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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
TO Fight a Snake.

If any reader of this article should
ever be so unfortunate as to expert
ence the embrace of boa constric-
tor it is recommended that he try to
release himself by taking hold of
the creatures tail and unwinding
it from that end. It can be easily
unwound in that way, but otherwise
it is not possible. The way to kill
a snake is not to attempt to crush
its head, the bones of which are
very hard, but to strike the tail,
where the spinal cord is but thinly
covered by bone and suffers readily
from injury. It is the same with an
eel. Hit the tail two or three times
against any hard substance and it
quickly dies.
The boas are not venomous, but
their fangs are sufficiently powerful
to infict serious wounds, and large
specimens have been known to
swallow men whole. The case is
related by the traveller Gironiere of
a criminal in the Philippine islands
who hid from justice in a cavern.
His father, who alone knew of his
hiding-place, went sometimes to see
him and take him rice for food.
One day he found instead of his son
an enormous boa asleep. He killed
it and found his sons body in the
snakes stomach. Serpents some
times swallow prey 80 much too big
for their digestion that they actually
burst from repletion. An instance is
recorded of boa constructor which
swallowed goat, the horns of which
pierced the belly of the monster
and killed him.-Washington Star.
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A Mans Inconsistencies.

{ A man will wade through two feet
of snow to go to a dog fight, but six
inches of the stuff will keep him
away from church.
A man will get up at 4 o'clock in
the morning to 60 fishing, but will
calmly allow his better half to build
the fire before he does 30.
A man will spend half a day
reading the latest French novel, but
let his wife request him to read a
chapter from the Bible. to the chill
dren and Immediately his eyes be-
come unfit for use.
A man will tramp the hills and
wales from daybreak to sundown in
search of the willy rabbit and con-
slider it exhilarating exercise, but
he will kick like q new shotgun
when his wife asks him to take the
baby out walking on Sunday after
noon.-New York World.
Chamois skins are not derived
from the chamois, as many people
suppose, but are the flesh side Of
sheep skins. The skins are soaked
in lime water and in solution Of
sulphuric acid; fish oil is poured
over them and they are carefully
washed in solution of potash.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Still Had Confidence.

"Look here, Matilda" said lady
to the colored cook, "you sleep
right close to the chicken house, and
you must have heard those thieves
stealing the chickens last night"
"Yes, ma'am, / heered de chick
ems holler and heered de voices of
de men,"
"Why didn't you 60 out, then ;
or why didn't you wake US up7"
cease, ma'am bursting into
tears), case, ma'am, / knows my old
fadder was out dar, and l wouldnt
hab him know rs lost confidence
in him for all de chickens in de
world. IF had gone out dar and
cotched him, it would hab broke his
old heart, and he would hab made
me tote de chickens home foah him !;
besides he done tole me de day be-
fore dat he's gwine to pull de chick
ems last night. ."-Texas 8iftings.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

The KEYsroNE il the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River, Sawtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and, located
as 1t is in the very heart of the most prom
ising mining country OH the face of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis Of all
mining news and developments, as well ~
matters of local importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe for it, read
it. and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Mrs. Canby's Sense of Honor.

I have Just received a check of
$400 from Portland, Or, concerning
which there is an interesting story"
said a prominent citizen of that
Western city at the Shoreham last
evening.
"In May, 1873, it will be remem-
bered that Captain Jack, the Modoc
chief, slew Captain E. R. G. Candy
in Southern Oregon. Mrs. Candy
was left in rather straitened circum-
stances, and q number of citizens
of Portland raised fund for her
amounting to IS, 400, which was
accepted for her by General John
P. Hawkins, her brother. About
year ago Mrs. Candy died, leaving =
will, one clause of which was quoted
in the letter accompanying my
check as follows:
"'Five thousand dollars, the gift
of my Portland friends, l ask them
to take back and use it in charities.
or as they may think best. Many
blessing have gone to them for
their generosity
"The $4OO received by me was the
amount of my subscription, given
without the remotest idea or wish of
its being returned, yet after lapse
of over eighteen years it is repaid,
and 80 have been the sums sub
scribed by all the rest. Mrs. Candy
was one of the kindest- hearted
women I ever met, and her sugges-
ton about devoting the money re-
turned by her to charity will be
faithfully carried ont. Washing
ton Post.
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McQarrahan the Claimant.

| saw clean-cut, well-dressed
Irishman of sixty talking to Sena-
tor Teller yesterday, writes F. G.
Carpenter in the Philadelphia In
quirer. He had pleasant blue eyes,
smoothly shaven face, and he
chatted earnestly, using kind of
brogue. 1t was Billy McGarrahan,
who, for the last thirty-four years,
has been pushing his claim before
Congress, and who is no nearer its
settlement now than when he left
his business in California and came
here to get what he thought was
right. He told me yesterday that
his fight with the Government was
the worst and the most desperate
fight that man ever made. Said he !:
"If l were a young man again all
the money in the Treasury could
not tempt me to try to get claim
through these Houses of Congress.
was twenty-five years old when l
bought the land on which the New
Indria quicksilver mines are located.
I was worth $25O,OOO and I was
making $3,0 900 month at my busi-
ness in San Francisco. Well, one
day friend of mine asked me to
buy a Mexican grant and said l
could get q lot of land for 81 100.
Eleven hundred dollars was no
more to me than half a dollar is
now, and I took the thing for a flyer.
I thought the title was good and all
l ask of Congress is that they will
give me a chance to have their own
courts pass upon it, but they won't
do it. / have wasted whole life.
time in trying to get my rights and
/ came within an ace of it last year,
but the old Congress has gone away
and now have got to begin all
over again."
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NOTICE
Of Application for a Permit to Cut
Timber Upon the Public Mineral
Lands--- Unsurveyed.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed will, in compliance with the ACT
Of Congress approved March 3, 1891. apply
to the Honorable Secretary OF the Interior
Of the United States for a permit to cut
timber upon a tract OF public mineral land
situated about six miles, in westerly
course, from the town of Ketchum. Alturas
county, Idaho, IL miles from sawm!ll: on
the left-hand fork of what is known as Dry
gulch, commencing at stake marked No:
| at point about 80 rods from mouth OF
said Dry gulch, in westerly course from
stake; thence in southwesterly course
252 rods to a stake marked No. 2; thence
in course about 20 degrees south OF east
erly course 200 rods to summit OF noun
tain to stake marked S. E.; thence east OF
north about 20 degrees, distance OF 2o2
rods; thence 20 degrees north OF west to
point of commencement, a distance OF Z53
rods. Also, to cut timber on creek about
two miles from sawmill, in westerly
course. estimated amount of timber to be
about SOC, 600 feet, and no more.
A. ADAMS.
ketchum, August 7, 1891.
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The Character Of Aaron Burr.

= Aaron Burr was an amDlClOOS
man, specious, scheming, unscru-
pulous. His tastes were military,
and he had only entered upon the
law when the condition of the coun-
try had removed all chances for
advancement in the camp. He had
carried with him from the field q
soldiers weakened moral convic-
tions, and his contact with profess
sional practice had no tendency to
strengthen them. The active tenn
permanent of his father predominant
ed over the reflective faculties inher-
tied through his mother. He was
strong in his passions, and, missing
the control of religious principle,
was not restrained from licentious-
ness by the honor of the Chester
fieldian gentleman, which he made
his guiding star. He was patient,
tasteful, painstaking, courageous.
There was no fatigue in his perse-
verance. He was calculating, crit
ical, censorious; but his criticisms
upon men and measures were rarely
large and fair, and his hesitancy to
approve of the opinions and meth
DDS of his contemporaries was apt
to be expressed with bitterness.
While the muscles of his face
were trained never to betray his
feelings, he was morbidly sensitive
aud revengeful. His energies were
whipped to their highest efforts to
show that "little Burr" was the
equal and superior of men of larger
size and pretensions. His range o1
knowledge was extensive and his
insight keen. Socially he was a
gentleman, with polished, courtly
manners. His moral nature was
dwarfed and he excluded everything
of spiritual character from his
consideration. He was an eminent
practical lawyer, able to serve bis
client with the laws delays, donb-
lings and shiftings. He delighted
to be seen through mist, and took
trouble to gather mystery about his
person, his plans and his opinions,
lie was really neither better MOI
worse than the class to which be
belonged; and rs politician, in
one Of the stormiest periods through
which the country has passed, ht
had most of the traits, not even ex,
aggerated, which mark the smooth
adroit manipulating manager of !
party, such as the State Of New Yor1
has seen rs conspicuously - il
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
The American Girl.

We have searched Europe in vain
for her equal. Rocked in the cradle
of Liberty, no royalty or rank ever
awes her, hence, when she approach
es the royal circle in any part of
Europe her freedom in manner and
speech is at once an attraction to
royalty. When she enters their
circle, she receives marked atten-
ton; has, if l may so speak, the
homage of kings, certainly the ad-
miration of at least one prince"
"Of purity that defies the cor
ruption Of. a foreign court, always
self-possessed, holding herself we'll
in hand, willingly submitting to
mans pursuit, but never taken un-
til, in honorable warfare, she capit-
ulates and yields to the inevitable,
and accepts the name of wife. Her
wonderful power of adapting her
self to all climes and circumstances
renders her the best spouse man
can secure.
"Women are certainly, in a way,
put into this world to play Mother
Eve and tempt man. This my
countrywomen can do to perfection.
"At this game of temptation she
is matchless. Take her from wild
Western woods, put her in the old
est, most cultivated and refined so.
siety we have, dropping down into
it, as it were, almost from the
clouds, she at once gets footing
and with a marvellous power of self.
dependence and assertion, takes
and holds position.
"'Only give her chance as
mothers have said to me, and leave
all the rest to my daughter and
with wonder have seen such a lit
tie provincial production with one
bold bound, may say, spring right
into society's center circle, take \
by a coup de main, captivate botf
men and women and get SO high uI
| in the social scale that she woult
begin to look down upon me al
travelling too slowly to keep up Will
her rapid gait. New York World
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Bits Of Information.

The City of Mexico has 329, ,525
inhabitants.
Eeach discharge of a 110-ton gun
costs $1,000.
There are nearly 10000 steam
ships in the world.
The death rate among convicts is
only eight per 1000.
The tusks of an ordinary elephant
weighs about 12O pounds.
Thirty-three words a minute is
considered rapid writing.
Figures boom out the statement
that the majority of births and
deaths occur at night.
Sugar made from coal is 800 times
sweeter than ordinary cane sugar,
but it costs $40 pound.
Naturalists have enumerated 657
different species of reptiles. Of this
number 400 are harmless as rabbits.
Black ironwood, which grows only
in Florida, is the heaviest wood. 1t
is more than 30 per cent heavier
than water.
There are in America 119, ,0OO, 900
of the big old copper pennies lying
unused somewhere. Few pennies
get back to the Mint.
The Capitol in Albany is $50 feet
long, 800 feet wide, 800 feet high
and covers two and three-quarter
acres. 1t has cost about $19, 900, 900,
and isn't finished yet.
There are only three places in the
world where women possess all the
privileges of voting which are ac-
corded to men, viz: Iceland, Pit
cairn Islands and the Isle of Man.
There are sixteen species of trees
in the United States, out of the
whole number of 313 which grow
within the limits of our resourceful
country, that, when perfectly sea-
soned, will sink in water.
The official record of the late Jap
anese earthquake shows 7 ,566 killed
and 1O,121 wounded, while 89,629
houses were destroyed totally, and
2S,626 partially destroyed, being
rendered unfit for habitation.
The highest building in the world
has just been completed on the Sig
nal Peak of Monte Rosa. An Alpine
club and Queen Margaret of Italy
contributed the money for this hut,
which boasts of an altitude of nearly
$1,000 feet. Tits supplied with cop
per roof to protect it from lightning.
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of the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.
Z, IDAHO, SATURDAY. JANUARY Is, 1892.

I won't be long behind him." said
the old lady, with a sob, ''for yes.
terday the bug read prepare and
to-day it read 'soon.' And I'll thank
God for takin' me to Bill as soon
as he Wills. ."-Woonsocket R. /.
Correspondence P Philadelphia Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

To mend cracks in stoves and
stove pipes, make 3 paste Of ashes
and salt, with water, and apply. A
harder and more durable cement il
made Of iron filings, sal ammoniae
and water.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
Nav & 1891

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
May 5, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
hon to make final proof in support OF ms his
claim, and that said proof will be made be-
lore the Register and Receiver at HALEY
Idaho, on June 10. 1891, viz: Abilah
Adams, for the SW u Sec. IL and w "a n"
Sec. IA, TIP. NJ. K. II f.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of. said land, viz: II. N: Stew
art, John Monks, Frank Mats, Of ketch-
qqm; ldahoi Louis Bourgeois, OF HALEY,
w. T. RILEY, Register.
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Royal Baking Powder
Has no Equal.

The Royal Baking Powder will make sweeter lighter
wholesome bread biscuit and cake than other eavene
agent higher strength and therefore goes further in work anc
e economical All government and scientific tests 60 to show
this Royal Baking Powder eavenng agent absolutely whou
An equal
RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO.
"As the result Of my tests find the Royal
Baking Powder superior to all the others in every
respect 1t is entirely free from all adulteration
and unwholesome impurity, and in baking it
gives off greater volume Of leavening gas than
any other powder It IS therefore not only the
purest but also the strongest powder with which
am acquainted
"WALrER S. HAINEs, M. d." Rgt ef Chemistry.
CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
"The Royal Baking Powder, which tests the highest
in strength is free from lime, alum, lime phosphates or
other authorizations Its superiatve purity The entire
wolesomeness of its ingredients. the scientific manner
in which they combined, together with its much
greater strength make the Royal unquestionaby snpe-
rior to any other baking powder
III D GARRISON" Rgf g c8A~isdr
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MANY PEOPLE IN CHINA.
The Country Has Great Popula-
tfon but . Small Debt.

MOI many years akO tA0 POPuA0~
ton of China was estimated at tabout
500, 100000 souls. This was re-
duced ten years ago to 4O5, ,OOO. 600.
More recent and thorough investi-
CATION, the result of which has just
been published by the famous Ger
man statisticians, Supan and Wag-
ner, places the number at $50, O,OOO,-
600. AS these figures have been
arrived at after an immense amount
of labor and care it is hardly likely
they will be changed in any great
degree by future estimates.
AS will be observed, the last re-
duces the figures 100000, or
nearly two and half times the
population of the United States.
Truly a tremendous difference, but
has the reader ever stopped to con-
slider the immensity of the figures
remaining. Idly sounding them on
the tongue gives one no real idea of
what is comprised in a number
reaching nine figures, especially
when that number represents hu-
man beings. Three hundred and
fifty million is within 100000 of
the population of entire Europe.
If China organized its army on q
basis comparative with those of Eu-
ropean governments and went to
war it would require a combination
embracing every country on the
European continent to resist the
intruder. The wonderful army of
the Xerxes would be as nothing in
comparison with the Monaghan
horde.
Another way to take the total
population and compare it with any
thing else of magnitude that can be
reduced to simple figures. For in.
stance, if you stood every Chinese
individual on his feet and side by
side, allowing eighteen inches for
each one, you would have a con-
tinuous line of 80, ,432 miles long, OF
very nearly four times around the
earth. Stand them on top of each
other, feet on head, and allowing ar
average stature of five feet six inches
to each individual, you would have
string of Cinnamon that woulc
reach to the moon, around it, anc
half way back to the earth on tht
other side. If each person in China
consumes an average of five pounds
of food daily it would require 319,'
375,OOO tons to feed the people :
year.
There is only one small thing
about the Chinese nation, and thai
is it's national debt. That amounts
to only $38, 100000. It strikes me
as being greatly to the credit of
people who could free themselves
entirely from obligation by the as
sessment of II cents per capita. In
our own country, with all its great
ness, about $24 80 would be re-
quired from every man, woman and
child to square our account COM
pletely.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Burr's case more than once-men of
the same type who have risen to be
candidates for Senator's places, for
Governorships, and for even higher
positions.-Harper's Magazine.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

DR.. Heller Of Vienna has made q
discovery worthy of his name. It is
that sauerkraut will cure dyspepsia.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep enough fowls to buy tho
groceries.
A yearling grapevine is best for set
ting, as a rule.
A good hen will lay twice her weight
in eggs a year.
Corn and cornmeal are the best fatten-
ing foods for fowls.
Barley aud wheat fel alternately make
a good eggg-produclng ration.
When grain is fed to poultry throw on
a litter and partly cover it up.
Close to large cities broilers bring in
more money than anything else.
On the farm, at least. the medium
sized poultry breeds are the best.
A cooked mixture Of the table scraps
make d good morning ration for thu
fowls.
Popular gardening eommends for low
spots the common elder as a summer
bloomer.
Geese are not only valuable as meat
producers but should annually produce
d pound Of feathers each.
Too much salt or salty food at one
time often proves injurious to poultry;
q small quantity Is beneficial.
Meteor, the new hybrid tea rose, has
the dark crimson color of the Jacqus-
minot. The flower is fragrant and
promises to become popular.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-23
Providers of Free Lunches.

The free lunches of upward OF 800
saloons in New York are furnished BY
one concern. A lunch of ham sand
witches, herrings, baked beans and crack
ers and cheese is furnished at 81 per day.
The price ranges all the way up to $50.
4 $50 lunch comprises a big tureen of
soup, cold lamb, roast beef and corned
beef, four or five big baked pike, chicken,
clam, oyster, sardine or Brie cheese
sandwiches, varied daily; lobster and
chicken salad, and olives, pickles, lettuce,
etc. Everything is Of the best. It takes
ten cooks the better part of the night to
get the lunches ready for fifteen wagons
to distribute early in the morning. The
solids are placed in baskets and the
liquids in earthen jars. When the
lunch is delivered at a saloon the at
tendant hands back what is left of the
previous days delivery. That is part of
the contract. The sscold pieces are
sold to keepers of cheap boarding,
houses. The average price paid daily
by the customers of this firm is SIS. It
pays Doeh VIC CATERERS HUI tHo Salo0H-
keepers. A tirst-class saloon cannot be
run now without an appetizing and we'll
served free lunch. An elegant establish
inent not far from where / live never
made any money until a few months ago,
when a couple Of eaterprising young fell
lows took hold Of it and set out a free
luncn fit TO. an epicure. Business pickec
up with d rush aud the, new proprietors
arc getting rich fast.-NeD Orleans Pic
Gguae.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-23
A Curious Italian Custom.

TAT the far end of Naples" says the
Catholic Union and Times, Giles the
Church of Santa Maria Auntiata, which
once a year, on the day of Our Lady,
wakes up into a brief life and excite
ment. In a silent row, before the high
altar, kneel thirty girls, all in black gar
ments, with folded lands, and eyes fixed
on the picture Of the Madonna before
them. These are orphans from the ueigh-
boring orphan asylum; and one a year
all those who have reached the age Of
eighteen are brought here to the church,
and may be chosen in marriage by any
honest man whose papers are in ordsr
and whose character is good. At the
door leading to the sacristy leans q grey
headed priest, the head of the asylum.
By and by a mar makes his way from
the back of the church and hands him a
little packet of papers. These the priest
reads carefully, and being evidently sat-
isfcd, he gives back the papers, and leads
the candidate toward the row of girls.
All eyes are fixed more steadfastl7 than
ever on the altar, all their hands are
clasped tighter together, their faces turn
a shade paler, their hearts beat quicker
as the young mar walks slowly along the
row. At last he stops. His choice is
made. He stretches out his hand with
q little smile. The girl rises, puts her
hand into that of the stranger. and to.
gether they disappear into. the sacristy.
The ice being this broken other suitoTs
come forward