The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
ANOTHER ENocH ARDEN.

ANOTHER ENQCH ARDEN.
Enoch Arden stories are frequent.
The latest one is to tbs effect that
thirty-three years ago William Hen
ry Parker sailed with his newly
married wife from Liverpool for
America, in the ship William and
Mary. On the voyage William was
swept overheard and monrned as
drowned. Two years later the wild
ow, who had come here, married
again and several children blessed
the union. A few days ago an ell
derby stranger called at her house
and asked for Mrs. Parker. She
responded and recognized him as
her husband. He said he had been
rescued by Portuguese ship and
landed inSouth America. He could
not get passage home, and deter
mined to 60 into the interior to seek
his fortune. He did so, writing his
wife at her parents home in Eng
land. Those letters she never re-
ceived. He received no reply and
believed her lost also. Time brought
prosperity, and at last he determin-
ed to search for his wife in Canada.
He came on and soon located her,
only to find her the wife of another.
A long consultation took place be-
tween them, and then Parker de-
parted, leaving his check for a large
sum and his blessing.
GRAvITATION INSTEAD OF STEAM.
The East River Railway Company
was incorporated on the 18th inst.
at Albany, with working capital
of $1OO,OOO,0OO, for the purpose of
providing rapid transit between
Brooklyn and New York. Major
Henning is the inventor of an in
novation in transportation methods
that the company proposes to in
troduce, and he is to be president
of the concern. The Major pro-
poses to employ gravitation instead
of steam power. Under his plans
East River will be tunneled at a
depth ranging from fifty to two
hundred feet below its bed. Start
ing at either end, the tunnel will
fall apparently at rate of twenty
five feet in every 100 until a short
level stretch in the middle is reach
ed. The trains of cars will be
started simultaneously from the
Brooklyn and New York ends and
it is expected that the cars going
down the incline will gather suffi-
cient impetus to carry them across
the level space and almost to the
top of the incline on the other side.
AS the cars gradually lose their
momentum, cable will grip them
automatically and carry them to
the station at the top. The entire
rolling stock of the road is to con-
sist of only two trains of cars and
it is claimed that they will run at
intervals of one minute.
NEW DEPARTURE.
The present Chinese minister at
Washington has his wife with him,
which is something unheard of be-
fore in the annals of the Chinese
embassy. The little lady is the first
Chinese lady Of rank who has ever
been in Washington, and it was an
nounced upon her arrival that she
would maintain the seclusion re-
quired of her sex at home, and
hitherto Washington society has
had no glimpse of her except fly
ing one Of her yelled figure, in her
carriage after nightfall, when with
her husband she has been in the
habit of taking a short drive for the
purpose of getting a breath of fresh
air. But all that is to be changed.
One of the Washington papers of
late date contained the following
paragraph:
Chinese concessions appear to be the
order of the day, since the Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Celestial Kingdom has decided
from this time forth to have his house
hold conducted upon the plan of those of
western countries. Not only does he pro-
pose to emancipate himself from the
thraldom of those peculiar ideas which
for centuries past have distinguished his
nation, but, he makes tremendous stride
on the road of progress in regard to his
wife. Hereafter that almond eyed little
woman is to be allowed the freedom of
the legation, and will mingle with her
kind, after the manner of the world in
general. She will receive and entertain
all the ladies who call upon her, though
exactly how this latter portion of the
programme is to be carried out is some
what of a mystery, as she neither speaks
nor understands word of English. The