The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-12-10
Bits Of Information.

There are some 10000 Federal
officers.
Jarrah, Of Australia, is the most
indestructible wood.
The British Museum has 80 miles
of shelves filledEith books.
Dicken wrote twenty-four books,
containing 1928 characters.
Extreme heat is more fatal to
human life than extreme cold.
The greatest day 8 run of an ocean
steamship was about 515 miles.
Six hundred colored men in Chi
cago are married to white women.
The German Emperor has a walk
ing stick made of rhinoceros skin.
Santo Domingo is the oldest ex-
listing settlement in the New World.
In the Seventeenth century the
use of tobacco was punished by
death.
In former times deformed people
were frequently thrown into prison
to be kept out of sight.
It is not generally known that the
parchment used on the best banjos
is made from wolf skins.
lis estimated that the total num-
Der of people in the United Kingdom
who always wear glasses is 825, 600.
| The population of many South
Sea islands manufacture their en-
tire suits from the products OF palm
trees.
Annoy, in China, bears the doubt
full distinction of being the most
dirty and unhealthy city in the
void.
In a year the food eaten by a
horse is nine times his weight; that
of a COW nine times; that Of an OK
six times.
The man who is perfectly pro-
portioned weighs exactly twenty
and three-fourths pounds for every
foot of his height.
On a clear night a red light Con
be seen a greater distance than a
white light, but on a dark night the
reverse is the case. -.
The longest canal in the world is
the one which extends from the
frontier of China to st. Petersburg.
It measures in all 4,472 miles.
The highest monument in the
world is the Washington Monu-
ment in Washington; it is built Of
stone and is 555 feet in height.
Hercultile, the new French ex'
plosive, is SO powerful that half a
bound of it in a recent test dis
placed a stone weighing 80 tons.
Frost has variety of effects upor
different products. Under the same
influence eggs will burst, apples
contract and potatoes turn black.
!. The Guadaloupe bees lay theil
, honey in bladders of wax about a.
, large as pigeons egg, and not II
. combs. The honey never hardens
: In q shingle mill at Gray's Har
Dor, Wash, recently, the eDtlr'
; works were kept running all da!
on a single cedar stick, which mad
1875, 500 shingles.
; Drowning as punishment TO
crime was legally enforced in Scot
land up to the year 1911. The sam
: punishment prevailed in Eng!an'
), y up to a few years before this dat<
i The greatest mine known is tn
= ocean. If each ton of ocean waite
! contains six milligrammes OF gol
+ and nineteen of silver, which al
, the lowest results yet reported fro1
= = It. the ocean contains Fl ,595,629
! ! 869, ,O28 tons Of gold and over "a
r 1856, 1856, ,6O7 ,084 tons OF silver.
# Most people do not know q plar
!, has lungs, but it has and it's lun(
: are in it's leaves. Examined throug
I hich-power microscope every le'
will throw thousands upon thou
s. ands Of openings, infinitely saa.
= Of course, but each provided VII
70 Inns. which, IN many species, 81
y continually opening and closing.
re The Bothschilds are said to ne, :,
IT, curious way Of providing = blrt!
CT day present for all the girls OF :!
ye family whom they come Of age:
"a the birth Of each little glrl 9
ne nearls valued et - 800 are put asld
e 6ix moro are added st each o,1s
=. day, and when the young Z: Z: