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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
King Oscar as a Gambler.

King Oscar of Sweden has not
much of a reputation as a gambler,
but little experience ofhis at AK
la Chapelle not such great many
years ago showed that he would
make a pretty nervy gambler. One
night he entered the big gambling
house of the city incog., and after
watching the play at roulette a
moment carelessly threw silver
coin on the table. Scarcely looking
up the croupier scornfully pushed
the coin away, saying: "This can
not be for the bank it must be in
tended for the servants"
White with rage, King Oscar
cried out: "En banc!' signifying
that he wished to venture an
amount of money equal to the as
sets of the bank at single stroke.
Astounded, the banker tremblingly
asked the name of the man who
proposed to risk a fortune on the
roll of a marble. "Je suis le Roi de
Suede"-I am the King of Sweden
calmly announced the stranger,
and not needing the apologies and
excuse of the banker, demanded
that the play 60 on.
AS luck would have it the red
color on which he had bet won and
the croupier with trembling fingers
gathered up all the bank money,
placed it in a casket and pushed
it toward the King. With single
naughty gesture Oscar flung the
casket from him, scattering its con-
tents all over the room, shouting
ut is for the servants" and hurried
from the room-Milwaukee Wis
consin.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Earned His Liberty.

A supposed criminal was ar
rested the other day by a police
man at Kelheim, in Bavaria, and
was quietly walking along with his
captor beside the Danube when
suddenly he jumped into tho
water. The weather had been severe
and there were great blocks of float
ing ice stretching right across the
stream. Springing from block to
block the prisoner succeeded in
gaining the opposite bank, followed
at a distance by the policeman.
But the policeman was less nimble
and fell into the swiftly running
stream.
Here was a very nice question
in casuistry. Ought the man who
was under arrest to stand by and
see fellow creature, and even a po-
liceman, drowned, or ought he to
risk his own life to save him, with
the prospects of putting the letters
upon himself? To the credit of
human nature, the prisoner did not
hesitate a moment. He plunged
in and brought the policeman safe
ly to dry land. Then it was the
turn of the policeman to be gener-
Gus. He offered to represent the
matter to the proper authorities
with the view of obtaining a life
saving medal for his preserver.
The latter, however, did not see the
matter quite in the same light. He
claimed his liberty and the other
one agreed that he had earned it,
end giving him couple of marks
for himself dismissed him with
blessing. The fugitive has not yet
been Observation-Disclosures Daily
News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Some Little Things are Wonders.

It is not always the things of gi-
gantic proportions that excite the
greatest curiosity. Mastodons, ele-
plants, whales and other creatures
of monstrous size are and have been
wonders indeed I; so, too, are the pyr-
amids, the great cathedrals, towers,
monuments, etc.; the great Corliss
engines, the 16-drive wheel locomo-
tive and other triumphs of mechan-
ical skill. But, while this is true
beyond question, how about the
wonders revealed by the microscope,
and the wonders of the deft-fngered
artist, d. A. Vr. Nicer, who painted
landscape on the side of grain
of wheat? By the use of strong
microscope only could the wonders
of this minute painting be distin-
guished. Yet when a good glass
was brought to bear upon what ap-
peared to be a spot of variegated
paint upon the side of the wheat
grain; all was changed into beau
tiful landscape-a forest, a mill at
the side of a river; a miller climb
ing an outside stairway with sack
of grain upon his back; tall cliff
at the side of the mill, and wind
ing road along which some peasants
are trying to drive refractory pig !
If the inventor and builder of the
great Corliss engine that furnished
power to turn all the machinery at
the Centennial Exposition of 1876
deserves great praise, what shall we
say for the skillful English watch.
maker who exhibits an engine of
1872 distinct pieces (not including
33 bolts and screws which could all
be hidden in lady's MOI thimble |!
In the milt of a Goldfish, or in
water in which decaying vegetables
have been infused, the microscope
discovers animalcul@ ("little ami
mals") so minute that 10000 of
them would not exceed in bulk sim
gle grain of mustard. Yet, strange
to say, these infinitesimal creatures
are supplied with organs as COM
plete and complicated as those of
the whale, the elephant or the mas
todon st T,ouia Renublic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Used q Show Coffin.

The foreigners who work in east
ern Connecticut mills have some
curious burial customs, especially
the Russian Jews who bury with
"show" coffins. Not long ago a
Russian Jew family had funeral
and before the ceremony took place
the head of the house visited To-
cal undertaken, saying: "Have you
a coffin with a movable bottom?"
He spoke in a singular patois and
the undertaken had great difficulty
to comprehend his intention. He
wanted "show" coffin, in which
the body was to be taken to the
cemetery and lowered into the
grave; then the coffin must be
drawn out of the grave, leaving its
bottom lid with the body in the
ground. The coffin was to be re-
turned to the undertaken and the
man pay him for the use of it.
Poor Russians, it appears, are in
the habit of burying their dead in
that way and undertakers in that
country have a supply of "show''
or removable" coffins to let. They
are handsome and costly ones-too
expensive to be purchased outright
by the poor-with elegant lining
and heavy silver trimmings. The
bottom is fastened to the body of
coffin with springs that may be the
tripped and then it is released to-
gether with the body. The body
is left in a plain, cheap box. The
Norwich undertakers had no such
continuance, so the poor Russian
consulted with his friends, who
united with him in having ''show"
coffin constructed and paying for
it. 1t is to be used by them hence
forth as community" coffin.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
A Beauty's Curious History.

"The last Countess of Rumford,
otherwise known as Mrs. Abigail
Buck, is said to have died at West
Paris, Maine, few days ago. A
reporter visited the aged Countess
a fortnight since. reaching by rail
sleigh and snow shoes the remote
farm house where Mrs. Buck had
lived alone for many years, carry
ing on her farm in the fullest sense
by sheer hard work bossing the
bulls, milking the cows, driving the
horses, riding into town seated on a
piece of board tucked over a "fore-
ex," and every way a stout, eccen-
trio and self-reliant person. And
yet she began life petted daughter
of an accomplished woman, who
taught her Latin and Greek and
three modern languages and made
her a musician; and she was SO
beautiful that at sixteen, visiting
Boston, men stood still in the streets
to watch her out of sight. Her
parents when she was twenty op-
posed her marriage to the man she
loved, and after brooding over this
some time she one day informed
them that, while she had given up
her lover, she should now marry
the first man who asked her. A
young farmer, Jabez Buck, who had
long admired Abigail Marshall for
that was her name) heard of her
vow, proposed and was accepted !;
and the couple are said to have led
a happy life-from which one infers
that Jabez was q meek man. The
old woman, who had just died, told
the correspondent that he was one
of natures noblemen, but rather
jealous, and on his deathbed made
her promise never to marry again.
"Since he died." she said II have
had twenty-three offers of marriage
from good men, beside two half
offers. By half-offers mean pro-
posals from men who had wives
living whom they proposed to di-
vorce." The aged Mrs. Buck had
a great quantity of valuable gowns,
stuffs, laces, paintings, ETC., and the
correspondent heard of two sets of
table service-one solid silver the
other solid gold-beside many jew
els, in a safe-deposit vault in "a
neighboring city," that shave come
from many sources Of the last of a
royal line" We forgot to say that
Mrs. Buck was also supposed to
have descended direct from Henry
VIII, but that is a mere incident.
Mass, Republican.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Diamands on the Feet.

"Do you know that when your
shoes glisten with polish they are
really covered with diamonds?"
asked shoemaker the other day
of one of his patrons. "This is
true" he continued, land / will
show you why. Bone dust, which
is the principle ingredient of shoe
blacking, is almost pure carbon.
The diamond, you know, is the
purest form of carbon. When the
paste has been smeared over your
shoes the friction of the polishing,
brush crystalizes the blacking and
converts it into millions Of infinit-
esimally small diamonds, and ev-
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Had q Bean In His Ear.

About sixteen years ago Frank
Sullivan, machinist in the employ
of the Southern Pacific Company,
while playing with some boys, had
an ordinary white bean enter his
right ear. He informed his parents,
but as they were unable to discover
the bean they concluded that the
boy only imagined that it entered
his ear. Since then young Sullivan
has grown to manhood, and fre-
quently complained about pains in
his ear.
On Tuesday afternoon he sud-
denly became deaf in the left ear,
and thinking that it was due to the
unnatural deposit becoming hard
ened he inserted a toothpick. AS he
placed his fingers to his ear he felt
hard substance, and on extracting
it he was amazed to find that it was
the same bean that entered his ear
sixteen years ago. It was greatly
discolored and covered with mucus.
Sullivan positively declares that
the bean first entered his right ear
and travelled through his head to
the left ear, where it was extracted.
OF course he must be mistaken
about the ear in which the bean first
entered, as it would be absolutely
impossible for it to pass through
his head. The fact that the bean
remained in his head for sixteen
years is in itself, however, remark
able.-Sacramento News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Sermons Made For Sale.

The English sermon factory" +"
from which preachers can obtain
ready-made sermons of all varieties,
upon any text, has been described
by a London cable correspondent.
There is a factory of the same kind
in Philadelphia, and circular de-
scribing its wares has recently been
sent out to clergymen. After COM
pairing the circular of the London
concern with that of the Philadel-
phia concern, the New York Sun
suspects that both concerns keep
the same kind of stock, and that it
is the product of clerical sweating
shops" where the composers of
pulpit eloquence work hard for low
wages. From the English factory
"plain and practical or earnest and
spiritual sermons" can be secured,
and this announcement is very like
that of the American factory. In
both cases the purchasers are in
formed that all transactions will be
confidential" and that the same
sermon will not be cold to more
than one preacher in any city. This
is business feature similar to that
of those literary syndicates which
send out stuffing to the country
papers with a pledge that only
single paper in any given place shall
get the manuscript or "plate mat
ter" which must be printed at
fixed date.
But it is difficult to see why the
market rate of ready-made sermons
should be higher in this country
than in England. At the English
foctory the sermons can be bought
at prices ranging from one shilling
sixpence ha'penny to five shillings,
while at the Philadelphia factory
they cost from 81 60 to $5, accord
ing to length and quality. We have
a notion that the Philadelphia con-
Germ imports its stock from Eng
land, and the tariff upon imported
sermons is a mere 25 per cent ad-
valorem. Under the policy Of tariff
for revenue only the price of foreign
made sermons in the Philadelphia
market ought to decline largely
within the next four years.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
The Musk OK.

Although the musk OK is still
plentiful in the Arctic regions Of
this continent, it is believed that
there are not more than five or six
mounted specimens of the creature
in the United States. One of the
latest received was ordered three
years ago, and finally delivered af-
ter 1900 miles of sledging and q
great many miles of other travel.
According to the best authorities
the odor that gives the musk OK its
name cannot be traced to any one
special secretion.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27

The KEYSTONE is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtoct4'
and Smoky mining regions, and, located
as it is in the very heart of the most pro1s
ising mining country on the face OF ths
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis OF all
mining news and development1 as veil as
matters of local importance in and 4hQqA
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for
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, 1893-05-27

boats they sail over the blue bosom
of the Pacific and cruise many miles
away from their island shores.
Their little craft cross the channels
from island to island and visit all
ports in the archipelago. They are
not afraid of the ocean solitudes,
but are at home on its watery wastes
and find delight in its expanse of
blue.-Kate Fields Washington.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
The Dernier Resort.

EYES," said the Marshioness Of
Begadzir, as she furtively dried .
tear. "my son, Lord Da Massey, has
run through his entire fortune; in
fact, there is left him only one loop
hole of escape from absolute ruin.
and of that he must at once avail
himself"
"What is it?" asked Lord Zavus,
to whom she was detailing her woes.
"That is, to cross the Atlantic
and marry an American heiress."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
GEO. J..LEWIS, Agent.


: To JOHN w. PLArr, his heirs or assigns:
p You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of FIVE hundred (500) dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the
DEER TRAIL lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide. about twen-
ty-two miles from ketchum, in Warm
Springs Creek mining district. Alturas
county. Idaho, as required by section 1924,
Revised Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
for the years ending December 81, 1887, to
December 81, 1891; that your proportion OF
the same is $3.50, being onc-halt; and if
within ninety (9) days from the service of
tbs tbs notice or within ninety 60 days after
fuse to contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as co-owncr, your interest in
said claim will become the property of the
undersigned under the provisions of said
section 1924. FRANK ]. LEMON.
ketchum.. Idaho, July %, 1892.
First publication July 80. 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27

The State Capitol Of Texas is said
to be the largest State building in
the country and the seventh in sixe
among the buildings Of the world.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
PROFESSIONAL.


TTORNEY-A Ketchum. Idaho.
A Practices in all the Courts and Land
Offices in the State.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-13
WORK OF TIE SENATE
Warm Discussion Over the
Appointed Senators.
NO MORE EDITOR PosrmAsreRs

President Cleveland Relieves Ilis Pradeces-
sor suffered Through Following TMs
Cour-a-Iho scuutc Discussion Expected
TO boz Non-rartsan.
WASHINGTON. March l8-Tbe session of
,he -a1ate to-day was brief and was con
lined nanly TO the reception of namiua.
tIous from Che President Within % day or
two tle committees viii be appointed, pul
body will. ua iu thorough working oriel
.l .ar 1s The business for which it is called
together is concerned
Reports OF committees upon the uomina-
ious win begin to come in Immediately
nd The Senate win be occupied with them
until the end Of the special session.
Aside from this business is the consider
alton Of the legal questions involved in the
appointment of three Senators by the Gov
eauors Of Montana, Wyoming and Wash
iugfon
The members Of the Committee on Priv
ileges aud Elections have already been de
voting their attention 60 the study Of pre-
aicuts and the law affecting such appoint
ueLts and will doubtless be ready to
make reports soon alLeF IAe cIGICilllttlS are
.uEen up
IL happens that the decision of the ques-
tion involved in these cases can be made
without affecting the political complexion
of the Senate, aud it is the intention Of
ooun sides of the Chamber to cudeavor 60
consider the cases purely on their merits
and without respect TO political considera-
lions, and thus establish precedent that
.ytl la likely In stand boraqftpp
As the points involved are many, and
Che question itself is complex, it is expected
,Iat debate will ensue in the Senate
upon the presentation Of the report OF the
committee that may occupy many weeks
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two new cases and one death is New
York City.s ,phus record for Sunday.
Gov Flower has signed the Gcns Falls
and the Amsterdam Armory bills, each ap-
propriating S22, 600.
AT Upper Falmouth, N. S., Mrs Learey,
aged 90, was burned to death through her
clothing catching fire
Capt. J. S. McNlillin. one Of the best
known rivernen in the country dropped
dead in Pittsburg Saturday
w. K. Vanderbilt has arrived in London
from Paris and will go to Liverpool to in
spect the yacht there building to replace
the Alva
-Bayard S. Gray of Chicago will accom-
pany his father, the Hon. Isaac p Gray, to
the City of Mexico and will act as his
Secretary
Luke Schoolcraft, the famous comedian,
died last night at Cincinnati O. The cause
of death was gast1itis complicated with
heart disease.
The training ship Constellation has gone
to Norfolk, Va, to take on her battery and
iJ ont for a summer cruise with the Naval
Academy cadets.
M Chevalier Of the Department Of the
Public Debt has been chosen to succeed
Charles de Lesseps as director Of the Suez
Canal company.
Mrs. Anna Potter, the wife of promi-
nent insurance man Of Kansas City, has
announced herself a candidate for mayor of
Kansas City, Kas.
Forty persons, comprising the crew and
passengers Of the steamer Wells City
stranded at Seabright, N. j., were rescued
by the breeches buoy.
"A verdict Of murder in the first degree
has been rendered at Collingwood. Ont, ,
against WOnch, accused of killing
her mo5Aa. md little daughter,
Judge Dmgerfield in San Francisco, Sat-
urday, sentenced to ton years imprison-
ment G. W. White, who was convicted Of
illegal registration at the last election.
Mrs. Gallagher member Of Dan Nc
Carthy's Rambler from Glare" company,
is very i'll at Amsterdam, N. Y, with peri
tonitis. Mrs. Gallaghers stage name ia
Polly Holmes.
Thirteen convicts escaped from the
guards at the Tracy City, Tenn, coal
mines yesterday, and arc being hunted with
| bloodhounds Fifty-seven other conyicts
refused to escape.
The water main which supplies Mount
Vernon, n Y, with water from it's rsser-
voir at Pelhamville, is broken and the sup
| ply of water is shut off. In case of fire the
fire department is helpless
The State Of Massachusetts, will lose $40,
| 600 in the destruction of the plans and
records of the Metropolitan Sewerage Com
| mission, whose Offices in the Lincoln street
! building, Boston, were destroyed by FIRE
| commissioner of Street improvements
| Louis j. Eeintz Of the annexed district OF
! New York died yesterday from an illness
caused 10y cold contracted in Washington
while attending the Inauguration ceremo-
| MES.
John G. Hasting of Port Gibson, Miss,
committed suicide yesterday at the Metro
politan House, Birmingham Ala, with a
revolver, lie left nothing to indicate JhC
cause of the deed. He was nearly sixty
years old and left wife and several chill
| dren
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-13
EDITOas NEED NoT APPLN


.Les WIN Not bo Gcnornlly Recognized by
the Now Administration.
WAsHUGToN, March 13.-The assertion
chat editors are not generally to be recog-
niaei by the new administration is true.
Er Cleveland believes that his predece ssor
s1tiarsd through the charge Of having sub
.d.zcd the press, and he does not propose
TO run the same gauntlet
This decision is TO be made particularly
applicable to newspaper men who desire to
Le puslmasters in their towns
MI Bissall has had the names of some
country editors presented to him in cuunec-
zion with various postoliioes, but has uni
.ormly declined to give any encouragement
30 the Office seeker. He lays down the
the principle that in small towns ell the ut
terances of the newspaper over which he is
.le master EDITOR will be regarded as the
views of the administration, while, on the
other hand, all praise of MIR. Cleveland S
acts Will be discounted because it emauates
from tine recipient of official favor.
Therefore Mr. Bissell does not propose to
appoint any editors to postmasterships,
suG the President will observe the same
rule in disposing Of the higher Offices
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-13
BOTH SIDES OUT.
Priests at swedesboro Hold Services out of
the Church.

the Church.
SwEDEsBoRo, n. j., March 13.-The
msjority Of the parishioners Of st. Joseph's
church, and especially the German Gle
ment, responded to the call of Father
Leahy, appointed in place Of Father
Treacy, who was removed by Mgr. Satolli,
and assembled in Howells hall yesterday,
where he gave them full explanation Of
at airs, and stated that all who worshiped
with Father Ireacy were eXcommunicated.
Printed copies of the letters were distributed
among the parishioners on the streets.
Father lreacy celebrated mass at pri-
vste house TO about one-third of his former
congregation. Both meetings were con
Quoted in "A very quiet manner.
Deputy Sheriff h. e. Garrison, into
whose hands the keys of the church were
put on Saturday, stood guard over the
church
Father Treacy says he will sue Bishop
O'Fmrell and Mgr Satolli for $50 600 dam
ages, and Father Leahy says that Father
Treacy is surely working toward his own
incarceration.