The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-03-14
GIT WAS TIE CAT"

out, then another, and tnen hiceS col
league began to swear like pirate in an
undertone, and presently the Clerk began |
to look sick. He gave his work to the |
assistant and almost tainted away.
The dreadful effluvian at last so per- |
vaded the chamber that half the men,
bers went out, at which Hamill moved a
call of the House, and they were brought
in one by one.
A committee was finally appointed to
investigate the bad smell, and Griswold,
who has keen nose for corruption, fin
ally discovered it on Rice's desk. Hamill
had the gall to get up and move vote of
censure upon Rice. The resolution was
referred to the Committee on Public
Morals.
A WONDERFUL CLoCK.-Probably the
most wonderful timepiece ever heard of
is clock described by a Hindoo Rajah
as belonging to a native Princess in
Upper India. In front of the clocks
disk was gong, swung upon poles, and
near it was pile of artificial limbs. The
pile was made up Of the full number of
parts for twelve bodies, but all lay heaped
together in seeming confusion. When
ever the hands of the clock indicated the
hour of /, out from the pile crawled just
the number of parts to form the frame of
man, part joining itself to part with
quick, metallic click, and, when COM
pleted, the figure sprang up, seized
small mallet, and, walking up to the
gong, struck /, the first hour. When 2
o'clock came, two men rose up and did
| likewise; and so through all the hours of
the day, the numbers Of figures being the
noon and midnight the entire heap sprang
up, and. marching to the gong, struck,
one after another, each his blow, making
twelve in all, and then fell to pieces
again. Exchange.
A HUMAN FURNACE. Yesterday the
attaches of this Office were entertained by
a tramp" who struck the foreman for a
square meal. The stranger said his
name was 10 eph Robbins, that he hailed
from Chicago, and was known in side
show circles as "The Human Furnace,
because of the peculiar properties of his
breath. To prove his claim to the title
he lit match by blowing his breath on
it; set fire to piece of paper, and singed
the hairs on the back of our foreman
hand IN the same manner. But the best
test of all was when he lit kerosene
lamp three feet distant from him by
blowing his breath through piece o.
stovepipe on to the wick. He was un
able to explain his peculiar faculty, fur
J ther than to assert that he became pos
sessed of it while a child, when he wa
ill for several years, and the physician
, gave him large doses of sulphur. He as
serted his ability to make water boil a
easily as he could light match. --[Grid
ley Herald.
THOU SHALT Nor TREAT.--The bill in
troduced in the Legislature by Assembl.
man Hamill Of Elko, to promote habit
of temperance and to prohibit the prac
tice of treating, is now law, having passe'
both the Upper and Lower House. Thi
bill makes it unlawful for any person o
persons to treat with any spirituous o
malt liquor or liquors, wine or cider, o
any beverage whatever; or to or with an
8 other article whatever whereby any spil
e ituous or malt liquor or liquors, wine {
cider, or any other beverage, shall be oil
tanned gratuitiously, in any public bal
| room, saloon. beer hall, or grocery,
e this State, or in any other public place (
!, resort or amusement in this State, to tax
. effect Immediately after its passage. TT
n Governor signed the bill.
e "In Chicago" said James Whitcon
;. Riley, 81 recently saw humorist with
v sad heart, Ten Eyck White, the auth
t of Lakeside Musings in the Chical
If Tribune. He was once sent to visit tt
/. Wisconsin poet, Miss Fannie Driscol
st and secure all her con tributions for t
,r Tribune. He not only bought up all tt
It ladys writings, but he won her heart
lie we'll and married her. She died in lie
d than year and Mr.. White ever sin
,e her death has lived apart from men
re far as possible. He is reserved, mela
r. choly, lonely, and seldom laughs or talk
e He tolls and makes hers merry, but
it himself stranger to lnirth."
Little Polly has neighbor vino has
:: little donkey team in which she often has
10 nice ride. One day, as she was sitti
e with her mamma, the donkey was hea
II to bray, and Polly, looking up, sa,
{. Mamma, Ike the donkey, put dol
a. like to hear him donk.
y Sunday.school teacher-What is mea
n. by the words ''Quench not the spirit
q Bright scholar-Please ma am, my fail
" says he guesses as how it means do
put too much water in It.
"a "You may speak," said fond moth
ne "about people having strength OF mil
but when it comes to strength of do
mind, my son William surpasscs eve
n. body ever knew"
An ASSOCIATION has been organized
the business men in Vineland, N. j.,
ne main feature of which is systematic
u. of collecting bad debts.
A Connecticut man has spent five We