The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-08-30
ONE THING AND ANOTHER.


The questions propounded to editors
are sometimes peculiar. The other day
lady fond of recitations wrote to inquire
whether, in recitipg Edgar Allen Poe's
raven the refrain never more should be
spoken or croaked"
Elbalmins the dead is growing in
favor in England An undertaken in the
ultra fashionable neighborhood of Bond
street asserts that he has large number
Of prospective customers who have agreed
to pay him $500 for his services whenever
they may be required.
An apparatus for measuring earth cur.
rents has been made by q Boston physi,
oIan, which consists of a very delicate
galvanometer enclosed in a case with
cloekwork arrangement for giving q pho.
tographic plate downward motion. A
fine ray OF light is focused from the gal.
vanometer mirror on the Photographic
plate, which moves at the rate of about
three inches per hour, and the mark
traced by the point shows the observer
the variation of the galvanometer from
minute to minute.
A curious needle is in possession of
Queen Victoria. 1t was made at the cee.
brated needle mandatory at Redditch
and represents the column at Traian in
miniature. The well.known Roman col.
umn is adorned with numerous scenes in
sculpture which immortalize Traian's
heroic actions in war. On this diminu.
tive needles scenes from Victoria's life
are represented i'll relief, so finely cut
and so small that they are only discerni.
bic through a microscope.
An English writer says: "Ne have
lately been suffering from an earthquake.
Let us see what a gay people of former
time thought on the subject" Horace
Walpole writes: You will not wonder
80 much at The earthquakes as at the
effect they had. All the old women in
town have taken them upon the foot of
Judgments and the clergy have driven
foot and horse into this opinion" But it
was not the old ladies who were fright
ened--frantic terror prevailed, and seven
hundred and thirty carriages passed Hyde
Park corner flying into the country.
Horace Walpole speaks of certain ladies'
OF fashion going into an inn ten miles out
OF town to play brag till 5 in the morning
and then 'to come back, :" he adds, Il
suppose to look for the bones of their
husbands and families in the rubbish :''
In those days everything was turned into
rldicule, Warm dresses were made for
the ladies called Earthquake dresses"
IN order that they might sit out of doors
at night without suffering, and fast Young
men going home at 4 in the morning
would rouse the peaceful slumberers by
knocking at peoples doors and crying out
IN watchman's voice: "Past o'clock
and dreadful earthquake"
A contemporary remarks that the the.
ory that emanations from cemeteries are
aeieterlous passes for nothing when criti-
calIy examined. The city OF London
stands upon soil that has been buried in
over and over again for centuries. Count.
less thousands have mouldered away in
that great city, and yet it is one of the
healthiest in Europe and compares favor.
aoiy with many cities here. 1t is so or
dained in the economy of nature that
earth is perfect disinfectant. Before
Inc custom OF preserving bodies in ice
came up, it was always possible to keep
body upon board by covering it with
good sod. The earth absorbed the gas
and answered good purpose. The sleep.
ing car spreads more disea in single
night than all the cemeteries combined.
a sick person can travel by it, and
wrapped in blankets, shut in by curtains,
gives off foul emanations all night, which
are absorbed by the mattress and pillows
l he berth is closed by the porter directly
It Is vacated, next morning, without air.
Ing or ventilation, and is again occupied
~ some innocent person. Here is the
place for scientists to delve for germs.
lie will find as many there as in an equal
SAGE in the neighborhood OF a cemetery.