Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-12-25
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A good place for la"yers-siou'
City.
New Zealand will soon commence
the expectation Of coal.
The output Of the coal mines in
Ohio will reach 100000 tons for the
year 1880.
Boston spends $2,300,o00 per an
mum for oysters. The beaR statistics
have not yet been collected.
The returns from Anderscoggoker-
tolinderaggen, Ne, are just in.
The Standard Oil Company of
Pennsylvania is reported to have
cleared nineteen millions of dollars
in nineteen months.
A Cape Ann sausage man secured
good notice of his product by send
ing specimen thereof to his fayoTite
editor.
The annual potato crop of the
United States is estimated at nearly
.200,000,0 900 Of bushels, of which New
York State alone furnishes nearly
25,000,000 bushels.
A cubic inch Of gold can be ham
mered So IS 10 cover space 30 feet
wide and 100 feet long, and twenty
800 gold pieces can be drawn into n
wire that would Eeach around the
globe.
A cut in St. Louis paper, which
we took for a picture X St. Louis
girls mitten, turns out an close ex'
animation, to he full sized picture
of sugar cured ham.
Canada's public debt is nearly 40
large per capita MS that of this coun
try, aud while the United states Is
paying hers off at rate unexampIed
10 history, Canada is constantly add
ing to hers.
During the past week shares in the
matrimonial stock market have gone
off lively. Several hopeful young
spectators have taken stock, aud
are now patiently waiting tor disl-
d.nds.
Sitting Bull declares that he will
fight the government of the Uuited
States until lie dies. His terms
should he accepted aud steps taken
to insure tue speedy euding OF his
warfare.
Chicago claims to be the Hogopo-
lis of tie world, and with the Ger
taintv of an undisputed title. Last
year 100000 hogs were butchered
In that city and about $500, 900 are
expected to meet the same tate in
1SS0-S1.
Nearly 1000 houses have been
erected at Denver, Colorado, during
the year, and yet rents and real estate
are high, and many families are un-
able to find houses at any price. A
board of trade has just Teen organ
izcd.
B.metalism Is in no wise con-
nected with the purchase OF old cop
per, brass, and scrap-iron. All as
sertions to the contrary are stale
campaign no ch-things, left over
from the late Presidential canvass.
Sometimes two sentences which
run into one spoil the writer's mean
ing. For instance, the Stockton
Mail, in winding up its advice to
voters, saws: "Vote the straight
ticket, don't get drunk and subscribe
for the Mail"
What relief II Is to turn from the
political editorials IN exchanges, to
the calm, digsitied statements to be
found in the local notices of patent
medicines. There is no lying In pat.
,ent medicine advertisements.
The Patent Office did large and
profitable business during the last
fiscal year. More than 10000 appli-
cations were received, more than
10000 patents granted, and there was
a net revenue to the government, over
all expenses, of nearly 100000.
This is the way Chicago paper
goes to work to predict a cold win
ter: "The erratic meteorology of the
.equinoctial term, the avant courier OF
the harrassiug and enfeebling cold,
prognosticates with unerring preci-
sion that southwark advance of the
Polar wave that will effectually bind
our streams in icy fetters of retentive
grasp"