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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-12-07

-Watts-"Do you think man can b
. Christian on dollar day?" Potts-
III don't see how he can afford to be any
thing else."-Indianapolis Journal
Wallace "How did you feel tho
first time you got into BARRIERS chair
for . shaver Ferry-"To tell tho
truth shout 1t, I felt like bare-faoed
fraud. Cincinnati Enquirer.
With Comma or Without
''Wasn't he put out when you told him
he couldn't have . kiss2'' "Oh, no! He
just took it a. . matter Of course"
"Ah! he took it, a. matter Of course.
did hep
-Biobbs- -"What nonsense It Is for
the newspapers, in their accounts of
weddings, to describe the bride being
led to the altar" Slobbs-"How SOP"
Blobbs-"Well, most girls could find
their way in the dark."-Philadelphia
Record.
He Confidently )-"By Jove! lean
tell you, the woman who could make y
fool o. me isn't living" She-"Poor
thing! What q satisfaction it must be
to you that she 50 thoroughly accom-
pl;shed her mission before she died!"-
New Budget.
$50 you've taken to cycling at last,
have you?' "How did you find that
out?" II saw you on your wheel yes
terday." "By Jove! I'm glad to hear
that. All the rest of my friends hap
pened to see me when I was of."-Rich-
mond Dispatch.
Great New York Editor "What
does this mean? Why was my editorial
on the decadence of journalism left
over?" Trembling Assistant-"Please,
How to Eat Corned Beef Hash sym
postum. Cincinnati Enquirer.
"A scientific writer put out flaming
handbills, headed "Know Thyself." A
wag soon called on the lecturer and told
hin, he was inducing great many peo-
pie to form acquaintances of q very low
order. The lecturer looked at the wag
u moment and said: my friend, you
are right; but it never occurred to me
until saw you"
-Teacher-"Polly, dear, suppose I
were to shoot at q tree with five birds
on it and killed three, how many would
he left?" Polly (aged six)-"Three,
please" Teacher-"No; two would be
left" Polly mo, there wouldn't.
The three shot would be left, and the
other two would be flied away."-Phil-
adelphia American.
There is some excuse" said the
police judge, "for man becoming exas-
perated by the strains of hand organ,
but to rush out and attack the musician
with an ak is carrying things with a
little too high hand" II know it is,
jedge," pleaded the man who had never
been in a police court before, "but when
blame dago comes and stops in front
of the house jist after man has had an
argument with his wife about whether
he gifts an overcoat or her cloak and
begins playin' Home, Sweet Home it
il more than flesh an blood kin stand!"
Indianapolis Journal.
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SCIENCE And isousTRv.

The largest individual employer p
the Krupp company. employed IN the
manufacture Of artillery and IRON ma
chinery. It il said that this company
has On it, payroll shout u. go laboreFs.
One Of the most remarkable inks
l-now to the chemi.t is made Of prep
aration Of prussien blue in combinar
tion with nitric and hydrochloric acid.
The writing done with this ink has the
singular property Of fading when ex-
poaed to the light and recovering its
color when taken into the shade OF
placed IN perfect darkness.
Salmon packers on the Pacillc
coast are tribe disturbed over news
brought there last week from Petro-
paulovaki that the Russians are arrang-
ing for the establishment OF several
large salmon and herring cannerie.
along tile Siberian coast. When the
trans-Sibcrian railway il completed
the product OF these canneries is likely
to be considerable factor in European
markets.
Large tracts Of sand wastes are
now being reclaimed along the Welsh
coast. Series of parallel fences are put
up seaward, closely interviewer with
wires anG furze; and. spaces between
these are filled with earth and road
scrapings. In these various trees, such
as sycamore, willow, pine and alder,
are planted, while the ridges are sown
with gorse and broom seed and planted
with bricr.
MIR. Wilckens, of Vienna, has found
that two pure-blooded English horses
transmitted the color of their coat to
their progeniture in $50 cases out OF
1000. When the parents are OF differ
ent colors, the offspring are almost
always of the color of the mother. With
Arabian horses the facts are more strik-
ing still. The white color OF the coat
OF the mare was found to be clearly
transmitted in 729 cases out OF 1000.
In other cases there was more or less
marked mixture.
The soldiers and workers of the
white ants (Termes), are. as rule
blind, with no traces of eyes; but .
species has been found in South Africa,
the workers and soldiers of which
have eyes and work IN daylight, like
ordinary ants. In their habits they
resemble harvesting ants, in cutting
grass and carrying it into holes in the
ground. DR.. Sharp thinks this species
NAV be allied to the Termes viarum of
Smeathman, whose soldiers and work.
ers possess eyes.
Experiments have shown that birds
avoid the bright-colored caterpillars ~
q rule. and this seems almost to have
become second nature, for q jackdaw,
which hsd been raised in captivity and
had had no experience in judging the
edible qualities of caterpillars, was OBJ
served to regard the brilliant cater
pillar of the figure-of-eight moth with
suspicion and aversion, although 1t
eagerly devoured dull, plain caterpil-
lars placed within it's reach. When it
was driven by hunger to attack the
other it finally refused to eat it, giving
plain evidence that there was some
thing distasteful about the prey.
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IoJ. P. TuLLr, his heirs and assigns:
ION are hereby notified that l have OK
pended the sum Of one hundred 100 dol
as1s IN labor and improvements upon the
YOUNG AMERICA
aooe mining claim, situated in Little Smoky
o.sS.rict, o.S, Alturas county, State Of Idaho, in
UiGer Uis; 70 bold said premises under the pro-
49, h'st9ns M OF section 1924, Revised Statutes of
sns United States. being the amount re-
Susred to hold the same for the year end
.nR .;1R december 81, 1882; that your proper
snd s,on q 81 the same is $40. being one-tenth );
.erv;na su II W within ninety (9o( days from the
sStrvace Sav OF this notice, or within ninety (00)
asays sa after this notice BY publication you
- -" OF refuse to contribute your proportion
nnhen suen expenditure. including costs Of
yrS;1nnccatlon, r;1 your interest in said claim
s;oaoS ion become the property Of the nnder-
3(Ss under the provisions of said section
JOHN GORNAN.
farst publication, June II, 1853.
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TESTING THE DOCTORS.

Chinese. Like Other Physicians, Reserve
tho Right to Disagree.
The emperor Of China has lately had
so much trouble with his functionaries
of every kind that he has grown dis
trustful of them all. He had noticed
that, while his statesmen seemed to be
widely at variance, the court physi-
clans agreed beautifully whenever they
were called together. But test that
he might make of their skill and sin
cerity occurred to him.
Feeling somewhat indisposed, the
emperor sent for one of his court doc
tors. These physicians are paid public
functionaries and are learned profes-
sors. One of them came, listened to his
majesty's account of his trouble, dag
nosed it, prescribed and took his leave.
Then the emperor sent for another
court doctor and gave him exactly the
same account of his difficulty. This
doctor then made his own diagnosis,
which was quite different from his
brother physicians, prescribed diff
ferent remedy and went his way.
A third and fourth physician were
called and each found different dis
ease and each prescribed q different
medicine. Then the emperor became
angry and also sarcastic. and begged to
know how he could have 90 many things
the matter with him and live, and
whether he should continue to live If he
took all the diverse sorts Of medicine
that had that day been prescribed for
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Possihle Resu1t.

Some years ago there was in New
England . chief justice who was re-
spected for his high legal attainments,
and afforded much enjoyment as well
by his love Of the humorous, which he
often INDUCED in the courtroom. On
cne occasion there came up before the
full bench case between two towns re
lating to the support Of q pauper, named
Bowen. When in the course Of the ar
Rument one Of the counsel came to the
name OF this INDECENT person, one Of the
judges, who had been known in former
days a. brilliant lawyer, gave start
Of surprise. .sBowen-Isaac Bowen!"
he repeated in astonishment, turning
to the chief justice before referred to.
s1lNhy, that man used to be = client of
mine!" "Ah," said his colleague, in a
thoughtful but perfectly clear and audi.
bic tone. 'tcould that perhaps account
for hfs being . peuper now Pr Youths
Companion
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viRc,NiA.s LUCKY STONES.

Curious Crystals which Tradition Says
Came from tho Tears of Fairies.
The queer cross-shaped crystals OF
silicate that are known to the inhab-
itants of Virginia as fairy stones have
long puzzled the most noted geologists
of the world. just why silicate should
crystllize is the first problem that com
fronts them, and the second is why the
crystallization should always assume
the form of cross.
It is only in one part Of Virginia that
these stones are found. Patrick county
is the favored locality, but almost every
Virginian has sent to some friend or
neighbor for q specimen, for they are
supposed to be lucky stone.
Indeed, no self-respecting citizen Of
the Old Dominion will be found with .
rabbits foot in his possession nova
days, and he must have fairy stone
for mascot. The legend which gives
these little crystals such reputation
for luck is not only old, but II quantity
beautiful.
When the crucifxion took place the
fairies of that particular section OF Vir-
Einia were overwhelmed with grief, and
their tears in falling crystallized into
tiny crosses. For many years the fairy
stones have been the particular mascots
OF Patrick county citizens, and it was
only by accident that the fame Of the
emblems has spread.
A few months ago certain Col. Prop
r.er wer< into the mountains Of that
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-12-07

-N1A-A - D-eW-A~ - = - NsAS0 =
OUR THIRD EYE
soientists Claim That We Have
IN Extra Optic
TAs 1eeea1ly Discovsrsd Organ Exists
Ahe n vseteAea4ss ef the Lever
0rdsss-whers Il Il
LocatsA
Recent researches prove that man
and all vertebfates seem to possess the
rudiments Of third eye. This discov-
cry is not only very interesting, but
also remarkably instructive, since the
rudimentary third eye Of man has, by
one Of the most noted philosophers Of
modern days, been looked upon as be-
ing the seat of the soul.
AS organs by proper use develop In
strength and perfection, 30 they be-
come weak by lack of use. If for many
generations an organ should remain
without use, it's structure in time be-
comes simpler and more imperfect. If
such process continues throughout
ages, an organ, by constant disuse. will
become reduced to mere rudiment Of
what it was in the species using the
same. Thus, species of birds that only
walk and run, but never fly, have only
rudimentary wings, as the ostrich;
while in the eagle and the albatross
the wings are seen In state of perfec-
ton.
Now, in closely examining the skulls
of certain lizards, it was found that
near the top of head, under the dark.
opaque skin, and often in the very bone,
IN almost perfect eye exists, although
no ray of light ever could reach it. This
eye shows crystalline lens, q retina of
very complex structure and an optic
nerve; in fact, all the essential parts
of perfect eye. But being covered by
the opaque skin of the animal it is alb
solutely useless. If this optic nerve is
traced to the brain it is found to con-;
meet the eye with the so-called pineal
gland of the brain. This pineal gland
is. of course, in no sense OF word q
real gland. but a definite portion of the
nervous tissue OF the brain, invariably
located just back and partly over the
cerebrum, and in front of the rounded
brain-mass which generally is consid-
cred to correspond to the corpora
quadrigemina in man.
This third eye of the spotted lizard
is called the pineal eye, on account of
the nerve connection of the retina with
the pineal gland. Now, while in cer-
tain lizards this highly developed eye
is useless because it is covered by
opaque skin, and in others even deep
~ bedded in bone, it would seem proba-
BILE that in an earlier stage of develop
n,ent this pineal eye was not rudi-
mentary. but in constant use. A very
slight modification would accomplish
this-namely, the transparency of the
skin covering the eye. This is exact
" the condition of the normal eyes in
reptiles to-day; the skin covers them,
but it is transparent where it passes
over the eye. In the skulls of some of
the gigantic reptiles of the earlier age
of this globe, paleontologists have long
ago found large round perforation.
Probably this was the socket of the
third or pineal eye of the ichthyosau
rus, the plesiosaurus and the labyrin-
thodon.
But much more important conclu-
sion must be drawn from this discov-
ery-namely, that in all vertebratcs,
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The cutting begins as soon as the seed
cases growing on the central stem be.
come ripe and hard. They are the
largest, and are called kings" next
come the mediums" )" on the branching
stems, and last the buttons" or small
est Of all. The teazel farmer has teazel
barn, built much in the style of to-
bacco barn, in which he places his crop
for drying, on scafolds, or shelves, four
feet apart, piling the teazels eight Or
ten deep. They are left here from two
to five weeks. At the end of that time
the teazel buyer Is making his rounds.
This year the price offered the producer
was ten cents q pound. without sorting.
II he thought that too low, he was under
no necessity Of selling, 30 far as any de-
terioration Of his teazels were con-
cerned, for while teazel cannot be said
to improve with age, and dealers prefer
new ones, the product IL serviceablc
even after 20 years storage, and many
q man has had to hold his crop year
after year until his barns were full to
overfiowing, in the hope Of receiving
higher prices- In . good year the sup
ply has been known to reach 4O, ,O0O, 600.
and it has fallen q low a. n, 900 900
pounds.
At the woolen factories the sum pail
Tor teaoels ranges from ten to twenty
hve cents . pound, but that II after the
heads have been trimmed, sorted and
packed, work requiring some patience.
for each tea2el must Be handled sep
arstely. How elaborate IN operation
this sorting II may be undsrstood from.
the fact that within the three classes a.
ready mentioned there arc 30 sub
clasoes.-N. 7. Tribune.
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TEAzEL RAISING,
4 of1uuuDw1boa Industry In Th1D
- Country.


a lew weeks ago Ono00a91 county,
n. Y harvested the last Of this years
crop Of teaxl0, . statement which, judg-
ing from the effect OF It a. made in tho
presence Of number Of generally we'll
informed people. means nothing to the
average New Yorker. And yet the hum
BILE and almost unknown Dipsacus Full
lonum plays larger and until recently
an indispensable part in each mans
economy. and, in these tailor-made
days, of many woman's. Nature has
devised about $50 patterns Of teazel,
but, % far a. known, only one species,
the fuller's, the subject, a. the political
biographers say, of this sketch, has any
value to man.. He used to drink . de-
coction made from its roots a. . dur
etic and sudorific, 20 old books of ma
terra medica say, but the plants chief
utility has been found in its peculiar
seed-cases, which careless observer
might cali its burrs. These, with their
elastic recurring spines. with points
finer than the most delicate cambria
needle, are used to raise the nap on such
fabrics as are commonly used for mems
clothing, and have always been valu-
able article Of commerce in the coun-
tries where these latter are manufac-
tured.
Though 20 greatly in demand in this
country, tea1els have never been raised
in any quantity outside Of the circum-
scribed territory Of Onondaga county;
not because there was not market
for more, but because the peculiar soil
necessary to the development of the
best quality seems to have been found
nowhere else in America, il we except q
portion of Oregon, which produces .
few good teazels. The possibilities of
the rich central New York uplnnds were
discovered by the men of Somersetshire,
England, who formed 30 large an ele-
.nent of the early population of this
part of the state aud who naturally
turned their attention to an industry
which had hourished in their native
country across the sea.
Perhaps another reason why the teazle
is not found distributed in wider area
il that its cultivation is too slow for the
average northern farmer. It takes two
years to bring it to maturity. The first
year the seed is drilled in, as is done
with wheat, except that the rows are
about three feet apart. AS the plants
come up, they are thinned out. and the
crop is hoed and cultivated at intervals,
hills of corn being planted among it,
~ 4 L. - \ y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
FAVORS AN INCOME TAX
The President Said to Have Changed His
Views
Such n Tax Not Out of Harmony With
Tariff Reform The
Supreme Court.

President Cleveland is said to have be-
come a convert to the income tax. If the
Fifty-fourth Congress should attempt the
repeal of this law, as is expected, Mr..
Cleveland will probably be found standing
in the way of the accomplishment of that
act. When the proposition was first made
in the last Congress the President was not
favor able to it, and it was with great diff
Guilty that he was converted to a corpora
tion tax. which he recommended in his
message, thinking that the proposition
would not be pressed beyond that point.
He was not at all pleased when a general
income tax was adopted, and it is believed
that he looked forward to the time when
the law might be repealed. Very recently,
however, it is said, he has become con-
vinced that the tax is in entire accord with
his tariff policy, and that through it the
opportunity may be afforded ultimately for
a still further reduction of customs duties
than that made by the Wilson-Gorman bill.
The returns to the internal revenue bureau
give promise of a considerably larger reve-
nue. from this source than he had expected,
and to that extent relieves him of the fear
that a shortage in the treasury might
compel him tC accept at the hands of
republican Congress some increase of tariff
rates. He sees in it also a means of reve-
nue. in the event of the foreign tariff war
being pressed to an extreme.
This attitude of the administration may
have some bearing upon the decision of the
Supreme Court as to the consttutionality
of the income tax. While the court is sup
posed to be guided by nothing but the law,
yet in matters involving the powers of the
government there is an impression that the
court has a leaning toward that which the
administration regards as desirable. If the
administration regarded the tax as unnec-
essary or improper, the chances of de-
ciSion adverse to the government mlsht,
narhapS he greater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
THE ELkS CASE.
Judge Hammond Mt Cleveland Makes
n Sharp Criticism.

Judge Hammond ut Cleveland Makes
n Sharp Criticism.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, March 2S.-Judge
Hammond delivered the charge to the
Jury in the b. p. o. Elks case in the
United States circuit court this morning.
He sharply criticised the members of the
order for engaging in what he termed the
petty differences which had disrupted the
organization.
mo trial had more trivial beginning -
the judge said, cor was more useless than
this one we have before us. 1t Is astonisi1-
ing that full-grown men would allow so
petty difference to grow into the proper
tions we have here, where a famous ard
useful social society, with rich belongings,
has been disrupted, seemingly without hope
of reconstruction
Continuing, Judge Hammond said that
the amount involved was sufficient in SEN
timental value of paraphernalia to give
the court Jurisdiction. He said the jury
must consider that Atlantic City was the
legal place for holding the convention in
dispute, because it was fixed by the Grand
Lodge and the grand trustees and the sub
sequent removal of the grand trustees in
no wise changed the legal meeting place.
After some further discussion of the legal
phases of the case by Judge Hammond the
jury retired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
SIXTY-FOUR TO GO.
Clerks on the "Bullion Roll" to be
Dropped.

Clerks on the sBulliOn Roll' to BE
Dropped.
There are sixty-four clerks, most of them
women. employed On what Is known as the
bullion rolf of the Treasury Department,
whose services will be dispensed with after
this month. These employees have been
employed and paid under the provisions of
the Sherman silver purchase act of 1890.
They were few in number at first, but in
creased gradually until there are now
sixty-four on the rolls. Auditor Baldwin,
in examining these accounts, found that
the act under which appointments were
made contains no specific authority there
for and consequently that their employ
merit is in direct conflict with general
statute prohibiting the employment of fed
eral employees without specific authority in
each and every case.
Although his decision in the matter Is not
iinal 1t is understood to have been af-
firmed by all officials who have examined
the question. 1t is now before Controller
Bowler for final decision. That official is
said to have expressed in private his strong
conviction of the strength of the position
so unwillingly assumed by Auditor Bald
win. The employees affected by this de-
cision are nearly all in the Secretarys office
and the treasurer's Office.
Owing to the exhaustion of the appropria-
ton, eight clerks the temporary role
have been dropped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
A Diplomatic Misunderstanding.

The Japanese legation has made an in
qury into the report that some one con-
nected with the legation had received a
private dispatch announcing that Ii Hung
ChanS's condition was really serious. 1t
appears that an attache of the Japanese
legation talking with an attache of another
legation in the city was totally misunder-
stood, the gentleman to whom he spoke
believing that information had been re-
ceived at the legation of the very pre-
carious condition of the Chinese envoy.
Mutual explanations have since followed,
and the diplomat who misunderstood the
statement of the Japanese attache Is quite
chagrined to find that he is authority for
a very sensational story about the physical
condition of Ii Hung Chang.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
RECORDER TAYLOR.
He Wus n Visitor Mt the White House
Today.

He Wus a Visitor Mt the White House
Today.
Mr.. Taylor of Kansas, recorder Of deeds
for the District of Columbia, was at the
White House again today, for the second
time since the Presidents return from
North Carolina. The report of the civil
service commission in his case, showing
divers violations of the civil service laws
against political assessments, has been in
the Presidents possession for several
weeks, but, so far as known, he has not
been able to give it final consideration. Mr.
Taylor's visit to the White House today
started the rumor that the President had
sent for him for personal explanation of
certain developments in the investigation
Of his official conduct. Private Secretary
Thurber was seen on this point, and enter
ed an emphatic disclaimer. Mr.. Taylor. he
said, had simply called to see him on
private business. He added that the Pres
ident had not sent for him and did not
see him. In other quarters it is said that
the President has been so much engrossed
with more important affairs of state that
he has not yet had an opportunity to give
the case of Mr.. Taylcr anything like the
consideration it deserves.