Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-02-28
ODDS AND ENDS,

WISCONSIN lead mines have Welded
$4,000, 900 worth of lead since their dis.
cOvery.
WITHIN her present limits the Terri
tory Of Dakota embraces 10000 square
miles, or 0,00O, 900 square acres.
A MACHINE that will darn stocking, has
Just been invented, but it will not be com.
pleted until it can cuss tight boots.
LA Crosse, WISCONSIN, makes its own
watches, and good, steady blacksmiths
are in great demand at the factory.
CLOSE by the Mississippi river, twelve
miles above Davenpor, II seam of coal
twenty-eight inches chick has been dis
covered
A PEEIPATErIc quack doctor in New
YORK proposes to eradicate worms in
children by making the patient swallow
live trout.
An Alabama farmer laughed himself
almost to death "to see a chicken-thief
try to climb fence with his knees full
of buckshot.
A caAEGE Of twenty-five cents for ad-
mission to church weddings in Missouri
furnishes u fund for the young couple to
start housekeeping with.
DOCTOR went out for days sport
and complained of having killed nothing.
That's the consequence Of having neg
lected your business" observed his wife.
THE corn crop of Kansas for the year
Of 1872 is estimated in round numbers ut
5OODO, 900 of bushels; wheat. 1900, 900;
oats, 100000, and potatoes 1000 600.
Four millions of dollars have already
been expended on the New York post Of
flee, and if present plans are carried out,
three and quarter millions more will be
required to finish it.
A CONVICT in the New York State
Prison, in for twenty years, only ten of
which have elapsed, growing tired of the
prospects of those long years of labor,
chopped off his right hand to get rid of
work.
LITTLE boy who sang II want to be
an angel in Sunday school with so much
energy that he almost choked himself,
confessed to an enterprising reporter that
he really wanted to be captain on a ca
nal boat.
THREE hundred and ifty-two miles of
railway have been constructed in the
State OF Minnesota during the past year,
making in operation now, 1902 miles;
100 miles of road-beds are ready for
track-laying.
IHE post Office department is arrang-
ing to have the newspaper mails in large
cities made up and labeled in the publ
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despots, without going through the post
office at all.
HERE'S your invaders, shouted
member of the 18th Mississippi regiment,
as General Lees veteran army plunged
INTO the Potomac, on its way to Gettys-
burg. And here's your veterans,
echoed gallant soldier of the old 4th
Alabama.
IHE house of miner at Cleveland,
Illinois, which was built over an old coal
nine, fell through the other day, and his
wife and four children with it. The
stove set fire to the ruins and two OF the
children were burned to death; the
mother and the other two children are
not expected to live.
IHE new city charter OF New York was
published in the city papers the other
morning. 1t legislates all the present
heads of departments of the city govern
ment out of office, dispenses with the
Board of Assistant Aldermen and de-
prlves the Police Commissioners of
great portion of their power, besides
making other sweeping changes.
The following Texas towns are now
NE terminus each of railroad; Austin,
Waco, Cuero, Longview, Troupe, Mckin.
ney, Denison and Huntville; and railroad
work is progressing more rapidly than
was ever known in the history Of Texas.
railroads have more than doubled in
length in the State within the past year.
\, EVERYBODY who visits the Tombs in
New York receives ticket, and no one
lspermitted to leave without this ticket,
ana SO when woman wanted to go out
the other day, after looking over the
inurderers and the others, she was asked
ior her ticket. She said she had lost it.
search showed that an occupant of one
ol the cells was missing, and he had
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