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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
ANIMALS TRADES.
bees Are Geometrfcians, Caterpillars
Silk Spinners and Beavers
Are Buildero.

Bees are geometricians. The cells are
so constructed az with the least Quan-
tity of material to have the largest
spaces and least possible loss of in
terstice, says the Louisville Com
mercial. The mole is a meteorlopist.
The torpedo. the ray and the electric
eel are electricians. The nautilus is a
navigator; be raises and lowers his sails
and casts and weighs anchor and per-
forms other nautical acts.
Whole tribes of birds are musicians.
Caterpil!ars are silk spinners. The
squirrel is ferryman; with a chip or
piece OF bark for boat and his tail for
a sail he crosses the stream.
The beaver is an architect, builder
and woodcutter; he cuts down trees and
erects houses and dams. The marmot
is civil engineer; he not only builds
houses. but constructs aqueducts and
drains to keep them dry.
The white ants maintain Q regular
army of soldiers.
One whale will furnish from 1000 to
1900 pounds of bone. At San Fran
cisco the bone is split, sorted as to color
and tied into bundles. These split
pieces are called slabs and are three to
eight feet long and weigh from three to
seven pounds.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
MONSTER HAWSERS.
Big Ropes Used I'm the Navy for
Cables and Towing Heavy
Vessels.

The largest cable Of modern times is
the MANILA hawscr which was sued to
tow the drydock TO Havana. 1t is %
inches in circumference, but it is by no
means the largest that ever has been
made, although it has the reputation of
breaking the record.
There are at least two others of a
greater circumference, but both older.
One of these had circumference of %
inches, and was used for the purpose of
ahchoring the ship North Carolina in
the navy yard at Brooklyn, while the
other was 24-inch hawser, which was
used as sheet anchor cable on the Ten
nessee, when she was stationed in the
Mediterranean in the SOS.
Such an enormous rope was naturally
found to be unwieldy, fact which was
nbundantly demonstrated when the
vessel encountered a storm in the Bay
of Naples. When the Tennessee re-
turned to her native home in America
the hawser was sent to the oakum mills
and made into oakum.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
PAY OF TRAINED NURSES.
Tneir Duties Are Sometimes Very Ar
0uous, and Continuous Work In
Next to Impossible.

The average sum paid to pupil nurses
is ten dollars month for the first year
and $14 month during the second
year. writes Elisabeth Robinson Scovil
in the Ladies' Home Journal. The re-
muneration varies in different institu-
tions. In few training schools the
nurses are paid nothing. After gradua-
ton head nurses in hospital wards re-
ceive from $50 to $50 per month; SUI
Perintendents from $500 to ST ZOO year,
District nurses, who are employed by
various churches, societies, and some
times by private benevclence to work
among the sick poor, receive about the
same salary as head nurse in hospi-
tai, exclusive of board.
Private nurses receive from SIS teSc5
a week. They have to pay the rent Of
a room to use as headquarters, and
their earnings are more or less pre-
carious. 1t is rare for a nurse to be em-
ployed all the time, and her work is SO
arduous that it would be impossible for
her to stand the strain of continuous
work.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
A Mixed Race.

Not all Americans are Anglo-Saxon.
Even in the south, where the propor-
ticn of people drawn from that source
is greatest, there are strong infusions
of French, Irish and Scotch-Irish blood.
In the west are extensive German, Irish
and Scandinavian populations, in the
east vast Irish population, large Ca
madam French element and an immense
number of Germans. Even what is
called the Anglo-Saxon stock is mixed
with Dutch, Huguenot and Scottish
contributions. When this country has
fighting to do she does not look to one
race among her people, but to all, and
her foreign relations cannot be planted
on the afiinities of fAnglo-Americans or
any other ethnic element.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
TIN MUSIC ALONG SHORE
Life-Savers Of the jersey Coast In
troduce GraphopAoaes Just
for Fun.

Many Of the life-saving stations along
the New Jersey coast have tin music on
tap to keep out the roar of the ocean
and the whistle of the cold winds. The
little graphophones with the tin mega
phones are much in evidence. The sta
tons at Shark river, Spring lake. Squan
beach, Bayhead, Mantoloking, Toms
river and Island beach have all been
enjoying metropolitan amusements at
long range. Every station own q cyl
inder that cheerily tells about the high
temperature on one night in an old
town. When the winds sweep up the
beach at 20 and so miles an hour those
who staid indoors kept the ''hot-time"
cylinder doing double duty, until it was
a question whether the graphophone or
the stove was the warmest thing
around.
When the crew at Squan station saw
an advertisement of the talking and
singing machines two cents was in
vested at once for catalogue and
cheap one was bought on speculation.
As soon as it arrived there were contin-
uous entertainments. The telephones
were opened. and some of the good
things were shared with the life-savers
upand down the beach. The idea spread
like contagion, and now there is a
graphophone society along the New
Jersey beach. Each station buys cyl
inder every four weeks and exchanges
it along the line, and in this way there
is change Of programme weekly in
each station.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Plot Enough for q Bank.

An ex-sea captain now living in Sgd
ney. N. S. w., was many years ago in
charge of ship carrying some con-
victs. The convicts mutinied, murdered
the crew and ordered the captain to
navigate them to the islands, and. be-
ing a prudent man. he did so. When
satisfied as to their course the convicts
deliberated, decided that he had be-
haved himself well and put him ashore
on the first large island they came to.
He was a musician and took his violin
with him. A threatening crowd Of saw
ages greeted his arrival, but the ma
rooned captain played to them till they
thought him a god, brought him unlim-
tied pigs and yams and bowed in adora-
ton. Finally h. married the chiefs
daughter, succeeded him and ruled the
island for years. till ship called and
he sailed away.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

The KErsroER Is the sole Representative
Of the Great Upper Wood River, SawtooaA
and Smoky mining regions, and, loeaesd
a. 1t is in, the very heart OF the most prom
ising mining country Oh the face Of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
mining news and developments, sas well a.
matters Of local importance in and shout
Ketchun, it Is an invaluable guide for cap
ftal and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe <or It, read
It, and let your friends read It.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

away for nearly half mile. At given
signal the kennel man releases one of
the dogs. who naturally gallops toward
the trainer. When the dog has go,
AWAY about 20 yards another dog is re-
leased. and so the process goes on until
ali the dogs are running toward the
trainer at distance of about 90 yards
from each ether. If the dogs were al
lowed to run together they would either
Play or fight with each other, and the
leading dog must be very good one at
or the gallop will be spoilt.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Formation Of Gold Nurxet..

Concerning the theory that gold mug
gets are formed by the depositing of
the gold around nucleus from sclu-
ton, Prof. A. Liversidge, the gold ex-
pert Of New South Wales, Australia,
has made Investigations which he
thinks disprove it. By slicing the mug
get and examining the cross sections
obtained he found no traces OF con-
centric coatings. but that the gold was
always more or less crystallized, the
crystals being in some cases very large
and with well-defined boundaries.
Some OF the nuggets also showed cavi-
ties and Enclosures Of quartz. although
in many cases none we're visible on the
rolled surface of the nugget.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Peculiar Funeral C~.tom..

Swiss funeral customs are most pecul-
lar. AT the death of person the family
inserts formal, black-edged announce
ment in the papers asking for SYM
pathy and stating that "the mourning
urn" will be exhibited during certain
hours on special day. In front of the
house where the person died there is
placed little black table, covered with
a black cloth, on which stands black
jar. into this the friends and ecquaint-
ances of the family drop little black
margined visiting cards, sometimes
with few words of sympathy on them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
HONEY-BEE POISON.
Experiments Made By . German 9o&-
ontast-Chenaical .a2d Toxto
Properties

The chemical and toxic properties oR
the poison Of the honey bee have been
a subject for long study by a German
scientist. DR.. Jose Zanger. During hfs
Investigations DR.. Zanger employed 25.-
600 bees. He found that the fresh poi
son is clear, like water, of an acrid re-
action, bitter taste, and of q fine aro-
matte flavor. On evaporating and dry
ing at temperature of 100 degrees
cen,igrade (212 degrees Fahrenheit), q
gummy residue is left. 1t is soluble in
water; with alcohol it forms an emui-
Sion-like mixture. The aromatic odor
is due to-a volatile substance. which dis
appear. ON evaporation, and is not
poisonous. The poisonous constituent
il not destroyed by short boiling, nor
by drying and heating the residue to
212 degrees Fahrenheit, nor by the di-
luted acids or alkalies. Dr. .Zangsr has
proved the existence OF formn acid, but
he has ESQ proved that there is not the
pois;y Gus principle. The latter is an
organic base, soluble with difficulty in
water. but kept in solution by an acid.
On the healthy skin neither the bee
poison or two per cent. solution of the
poisonous principle has any effect, but
they act as powerful irrtants on the
mucuous membranes. Ills tests, made
on rabbits and other animals, show
tha: when the poison is brought in con-
tact with the eye there follows Iachry-
nation. hyperemia, chemosis and Group
Gus membranes in conjunction. The
general condition is also affected; the
animals become melancholy, take no
food. but are very thirsty, and the urine
shows small amounts of albunen.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

signs: A' AA'AS -
penSus nSu are are hereby notified that have ex-
lar. ;,S the sum of one hundred (1OO) dol
- III labor and improvements upon the
IL, WELLINGTON
about Su inning ,hag claim, situated on Bear gulcb,
in Woade Wee miles northeasterly of Galena.
countv oq Mver mining district, Blaine
Rey;sssiS RTssS Idaho, as required by section 1904.
inc hoo th" statutes of the United States. be-
for tIe ths amount required to hold the same
thst VIC ue year ending December 81. 1895: !:
bsny! your eur PROPORTION of the same il $50,
from tHn Tne halt; and if within ninety days
ninetv de y service Of this notice, or within
you yty is;1 gays after this notice by publication
portion on ,f Or .n refuse to contribute your pro-
includ;nooi ~ such expenditure as co-owner,
Your mtg regal costs OF this publication,
proper,Ss sfest e in said claim will become the
pssvisiosn.o psis o. y. the undersigned. under the
Kstchnn "a, JOHN CAREY.
' puhlacation. Jas. Is lSoa
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
A WOODLAND MEMORIAL,
Wonderful Natural History AsyluM
An Honor Of Parson White,
of SelbOrne.

A memorial ~ appropriate q it 10 we'll
deserved Is about to be established at
the main entrance to the forest of
Woolmer, once the crown properties of
England, reports the Boston Tran
script. This inclosure is to be set aside
as an asylum for the wild birds and
animals OF the country. Gamekeepers
and watchmen will guard it day and
night. Neither cat nor dog nor any
known hostile intruder, either man or
beast, will be permitted to enter, and
at the gate will be erected statue of
Gilbert White, the parson who lived
and ministered in the little village of
Selborne and immortalized it with his
natural history of the place. He was
neither warrior, statesman, poet nor
artist, but simple-hearted and reverent
gentleman who remained at what was
considered lowly and unimportant
post and made daily discoveries among
the mysteries of nature right at his own
door. He lived in constant and loving
intimacy with birds and flowers and
animals. He knew their habits and
chronicled their histories. He did much
for science, but more as a teacher of hu-
manity in ways of kindness and as an
interpreter of the lower life to the high
er. We might have had a Thoreau
and Burroughs if there had not been
White, but there can be no doubt that
their philosophy has been enriched and
their tastes stimulated by his labors.
Humble as was his field apparently his
achievement has stood the scrutiny of
100 years and more, and his memory
is more honored to-day than ever be-
fore. Many names greater in their time
have had their day and stand before
us only in moldy memory, but his fame
grows fresher with each returning
springtimc.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Historic Canes.

Walking sticks have frequently been
left by will. Franklin bequeathed his
favorite stick, with a gold handle
shaped like cap of liberty, to George
Washington The gold-headed cane
used by Drs. Radcliffe and Mead and
others, whose arms are engraved upon
it, was bequeathed by Bai,lie to the col
lege Of physicians. Napoleon's walk
ing stick Of tortoiseshell was sold in
London in 1929 for 6 80.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
WOMEN OF THE NAVY.


The women who have experienced the
most mental sufferings and strain re-
sulting from the complications in Cuba
are the wives and families of the officers
Of the navy. Few of the enlisted men
are married and most of them are with
out home ties, but the contrary is true
of the officers.
This is a sad time for u.s." said the
wife OF famous naval officer q few
days ago. "All we can do il to wait and
hope. None Of the women of the navy
wants war. Its opportunities for pro-
motion and the winning Of glory do not
compensate for the terrible suspense
and anxiety which we have to endure.
Three OF my family are in the navy,
and my earnest desire is to hear news
of peace, although am trying to be
prepared for whatever happens"
While her husband is looking for or
ders from Washington she and her chill
dren await the issue of events in the
little New Jersey town which is their
present home. This is the attitude of
oil the women whose fathers. brothers,
husbands or lovers are in the navy.
Their interest in the chances of war is
more keen and personal than that of
any other class of people, for war with
Spain means naval action. Those who
are with the southern squadron are in
especial danger. Ever since the blow
ing up of the Maine and the subsequent
mobiiizing of the fleet in southern
waters the crying of every "war extra"
on the street. the receipt of every letter
and telegram and the circulation of
each new rumor of conflict have caused
quickened tension in officers families.
The suspense which the whole nation
has found it hard to endure has been
most cruel for them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Disxing for Fish.

The natives Of Kottiar are in the habit
ct digging every year in the summer
dry banks Of the vergel river for fish.
which they dig out by hundreds, just as
they would potatoes. The mud Jumps
are broken open and the fish, perhsps
eight or ten inches long. will always be
found alive and often frisky, as II just
removed from its supposedly native ele-
ment-the water.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Notice of Publication.

10 o. W. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
.l nelson +. kimball, your heirs, devisees
and assigns:
lou are hereby notified that the under
;Hsheh has expended $1C0, in the year 1895,
- '1oof and improvements upon the
MEXICAN
,uoe ~ mining claim in Warm Springs Creek,
S5a T. poulder, mining district, Blaine county,
das ddaaao, III order to hold said premises un-
Ses Se me provisions of section 1924, Revised
saes s.lutes OF the United States, being the
s,u9unt amy required to hold the same during
uith; Stiu ior said calendar year 1895, and ii,
tha hasnih ninety days after the expiration of
mi Puolleation of this notice, which will be
tuvs tuoisied for ninety days, you fail or re.
e tons 70 contribute your respective proper
a,vms a"oas, oi such expenditure as co-owners,
ss;S s;sSTiuing to your respective interests in
s;r,oclai u claim viz: B. w. Watlington, one
i.eSiith, $625; A. II. Rahm, one-six-
eishth' S25. and Nelson +. Kimball, one
wSII wSIIItn, a, sl250, your interests in said claim
srtr n as oe forfeited to and become the prop
tuss - VI tne undersigned, under and by yir-
VI SAID section 1924.
M EDWARD BRISBIN.
FIRST publication, Feb. Is, 1896.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

DR.. Frazer, Of London, and others,
have shown that the bile of snakes con-
tains vaccine against their venom, and
M. Phisalix, of Paris. has recently made
experiments which prove the virtue of
the bile to belong to cholesterine and
other hillary salts. When cholesterine
is injected into guinea piga the venom
loses its power over them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
MY UNCLE AND MY AUNT.


An ingenious French writer has been
explaining to curious world why the
pawn-broking establishments are called
my aunt Una tante), says the Lon
don News. Prince de Joinyille. son OF
Louis Philippe, was kept very short ol
money in his youth. One day the father
noticed that the prince was not wearing
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Wonderful Accuracy.

In recent experiments with Vicker's
six-inch rapid-firing gun the accuracy
was such that two of the projectiles in
a round Of ten dicharges went through
the same hole in target. It is antici-
pated that picric acid will be adopted
by the British authorities ~ an ex-
plosive for shells.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

Old Time Regulations of Dining.
An act of parliament was passed in
the reign of Edward III. prohibiting
anyone from being served at dinner or
supper with more than two courses, ex-
cept upon some great holidays therein
specified. on which he might be served
with three.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
9parrow a. = uausa

A French naturalist named Gallen
has made the discovery at Mines that il
sparrow is put in the same cage with
finchcs it viii soon learn to initiate
their song like mocldng bird; also tho
chiyping u1 Q exic10e&
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Forged Portraits Of Nfunnies.

DIR. Georg Ebers. the well-knowu
novelist and Egyptologist. says that
large trade il carried on in Egypt i"
forged portraits OF mummies. Wbe,.
the genuine portraits painted on woo.'
were first shown in Europe few year,
ago they found such ready sale that
concern has gone regularly into tn.
business OF making the portraits for
sale.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
Dean Fever.

Bean fever hes been added to the 1ist
OF epidem:c= like hay 4eser and rose
fever by = German doctor, who haa
christened his discovery .'favismus." !"
His enre for the disease i to keep away
dum bean delds.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

Decline Of French Shipping.
French shipping is slowly but stead
lily declining. In 1860 there were 500
candidates for examination for mas
ters' mates, and in 1890 only IS.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04

BreakaEe ON Ocean Steamers.
It is calculated on large ocean steam-
ers more than 1900 articles Of glass and
china are broken On every voyage.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-04
How they wed IN opaan.

Marriage in Spain takes place by day
or ct night. according to the fortune Of
the young people or their station IN lite.
II we'll to do the ceremony comes on IN
the early part of the morning.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-01-07
From the Post

IOAu TIC EQ6l.
Nov is the time ef year when South.
ern cotton planters get together and
adopt resolutions to limit the area of
land to be devoted to that crop in future,
said Mr. E w Glasscock, of Mississippi,
at the Riggs.
This is an old story, and has been
heardNiih variations for the past twen-
ty years. The resolutions are adopted.
the planters relieve their minds, feel bet
ter for it, 60 home and forget what they
soIemnly agreed on, and the next spring
plant 10 per cent more cotton than they
ever did before. 1t would be q glorious
thing If they would stand by the resolu-
tions, but it is folly to think any suf.
heentiy large number will ever abide by
any agreement to curtail the acreage
Rixen TO The production OF what has
been the only cash crop OF the South.
II is sadly true tina. the South is rails.
Ing sn over supply ef the feecy staple.
Ii she produced one half the amount
OF this years yield there is no doubt
that the price would be double, at least.
No matter how low the price goes no
concert of action can have the desired
effect of reducing the yield, for every
man will reckon that If his fellow farmer
plants Less. then 1t will be tia golden OPP
portunity to plant more.
"There is political phase of the ques-
tion that may be mentioned, and that is
that the low price of cotton has eolidifi-
ed the free silver sentiment of the rural
Southeners. It has been the death of
fopuiIsm, and will make the agriculs ur.
81 vote OF the South solid for All yer
man ia 1900.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-01-07

A woman's attractiveness in the eyes OF
man depends largely on her physical ap.
pearance. Nature, in order to preserve the
race, guides mankind by the instructive
preference for n mate who is physically
sound and wholesome.
If intellect alone were chiefly sought, the
offspring might be generation OF SOLO.
mons for wisdom but they would perish
In infancy for want of physical stamina
A weak or unhealthy woman is untitled to
fulfil her paS. in peIpetuating the !aee; sns
is unequal to the demands of motherhood
and wifehood, she Is robbed of her natural
womanly attractiveness.
MANY a woman is cheated of life's choicest
gifts by a dyspeptic, bile-poisoned condi-
ton of the system, which shows itself in
pimply skin, sallow complexion. tainted
breath, or thin, ungraceful form.
The most perfect remedy for all the morti'
fying symptoms of mal-nutrition and i'm.
pure blood is DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. Through its remarkable effect
upon the liver and digestive organs 1t
sweeps all impurities out of the eircuia-
ton and creates q fresh supply OF new,
rich, fe-giving blood.
It gives clearness and bloom TO the coti-
plexion; sweetens the breath; rounds out
the face and form, and invigorates the en-.
| tire constitution with vital energy.
II restores the invincibie beauty ofwhole.
| someness and womaniy capacity.
~ was a complete wreck. appetite gone, ncrv-
Gus system impaired; could not sleep, and was 50
weak that could not stand on my feet ten mia.
| utes" writes Miss Ella BARLEY, OF No. si,s
! South Grant Avenue Columbus, Ohio: - only
| weighed qsk pounds when commenced taking
| Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, Alter
| had taken a half bottle began to improve;
| could sleep soundly the whole night, and would
awaken with an appetite for breakfast, which
was a rare thing as never had for two year
| back eaten q hearty breakfast now have ar
| excellent appetite and my friends say they nevei
! saw me looking better or in better spirits siucs
they knew me. tell them II Is all due 10 Dr
Pierce's Discovery"
In all cases of obstinate constipation, tbs
Discovery" should he supplemented with
Or. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets