The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-01
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There is growing demand in En-.
gland for human skin leather.
The average life of an ocean cable,
as at present constructed, Is twelve
years.
The French army officers are now oil
armed with revolvers, during the war
Of 1870 they had none.
M. Meissonier is the first paiter ever
raised to the dignity of Grand Cross Of
the Legion Of Honor.
King Louis, of Portugal, gave the
copyrights of his literary works to
charitable institutions.
There were over 25O varieties Of
chrysanthem0ms on exhibition at .
flower show at Los Angeles, Cal.
The most interesting exhibition In
Europe next year will be the loan exhi-
bition of tapestry at the Austrian Mu-
| Suem.
Arson Willesey of Avon, Ill.,. roll
licking blade of IS years, was married
recently to Susanna Mccoy, q blushing
maiden of "a.
Prince Louis Napoleon, who was
! lately an officer of the Italian Reserves,
! has obtained commission as Major in
the Russian army.
Harriet Beecher Stowe recently saids
| II wish writer's of my life would wait
until l am dead before they publish
their biographies"
! Louis Kossuth declares vehemently
that he will not accept Italian or any
other citizenship, but will die Us he has
lived, Hungarian.
| John Tyndall, father of the famous
scientist, was carpenter by trade. He
! lived in the little town of Carlow,
forty-four miles from Dublin, Ireland
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the Wo-
! man Suffragist, claims Boston as her
home, but spends nine mouths ia the
year lecturing in various parts of the
country.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards says the
work of galley slave is not to be COM
pared with his or her work who under
pocket of Britisher.
Andrew jackson Pine. who died re-
Gently at Harrisburg. Pa, had been
| chief page of the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives for twenty-eight
years. He became page at the age
of IA.
Mr.. Lew Rosen is responsible for the
rather expressive and suggestive re-
| mark that "A. NJ. Palmer has been
connected with the stage in New York
almost as long as some of our popular
soubrettes."
Monaco. to which only consuls are
accredited, has a big diplomatic corps
in the rest of Europe. and its diplo-
mats display profusion of gold lace
and titles purely for the honor Of serv-
ing the principality gratis.
A wild hog was shot recently at Oak
Hill. Cal, which weighed 500 pounds
1t was snow-white and had tusks six
inches long. A pound of lead was
found in his carcas, the result of efforts
of former hunters to kill him.
The English statistics give = notable
decrease in their convict population
during the last twenty years. The to-
tai number of convicts under sentence
of penal servitude was 6.4O5 in July;
twenty years ago it was 1850.
King Luis of Portugal did not in al
his reign sign single order for capital
punishment. He had conscientious
scruples against indicting the death
penalty. and so succeeded in making
it practically absolete in his domin-
ions.
The late John F. Smith. the great
Philadelphia typefounder gave to var.
ious charities more than 100000 q
year during the closing years Of big
long and useful life. Everything !
have to give away" he said. Il shall
give away before l die.
A sensible suggestion Is made that
the movement to restore the monument
to the memory of Mary Washington.
the mother of the first President, shall
include the purchase of the old house
in which she lived and died. 1t b
small house at Fredericksburg.
Philip McKim, the new steward OF
the White House. has given great sat-
istaction to the Harrisons. He under
stands old-fashioned American cookery
better than did Hugo Ziemann. and
can provide the president with better
pies than could the Chicago Chef
Lew Wallace says the scene that
moved him most In writing Ben Hur"
was the one representing the hero
sleeping on the steps when his mother
and sister. after their release from tho
dungeon, drew near and recognized
him and yet dare not approach nearer.
An Americal Amateur recently Offer
ed $12, 900 to the municipality of Genoa
for the violin of Paganini, which 10 re-
ligiously preserved IN the city museum
as a memento of Genoa's gifted son.
The instrument was made at Cremona
by Guarneri in 100. The American
offer was declined.
The old saying that the man whs
minds his own business will make
money is not true. Charles COchrane.
a Canadian, has remained on his farm
for fourteen straight years without
leaving it and has not spoken to .
stranger in all that time and yet he u
poorer than when he began.
The decline of the English tailor In
America is announced by some OF The
trade Journals, and it would seem that
there is q reason for the assertion that
he is no longer rs fashionable as an
American tailor. 1t has been Aiscov-
cred at last that the conventional En-
glish clothes do not fit him.
1t is announced that F. Marion Craw.-
ford. the novelist, is to become RASH
dent of Washington. d. c. Crawford
is very handsome man, in perfect
health, and is known all over Europe