The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-11-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


making u s. bank-note plate.
Voorhees~e, Democrat, is elected
delegate TO Congress fIom Washing
ton Territory.
Florida expects to raise 3,00O, 900
boxes uf oranges this season.
The gathering and curing of sumac
Is II big industry in Virginia.
In France whole cherry orchards
are projected from hirds by tish-nets.
The Philadelphia Leader says: The
Industrial outlook is very bad just as
Winter approaches.
A new industry on the Mississippi
coast. which promises To succeed. Is
the making OF wine from dew and
black berries.
The value Of the products of the va
rions industries of the United States
IL seven times the value of our for
eign commerce.
The smallest county in Dakota l.
Clay. which contains about $50 900
acres.
The present season has been the
greatest ever knowh in Virginia for
grapes, melons, AMI other fruits, and
also for wheat. corn and tobacco.
Ore thieves are beconin numerous
in Lead.ille. II Is said lhat mine
on Printer Boy Hill has been robbed
of some $4,000.
There are two beet sugar factories
In operation in North Ameri.a-one
in West Farnhan. Quebec, Canada,
the other at Alvarado. Cal.
A concrete has heeh discovered for
backing photographic stones, which.
when thus fortified, need he no more
than one inch thick, and will con-
time serViceable until worn into a
thin filn.
Utah Is furnishing a value Of $780,
900 toS500. 900 In bullion every month.
The total product for the first nine
months of the year Il given mt SI,l69..
500. The largest monthly yield this
year was $3.50, 900 In June.
Eight days are required to cut di-
amond, though several may be ON a
wheel at time. and one workman
will finish half "A dozen in "A week.
Diamond cutters receive good wages
something like 81 day.
The mining fever has again broken
out in G.dfga In consequence Of the
reported richness of he silver mines
lately discovered on Fort Mountain i'm
Murray county. Considerable gold
has been found in the ore.
An English surgeon saysI hat shaw
Ing IL "A deadly practice, and IL stead
lily indulgtd i'm shorlens life hy several
years; aud Arabs believe that wash
Ing the face is simply an indirect form
OF suicide.
A ten year old boy in Putnam
county, Tenn, who can scarcely exist
In Summer. except by having his
body kept moist almost constantly
with cold water. grows happy and
plump during cold weather. lie mas
only four teeth--two upper ard two
lowrr--and he was born with these.
When tho drill struck the granite i'm
boring an artesian well near Atlanta,
Ga /. the dull lhnd of The ponderous
instrument could be distinctly heard
at Charleston, ten miles away. A
ledge OF rocks OF the same formation
crops ont In the town. which trans
mits the sound OF the falling drill.
A white ,ieer was recently brought
to Portland. Or, from Lewis River.
Amer being landed on tho sidewalk IL
was inspected by large number OF
sportsnIen and others, many of whom
had never seen one before. When
weiuhed It tipped the beam at 81 lbs.
and WAS sold TO butcher for $3.50.
An artificial electrical sun in Paris
spropo>ed that it may never be night
In that gay city. Overa binding tall
of light a nickel. plated reflector is
proposed quarter of mile in CIR
cumferance which will constantly
battle In light the grand city.