The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A land .league-three miles. -
.Acalicowrapper. The dry goods clerk.

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.Acalicowrappcr.- The dry-goods clerk.
Nevada City. lcal favors woman
suffrage - q ~
Epitaph for a cannibal-"One who
loved his fellow men,.
What should a clergyman preach about!
About quarter of an hour
Civilization consists largely in knowing
how to preach without practising.
Boston Post: Leap year is over. There!
Now we hope to get minutes peace.
In this cold weather there are plenty
of stamps on the floor of the postoffice.
1t is said in Washington that Secre-
tary Evarts opened the season with q
corkscrew.
Edison is the most promising man in the
country. He doesn't make light of his
promises either .
Eighteen hundred and eighty-one is
the first year since III whose figures
read the same both ways.
A novel hut not inaccurate definition
of Justice-The natural daughter of Ven
geance legitimized by Law. y
To satisfy judgment against a de.
faulter, constable at Fond du Lac, Wis,
levied on tombstone about to be erected.
Anew York clearinghouse took fire
the other day, and the flames got as far
as the pantry, when they went out for
want of fuel. v-- $50 gi ssg.r..
A candidate for the situation of coach
man advertised in Cork paper that he
has testimonials and is ''both courageous
and good shot" i. 1tf4
The young lady who objected to being
embraced by her lover was gravely in.
formed by him that she was putting
restraint on the liberty of the press.
The terms of consolidation between
the Western Union and American Union
Telegraph Companies have been agreed
upon and the preliminary papers signed.
Secretary Evarts says the peasant Of
Ireland or Germany, carrying a soldier on
his back, cannot compete with the Am
erican peasant, who has no soldier to
carry.
A bottle was picked up on the Jersey
beach with tho intelligence that the
steamer City Of Boston was burned June
Goth, 1870. Signed by A. Herrick, of
Tr eque. = + s'-'5 3
Krupp is making railroad rails instead
of big guns. However, he can have the
satisfaction Of knowing that a great many
people are killed every year by railroad
accidents. VA. Jttt lseSe
1t is a fact worthy of notice that most
great composers have been childless.
Handel, Hadyn, Beethoven, Corelli,
Pergolesi, Spontini, Auber and Schu-
mann are instances,
Mayor Cooper appointed the United
States marshals for the city of New
York before his term of office expired,
and his appointments were confirmed by
the Board Of Aldermen. 's
'They do say" says the Elmira Free
Press, adjusting its eye-glass carefully,
shat Lord Beaconsfeld is making the
Queen longer visit than is proper; and,
after all, they are not so very DID,"
An Ohio Court has decided that mar
ried women do not own the clothes they
"C@t. AAAS hiuSv W " StaViiy hiS ooSio-
ion to women who not only earn their
own. clothes, but, also those worn by
their lslsbands.s III i'll
Boston has net debt of $l3, 874, 1872,
exclusive of a. water debt of $l2, 7S4, 274.
The amount OF the debt paid last year
was $4,5Sl, 1871, and the average rate of
interest paid during the past ten years
has been 1858.
Employes,of the Streator. Ill.) Coal
Company attempted to lower a fresh
mule into tho mines. When, the cage
started down the animal was, overcome
with terror, and when they went to take
him from the cage they found he had
died of fright while descending.
The death of squaw[in the Indian
Territory is reported from the excessive
use Of tobacco. She smoked herself to
death at the age Of ia, having CON-
menced when only eleven years Of age.
She is computed to have smoked about
seven tons Of tobacco before it at last re-
suited in her death. This is another
illustration of the sad, yet infallible, re-
suits f,prolonged incompetence.