The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-18
Bits of Gossip.

Bits of Gossip.
! Mrs. Anna Potter, wife of a prom
inent insurance man, is candidate
for mayor of Kansas City.
At the death of Queen Elizabeth
there were over 5000 dresses in her
wardrobe, and only two of them
were silk.
Mrs. U. S. Grant will make hel
future home in Washington City
She has made an offer to purchase
the Blaine mansion for a residence
Ward McAllister has been SO
shocked with the immodesty Of
clinging draperies, that be halls the
advent of hoops with the greatest
satisfaction.
A Chicago druggist says if he
can secure the privilege of the soda
water business at the Worlds Fair
there will be an immense fortune
in it for him.
Princess Kaiulani was greatly
shocked by an offer she received
last week from a New York theat-
rical manager to play the leading
role in farce comedy.
Nine. Modjeska will deliver an
address in Chicago, May 10Th, be-
fore the Worlds Congress of repre-
sentative women, on the subject !:
"Women on the Stage"
The governor of Minnesota has
offered a reward of $500 for the re-
covery of little 5-year-old Mamie
Schwartz, who was kidnapped while
playing near her home at St. Paul,
last June.
What next? The "crinoline dance
is the latest fad. Miss Maud Har-
rison, crinoline danseuse, with a
hoop five yards wide J, a few grace
full kicks and a smile, commands a
salary of several hundred dollars q
week.
Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde has ap.
peared in the dramatic world with
an adaptation of Dumas "Demi-
monde" Her version is entitled
"The Froth of Society,"" It will
shortly be produced On the New
York boards.
"The delusion Dance" performed
in the eastern states by two Eng
fish girls, who are twin sisters, and
exactly alike, is a wonderful novel
ty. One dances before a supposed
mirror, the other dancing the same
dance opposite to represent the re-
Fiction.
The refusal of the Princess of
Wales to wear crinoline did not
bring the expected society veto
against that voluminous garment.
One of the leading ladies Of fashion
in Washington appeared at a swell
reception a few evenings ago with
the dreaded hoop skirt, and the YER
dict is that she was just too lovely
for anything. We may just as we'll
prepare for the inevitable.
It is probable that Count Ferde-
nand De Lesseps will never live to
suffer the punishment ordered by
the court. His mind is failing, and
be is very feeble physically, and it
is evident that life of marvellous
energy and great usefulness will
soon be at an end. It is perhaps
most sympathetic to hope that
death may come to save him from
tho ignomy Of serving his sentence
in the prison walls.
Miss Julia Force, who murdered
her two sisters, and was adjudged
insane and sent to an asylum,
proves by written statement COW
ering the whole period Of her life,
that she was driven to madness
and murder by the lifelong abuse
and insults of her family. The most
heartless cruelty and neglect is at
tributed to her mother, who also
Influenced her sisters to taunt and
insult her, until she could bear it
no longer, and sought revenge in
moment Of frenzy by numbering
the two sisters, who had for years
made her life torture.
Four Mormon bishops and two
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