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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07
RoPPING A DAY.

The dropping OF a day in going across
the Pacific Ocean eastward, say from
Yokohama to San Francisco, is not yery
difficult to understand, though many per-
sons are puzzled over it. Even the Hon.
James Brooks, in his slsetchy volume,
"A Seven Months Run Up and Down
and Around the World" written in 1871,
says; Yesterday was Thursday, to-day
is Saturday, June 18th. We have drop.
ped ont Friday, which ought to have
been June 10th this year, there are only
six days this weekday, oily five, from
Sunday to Sunday. ] am puzzled over
this in geography and on chart, and
though doubtless it is all clear to the
navigator and astronomer, have found
1t not so easy to store it away in my
head. We are not in Gideon.
nor the valley of Ajalon, with the enc.
mics TO avenge, as Joshua had when he
ordered the sun and moon to stand still,
but the sun stands still to us in this wide
wilderness of waters, as we lose the day.
In brief explanation let anyone imagine
himself to start at monday and travel to
the westward as rapidly as the sun-or,
more correctly, as the earth turns west
ward on its axis-it is evident that to
him there would be no rising or setting
of the sun; there could be none, for the
sun would be constantly overhead. In
like manner, if we were to start OF noon-
day and travel at some rapid rate say
l 900 miles per hour, there would be to
him two full days in twenty-four hours
i. e., two sun-risings, two moons, two
sunsets and two nights. Now the rea-
son for adding or dropping day while
crossing the Pacific instead of the At
lantic, or Indian, or any other ocean, is
because the lS0th parallel OF longitude
east or west is found there-that is, the
point Immediately on the opposite side
of the earth from the observatory in
Greenwich, near London, which navi-
gators uniformly count as their starting
point or zero.
In travelling eastward or against the
suns apparent course, it is necessary tc
drop day, and for convenience and uni
formity this is done at the lS0th parallel
in like manner, in moving westward, Of
with the sun, one day must be added OF
counted twice. If this were not done
the traveller would find on arriving at hi.
journeys end, that according as he wen
east or west around the world, he hat
gained or lost day, both of the weel
and month. In other words, Mr.. Smith
who left Chicago (the real center of tn
earth's infuence) on the frst day of las
January for trip via San Francisco, ia
pan, India, Egypt, ETC., reached hom
for Christmas, will have 364 days thi
year, 1882, while Mr.. Jones, who starte
at the same time, and travelled eastwar
around the world, will show 366 day
work during the same year of grace. TIL
three or four minutes Of time gained Q
lost each day, being put together, make
up one day in the aggregate, and is droI
ped out or added, as stated above, at
point exactly opposite Greenwich, etc
lSO degrees, or one.half of 360 degree
the number in any circle.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07
NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT HAVE
~ received the Assessment Roll and oriCinal
lists Of property for the year A. n. le02, from
the same 10 in nv office for public inspection.
The Board Of Equalization will meet q their
ONCE ON Monday, September l9th. "A. D.
1884, for the purpose Of equalizing said roll. and
will continue in session from day to day until
October. A. d. 1882. and ali persons having
objections to make to said assessmsnts must
present the same to said Board when IN sssoion.
GEO. T. 00AHAM,
County Clerk and Ex-0ficio Clerk Of the Beard
Of County Commissioners.
sestd By E.H. Pn.aos. Dspets.s
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07
TRE SUN.
tEdlnburs Review

In any reference to the physical history
Of the sun, the stupendous magnitude of
its sphere must be kept wildly present
to the mind With diameter 100 times
longer than that of the earth's, the solar
orb looks out into space from surface
that is twelve thousand times larger than
the one which the earth enjoys. The
bulk Of the sun is one million three hun.
dred thousand times that of the earth.
If the surface OF the sun were thin ex.
ternal rind or shell, and the earth were
placed in the middle OF this hollow
sphere, not only would the moon have
space to circle in its usual orbit without
ever getting outside Of the solar shell,
but there would be room also for second
satellite, nearly as far again as the moon
to accomplish q similar course. The
weight of the sun is three hundred thou
sand times the weight of the earth, or,
in round numbers, two thousand millions
of millions of millions of millions of tons.
The mean distance of the sun from the
earth is now so well ascertained, through
investigations which have been made in
several distinct ways, that there can
scarcely be in the estimate an error Of
500, 1000 miles. The distance, at the
present time given, is 90, SS5, 900 miles.
This measure is in itself so vast that, il
any traveller was to move at the rate of
four miles an hour for ten hours day, it
would take him $500 years to reach the
sun, Sound would traverse the interval,
if there were anything in space capable
of transmitting sonorous vibrations, in
fourteen years, and cannon ball sus-
tanning its initial velocity throughout
would do the same thing in nine years.
A curious illustration, attributed to
Professor Mendenhall, is to the effect
that an infant, with an arm long enough
when stretched out from the earth to reach
the sun, would die of old age before it could
become conscious, through the transmits
ion of the nervous impression from thu
hand to the brain, that it had burned it
fingers. In order that the earth, thu
moving round the sun with chasm o
$4,000, 600 miles Of intervening space be
tween them, may not be drawn to tn
sun by the preponderant attraction of it
100000 times larger mass, it has to shoe
forward in its path with momental vel
ocity fifty times more rapid than that @
the swiftest rifle ball. But, in movin
through twenty miles of this onwar
path the earth is drawn out of straigh
line by something less than the eight
part of an inch. This deviation is proI
erly the source from which the amour
of the solar attraction has been ascel
tanned. If the earth were suddenly al
rested in its onward flight, and its m'
msntum were in that way destroyed,
would be drawn to the sun, by the irr'
sistible force of it's attraction, in for
months, or in the twenty-seventh part
the time that cannon ball would tai
to complete the same journey.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN books Of registration for the general cleo
tion to be held November 2. 1882, for the el~c-
tion Of State. County and Township officers arc
now, open and will remain open daily on 81
legal days from 10 O'Clock A. M. to p. NJ, until
October 40, 1882, at which time the books for
registration will close at Q O'Clock r. ". The
law requires naturalized citizens to exhibit
their certificates Of naturalization ct the time
they present Themselves for REPATRIATION.
eu ~ HA E. BUNKER,
Registry Agent, Bunscrville Lincoln County,
Nevads. h er
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07
Notice to Creditors

EsTATE OF M. FULLER, DECEASED. NO.
IL TICE is hereby given by the undersigned
Administrator Of the estate Of Mortimer Fuller,
deceased, to the creditors Of, and all persons
having claims against the said deceased, to ex-
hibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within
four months after the first publication OF this
notice. to said administrator at Pioche, in tho
County Of Lincoln, Nevada.
Dated at Phoebe, August 7, 1882.
au12-6t l.. p. BETZ, Administrators
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07

NE IN Nl1per day at home samples worth IS
~ " 0bJtree. Address SrrssoS 90. Port
land Maine
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07

rJ,HE PIONEER" Is A MAGNIFICENT
L HOTEL. having been ntted out In good
Style and with view to the comfort OF guests
who stop here. II is the only
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-07
SheriR's Sale.

DYyIRTUE oFAN ORDER OF SALE ItspHD
ID out Of the 9Th Judicial District Court, In
and for the County Of Lincoln, State OF Eevada.
and to me directed and delivered. for judg-
ment rendered in said Court, on the eighth day
Of August, A. D. 1882. in favor Of Jos. Eisen-
mann and against John KeDney ard Wife, for
the sum Of $3.50 dollars. debt, together with
1854 counsel fees, and $61 dollars, tax costs and
al accIuing costs and interest. have levied on
the following described property, TO wit: Thas
certain piece or parcel Of farming land situate,
lying and being in PahraDagst valley, Lincolr
county, State Of Nevads. and about SIX (6) mile,
southsrly from the Town Of Hiko. in said
County and State, being the NV. \ Of NV. /
and 8 y Of NV \ and N u af Sw X, and the
SE Of the SW 4, and the NV \ Of the Be 4
Of Section a. T. g. 8. Range. 60 E, containing 2aO
acres. with all the appurtenarces thereunto
belonging or in any wise sppertaining.
Notice is hereby given that on
Monday, the 4th day Of ssptember,
A. D. 1882, at - O'Clock ". of that day, will
sell all the right title and inte-cst Of said John
Ksnney and Wife In and to the above described
property, at the front door Of the County
Courthouse, at Phoebe, Lincoln County, Ne.
vsdn, st public auction, for cash In hand, to
the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said exs-
cution and all COSTS. ntF
aul2td O.P. SHERWOOD, Sheriff.
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Registration Notice.

NOTICE 10 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ books Of registration for the general cleo
ton to be held November Z, 1882 for the election
Of State County and Township officers. are now
days from 10 A.. NJ, to P NJ. until October 20.
1882, at which time the books for registration
will close at O'Clock NJ. The law requires
paturalized citizens to exhibit their certificates
Of naturalization at the time they present them
selves for registration.
n CLARK,
Registry Agent at Pah-Rump Precinct, Lincoln
County, Nevada,
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N10A WEEK. $i2a day at home easily made
0ILCostly 0utnt free. Address ThuR d Co.,
Augusta. Maine.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1882-08-05

The dropping of day'in going across
the Pacific Ocean eastward, say from
Yokohama to San Francisco, is not very
difficult to understand, though many
persons are puzzled over it. Even the
Hon. James Brooks, IN his sketchy vol
ume, "A Seven Months Ran Up end
Down aud Around the World, written
in 1871, says: Yesterday was Thurs
day, to-day is Saturday, June 18th.
We have dropped out Friday, which
ought to have been June 10th this year,
there are only six days this week-nay,
only five, from Sunday to Sunday.
am puzzling over this IN geography and
ON chart, and though doubtless it is all
clear to the navigator aud astronomer,
have found it not so easy to store It
away in my head. We are
not in Gideon, nor the valley Of Ajalon,
with the enemies to aveDge, as Joshua
had when he ordered the sun and moon
to stand still, but the sun stands still
to us in this WIDE wilderness of waters,
as we lose the day.
Ia briet explanation let anyone imag
inc himself TO sta t at MONDAY and ira
vel to the westward as rapidly os the
sun---or, more correctly, as the earth
turns westward Oh it's axis--lt is evi
dent that to him there would be no rs-
Tug or setting OF the sun; there could
he none, for the sun would be constant
ly overhead In like manner, If we
were to start at MONDAY and travel at
some rapid rate say 900 miles an hour,
there would be to him two full days IN
twenty four houls--i. g., two sunris-
ings, two moons. two sunsets and two
nights. Now the reason for adding or
dropping day while crossing the Pacl-
fic instead OF the Atlantic, or Indian,
or any other ocean Is because the leUth
parallel OF longitude east or west is
found there--that is, the point imme'
diately on the opposite side OF the
earth from the observatory in Green
wieh, near London, which navigators
uniformaly count as the starting peint,
or zero.
In travelling eastward or against the
.o,,a anparaut anuran N il uaraxsasv
to drop day, and for convenience and
uniformity this is done at the lSOth
parallel; in like manner, in moving
westward, or with the suu, ona day
must be added or counted twice. Ii
this were not done, the traveller would
find on arriving at his journeys end,
that according as he went east or west
around the world, he had gained or
lost day, both OF the week and month.
La other words, Mr.. Smith, who left
Chicago tthe real center OF the earth's
iufiueneel on the first day OF last Jau-
uarv for a trip via San Francisco, ia.
pan, India, Egypt, etc, reached home
for Christmas, will have SEA days this
year, 1882, while Mr.. Jones. who star.
ted at the same time, and travelled
eastward around the world, will show
366 days work during the same year of
grace. The three or four minutes of
time gained or lost each day, being put
together, makes up one day in the az,
gregate, and is dropped out or added,
AS stated above, aC point exactly
opposite Greenwich, etc, l80 degrees,
or one half Of $50 degrees, the number
in any circle.
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DESERT
CRYSTAL SALT WORKS.

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Table, Dairy, AIoa' and Stoef salt, put ,ip By
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, 1882-01-28
Hands UPr" ONCE MORE.

The San Francisco Daily Report of the Sth
instant repeats the story of last summer,
when was published an item stating that J.
B. Hume, Caief Of Wells. Fargo & Co.'S de-
tective service, has been caught out by road
agents. The story was tha. Mr.. Hume was
passenger on stage in the upper portion
Of tie State and was made to hold up his
hands by highwaymen. who stopped the We
hicle and looted the express box and the pas
sengers, and that Mr.. Hume was compelled
to part with his gold-mounted. diamond
stocked cutoff deuble-barrrlled shot gun,
presented to him by the Company as re-
ward for his valor in tackling whole bands of
stage robbers single-handed Wells Fargo
Il Co. run gun store IN connection with
their express and never fsll to reward with
the present of shot gun persons who save
their treasure from highwaymen or aid in the
arrest and conviction or killing of men who
have robbed their stages. Mr.. Hume felt
very much aggrieved at the injury wrought
to his professional reputation as q thief
catcher by the publication Of the above men,
toned report and denounced it as the base.
less fabrication of some wicked newspaper
eritter or job put up on him by the GRIMM
al element of the Pacific Coast. He asserted
that not only had he not been stood up, -
but that no stage robbery occurred on the
route and at the time stated. The circum-
stances that the fragments of the express
box were appropriated as kindling wood by
several Cinnamon in the nelghborhood was ac-
counted for on the hypothesis that the stage
must have run into chuck-hole and that
the box iolted out Of the boot and struck On
rock. Mr.. Hume was therefore given the
benefit of the doubt. A dispatch from Ben.
son, Arizona, gives an account of an another
adventure Of Mr.. Hume with the knights of
the road Two masked men stopped the
stage from Benson to Tombstone, in which
were eight passengers, including Hume.
These two men showed no more respect for
Wells, Fargo & Co chief of detectives than
if he had only been Chinaman with q lot of
gold dust sewed in his undefahirt, aad ac-
tuAlly took from him two beautiful rsvolyers.
with silver plated barrels and sights made of
four-carat diamonds, presented to him by
Wells Fargo L Co. As an appreciation of his
heroism as witness for the prosecution in
Bocie stage robbery case Mr.. Hume did
not care for the revolvers and gracefully
yielded them to the robbers. as he knew that
his employers have got more revolvers than
their detectives and Laessengcrs are ever ex
peesed 70 use.
, 1882-01-28

BUSINESS FAILURES N 1851. I'VE have
before us the annual circular of the COM
mercial Agency of K. c. Dpnn 4 Co, New
York. In its statistics We find that IN the
States 5.5S2 business failures, with habii
ties amounting TO SSl, l55.932. This Is a
slight increase over the yeIr 1850, but a
great deal better showing than any other
year since 1873. The year 1873, for IN
stance shows i0.iIS failures, with liabilities
of Sa3i, SSS, 1872 Taking into consideration
the increase OF business in years time. the
seemingly unfavorable figures Of lSSl over
1880 are not at all alarming and the figures
indicate really more healthy state Of com
mercial life than the figures Of 1850. Two
such unprecedented successful business years
in succession 90 far toward putin; this na-
ton on aSnancial footing with the world
that il will take hsrculean strength Of other
nations, or fool-hsrdy speculation of our own
business men and capitalists to shake IN the
least. Washington Territory shows d.
crease in number, bat an increase In labii-
ties over 1850 in lSSl, and It's failures IN
number are equal to those o: any other ter
r;to,y. Bat when we remember that no
other territory has half 50 many engaged IN
mercantile pursuits NE have no oause Tor
blush;pe At the showing made iSSs Is sill
ia the future, and brighter future no
country ever had peep into than We bare
now
, 1882-01-28
How a Woman Reads a Newspaper

According to Mrs. Gertrude Garrison,
this is how she does it She takes 4 up
hurriedly, and begins to scan it over rap
idly, as though she were hunting some
particular thing, but she is not. She is
merely taking in the obscure paragraphs,
which, she believes, were put in the out
of-way places for the sake of keeping her
from seeing them. AS she finishes each
one, her countenance brightens with the
comfortable reflection that she has out
witted the editor and the whole race of
men, for she, cherishes a vague belief
thatnewspapers are the enemies of hersex-
and editors her chief oppressors.
She never reads the headlines, and the
telegraph heads she never sees. She is
greedy for local news, and devours it with
the keenest relish. Marriages and deaths
are always interesting reading to her, and
advertisements are exciting and interest
ing. She cares little for printed jokes
unless they refiecs ridicule upon the men,
and then she delights in them and never
forgets them She pays particular atten-
tion 70 anything mclosed in quotation
marks, and considers it rather better au-
thority than anything frst-handed. The
columns in which the editor airs his opin-
ions, in loaded hifalutiOn, herarely reads
Views are of no Importance in her es-
timation, but facts are everything. She
generally reads the poetry, she don't always
care for it, but makes practice of read
ing 1t, because she thinks she ought to
She reads stories and sketches aud para
graphs indiscriminately, and believes
every word of them. Finally, after she
has read all she intends to, she lays the
paper down with en- air Ct disappointment
and half con.emptuors gesture, which
says very plainly that she thinks all news
papers miserable failures, but is certain
that, if she had chance, she could make
the only perfect newspaper the world has
ever seen
, 1882-01-28
Humorous Writing.

Almost everyone privately INDUCES IN
the idea that he would become n cele-
brated humorist writer If he were only to
Try.
He takes up a magazine or newspaper
and reads humorous article. and says
to himself ''If | only had time | could
do vastly bet than that.
Now, friend, suppose you take time and
Try
If You can produce first-class sketch
your fortune is made. You need not
plod along in counting houses or yegetate
behind the counter of dry goods stores
selling calico at a profit Of , cents yard.
You can just go on with your first-class
humor, and tx your own valuation upon
it. never fearing but it viii be paid
/ But the fact OF ii is You are a little mis-
taken. This humorous business Is much
easter IN theory than in practice Any
/ body can crlticise and find fault with ouI
funny writers, but the question is. can
that same anybody do any betterl II
/ 80, let him do it.
You think it very simple and easy
thing to sit down with a pen in your
fingers and sheet of paper before you
and indite thoughts which shall convulse
the word with laughter, and sayings
which shall be repeated for years to come.
Well, We are all willing yon should try,
and when you achieve success We will
laugh at your witty sayings and sun our.
selves in the fash OF your diamonds and
not feel any envy. We are apt TO look
upon humorous writings as a pastime, as
requiring less thought and intellectual
power than the heavier essays which
crowd reviews but in this We are mis-
taken. Your true humorist must have
wonderful Imagination, keen sense OF
the ridiculous, thorough understanding
of men, generous power OF language,
deicacy, sensibihty, tenderness and a
strong love Of humankind.
, 1882-01-28

The OLDEST LopGE IN The STATE-The
sixtie,h anniversary OF the organization Of
Columbia Lodge, No. l. o. o. F., the oldest
lodge IN the STATE, was celebrated by the
CoiuI-bia Association IN Turn hall recently.
The history of the loig, was read by p. C.
NJ. Peter II. Jobes John Sinister. white.
smith, and James Cisiridse, = blacksmith.
organized the lodge at - MAin street,
Brooklyn, on Jan. 3. lS22 In 1928 Grand
Master WIla-y, who founded the order in
this country in Baltimore in 1919. came to
New York, and on the presentation of &
charter from Duke OF Sussex Ledge Of Liver
pool hy Columbia Lodge. requesting the
lodge u surrender it and receive free
charter from Maryland Ledge He also es-
.ablished the grand lodge on June -, 1873.
and the officers Of Columbia Lodge were the
first grand officers. Columbia Lodge started
the reform movement that resulted in hav-
ing only cold water IN the lodge room. II.
G. Morris has been member If the ISdge
Tor IL Years and l. Powell for 43 wears.
The lodge has furnished SIX Grand Masters
and fear m5mhers who went into other
lodges became Grand Masters-N. Y. San.