The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-02-15
LOCAL CURIOS

dozen hens tomorrow.
 Three or four dogs so, the poor
 Indian, has with him always.
 Its always hard to be real funny
 when you don't feel that way.
 There are altogether too many
 promising young men nowadays.
 -Ketchikan old maids are just like
 Ketchikan boys-always ready and
 handkering for a Charivari.
 If this kind of weather keeps on
 the miner and prospector will find it
 difficult to keep his powder dry
 Come veal, come woe-but in this case, as between frost and rain, it is hard to distinguish which is who, or who is which.
 ] -Curio could almost be persuaded to make solemn affidavy, with seal attached, to the effect that the sky
 portends a shower of no small propor
 tions.
 Lined up in lively, living row, its dollars to apples that the Ketchi- kan kids would unanimously voice their preference for snow without rain as com pared with all rain and no
 snow.
 Old man S--was reading aloud a new spaper paragraph the other evening. in which the editor sug- gested that no one but very green } person would kick an old hat lying on the sidewalk, especially if there was big stone under it. Green, green.' excitedly exclaimed the old gent, ''why, dang it all, kicked one my self once.'
 Somebody sends us the Woman, $ Farm Journal regularly. It tells all about how to put flaming mill in blast, how to tap COW and mine
 manure deposit, but not word about how to make Chalcopyrite starch, or Cupriferous pudding. The pub fishers may mean all right, but theii } paper is no good for this section. } A Minnesota paper suggests that ! all faithless wives ought to be kicked . to death by crippled mules. Without saying anything about what ought to be done with faithless husbands, Curio would like to ask the editor oi } that paper about how many crippled ! mules he thinks there are in the , United States, anyway.
 . The individual male person who will voluntarily undertake and per form the task of boring the street planking between the Redmen's hall \ and the establishment of J. R. Heck man X Co. as full of augur holes as al old fashioned skinner, will certainl, earn the plaudits due to the merits ? of wholly unselfish public bene- 1 facotr.
 A Ketchikan boy overheard his 1 paternal parent remark few days \ ago that ''there is money in hens, ' whereupon he proceeded to investigate the old mans poultry yard. He hao 2 gone throuhg half dozen fine speci- } mems of matronly henhood in search for the filthy lucre when batter familias } made descent upon him with the \ soft side of a six-inch yellow cedar board, and he has been wondering ever since if, indeed, there's balm in Gilead
 Talking about cold weather, olo m an Nh, one of the oldest inhab- itants of this neck of Alaska woods, } says that it used to get so cold in this ! section that hole made in the snow would freeze so hard that when the spring sun melted away the snow the hole could be seen sticking up il the air for a long time afterwards Perhaps some folks wont want to believe this yarn, and they don t have to: only they'd better think twice be- fore venturing to call the old man a liar.
 The editor of Washington
 SOdheit pupSi WV ShPOSo oL increase of family by our youngest brothers wife. e.' That youngest ] brother is to be congratulated on hay , ing such an affectionate relative. If the editor doesn't lie, and the ex- pected increase proves to be of the male persuasion, he will be the uncle of his own son, and the sons uncle } will be his own father, and, and we'll, Curio never was worth cent in trying to solve genealogical prob
 lems
 Water, which ten days ago was
 the crying want of the town, is now the most plentiful commodity of which this section can boast. Should a fire break out in the great Prince of
 Wales forests the result would be
 too frightful to contemplate-it would
 generate, could it be properly ''con-
 served,' steam enough to operate
 all the mine and milling machinery
 on the island for thousand years
 to come. That is, if the forest
 reserve brigade shouldn't get there