The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-07-07
NUMBER 6
News Items.

The Imperialist says: THAT intensely
Red Republican sheet, Wilkes Spirit of the
Times scouts at the theory TINT NIL men are
not born equal. Nevertheless it devotes whole
pages to the pedigree of race horses. Blood,
ii seems, will tell in borses. but not in men.
Whether Mr.. Wilkes is descended from
king or n cobler is, in his opinion, n matter
of no consequence but it is vastly important
that his horse should trace his origin to somo
equine aristocrat
A RECENT incident in Paris life reads rs if it
were from Balzsc. widow, occupying a
very respectable and comfortable position in
society had siege laid to her heart by widow
er. They agreed to be married, but in a mo-
ment of weakness the widow yielded to the
solicitations of her future husband. In the
morning Judge of her horror on finding the
man dead by her side. She had to apprise
the authorities at once of her position and
shame
A CHILD has been born ct Jnca, France, on
the surface of one of whose eyes there is i'm
printed the exact resemblance Of q watch DIAL
oval in form. The hours and minutes are dis
tinctly marked, and the hands designated by
faint lines. A. the lapse of each hour the
child is seized with slight commissions, during
which it hiccups the proper number of tintin-
nabula, after the manner OF repeating watch
A PEW days ago the pastor of church in
Ohio was ca.echising the Sunday school and
among other questions asked who wrote the
New Testament. For some moments he re-
ceved no reply, and was about to explain.
when bright-faced little boy arose, and
much to the amaZement of pastor and school,
promptly responded, in clear voice. Don
Pidh!
jews n ENeLAND.-In the English Parlia-
ment the seven Jews, who represent the cities
of London, Greenwich, Reading, Dover,
Hythe, Aylesbury and Dewsbury, are all men,
bers of the Liberal party. The number of Jews
in England is sixty thousand. SO that they are
better represented in the Legislature than any
other religious faith, if not better than any
other class of English subjects.
The youngest brother CT Francis Joseph,
the Archduke Louis Victor, is much admired
in Paris. He is n young man of highly dis
tinguished appearance, of n pleasant, sociable
nature, and with the same melancholy cast of
countenance which fascinated the ladies so
much in MaXimillian of Mexico. There is no
danger, however, of Louis Victor giving any
! trouble to JuareZ and Grant.
! THE Wilmington In.) Independent, edited
/ by Mr.. Steele, gets off the following: "a
i printer last week proposed TO go into partner
! ship with us. His name is Doolittle. The
firm name would sound very bad, either way
! you put it, 'Steale and Do Little or DO Lit
tie and Steal We can't jine. One of us
would soon be in the poor-house, and the
other in the penitentiary.'
L
lum at Charenton the other day. "Why are
! yoa here p she said to one of tho unfortunate
! patients. "Why, on account of an abandoned
| woman like yourself" replied the lunatic.
"Well, we'll, " murmured Mile X, on
leaving him. THAT lunatic really is not SO
very insane"
SoME persons having recently praised, to
DR.. Russell, the Prince of Wales speech be-
fore the Royal Geographical Society, the Doc
tor rejoined, "I wrote out the speech and
deuced hard work / had to keep it short
enough for the Prince to trouble himself about
getting it of by heart.
THE Corinne Reporter says man named
Isaac Garrett was found hangingto a telegraph
pole near Wasatch on the morning of June
Both, and upon being cut down it was discov-
: cred that he had been terribly bruised and
shot through the head and arm. No clue to
the perpet- 4tors OF the deed had been discov-
cred.
An old man, attired in ecclesiastical costume
{ and wearing long white beard, has lately
been seen in the streets OF Paris. 1t is Mr.
Dupond, Bishop of Azoth, in the Kingdom of
Siam, who has come to Europe to be present
at the General Council. This prelate was
born at hrras he has presided in Siam for
the last thirty years.
The San Francisco Herald says that the ex-
tensive adulteraton of the imported olive oils
encourages the growth of the olive in Califor-
ni8. 1t says that experiments are being made
there on n large scale in the cultivation of the
. olive and the best mode of extracting the oil
, therefrom
f WHEN the Paris and Constantinople railroad
: is completed-which will be in about FIVE
+ years--the passage between the two cities may
be made in sixty hours, it is said. In a
straight line. these cities are about 400 miles
apart, but the road will doubtless be 1000
miles long
The marriage of Lord Byron's only grand
] daughter, Lady Anne Isabella Noel King
i Noel, hos just taken place, and she Is now
Q Lady Anne Blunt Her mother was Lord By
: ron's only daughter, the Ada he loved so pas
!, sionately-
y ada, sole daughter of my home and heart
IT is better to love person you canno,
:. marry, than TO marry u person you cannot
II love. This is a short text to long sermon
II which human experience will continue tC
preach "unti the last syllable of recorded
time"
y y Az ambitious gentleman in Connecticut ap
. peals. over his own signature, "Too the meek
- anics and laboring men of may native town
= ] will reprizint you in the Static ascemblee r
= rispectif of pollytics, relijion or oddcashun.
10 ERsK1S lately asked Spurgeon- -"Spurgeon
'g where do you think would go If 1 should di
te now 2" ITO hell and bo damned" ''Wel
that's frank. I've asked several preacher
that uupstion md tbay nynidad ~ -