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Show We read the following posthumus story of the late King Kalakaua, which if not true, is characteristic of him anyway. A Pacific roast minstrel, Hilly Emerson by name, once visited the Sandwich Islauds and delighted King Kalakaua with his performances. The sovereign and the funny man became friends quickly, and the king asked Emerson to the palace, pal-ace, A game of poker followed, of Bourse, for if Kahikaua liked anything any-thing il was poker. Humor had it that Emerson won quite a pile from the Hawaiian ruler. That each held some strong hands was soon known in Honolulu, Hon-olulu, for the next night at the .theater Emerson put this conundrum to the end man: When will three aces heat four kings?" The end man gave il up, and Emerson explained that ho held the three aces, while the hand against him confuted of the king of cluhs, the king of diamonds, tne king of spades, and the king Kalakaua. The royal poker player was in tho theater, and, true to his easy good nature, laughed heartily instead of frowning at the joke. ADVUtTISIMi ACCIDENTS. The new state of Idaho is destined to great things. For one so young and small it displays a prodigious amount of wisdom and novelty. The fame of one of its favorite sons who, from the floor of the legislature, proclaimed the new economic principle that brain must receive no more remuneration than muscle, already fills the land; and now comes another Solon with the bright proposition to compel "certain employes em-ployes of railroad companies to report and make public the injuries and deaths occurring on trains or resulting from railway accidents, to telegraph the same to all principal points where they must bo posted in a conspicuous place." The father of this original proposition is one Price, mill he is a jewel without price. We expect to hear moro from him in the sweet bye and bye. We don't know the precise wording of his Instrument, but if it provides that the list of accidents be kept standing as an advertisement in the press at the ex-i ex-i pense of the respective railroads, Mr. I I'rice may feel assured of the most enthusiastic en-thusiastic support of the country papers. Jo make the scheme still more effective he hhould cause a full description de-scription of the agonies of the I wounded and tho mutilation j of the dead victims to be posted with I the rest. If that does not enhance the safety of travel, it wiil at least tend to j frighten the people uway from the railroads rail-roads in Idaho, and w hat if the. tratlio I should be stopped altogether? There will I then be no accidents, aud Mr. Trice will have solved a mighty problem with j his little resolution. Great I'ricu ! I |