The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-03-21
A WHITE MOUSE.
IN. Y. world.l

sion of bowls and whines, startled tn,
Waterman at Holmes Dime Museum OF
Fulton street, Brooklyn, as he was max
ing his rounds of inspection at the con
clusion of the performance on Wednes
day evening. He ran across the stage,
and, leaping over the orchestra pit,
darted up the center aisle towards the
museum, which occupies the front of the
building. Fearing that the lion or some
other of the lively curiosities had es.
capped, he hesitated at the door. Throw
ing the rays of his lantern through the
crack, he discovered his Newfoundland
dog engaged in fight with the usually
peaceable baby elephant. The Waterman
seized the goad which is used to persuade
the animals, and ran to the rescue of the
faithful dog. On seeing the Waterman
the elephant lifted the canine high about
his head and dropped him. Before the
Waterman could prevent it the elephant
planted his two fore feet upon the pros
trate body of his diminutive antagonist,
crushing him into an almost unrecogniza.
BILE mass. Despite the blows administered
by the Waterman, the elephant stub
bornly refused to release the dog.
BY this time all the animals in the
cages on either side of the museum were
roaring and beating the iron bars in their
efforts to escape. Mr.. Holmes, who was
IN the office, heard the commotion and
heating long iron poker, ran into the
museum. just as he was about to apply
the red hot END of the iron to the ele.
plants cuticle, little white mouse
dropped from the opening in his trunk
and scampered across the floor. The
elephant began swinging his cumbersome
appendage and exhibited in every posi-
BILE movement that he had been greatly
relieved
''The mouse" said the Snowman yes.
terday, ''crawled through small hole in
Its cage and to escape from the dog,
which lay near the door, ran up the ele-
plants trunk. An elephant would
rather attack rhinoceros than meet
mouse. They have an instructive dread
OF mice, but mouse is apparently not
afraid of dozen elephants.
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CRoroNED. The Indians at work on
the Monitor Mining Companys water
ditch, says the Taylor Reflex, know
more about croton oil now than they did
The squaw who does the cooking for
them found bottle of the oil that Mart.
Guptil uses on his horses, which was at
once pronounced by medicine squaw to
be good for sore eyes. There being a
pappoose among them that was afflicted
that way it was at once applied. Sew
eral Indian maidens said it was cheap
good horse grease, and applied it liber-
ally to their hair. As they wear bangs
1t soon got into their eyes and made its
presence felt They then attempted to
wash it off, and wiped their faces on
Mart. Guptil's towel which became
saturated with the stuff. Some hours
after Mart. tackled the towel bold as a
sheep. Immediately thereafter he called
up cuss words that he had many times
scratched his head over and vainly en-.
deavored to remember. Just about then
there are but few men that Mart. could
not have knocked out in less than min
ute. The squaws that got the full force
of the croton will not be able to comb
out their raven locks for ONE time to
come.
Dr. Tanner, the faster and humbug, is
resident of Dona Ana c, ,unty, New
Mexico, where he is ldevoting' himself to
The propagation of new relig ion, founded
On new Bible, revealed to ,ew prophet
The four or five prospecto rs now re-
naming in Highland are eng, sged in lie.
gering ore end concentrating. The ore is
aiken from the Anderson mine.
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The only excuse that Euro, ,eans give
or invading the countries of Asia and
Africa is that they establish higher
wherever they q, There
IRE probably people in the So adam or in
lima who do not care for any more ex-
,erience with this higher ci vilization.
he Fren CHI fleet is representa-, l in China
8 killing the crews of trading junks and
nhumanly treating prisoners. The China
lall says that captives taken from these
rading juDks are taken to Keeling,
there they are kept withou |, food or
rink until unfit for work, rhen they
ill them, Probably this is a exagger.
ton, but there is little ieubt but
'hristian warfare is about as barbarous
the warfare of barbarians In the
oudan the English burn the villages Of
he natives, and then wonder that the
atives oppose their coming, r. Call.
The Avalanche learns that a small
arty Of prospectors will start fl um Silver
ity, Idaho, in the Spring to search for
he Silver Mountain, reporte to have,