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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-01
THE SPEED OF TnouenT.
How Long It Takes for an idea to
Reach the Brain.

| Some of the readers have no doub
frequently made use of the expires
sion "quick as thought, but hav
any of them ever stopped to con
slider how quick thought is? 4
writer has made some interest1n,
calculations regarding the compar
ative length of time it takes to cal
to mind various everyday facts.
1t takes about two-fifths of a sec
ond to call to mind the country ir
which a well-known town is situat
ed, or the language in which a ia
miliar author wrote. We can think
of the name of next month in hall
the time we need to think of the
name of last month. It takes on
an average one-third of a second tc
add numbers consisting of one
digit, and half second to multi
ply them. Such experiments gives
US considerable insight into the
mind.
Those used to reckoning can add
two to three in less time than 9th
ers; those familiar with literature
can remember more quickly than
others that Shakespeare wrote Ham.
let. It takes longer to mention a
month when a season has been CIV
en- than to say what month a season
belongs.
The time taken up in choosing a
motion, the "will time," can be
measured as we'll as the time taken
up in perceiving. If l do not know
which of two colored lights is to be
presented, and must lift my right
hand if it be red, and my left if tt
be blue, l need about one-thirteenth
of a second to initiate the correct
motion. have also been able to
register the sound waves made in
the air by breaking, and thus have
determined that in order to call up
the name belonging to a printed
word, l need about one-ninth of a
second; to a letter one-sixth of a
second, and to a color one-third of
a second.
A letter can be seen more quickly
than word, but we are so used to
reading aloud that the process has
become quite automatic, and word
can be read with greater ease and
in less time than letter can be
named. The same experiments
made on other persons give times
differing but little from my own.
Mental processes, however, take
place more slowly in children, in
the aged and in the uneducated.-
Nineteenth Century.
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Mr. Hartte's Singular Cat

Will Hartte has a peculiar cat
that is, a cat with curious affections,
her popularity being that she has
adopted a gray squirrel as one OF
her family. She gave birth to a
family of five kittens a short time
ago, and three of them were killed.
the squirrel was then put with the
two remaining kittens, and it seems
just as much at home as when out
in the woods. 1t allows the kittens
to scramble all over it, and greets it's
adopted mother very effusively
when she appears in the box where
thsfamily reside. The foster-mother
suckles the squirrel as she does her
kittens, and when the little fellow
scampered out on the fence the
other day she quickly followed, and,
catching the truant by the back of
the neck, took him back into the
box. The squirrel is about half
grown, and is at perfect liberty to
60 and come at will, but it very
seldom leaves the box.-Red Bluff
Sentinel.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-01

We cannot make too much oi
our home life. Only a few short
years at best and the thread is
broken that binds the loved ones
together, and they are scattered
Speaking of this we'll known lady
writer wisely says: "The mother,
no matter how busy, who secures a
half hour in her day to read the
paper, or a few pages from some
good book, who then adroitly leads
her table talk into this channel, is
doing good deal indirectly to pro-
mote her children's well-being in
their future lives. She is helping
them to acquire the fine art of max
ing their intelligence available. She
is also, in their case, building a de-
fense against dyspepsia, for diges-
ton and assimilation follow in the
wake of the cheerful, even hilarious
meal.
"It is our American fashion to be
in such headlong haste to get away
from our tables, and bright table
talk more than any other thing
initiates against this pitiable con-
dition of affairs. Since the quality
and quantity Of our food have to do
with the quality of our work in life,
nothing which concerns what we
eat, or our manner of eating it, is
of slight consequence.
ITO linger at the table, to be gay
and merry while seated there, our
dear ones in the circle, our days
occupations before us or behind, is
to behave like reasonable beings to
whom the life is really more than
meat. The children should have
their full share of the conversation,
for well-trained children will not
interrupt their elders, and their
sweet voices and naive remarks are
very entertaining. A bright little
lad or lassie is like a sunbeam at
the family board"
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How Rider HagTard Travels.

Rider Haggard, the novelist, will
visit Persia and surrounding coun-
tries unattended. He is an expert
enced traveller and is used to the
ways of the Orient. When he starts
off ON an expedition like the one he
now contemplates he buys small
dog to accompany him. This is the
only weapon he takes with him.
He claims that the carrying Of fire.
arms is apt to awaken hostility
among strangers. He devotes him-
self to winning the affection of the
dog, and says that q faithful canine
companion is the best thing q man
can have for a long journey.-Ex.
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BABIES OF THE WORLD.
Nearly Thirty seven Million Of Them
Appear Every Year.

It has been computed that be-
tween 36,O0O,O0O and 81 900, 900 ba-
bies are born into the world each
year. The rate of production is,
therefore, about 20 a minute, or
rather more than one for every beat
of the clock. With the one-a-min-
ute calculation every reader is ia
miliar, but it is not every one who
stops to calculate what this means
when it comes to a years supply.
It will probably, therefore, startle
good many to find out on the au-
thority of a writer in The Hospital,
that could the infants of year be
ranged in a line in cradles seven
deep they would go around the
globe. We have the ingenious con-
clusion also that supposing the lit
tie ones to grow up and the sexes
to be equally divided, we should
have an army hundred times as
large as the forces of the British
Empire, with a wife in addition to
every soldier. The same writer
looks at the matter in still more
picturesque light. He imagines the
babies being carried past given
point in their mothers charge one
by one and the procession being
kept up continuously night and day
until the last conner in the twelve
months has passed by. A suffi-
ciently liberal rate of speed is al
lowed, but even with these babies
in arms going past 20 minute, the
reviewing officer would only have
seen sixth part of the infantile
host file onward by the time he had
been year at his post. In other
words, the babe that had to be car
ried when the work began would be
able to toddle onward itself when
mere fraction of it's comrades had
reached the saluting post; and
when the years supply of babies
was tapering to close, there would
be a rear guard not of infants, but
of romping boys and girls. They
would have passed, in fact, out Of
the maternal arms into the hands
of the school teacher. Every mo-
ment of nearly seven years would
be required to complete the parade
of little ones that in the course Of
a twelvemonth begin to play their
part in the first age of man.-Leeds'
Mercury.
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Cultivate ChoorfulnooR

One to be popular and ever find
the door of welcome open to admit
them, must be cheerful and carry
gladness to their friends instead Of
casting shadow of gloom around
them by recitals of their troubles.
Few care to have another's woes
and griefs thrust upon them. Put
on q smiling face, though the heart
may be full of bitterness" There
are some whose hearts are as open
to sympathy as the gates of day,
and can feel for another's woes, yet
there are far more, because their
lines fall in more pleasant places,
who care nothing for the thorns that
pierce your feet. So if one has
troubles it is best to keep them hid
den deep in the recesses of the
heart. The stereotyped expression
so often heard when another's woes
are being listened to, "Oh, am so
sorry for you," comes only from
the lips-as sincere as the grief of
Mark Twain at the grave of Adam.
Laugh, a.d the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone;
This grand old earth must borrow its
mirth,
It has trouble enough Of its own.
Sing and the bills will answer,
Sight 10 lost On the air;
The echoes beuad to the joyful sound,
But shrink trom xoicing care.
Theees room in the hall Of pleasure
Fer . long and lendly traia;
But one, By ese, No mast I'll ale on
Through tho marrow halls Of pain.
Be glad and year friends aoe many;
Be 80 and goa lose then all
TAaee Ace aoae to dacine Teaf nectared
wine.
But alone you must dziak life's gall.
Rejoice and meu will seek you,
Griexe and they turn and 20;
They want full Hsasuso Of ell your
pleasure,
But they do not want your woe1"
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Some Remarkable Giants.

Among somewhat more authentic
cases of ancient giants may be men
toned the Greek, Orestes, who was
III feet tall; an Arabian, Galabro
10 feet; Farnum, the Scotchman
III feet, and the Emperor, Maxi
minus, 81 feet. The latter was 6
Thracian born, and is said to have
had scarcely one good quality, and
to have been hated by all mankind
He wore his wife's bracelet as 6
ring upon his thumb, and his shoes
were longer by foot than those OF
any other man.
Walter Parsons and VIM. Evans,
the two famous porters Of King
Charles I of England, we're the gi.
ants of that period. The former
was 7 feet 4 inches in height, and
of great strength and courage. AS
an old writer puts it, "He would
neither boast nor sneak to any man,
but would take two of the tallest
Yeomen of the Guard under his
arms at once, and order them as he
pleaseth." In his youth Parsons
had been a blacksmith, and when
at work at the anvil he was obliged
to stand in a deep hole in the
ground in order to be of the same
height as the other workmen.
Among other giants of modern
times perhaps the most intelligent,
and certainly one of the most gen.
tlemanly, was Colonel Orr, who
died some seven years ago. He will
be remembered by many who wit
messed his performance in "Jack,
the Giant Killer" a drama which
was presented by Colonel Orr and
company of Lilliputians, and at
tracted much attention. Colonel
Orr was feet and 4 inches in height
and weighed $40 pounds. At the
time of his death he was a Royal
Arch Mason and a Knight Of
Pythias.
The Chinese Giant, Chang Woo
Cow, was doubtless the tallest man
ever exhibited in America. He
claimed to be 8 feet 2 inches high,
but lacked the fine proportions of
some of his predecessors. Chang
is the son of q wealthy silk and tea
merchant of Peking, and is we'll ed
ucated, speaking several languages.
He has been exhibited in Europe
and Australia, and when in America
wore q solitaire diamond ring given
him by the Emperor Of Russia,
which was valued at over 81 600.
He was also the possessor of . gold
medal awarded him by the Berlin
Exhibition, attesting him to be the
tallest living man.
According to an English news
paper, however, this Chinese anom-
ally cannot rightly claim this pre-
eminence in stature, since there
appeared in London some three
years ago . giant who far surpassed.
any other whose height has been
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-01
The Biggest Butcher You Ever Saw"

Mr.. Opie P. Read, the genius o
the Arkansaw Traveller, is so very
excellent a financier that he usually
manages to end each month littl.
deeper in debt than he began it
Yet nobody ever loses by him. Ir
some manner, though his genera
Indebtedness keeps piling up, he
manages not to let any individual
debt stand long. We shouldn't like
to be pressed for a logical explana.
tion of this paradoxical assertion,
but it seems nevertheless to be true
that while his aggregate indebted
ness keeps growing, his individual
debtors are never permitted to lose
anything.
One morning Opie came into the
Chicago Press club rooms, where a
number of the members were seated
chatting. Opie did not take part
in the conversation, but sat by one
of the open windows smoking his
huge pipe and evidently thinking
profoundly.
Something on your mind, Opie?"
asked one of the boys.
"Yes. My butcher is on my mind,
and he's the biggest butcher you
ever saw. If / didn't have a pom
drous mind l never could hold that
butcher on it. Look at me-" said
he, standing up at full height, show
ing form more than six feet tall,
and massive in its proportions.
Look at me, I'm a pretty big man
myself, but, sir, as l came by that
butcher shop this morning the
butcher was standing out in front,
and l walked right between his legs.
The top of my head wasn't as high
as his instep. I should have had
to reach up to unlatch his SHOE"
"How much do you owe your
butcher, Opie?" asked Mr.. James
w. Scott, the president of the club,
and business manager of the Herald.
"a hundred and twenty dollars,
sir, said Mr.. Read.
That afternoon Mr.. Scott sent q
check for $3.50 to Opie saying it was
an advance on a story he wished
him to write for the Herald.
The next morning, when Opie
strobe into the club, somebody
asked:
"Has your butcher grown any
since yesterday"
Grown! No, sir. This morning
| walked into his place with $3.50
in gold cllnking and jingling in my
pocket.
"'Where's that butcher?'"I asked.
"'Here I am said faint, timid,
little voice that seemed to come up
from the cellar"
"'Where?' said l."
"'Here, right here by your left
foot, Don't move or you'll step
on me-"
II got down on my hands and
knees and examined speck on the
floor. It was the butcher" ."-Ex.
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The emissaries of Satan are as.
suming every garb and form to ruin
the boys. Think of premiums be-
ing offered to encourage vicel The
New York World says: Twelve
different albums are offered as prizes
for making cigarettes, and many a
boy under twelve years old is striv-
ing to win the entire collection OF
prizes, which would necessitate the
smoking of 1900 cigarettes.
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narrowing, blood-curdling deed
They now acted on the spur of tn
moment.
THEY PREPARED THE sNAG,
The woman was removed, AM
Hemphill raised the form of tn
supposed lifeless body, placed tn
point of the snag in the bullet hole
and with all the force of his weight
with his knees, placed on the boys
head, he sent the snag crashing into
the fractured skull. A groan was
heard, a slight tremor, and the last
spark of life flickered and was over
The rest of the party came up
the tale was told and believed and
the necessary arrangements were
made and the body buried. At the
burial Hemphill spoke to the sor-
rowing father just as the coffin was
being lowered into the grave, and
said: "Mr. Salter, fear you sus-
pect foul play" Nothing more was
said.
The grave was filled and the peo-
pie retired to their homes. But the
words spoken by Hemphill played
on the bereaved fathers mind. For
two weeks it rested there. Thoughts
grew into resolutions, resolutions
grew into actions. A coroner was
notified, the body exhumed, post
mortem examination held and the
leaden messenger extracted. Hemp
hill fled. Battle was arrested. At
ter long search Hemphill was
found, arrested and the two men
were brought to trial.
The testimony was delivered as
above, the prosecution was long,
and Battle, not being so ably de-
Tended, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree and sentenced to
hang, and Hemphill acquitted.
THE SENTENCE
Was carried into effect soon after in
the presence Of people from all parts
of Southern Georgia, among whom
was his wife and two loving child
rem. His wife soon after married
again and her second husband killed
a man some thirty years after, but
was acquitted. He soon after moved
to Florida, where his wife died, hav-
ing been the wife of two shedders
of human blood.
Hemphill led a shiftless life until
some four or FIVE years back when
he was called to meet that just re-
ward for such as he. His achieve
ments were meagre and upon his
countenance was written the un-
mistakable evidence of depravity,
and his eyes had that restless wan
dering that told plainly of the
dreams that haunted his sleep until
death should claim his own.
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recorded in modern times. This
giant was an Austrian by birth,
named Winkelmeier, and his height
was s feet 9 inches. He was born
at Freidburg in 1865, but showed
no development Of this extraordi-
nary growth up to the age of four
teen, when he began growing rapid
ly. At the time the account from
which we quote was written he was
on exhibition at the London Pavil-
ion, where a huge bed had been
constructed for him, and which was
expected to be his home for some
time,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-01
An Exceedingly Bashful Bridegroom

Day before yesterday trio Of
newly welded couples from the in
terror of Kentucky arrived at the
Burnett House and took apartments
for the night in that well ordered
hotel. 1t was quite evident that
the entire party were unfamiliar
with metropolitan sights. The
roomy corridors, marble floors, gor-
geous drawing-room and we'll spread
table of the hotel drew from them
the most ingenious remarks of sur
prise. In the evening they visited
the opera-house, and were so aston
ished by its magniticence that even
Mrs. Walters wonderful imperson-
alton of Meg Merrilies almost failed
to interest them.
Nothing more was thought of the
verdant trio till about l o'clock yes
terday morning, at which hour the
bootblack of the Burnett House, in
making his customary round, OBJ
served one of the bucolic Benedicks
seated in the hall near the door of
his room. He naively asked the
polisher of understandings if he
was the clerk. Receiving a mega
tive answer, he informed the boot
black that he would like to see that
individual. In few moments one
of the attentive Office men was at
his side and politely asked what
was needed.
"Could you make me a bed in the
parlor?" said the disconsolate-look-
ing individual.
ain the parlor !" echoed the clerk.
II am afraid not"
"Well, I'd like to have one spread
down somewheres."
"Why don't you go into your own
room?" asked the clerk.
II don't like to-" said the BASH
full young man.
"What's the matter?" continued
the clerk. "Has your wife turned
you out?"
"No," said he, drawlingly; "but
you see, I've never been married be-
fore, and l don't much like to go in,
partickler in a strange place."
"Oh, go right in" said the clerk,
smiling audibly. "She won'tthink
it wrong"
Here the door of his room opened
about an inch, and through the
aparture came q coaxing voice,
saying:
"Do come in, John; won't hurt
yer. / know'd they'd think strange
of your standin' out there. Come
in, won't yer? I've done blow'd out
The gas, and it's all dark"
The odor from the room assured
The clerk that she had indeed
'blow'd" out the gas; so, pushing
open the door. he stopped the dow,
,eised the window, and returned to
he hall to persuade the verdant
husband to return to his wife.
All argument was fruitless, how
,ver, and be was compelled to as
ign the simple individual : sepa-
ate room for the night. Chicac
Herald.
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole representative OF the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in tho
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers
complete synopsis of all mining news ana
importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis Of Idaho, it is an invalua.
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
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Woman's Part in Life.

Inc woman VINO is OF tne WOrlQ
to-day must be prepared to be all
things in succession. She must be
the careful housewife, the social
leader, the religieuse, the scholar,
the wit, the confdant-all in turn.
She must compass at least show
of all learning; she must be in
sympathy with all branches of
knowledge and feeling and thought /;
she must attend to a hundred forms
of life Of the very existence of which
her grandmothers were ignorant.
Whether she has been wise in TAX
ing all this burden upon her it will
hardly fall within the province of
the present generation to decide.
Whether the children and grand
children of these wonderful women
will be the better or the worse for
the extraordinary strain which is
put upon the mothers of the race
any man may speculate, but no
man can tell. Every woman might
be supposed to decide for herself
how far she will share this high
strung life, but as matter of
fact no human being is able to es-
cape the influence of his day and
generation. We are part of a whole,
and although woman may to some
extent Withdrew herself from the
current, in the end she is forced to
choose between being left strand
ard weif on the shore Of the stream
and taking her part of whatever the
life of her time may BEN. Y. Star.
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Mrs: EMAA Pow SMITH, prom
inent w. G. T. U. organizer, and
talented lecturer, will be in Ketch-
um June 5th and 9Th, and lecture
in Union Church. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS says, "If we
could sweep intemperance out Of
the country, there would be hardly
poverty enough left to give healthy
exercise to the charitable impulses" !"
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The most useful member OF the
church choir isn't always tho one
who can sing the londest. u Is
often the soft-voicad little woman
whose alto cant be heard beyond
the front psws bnt who knows how
to keep the peaes between the lsad-
ing soprano, the organist and the
tenor-Journal Of Education.
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From = pretty woman's album
"A stupid man compliments wo-
man upon her pretty teeth, but q
clever one makes her laugh.
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MISS WILLAso's trip Through tho
South has been . perfect Ovation.
She has been received everywhere
with unbounded enthusiasm.
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Miss Gay-I wish owned . bird
Mr.. Ling-Let me be your bird
Miss Gay-I don't want q parrot,
thank you.
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rrvy WX. NYNDAAN.
'''.rry .nrryNDMAN & BATTEN,
.,torney s-a til a w ,
,n rdaho.-Practice in allthe Courts
nd Land Offices.
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De. WAL D R 0 n,
,ttorney at L a w 4,
,,r rdaho.-Will practice in all the
r',,ts r of the Territory.
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PROFESSIONAL.
IL. PINKHAM.

nxry-AT-LAW, Ketchum, Idaho.
lrT0RN,:Laos in all the Courts of the Ter
4 PrscGs,rneyy eyancing and procuring OF
,ie9'yy;, speciality.
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WepsD'sG. e. Gsldrgg

EDITED NJ THE eUPKR1MFENDeNr or
PRESS WORK.
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Z" For God and Home and Native Land. =
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of the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.

requested Battle to move his wife
off, that che might not behold the
narrowing, blood-curdling deed.
They now acted on the spur of the
moment.