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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-01-26
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice Of Forfeiture.

10 JOHN ". PLATT, his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of five hundred (5OO) dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
DEER TRAIL lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about TWEEN
ty-two miles from kctchum, 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
Ior I the years ending December 81, 1887, to
december 81, 1891 that your proportion of
the same is $3.50, being one-halt; and if
within ninety(9) days from the service of
uiis notice, or within ninety (9) days after
tilis notice by publication you fail or re-
luse to contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as co-owner, your interest in
said claim will become the property of the
Undersigned under the provisions of said
section 1924, FRANK J. LEMON.
Ketchum.. Idaho, July %, 1892.
First publication July 80, 1892.
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rOOTHLEss YANKEE VILLAGERS

Deluded by Rascally Travelling Dentists
Into Buying Sets Of False Molars.
'There is many a New England vii
lage in which you will hardly find .
natural TOOTH" said q dental surgeon
to q Washington Star writer. -''That
is to say, not an adult inhabitantswiu
possess any teeth of his own. All of
the grown-up people wear false teeth.
This rather odd state of affairs is due
to the operations of certain unscrupu-
lous persons who go about the country
with false teeth for sale. One of these
fellows will go through a village and
literally pull every tooth in the place.
To take the places of the teeth ex-
tracted he offers artificial sets at eight
dollars. In rural parts, for obvious
reasons, people very commonly suffer
from toothache. The malady is dis
tressing, and the customary way to get
rid of it is to have the tooth drawn.
No dentist is at hand to restore the af-
ficted grinder to a healthy condition
by filling. The peripatetic quack comes
along with his forceps and offers to
give final and permanent relief from
all such suffering in future. For the
small sum Of eight dollars he will re-
move all the natural teeth from a Gus
toner's head and substitute for them
an artificial set Of much better appear
ance, which will never cause any pain
to the wearer. By this attractive offer
the people are deluded into parting
with the chewing apparatus with
whioh na<,,ro N q furricho1 <horo md
the result is q toothless population.
AS you are probably aware, tooth pull
ing is rarely resorted to by good dem
tist, inasmuch as it must be an ex-
traordinarily bad tooth that cannot be
fixed up so as to be better than any
fa1eo ono ~ 80
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What In Elecfriciry1

An anonymous writer in New Science
Review offers the following definition
for criticism: 1t would appear that
electricity is simply a form or mani
festation that the one force better
spoken of as energy may assume un-
der given conditions, and generally
it is mere transitory stage between
the mechanical form and the heat form.
In most operations mechanical force
passes to the heat form, but whenever
is broughtinto play as a re-
sistance that must be overcome, then
mechanical power applied to overcome
this resistance always becomes elec-
tricity, if only momentarily, in its pas
sage from the mechanical to the heat
form. Can we not answer in fairly
way the question: what
is electricity" by saying that it is sim
ply form that energy may assume
while undergoing Transformation from
the mechanical or the chemical form to
the heat form, or the reverse?
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A HISTORIC HoWDAH.


The Indian Government Reducing the
Number Of Its Trained Elephants.
The order has gone forth to break up
the expensive establishment in India
known as the "Howdah Khana." Al
ready the roll of government elephants
in all India has beed reduced to be-
tween two hundred and three hundred
instead of one thousand, at which it
lately stood in North India alone, says
the Westminster Budget.
As railways penetrate the great
fighting frontier districts, elephants,
which still, as in the days of Alexander
ing less and less uAed 10 drag the
heavy batteries. Mules are preferred
for mountain warfare. Even native
princes are content with one elephant
or 80, where formerly they kept .
score. The Scotsman remarks that
state ceremonials and professions are
no longer what they were up to John
Lawrence's time, when even that SIM
plicity-loving viceroy held the grandest
Of all dunbars at Agra, around and
near the Tai Mahal p.
OuAy tAA0 &Ove1AOK Ko001oA o1AVcI
howdah Is to be kept there, and one or
two state elephants That historic
howdah was furbished mp nader the
artistic arrangements OF Lady Canning
for her husbands ticeregal progress
after the mutiny. It has been used by
almost every British ruler in India
since the first Warren Hastings.
Around it circle the memoirs Of more
than . century's wars and pseeants;
but even that has become . victim to
the deprecated rupee and the irresist-
fhle railway. ~
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A STUFFED EMPEROR.

valeFlan. Conquered by the Persians, W1s
Put to Queer Use In Diplomacy.
The art of taxidermy is now prac-
ticed by thousands of naturalists and
ornithologists, and many sportsmen
are no longer obliged to send the
specimens which they wish to have
preserved to a professional, but can
prepare and mount them themselves in
the way they wish to have them, and
in this way many amateurs have Sc
cured most valuable collections, serv-
ing as excellent souvenirs Of many q
delightful days shooting, and many an
exciting hunting adventure.
One Of the most remarkable stuffed
skins on record was that Of Valerian,
emperor of Rome, who was taken pris-
oner and afterward kept in chains by
Sapor, king Of Persia. He was either
killed in tumult, or by order of his
conqueror, who was perhaps fearful of
losing his valuable living trophy, in the
year 269 The body Of the dead Roman
emperor was treated with no more
delicacy than when it had held the inn
mortal spark of living one. It was
skinned, the hide, after being tanned,
was stuffed, painted red and suspended
in the chief temple Of the capital. It
remained here for many years, and
was the popular spectacle for holiday
makers and visitors from the country.
But it was put to more important
ends than this; it was made diplomat
ic engine of much significance and
efficiency. In after times it often hap
pened that the Roman ENJOYS at the
Persian court had Misunderstanding,
more or less serious, with the govern
ment to which they were temporarily
accredited. When these ambassadors
from Rome grew arrogant in their de-
mands it was the custom to conduct
them into the presence of the stuffed
skin of the old ex-emperor of Rome,
where they were asked if humility did
not become them at sight Of such q
spectacle,
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stops usually at height of two hum
dred and fifty to four hundred feet,
waves his arms wildly time or two
and then begins to descend. One who
sees this startling feat performed will
agree with me that it is q difficult
matter to believe ones eyes, and shake
off the idea that miracle has not
been enacted.
ssOne who is not satisfied with the
'air-walking feat may hold coin in
his hand while Fahyah mutters over it
and then open his fingers and find the
coin gone and Shiny serpent in its
place."
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4 Sr 4 4 - : -
The xxrsfoxE = ths. sole rspeseeaAa
Of tie, ratUppsr Wood River. seawtsUsAt
and Smoky mining 1vgfUns, and, locxtsd.
a. it tssfn' the vefy hedrtfo fof tie md1t pt6nf
ising mining country on. the face q the
earth. and leaving nothing undone to Pfc
senHlts readers = scomplete synopsls Of All.
mining news and developments, aswell -
matters of local Importance In and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide fot cap
ital and informant to the settler Of every
craft and position. Subscribe tor it, read
it, and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-01-26
A TINY MOONS INHABITANTS.
As Viewed In Comparison with the Beings
of This World.


of This World.
In an installment of this department,
says writer in the St Louis Republic,
during the first half Of the past year
gave some curious figures on the prob
able height and weight of the inhab-
itauts of the larger planets, basing the
calculations on ratios deduced from
comparison with the representative
specimens of the human family on this
earth. Taxing some of the smaller
planets and satellites and using SINH
lar ratios, we get an equally interest
ing set OF figures.
Let us take the inner moon of Mars
as an illustration of this point. It is
named Phobos, and is tiny satellite
only eight miles in diameter. Let us
suppose that everything on our earth
(Which is nearly 1000 times larger than
the little Phobian planet) is to be
found on the surface Of this miniature
moon, reduced proportionately. We
find, to begin with, that a terrestrial
man Of feet, if transferred to Phobos,
would be .072 of an inch in height. A
good microscope would be necessary to
determine the true shape and form of
this speck of humanity, and it would
be wholly invisible to the unaided eye
at distance Of three feet. A ship of
the Dimensions of the Great Eastern
would be but ~ inches in length if re-
duced to the Phobian standard, and a
duck pond would be q ''fathomless
ocean" to the iliputian inha abitants Of
this Marsian satellite. A whale would
be as small as cheese mite, and q real
sea serpent, which would be q terror to
the Phobian mariner, would be like .
section Of a hairworm fve-eighthso of an
inch in length. The largest rivers cam
not be more than few feet in breadth
and not more than two inches in depth.
A railway train like the Chicago
flyer" could be carried in an earthly
card case, and q city the size of New
York could be covered with blanket!
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-01-26
Eminent Men Partially Bl,ad.

Four Of the most eminent men in
Europe are at the present time suffer
ing from partial blindness. In all cases
the nature Of the ailment is the same.
namely, cataract. Mr.. Gladstone has
had several operations performed upon
one Of his eyes The other eye is still
sound enough to enable him to read
and write. Sir William Harcourt's eyes
are both much obscured, and mast
soon have relief or be altogether dark
ened. M. Jules Simon Is in . like
plight. and Sig. Crispi. in whose case
the ailment has not proceeded quite 80
far as in the others, has already sought
the services OF 3 skil1od ocu1fst.
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THE MQQUI INDIANS.
Civilized Methods of tho Whites Objected
to by Blanket Indians.

Capt. Constant Williams. OF the
Seventh infantry, forwarded to the
headq uarters of the department. Of Col
orado the particulars of the trouble with
the Moqui Indians. The Moqui Indians
are few in number, and dwell in the
mountains of Arizona, about one hun.
dred and fifty miles from Fort Win
gate, the nearest military post. They
are . peaceful and industrious tribe,
but ignorant of all matters outside OF
their own little villages. It is even said
they believe they are the only people
in the world with the exception of four
companies of United States cavalry
that appeared on the occasion OF their
last outbreak. Gov. Solomai obtained
some progressive ideas from visit to
Washington with two other Moauia
about ten years ago. On his return he
described the immense numbers of peo-
pie, the railroads and gigantic build
ings he had seen. The Indians, think
ing he was crazy, placed him in con
finement for some time. SolOmai has
never abandoned his desire for reform,
and has quietly gathered about him
followers that comprise about one
third of the NJ oquis. Capt. Williams,
ance, visited the villages, and found
that it arose from a second attempt of
Solomai to adopt the customs of the
palefaces. A meeting of the two fac
tions was held in the square of the vii
lage, and the chiefs of the contending
factions stated their case. Gov. Solo.
mai said he wanted his children to go
school and be brought up as white
children are. When he and the others
had done this the hostiles had raised
objections, had sc lied some of their
cornlelds, and threatened to seize
others They had even gone SO far as
to threaten to expel them from the
town. So Solomai had asked for the
cavalry to be sent. The hostiles num-
bered about two-thirds of the tribe,
and they were led by one Lomahun-
gyoma. They were opposed to progress
of any kind, and wanted to follow in
the steps of their forefathers.
After Solomai had finished his speech
their chief rose to reply. He substan-
tally admitted the truth of Solomai's
statement, saying that he and his fol-
lowers did not want to be civilized or
have their children go to school, or to
wear white mems clothing or to eat
white mems food. They had seized the
fields at Moencopee because they had
belonged to them in former years and
had been unlaw fully taken away. In
the spring he intended to take away
more of the fields of the followers of
Solomai. He also added that the diff
Guilty could be settled in no other way
than by the coming of United States
troops Therefore, Capt. Williams said
that he had deemed it necessary to ask
for two troops of the United States cav
airy to be sent there. It is believed
that the trouble will be over in few
days, but it will take some time for the
news to arrive, as the Indians are
distance from any town.
Army officers say that they are the
most religious people in the world
and honorable and upright in all their
dealings. They speak a language of
their own, but each separate village
has dialect which they alone under
stand.
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PUNS FROM THE PEN.
Joy Net Unconnned, But It Hath Aerr
Ring Nevertheless.

Joy Net Unconnned, But 1t Hath . Merry
Ring Nevertheless.
Convicts in the Illinois penitentiary
publish paper called Up to Date, and
that its editors have the faculty of be-
ing jolly under adverse circumstances
the following paragraphs will attest:
Excuse haste and bad pen," as the
convict said when he escaped by aid Of
q loose stone in the wall
No Annie! the fact that nearly every
cell contains two cell ticks doesn't
prove that most of the prisoners arc
Irish.
Great Scott!' exclaimed the new ar
rival as he sat in his cell the first night,
''even the flies in the penitentiary wear
stripes"
Prisoners are hereby notified that,
although winter is coming, they are
still prohibited from getting on
Skates"
"How do you feel?" asked the old
timer of the new man, as he entered
the cell after his first days work in
the stoneyard.
''Very rocky" was the relevant an
swer.
S-s-s-t! Rah! Boombsrdedee!
We are the boys Of the l. 8. p.
Every educational institution in the
world has its ''yeu" and we're not go
ing to be left out; we'll have 'syell"
even if we can't use it.
The members of the pioneer club for
women in London, to which all the ''ad-
vanced" women belong, are known by
numbers instead of uames.-Cincinnati
Enquirer. We don't wish to rob the
Pioneer club of any of its laurels, but
there are sixty advanced" women not
more than four fights from our Office
who are associating under similar con-
ditions.
Misses Ara and Mollie Kees, young
ladies aged eighteen and twenty, have
started a paper at Grayson, KY. It is
called the Eastern kentucky Repub-
lican. and as the young ladies state that
they ''can set up the paper each week.
they feel justified in their venture.
Jokes about making up the form being
barred, we will simply. remark that
having the KEGS they are out for the
quoin. We wish the girls success.
We trust the older members of the
fraternity will not deem us too insig-
nifcant to exchange with. We know
that we are young, we were born that
way, but we are striving daily to over
come this fault, and not without ap-
parent success. We fully appreciate
the fact that, as yet, we are simply
around the outskirts of
newspaperdom, but if earnest work and
fair play can accomplish it, we mean to
push on until we fling our banner to
the winds from the acropolis.
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!, IDAHO, SATURDAY. JANUARY 26, 1896.

receiving the ring and left it to Mer-
cedes' sister, Maria del Pillar, daughter
Of the Duke of Montpensier, who also
died after few months, as did also her
sister Christina, who inherited the ring
from her. Alfonso then determined
that no one else should wear the fatal
opal, and took it himself; within two
months he was buried. This story is
believed in Spain; so to prevent fur
ther harm the queen has givenit to the
Virgin.
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been passed under the vessel and
hauled taut, SO that they came along
side Of the holes. The tapering pins
were thrust into the openings and
knocked tight, then the vessel was put
before the wind to get an even keel,
and the crew turned to and pumped
hoy. ont
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-01-26
Notice of Forfeiture.
J. ?. FULLY. his heirs and assigns:

10 J. P. FULLY. his heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred 1O) dol
iafs IN labor and improvements upon the
YOUNG AMERICA
inoe Il: mining claim, situated in Little Smoky
n.s, o.sstrict, Alturas county, State of Idaho, in
oiuer 10 hold said premises under the pro-
Visions Of section 1924, Revised Statutes of
Inc United States, being the amount re-
aulfed to hold the same for the year end
.is nv december 81, 1892; that your proper
s lion O. OF the same is $40, being ne-tenth
service of this notice, or within ninety 1907
Says faH after this notice by publication you
.d'i a. or refuse to contribute your proportion
,'n,s 81 snch expenditure, including costs of
Pun Ppiin1iSeatlon. your interest in said claim
signed sySa under the provisions Of said section
JOHN GORMAN.
First publication, June II, 1893.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-03-28
THEOPHRASTUS IN MASSACHU
SFT'FS.


Adams Freeman, People we all alb
hor are;
Those persons who want 10 tell part
of your story for you.
Those persons whose education Is
constantly paraded before MS.
Those persons who know so much
they cannot refrain from correcting
other people,
Those persons who look with benign
pity on anyone who does moi see
things as they do.
Those persons with opinions so pos
tive that they know dissenting hu-
manity to be fools.
Those persons who know truth only
in what they think is right, and see
error in all else
Those persons who have tasted the
waters OF culture and have little In
tellect 10 cultivate.
Those persons who survey the uni
verse with Il little mind quite fascln-
atcd with its own importance.
Those persons who long to impress
WV WIN thtii tficC anu uH'hlliFli III
the presence of supposed interiors.
Those persons who by superficial
falsity and internal egotism would
convey an impression of exalted re-
fnement
Those persons who bore us by inter
jecting narration of self or SUR
roundings into a subject having no
tangible connection.
Those persons who consider them
selves so educationally endowed they
have lost TO view the ordinary rules Of
common sense.
Those parsons who do moi know tho
meaning Of decency yet are highly
set up by self-estlmation and we'll
advertised Christianity.
Those persons who know so much
religion that they violate, not only
the written laws of Christianity, but
the unwrtten code of courtesy.
Those persons who mistake cynicism
for wit, narrow self-satlsfactlon for
liberalism, and the wrong side Of every
subject for an exempliflcatlon Of all
the worlds culture they have Gagged In
their own conceit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-03-28

This stirred the cock and the fight
began, Feathers flew and there was
great old scramble for little while.
NThen the parrot caught the neck OF
| his antagonist in his curved bill and
the cock ceased TO breathe.
That was easy" said the parrot in
a shrill voice. and the crowd was
spetehless with astonishment
The sailor was willing to nut his
parrot against another bird and In
order 70 make 1t interesting the own
ers wagered $40 side.
An old warrior was brought forth
and he started for the parrot In short
order. There was another shower OF
feathers, another grasping of the
wtndpipe and another dead gamecock.
"oh, that's a cinch" said the parrot
gleefully.
The owner OF the eameeocks could
not understand it and another $40
dropped into the pit and IN few
minutes another dead bird was added
to the pair already hanging ut the
side of the pit.
The gamecock man was growing
wild, and with three fowls and $40
gone he backed up his desperate hope
10y bringing forth another bantam and
doubling the $40 wager to $40
Once more, twice more and third
time again the parrot caught the fowl
between the lungs and the head and
stopped the flow of atmosphere
through the throat.
That made six birds killed and the
parrot was by this time pretty well
worn. The owner of the bantams was
paralyzed, however
always room for one more" said
the parrot eheerfully, as he strutted
up and down the pit and gazed
proudly at the row OF the late six
You won't go me one more" con-
tinued the parrot.
mo" answered the cock fighter from
The depths OF his melancholia.
We'll. I'm sorry" said the parrot,
"but YOU can have plenty of properly
killed chickens for dinner on Sunday,
anyway. New York Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-03-28

But the inspector told Stanhope-
what indeed he knew--that In such
cases there was little hope of recover
ing the lost jewels, as they were inn
mediately taken from the settings,
which are melted down. and the stones
passed from hand TO hand, even some
times being broken up, TO avoid pos
sible identification. So nothing more
could be done that night, and Sir
Lionel returned to Baptiste's chamber,
expressing his intention of sharing the
night watch of the doctor and Har-
ford.
Get the house as quiet as you can,
Clare" he said to his wife, pausing as
he met her in the gallery will
come down, If possible, in a little
while. Poor child, gou look worn and
very white; go to rest early. for you
have been tried this evening
Ay, tried more bitterly than he
knew-and she shiyered as she listened
TO his words. But she only said,
without looking up-he knew with
what an effort:
l&lOuel, IL is my IAult lHdl lHe
jewels were stolen--if / had locked
them away they might have been
saved! am very sorry-l am indeed
Lionel" she concluded, earnestly,
with a fieeting glance upward, will
you forgive me?"
1t was a minute before he answered
her, looking down on the bent face
then he stopped and gently kissed her
forehead.
II have not thought Of forgiveness.
my child" he said, not tremor of
the voice betraying any inward feel
ing; "do not reproach yourself. or
think that l am angry with you.
never" He broke off abruptly, clos
ing the firm lips, then added almost
coldly: Goodnight, Glare; try 10
sleep and not to think" and he
passed on.
In spite of herself. his gentle for
bearance touched Clare and she re-
membered-when such memory was
sorely needed--how he had never re-
preached her once-how his soft kiss
seemed to linger yet on her brow.