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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27
MRS. JOHN RICHIE DEAD.
widow Of Chief Justice and Prominent in
Several National women's Societies.

widow of Chief Justice and Prominent in
Several National womens Societies.
Frederic City, Md, Oct. 20.-Special
Mrs. John Richie, one of the most
prominent women in the south, died
here today at the age of SO years. ~
She was the widow of Chief Judge
John Richie and the mother of thirteen
daughters and two sons, including Mrs.
William 81. Purnell, Of KenOsha, Wis.,;
Mrs. William F. Sicard, of Washington,
and Mrs. Donald Mclean, of New
York.
Mrs. Richie was State Regent and
Vice President 6 General of the National
Society Daughters of the American
Revolution, promoter of the Francis
Scott Key memorial and the National
University to be established in WASH
ington. She was a direct descendant
of General Roger Nelson of revolution
airy fame.
The deceased was also sister of
Mrs. j. 81. Kimball, of this city.
q = TNzS.-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27

Attorney T. r. Kearney, of Racine,
spent Monday evening in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27
Consumption Leads The List.

DR.. Cleary, secretary of the Board of
Health, has recently prepared table
of the deaths which occurred in Keno
sha for the past year. 1t is very inter-
esting and goes to show that while
contagious diseases have often been
prevalent in the city, very few deaths
have resulted from such causes. Scar
let fever has claimed but four victims
and only seven children have died from
diphtheria. The diseases most TO be
feared seem to be lung diseases, as
during the year fifteen cases of con-
sumption have resulted fatally and
pneumonia claimed fourteeney victims.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27

Who said Indian Summerfs $40.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27

AUVdI. - ''e.:.- UI'7S%19'V.UO
OF this amount Kenosha county must
pay SIG, 7O6.29. co
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-27

Annual Levy is Reduced over $500, 900
From Last Years Assessment.

Annual Levy is Reduced over 5000
From Last Years Assessment.
The state tax levy this year amounts
to ST. ,492, $50, according to the table
prepared by the Secretary of State,
and is $500, 500 less than last year.
The state treasury is now in excellent
condition and able TO meet the running
expenses of the commonwealth without
drawing on the trust funds or other
wise necessirating shifting of &C
counts.
The table of taxes apportioned to the
counties this year is as follows:
One mill tax, common school
income, Sec. 1O72a, w. S. of
1893 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SoO0.00OOO
1880 mill tax for state normal
schools, Sec. 406a, w. S. of
1898 -. 1870 0o0OO
17-4O mill tax for state univer
sity, Sec. 390a w. S. of 1898. 255.0O 0G
Free High schools, Sec. 49lb 4 10
and 496, w. S. of 1885,. -. .s7.~ 50.00O0O
Interest due pom certificates, ofYv
Indebtedness, Sec. 269, w. S.
of 1885, ......,e - -. ,e.e<~- 157 500
LILO mill tax for State Historical @--' = f.
library, Chap. 298, Laws'~U
1895, Chap. 237, Laws of 1897, 6O.000 90
$40 mill tax, Chap: 148 Laws. of > .ee..e.
1897. ................ 10000 90
Total ..:... ?. !. .....,s. 81 ,492, $40 90
OF this amount Kenosha county must
pay SIG, 7O6.29. 2
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
A Granite Hotel for the Yosemite.

All the so-called hotels, cottages,
tents and other makeshifts provided
for the accommodation of visitors 10
the Yosemite valley are to give way in
the near future to a handsome, imPos-
ing and fireproof structure. to be built
at cost of about $4,000, of granite TO
be quarried in the valley. This project
was developed at a recent meeting OF
the Yosemite commissioners durIEg
the discussion of plans to provide for
the accommodation of visitors to the
valley. II am in favor of granite
building that can be constructed from
the stone right on the ground" said
Gov. Budd. Il don't believe it would
cost more than to build an equally large
hotel of lumber up there in the noun
tains, where the hauling of the lumber
costs more than the. lumber itself"
Commissioner Sperry said that agran-
ite structure with 100 rooms could be
put up at cost of $4,000 to $5o,ooG.
He suggested that plans ought to be sf :
cured to enable proper presentation
of the scheme to the legislature when
an appropriation was asked for. Gov.
Budd said he would, in his message to
the Legislature, call attention to the
proposition.-San Francisco Call.
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Gently patented. BY this method the
bales are made round. They are about
4 feet inches in length and feet in
diameter, with an average weight OF
about 500 pounds, and are intended te
take the place of the old-time box
bales. By this method the cotton is
taken from the condenser and is rolled
into cylindrical bale, compressed as
it is rolled up. The air is thus forced
out of the thin layer or mat, as 1t
comes out of the condenser, and is
kept out by being rolled between two
ponderous rollers of several tons each.
The inventor claims many advaE-
tages in cost and protection of the
fiber, and cotton men think this system
of round baling will, in great meas
ure, revolutionize the exporting busr
ness. While seventy-five or eighty OF
the old box bales will completely fill n
car, it is claimed that us or more OF
the round can be stuffed into car.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
VENUS OF MILO.
Buried in an. Oak Conn During the
Franco-Prussian War.

FrancO-PruSSs3n war.
The recent death of NJ Henri Brest,
whose name was celebrated many years
ago in connection with the statue o.
Venus, now one of the great treasures
in the Louvre museum, brings to mind
some interesting souvenirs connected
with that statue. 1t was, indeed, M.
Henri Brest who discovered the wonder
full statue which had been unearthed
by a peasant in the island of Milo and
who bought it of him for mere song
in 1890. He soon sold it to M. de Mar
cellus, through whom it reached the
Louvre, The wonderful statue re-
mained undisturbed in the gallery of
the Louvre, of which it was the prin-
ciral ornament, till the Franco-Prus-
sian war, in 1870, when the means OF
preserving it against the possible pil-
lace of the Germans caused great anxi-
ety to the curators. Few EEglishmen
are probably aware that the Venus de
Milo was on that occasion placed in an
immense sort of padded oak coffin and
buried mysteriously in great trench
made to receive, it in the courtyard
of the prefecture of police. This
was done in the middle of the
night, in the presence of very few
witnesses, with the object of keeping
the hiding place of the statue perfectly
secret. It was thought by the officials
of the Louvre that the statue was III
perfect safety there; but their anxiety
for the fate of the treasure was revived,
after the signature OF peace, by the
outbreak of the commune ard the set
ting fire to the prefecture of police and
to the Palais de Justice opposite.
Fortunately, however, when that insur-
rect;on had been put down the curators
of the Louvre, on once more unearth-
ing the statue, found it had suffered no
deterioration. The inscription on the
pedestal of the statue in the Louvre
does not even mention the name OF NJ.
Henri Brest. It relates simply that it
was bought by NJ. de Marcelius for
Marquis de Riviere. the French ambas-
sador, who presented it to King Louis
XVIII. in 1S21.-Chicago News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
A Strange Power.

\ 1t is curious thing, the power which
some human beings have over animals.
There is in Lowell boy, differing in no
respect from his companions, who has
this power in marked degree. Every
stray dog or cat in the neighborlood
knows him and loves to be in his COM
pany. A vicious horse which the sta
ble1nen can with difficulty handle will
stand like lamb while he harnesses
him. The doves fly around him, and in
the woods the wild birds apparently re-
gard hih as a friend and ally. The most
remarkable exhibition of his power,
which has long been known and com
mented on by his friends, was given the
other day. A large and vicious rat was
captured in the stable in one of these
traps which permit of easy ingress and
no egress. The men who were looking
az the animal were afraid to go near The
trap, the animal showed such terror,
but the boy, when he beheld the i'm
prisoned creature, fearlessly put out
his finger and stroked its head, the rat
manifesting as much pleasure as wtslld
a cat or dog. Several days have passed
since then, and the stablemen are still
afraid of their capture, but he has
grown SO tame and familiar with the
boy as to allow him to take him out and
put him back in the trap, will come at
his whistle, and manifests every ap-
pearance of JOY at his presence. There
seems to be no question that the boy
could train that rat to perform almost
any feat within the power of such an
animal. (Aiass.) Star.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
STORM HYPNOTISM.
London Writer Tells of His Strange
Experience In Paris.

London Writer Tells of His Strange
Experience In Paris.
The recent disastrous cyclone in
Paris, which was one of the first of the
kind ever experienced in that city, has
opened up discussion on the subject
hitherto but little investigated, the
1nesmeric or hypnotic influence OF
storms.
1t is we'll known that birds and other
animals are often restless and disquiet-
cd before an earthquake or severe
storm, and there is every reason to sup
pose that they perceive the prelim-
mary tremors and air vibrations be-
fore they are felt by man.
A correspondent of London daily
describes the experience Of himself and
his wife in Paris as illustrative of the
impressions to which highly strained
and nervous organizations are subject
under certain conditions of atmos-
pheric or electric disturbance. The
night before the storm they went to
the theater. The atmosphere was
sitting; it was almost impossible to
breathe They both experienced a,
dead, dull depression on the brain,
that can only be described Us the symp-
toms of semi-inehriety.
They went dinnerless and supperless
to bed ard slept, unconscious of every
thing. In the morning the woman was
seriously i'll. Her lips and skin were
burning. She could not swallow, and
could scarcely articulate. The pupils
of her eyes were dilated, the whites
we're veined and almost jet black. She
had every symptom of narcotic poison
ing. BY dint of great courage she re-
covered somewhat and they sat in the
courtyard of their hotel while the cy-
clone ragged, feeling it, but seeing moth
ing Of its terrors. They started for
their English home on the night boat.
The writer says that he went dazed into
he car and fell asleep instantly. He
las no recollection of the trip across
the channel, being in stupor all the
way. @
He left London soon after to go
down into the country. He says: Il
slept in the train, and have gone on
sleeping every few minutes ever since.
The cyclone was on Thursday. It is
NV Sunday, and I am as sleepy as an
owl; but gradually the mcsmeric infu-
ence of the storm is fading away.
''The hypnotism of the cyclone is
decreasing. The intolerable pressure
OF the brain is getting less acute, but
there still remain that awful burning
pain and the ache over the eyeballs
from which we have suffered so long.
What has happened to us? Will sci
entists explain ?'-St. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
Changing serpent. into Rods.

The Egyptian cobra is not unlike its
Asiatic cousin, except in the absence
of the curious spectacle-like mark
which distinguishes the latter. Al
though it is the most poisonous reptile
known to inhabit northern Africa it
is the favorite among the snake-charm-
ers. These conjuro1s know how to
render this serpent rigidly unconscious
by pressing the nape of it's neck with
a finger This act appears to throw
the reptile into oatalepsy, in which he
is as stiff as an iron rod. Traces OF
something similar having been prac-
ticed in olden times may be found in
the Bible-where Aaron made serpent
of his rod or staff.-5St. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
An Extr.ordinary Light.

What is believed to have been an
aurora of such extraordinary brilliancy
as to obscure the sunlight is thus de-
scribed in an old number of the GEN
tleman's Magazine: On the "a day OF
January, 1856, an unusual light, 1ar
above the brightest day, struck all be-
holders with amazement- The time was
four o'clock in the afternoon, ana II
soon faded away. At seven, however,
from east to west, streams appeared
like rivers of bright fire. A general
feeling of alarm was caused by these,
but they gradually faded away to the
north, their disappearance being ac-
companied by shocks which were felt
by all, but which did no particular
damare.-St. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24

The KEYSTONE 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
ising mining country Oh the face OF tho
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent it's readers complete synopsis of all
mining news and developments, as well as
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,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
Decimal Clocks.

"The latest" in clocks and watches
is distinctly original. 1t comes from
France. The suggestion is that the
decimal system should be adopted for
clocks and watches, bidding good-by tn
our old friends II and IL O'Clock entire
ly, and to divide the face of the clock
into ten instead of twelve sections.
This system is now used by the geo.
graphical bureau of the French army,
and it is urged that it dinlinishes the
labor of calculation by two-thirds, and
lessons the chances of mathematical
epor from four to one The following
is an outline of the rules of the,decinaI
system as applied TO timepieces:
"The day, from midnight to the mid
night following, is to be divided into
100 equal parts, known as 'ces.'
''The subdivisions, according to the
decimal plan, are 'decices,' or tenths,
'centices,' or hundredths, .millices,' or
thousandths.
"One Of the main divisions, the 'ces,'
is equal to IA minutes and "a seconds,
or almost quarter Of an hour"
This, say the scientists, is the east
est possible system, i,'it the poor lay
mind, we are afraid, will not quite
agree with such a conclusion, and six
a. m. sounds far more acceptable than
Is ces, its decimal equivelent.--West-
minister Gazette.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
ROUND COTTON BALES.

An Experiment. Preves Thorn to BE Su-
perior to the CubicAl Form.
The shipment of cotton, compressed
by q new method, made from Waco,
Tex, arrived in Bosten recently 1t
was, says the Boston Journal Of Com
merce, the largest single carload of
baled cotton that has ever come into
Boston, and consisted Of 112 bales.
They weighed 50, 600 pounds, and it is
stated that fifteen bales more could
have been squeezed into the car. The
average capacity Of q box-car is $4,000
pounds, 80 that this load OF cotton
overrun the standard by 3.o0o pounds,
and is estimated to be 30 per cent
more than is put in the same space
when the bales ara packed in the old
fashioned way.
The increased capacity + produced
by what is termed the Bessonnette
compress, = new method OF baling re-
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
Notice of Forfeiture.

10 Mrs. MARION BYBEE, her heirs or as
signs
You are hereby notified that | have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred (100) dol
lars In labor and improvements upon the
WELLINGTON
aode mining claim, situated on Bear gulch,
ABOUT three miles northeasterlyo Galena.
IA Wood River mining district, Blaine
county, Idaho, as required by section 2324.
heVlSed Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
t1r The year ending December 81, 1895 !;
mat your proportion of the same is $50,
oellg half; and if within ninety days
rom ron The service of this notice. or within
nihety days after this notice by publication
you lall or refuse to contribute your pro-
nI, poLllon OF such expenditure as co-owner,
rhiciualng nnIg legal costs of this publication,
suu. , interest in said claim will become the
p,roperty OF the undersigned, under the
eAo'isions OF said section 1924.
JOHN CAREY.
AseGSniium, Idaho, January IA, 1885.
FIRST publication, Jan ls, 1885.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
Notice of Publication.

To B. w. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
Nelson F. Kilnball, your heirs, devisees
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended $lC0, in the year 1895,
In labor and improvements upon the
MEXICAN
lode mining claim in Warm Springs Creek,
or Boulder, mining district, Blaine county.
ldahO in order to hold said premises un-
der the provisions of section 2324, Revised
Statutes of the United States, being the
amount required to hold the same during
and for said calendar year 1895, and If.
within ninety days after the expiration OF
the publication Of this notice, which will be
published for ninety days, you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your respective proper
tons OF such expenditure as co-owners,
according to your respective interests IN
said claim viz: b. w. Watlington, one
sixteenth, S625; A. HI. Rahm, one-six-
seenth, S6 25. and Nelson F. Kimball, one
eighth, $3.50, your interests in said claim
Will be forfeited to and become the prop
arty OF the undersigned, under and by VIZ
Sae OF said section 1924.
EDWARD BRISBIN.
First publication, Feb. Is, 1896.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
GATHERING THE RETURNS.
Scenes About New York Police Headquar
ters on Election Night.

Scenes About New York Police Headquar-
ters on Election Night.
The election bureau of the police
board is the official recipient OF the
returns from the voting precincts. This
bureau furnishes each poll with blanks
for the official record and also with
four sets of small blanks for each otiic,
AS soon as the count for an office is
finished the four inspectors sign all
four blanks and a policeman takes
them to police headquarters, and
quickly returns for others. Thus the
count goes on until it is completed
sometimes not before midnight.
Meantime there have gathered in a
large room at police headquarters all
the commissioners, the superintend-
ent, a great number of newspaper re-
porters with pencils sharpened at both
ends, while the walls are lined with
messenger and telephone boys. As soon
as report is brought it is read out
by the uperintendent, taken down by
the newspaper men, and forwarded to
their editors as rapidly as possible. By
eight o'clock the returns come thick
and fast, and nothing is heard but the
scratching of pencils and the footsteps
of racing messengers. The commits
sioners soon go to their private office,
for they know that anxious candidates
will speedily be called to learn
their fate, although a very fair idea has
spread abroad by nine or ten o'clock as
to how the state and city have "gone"
IL, -
the election of November, 1894, every
body knew that Tammany was beaten
long before that hour.
But the fun of the street is not for
that band of reporters at headquarters,
nor for those other bands of writer's IN
the newspaper offices down town, who,
with almost supcThuman diligence
and endurance, are tabulatlng and put
ting into type and commenting upon
these returns for delectafion Vt the
public next morning.
The tenement-house districts have
been alive with people since sundowT.,
dancing about the fires. They have
learned long ago the outlines of the
result, and those on the successful
side are rejoicing in their tuIpultuolrs
way, sure Of the support of all the
boys. AS the evening advances the ex-
citement spreads to Broadway and up
town. The newspapers viii issue ex-
tras every hour or 50 from nine p. IT.
to two in the morning, but they do not
hesitate to give all this news away
upon their bulletins as fast as they get
it.-Ernest Ingersoll. in Century. =;
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24

which furnish large contingents to the
national guard have not a single troop
of horses. If there is any lesson that
the failure of the confederacy can teach
us, it is this: that an invasion OF
Canada,-and I do not mean that such
a thing is in the least probable or de-
sirable-made without sufficient caval-
ry would be as barren of permanent
results as it would be if made with an
army of observation-disclosures Rose,
in Century.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24

KETcHUM, IDAHO SATURDAY. DECEMBER "a l8s8

tory must. have been quite different
from that of the earth. This, however,
is not the opinion of Messieurs Loewy
and Puiseux, who, in a recent communi-
cation to the Academy of Sciences in
Paris, say that study of the latest
lunar photographs tends to show that
the condition of the moons surface has
been produced by the action of the same
natural forces now at work on the
earth.-Youth's Companion.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
Moon Mountains.

mensely large in proportion than those
of the earth. The moon is but one
forty ninth the size Of the earth, but
its mountain peaks are nearly as .lgh.
Twenty. two are higher than Mount
Blanc, which is within a few feet of
three miles high. The highest is a lit
tie more than four miles and hail.
st. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
An.r.c... need of Cavalry.

Discussing the possibilities OF war
with England, and the strength OF the
limited States militia or national guard,
some of our newspapers lately boasted
that an army of 10O, 900 men could be
thrown into Canada within rev
weeks. How many of these men would
he mounted on horseback? II ia very
pertinent inquiry, for It requires from
three to six months training to make
a cavalryman, and some Of the states
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24

Gus DeSmith-Are you acquainted
with Baron Won Pompernickel?
Tom Verisoft-Yes, indeed; he has
borrowed $50 from me.
Gus DeSmith--And has he paid yon
back the money?
Tom Verisoft-No; have never been
able to become as intimate with him az
that.-Dallas (Tex.) Sitter.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
A Candid Expression.

First Artist Congratulate me, old
man. I've just sold my MASTERPIECES to
Banker Parvenu for 5000 marks.
Second Artist-Glad to hear 1.-THE
miserable skirflint deserves to be stuck.
Blatter.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-24
The Moon and the Earth.

The strangeness of the scenery OF the
moon, and the enormous size OF its
crater-shaped mountains, have led some
astronomers to think that its past his