The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-07-12

The California honey crop promises
to be of extra quality.
Figs eight inches in circumfrence
are in the Fresno market.
John Kelly and Ben. Butler, it is re-
ported, have united TO defeat Cleve-
land at Chicago.
The daily average use OF water per
capita is III Washington l76 gallons,
i'm New York 20 gallons.
A horned fish with rattles and tail
like rattlesnake is on exhibition At
Independence, Cal.
Over 900 sheep will be driven 10
Wyoming this summer from Umatilla
county, Oregon.
San Diego boasts OF u human curl
osity In the person of Chinaman
who has not the least semblance Of n
lower jawbone.
Trout weighing as high as eight
pounds are being taken AL Fallen and
Cascade lakes, something never be-
fore heard of.
Bishop Whitaker gave Miss QnaliIe.
inslructress of music at the School far
Girls, y 81 900 piano a a token OF his
appreciation of her services.
During the past month only $50 ar
rests were nIads by tbe Portland Or
egon) police. THIS il the smallest
number Of arrests made In that city
during any month for n YEAR.
The Democrats of Carson intend 10
start paper 10 run through the cam
laign. and il sufficient sncces> is met
with il will be nade permanent
publication.
Tomatoes and cneumhers arc so
plentiful in Florida that hundreds of
acres OF them are being plowed in,
because they are not worth the cost
OF picking.
A party OF men digging In bad Of
dry pond near Ancricus, Gu, found
"A live alligator at the dauth often feet
II was eight feet long and WAS in a
torpid condition.
"Gentlemen, said Texas man In
the restaurant when the waiter dump
sd a plato OF hot soup down his back, i,
"Gentlemen. don't laugh" As he
had risen to his foet and drawn two
rsvolvers, his wishes were respected.
"What kind OF sauce will you have
with your steak?" asked the waiter OF
diner in a restaurant where con
dimenls were served with the orders.
"If tho steak is az tough az yester-
days, send in a couple OF circular
saws"
Frank w. May and Joseph b. Tom
linson, went hunting near Bslknap,
NJ. T.. on the evening of the I'd inst.
May made II circle in bis travel and
In the dusk came upon Tomlinson,
who mistook him for \ deer and shot
May dead.
The bridge crossing the Colorado
river at Yuma, on the line OF the
Southern Pacific Railroad, gave way
last Wednesday. The river being
high and violent wind prevailing,
one pier and two spans of the bridge,
100 feet in length, were carried away.
The marriage OF a twelve-year-old
girl To gentleman of eighty years is
reported from Boykin, S. c., the two
having known each other but two
weeks, aud marrying with the con-
sent of the girls mother.
On the 18th OF February 223 slaves
we're freed in Brazil, at a cost of S37, :
900, by ths emancipation fund. The
number OF slaves still. on tho lists Is
100000. The mum ber is boing very
gradually diminished by public funds
and private benevolence, tho latter
fresing nine to the formers one.
Monterey county is prosecuting a
bee keeper named Rose, who has his
hives on a ranch near public road.
A Judgment was obtained declaring
the bees a nuisance, by reason, as al
legged. of tLeir attacking teams pass
ing along and so imperiling the ami
mails and their drivers. An appeal
has been taken.