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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
THE VALUE OF WALKING.

Few things, if any. are so effectual
in building up and sustaining the
physical organization as walking,
if resolutely and judiciously fol-
lowed. 1t is perfect exercise. It
taxes the entire system. When you
walk properly every member and
muscle, every nerve and fiber has
something to do. The arms swing
backward and forward, keeping step
as it were, with the legs; the chest
expands and contracts as the lungs
fill and discharge; the drummer
boys pulse beats a tune for the
march; the legs curve and straight
en-; the feet rise and fall, while the
head rides over all-but not dead
head. Every sense it has is en-
ployed, every faculty alert. The
nostrils expand to quaff the breeze
the ears turn to every sound; the
eyes roll in their sockets, sweeping
from left to right, from earth to
sky; the brain is at work through
all its parts. Progress under such
conditions is the very eloquence of
physical motion.
What is the effect? The flesh is
solidifed; the lungs grow sound
and strong; the chest enlarges ; the
limbs are rounded out; the tendons
swell and toughen; the figure rises
in height and dignity, and is clothed
with grace and suppleness. Hunters
who walk much, are tall and straight
while sailors, who scarcely walk at
all, are low and squat. The whole
man is developed, not the body
merely. The mind is broadened
by the contemplation of creations
works, the soul is enlarged, the inn
agination frightened, the spirits
cheered, the temper sweetened. The
moral forces are strengthened equal
ly with the physical. A loftier rev.
erential feeling is awakened, if not
a profound religious sentiment. No
one who rightly walks the fields and
groves, or climbs the heights be-
meath the heavenly dome, with its
blazing sun by day, and its moon
and countless stars by night, but
is irresistibly drawn toward the in
finite, as he "looks through nature
up to natures God. IA Sexagena-
rian, in Belford's.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
The Mystery Of the Ear.

"Ihe human ear, SAID O sclentlst
to a Washington Star reporter, sis
an organ, the true inwardness of
which the physicians have never
been able to get at. They can ex-
anime the interior of the eye with
ease by throwing into its dark cham
Der ray of light reflected from
little mirror, and of late they have
found it possible even to see the
gray matter of the brain by looking
through tie little canal by which
the optic nerve enters. The cavity
behind the nose they inspect with
the aid of light placed far back
in the mouth.
"They haye no difficulty in see
ing into the stomach by an electric
apparatus; the intestines likewise
are readily enough investigated and
the bladder also. But the ear as to
its internal arrangements, is unap-
proachable. It is even impossible to
dissect it satisfactorily after death;
for the reason that the parts col
lapse at once when the vital spark
leaves the body. The drum, in a
living person, bars the way to OBJ
servation, and even though it be
pierced, the winding passages be-
yond can not be seen through. On
the other side Of the drum are the
three little bones-the mallet, the
anvil and the stirrup-which act
upon each other as levers. The
drum acts as sort of buffer, and
the mallet, Immediately in contact
with it, conveys the sound waves
through the anvil and the stirrup to
the 'cochlea, spiral, shell-shaped
chamber Just behind and above the
external opening of the ear.
This shell is composed of fla
ment of the auditory nerve, coiled
spirally, and each one erect and
waving tremulously in response to
the slightest waves of sound. They
carry the sound impressions directly
to the brain, and, so delicate is
their sensitiveness that the hearer
perceives not only the degree of
loudness, but even the finest quality
of sound, the harmony of tones,
and the distance from which it
comes. The moment that life be-
comes extinct, however, the spiral
she'll Of nerves collapses and the
marvellous organ is dead thing,
unsatisfactory to the investigating
anatomist. If only it had been
found possible to examine the in
ternal structure of the living ear,
aural surgerymight perhaps amount
to something to-day.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
Value Of Smoke.

At three or four of the Scotch
iron works the FurEace-gases Com
pany is paying a yearly rental for
the right of collecting the smoke and
gases from the blast-furnaces. These
are passed through several miles Of
wrought-iron tubing, gradually di-
minishing in side from six feet to
about eighteen inches, and as the
gases cool there is deposited e con-
siderable yield Of oil. At one estab-
lishment in Glasgow they pump and
collect about &C, coo, GOO feet Of furn-
ace-gas per day, and recover, on an
average, 25, 600 gallons of, furnace
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

would necessarily have bulged the
sides of the oyster rather more to
hold such a hearty dinner, than it
would the sides of the whale; be-
sides it would have been, as a con-
temporary suggests, clear case Of
the greater containing the less. But
this, so far from being an objection,
is an essential of a miracle. That
only is miraculous which involves
a suspension, reversal, circumven-
ton or penaltyless violation of one
or more of the laws of nature. We
think Jonah really swallowed the
whale and that a good. deal of the
intellectual dyspepsia that af1icts
mankind resulted from the feat, or,
more properly, from the popular
feat of swallowing the story.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
Bits of Informatlon.

Ten days per annum IS the average
amount Of sickness in human life.
There is difference of only 22
square miles between the areas OF
England and Iowa.
Fifty-three United States Senators
have been chosen by the legislature
Of New York State.
The peach was originally poi
sonous fruit, but by cultivation the
poison has disappeared.
There are 80 national cemeteries
in the United States and they have
327,179 graves, about one-half of
which are marked unknown"
The earth is gradually growing
larger from the fall of meteoric mat
ter. An astronomer estimates that
the globe is annually pelted with
LAG, 100000 projectiles.
While the armies of the British
Empire cost 100000 a year,
the German Empire costs about
$167 600, 900 a year, and the French
army a little over $14O,00O,OOO.
It has been reckoned that if the
whole ocean should be dried up, all
water passing away in vapor, the
amount of salt remaining would be
enough to cover 100000 square
miles, with a layer one mile thick
Each minute, night and day, by
the official reports, the United States
collects $639 and spends $461 /; the
interest on the public debt was $96
a minute last year, or just exactly
equal to the amount of silver mined
in that time.
The depth at which some of the
Belgian coal mines are worked is
something prodigious. In pit at
Flenu the work is now done at 300
feet; in a pit at Flemerin at $500
feet, and in the st. Andre pit, at
Montigny-sur-Sambre, at 5000 feet.
New York is the mother of Vice
Presidents. Eight residents of that
State-Aaron Burr, George Clinton,
Daniel d. Tompkins, Martin Van
Buren,, Millard Fillmore, William
A. Wheeler, Chester A. Arthur and
Levi P. Morton-were chosen Vice
Presidents. One of these ivan Bu-
ren) became President by election
and two (Fillmore and Arthur by
the death of the higher officer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
A Task in Multiplication.

A problem that at glance seems
easy enoughto to tempt many a school
boy to spend portion of his vaca-
ton in an endeavor to solve it,
appeared recently in Maine jour-
nal, and is as follows: Take the
number Is. Multiply it by itself
and you have 225. Now multiply
225 by itself, then multiply that
product by itself, and SO on until
fifteen products have been multi
piled by themselves in turn. The
question aroused considerable in
terest among lawyers in Portland,
and their best mathematician, after
struggling with the problem long
enough to see how much labor was
entailed in the solution made the
following discouraging report on it:
1.-THE final product called for con-
tains 3S,539 figures (the first of
which are 1,412). Allowing three
figures to an inch, the answer would
be over / ,O7O feet long. To perform
the operation would require about
500, 600, 600 figures. If they can be
made at the rate of 100 a minute,
a person working ten hours day
for 300 days in each year would be
twenty-eight years about it. If, in
multiplying, he should make row
of cvuhers. as he does in other fig
ures, the number Of figures used
would be more than 523, 1886, ,228.
That would be the precise number
of figures used if the product of
the left hand figure in each multi
plicand, by each figure of the null
tiplier, was always a single figure !;
but, as it is most frequently, and yet
not always, two figures, the method
employed to obtain the foregoing
result cannot be accurately applied.
Assuming that the cypheris used
on an average once in ten times,
ATS, ,O00, 900 approximates the actual
number. Boston Transcript.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

The Baptist Teacher, referring to
the fish story about the whale swal.
lowing Jonah, says: Ii it had
pleased God so to order, it would
have been entirely natural even fol
an oyster to swallow Jonah-quite
as easy as for Jonah to swallow
an oyster. A miracle is a miracle,
and what folly it is to be haggline
about the relative difficulty of mir
acles? One is as easy for the Lord
as another Quite true ! but il
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
A Newhampshire Protest.

l loathe, abhor, detest, despise,
Abominate dried apple pies,
l like good bread, like good meat,
Or anything that's good to eat;
But of all grub beneath the skies,
The poorest is dried apple pies.
Give me the toothache or sore eyes,
But don't give me dried apple pies:
They leave the hulis to make us cough,
And don't take half the peeling Off
Then on a dirty string tbs strung,
And in garret window hung;
And there it serves roost for flies,
Until it's made up into pies.
Tread on my toes and tell me lies,
But don't pass me dried apple pies.
Il Keene Sentinel.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
A Horrible Disease.

An immigrant-g girl arrived at the
Barge Office a few days ago, suffer
ing from that terrible scourge of
poorly fed people in hot countries,
elephantiasis, says the New York
Recorder. This girls case, however,
would be peculiar one even in
countries where elephantiasis is at
its worst, for the disease has at
tackled her nose, and enlarged it to
such an extent that the Barge Office
carpenter was called up to measure
it. He found it to be ST inches long.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

II THINK Congressman should
wear a badge or something Of that
kind, so that people may distinguish
us from the ordinary citizen" Old
Member-"After you've been here
a couple of months you'll be wish
ing YOU could wear q disguise that
would prevent people from knowing
YOU are q Congressman.-Life.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

When the mosque of st. Sophia,
ia Constantinople, was built, more
than , thousand years ago, the
stones and brick were laid in NOR
tar mixed With solution Of musk,
and the building has been fragrant
with the odor eyer since.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

oils per week, using the residual
gasses, consisting chiefly Of carbon
monoxide, as fuel for distilling and
other purposes, while considera-
BILE yield of sulphate of ammonia
is also obtained.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
rh. Yellow Pine as Ornamental Wood.

A Chicago paper says workers IN
ornamental wood now assert that
yellow pine, hard finished irf oils, ia
the rival in beauty Of any wood that
grows, not excepting the costliest o.
the hard species, it being susceptible
ofreceiving and maintaining as high
q degree of polish as any known
wood, while, when impregnated with
oil. it is almost indestructlble.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

The KEYsroEr has long been acknow
edged to be the sole representative Of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtcoth.
mining regions, and, located as il is in the
very heart OF the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth. and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers Q
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters of local
importance in the growth OF Ketchum, the
future metropolis Of Idaho, it is aninvalua.
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. eub-
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
ACoy 1901

1-UUU OIIICt Ut IIUIICV, INASH'0t :
May 5, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
claim and dth that a said proc proof viii Be made be.
fore the Register and Receiver at HALEY
Idaho, on June Is. 1891, viz: Abilah
Adams for the SW 4 Sec. IL and w n NV
Z Sec. IA, TIP. 4 n. r. II f.
de names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation Of. said land, viz: H. N. Stew
art' John Monks, Frank Mats, of ketch'
IImi Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, OF Haley
W. 7. RILEY, Register.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

TO-DAY, there are between 80 and
40 mines in this country using elec-
tricity for either illuminating or
power purposes, and with such suc-
cess that electric mining engineers
look, in the immediate future, for
an immense demand from many OF
the mines ofthis country.-Mining
and Scientific Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

An old colored woman living at
Atchison used to prepare herself
every night for death BY dressing
in a new gown, and she was always
surprised to find herself alive next
morning. She kept this up until
she wore out three or fep1 blue
dresses and then she quit
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-20

The heaviest immigration in any
one year was in the fiscal year Of
1882, when 7S8, 1892 aliens came to
the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
A POLICEMAN.s ROMANCE.
How . Quarrel Was Made Up-Hs Treated

How . Quarrel Was Made Up-Hs Treated
the Case Professionally.
She was 1.-the and beautiful with . fateful
IRE Numbering in her deep black eyes. He
was tall and red headed, with blue uniform
and brass buttons In short, and without 60
ing into the pedigree or nationality Of either
party, she was housemaid, and he-oh, he had
risen to the summit of earthly ambition and was
apoliceman on the force. They had quarreled
and had not met for days. A policeman on his
beat and q pretty housemaid, however. are
bound to meet sooner or later and at length the
occurrence occurred, or, rather. the even.
eventsd, and the parted lovers came face to
face. They talked. All, the persuasive tongue
of policeman, whether ordering you to ''move
on there, now" or whispering to a young or an
old or q middle-aged woman
"Arrah there, then, darlint, let us make it
up
'Never! Never! Nev-air! Never again will
throw myself into your false arms" and the
maiden spurned him, even as do madens in
the theater. Had it not been for . convenient
telegraph post our hero would have fallen.
However, speedily recovering he grasped the
resisting maiden in his arms and as he pressed
her to his heart smiled professional smile and
murmured: "Yez haven't then darlint, thrown
yourself in my arms-rve pulled We in" and
the dove Of peace futtered over the scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
PIrcKINa 1HE rEArHFRs.

when the season for plucking arrives my
birds are driven into a narrow pen, where they
are so tightly crowded not to be able TO
move. while the operator stands on a platform
outside and cuts off the plumes close to the
flesh. The very valuable feathers on the wings
there are abont twelve in each wing. and they
often retail for as much as go spiece-must
he taken before they are quite matured- Their
growth has to be watched 30 as to get them at
their best. Most perfect, and. therefore, most
costly OF all ostrich feathers are those brought
from Aleppo and obtained from the birds
of the syrian Desert. They are very
rare. Next in order of quality come those from
Tripoli, from Senegal, from Egypt. from Mo-
rocco and from South Africa. The difference
between a wild and a tame feather is immedi-
ately perceptible to a connoisseur. While the
tame feather is much sitter, it has not the
natural. graceful fall of the wild feather, and.
even when dressed and curled, it becomes stiff
again after a while.
OSTRICH vALTzTNG.
''The habits Of the ostrich are most inter-
esting study. One of its occasional freaks is
dancing. 1 have seen as many as twenty nearly
full-grown birds waltzing together. They begin
with sort Of siding revolution on their toes
at slow rate of speed, moving their
wings gently mp and down. Presently they
seem to get into the spirit Of the thing and
spin around at a rate that would astonish q
dancing dervish. In the performance Of the
exercise they sweep round and round without
ever coming into contact with one another. As
the time draws near for the eggs to be
hatched the sitting male is apt to become impa-
tient, and L have seen him under such circum-
stances actually lean with his chest upon an egg,
crack it, take it up in his beak by the mem
brane inside the egg and shake it violently
until the young bird dropped out, when he
would swallow the membrane and repeat the
operation upon another egg. There is nothing
short of steam power that can approach the
speed of an ostrich. The length of its stride
has been proved to be from twenty-five to
twenty-eight feet. and its rate of speed is
estimated at twenty-six miles an hour, when
doing its utmost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
HE OWNED UP.
And VIII Probably Not Be in a Hurry to Stop
Another Runaway.

And VIII Probably Not Be in a Hurry to stor
Another Runaway.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A horse attached to buggy came running
down Grand River avenue the other day, lickety.
cut, and pedestrian rushed out. seized the
trailing lines and after being flung down and
dragged. through the mud hundred feet he
brought the animal to stand-still. Then he
led it up to a post, picked up the whip and
cushions and had just got everything ship
shape when fat man, walking very leisurely
and smoking q cigar, came along and took pos
session.
$50 it was your horse?" asked the mud-cov.
cred rescuer.
eyes; my horse. Got away from my house
on 4th avenue"
"And-and-"
ooh. I wasn't worried any. knew that
somebody would stop him sooner or later.
There's some Of that sort always around. you
know"
And as lie drove of without another word the
philanthropist took of his overcoat. gazed at
the ruin wrought and said to the crowd which
had collected:
Il own right up, gentlemen. I'm from Fool
town by the most direct route"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
WASHINGTON SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
ID edmond AND DANvrIIF RAILROAD 90
~ schealu.e m sfia-i IANI-AIlA a l..lI -

IL IChMOND AND DANNrIIE RAILROAD 90
h Schedule IN effect JANUARY a lrell-
station. wash ngton. BIC.
80 am-Dsiy for Culpeper. Charlottesville Sta
Rocky Mount, Dsnyilie. oreensisDrO' Ra.ish asl'e.
VILE. Charlotte. ColumhiA, Aisen Augusta, A,iaT,a
n ~ ,,n ontsolnsr, Iesssand al
ilsn seeleT Atlanta 10 New Orleans Pullman ) eeu.r
DanNlle via Columbia and Aug usta 10 Mason PM
llaAn SeeeTs Washington Clntinnafi via a ana 81
Route: connects at IyD.hbury with Nort,,is - a.
tern failroad for Roanoke. Bristol Knoxville gastta-
nooea ana the southwest.
Nestbulei Limited. between MaSif.ton ard Atianta
COMPOSED entirely Of Pullman cars on wilh an ertr.
raie .. iAre j. chAr.ed arrives Atlanta 03Os sac
.2.D pm--psily, except sunday. for MsnAsssa
sti aslIurs and nterInedlate stafiuns-
Pullman sosps9 & SsnpSi. wa s,ry sn
Bristol. -
I:lO p.m.-western EXPRESS daily for Manassas.
Pullman estIbule Iran WASHINGTON 70 tanclIlstI
Win = uIliliaL sleeper Tor Louisville
II ~ y. utiiern EN-ss daily for Lynch,ur,
Iianylile. halesh, Asheyl'fe. CharIOtta, OOluiuha
augusta, Aiken. Atlanta. Muntgonssry New O,rieans
Texas and California Pullman estIUule Car Washing
ton 10 New dreams via Atlanta and Nunteoi.sery
Pullman Sleeper lork ana Nasl.Inrton 10 Asi.
VILE and Hot Springs. y. G.. saslIIry Also
ashliston 70 Augusta VIA Charlotte and Columbia
ington $3.50 a. IN. daily. q - D. daily and as a. m
daily. except sunday. sturning arrive MGsliI.ston
esO an and 0s45 pm. daily and ~ an daily.
Through trains from the south via Charlo.t. Dan
vile and iync Injury arrive in Washington oss3 m
IL - a. m and 30 p Fast tennessee. Bristol
peake and Ohio and ChArIOitesyiile at a. ~ M
and 10 y IN and lOaS q stTAsburg local at ~ ~
a.
Tickets, sleeping reservations and inforTnntou
furnisaed and bageage checked at once. 800 Penn
sylyAnia ave. and at Passenger station. feInsylyans
,a3 JAS. L. TAYLOR. Gen Pass Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
NOODLES GOES on A JOURNEY.
Incidentally He Gets Into Something of q
Mix About Onnibuses.

IS HAD A PARTICULARLY WEIRD SORT
L of experience the other day." said Moo
dies last evening at the Platypus Club. Il was
invited to spend the first week in Lent with
some friends of mine who are old-fashioned
people and live in the country, some little dis
lance out from city not o thousand miles
from here. They are very hospitable folks,
and always have good time when 90 there;
the girls are jolly, there are plenty Of horses
and some shooting is to be found in the neighbor-
hood. On other occasions they have sent into
town and fetched me out to their place, but
just this once it happened that their colored
coachman was sick, and SO they directed me to
take the street out as far as the little subur-
ban post Office, where could meet the stage
or omnibus which stopped there regularly for
the mail, thence pursuing the old turnpike
road to my destination.
81 knew the way very well, having traversed
the route often in the family carriage As in
structed took the car as far as the post Office
and waited there for the omnibus to come bv. 1
was told that il would arrive within twentv min
utes. 4 little more than that time had elapsed
when the vehicle rolled up in front of the door
and the driver. jumping off his perch. came in
to get the mail. picked up my traps and GO
ing out into the road, jumped upon the back
step OF the stage and tried to open the door
MHlCh was az the rear IoE tne purpose OF enter
ing. Not succeeding. after repeated efforts,
shouted to the passengers inside to let me in,
for the air was cold and biting. To nv sur
prise none of them made any response.
'''Open the door, l cried. Il want to get in y
''Still not one of them made a motion All
the seats were full. well as could make out
through the little window bu. there was room
enough for standing, and / was determined to
obtain sdmittance.
Let me in" I shouted again, banging on
the door; but no attention was paid and the
passenger nearest the window-a viliainous
looking person. by the way-grinned exasper-
atingly. At that moment the driver of the
bus came out of the post office with his bag
of mail.
"'Wot's up. Chappie? said be impertinently.
'' Il can't get in replied.
YOU'RE In hard luck said the driver.
1.-THE other passengers won't open the door,
They can't said the driver.
"'Why not?"
"a Because they're chained together said the
driver.
"'Chained together?'
eyes said the driver. They're q gang Of
six burglars, four counterfeiters and three
murderers, and this ere is the Black Maria
bound for The Jail. The reg'lar turnpike bus
will be along In i've minutes, but I'll give You q
ride il you ike
Il preferred to wait for the bus And now,
fellows. since that has been rather n dry story,
what will you take next in the liquid way?