The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-02-08
LOCAL cURIOs

W Hou yOu Sco youuS iuou HIS necktie awry, discussing the mining situation with an electric light post at one o'clock, a. m., don't be too sure that he has been indulging too freely In the beverage that intoxi- cates. He may be only musing aloud on the ways and means of riding the moral wave" into office next spring.
 There is young lady living in this town who grows daily in beauty and in the number of her admirers. The latter don't seem to know, how ever, that just in proportion to the improvement in her complexion, the empty bottles of ''bloom of youth" increase and multiply in the back yard of the family residense.
 There is probably no one thing in the world that will roll so fast, and in doing so make man misapply scriptural terms so furiously as a plug hat on rampage. A whole gale of wind gets under such tile and, as you make a grab for it, it is waited majestically away in bee line for the nearest puddle of muddy water, creek or gutter, into which it settles with the most exaspertaing indifference as to what the owner may do or say. Curio has seen good many men chase heir hats, but never saw anybody catch one until it concluded to stop of its own accord, or brought up under wagon wheel or bob sled, or else when some friendly pedestrian, com ing from the opposite direction, jumped upon it with both feet and held it down in the mud or snow until the owner came up and scripturally enjoined upon its captor the necessity of getting off that hat p. d. q. We saw getleman, during heavy gale of snow few weeks ago, indulge in a race of that kind down Front street, past the Hotel Stedman. It was ex- hilerating to see that hat-the only one of its kind in town, by the way skim majesically along at two- forty gait and laughable-perhaps pitiable would be the better word to see the owner founder through the snow, and hear him snort and give ex- pression of unchristian adjectives, his ears andd ambrosial locks floating in the gale as grandly as the pennant of the good ship, GracieD. when scu6- ding before breeze with Capt. Thom- as at the helm holding her ''steady" but he caught the unruly vagrant just as we approached, and then en- tered into an animated conversation with himself, in which we caught distinctly the word ''darnolehat, and something about his Satanic Majesty and his place of residence which wouldn't look well in print. And then the ungrateful man poured vial of red hot wrath on our innocent head, only because we congratulated him upon his ability as sprinter, and sug- gestted that we would mention his ex- poit in the Curio column of the new paper soon to make it's bow to the pub- ic. He said if we did he'd send us to place where we'd become a " darnedlivelyredhot Curio in less than no time at all. " But he won't cause we'll get all our prescriptions from some other doctor.
 Father said Ketchikan boy the other Saturday morning, the day off from school -''Show me place to rest my lever, and I'll move the world" The old man didn't have any worlds that he wanted moved just at that particular time, so he showed the ambitious youth out to the wood pile and, pointing to the axe said, 'Pitch in there now, and split your Sundays wood, or I'll show you where I'll rest barrel slave; and if I do you'll think it's big enough to move half dozen worlds"
 w ncIl d CSrUdlu hldSkd newspaper man was below last summer, he visit ed mind reader for the purpose of testing that very singular and wonder full power some persons have of read ing the minds of others. The mind reader got him under focus and worked away for half day, but it was no go. Finally he gave up in dispair, giving as reason that the conditions were unfavorable. ''Conditions said the subject, "what conditions?" "Why, you see, said the peruser of thoughts of others, lin the first place I've got to have mind to read; can't read perfect vacuum, or the inside of a gas retort.'
 The jury in the Chester Thompson murder case, recently on trial at Tacoma, Washington, sustained the plea of insanity by rendering verdict of not guilty. It will be remembered that Thompson, murdered in cold blood, ex-judge Emory, who had for bid him his house, the latter being