or vitiated, or cease, cap
Hilary circulation is clogged. Finally
the central organization of the cir
culation comes to a stop, a full
stop, and this stoppage means a
This is the death of
old age, which few attain to.
Many people have an idea that
death is necessarily painful, even
agonizing, but there is no reason
whatever to suppose that death is
! more painful process than birth.
It is because in a certain proper
lion of cases dissolution is accom-
panied by a visible spasm and dis
tortion of the countenance that this
dea exists, but it is as nearly cer-
,ain as anything can be that these
distortions of the facial muscles are
1ot only painless, but take place
lnconsciously. In many instances,
;oo, a comatose or semi-comatose
state supervines, and it is altogether
probable that more or less complete
Inconsistencies then prevails. We
lave, too, abundant evidence Of peo-
lie who have been nearly drowned
md resuscitated, and they all agree |
n the statement that after a few
of painful struggling, fear
nd anxiety pass away and a state
f tranquility succeeds. They see
isions of green fields and in some
ases hear pleasing music; and so
ar from being miserable, their SEN
ations are delightful. But where
ttempts at resuscitation are sue
essful the resuscitated persons al
nost invariably protest against be-
ng brought back to life, and declare
hat resuscitation is accompanied
y physical pain and acute mental
1isery.
Death is a fact which every man
aust personally experience, and
onsequently is of universal inter
st; and as facts are facts, the wiser
curse is to look them squarely in
ne face, for necessity is coal black
nd death keeps no calendar.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02

The KEYsroxH has long been acrncw1.
edged to be the sole representative Of Tia
Great Upper Wood River and Savfooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart OF the most promising minine
country on the face of the earth, and ieaycs
ing notnang undone to present its readers =
developments, as well as matters of ioca1
Importance in the growth of Ketchum. the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is an inyshra-
bic guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
SNAKES aER ONLY FRIENDS.
A Female Hermit Who Died Sur
rounded by Reptiles.

A singular character, by nam
Martha Ann Tillson, and who wa
known as the "snake woman" diet
near here recently, writes the Salem
(Va. J correspondent of the Phila
delphia Times. She lived in q littl,
cabin at the foot of Twelve O'Clocl
Knob, and led hermit's life, hav
ing no one to share her abode ex
cept snakes. By the few who were
ever allowed to see the interior Of
her cabin it is said to have literally
swarmed with her strange compan.
ions, with which she ate and slept
and which were to be seen lying in
her bosom and coiled about hel
neck, body and limbs whenever she
was caught sight of.
Her extraordinary predictions
for these unpleasant creatures is
supposed to have arisen from a
morbid feeling that she was, like
them, hated of men, for naturally
deformed, she received in addition
an injury to the spine while an in
FAINT, and though perfectly sound in
mind, was of so sensitive nature as
to render her miserable and uneasy
in the presence of any but her par
ents, as she imagined herself an
object of loathing and hatred to
them. This she seemed to feel
while still a little child, for her pc
culiar friendship began then. She
was observed to steal away every
day with a pan of milk, and being
followed was found to be caressing
dozen or so hideous rattlesnakes,
while they drank from the vessel
which she held in her lap. Horri-
fed, her parents tried to reason
with her, then to punish and finally
to confine her in an endeavor to
break her of her fondness for the
but she pined so for her
pets that they feared she would die
if kept from them. She evinced
even stronger distate for human
society as she grew older, and since
the death of her parents has with
drawn entirely from any association
with her kind, living solely on the
product of a small garden cultivated
by herself and of half dozen
chickens, which the snakes seem to
know were not legitimate prey and
left unmolested.
She was little fair woman of
about 45, with sandy hair, very
and long, which she wore
IN a number of tight plaits, which.
with her deformity and
,he odd miscellaneous style of
dressing, the result of here refusing
20 hold any communication with a
'ellow-being, served to make her a
most remarkable looking object
She was looked upon as q witch by
he negores about, who declared her
o be possessed of the evil eye, and
lated and feared her accordingly. |
hough her life was a most harm
ess, quiet one. She had been dead |
'ome days when discovered, and |
ler dead body was literally covered
~ writhing mass of snakes, which
lad to be killed before it could be
emoved, for the reptiles turned
'iciously on all approaching the
emains. On her heart was found
oiled a huge rattlesnake dead.
The inquest proved that the
was q natural death, and
is probable that the snake died
t grief for its mistress.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
far more palatable in a glass than
in q cup.-Ex. -

far more palatable in a glass than
in a cup.-Ex. -
The philosophy of our cotempo-
rary is probably incorrect. The
immunity of the glass from being
cracked arises from the fact that
the water falling upon the spoon is
more largely distributed upon the
inner surface than when it falls
upon the tines of fork. The glass
is cracked only when rapid expan-
sion of the inner surface is produced
by the hot water falling on a small
area of surface. The broad surface
of the spoon distributes the water
the narrow surface of the tines
of the fork fails to do that.-Min-
ing and Scientific Prese.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
To Strengthen Ropes.

It has been suggested by a French
exchange, says the Mining and Sci
entific Press, that in order to insure
greater strength and consequently
more safety in ropes used for scaf-
folding purposes, particularly in
localities where the atmosphere is
destructive of hemp fiber, such
ropes should be dipped, when dry,
into a bath containing 20 grains OF
sulphate of copper per litre OF
water, and kept in soak in this So
luton some four days, afterward
being dried; the ropes will thus
have absorbed a certain quantity
of sulphate of cApper, which will
preserve them for 6me time both
from the attacks bf animal para
sites and from rot. The copper
salt may be fixed in the fibers BY a
coating of tar or by soapy water,
and in order to do this, it may be
passed through q bath of boiled
tar, hot, drawing it through a thim-
bic to press back the excess of tar,
and suspending it afterward on q
staging to dry and harden. In a
second method, the rope is soaked
in q solution of 100 grammes of
soap per litre Of water. The cop
per soap thus formed in the fiber
of the rope is stated to preserve it
even better than tar is capable OF
doing, which acts mechanically to
the sulphate Of copper,
which IL the real preventative in
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
# the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region

perhaps just as we'll that people
should have to build their houses
over again once every two or three
centuries. But it is not agreeable
to think that the capitol and all the
great churches in the country will
have disappeared by the year of
grace 289O.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
Notice to Creditors.


Estate Of ALBERT W. CONSTOCK, de-
ceased
NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
~ undersigned, administrator OF the es-
tate of Albert W. Comstock, deceased. to
the creditors off, and all persons having
Claims against the said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers. within
Ten months after the frst publication of
this notice, to the said administrator 1t the
nm, in the said county Of Alturas.
GEO. II. SNOW,
Administrator of Estate Of Albert w. Com
stock, deceased.
Dated at Ketchun, Idaho, oct. y, looe.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02
PROFESSIONAL.
A. II. RlNKHAM.

A TTORNEY- -AT-LAW, Ketchum, Idaho.
a Practices in all the Courts of the Ter
ritorv. Conveyancing and procuring OF
patents speciality.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-02

= - Rt2W - > - = - 1Aa@4SPs
Beautiful scenes Of forest, lake and