The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-20
LIGHTING A Room BY ITS WALL Pap

LIGHTING hoOM BY ITS WALL PAPER.
Referring to the suggestion made in
Germany that wall paper could be coated
with oxalate of copper, which appears
| lighter as it grows darker, and vice versa,
| the Manufacturer and Builder ad-
vances the idea that room might be
made temporarily self-luminous by SIM
liar means. There are several salts
which absorb light if exposed to it, and
give it ont afterwards. Among these
are sulphides of barium and certain coal
tar extracts of the anthracene series.
The best way to produce the effect would
be to employ powerful electric light in
the room for short time, until the wall
paper had acquired its phosphorescent
power, and then cut off the electricity
and admit visitors to the room. Any
thing more weird than such an apart
ment is hardly conceivable, and the ex-
pertinent would not be exceedingly costly
1t might be employed with surprising
effect in the initiation performances Of q
secret society.
During the progress Of the war Russia
kept the world pretty we'll informed Of
the extent of her losses in troops, with
the design, as was supposed, of creating
the Impression that at its conclusion she
would be justified in bringing in a large
bill for indemnity. The grand total Of
her captures is now officially published,
from which it appears that the Russian
army of the Danube captured Is pashas,
$4,000 officers and men, COG guns,of diff
, ferent calibres, 5000 tents, 140, 200 mus
} kets, and $4,000 horses. In addition,
200. 900 small arms. yataghans and pis
tolls were taken from the Turkish irregu.
lar troops, and also $4,000 lances and
, daggers. The Russian army in Asis
> captured during the war IA pashas anc
so, 200 officers and men. 662 guns, 16, ,0O(
) tents, $4,000 musksts. 18, 900 horses, aut
: immense stores OF ammunition and pro
visions of all kinds.
@ The Ann Arbor (Mich.) Argus says
"If you want to see strange sight, g
o up to the physiological laboratory an
0 ask Dr. Stowell to show you his do
Alexis. Alexis has a silver tube ez
tending from the outside of his body +
v the inside of his stomach, The tube j
9 closed by cork. and by removing thi
II cork the contents Of the stomach can b
n drawn away and examined at any time
:. The dog is fat and sleek, and seems
h apprecia his notoriety."
J, An arrested "moonshiner" says ther
i are about 200 illicit distilleries in Pu
l. nam county, Tenn, five being in oil
}, cut OF one.half mile. Every bushel {
d corn used produces an average OF tw
y and half gallons OF wbiskey. and til
o price of corn in that locality seldol
It reaches fifty cents a bushel, making th
d price Of whiskey less than twenty cents
10 gallon. It is generally sold at from on
10 to three dollars per gallon.
!. 1t is said OF Ethan Allen that he ono
If attended church where the minist,
"a made an estimate, the results of whic
Of was that out of the whole human ract
10 not more than one in thousand woul
nt be saved. On the announcement of thi
o. result, Allen took his hat and Wake
y. out, saying, as he went, "Gentlemen,
a any OF you want my chance you are we
of come to it. tits not worth staying for.
w The full text Of the report made by Il
of majority of the House Committee @
Civil Service Reform contains no le
than ten several counts against Doc
e. keeper Polk, charging him with pretl
an much every abuse that it was possib
re for him to commit in his official positio
IN The allegations are specific. and in MOI
nd cases fortified by proof.
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Canton grapes are In fashion.