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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
Bits of InfOrmarlOn.

A Hessian watchman gets I cent
a day.
Spanish quicksilver miners gets
20 cents a day.
Hungarian miners get from "a
to 624 cents day.
There are $4,000 Italian fruit
dealers in this country.
The average pay of New York's
10000 working girls is 6Oc day.
Chicago boasts Of l 1,463 hotels
with a total capacity of 158,5OO
guests.
A Reading, Penn, coffin factory
keeps a stock of 700 caskets con-
stantly on hand.
Of the II 100000 wage-earners i'll
this country 100000, or A per
cent, are engaged in farming.
A chewing gum concern in Brook
lyn has become stock company
with capital stock of 81 100000.
If man could live a thousand
years he would probably spend the
last so fretting over what he might
have done in the previous wasted
time.
There never was a hand clean
enough yet to be used in working
butter. The hand does not improve
the butter even if it is mothers,
wife's or sisters hand.
It requires 100000 cows to
supply the demand for milk and it's
products in the United States. To
feed these cows 60,00O,0OO acres of
land are under cultivation.
The strength of spider silk is in
Size for size it is consid-
erably tougher than bar of steel.
An ordinary spider thread is capa-
BILE of bearing q weight Of three
grains, while steel thread of the
same thickness would support less
than two.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
Ingenious Matrimonial Trap.

The following incident is reported
to have happened in Berlin: "a
number of ladies and gentlemen
were assembled at dinner to cele-
brate friends wedding. After the
banquet a President was elected,
who was pledged to eternal secrecy
by a solemn oath. All unmarried
persons of either sex wrote each on
a piece of paper his own name and
that of the person whom they de-
sired to marry. The papers were
handed to the President, man of
mature age, married and grave as
became his Office. It was his duty
to acqaint the two parties who had
mutually selected each other. Re-
suit; Eleven couples thus had the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
Publishing Mining News.

The Georgetown (Colo:) Courier
says: The reporter lives in min
ing town. One of his pleasantest
duties is to note the prosperous
strikes of the miners when fortu-
nate, and sympathize with them
when they meet with i'll luck. OF
course all the mining news must be
reported, and of course no individ-
ual miner must be mentioned.
When the mining column is full,
then the mine owner howls and
wonders why in thunder that item
was published. You are told that
it is all wrong, but you can't get it
right under any circumstances
because you can't get facts to make
it right. And if the mining column
has few general items, its darn the
newspapers anyway-there's moth
ing in them. Now mining news is
the only general news that adver-
tises this county. If there is plenty
Of live, active mining news, it at
tracts capitalists. We can't grow
wheat, we can't grow corn, but we
are developing the best mines in the
State. There is a lot of unpros-
pected territory to be gone over,
but it will never be touched so long
as nothing is said about mining. It
is selfish principle to keep every
thing on the dead quiet. Men are
glad to hear Of other mems luck.
It encourages them. It shows that
something is going on. But ye
patient reporter will have his re-
venge. He will give good, live reli-
able mining items where he can.
Where he cannot be will work his
brainpan and say what ought to be
if he cant say what really is. And
ye mining men who get frothy at
the mouth can 60 to the chief editor
and tell the facts so the public will
get at the truth at last. There are
no flies on ye reporter at any sea-
son. There are no flies on some of
ye mining men-because fly time
has not yet come.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
D1scounting Criticism.

The following paragraphs, or
something like them, will now ap-
pear in most of our witty exchanges,
says the Chicago News:
Chicago has a 24-story building.
One needs to get up twenty-four sto-
ries in Chicago in order to find out
what pure air is like"
"The new 24-story building ip
Chicago will be used as q Jail for the
Anarchists who prowl around ths
streets there with 5O0-ton bombs -
their hands"
s%Chicago is building another sky.
scraping edifice. When the residents
get to the top Of it they will think
they are near heaven. tits, howsvsf,
considerably nearer heaven ths4
most Chicago people will ever ~
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
What Is q Dollar?
Question: What is a dollar?

Question: What is dollar?
Answer: A dollar is a silver coin.
O.: Does not the word mean a
gold coin, also7
A.: No. There is or was small
gold coin called a GOLD dollar; but
the word DOLLAR means a silver
coin. 1t was first made in Germany
and called thaler pronounced toll
lar). A similar piece was afterwards
made in Spain, and it is from this
Spanish piece we get our dollar mark
-$-which represents the pillars
of Hercules twined with the figure
Is. The Mexicans had, and still
have, similar piece. All these
were and are silver coins, and our
United States dollar is an imitation
of them.
O.: Are there not gold dollars in
existence?
A.: Very few. They were not
coined till 1S49, and they were never
popular, being small and thin, cas-
lily lost, and, when lost, hard to
find. In fact, they were so ill-suited
to the people and to business men
that in 1889 the Director of the Mint,
Edward O. Leech, recommended
that the coinage of them be discon-
tinued; and the following year,
1890, Congress passed an act pro-
hibiting the coinage of them and
directing that those already in ex-
istence be withdrawn from circula-
ton.
O.: Did they have any circula-
ton among the people?
A.: Very little. But few persons
ever saw one and the Directors of
the Mint stated that they were used
exclusively for ornament.
O.: Then, it seems, that dollar
means silver coin only.
A.: 1t does, and, in fact, Webster's
Dictionary defines it as a "silver
coin of the value of 100 cents"
O.: Do we not have paper dollars,
greenbacks, national bank notes,
and other kinds, also?
A.: These are not paper dollars
they are one-dollar BILLS, or one
dollar NOTES. If you examine them
you will find that they promise to
pay" one dollar, or five dollars, or
ten dollars; but if you look at the
face of silver dollar, you will see
that it is stamped Zone Dollar" 1t
is not promise; it is the thing
itself. Peoples Dollar.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
The Royal Grandsons.

When the two sons of the Prince
of Wales were visiting South Amer
ica. at a ball in Rio, Prince George
was having right good time, dane
ing with any Of thepretty girls who
took his fancy, irrespective OF their
social position, and neglecting local
bie-wigs. His elder brother remon-
strated with him.
"You go and sit down and whis-
tie God save your grandmother and
let me alone,' said Prince George,
and went on enjoying himself after
his own fashionable.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
Hundred-Day Pensioners.

Mr.. Harrison's announcement to
the effect that he did not intend to
deal out pensions with an apothe-
cary's scale was applauded by the
Republican press generally, but
there was no general understanding
that Mr.. Harrison meant to imply
the enormities of the Raum and
Bussey regime in the Pension Office,
or the outrageous Pretorianism un-
der which the pension appropria-
ton has been made five times
greater than the limit which Gen.
eral Garfield declared ought to be
high enough to satisfy all just
claims, and from which he pre-
dicted a continuous decrease.
But by pensioning the dishonor-
ably. discharged, by putting the
honest and the fraudulent CLAIM on
the same basis, the Harrison Ad-
ministration has utterly demoral-
lied the Pension Office and so de-
graded the standard that honest
pensioners are ashamed to confess
that they are keeping the compa-
ny the Administration has put them
in. The case of the Ohio hundred
day men is not as bad as some
which are of record, but it is bad
enough. They effected an organi-
zation through which 115 of them
got on the pension rolls. General
Black ordered these claims ''held
up" pending an investigation, which
was still pending when Corporal
Tanner took charge. AS result
of it they were dropped, but they
have succeeded in getting them
selves retained in lump and are
now drawing pensions as disabled
veterans" though they were hun
dred-day men, whose only service
consisted Of taking free excursion
as far as Washington City and back.
Colonel Medill's Chicago Tribune
has a strong republican stomach,
but this is too much for it. "These
men," says the Tribune, "are to
draw pensions for the rest of their
lives for 100 days play in Wash
ington, in which they never fred a
shot and never sawa rebel, and in
which not one of them was ever
sick. By fraud and deceit they got
on the rolls originally. Then they
were hung up and rejected, and now
here they are again in some mystic
rious manner grabbing from the
treasury to pay them for their hun
dred-day picnic. They are patriots
for revenue only. 1t is just. such
outrages as this which have brought
scandal on the pension business. If
the rolls were investigated and
cleaned up under fair construc-
ton of the law, fully one-fourth the
names would be taken off as having
no legal right there"
So far the Tribune, and it can be
heartily indorsed as far as it goes.
But not more than one-fourth of
the immense sum paid out annually
in pensions represents the dues of
government to honest pensioners.
The rest is a premium on fraud and
pauperism.-St. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06

upon it that the stone is genuine,
but if the mark is scattered, or
shows more than one, you will be
perfectly safe in refusing to pay ten
cents for stone that may be offered
you at $500. Of course a diamond
to be subjected to such an examine
ton must either be without its set
ting or so mounted that the light will
pass through it perpendicularly.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06

The KEYSTONE has long been acknow
edged to be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Eawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in tie
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers a
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters Of local
importance in the growth of ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is aninvalua-
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. SUBJ
scribe for it. read it. and let your friends
read what may benefit them. fl
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
70 Distinguish . Genuine Diamond.

It is said that an expert is no
longer required to tell whether q
diamond is genuine or not. The
test is simple and can be made in
any place and in a moment. All
you need is piece of paper and a
lead pencil. With the latter make
a small dot on the paper, then look
at it through the diamond. If you
can see but one dot you can depend
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-06
jill. RUNYAN.
PRACTICAL
SIGN PAINTER
Paper Hanging and Other Work
Done to Order.
SHOP: Opposite Baxter's Hotel.
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
MoN 6 lRAl

Land Office at Haley, Idaho,
May s, 1891. :
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
lion TO make final proof in support OF his
tslaln; and that said proof will be made be-
iote Is The Register and Receiver at HALEY,
,"aano, on June Is, 1891, viz: Abilah
anuSams, Tor the SW Il See. III and w n MY
Sec. II, Tp. n, 4. II f.
III. ne names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
su.lunyation ~. OF. said land, viz: II. NJ. Stew
nn, n,n 'phn Monks, Frank Mats, of ketch-
Idait III,i Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, of HALEY,
W. T. RILEY, Register.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
PASSING LEvITIEs.

1t is rumored in orchestra circles that
women's hats have gone up.-Philadelphia
Press.
You can't tell who is in the coffin by the
length of tho funeral processlon.-Ram's
Horn.
When some men pay their preacher they
feel as though they were paying gas bill
RAMS Horn.
Fogg says a severe thunder storm re-
minds him of an onion. 1t Is peal on peal.
Boston Transcript.
The hen that sits on porcelain egg may
not accomplish much, but she has onncst
intentions. Texas Siftings.
Admiring Wife (ts husband who has
just closed and fastened her trunk -"My
dear, what fine strapping follow you
arc p'--Baltimors American.
You can tell whether a man Is any ac-
count by the way he steps. Had JOB been
n man who run his shoes down at the heel
and never had any opinions of his own the
devil wouldn't have bothered him.-Ram's
Horn.
The sceptic who says he hasn't faith
enough to believe in anything at all will
GO peacefully to sleep in a car on a night
express train reasonably sure that the
engineer will bring him through all right
-Somerville Journal
Polly-"So you are really and truly en-
gaged-how did it como sboutp Patsy
"wen, papa said he didn't care, mamma
said she didn't care, Jack said he didn' {
care, and I'm sure didn't care, so we be-
came engaged. PUCK.
"Did the editor Of the United Magazine
sccept your poemr' eyes. l signed
Whittier nsme to IL, and it went like a
hot cake. There was one disappointment
In IL, though. believe Whittier got paid
for it. I knew l didn t."-New York
| Sun
| This Is tho order which little girl
brought into q Lewiston (Me.) drug store
the other day. It was written on a dirty
piece OF Rote paper, as fellows; mister
druggist: Please send ipeoSo enough 10
throw up four-yoar-old girl. "-Medical
| Record.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
PHOTOGRAPH WARDROBE.
some OF the Fine Portraits May Not Il
What They Seem.

some OF the Fine Portraits May Not he
What They Seem.
What do you use that lace curtain
for?' ASKED visitor in a photograph
gallery.
That isn't curtain" said the pho
tographer as he folded up the coarse
length OF cheap lace; that's classic
drapery for my lady sitters who pose
as beauties. Look at this, AID this
He pointed 10 several pictures Ia the
show case where girls who were got
ten up To look like actresses or PROBES
sional beauties had their photographs
on exhibition.
These girls haven't enough money
to buy piece OF lace even as cheap
as that They are all employed at the
very humblest and poorest paid work
but you would never guess Ii to look
at their pictures After Miss Il,
my assistant has draped them in that
lace, they look as IL they had just
stepped out OF ball room, or a Pic
ture frame. Here Is one coming now.
Look at her."
She was brightiaced, olive
skinned foreigner, dressed in n light
brown alpaca dress that was hidsously
unbecoming. Her black hair was
strained away from her face in hard
braids She disappeared with Miss
Il into retiring room, soon to
emerge another person. The tight
coat sleeves OF her dress were pushed
up to her elbow. and her high corsage
so folded in as to show round slim
throat. The lace was belted st tho
waistline and pulled on the shoslder.
The hard braids were let out and left q
fluffy effect Of crimped hair. transfer
ring an ordinary girl into very pref
ty one. The operator, then took her
In hand TO pose for her picture
She will send that picture home TO
her friends In Norway or Sweden, and
they will soc how improved she Ia, {"
said the photographer with pardon
able glow of pride. and II doesn't
cost them a cent extra for all that fix
ing up. have On old fur-lined circu-
lar of my wife's that / use as back
ground for winter picture. IL looks
as II the girl has just uniastencd It
and comes out splendidiy. and IL gives
them an air OF comfort and elegance
combined. It's great scheme and
sells lots Of pictures but doh't give II
away. The girls migbt not like it"--
Detroit Free Press.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
MORE WOMEN. LESS MEN.
A Condition OF Affairs Isx,sting Thlaush'
out the Civilized World.

A Condition OF Affairs Ex,sting Thlaush-
out the Civilized World.
One OF the curiosities discivsed by
recent census statistics is the fact that
as rule. and barring exceptional cir
cumstances. the male population Is
falling farther and farther behind the
female. Thus In the last British CEN
sus, says the Providence Journal, the
excess OF, women and girls over men
and boys Ia Great Britain was found
to be about 900, 000 or 200, 600
more than ten years ago. The Ger
man census places the number
Of females about 600, 900 above
that of males in the Kingdom of Prus-
STA, which is nearly three times the
excess OF twenty years ago In the
whole German empire there are /. 0OO,-
900 more females than males. In
Sweden and Norway the weaker sex
is in the majority by $50. 600, in Aus
tria- Hungary by about GOO. 600, in
Denmark by 10000. and in fact in
every European country women and
girls outnumber men and boys The
conspicuous exceptions elsewhere are
the United States, Canada and Aus.
tralia, in each OF which tho males
are in the majority, though, COM
paratively speaking, not largely So
These exceptions. however. are evil
IDENTIFY owing TO immigration. which
naturally brings more men than
women. Had there been no iInmigra-
ton. 1t is probable that each OF these
three countries would have shown the
Same excess Of women which is found
everywhere else in the civilized wsrld.
Thus, although in the United States
as a whole the excess Of males Is about
/, POO, 900 by estimate in New Eng
land, whittier the tide OF immigration
has not flowed strongly in recent
years. there is largo preponderance
OF women. In less civilized countries
however. where women are lightly
esteemed. it is quite otherwise. In
India there are 5000, 900 moro men
than women, and in China too, the
males largely preponderate. So we
may conclude that as a rule the higher
civilization is the more favorable to
the increase OF the female sex. but we
may well question whether this result
il q wholesome one. An excess OF
women in country must have an un-
favorable influence on the marriage rate
and So OF course, on the birth rate; and,
besides it may lead to moral conse-
quences of a grave nature. Yet it
seems natural for women TO multiply
faster than mon; and the means that
are taken to produce contrary result
in the less civilized countries are such
as civilization could not countenance.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

family looked iuto the dictionary to
get at the meaning OF the prescription.
They got on we'll as far as to the word
vehicle" To this they found cart
wagon, carriage, wheelbarrow. After
a grave consideration they came to
the conclusion that the doctor meant
that the patient should ride out and
while IN the vehicle should take the
pill. The supposed advice was fol-
lowed to the very letter. and. in the
course of few weeks, the fresh air
taken so regularly completely cured
the patient -Argonaut
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

When Mr.. David Dear (winner OF
the queens prize ui Bisloy) was law
student he once attended an eat
home" On the servant asking I'm,
hume he replied David Dear" The
girl biushed and saidh Yea yesi bat
what Is your other sane sxr Ne
assured hor he had ne other name.
But 1t was Of no use; the servant
knew better. and announced him az
Mr.. David "-Argonaut
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

Cleared Giody
all the troubles and ailments that
make woman's life n burden to her.
She's relieved, cured, and restored,
with DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. Periodical pains, weak back,
bearing down sensations, nervous
prostration, al "female complaints"
are cured by it. 1t improves di-.
gestion, enriches the blood, dispels
aches and pains, brings refreshing
sleep, and restores health and
strength.
It's a powerful general, as well as
uterine, tonic and nervine, lmparting
vigor and strength to the entire sys-
tenn. Contains no alcohol to inebri-
ate; no syrup or sugar to derangs
digestion a legitimate medicins-
not beverage.
If you're a tired, nervous, or suf-
fering woman, then the "Favorite
Prescription " is tho only Ted;oins
that's guaranteed, in every case, to
bring you help. If it doesn't give
you satisfaction, you have your
money back.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
A Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and Of
ease and comfort follows the use OF Syrup
of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature
10 effectueily cleanse the system when cos
tive or bilious For sale in soc and 81. 90
bottles by all leading druggists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

"It's a valiant flea that dare cat his
breakfast on the lip OF lion" and we once
thought took daring man 10 go into a
damp, swampy country. even for his own
advantage. But he knows now that pain is
killed by salvation OIL and no Is not afraid
OF rheumatism.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

We wish TO call your attention to the ad-
vertlsement In another column OF the Lace
Back Suspender Co., the most satisfactory
Suspender ever offered TO the trade. No
harness. Made to TT all, no matter how
round or sloplng the shoulders They will
adjust themselves Buy only the genuine
which has stamp on each, same as In the
advertisement.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
The Only one Ever Printed--Can Ton
Find the Word.

There Is 3-inch display advertisement
In this paper this week which has no tive
words alike except one word. The same
IL true OF each new one appearing each
week. from the DR.. Harter Medicine Co
This house places Crescent on every
thing they make and publish. Look for 1t,
send them the name OF the word, and they
will return you Book. BEAUTIFUL LrrHo-
GRAPHS Oit SAMPLES FREE.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

w. g. Tilghman. Palatka, Fla. being
stock breeder, discovered natures law that
governs the sex so as TO have either male OF
female at will. He swears that reports from
parties using 1t gives % successful cases In
100. Write him for price. No cost unless
satisfied.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
August
Flower

Il have been aflict-
BiliousneSs, led with bihousness
land constipation
Constipation'" for fifteen years;
c.o,oh first one and then
another prepare
Pains. ton was suggested
tome and tried but
ito no purpose. At last friend
recommended August Flower. l
"took it according to directions and
"its effects were wonderful, reliev-
"ing me of those disagreeable
stomach pains which had been
troubled with so long. + Words
"cannot describe the admiration
Gin which hold your august
"Flower-it has given me a new
"lease of life, which before was a
"burden. Such medicine IS BEN
"efaction to humanity, and its good
"qu alities and
wonderful mer- Jesse Barker,
"its should be 49,
"made known to 'e'
Everyone suffer Humboldt,
"ing with dyspep-
"sia or biliousness Kansas. 3
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, Woodbury., NJ.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30
T.,.on IN m ..ycb,cle.,

A philadelphia physician was called
By n foreign family, and prescribed
.'ons pill 70 be taken three times q
dag. IN any convenient vehicle" The
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

DIR. L. L. GORSUCH, Toledo, o., says; 'T
have practlced medicine for forty years, have
never seen preparation that could prescribe
with SO much confidence OF success as can
Halls Catarrh Cure" Sold by Druggists 75c.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

A queen chain pendant just Out is fac
simile of card case In enamel and silver.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-30

FITS.-An Fits stopped free by m, KLlNf's GREAT
Nerve Rostorer. No Fit after nrstday'suBe Mar
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