The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-10-18
WHITE PINE NEWS
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

There are 5000 negro Migrants In
Savannah, Ga.
Philadelphia claims TO be the candy
center of the universe.
The Mormon Church has an income
of 81, 0UO, 900 a year.
Tom Beers brick building at Car
son, costing originally $1,000, sold at
auction lately for slO5.
A farmer of Kulpsville, Penn, has
some grains of rye that are l5l years
old.
.Jay Gould's income is 81 q minute.
A very little time Is a good deal oil
money TO him.
Defectiye sidewalks have cost Des
Moines $24, 900 IN tot years through
damages 10 pedestrians.
The gaIlows during the present year
has filed more graves than in any pre-
vious year in the history OF d United
States.
1t Is related that ct Bowling Green,
KY, a nlan ninety years old drove nj.
teen niles TO see q circus, and enjoyed
1t hugely.
Only a few year since, fifteen days
and SIG ere required to 30 from o
ton 10 Baltimore. 1t now takes Jour-
teen hours and $40.
In the National Treasury there is
nearly $40, 900, 600 in Government Sc
curites which are nncalled for. Some
ofthem have been due nifty years.
The Sutlej, q large river in British
India, with u descent of IL 900 feet IL
$50 miles, or about 81 feet per mile, Is
the fastest flowing river In the world.
The Kentucky State Prison contains
seventy EIGHT prisoners sentenced for
life terms This, IL is said, Is largest
Number in any prison in the country.
Polyandry is practiced by the Thib-
itans. One woman has TWO or three
husbands. Some of the q pros
porous men, however, have two or
three wives.
The use of bitter willow in ~iavoring
and coloring tobacco is veheinently
denounced by Prof. Deschamps of
Paris as causing ~softening ofthe brain.
The largest elevator IN the world has
been erected at Newport News, Va, a
building 336 feet long, NO wide and l64
high, with q capacity OF 1900, 900
bushels.
The conceit of a Kansas man is to
remove the tombstone rom his fam
lly burial plat to the roof Of his house,
where they stand In a row of seven
along the ridgepole.
There is a girl in Turner Me-, who
smokes, chews, shaves, swears and
wears q mans hat. Her unconqner-
able propensit, for Ice cream Is the
one thing that betrays her.
Some one has figured Thai of every
500 earned by the laborer in the
United States, he gets $72, capital gets
$23, and government So. OF every
500 earned by the laborer In Great
Britain. he gets $56 capital gets $2l,
and government gets S23.
Haggin d Tevis expect TO be able,
when the new smelter now building
at Butte City, Montana, is completed
to lay down copper In Liverpool at
eight cents per pound.
Cattle ara roaming over the Lost
River ranges by the thousands, says
the Ketchum Keystone, aud avery
where industry Is taking the place of
the lonely wilderness that prevailed
there before the footsteps OF the pros
pector had made a mark In the soil.
The Bonanza King mine, In the
Providence mountains, with a ten
stamp mill, is turning out $3.50. 900 an
nually; keeps 100 men at work at
good wages, and supports, directly or
indirectly, over 500 persons.
1t is reported that Jack Jacobs, an
old man engaged in San Franaisco In
selling cigars and occasionally lottery
tickets on the streets, has fallen heir
to a fortune OF I'VE 80, 000, 900 by the
death of a brother IN England.
The Auburn (Cal.) Herald says
there Is q little mine near the Chinese
graveyard about n mile north OF that
town, worked by two men, from
which four or five pans of dirt were
taken out on Monday which yielded
$50 to the pan. The Herald thinks 1t
one of the biggest finds w made in
that part of the country.