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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31
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Gold and silver Bu9s.


The most remarkable gold bugs In tho
world are found in Central America.
They belong to the genus Plusiotas, and
one might easily imagine q specimen
to be the work of some clever ardfcer
in metal. The head and wing cases are
brilliantly polished. with luater a. Ut
gold itself. To sight and touch they
have all the seeming Of metal, and It IL
hard to realize that the creature is q
mere animal Oddly enough there il an.
other species of Plusiotis from the same
region, which has the appearance OF be-
ing wrought in solid silver. freshly
FURNISHED. These gold and silver beet
les have market value. They are worth
from $25 to $50 each. One of the most
beautiful bugs in the world is small
beetle known to science as the '.blue
Hoplia." It's back is an exquisite rides
cent sky-blue, and the under part OF
its body is of q bright silver hue. The
notion that it contains silver il widely
entertained. and attempts have frs-
squently been made to extract silver
from it.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

The Hard life OF An African Baby.
1 note at Chikwa's that the little
baby strapped to his mother's back
has a rough and tumble time Of 1t, but
takes it all good-natnredly. and one
hears very little crying in the village.
The mother goes to the fields with baby
on her back, bobs about for hours in the
hot sun. wedding, hoeing and doing
general gardening; carries huge jars
of water on her head; scrapes 3im re-
peatedly as she bends and enieSrs the
narrow, low doorways of native huts;
gives him . thorough shaking a. she
vigorously pounds corn with long
wooden pestle; takes him by the wrist,
ducks him in the stream until he Is
nearly suffocated and then spreads him
on mat to dry.-E. j. Glave, in Cen
tury.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31
ANOTHER SEA SERPENT.

e Was 6ightea on BaRoeo and Was .
Wonder.
Capt. Peabody, Of the big Portland
packet Tam o. Shanter. brings to port
the latest tale of the sea serpent, which
was sighted of Borneo. and, according
to the estimate Of that officer. was
about 100 feet long. It appeared in the
midst OF field of snakes covering an
extent of about so miles, through which
the packet made its way like the ship
of the ancient mariner amid the SER
pents of the silent, mysterious sea of
which the poets description l. not
more lurid than that which Capt. Pea
body applies to the waters of Borneo.
The rest of the snakes were Of varyin4
magnitude, but none Of them came near
the dimensions Of the greater one,
which outran all precedent, making the
biggest Of those described by Bishop
Pontopiddian seem small In compari-
son. It's diameter in the middle was
apparently about ten feet. tapering
OF towards both ends, the head being of
the size OF 4, New Orleans molasses
hogshead and the tail flattened into an
instrument of propulsion, giving it any
rate Of speed which occasion re-
quired. It was covered with large,
thick scales and its color above the
water line was Z mixture Of yellow and
green, blending underneath in tint
resembling that Of the Long Island
squash.
It happened along just in time to
witness conflict between gigantic
shark and an equally colossal alligator,
which It brought to conclusion by
seizing the former and biting it entire
ly in twa swallowing the section
which contained the :vanquished ahf
gator and closink competitive dietary
incident which would have attracted
attention anywhere. No such thrilling
tale. of this marvellous ophidian has
been rehearsed within memory and the
original Tam O. Shanter, whose, name
the discovering vessel bears. could not
in his most rapt visionary mood have
seen : bigger or more voracious one.
Explorers Of serpent lore ought "a tAlle
ship Tor Borneo u3theut deJ1Y II t1eY
tlilk tAat the aaDt&in Ms been tG1liuI
, straight story. It II an exciting one,
1t any rate, and the habitual ocean
make which appears in our water Il
nsss worm in comparison.--N. 7. Trib-
uno.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31
Tromendoua Odds.

The biggest bet on record, according
to G. r. Sims, was made few years
back by young American who was as
sistaut at "a main" held in the grounds
Of a notorious young sporting marquis
now deceased. One bird was badly
crippled and the other was fighting
with terrible force. Twenty thou
sand to 4 pinch of snuff on that one."
said the young American millionaire,
which was taken. The American won.
-Chicago Chronicle.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

Some years ago rich man was sem
fenced in England for some crime to .
term OF penal servitude. So enamored
did he become with prison life and with
his surroundings during the period OF
his Incarceration. that, since his re-
lease, he has built for himself Q
miniature prison, with cells, exercise
ground and tread mill. Upon the lat
ter; it is said, he daily works just a. he
did while he was under his sentence
London Graphic. s<
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

Electricity On Aluminun Wire
It has been ascertained by expert
ments that an electric current sent
through an aluminium wire heated It to
temperature Of 400 degrees above its
melting point. The marvel was that
it did not drop. This was accounted
for by the fact that the oxidized flm
en- its surface was sufficiently strong to
keep it together. A magnet moved
gently about in it's neighborhood caused
it to wave and curve, and to coil and
twist and almost tie itself into knots
N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31
POSITION or FRANCE.

O0o O1 tie Few CO0ntR9D - GooGD00s
Hisessssal InpeseAns&
We Of the United StAtess who measure
distances by thousands OF miles, scarce
" appreciate the limited Areas Of some
Of the European nations hose names
are on our lips every dsy. England,
who received Christianity 900 years be-
fore the discovery Of America, whose
present reigniny. house can trace its
ancestry, back through nearly 10 geuer~
atoms Of kingA and princes to Alfred
the Great and beyond, the country
which for hundreds Of years has played
. larger part In the worlds history than
any other nation Of the earth-this
England is smaller than any one Of
more than = score Of our states France
islarger, and yet not large -one-6fteenth
the area Of the United States, excluding
Alasia; about thrive -fourths an extensive
az Texas, little more than four times
the size Of New York. almost tprecisely
equivalent to tie four states Indiana.
Tllinois, Nichigaa and Wisconsin.
France, too, Il one Of the few countries
Of enormous historical Importance. To
day her population seems to have
reached its maximum; 1 new impetus
to colonial expression has, % bessufe.
been given, but these colonies are IN
the maia % situated - e b eapebls,
for long TINA, Il not forever, Of adding:
little to the stRength or prestige OF The
mother country: % thAt one may rea-
sonably incline 70 believe that 0e m
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

1retsEAs&ersin-xe 4 tlSoal lhtwhen
you married my dangAter you an3d you
had expectationa. WHARF, are they, etr7
/ repeat, where are taey7
Worthless 0on.in-IaW--We3l, II yOu
don't know, sir, I'm suro I dont m.
derstood that you were : wealtby Aen.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

. Republican, bst .AsnesfoFta
80 airport any party on oationel
NY .,ass II has both . candidate and
'''as e..m in favor of silver At 10 to l.. |
pla''o:a "a of . man who is afraid to de-
s;m.elf - being absolutely for o.
el'4 .;,,.r.n-Hos. n. r. BersA tahts'
's' - IL, 6;ls6v Cosa,sss stAjoA nss ~;
IN 14ks CITY Afsy, iess.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-31

: ! H. Z
u Z Dese - ~ ooro fAa4 eAe Hasnasala
xn0us xea.
"Ths tasantulAs pine IN couAnement," :"
remarked an amateur spider collector.
''fefuse - spin or eat and seldom live
long. A centipede or scorpion, on the
other hand. commits suicide when 1t
sees no chance Of getting away"
Commits suicide Z" asked. "Why,
how7"
aBy inocaiating tt body with It's own
poison. have seem - do u time and
time again. The centipeds carries
poison in two little teeth, besides the sac
in each Of its many feet He bites his
body savagely when he wants to kill
himself, Just q . man would plunge .
dagger in his heart"
'And how does the scorpion kill him
self?"
"His poison Hes in the end Of his tail.
He turns the end Of his tail up over
his back and jabs it sharply; in few
seconds he il dead"
(which do you think the most inter-
esting, tarantulas or centipedes?" I in
quired of this practical student Of nat
ural history.
''Tarantulas," he replied. "They
have better dispositions and are much
more intelligent than their cousins, the
centipedes."
"Do you think they learn to know peo-
ple?"
sDo 7? Well, I'll show you. Look
here, Browny."
The little slide down to Browny's
hatch was pulled back and the fuzzy,
round-bodied king of spiders crawletl
out onto the promenade ground OF card
board in front of his dwelling.
Here's piece Of pear for you.
Browny," said the master.
"Does he like pears7"
"Only the Juice. He sucks the juice Of
raw beef occasionally, too, but he vastly
prefers good, fat grasshopper II he
can get him."
Browny examined the piece Of pear
critically with his feeler and pressed it
as If to extract the juice, but he did not
seem hungry. The master then took up
the star-shaped creature in his fingers
and felt separately every one Of the fatal
little legs.
"You see he n not hostile to me. Now
let my brother attempt to play with
him."
A curly-headed young man of 20 or
thereabouta drew near and called to the
tarantula coaxingly.
Browny instantly hunched himself
M M v.<xaA <aA - . rat a1fxu},acr nln I'm.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
MAYOR sUTRo ASKS DELAY,

wants the Pesthouse Matter Deferred
Until His Return From His Vacation.
When Mayor Sutro asked the Board of
supervisors for his sixty days leave of alb
sehce ne had apparently forgotten that the
Pesthouse matter was about to come up
before the board, and to insure that the
SUBJECT would not be decided before his
return, he addressed the following letter,
through his secretary, to each memb ber of
the e Board OF Supervisors yesterday:
.Mg Osdr SIR: The Hon. Adolph Sutro has
~ tIceeu .S me 70 express to you his qualification
az tne compliment that the board paid him in
cpurteonsiy granting his request for leave of
aIsenec He sasis Lof "a much needed rest
ne leeIs that the interests of the City will re-
low-members.
AS AS ne goes simply for recreation it would
sIea.ly reheve his mind from anxiety If he
shouaa carry the consciousness that during his
aosia aosence tne board would kindly postpone
acGoh on the Pesthouse until his return.
Ie uoes not think the public health will be
Je9Ps,uizeo e N by such delay, and hopes that you
W VII nnu ~ consistent with your sense of duty
ass as oapsrv1sor to grant mis- request for non
sS'iTn, hv h;,n Sucn course your part would be
Dy MN appreciated as personal favor Very
iespcoauiiy' J. TAYLOR ROGERS.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
THE MAJESTIC S|ERRAS.
JOAQUIN Miller Addresses an
Audience on Mountain
Scenes.
"Gaze on These Views: Where God
Has So Elequently Spoken, What
Can Man Add?"

After ten years meditation on 1.-The
Heights" the "Poet of the Sierras" came
down with message to the people, which
was delivered in his lecture in the Metro
politan Temple last evening under the
auspices of the California Camera Club.
1.-The Sierras" was the subject of the
poets message, and the latent fire of po-
etic Imagination and fervor imbibe6 dur
ing his soiourn among the masterpieces of
nature burst into full flame as he warmed
to his description of the beauty and
grandeur of the Sierras and the Yosemite
Valley.
"Ah, my friends" he feelingly said as
view of the Half Dome in the Yosemite
was projected upon the canvas, chow can
mortal man fittingly describe this? The
more I say the more ashamed 1 am of my
finite appreciation"
On views of Oregon Mr. Miller dwelt at
some length. Evidently he thought their
beauty admitted of more exact word
painting than those of the Golden State.
After the intermission and a soprano
SOLO, Thou Art My Life" by Miss Mile
Flynn, the poet stood very still and said
not a word, as though the music had
w
nature relgns supreme. View after view
was projected upon the canvas, but still
he stood wrapped in thought. a member
of the club stepped upon the platform,
whispered in his ear and then he resumed
his seat.
Ladies and gentlemen" said the poet,
very slowly II have been advised to say
something. Gaze upon the majestic views:
Where God has SO wondrously spoken,
what can man add?'
When the last view had been flashed
upon the canvas the poet turned to the
crowded assem- mblage and speaking very
rapidly said:
"How love to breathe the perfumed
air of the Sierrasl The refreshing ozone
aromatic shrubs lnfuse new life into a
mans WORKOUT frame. l am told that
these pine quills are gathered and shipped
to the far East, to the people OF Massachu-
setts and distant Maine, and there are
placed in pillows upon which sick persons
recline their weary heads and draw the
breath of life into their feeble lungs.
MY advice 10 you is to send your in
valids to the Sierras. 1t will amply repay
you for the expense"
'Sa's'parilla is cheaper" piped shrill
voice from the gallery, and there was
general laughter from that part of the
house, but the poet paid no attention to
this unsympathetic and earthly Interrupt
ton. 1t is doubtful if he heard it at all.
The lecture was concluded amid generous
applause.
The club is well pleased over the lecture.
The deep feeling displayed by the speaker
and the qualification of the audience at the
mental treat, went far toward making the
managers feel amply repaid for their
trouble in securing the presence of the
gifted poet.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
A RIDING CLUB.
The Members of the Horse Show As
sociation Will Practice Eques-
trianship.

The members of the Horse Show Asso-
citation will meet in the Mills building
Wednesday, April %, at P. NJ, for the
purpose of forming the San Francisco
Riding Club. The object of the organlza-
tion is to acquire greater proficiency in
equestrianship and otherwise prepare for
the next horse show. Captain j. Delhan
of the Riding Academy at the corner of
Polk street and Pacific avenue will have
charge of the instruction of the members.
The following have subscribe to the club
up to date:
Henry J. Croker. George A. Newhall, ]. J.
Moore, Ward McAllister. Leon Bocqueraz, W.
II. Talbot, MIS-. w. B. Hooper, James A. White,
W. B. Chapman, B. B. Somers Ch du Pare,
Mrs. Fannie Lent, George P. Wetmore, Charles
E. Mooser, James +. ]. Archibald, Charley B.
Brigham, B. MinvieIle, g. Ouarrie, August Or
ton, Z. Polhemus, William Greer Harrison, E.
A. Brugiere, l. W. Hellman Jr., Joseph S. To-
bin, William Bourns and Mary N Farquharson.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
Name. i.

The Fairmount Club, which has been in
existence for some time, has got the park
bee in its bonnet and wants a pleasure
ground located at Thirtieth and Douglass
streets, consisting of eighty acres. This
tract of land, it is said, will be donated by
Baldwin & Hammond if the Supervisors
promise to lay it out in park and beau
tify it.
The Folsom-street boulevard, much to
the Joy of A. B. Mcguire, its originator,
has assumed a promising attitude. The
Market-street railway combine has its ties
and rails strewn along that street, from
Sixteenth to Nineteenth, and would have
commenced removing the cobbles last
Thursday were it not for the heavy down
pour of rain. But start will assuredly
be made on Monday, when gang of
workmen will commeuce active operation.
Once the track is laid, Superintendent
J. w. Mcdonald OF the Street Improve
ment Company will follow and remove
the cobbles on each side of the railroad s
work ana replace them by six-inch layer
OF concrete, over which will be spread two
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
WAGES FOR LUMBERMEN.
The State Labor Bureau Is Sendin 6
Large Num- bers of Men North.

The State Labor Bureau Is Sending
Large Numbers of Men North.
Commissioner Fitzgerald of the Labor
Bureau is sending large number OF men
to the northern lumber districts, where,
he says, exceptionally good wages are
being paid.
In few days he will have prepared for
distribution copies of his bill. framed for
the general aIleviation of the laboring
men, which he purposes recommending
for passage at the next sitting of the State
Legislature.
''This BILL" said he. sis the result of my
years investigation concerning the condl-
ton of the workingman.
''lt is intended to relieve the hardship5
as they exist. l will distribute these
copies to the labor unions and to such
persons as are desirous of becoming in
formed on the matter contained in it. I
desire the laboring people to study it, and
if they do not consider it all that CORE
spends to their needs, why, of course, then
l do not expect it to be passed.
at is a fact that for labor to oppose
capital is destructive to the best interests
of both. Capital and labor should go
hand in hand, and this proposed bill is in
tended to relieve honest capital and honest
labor
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
"BL|NGUM" AFTER GLORY
Will Meet Riverside Polo Cracks
for the Coast Champion.
ship.
Swelldom Has an Excellent Team to
Oppose the Englishmen of Southern
California.

What is virtually the polo championship
of the Pacific Coast, although not SO called,
will be deciued on the 7th and 9th OF May,
when the heretofore invincible Riverside
team of Southern California will again
meet the cracks of the Burlingame Club
and try to defend the laurels captured
from northern swelldom last year.
The first game is to be played at San
Jose during the Santa Clara County Car
nival of Roses. The managers of the
flower fete have made arrangements for
the match on the TIN and will pay the
travelling expenses of the team from the
south, the members of which are the same
men who distinguished themselves in the
brilliant contest of last spring, when the
score stood 10 TO against Burlingame.
Bettner, the star player in that contest,
was formerly a resident of Boston, but like
his fellow-players. all of whom are English
men, he has been in Riverside for the last
FIVE or six years defending season after
season the championship of Southern
California against the polo team OF Santa
Monica. The two Maud brothers, Bettner
and Waring are the men who will ride
for Riverside.
The Burlingame Club has six excellent
players to choose team of four from this
year. They are Lawson, Baldwin, Hobart,
the two Tobins and McCreary. 1t is the
present intention to arrange things so that
each of these men may play in at least one
of the two matches. Joe Tobin will not
play in the match at San Jose, but will
content himself with defending his club
on their own grounds, for the second game
is to be played at Burlingame. He said
yesterday that the Burlingame team is
playing better and harder this season than
ever before, and that there are more and
better polo ponies for the men 10 choose
from; and as result, he looked for very
close contest with no advantage now for
either side.
The rain will benefit rather than injure
the polo fields, a spongy, green field being
just what the riders want to prevent in
jury to their fieet-footed little horses
1t is probable that another polo contest
will come OFF at Burllngame a little later
in the season, between the Fourth Cavalry,
stationed at WaIla Walla, Wash, and the
Burlineame team. These two clubs met
last year and the visitors from the north
were easily defeated.
Polo is as yet new game to Califor-
mans, but for those who have once seen q
good match the sport has all the intensely
exciting fea lures of closely contested in
tercolleglate football game; and the thou
sands here that have in the last few years
learned to appreciate what that means,
will know what royal sport is being rap.
idly developed so near home, and by q
team that stands an excellent chance of
being hailed as the champions of the Pa
cific Coast,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
Carpenters Oppose shingiors.

Carpenters Union No. % met last night in
the Odd Fellows building and voted solidly
to oppose the request of the shinglers to be
allowed to join the Building Trades Council.
There are about thirty or forty shinglers in
this City known as such, and for some little
time they have attempted to obtain recogni-
tion from the Building Trades Council, bur so
far have been unsuccessful
The carpenters will give their big annual
picnic Mt Sunset Park, Santa Cruz Mountains.
tomorrow, and the president of Union %
is authority for the assertion that every union
carpenter will be on hand to entertain the
guests of the day.
Twenty-three new members were initiated
lnto the carpenters Union last night, a final
gathering up of possibilities that leaves the
City practically without q non-union car
penter.. After May l ii will cost the initiate
$40 10 join the union.