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HIS BODY FOR SALE.
Means by Which u San Francisco Ma
Hopes to Prolong His Life.

Means by Which . San Francisco Man
Hopes to ProlOng His Life.
There is a man in San Francisco will
ing to barter his body to pay his debts
"a man so honest that the duns of his
landlord drive him to desperation. Re
Gently he tried to sell his body to the
board of health that he might be able
to live decently and honestly until the
time for delivery.
The mans name is Wilhelm Opper-
mann, and he is 81 years old. He has
lived in San Francisco 13 years, and in
America 81. He first saw the light in
Hanover, and something of the father
land speech still fingers on his tongue.
The body he wishes to sell is hand
some and healthy, and many million
aire, who has not lived as well, would be
glad to pay ten times the price, could
the transfer take place Immediately
Oppermann has never been ill, but he
is willing to sell the body that has
served him so well on condition that
his soul be allowed to retain his mortal
Fart as long as it likes. Afterward the
purchaser of the body can do what he
likes with it.
BY profession Oppermann is COM
poser and teacher of music, his instru-
ment being the either. Years ago he
made fair living in San Francisco mu-
sic teaching, but his stringed instru-
ment is no longer the fad. Pupils have
fallen of, and if the few remaining ones
are i'll or have no engagement there is
no pay for the teacher.
And so things have gone OH from bad
to worse with the old master and his
old wife. They have moved from place
TO place-always to less desirable one.
Now they are. not able to pay the rent
of the little house at 20 Julian avenue.
In January Oppermann sold his beau
tiful concert either, which he loved as
he loved his soul, and better than his
body. It went for third of it's value,
and the money was gulped down by the
rent-ogre. Though it is only May, the
wolf is again at the door.
In his extremity Oppermann thought
out his novel scheme. He decided to
offer his body for sale. So he ap-
preached the board of health and asked
them to buy. Taken back by his propo-
sition, one of the members told him to
put his petition in due form and present
it on Wednesday. The old man is hop
ing that the proposition will be ac-
cepted.
If not, he is going to the medical col
leges to ask them to buy fine, stalwart
old body, to be delivered to them when
the owner is through with it. In this
way the mind that owns the clay hopes
to get another start in this slippery
world of ours.-San Francisco Chron-
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r-,konpt, and Dclyannis.

Fortunate it is, indeed, for ureece
that her passions are subject sometimes
to the Northman's check. In their suo-
seryience to the sway of impulse ana
nassion the Greeks are the veriest chill
dren. The only one oftheir own states-
men who could long control or guide
them was Trikoupis, and he was nan
Anplo-Saxon in blood, and almost en-
tirely English in training and temper.
His coolness, his persistency OF purpose
and his fine nationality, Joined to an un-
selfish love of his fatherland which no
one could mistake, gave him his power.
The intimate personal relations exist
ing between him and the king had been
the means of great advantage to tine
state; and the breach between them,
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The bones of very aged persons have
a greater proportion of lime than those
of young people.
The owls wise look is the result of
a physiological oddity, his eyes being
fixed immovably in their sockets.
Only one person in fifteen has per-
feet eyes, the larger percentage of de-
fectiveness prevailing among fair
haired people.
In tropical forests SO large proper
tion of the plants are of the sensitive
variety that sometimes the path of a
traveller may be traced by the wilted
foliage.
According to the most delicate ex-
periments or the most famous scientists,
the heat of the lunar rays which reach
the earth is scarcely the twelve-mil-
lionth of a degree.
The total duration of bright SUM-
shine for q week in Aberdeen, Scotland,
recently amounted to nine hours, in an
English town 16 hours, and in London
but little over quarter of all hour.
Although the brain is perpetually
active, yet the whole of it is never at
work at one time. The two hemispheres
Or halves do not operate simultaneously,
but alternate in action-now it is the
one half, then the other.
For seven years the st. Lawrence
river gradually decreases in depth; then
for seven years it gradually increases in
depth, the difference in level being
about five feet. Why it does so no one
has yet discovered.
Size for size, a thread of spiders
silk is decidedly tougher than one of
steel. An ordinary thread Will bear a
weight of three grains. This is about
so per cent. stronger than steel thread
of ho fhiol-nnrS
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TALL MEN ARE HANDICAPPED

Many People PrejuIfccd Against
Them Because Of Their Stature.
Two French physicians who have
been making Investigations have come
forward with a general denunciation of
tall men as no good. They instance the
giants of the world, who have been pro-
verbally dull and men OF gloomy dis
position, and then they go on to say that
the chances are against phenomenally
tall men or even very tall men being
bright.
There should, however, be very care
full distinction drawn between tall men
and giants. Giantism has been demon
strated to be disease. The victims suf-
fer from a malady which produces an
enlargement of the joints, and this, more
than any other growth of the bones,
produces their extraordinary height.
But men within certain limits grow tall
without suffering decreased or absorbed
mentality. It will not do to denounce
the tall man when the world has seen
so many examples of his being able to
hold his own.
The real reason why the tall men do
not come to the front oftener is that
they are modest as they are extended.
Little men usually hustle about to such
an extent that people believe they make
up in width of views what they lack in
stature. In their absorbing ambition
not to be overlooked they simply over
do the thing and make those whose
command of the horizon is larger be-
lieve that they must get out of the way
or the little fellows will run over them.
The tall man is almost always looking
down on some one, but if anyone be-
lieves that it is comfortable situation
he should get himself into it once and
discover how unpleasant it is to carry
on conversation with the assistance of
a telephone neck. 1t is this excruciat-
ing experience that makes the tall man,
as rule, reticent. His reticence is mis-
taken for pride, pride is believed to be
the evidence of doubt of his own pow
ers, doubt proves deficiency, deficiency
in the tall man can arise only from one
thing--development Of the body at the
expense of the brain and nervous sys-
tenn. Hence the short man easily ar
rives at the conclusion that the tall man
is misfit, and that he is the only per-
feet being going. Perfection being
accorded him, he might easily conquer
the world, but he always spoils his
chances by marrying tall woman, who
holds him back. This is the only reason
why the men under five feet six inches
have not already exterminated those
over five feet nine inches.-Sayannah
News
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Near New Brunswick, N. j., are found
ore, which contain loose particles that
rattle, when shaken, like the contents
of child's rattle box. It is thought
that when the concretions of ore were
formed, the central parts consisted prin-
cipalIy of some material which after
ward rddissolved away, so that the interior
space now contains only fragments Of
broken the fractured edges sometimes
show beautiful bands of red and yell
low.--Minerals.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03

The KEysroNE is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. sawtooth
and Smoky mining regions. and. located
as It Is In the very heart Of the most prom
Using mining country on the face Of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis Of all
mining news and developments, as we'll ~
matters of local importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler Of every
craft and position. Subscribe for it, read
it, and let your friends read it.
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"Babies Checked Here

A curious feature Of large relief
works camp in the Punjab where about
10000 persons are at work, is an ar
rangement just introduced by which a
large number Of babies are looked after
while their mothers are at work. Pre-
vious to this about 700 or 800 babies Of
allsorts were all left in one place and the
mothers, anxious in the evening to re-
claim their little ones, presented scene
which is better imagined than de-
scribed. 1t was not possible even for
mothers to find their own babies cas-
lily, and the authorities were embar-
rassed not little. The officer in
charge, however, has treated the babies
on the umbrella and coat principle. He
has provided each of the babies with
a string and ticket in duplicate, one
being hung round the baby's neck and
the other given to the mother.-Alla'
habad Pioneer-Mail.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03

Prof. Roberts, of Cornell, has grow
ing around his house what he calls q
"tree clock" Trees are planted in
such positions that one of them will
shade portion of the house at every
hour OF sunlight. For example, ex-
plains Rural New Yorker, atnine o'clock
IN the morning the mine o'clock tree"
shades part of the piazza, while as the
sunlight changes, the ''ten o'clock tree"
shades another part, and so on through
the day. On a hot summer day this
stree clock" insures a succession of
shady places around the house.-Wash-
ington Star.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03
Bricks Of Ala1.

The manufacture of bricks from fur
mace Stag is an important Bohemian in
dustry, the granulated Stag mixed with
caustic lime hardening to cement
like rnass, from which the blocks are
made, weighing about ten pounds each.
Such bricks will bear, theoretically, SO
pounds per square centimeter, though
practically, 25 pounds is the limit of the
burden put upon it; hence 1000 bricks
can be safely piled above each other
without any danger that the bottom
one will be crushed by the weight. and
the broad side of The brick will bear q
burden of 10000 pouuds.-N. Y. Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03
The Biggest Big Tree.

The really great American tree OF
to-day is the big tree Of Tule ID Mex
leo, in the state of Oaxaca. That tree,
cypress, still in full vigor and active
grUwths is 154 feet in circumference
If a section of this tree were taken
for a table there is no house that 1t
could be taken into. Mr.. Astor pro.
poses to put 40 Of his fellow English
men at As front feet Of table. That''
the very tight squeeze OF 1h foot apiece
Similarly jammed you could put 13e
people at the Tule tree tabae.-Chioagc
Chronicle. -s.-.-g-- lt-.-st
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Queen OlRa,s Philanthropy.

The queen Of Greece is at the head Of
an association of women whose object is
the moral regeneration of criminals.
They frequently visit the inmates of the
prisons in Athens, giving them religious
instructions and a sympathetic atten-
ton to their woes. She is also famous
for her skill in fancy needlework.
and creates the most curious and beau
tiful articles. The queen of Portugal is
more frivolous, having the reputation
of being the ''most dressy" lady in Eu-
rope. Her pale complexion and auburn
hair permit any colors, and she often
appears in astonishing costumes.
Princess Waldemar Of Denmark ranks
among the most fashionable of royal
ladies.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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INDEPENDENCE DID NOT PAY.


She Made u Great Mistake, for Her
Bluff Was Taken Seriously.
"The meanness of some people passes
my comprehension" declared the
strong-minded girl as she dashed into
the club meeting. IF was as mean
and stupid as some people I'd choose a
nice shady corner Of the country and
die there!"
whats the matter? Won't your ia
ther give you money to pay your cleo
ton bets with, or has Charlie struck in
the matter Of flowers and theater
tickets?"
'They haven't done just either OF
those things, but they're as mean az
dirt, nevertheless. This is the way
they've acted:
"You know how I've always wanted a
big camera. Well, papa never would
get me one, and Charlie has absolutely
refused to take my hints on the sub
ject, too. So one night recently I
said was going to save up for one, and
l thought that would do tho business.
But it didn't. Papa merely laughed
and said he'd buy me bank to put my
pennies in, and Charlie, the big idiot,
begged me to allow him to purchase it
the bank, not the camera. And, of
course, couldn't do a thing but smile
and say pretty things; profess I liked
to be independent and that sort of chat
ter. I never do know when to hold my
tongue.
$50, last night Charlie brought the
bank to me, and what do you think,
girls! It was one of those hand
painted china affairs which won't open,
and it's quite too pretty to break, so you
see what fix I'm in. And papa and
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03
THE uNlNvENTivE FOREIGNER.

He Does Not Know How to Signal
the Engine Room.
A comparison of the different meth
DDS of doing what is practically the
same thing in various parts OF the
world is both interesting and amusing
to the thoughtful observer. On Amer
lean ferryboats the import is well
known of the sting ting" or Jingle
Jingle" of the bell by which the man
N the wheel house communicates with
lis fellow mortal in the engine room.
On the Thames, however, it would be
considered practically impossible to
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-03

Charlie both put In hve-dollar gold
piece, too. And then this morning
mamma told me that If hadnt said
so much about wanting 10 buy the
camera myself Charlie was going to
buy me a lovely one. Now. what do
you all think of that for luck k9"-Chica-
on Times-Herald
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When ladies go to buy dress in japan
they tell the shopkeeper their age and
if they are married or not, because there
are special designs for the single and
double relations Of life. as well as for
ages. The consequence of this painful
custom is that you can tell the age OF
every lady you meet, and know whether
she is married, precisely as though she
were labeled or you were'a census taker.
-Banner of Gold.
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Horseneah a. Food In France.
There are at present in France more
than 200 butchers who deal in horse
flesh exclusively.-Chicago Times Her
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n! EXYCAN

,Uue mining claim in Warm Springs Creek,
III III boulder, mining district, Blaine county,
do ddaan0, IN order to hold said premises un
ger the provisions of section 1924, Revised
ss*tutes s, OF the United States, being the
auS sm9Iht required to hold the same during
S;tt aad lor said calendar year 1895. and if,
tho ahaenih ninety days after the expiration of
sne publication of this notice, which will be
Suonshed tor ninety days, you fail or re
,;nn W contribute your respective proper
sona ns ol such expenditure as co-owners,
iS1fuihg sSiS CI to your respective interests in
sirtoaim fru elaim viz: b. w. Watlington. one
tare.eshth, S.25; \. Ii. Rahm, one-six-
siohtI' so2 %. and Nelson f. Kimbull, one
w1i 1iIth, Il, Si250, your interests in said claim
art, pe forfeited to and become the prop.
sy ssr.y Of the undersigned, under and by viz
Tue OF said section 2324.
" EDWARD BRISBIN.
flrst publication, Feb. l5, 1886.
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WELLINGTON

about inning INN claim, situated on Bear gulch,
in W.T. ,iee ns miles northeasterly of Galena.
couptv 4 IN hiver mining district, Blaine
Reyissd sSaaho, as required by section 1924.
ing ths statutes of the United States, be-
for tho amlount required to hold the same
be;m. bS. your proportion of the same is S50
from ,I IIne-half; and if within ninety days
ninstvu uie service of this notice. or within
You isii lays after this notice by publication
posean,i ~,i or refuse to contribute your pro-
incliiS;no VI such expenditure as co-owner.
Your in.sg legal costs of this publication,
propertU IN said claim will become the
provisicruo VI The undersigned, under the
=, S'ohs of said section 1924.
Ketchun, "a, JOHN CAREY.
Fun, Fun. Idaho, January IA, 1885.
publication, Jan, l8. 1895.
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Notice of Forfeiture.

signs: A'Si %
psnGoaa nGo are hereby notified that I have ex-
t,ro tusu s. lne SUN of one hundred (lOO) dol
s' III labor and improvements upon the
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'ob. W. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
Nelson F. kiinball, your heirs. devisees
and assigns:
lou are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended $lG0, in the year 1895,
~ ISDOf and iLnprovements upon the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
EARLs OF ELECTRA
Preparing for the Coming of Their
Queen.
Scheme for the Grand Pageant 10 Conn
p1ete-Tt WIZ BE the First of Its Kind
Ever Attempted In Americs-PkNns
for the Trolley Floats.

In the parade that win celebrate heE
visit to St, Louis. Queen Electra. God
dess Of Light and Queen OF the Electric
Spark. has commanded that the subject
to be illustrated In honor OF her coming
b to some extent set forth. in order that
Oenighted earthlings be given opportunity
TO study and be prepared to appreciate
that Erand event To that end. therefore.
her mundane representative has decided.
because OF this command as well also as
that the pageant is to take q new line of
departure into that field so little explored
-electricity-to give the subject to be pre-
sented as well as some idea OF its treat
ment. as here set forth.
THE Planets and Consultations" the
subject chosen. is best adapted to IL
! lustrate the worship of Electra, Goddess
OF Light and Queen or the Electric Spark.
Every float OF the pageant will be thrown
into the f1el1 OF strong electric light by
the footlights surrounding the lower edge
of the floats. The power will be taken
from the wire by trolley and running
over the street car line will present O
scene OF glory.
The costumes viii be entirely new and
built especially to meet the requirements
OF their novel parade. In truth it Will
be in all its splendid features a magnifl-
cent surprise, and Is calculated to arrest
attention at once and bring to St. Louis
next fall a great concourse OF people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
THE STORM CENTER

OF the Big Coal Strike to Be Located NeaI
Wheeling, the Scene OF Former Dis
surbances-A Number of United States
MarshaIs Already Secured to Protect tbs
Men Remaining at Work-At Other
Points,
storm center of the big strike bids
fair to be located in the vicinity OF
Wheeling. Already the operators in
the Paramount CIV. Va-) region are pre-
pairing 20 send great quantities of coal
into Ohio and the lakes, and Wheeling
is the gateway through which
this coal will pass Three roads,
the Baltimore & Ohio, the Wheel.
ing & Lake Erie and the
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling, will
carry it through to Its markets. Along
the line of each road in eastern Ohio
are located many coal mines, nearly all
of which have closed down since the
strike was declared last week. 1t was
in this area that the turbulence OF
three years ago occurred, when sew
eral thousand men of the Ohio national
guard were out
The fear is now becoming general
that the coal from the West Virginia
mines passing through will provoke
violence on the part of the idle union
miners and their friends in eastern
Ohio.
Already the receivers of the Wheel
ing 81 Lake Erie road have secured
the services of a number of United
States marshals to protect the
small number of men still at work
in their mines in this vicinity, another
cause of possible acts of violence. Sew
eraI of the mines in Belmont county,
O., have agreed to accept the 60
cent rate, but the striking miners OBJ
ject to these mines resuming, fearing
it will injure the hoped-for effective
ness of the strike, which depends, OF
course, on little or no coal entering the
market.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
THE CRY or DAMASCUS.

From Damascus came the art of in-
LAYING wood and steel with silver and
gold, called damascening, this method
Of decoration being used to beautify
boxes, bureaus, swords and guns.
Everyone has heard of the wonderful
Damascus swords, the secret of tho
make having been lost when Tamcrlane
carried of the artists to Persia. The
swords are remarkable for their keen
edge and wonderful elasticity.
From Damascus come the damson.
our blue plums, and the delicious april
cot of Portugal called damasco, damask
linen, the damask rose, which was in
troduced to England in the time OF
Henry VIII.
Damascus is the oldest city in the
world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbledr
Palmyra is buried under desert sands
and Nineveh and Babylon have disap-
peared, but Damascus alone remains
as it was in the days of Abraham, CEN
ter Of trade and travel.
Damascus is an island of verdure in
a desert with martial and sacred as
sociations extending through 80 cen
turtles. 1t was near Damascus that Saul
of Tarsus saw the light. The caravans
come and go as they did 1000 years ago.
and the merchants of the Euphrates
and Mediterranean still crowd the mar
row streets,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
A MATER OF DOUBT.

| The President May Not Send His Proposed
Currency Message-At Any Rate Not for
the Present = Prominent Senators and
Representatives Believe that Final Action
Thereby.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The proposed
message of the president to congress
recommending the appointment OF a
| commission to consider the question o.
a revision of our currency and national
banking laws will not be transmitted
for several days, if it goes in at all.
which is matter of doubt.
The president is now undecided
whether or not to send In any message,
for the reason that a number of most
important leaders of the party in the
senate and house have made strong
representations to him of the mad
visibility of sending a message to con-
gress while the tariff bill is in confer
ence. Senators Allison and Quay, Rep
resentative Dingley and other party
leaders called at the White House
and held long conference with Presi-
dent Mckinley. They urged him to
reconsider his determination to send
special currency message to congress,
and gave as reason that the senti-
ment in congress was such that it
would be likely to arouse feeling and
cause friction that would delay speedy
final action on the tariff bill.
After the conference Secretary Por-
ter announced to the newspaper men
that it had been decided that it would
not be expedient to send in the mes
sage for the present, and that it would
not go in for several days at least, and
might be deferred altogether during
the special session of congress.