The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-11

Paris has a population of ., 230, 900, all
but 225, 900 of whom are native born.
There were l0,762 cases and 1924
deaths from cholera in Italy up to Octo-
ber lst.
Eggs packed in well-dred ashes, and
so as not to touch each other, have been
kept perfectly sweet for twelve months
1t is stated that the ''serpent's eggs"
OF the toy shops contain grain of sui
pho-cyanogen: quite enough to kill
child should it swallow one of them.
One of the most attractive objects at
the Nice Exhibition is said to be Chi
nese clock which is stated to date back
800 years before the birth of Christ.
According to the official report there
was decrease of Sc, 7S9 in the population
of Ireland during the year 1883. The
marriages and births were much below
the average.
A gigantic earthworm has been sent
from the Cape Colony, Africa, to the
Royal Geological Society of England. 1t
is six feet five inches in length, and thick
accordingly.
A medical authority gives the time
taken by the blood of dog in making
the entire circuit of the body as II sec
onds, during which the heart makes 81
pulsations.
The process of drying lumber by sur
rounding it with common salt is just now
attracting attention. The peculiar power
Of salt for extracting moisture is well
| known.
| The French railroad companies are
about to adopt an electric gate opener,
which not only attends the gates with
idelity, but vigorously rings bell on
the approach Of train.
Excavations recently undertaken in the
Rue Galand, Paris, have brought to light
the remains of an old cemetery of the
Merovingian period, close to the chapel
# st. Julien.le. Pauvre.
M. Balland has found that the average
moisture of the fours of commerce is Ia
per cent. 1t varies with the hygrometric
state of the air, and is generally found
to per cent greater in winter than
in summer
| Mr.. Case, matchmaker of Franklin,
Pa, has completed locomotive and ten.
| der six inches long, all told, that has
every part complete that is found in 8
working machine. 1t is made of gold
silver and steel, and is destined for tn,
New Orleans Exposition.
When caoutchouc tubes are badly vul
canized the experience of NJ. Limousil
leads him to say that they are very dan
gerous in some chemical operations, th'
presence of sulphur and of antimony sui
phide rendering them especially so in tn
preparation of oxygen gas.
Globules of fat occur in many mol
lusks and insects, but true adipose tissu
! is found only in back -boned animals, par
ticularly herbivorous. In the averag
, man it constitutes about one. twentieth
part of his weight. The fat of animal
has the different names of oil, lard, tai
low, suet and spermaceti. 1t is reserv'
r | of nutriment in excess of consumption
, serving also as packing material and
preservation against cold.
Turgenieff is generally supposed t
have been the first to have used the wor
, nihilist, but writer in the Vossich
Zietung points out that it is fully l,50
years old. In the year $50 st. Angus
tine, Bishop of Hippos-the modern Bon
n in Algeria--wrote: "Nihilisti appellar
;. tur, quia nihil credunt ct nihil decent.
:, The nihilists referred to were societ
whose object, like that of their namesak
r of the present day, was the destructio
e or negation of everything existing.