The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-10-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The difference between newspaper
and q woman is: One brags of its ad-
Vanced age, and the other don't.
The Mountain Brow mine, at the
lava beds, Los Angeles, is turning
out ore that yields s. 10 the pound.
The assays from the Union winze
are over 500. Even John Kelly, the
big bear, admits that, as he made the
assays himself.
To please the ladies the Melhodists
OF Canada have dropped the word
"obeyo from the marriage service.
The ''obeyp itself was dropped long
ago by the ladies themselves.
When Henry was counting Sarah he
used 10 boast that he had "boss"
girl; now that he Is married he finds
that he has "boss"wife; but he never
mentions 1t.
The mining department OF the State
University at Elko is running in full
blast, and Prof Ginoux has quite an
extensive class in assaying.
Where do the steel pens go There
are manufactured every week some
$4,000, 900 OF tn IN. Birmingham,
England, sends out about two thirds
OF the number.
A new field of mining has been DIS
covered, called the Kutte Valley Dis
trict, north OF Calico 100 miles, that
shows very rich ore.
Owen Flannery, a miner Of Gold
Hill, was fatally stabbed IN Virginia
Al. -.
man named Sayery. Flannery died
the following day.
Tbe highest point on the Rocky
Mountains reached by the Northern
Pacific il 200 feet lower than the
summit OF tho Sierras on the Central
Pacific.
The Harvard ''annex" for women
is eminentiy useful. Two ladies out
OF class of five have become en-
gagged to their teachers, and another
is permitting one OF the young pro-
fsssors TO swing on her fathers gate.
The total bills OF the Insane Asylum
for September amounted To SO, l64, OF
which 81. .564 7S was the actual cost
for maintainance. The average num-
no that the cost per capita was So
cents per day.
Two-thirds OF the cattle raising in
Wyoming and Montana Ii in English
hands. h costs 50 To rails three year
old and the animal is then worth $40.
The more cattlea man owns the small
er the cost OF raising and caring for
each animal. Most Of the grazing is
done on public lands.
A new town named Caldwell, on the
Oregon Short Line Railroad, is spoken
Of as a rival to Boise City, Idaho. Ac-
cording to report 1t is growing rapidly,
and whore there were only three build
ings few weeks ago, there are now
fourteen stores, and more buildings i'm
course of erection. A company is
about To cmmence new ditch, which
will carry waters r~enough to irrigate
10000 acres of land in the vicinity of
dhe town.
Recently the st. Louis newspapers
were filed with accounts ofthe disap-
pearance of Mary Churchill of that
city. A portrait of the girl was pub
lished, showing n homely face, rem
dered more ugly by shock of chang
ed hair, which leads the New York
Graphic TO remark that II the picture
Is a good one IL believes she has
"sought some vast wilderness to
escape looking-glasses."
Another fearful earthquake horror
Is reported near Constantinople. Six
villages were destroyed. LOCO persons
known to be killed and 10000 driven
from their homes to suffer from star
vation, cold and fear. What horrors
this year of our Lord 1883 is bringing
10 us. 1t will doubtless be remsm-
bered that noted scientist predicted
that another great earthquake would
shake up Ischia about this time. 1t
looks as If his figuring was about cor
rect.