The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.
Gathered and Condensed from Our
Exchanges.


Exchanges.
The receipts of the Brooklyn bridge
are over $750,000 year.
In New York, houses of moderate
prices let more readily than more
costly ones.
Uncle Sam pays $4,000 a year for
the maintenance of military band ut
West Point.
A careful estimate shows that only
$4,000 pianos have been made iii the
United States since 1880.
1t is estimated that the people of
Berks county, Penn, planted nearly
fifty thousand trees on Arbor day
Half the trouble in this country
comes from calling crime by some
other name.
Baltimore policemen when they
retire from service, are given pension
equal to one-third of their pay while
on duty.
A first-class American locomotive
costs $1,000, a parlor car $500. n
well-equippwl coach $500, and bag
gage car $4,000.
The Baltimore American has in its
career of 13 years been the defendant
in 55 libel suits. and in only one has it
suffered verdict for damages, and in
that one case the damages were trifling.
An observing country woman de
elares that the garments ef those who
use the Indian weed constantly, are
not attacked by moths.
A bedsicad has been made at Mil.
waukee that is twenty-four feet wide
and has nine compartments, each in
tended to hold one of the lurc laser's
children.
Rhode Island is generally considered
"pocket borough" but it contains
6,2l6 farms, averaging 103 acres each,
having total value of S93. 1888 ,O79.
A naval officer has discouraged the
the use of electric lights ut sea by his
report that his vessel caught fire from
the lights three times while on a voy-
age across the Pacific.
The New York Elevated Railroads.
which employ some 1000 men, keep
two surgeons in constant readiness to
attend to injnries among the employees
by accidents, which are liable to occur
ut any time.
A Tombstone Chinaman was told by
gentleman that he must go. "Allee
light, said the heather, tine got money
me go China, you go hel.'
GaIlatin and Folsom are shipping
anthony ore from near Reno. II
brings $3.50 per ton at Frisco.
The principal commercial languages
of the world are English, spoken by
10O,000.0O0 people; Russia 6O.O00.000:
German, 50,000,000; Spanish by Co.
100000; French by 100000, and
Italian by 2S,OO0,OOO.
In point of value the Parker Honse
stands first among Boston hotels. 1t
Is owned by the Harvey ID Parker
heirs and is valued at $S05, 900. 1t is
let to Messrs. Beckman & Punchard
at yearly rent of $4,000.
OF the State libraries in the Union
that of New York is the largest. 1t
contains $4,000 volumes. Next comes
Maryland, with 10000 volumes, and
then California. with $4,000 volumes.
Illinois stands tenth on the list.
The rapid disappearance OF their for
ests is causing Canadians great deal
of worry. But 10 per cent. of the
woodland remains is the most thickly
settled part of Ontario and wells must
now be dug to the depth of forty and
fifty feet, where formerly water could
be secured at six feet.
In Chicago, latitude 42e, the Their
mometer sinks lower than in Tromsoe,
latitude go; but four weeks of con-
tinuous frost would be Unprecedented
even IN Northern Dakota. while in
Hesse-Cassel, Central Germany, the
mercury remained below the freezing
point from November 20 tn to January
29th.