The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-04-17

Outlfve mems lives and lives OF nations,
Dead, but for one thing which survives
The inalienable and unpriced treasure,
.fheold joy Of power. the old pride of pleasure
That lives in light above mems lives
AN OLD FAMILY.-One must accept
the words-ofa Presbyterian minister as
good evidence. So we do not hesitate t.
belive that the Rev. John III. Thompson,
q Scotch minister, tells the truth when
he saws. in D book entitled 1.-THE Martyr
Graves of Scotland" that he has found
farmhouse in Lockgoin over the door
OF, which is an inscription bearing the
date of 1178, and that the present occn-
pant of the farm is the thirty-eighth OF
His name that has held the farm the
family having dwelt there for thirty EIGHT
generations, that is, ever since the eighth
century, The name of the family is
Hewies. Talk of your old families after
this There is an English peer whose
pedigree dates back to the twelfth CELL
fury, but he is a mere parvenu compared
with this Scotch farmer. The only way
in which one can prevent a feeling of in.
feriorityiin the preoence of such al auto
crat is to remember that after all, you
and he arejalike d. scendants from Adam.
'DafHEYg got up a surprise party Thursday
might last On q young married couple, at
whose house in Swampoodie in a similar
affair was one Of the social successes of
the last season. The conspirators were
met calmly but cordially at the gate by
the husband, who rested on his shotgun,
while his beautiful and accomplished
wife, whose face and form were visible
inside the porch. said she was very glad
to see them, but she didn't think she
could held the bulldog back more than
a minute longer!
~ BUSINESS seems to be dull in San Anto-
MO, Texas, just now. The Herald says !:
".Times, are SO hard that, when the boy
who goes out on Saturday to collect bills
for a leading dry goods establishment
comes home with seventy-fve cents, and
has the ceiling of his pants worn out by
the boots of he customers from whom he
has collected it, the proprietor regards it
as a good day for collections"
"WAKE up, Judge, wake up; there's a
burglar in the house., said Mrs. Smith,
in Brooklyn, to her husband, the other
night. The Judge rolled out of bed,
-grasped his revolver, and opened the
door to sally forth for the robber. Then
turning to his wife he said, "Come,
Sarah.n and lead the way. It's & id
mean maj that will hurt a woman"
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~~AMorHER-IN-LAW has sent a communf-
cation to a Milwaukee magazine, denoun-
cling "the vile rabble of coarse, low bred
Journalists" who make paragraphs about
mems wives mothers. Well bet that
woman keeps her s~on-in-law within the
traces. Perhaps she ever stood over the
poor devil and made him write her COM
munication for her.
SIMPLICITY Of purpose begets sim
plicity oflife. This is manifested not in
one way merely, but in every way. There
islno double dealing in business. There
Is no praying for the salvation of souls,
and then, for the sake of making money,
helping them down to he'll in the ordinary
avocations of life.
"TwINs, marin, SEE I, twins I" once
wrote the lamented Artemus Ward. So
chronicle we q similar ease on King street
last Thursday, which makes four such
events In Danbury within six weeks. But
the last twins were calves.-Danburian.
NEvADA brides won't stand much fool |
ishness at a wedding. Recently one of
them while. going up the aisle OF the
church stepped short and kicked all the
skin off the shins of a groomsman who
trod on her trail. ra.FtI
"WE should love dearly, ? says a Meth |
odist paper, Ito see that chap who pre-
dicted that this was going to be a mild |
Wanter sitting on afenee in a linen dus-
ter, listening to the hooking bird"
An Ohio youth is to be hanged next
March for killing a small boy to obtain |
possession of q pound of brown sugar. |
1t wasthe principle of the thing, not the
sugar. which Influenced the jury.
= ABOVE ell things, learn your child to
be honest, and industrious If these two
things dom enable him to make q fionre |
in the world. he is only a cypher. and |
was intended for a figure.
A ST. LoU1s sergeant of police froze to
death d few nights ago while making his
rounds. This is another awful common
tary on the foolish system of closing sa-
Icons st IL o'clock.
A FAIR bride in Wisconsin was married |
with 81, 900 worth of jewelry adjoining
her person. given to her by q discarded
lover ! Was she fair2