The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-02-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
lsroN1sH1No po,tEsr1c EVENT.

and prefaces it by saying: ''The
state of Texas, which carries the
palm for democratic majorities,
large areas and other good things,
varies the monotony of political off
years by increasing it's population
in the most unexpected and surpris-
ing ways" The paper goes on to
state that the town of Ingersoll,
near Texarkana, furnishes an Incl
dent which, for years to come, will
surely be cited as the cap-sheaf. 1t
refutes the general theory that the
negro race is populating the South
so much more rapidly than the
whites. It also shows the great pos
sibilities of the new South. Incl
dentally, it is q terrible warning to
young men:who have married Texas
widows. The story reads this way |:
On the morning of Jan. 10 Mrs. E. +.
Page, of Ingersoll, gave birth to girl
baby ofsix pounds weight. This happen.
ed at 9 o'clock.
The father was much delighted with
the little youngster.
At 11.30 a companion girl arrived. The
second edition weighed four and half
pounds. The fathers Joy was doubled.
Two girls had arrived to bless the home
circle.
At O'CLOCK another girl arrived. The
third edition weighed four pounds. The
father, trembling aud pale, remarked to
the attendants that he was much pleased.
At 40 fourth girl, weighing five
pounds, arrived to complete the family.
The father tainted.
After recovering consciousness he rushed
to the telegraph Office. Taking the opera
tor aside be whispered between his set
teeth: 81 can lick any man IN Texas to-
day.
"What's the matter?" gasped the aston
ished agent.
my wife has just presented me with
four girl Babies"
Without waiting to hear more the sta
ton agent, who was newly married n,an,
escaped by side door and has not yet
returnd.
On Jan. 18 the happy father visited
Texarkana and took out to his home at
Ingersoll four cradles, q case of soothing
syrup, half dozen bottles of paregoric,
sixteen dozen saftey pins, eight nursing
bottles and Jersey COW. The mother of
the quartet of Texas babies is slight,
pleasant faced woman weighing about one
hundred and twenty five pounds. She
was formerly Miss Atwood, and is q
native of Texas. About fifteen years ago
she married Mr.. Lupton. After his
death four years ago she was married to
Mr.. E. T. Page, of Ingersoll, Tex. Mr..
Page is small man, weighing about one
hundred and ten or one hundred and
fifteen pounds.
In their three years of married life
Mrs. Page has twice presented her hus-
band with twins, going that two better
with the quartet of girls, making eight
children IN the three years. The fond hus-
band and happy father expresses belief
that there will be more the next time.
DISAPPOINTED.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the globe
trotter, who was sent out to circle
the globe, by the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, and to beat Nellie BLY, if
she could, arrived in New York
Jan. 80. She left that city the same
day as Nellie BLY,, but went in the
opposite direction. She was beaten
in the race four days and six hours.
The following is description of
her arrival:
NEW YORK, Jan. 3t.-Disheartened i,
but not discouraged, Miss Elizabeth Bis
land stepped from the gang plank of the
Bothuia yesterday afternoon. The first
person to greet her was her sister Rebecca,
who, between sobs, told the globe trot-
ting voyager that Nellie BLY, had beaten
her. Miss Bisland, of course, felt badly
about being beaten, but said she did the
best she could with the means at her dis
posal and there was great satisfaction in
that. She went on: ~ left on this trip
of 5000 miles with scarcely one full
days notice. ! had no chance to study
the important connections of railroads
and steamships and had to keep right on
and trust to the little programme map
ped out few hours before the start.
Still, for all that, it was the very ordinary
trip of an ordinary person. I had no
special plans nor parlor cars and hired no
retinue Of railroad agents to shove me
along. I realized from the first that it
was hard fight between myself and Miss
BLY,. / did my best to win and never
lost a moment that ! could possibly help
from the time of my start"
Though Miss Bisland had several days
illness, she looks as we'll as she did when
in the Palace hotel at Frisco. She had q
hard time crossing the Atlantic, the Both.
MIA meeting with several heavy seas. Miss
Bisland says that missing La Champagne
at Havre was only one of the disadvan.
tages she had to submit to. The time
occupied by Miss Bisland from the Grand
Central depot November IA to the time
she stepped off the steamer was 76 days,
16 hours, 48 minutes.
FATHER DAMIEN's SUCCESSOR.
A dispatch dated New York, Jan
80, gives the following account Of
Sister Rose Gertrude, whose name
in the world is Amy Fowler, and
who is going to the Island of Molo.
kai, in the South Pacific, to nurse
the lepers. She was born about
thirty-five years ago in Bath, Eng
land, where she was reared and ed.
ucated. Her parents were wealthy
but Miss Fowler decided to take
the veil, and joined the order of St