The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-01-03


Social statistics show that wido- !.
wers remarry oftener than widows.
The greatest cave in the world ls
the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
There are now II 600, 900 men in
Europe ready to be called into the
field.
The colored troops in our army
succumb to disease more readily
than the white.
The greatest lake in the world is
Lake Superior, 43O miles long and
1000 feet deep.
Prior to 1924 Presidential Elect
ors were chosen by the LegislE-
lures of the States.
At Greenwich the moon has been
observed with scarcely an intermis-
sion for $50 years.
The mean term of human life his
gradually increased in the last fifty
years from thirty-four to forty-two
years.
The greatest mass of solid iron
in the world is the Iron Mountain
of Missouri $50 feet high and two.
miles in circuit.
The total population fthe United
States, including Indians, is placed
at 63,OOO,OOO, gain of 100000
in the past decade.
Most of the buttons used on coats
and cloaks are made from potatoes
which have been treated to bath
of sulphuric acid.
Man is the universal animal. 1t
is estimated that there is l ,25O, O,OOO,-
600 of him on the globe. The sheep
rank next with 5OO,OOO,OOO.
Indian ink is made in some un-
known way from burnt camphor.
The secret is known only to the
Chinese, and they refuse to reveal it.
1t has been discovered that glass
is capable of being turned into fine
cloth, which can be worn without
the slightest discontinue next the
skin.
The highest smokestack in the
world is said to be in Glasgow,
Scotland. 1t belongs to Tenant
& Co.'s chemical works and is 46O
feet high.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad, 1851 feet
above the sea-level, is the highest
point crossed by any railroad inside
the limits of the United States.
In accordance with the United
States Army standard of sights and
distances, at / 200 yards man can
not be told from woman; at l 500
yards man cannot be told from
horse.
A physician has compiled some
very elaborate statistics to demon
strate that men of thought live, on
an average, three years and a half
longer than men in the ordinary
vocations of life.
Indian wars have cost the coun-
try over $7OO,OOO,OOO. The red
people are an expensive race, but
at one time they owned this coun-
try.s Seven hundred millions was
too much to pay for it.
1t takes $4,000 bonnets year to
cover the heads of the female SOL
diers in the Salvation Army. The
army has property amounting to
more than $3,OOO,OOO in the various
countries where it is established.
Four eclipses, two of the sun and
two of the moon, will take place in
1891. Seven is the largest number,
five Of the sun and two of the moon,
which can occur in any one year,
and two, both of the sun, is the
smallest.
The safest piece Of water upon
earth is the Lake of Urumia in
Persia, situated more than 1000
feet above the sea-level. It is much
salter than the Dead Sea, the water
being found on analysis to contain
nearly % per cent Of salt.
The National Capital at various
times has been at Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Lancaster, Penn. at York,
Penn. at Princeton, N. j.; at An
napolis, Md; Trenton, n. j.; New
York. 1t was at Philadelphia four
times, the last time from 1870 to
1900, when it was removedto Wash
ington.
There is dispute as to exactly
when the Twentieth century will
; begin. A Pittsburg astronomer says
!, it will begin on January 1, 1901
! The First century does not end with
, the year 80, but with the year 1905
,, the Second century, therefore, began
with the year 101, and the Twentieth
!, century, as explained, will begin
with the year 1901.
A genius in Berlin, Germany, has
invented an apparatus by means OF
which daylight can be distributed
! into the darkest rooms. The power
: of lighting any room by this appa-
ratus is, according to the Berlin
: Centralblatt, unsurpassed. 1t re-
tains that power for years, and re-
quires no repairs or attendance
while being in function all day.
A well-known scientific journal
gives an old-fashioned but excellent
4 mode Of nreventing the cracking o1