The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-03-27
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

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There are fourteen candidates for
United States senstor in Denver, Colo.
TIE water in the Hudson River, is |
lower than it has been for twenty years.
Albany is preparing for monster bi.
centennial celebration on the 22nd Of
July.
From Stuttgart has just been shipped
the bronze statue Of Schiller TO be put up
in Chicago.
During the present Winter no less
than one hundred children have burned
to death in Georgia.
Miss Maggie Hutchinson dropped
dead in Newport, Ky, while taking the
marriage vow at the altar.
In Holland the church doors are locked
during the sermon, so that nobody can
interrupt by going in aud out
Manchester, Va. has produced the
largest diamond ever found in the coun.
try, weighing 23i carats uncut.
1t is said that about 10, 900, 600 crowns
yearly are sent home to the fatherland
by swedes dwelling in America.
Americans are said to be arranging for
the erection Of hotel Ito be on the
American PLAN in the City Of Mexico.
In indianapolis there is concern be.
cause the Hendricks monument fund is
but $1,000 and has stopped growing.
General Paines new sloop, the May
flower, which is to Guido the Puritan,
will be ready for launching in April.
The coal craze in Wheeler county,
Nebraska, has collapsed. The country
was salted, but by whom 10 not known.
A North Carolina editor puts on his
free.list every woman in the State who
becomes the mother Of twin boys.
A young man who horsewhipped
another for annoying his youthful sister,
in New Haven. was fined $40 for the
offence.
At Miss Gladstone's wedding the bon.
net Of the Princess Of Wales was trimmed
with asses ears Of gray plush, lined with
gray satin.
The Chinese Government is reported
to be discharging the German military
aud naval officers in its employ and sub
sttuting English officers.
The names OF the flour Americans"
recently ordered oas Of Germany do not
have altogether Plymouth Rock sound.
They are Barren, Jens. Jurgeasen and
Jesseu.
Alexander Dumas, the elder, used tc
say that the good God invented the
Parsian to prevent the stranger from
ever discovering what Fenchmsn was
really like.
Hermit" tells the Troy Times that il
the increase in the value Of the Astol
estate this year is as much as s., 600, 900
due mainly to the advance in New Yorl
City houses.
Opposition in Virginia to the now plar
Of meeting the State debt is gradual,
decreasing. aud the prospects are tha
the question will soon bc taken ont o
the politics Of the State
1t is claimed that every ton of irol
ore in Virginia can l,e converted int
Bcssemer steel by the Reese basic pro
cess. At present it cannot be utilized
owing to the cost Of the acid process.
Somebody has discovered that tn
word '1ady" once meant ''bread severe.
This will be terrible shock to the ''fore
ladies'" and "salesladies," and may, per
haps, induce them to consent to b
called women.
Cross.eyed women were advertised 70
last week in Br,oklyn employmen
Office, which offered them $40 o week
1t was found that museum manage
wanted to get twenty.of them togethe
in . Congress"
A halfbreed Indian who was buried j
Brooklyn last week had lived in Mour
vile, N. j., and claimed that he had sho
Washington's horse there while appren
iced to a blacksmith. His age, as state
10 the death certificate, was placed at Il
years.
Some one says that the reason the Bo
ton Aldermen behaved 10 well in Phil