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HAY and Ebairy Ranch
FOR SALE.

For sale, Hay and Dairy Ranch, one-hal
a mile east OF Willow Point, Paradise Valley,
Nevada, containing $50 acres OF Meadcw W Land,
large, new Dwelling House, Dairy House,
Barn, CorTals, and other Out-buildings; also,
Mower, Hay Rake, Tools, etc This property
other movable property.
For further particulars, apply at this office,
or OF the undersigned, aS the ranch.
The property will be sold at a bargain, as |
want TO engage ia other business.
qal H.u J, IL WHITAKER
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C. w. CRANE, 3lS Fine street and 10 Leides-
xiorff street, Room 50, San Francisco.
Gro. VI. MoTr, Sacramento, California
E. f. RILEY is authorized 30 cS'eet and re-
cept for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE IN
Paradise Valley
II. C. MARKER is authorized TO collect and
receipt for subscriptions to the SlhNTa STATE at
Big Meadows
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The majority q the population of
Arkansas call their State Ar.kan. saw,
but the fashion OF pronouacing the
name as it is spelled has gained ground
of late. The Eclectic and Historical
Societies have appointed a joint COM
mIttee to recommend uniform pro-
nunciation.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-05-04

Old Mrs. Singlesoul is rejoicing over
the reform Of her son Salem. She says:
Il feel my spirits so much relieved
since Salem jined the pledge. L was
beginning to be aieard he would get in,
durated to drink, but he brought home
a bottle Of absinthe aud told ue he has
taken the total absinthe pledge. He
drinks the nasty stuff all the time, poor
dear, and don't touch no whisky no
more, and I'm so glad
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SALT. SALT.
The Desert Salt Compauy

The Desert Salt COMPANY
MILLING SALT in quantities 10 sniff AT
reasonable rates.
Extra quality of Salt for all kinds Of meats
constantly on hand
4. kctnhart a. 60. are our sole Agents for
Ninne'nucca and Northern Country.
Address orders to
WALTER sCHMIB4 Manager,
SUsaS White Plains. NepaAA
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-05-04
A MISUNDERSTANDING CHRIS.
TEAk.

There are a great many people who
in their religion remind me of Uncle
Phil, !" pous old darkey of the oil d
times in Texas.
Phil was fervent Christian, with a
great gift of prayer. He attended all
the Saturday night prayer meetings on
the neigbboring plantations and could
pray louder and longer than any Of the
brethren; but Phil. had one weakness;
he dearly loved money, and, different
from the negro generally, he loved to
hoard it.
Near by us lived man who, not
being troubled with any scruples, would
pay Phil. dollar to work in his fields
on Sunday. One Sunday night Phil.
came home after dark, when l accosted
him with:
"Nhere have you been, Phil
"Oh, jest knocking about, masse."
~ on have been working for Milier."
"Well, you see, massa, the old fellow
is in weeds, and he jest showed ne a
silver dollar and l jest couldn't stand
it."
"Ain't you afraid the Devil viii get
you for breaking the Sabbath"
Phil. scratched his head a minute
asd said:
Il guess dat the Lord IL 'scuse ME,
massa.
'No. lie says remember the Sab
bath day aud keep it holy"
Phil. went off looking pretty sober,
and it was not long before heard his
voice in feryent prayer back of the
barn; so thought would slip around
near enough to hear.
ooh, Lord / heard him say, 81
have this day ripped and feared, eussed
and sweared at the confounded oxen of
Miller, and jest broke the Sabbath day.
Oh, Lord, please forgive me; please
forgive me, for you knows Use nothing
but miserable heathen, anyhow. If
you'll jest forgive me dis time III never
do it again as long as live, 'cept;n' he
gives me two dollar AID half day."
At this point / vas obliged to beat
hasty retreat, bat I'm thinking that
poor Uncle Phil. isn't the only two
dollar-anda- Christian in this
world. " ~ York World.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Humboldt and the Lunatic.

"Great wits are sure to madness near
allied,n and a quaint anecdOte, cuIled
from Humboldt's ''Wanderiaher, aptly
demonstrates how readily even so keen
an observer as the great German tray
eler may mistake a genius for a lunatic.
During one Of his many sOjOurnS in
Paris, Humboldt, who took a deep in
terest in the mysteries of mental aber-
ration, conceived desire to converse
intimately with some incurable maniac
and requested one Of his scientific
friends, an eminent mad doctor, to give
him the opportunity Of meeting one OF
his more remarkable patients. A few
davs later he received an invitation
from the specialist in question to supper,
and on his arrival at his friends house
found two strange gentlemen awaiting
him, neither of whom was formally
presented to him by his Amphitryon.
One was an elderly gentleman of grave
demeanOr, dressed in the height of the
prevailing fashion, by no means talka-
tive, and manifessly dayoted etos ths
pleasures of the table. The other wa;
a comparatively young man extremely
eXcitable in manner, WithIOng dlSheyeled
hair, ill-made clothes and so eXuberantly
voluble that he all but mOnOpolized the
conversation throughout the evening,
although Humboldt himself was
one of the most loquacious men
alive. This wild-lookin2 person dis
playedextraordinary versatility andrest-
iessness in his talk, which teemed with
paradoxes and dealt with an infinite
variety OF subjects. Humboldt listened
to his brilliant ramblings with absorb
inc interest, and upon taking leave Of
his host at late hour Of the night, eX-
pressed his gratitude for the psychology
cal experience afforded him, observing
that the mailman had amused him be-
yond all measure.
" How is that?" asked the doctor;
"you scarcely exchanged word with
him all the evening"
Il mean of course" reioined Hum,
boldt, " that excitable young man."
You are altogether mistaken; the
madman was that quiet, decorous old
gentleman"
" And who, then, was the person
took to be demented?"
" That person. my good friend was
NJ. HonOre de Balzacm
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Over ExertiOn.

@----@
Lonr-continued eXertion without
proper intervals of rest is followed by
a peculiar sensation of fatigue and often
by tremor or cramp. Fatigue is due,
in part, to the failure of contractiG
material and an accumulation Of waste
products, in the muscles, but, in the
main. to exhaustion Of the enerve-centres
that supply stimulus to contraction,
Both tremor and cramp are PROBABLY
caused by excessive muscular irpltabitI-
ty, the former being due to short, II
regular explosions Of muscular force,
the latter being prolonged contraction
of the muscle.
When oyer-eXertion is confined to a
small group Of muscles, these, instead OF
becoming enlarged and strengthened
as is the case when eXertiOn and rest
are duly interchanged, suffer chronic
exhaustion, which shows itself in a
species of paralysis as in the palsy, or
cramp, severally peculiar to writer's,
telegrapher5, type-settorS, ylolinists,
planist5, tailors, mixers and men OF
various trades whose work is mainly
with the hammer.
1t is computed that the pen-blade
forger, if industrious and disposed TO
do full work, delivers nearly $4,000 ac-
curate strokes q day, and in ten years
over 50, 900, 900, each stroke involving
expenditure of nerve force, both in the
nerves of the brain which calculate the
distance and amount of force necessary,
and the nerves Of the muscles engaged
in the act.
Another result OF Oyer-eXertion is ir-
ritability of the heart, similarly due to
exhaustion of nerve-force. The heart
may become dilated, so that valves
one or more-cease fully to close the
openings, or the valves become thick
ened and incapable of ready and com
plete action. The elastic tissue of the
great arteries leading out of the heart
may be weakened by over-distension,
and the walls may, during some strong
effort, 50 far give way as to form a
pouch, or even to stretch out into q
fatal aneurism. This irritability Of
heart gives rise to palpitation, cardiac
pain and rapid pulse.
1t is estimated that thirty-eight per
cent. of cases of this affection among
our soldiers during the late civil war
were due to long and rapid marches, or
to other forms Of over-eXertiOn, Pro-
fessional pedestrians are proverbialIy
short-lIyed. Mountain climbers, and
persons who carry gymnastic Or athletic
exercises to excess and especially
laborers whose work is severe and who
also suffer from intemperance, foul air
and improper diet, are peculiarly liable
to heart disease. Y3WE'S C0mpGni0n.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

1.-THE Gospel Church OF the Hl@a-
wavs of Baltimore is the name OF Il
mission church of that city. The object
is to 90 into the highways and hedges
and reach the masses.
Wherever IngerSoll lectures, cards
inscribed with Scriptural texts are
handed to the dispensing audience 0E
agents of the local Young Men Chrl5-
tian Association.
Cincinnati now has seven co!ored
schools, giving the same course OF IN
struction as the white ones. Thirty
teachers are employed in them, all OF
whom are colored except one.
Prof. Francis L. Patton, President
of the Chicago Theological Seminary
has accepted the professOrship in the
Princeton Theological Seminary, which
was endowed by a. 7. Stewart.
The Albany Law School has this
term students from Germany, Brazil
and the Choctaw Nation. The Brazilian
has been sent to the United States by
the province of Ceara to study Amerl-
can education.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
raised the past year $3.50, O99 for domeS-
tic and S158, ,651 for foreign missions.
Of the amount contributed for domestic
missions S2S,662 was designated Tor
work among the Indians and $500 Tor
work among the colored people.
The seventy-third General Confer
ence of the New Church (Swedenbor-
gian) in England has been held in Lon
| don. Over one hundred ministers and
delegates were present. The Rev. q.
! Giles. fraternal messenger from the
Church in the United States, was re-
ceiYed.
The average salary of Congrega-
tional ministers in Connecticut has risen
from 1912 year in 1861 to 81, 3O9 at the
present time, as reported in the minutes
lust issued. This is decided improve
ment upon former times. Ministers can
no more live on simple faith rhan other
people.
1t is stated that much of the in
crease of insanity in Germany is attrib-
utable to the excessive amount Of work
imposed upon the pupils in the national
schools. This statement is based upon
the result of Investigations made by
German physicians interested in the
treatment of the insane. May not the
results of the pressure in our American
schools be tending in the same direc-
tion?
The international Sunday School
Executive Committee, with other Com
mittees at home and abroad, have uni
ted in recommending that Sunday and
Monday, October II and IS, be observed
as days of earnest prayer for Sunday
schools throughout tine world. A pro-
gramme of exercises for the two days
will be widely distributed through the
Sunday-school organizations.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Sleep at Night.

Sunshine is given us for use, that we
may require little artificial light. Gas,
oil and candles alike vitiate the air. The
fewer hours that are spent in artificial
light the better, and this suggests, of it.
self, that within reasonable limits the
sooner we 90 to rest after dark the bet
ter. We require in the cold season of
winter, when the nights are long, much
more of sleep than we do in the sum-
mer. On the longest day in the year,
seven hours of sleep is sufficient for
most men and women who are not in
the prime of life. On the shortest day
nine hours of sleep is not over much
and for those who are weak, ten or
twelve hours may be taken with real
advantage. In winter, children should
always have ten or twelve hours of
sleep. 1t is not idleness to indulge to
that extent, but an actual saving, a
storing up of invigOrated existence for
the future Such rest can only be OBJ
tanned by going to bed very early, say
at half-past eight or nine o'clock. 1t is
wrong rs ever it can be that our legis-
lators should often be sitting up, as we
know they do time after time, in the
dead of night, trying against life to
legislate for life. 1t is most foolish
that public writers, who hold so many
responsibilities in their hands, should
be called upon to exercise their craft at
n time when all their nature is calling
out to them REST, rest restm There
are many who will disagree with me in
saying these things, but nature is on
my side. In every man, woman and
chiid there is, at OF about the early time
have named, a persistent periodical
desire for sleep. which steals on deter
minately. which taken ut the Hood, leads
to agood sound night rest, and which,
resisted, never duly returns, but is re-
placed by Surreptitious sleep, broken
by wearying dreams, restless limbs and
but partial restoration of vital power.
Work with the san as far as possible
ECctanGe.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

"Why, Neddie, | don't know wnaG
I should do without YOU. But it doesn
seem right to have you doing my worN
for nothing. p
81 don't do it for nothing; | think I
am over-paid every week; so if you are
suited am sure | ought to be. "
And so the weeks went by, and the
months went by, and little was said
about Ned's doing the work except an
occasional inquiry from George burch,
in a rather sneering way, if he still en-
loved working for nothjn'.'
But this state of things could not 60
on. At the end of two years, George
and Ned both left school to 60 to work.
George went into the factory, and
Ned got place to clerk in a book
store on smaller wages. But he thought
he would have some chance to study
there, and though he had said
nothing about it to anyone be-
side his mother and Mrs. Noble he
had strong idea of trying to work
his way through college. About this
time telegram came to Mrs. Noble, in
forming her that her brother was dead
and urging her immediate presence in
New York. So she closed the cottage
and went away, and he missed her very
much. But after a few weeks she came
back, bringing with her little girl, the
only child of her brother.
Ere long it was rumOred that the
Widow Noble had bought the cottage
where she lived. Soon additions began
to be made to it. 1t was painted and
an ornamental fence was put around it.
New and handsome furniture arrived,
and many signs pointed to the cOnclu-
sion that the widow had had fortune
left her. And soshe had, Her brother
had left large property which was di-
vided between his only sister and his
child, whom he confded to her care.
But the greatest sensation of all was
produced when it was announced that
Ned Ingalls, had left his place of en-
ployment and, after few months at the
Academy, was to enter college.
81 don't see how you've managed to
save money enough to go to college" "
said George Burch to him one day. sit S
going to take big lot, and you can t be
earning much while you're there"
{" No, | shall not have much time to
earn anything then. Butto tell you the
truth, George, Ilaid up a lot while | was
U0rking for nothing" - Christian UntOn.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
A WiRe's PreSentiment.

About midnight and just after the ac-
cident in the Consolidated Imperial
night before last, the wife Of Mat. Win
nie was found by officer Sheehan on her
way to the Imperial Works. She said
she had been awakened Just before by
her husband, who came all mangled to
her bedside, and told her he had been
killed in the mine. She had got up
dressed herself, and started to ascer-
tain the truth of what she was indeed
only too well convinced was true. Mr..
Sheehan went with her to the works,
ascertained there that there had in real
ity been a fearful accident; that Mr..
Winnie was indeed killed, and then
took the trembling little woman to her
children and her desoate home. Mrs.
Winnie had not been told of the acci-
dent, except as above mentioned, until
after she met Officer Sheehan. Here is
nut tor mental philosophers to crack.
Gold Hill (NesJ NeUS.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS,

Dead issues-Old newspapers
SteubenUilLe Herald
You can tell dog-wood by its bark
Whitehall Times.
Great hoax from little falsehood,
grow. w.--BOSt0B Traveller.
The crysiS in Spain That lita.
baby daughter. Philadelphia Bugetin
The hay-cutter is the invention of
no one man. Almost every farmer has
had q hand in it.-B0St0n Post.
Spectators in provision futuro,
can never tell which way pork will On
1t is the nature of the hog to 90 wrc6s
-NeW Orleans Picayune. o
"A South Hill debating club is wreSt
linz with "Can a community eyis,
without women?" We think it migbt
exist for a while, but then it wouldn't
know what was going on.-BurliaqtDr
HaWb-Eye.
"A young man on Main Street saws
he is going to attempt the feat of gonc
forty days without working. He saws
if his employers do not watch him, he
thinks he can accomplish the task
ROckla1sd Courier. ..
Old red farm-house-big kitchen
twenty bushels of apples-forty boy,
and girls come to the pairing bee
winks, mods, squeezes and a dance
after supper! Rise up, ghosts of BY.
gone years!-DetrOi! Free Press.
1t was at a Galveston hotel table
that child attracted considerable at.
tention by saying repeatedly: Il want
a cake" "You have had five or six
already" replied the mother Them,
not the ones want. l want fresh
one.n
They were in the wood, said he,
looking things unutterable, Il wish |
were fern. Gustie," " Why she
asked. "Why-p'raps-you-wo would
press me, too" She evidently hated
to do it, but it is the best to nj such
things in the bud; so she replied, I'm
afraid you're too green, Charley" The
poor boy almost blubbered.- .-BOstor
Transcript.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
"POtatOes and Point.

Saws writer in Notes and QUerieS
have always understood that it meant
eating potatoes only and pointing to u
bacon hanging on the wall. | have
heard a variation of it. -Four Iri5hmen,
wishing to live frugallY, bought lot OF
potatoes to eat, and a red herring to
rub them on to give them q flavor; but,
finding this used up their herring too
quickly, they got another, which they
put into bottle, and rubbed their po-
tatoes on the outside OF that.
There is another saving as common
as potatoes and point. 10 one ask
inc what he can have to eat, it is con-
sidered very clever to say, "bread and
pullet."
Lets have it, then," says he.
A large lump of bread is set on the
table and he asks for the chicken.
"Chicken!--pullet! why, there it is"
4" Why, here's naught but bread"
"Well pull it, and then you'll have
bread and pullet.'"
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
What Allied Jones.

Brown and Jones used to be friendit
real GOOD friends-but there is "a chasu o
between them now. Jones didn't knOVo
of it until Brown had passed him sever,f
al times without saluting, and then h,t
determined to know what was wrong n
Hating him on the street, he began;
"See, here, Brown, what come OVGm
you all of a Sudden?" N
"Sir?" replied Brown, with freezingof
dignity, as he drew himself up an extnie
inch. pc
"What have L said or done to breath
our friendship" continued Jones pr
"Mr. Jones, you are not the sort dw'
man l supposed you to be-" answeFe!,u
Brown. ~
In what respects? ~
"Sir, you were a delegate to Ou ia
COUNTY Convention" "a
"Yes, | was" oi
"For the past seven years you haEPo
professed to be my friend, politicallr
and otherwise ~ m
$50 | have-sO | have" pc
"Do you remember, sir, OF our haTin
inc talk about y week before the cOlon
vention? DO you remember that | sail
that isl hinted-that is" Ia
80, yes, you said that perhaps yoaa,q7
could be induced to accept the nomini,W,
zion of County Treasurer, IN
Eyes, sir. [ SAID that I was IN 4fis
hands of my friends "a "a
81 remember it now" tn
"And | didn't get vote, sir-noex
even complimentary vote. a. q:
"No, | guess you didn't, and no'sll l
YOU blame me for it. Alas. Brown, hoplu
little you know about our local politiepl
Why, sir, every man who has attende0
a ward caucus over three times knOHcSa
that when candidate puts himself ca
the hands of his friends they at Onsu,e
proceed to hold a funeral and bury To Oh Oh
remains ten feet deep" ~
Jones made a motion as if to shaEl II ~
hands and forgive all, but sudden Y, ~
changed his mind and walked on, car r.
fully placing each heel with thud a
keeping his spinal column as stiff as ce
poker.-DctrOH Free Press. re
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
A Mexican POmpeii.

The City of Mexico correspondent
the New York World writes as follow
under date Of September 4, of the tndlI
of a buried Aztec city:
"At length Messrs. Lorillard al
Charnay have immortalized themseN'
Charnay has discovered what he !e
properly terms { the Indian or Mexls,
Pompeii, a city buried for at least ~
years. In my last | mentioned the .
covery of villa near Tulla. That hou
has now been partly uncovered y Y
found to contain twenty-five rooms
teen staircases, and twelve coTlaGI
Attached to it are two ciSterns' W.
clay pipes, which were used to conl
water to the different apartments. 90.
of the household utensils are OF COW
clay, a few porcelain, and one artlct.
glass. Remember, Tullan, the capj
of the Toltec Empire, covered noI ~ "
the site of the present town. OF LUZ
but the spot where Mr.. Charnay J
covered the villa; and now ne IS
earthing near the former building
large palace, Perhaps during these 4
cavations he may find historical u
that will clear up all mystery wl!a
gard to the origin of the first inhaol'Ss \
of the Western Continent. On the
ult., Mr. Charnay announced to lie u
de Union, of this city, merely t9e
covery of palace, but madeno aII'iJ
to any architectural peculiaritles'
have, howeye", heard that the rum
Gently unearthed are more dlS'lu.
Asiatic in st lie than any Toltec rem
now known. In the course OF d
days we shall receive further pSl~
lars. Mr.. Charnay also had the
fortune to find the bones OF son0
gantic animals. These remains aLVD
en- route to this capital" "
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
A BALLADIYE.

She was the prettiest girl, ween,
That mortal eyes had ever seen;
Her name is Anabel Christine,
Her bangs we're curled with blndOline,
Her cheeks were smOOthed with vaseline,
Her teeth were brushed with fine dentine,
Her lace was washed in cOaline,
Her gloves were cleaned with gasoline,
She wore a dress of grenadine,
LOOped over a skirt of brilliantine.
Her petticOat was bOmbazine,
Her foot was shOd with a kid bOttine,
Her wounds were healed with c0smOline.
She sailed away from Muscatine
I'm a ship they called brigantine,
She flirted with a CAV marine
Till they reached tn Republic Argentine,
Where they were married by the Dean,
And lived on oleOmargarine.
-ScribnGr'S BriC-d-Brdc.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

The art of obtaining sugar ~ y
cane was discovered by a Feneua,
1903 and for fifty years later a ~; y
loaf weighing seven pounds was COZ
ed q beautiful present.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

"A simple way of keeping graPS,, !,
make tarts during winter IS 10 -, y
them, put them in jars, and pour e. enVii 4
molasses over them to cover Weh'
make nice tarts.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

-"You can't play that on me- IN, 4
the piano to the amateur VINO i,
down on difficult piece OF nl'''
Boston advertiser.