Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-29
NUTS AND RAISINS.

! Forty poker players have been indicted III
Lexington Ky.
A Lynn Alderman is accused of selling bo-
gus insurance policies.
From tie doomsday book Of 1870 to that
of 1873, England had no authentic work on
land tenure
Electricity is the new antidote for sea sick
ness. A mild galvanic battery is brought to
bear on the stomach
Blankets are ''the circulating medium" of
the natives OF Vancouver. The richest chiefs
have them stored by the hundred.
The French police have establishments at
intervals along the Seine to restore persons
picked out of that river, which probably gets
more would-be suicides than any other.
What next? Here is NJ. de Cherville, in
LIE Sport, denying that The dog is the friend
of man, because one once bit AIphonse Kerr,
and another dined off Dumass father.
Mira Ali Khan, Secretary Of State to the
Shah Of Persia, has left Teheran, for Paris,
with the view of preparing residence for his
master, who is to arrive there in the spring.
A foreign princess, learned in theology,
has embodied the reforms outlined by Padre
Curci in pamphlet, and had only one hun
dred copies struck off for presentation to the
highest prelates of the church.
jamaica began quinine planting in 1865,
and now has $4,000 trees, of which expert
enced chemists report most favorably. The
experiment, made by Government, is re-
garded a complete success.
Boots Alexander a murderer, escaped
from drunken mob near Murfrecsboro,
Tenn. Then the lynchers waited until they
were sober, which required about six hours,
Alexander, and hanged him.
a swindle in the Boston Post Office has
been exposed. Box owners have been charged
three dollars each, in addition to the regular
rental, ostensbly as payment for the locks,
but really to fill somebody's pocket.
Nyindham county, Vt, has been trying a
man for lager beer selling, the point Ringing
IN the question whether lager is or is not
The jury decided that it is,
fined the man, and sent him to prison for
ninety days.
In Atlanta the temperance problem is solv-
ng itself. According to a local newspaper,
here is much less drinking, not from any
nigh moral attitude being assumed, but from
he abominable quality of the average whis-
Key.
The tramp in France seems to possess as
eadT wit as does his American cousin. Met
With the response that there was nothing for
i'm to do, he answered: ooh, madame, if
on only knew how little work would occupy
ne" ,
The memorial to Queen Victoria upon the
i5tress prevailing in the district of Dean
crest has been signed by ten danes of the
crest, each about eighty years of age; ten
lOthers, each of whom has ten children; ten
idows of ten GOLFERS, ten orphan girls. and
N ladies.
An estimate has been made of the loss ex-
ericnced in the English Channel by the
orm of Nov. II Twenty three vessels
IS were cast ashore, 81 had to
1t back seriously damaged, 30 lost anchors,
c., about 200 men were drowned, and the
IS of cargoes is put down at not less than
,200,00O
The cruelty of tame stag hunting 5 IA
'rite subject of denunciation with the Ian :.
t and other English journals, and will not 6
lprobably sooner or later result in the dis =.
ntinuance of her Majestys stag hounds,
lich are, in fact, principally maintained for =
e sport Of stock brokers and other city
nts
Ireland has, as compared with England,
it one-half the number of land owners in 4
Oportion to population, and if purely agri- y
ltural districts are compared, it will be Fl
md that for ten oWners of land in England Kin Kin
between one and fifty acres, there is only
e such owner in Ireland; and yet about -
e. third of the land of ireland has been in
, market since 1845.
Pitury is an exceedingly powerful and sus-
ming stimulant, used by the Australian alb
gines, Just as the Peruvians use coca. The
mt is known in scientific botany as the
boisia Hopwoodii, and is only found in
tain parts of the Australian continent. 1t
attracted the attention of the head of the
lbourne Botanical Gardens, and is likely "
be turned to valuable medical use.