The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-22
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A NEW MIND READER.

OlSLiOP cuy . was q SCl soAU " lICA
son, is giving exhibitions in New
York which rival those of the late
mind-reader, Bishop. He read at
the end of a ten-mile wire the
thoughts of man at the other end,
establishing communication by
holding the wire to the foreheads
of both. Brown claimed that this
feat exhausted him greatly. Bishop
used to complain in the same way
after any unusual exhibition OF his
unusual power 1t is not stated
whether this man goes into frances.
ONE TR1LLroN TONS OF WATER.
An exchange says: Some idea
may be formed of the vast quantity
of water discharged by South Fork
Lake into Conemaugh Valley, when
compared to the flow over Niagara
Falls. Estimating the Niagara sup
ply of 100000 tons of thirty-six
cubic feet per hour, and taking the
measurement of the lake to have
been three and a-half miles long by
one and a-quarter miles wide, with
mean depth Of thirty feet, we have
the enormous volume Of one trill-
ion tons of water, which would re-
quire thirty hours in passing over
Niagara Falls.
BLIND TOM NOT DEAD.
The news that came by way OF
Pittsburg last week, to the effect
that Blind Tom and his manager,
James Marvin, and Mrs. Bethune,
who attended to the well known pi-
anist's personal wants, had lost
their lives in the Johnstown disas-
ter, proves to have been untrue.
The party had given performance
at Freeport, Pennsylvania, on the
Friday evening preceding the catas-
trophe, intending to play at the
Johnstown Opera House the next
night. They intended to have taken
a train at Freeport for Altoona, but
hearing of the disaster they took
the Erie route, which took them to
Jamestown, where an engagement
was filled the following Monday
evening
TEN YEARS IN TRANSIT.
4 curiosity turned up in the
Pittsburg postoffice the other day.
Among the papers that arrived in
the Eastern mail was one addressed
to"Robert Marshall, 8 Hazel street.
1t was stained with muddy water,
and the distributors thought that it
had come through the flood. The
paper was sent out by the carrier as
usual, but in the afternoon the car
rier brought it back with the report
that Robert Marshall had moved
from Hazel street in 1879. Super
intendent Larkin, on the carrier S
division, examined the paper then,
and found it to be copy of the
New York Express, now the Mail
and Express, dated Thursday, June
26, 1879. The principal item in it
was an account Of the death of the
prince imperial of France, in Zulu
land when he was serving in the
British army. Where the paper has
been for the last ten years is q
mystery.
LIBBY PRISON.
The famous Libby Prison is t.
be moved to Chicago. The Chicago
News in a very able and sensible
criticism of the matter says: Rich
mond's grim old tobacco warehouse
Will be sadly out of place in Chica
go. This city has set its face t
the future, whichis full of promise
It has no desire to revive burned
out hates.
A NOTABLE GIFT.
An especially notable feature o
the gifts which people of every con
dition are crowding one another t.
make to their distressed fellow
citizens Of Western Pennsylvania
is the contribution to the genera
fund made by the prisoners in tn
Eastern penitentiary, Pa. From
the small savings which they ar
enabled to accumulate from over
work, the prisoners have contrib
uted the considerable sum of $685.
and it is certain that in the million
Of relief money there is no NOR
precious proof than this of the uni
versatility of sympathy with Johns
town and its neighborhood. AS ia
as we have heard this incident
unique. From one point of vie,
it may be called a needless an
foolish generosity, since these poo
creatures will need their slight say
ings, when again entering the worl
as seriously as any unfortunate VIII
could be named. But it is a matte
not so much of dollars and cents
as Of feelings, and it is for then
selves to choose, and if they hav
been led by their better natures t
this exhibition Of sympathy an
helpfulness, it is not for those VIII
find it far easier to give, to CRITICS
them. A Philadelphia paper sue
gests that these precious dollar
instead of being cast into the gel
r