The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-11-19

turesque character when out for a
walk-queer slouth hat. adapted
to comfort and protection, with his
long, flowing hair. made him at
tractive to the public. Extra cloth
ing to guard against a change of
temperature, a cushion and a bag
containing refreshments always ac-.
companied him upon his outings.
The death of Sir Isaac Holden in
England a year ago at the advanced
age of 80 drew attention to another
dietary formula for the encourage
ment of longevity. Holden was
scientist and philosopher, known as
the inventor of, the lucifer, match.
He attributed his prolongation of
life chiefly to the avoidance of bread.
The fact that he reached great age
and was out driving about over the
moors in apparently good health
the day before he died speaks we'll
for his system. For breakfast he
had a baked apple, one orange
twenty grapes and. biscuit made
of banana four.s His midday meal
consisted of about three ounces of
beef or mutton, with now and then
bowl of soup. If he took little
fish he took so much less meat. For
supper he practically repeated his
breakfast menu. In regard to eat
ing, this was his motto: After the
system has been built up and the
period of manhood reached all
starch foods should be banished
from human diet. From early man.
hood, no matter what work was in
hand or weather overhead, he never
spent less than two full hours day
in open-air exercise.
Some philosopher says that the
wisest centenarian is the man who
leaves no prescription behind him
that it is bad legacy. Thomas
Wilmington, who lived to the age
of 1O1 years, neyer.took any liquids
into his stomach but ardent spirits.
London gin was his favorite bever-
age, of which he drank pint and a
half every morning, and continued
to do so to within a fortnight of his
death. The sheet anchor of old
Parr, who survived s152 years, was
butter, garlic and Venice treacle, or
molasses and sulphur. Johannes
De Tomporibus, who was credited
with 800 years of life, claimed that
the secret of longevity was soil
without and honey within" A Lon
don woman who lived 106 years
adopted one part of the formula !;
she smeared her face and neck with
hogs lard every day and carefully
abstained from washing either.
John Wilson, who died at 116, sup
ped off roast .turnips every night
for forty years A venerable SNUG
gler, whose age was legendary, gave
as a prescriptiona"wet feet every
day and drunk every night"
! The foregoing list offers a wide
field for experiment. The formula
of Wilmington or the "smoke all
you can" of John De La Soult, who
lived $50 years, or both, will prob
ably be the more tempting to male
amateurs in search of a long life
According to the Westminster Ga.
zette, Robert Taylor, who recently
died at the age OF l34 years, was
the oldest person in Great Britain
or Ireland. Adam Adamcek, who
died in South Chicago last March
was lis years old. Mrs. Catherine
Rice, better known as aunt Kitty
of Rockford, H., celebrated bel
1O1st birthday in August. There
was then reason to believe that she
would survive until after 1900, wher
she will have lived in three differen
centuries. Aunt Mirah Davis, 6
colored woman of Highland county
Ohio, is reputed to be 124 years old
Aunt Mirah never INDUCES in tn,
use of stimulants, but occasionally
smokes a cob pipe.
A New Tram Dodra.