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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Deaths in Hotels.

Even an ordinary death in a ho
tel causes a landlord great distress
while a suicide almost drives him
frantic. "Do you know" said q
hotel clerk, what consequences
follow a suicide? In the first place
the event is telegraphed all over the
land, and every travelling man sees
it. Nothing on earth would ever
induce one of the travelling frater-
nifty to lodge in that particularroom.
So the first thing to be done is to
get rid of the old number OF that
guest chamber. The number is dis
posed of, never to return, and a new
number is placed on the door. The
surroundings must be entirely
changed. New paper must be put
upon the wall, new carpet upon the
floor, new furniture, new bedding,
and then the domestics are instruct
ed never to mention the circum-
stance of the death to any guest.
A suicide always occasions an ex-
pense of several hundred dollars
to the hotel proprietor, and annoy
ing questions are asked of landlord
and clerks for months afterward. =
Indianapolis Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Foul Tide of Modern immigration

So broad and straight now is the
channel by which immigration is be-
ing conducted to these shores. that
there is no reason why every stag
nant pool of European population,
representing the interest failures of
civilization, the worst defeats in
the struggle for existence, the low
est degradation of human nature,
should not be completely drained
off into the United States. So long
as any difference of economic con-
ditions remains in our favor, SO long
as the least reason appears for the
miserable, the broken, the corrupt,
the abject, to think that they might
be better off here than there, if not
in the workshop, then in the work
house, these Huns, and Poles, and
Bohemians, and Russian Jews, and
South Italians will continue to
come, and to come by millions.
For one, I believe that the United
States have, by whole century of
unrestricted hospitality, and especi-
ally by taking in five and quarter
millions Of foreigners during the
past ten years, fully earned the right
to say to all the world, "Give us a
rest."-F. A. Walker in Forum.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Some Old Georgia Superstitions.

Hereis a contribution in the shape
of folk lore gossip as heard among
the Georgia crackers. 1t is survival
of the old English superstitions: .
When it is ebb tide the slits in a
cats eyes are horizontal; when it
is flood tide they are vertical Kill
a frog and it will rain hard for three
days. If cock walks in at the
door, turns around and crows, he
announces a death in the family.
Potatoes will not thrive unless they
are planted in the dark of the moon,
and child born at the full of the
moon will be a boy.
If you open an umbrella in a
house the only person present will
die, and the same thing will happen
if you hang coat or hat on door
knob or door bell. 1t is not wise
to set hen during a certain part of
August, because the life ofthe world
is at it's lowest then. If two persons
going hand in hand meet an obsta.
Gle which divides them the one on
the left will go to hell and the one
on the right to heaven.
If you drop pair Of scissors and
one point sticks in the floor visitor
will come from the direction toward
which the other leg is extended. A
child that has never seen its father
can cure whooping cough BY blow
ing down the patients throat. To
get rid of freckles count them and
put an equal number of pebbles
into a paper. Whoever steps on
the paper will get the freckles.-At'
lanta Constitution.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Decrease in Our Native Birth-Rate.

Now, it is to be freely admitted
that between 1850 and 1870 the rate
of increase in the existing pop
ulation of this country fell sharply
off; and that between 1870 and
1890 that decline has gone OH at an
accelerated ratio. From the first
appearance of foreigners in large
numbers in the United States the
rate of increase among them has
been greater than among those
whom they found here; and this
proportion has tended continually,
ever since, to increase. But has this
result been due to a decline in phys
ical vitality and reproductive vigor
in that part of the population which
we call, by comparison, American,
or has it been due to other causes,
perhaps to the appearance of the
foreigners themselves? This is a
question which requires us to go
back to the beginning of the nation.
The population of 1890 may be con-
sidered to have been, in high sense,
American. For forty years
the increase, substantially all out of
the loins of the four millions of our
own people living in 1890, amounted
to almost nine millions, or 227 per
cent. Such a rate of increase was
never known before or since among
any considerable population, over
any extensive region. But
as the foreigners began to come in
larger numbers, the native popula-
ton more and more withheld their
increase. Surely, if this
correspondence between the in
crease of the foreign element and
the relative decline Of the native
element is a mere coincidence, it is
one of the most astonishing in hu-
man history.-Francis A. Walker
in August Forum.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22

ing in, noticed that the office was
empty. l stepped hurriedly inside,
closed the door, and, not thinking
of the window, pulled the stocking
taut and fastened it securely. When
| had finished I happened to look
over my shoulder, and there, to my
horror, across the area were three
good-for-nothing, low-down, impu-
dent clerks hanging out of their
window and laughing like so many
gibbering idiots. l could have
killed them.
Its all right for you men," con-
tinued the fair victim of the woes
of her sex's attire. IF button
breaks, or anything happens to
your clothes, you've always a saloon
door handy, into which you can
dive for repairs and subsequent
consolation. ."-Chicago Times.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Base Deception.

A good story is told of two Irish
men who enlisted as volunteers in
the late civil war, they had mutually
agreed to care for each other IN case
either should be wounded in action,
and during the first engagement
one of them, Pat, was struck in the
knee by bullet, he called to his
comrade Mike, and says: "Mike,
take me to the rear, | am wounded
in the knee" SO Mike put Pat on
his shoulder and started to the rear,
and when on the way cannon ball
took the head entirely off Of Pat, of
course unknown to Mike; an officer
saw the private carrying the head
less trunk and says: sPut that
down aud 60 to the 'front.'" i will
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Marriage Made Easy.

Marriage is now made delightful
ly easy and informal in New York
city. An enterprising legal firm has
opened a shop where you go and
sign blank after answering a few
printed question and are informed
that you are married by civil con-
tract. The same firm also procures
divorces at a moderate cost and
with great celerity. In the way of
undoing their own work it ought to
be ''dead easy" Just scratch the
name off the book and tear up the
contract and there you are, as single
as ever.-N. Y. World.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
DepeW's Brain Rest.

Chauncey Depew, who is off on a
trip to Europe for rest, thinks it
absolutely necessary that all brain
workers have q vacation every year.
In an interview just before sailing,
he said: 81 have discovered that
there is a popularity about brain
workers which demonstrates diff
ference between the brain and the
muscular system. At the end of
ten months a conscientious BRAIN
worker who has pushed his mind
to the full extent it can go, and has
trenched also somewhat upon sleep,
and largely upon rest, recreation
and exercise, will discover that
there is an unaccustomed friction
in the head-piece; that easy things
are done with difficulty, and while
his Judgment is as good as ever, he
has not the same confidence, nor is
he satisfied with what he does. If
he takes complete change of scene,
occupation, atmosphere and envl.
ronment, when he returns he will
discover, to his surprise, that mat
ters which he worried about a day,
and lay awake about over night,
are turned out in an hour to his
own satisfaction and that of every
BODY interested. His capacity for
smoothly and good-naturedly &C.
complishing any task that he sets
for himself is practically unlimited.
That has been my experience tor
ten years, and, in fact, the expert
ence of hundreds of others whom
| have known intimately. A man
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
The Age of Man.

When was man first placed on
earth? No one can answer that
question. Hugh Miller says that
mans habit of burying his dead out
of sight makes it very easy to be
mistaken on that point; for, because
of burial, mems bones may be found
among the animals that have lain
in the earth for ages. There is one
thing, however, that gives US an
inkling of when he came. Certain
tools, that only man could have
made, have been found buried in
caves, in peat beds and in the bot
tom of lakes. Often these are COW
cred by layers of rock, and by
calculating how long it took to
make the layers, a guess can be
made as to when the tools were put
there. Still it is only guess, and
no one pretends to regard that ques-
ton as settled, because under some
conditions the layers would be made
much faster than under others but
the bones of certain animals, the
mammoth and other great creatures
of that time, which have long since
died, have been found with these
tools. By calculating in what ages
these animals lived, and how long
it takes a race of animals to die
out, surer result can be arrived
at. In cave in England, buried
under limestone layer from / to
Is inches thick, tools have been
found mingled with the bones of
elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses and
hyenas, which roamed over that
country thousands and thousands
of years ago. The peat bogs of
what is now Denmark and Scanda-
navia are filled with stone tools.
Some have been found in beds of
gravel, underlying peat which is
certainly 1000 years old. This
seems to show that man must have
dwelt on earth at least as many
years ago.-St. Nicholas.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
A Girl and Her Garter.

Excuse me a moment" said {
very bright and pretty young woman
the other afternoon during a stroll
along State street, and she vanished
forthwith into the door of a ladies
hair-dressing establishment. She
was out again in a moment, howev'
er, and natural curiosity prompted
the inquiry
What did you rush in there sc
suddenly for?"
swell, if you must ask, l went in
to pull up my stocking. 1t came
unfastened."
"Usual occurrence?"
mot very frequent, but it will
happen sometimes, and it is a most
embarrassing, not to say uncom-
Portable, plight for a girl to be in
when she is in the street. There
are so few places, you see, where
she can go and be secure from the
prying eyes of men. It's wonder
my accident happened right where
it did, for l should have been mis-
erable company for you till l could
have repaired the damage, and
should have hated you and every
man in sight most acutely all the
time.
ats all right to say one might
step into a stairway entrance or
something. Some man would come
upon you as sure as you did. Why, |
had the awfulest time one day down
in the Rookery building imaginable.
I'd been up to an office full OF men
on some business, and just as l
came out into the hall my garter
fastening slipped and there | was.
Silk hose have tendency to con-
tract about as great as a rubber
band. Well, l sauntered around
the floor for quarter of and hour
looking for some secluded nook,
but every time I'd spy a prospect
i've place door would open and
some spying man pop out.
II was getting desperate when |
saw door slightly ajar, and, glanc-
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Just on the Verge.

Among the passengers in the train
from Chicago was an elderly lady
and her pretty young niece. also a
young gentleman. The train had
passed through several tunnels
when the maiden aunt said:
my dear, we are coming to a
long tunnel; you had better sit over
on this side"
Pretty Niece-'No, auntie, just
let me stop where am. One more
tunnel and | am engaged"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
A Nunnery.

Not little excitement occurred
last year on the reported discovery
in Naples of some nuns Immersed
in a convent entirely walled up, SC
that no communication with the
outside world was possible. These
Sebolte vive, or buried alive, as they
were entitled, were said to be hor.
ribly destitute. At the vigorous in
stigation of the public authorities
the Pope commanded the nuns to
leave their hermit-like prison and
to repair to whatever convent they
preferred. This order was obeyed
on the 30th of April at six in the
morning. The place was afterward
described as consisting Of two sto-
ries and a corridor on which there
were seven cells.
The nuns used to remain in these
cells for the whole day, every day
in the week, for silent prayer. They
held no communication with any
one, save in urgent cases when they
were allowed to ring bell, when
one of the sisters came from the ad-
joining convent, and communica-
tion was held with her through
small window. A mason who had
to be admitted to execute some in
dispensable work declared that the
nuns never spoke to one another,
and seemed to be buried in sadness.
There were short written phrases
on the walls of some of the cells,
but the writing seemed to be centu-
RES old -NeM York Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Bits of InfOrm0rlon.

Crabs chew their food with their
legs.
The Sandwich Islanders alphabet
has only twelve letters.
You cannot count trillion. It
would take over 5000 years.
A picture of Jackson is on the
$4,000 note. You may never see it.
Quoddy Head, Maine, is the most
eastern point in the United States.
One-horse power is the ability to
lift 80, 900 pounds one foot minute.
Maine, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Iowa and Kansas are Prohi-
bition States.
More than 40 per cent of the white
inmates of our alms-houses are of
foreign birth.
Some elephants can draw fifteen
tons, lift ten cwt., and carry on their
back three tons.
The Mississippi, Joined with the
Missouri, 4,30O miles, is the longest
river. The Amazon is $500 miles
in length.
A flea can jump over barrier 500
times his own height. At that rate
a man could jump over a wall nearly
a mile high.
In China they naturally take to
water. There are more ducks in
the Chinese Empire than in all the
world outside of it.
In the nine seasons since the Vel
lowstone Park was opened nearly
100, 900 tourists have visited it, and
there has not been any loss of life.
A new substitute for ivory has
been invented by Norwegian; it
is called lactite and is made from
skinned milk. 1t will take any
coloring.
Straight streets are unknown in
China. They are purposely made
crooked to confuse Satan, as the
Chinese believe the devil travels in
a straight line.
The tomato may be traced back to
the Sixteenth century, and although
it is mentioned since then by sew
eral writer's, it did not become q
marketable edible till 1929.
With one or two trihing excep-
tions, the submarine. cables of the
world, which stretch over 10000
nautical miles, and have cost $780,
100000, are of British construction.
Crime is more common in single
life than in married; in the former
33 in every 100000 are guilty, while
only II married men, Of the same
number, have gravely broken the
laws.
Two gum trees, which tower over
100 feet above little church in
Guatemala, are sixty feet in circum-
ference, and their strong roots have
pushed the foundation of the church
out of place.
The various forms of leave-taking
have more special significance
than is generally awarded to them.
'Adieu" signifies "To God l CON-
mend you" "Good-by" is a con-
traction of f"God be with you," while
i Farewell means "Be happy" or
more literally, MAY you journey
uall ~
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Are Men CowardsP

! Ministers declare that in min
cases ont of ten brides are NOR
self-possessed than are bridegroom
when the marriage ceremony is be
ing performed.
A shy, modest-looking little crea
ture robed in white will stand per
fectly erect, looking the ministe
calmly and squarely in the eye with
out for an instant losing her self
poise, while the big, blunt six-footel
of bridegroom by her side is pale
and nervous and trembling. His
fingers are likely to twitch nervous
ly, and he may even hitch at hi:
trousers legs or twist a corner o.
his coat skirt.
/ was once "best man" to a stal,
wart, middle-sged bridegroom, no.
ted for his courage and feats OF
daring, and when the time came
for US to go down stairs to meet the
bride and her attendants he nearly
had fit, and he looked like a walk
ing corpse all through the cere-
mony. l had to keep saying "Brace
up, old boy" and come, come,
you've got to go down." to get him
started, and at the door he was
idiotic enough to clutch at me and
say:
Say, Fred, how would it do to
have Mary and the preacher slip in
here and have it all over with be-
fore we 60 down at all? / can't GO
through it before all that crowd"
Idiot" l said, pointedly enough
to leave no doubt as to my mean
ing, "Mary won't come in here, and
you will go down this instant"
He got through at last without
doing or saying anything ridiculous,
in which respect he was luckier
than another stalwart bridegroom
of my acquaintance, who was so
dazed and overcome that he held
out one of his own fingers for the
ring when the minister said: "With
this ring l thee we'd"
Another bridegroom l know lost
his head to such a degree that when
it came time for him to say: II,
Horace, take thee Annie to be my
lawful welded wife," he said in an
unnaturally loud tone: II, Annie,
take thee, Horace, to be my lawful
wedding wife," and when the time
came for him to introduce his bride
to some of his friends who had not
yet seen her, he did it by saying
awkwardly: "Ah, er-Miss Carter,
this is my wife, Miss Barton" call
ing her by her maiden name.
Few men say "my wife" easily
and naturally the first time they
use the words in public.
A funny case was that of a badly
ratified bridegroom who stared
blankly at the minister until asked
if he, took "this woman to be his law
full welded wife," when he started
and said in the blandest manner:
'Beg pardon; were you speaking
to me?"
A village preacher said that he
once married rural couple at the
home of the brides parents in the
presence of a large company of in
vited guests. The bridegroom was
a big, bony, red-faced young fellow,
who looked as though he could
have felled an OK with his fist, but
he shivered and turned pale at the
of the ceremony, and at
is close fell down in a dead faint,
% the manifest annoyance of his
pride, who had been as cool as a
ucumber.-Philadelphia Call.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22

In mineral products this country
takes first rank. The census shows
the products of last year amounted
to 1856, ,99S, ,45O, the greatest show
ing ever reported by any country.
The industry gave employment to
512,114 persons, the annual wages
amounting to $l12, ,409, 800, the cap
ital invested representing . total Of
$1,173,O00,0W.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
The Great White Gear,

|
fresh light on the barbarous regime
now prevailing in the Cars domin
ions, was witnessed a day or two
ago at the Northern Railway Station
in Vienna. In the corner of the
waiting room stood group of three
a venerable old man with white
flowing beard, pale-faced girl, and
a youth. The old man was weep.
ing bitterly, and presently his sobs
attracted the attention of the by.
ISLANDERS, who inquired the cause OF
his grief. He made no reply, but
held up letter, exclaiming as he
did so, "Poor wife poor child p
The letter had just been handed to
him by the young man who had
met him at the station. As soon
as he had recovered his composure
the following tale was elected from
him:
He was a Russian Jew, named
Tobias Monkler, and had been ex-
lied like so many thousands of his
co-religionists. The letter apprised
him of the death of his wife and
the dangerous illness of his daugh-
ter. For more than forty years he
had kept dairy at Velikoje Selo,
in the district Of Kieff. His saw
ings amounted to several thousand
roubles. About three weeks ago he
and twenty other inhabitants Of the
same locality received orders to
quit the district within twenty-four
hours. The Natchalnik Cor Burgo-
master) was responsible for their
expulsion, and carried out his in
structions with the utmost rigor.
Monkler obtained brief respite to
make some urgent preparations, but
his invalid wife and his daughter
were compelled to depart at once.
They went to Calais, where they
had relatives, and they were to wait
until the head of the family and
his second daughter-the one who
accompanied him to Vienna-should
join them. Monkler gave his wife
all his funds, and wound up his
affairs at Velikoje Selo as speedily
as he could. On the evening of
Saturday, the 9th ult, he had just
finished his prayers, and was light
ing small oil lamp to commem-
crate the anniversary Of his moth
er's death, when the Burgomaster
and two gendarmes entered his
house, ordering him to decamp
forthwith. He entreated them to
let him finish lighting the oil lamp.
"Out with you, jew" was the an
swer, "you have taken advantage
of our kindness and have remained
too long already" Monkler begged
for an hour longer, to get a few
things together before starting, but
they threatened to put him in chains
if he delayed a moment. There
upon he woke up his daughter and
left the house with her.
Hecame to Vienna, where friend !
met him at the station and brought |
him the letter containing news Of
his wife's death, which occurred
two hours after her arrival at Calais.
At the close of his narrative the old
man sorrowfully observed: "Now
| am alone with my two daughters.
What will become of them? He
was asked if he had no son. eyes"
he replied, Il have one son, but he
IS in Siberia" The boy, a medical
student, had been condemned to
,en years hard labor for a speech
delivered to some Of his fellow stu
lents London Daily Telegraph.
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J.H. RUNYAN.
PRACTICAL
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Haley, Idaho,
Nav 5, 1891.

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
May S, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
nsned settler has filed notice Of his inten-
,iO Joh 70 make final proof in support OF his
ttiaiin, and that said proof will be made be-
rioi i1le The Register and Receiver at Haley,
.uaho, ,ao, on June 10, 1891. viz: Abiiah
ADAMS ADAMS lfor the SW 4 Sec. IL and w u NV
Sec a. TIP. 4 N, K. II E.
ne ne names the following witnesses to
frIse fr, ms continuous residence upon, and
sFt' John Monks, Frank Mats, of Ketch.
Idaho. 'A'' Do'n s'oi'' "a
w. T. RILEY, Register.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22

not" says Mike; 81 promised my
friend l would care for him, and I
intend to kape my word good ;" the
officer says: "Your friends head is
shot away and he doesn't need any
more care;;" thereupon Mike threw
down his load and after looking at it
n moment he said: "Oh the blamed
liar, he said it was his knee that
was wounded"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22

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