The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-03
THE WORLD IN BaIEF.

liu DiuShcss Va viz ncA NdtCI 40 al III
Jex to its saltuess and specific gravity.
The frost has destroyed the plants on
tho Government tea farm in South Caro-.
lima.
Considerable excitement prevails in
Pennsylvania over the discovery of small
PARTICLES Of gold near Cfeencastlc.
The japanese Minister OF State says
there is no intention OF introducing
gold mono.netallic standard in Japan.
The 81, 240, 900 o per cent. State bonds
Of Ohio have been refunded at per cent.
q. premium Of s2l 35 per thousand.
That part Of the United States lying
west Of the Mississippi river could be
carved into 35l States the size Of Massa.
chusetts.
The distress among the poor OF Paris
il almost unprecedented. The applica.
tions for relief number $4,000 more than
at this time last year.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes declares
that New York invented the idea that
Boston streets were made by building
houses along tho COW paths.
The Supt Of Public Schools in Balti-
more has made report to the School
Board in favor Of introducing instruction
in sewing in the grammar school for girls.
The largest tame cat in the United
States recently took the prize at Con.
necticut exhibition. He weighs thirty.
two pounds, and is Of the tiger variety.
The viceroy Ii has had complete toy
steamer made for the empress of China,
90 thst she may work it herself and see
the importance Of steam locomotiop.
81. Louis claims that Official figures
give the value Of Chicago property at
sl37 800. $50. and st. Louis property at
s74. 1863. 730 more. Chicago should speak.
Sam Jones says hs has been hunting l3
years for martyr. aud hasn't found one
yet. Sam ought to 70 to Utah. The
courts Of that Territory are grinding out
martyrs by the Wholesale.
John Hawkins. los years Of age. and
his wife, aged twenty-one. Of Douglass
county. ILL.,. rejoice in the arrival Of an
heir. Tho old man seems likely to sur
vive several years yet.
Mr.. Cleveland wrote about $50 veto
messages during his two years As Governor
of New York. He has just started in
with his frat as President, but with in
dpstrious determination in his soul.
It has just been discovered that
there is mot on iiie in the Patent Office q
single model Of an original telephone.
and that the patent was issued to Pro-
fessor Bell without model being fled.
1t appears that there are inhabited
cave dwellings in Saxony. They arc dug
in sandstone hill, have different rooms,
Light and dark, a. well ~ chimneys, win.
dows and doors. and are said to be very
dry and habitable.
The larger animals are being rapidly
exssrminated in Algeria. and the lion Of
the desert 10 fast becoming myth. Dur
ing the eleven years from 1879 10 1884.
bounty was paid on 2O2 lions, 1914 pan
thers, 1882 hyenas, and 1900 jackalls.
Webster's dictionary Is now under.
gang revision by corps Of college pro-
fessors with President Noah Horter 3.
their head. The intention is to angli.
cize words IS far as possible, but some Of
the Greek and dcrivativc may retain
their foreign plurals.
The richest two women in America arc
Mrs. A. T. Steward and Mrs. Mark Hop
kins. Each is worth about $50, 000, 900.
There are others, not quite 80 wealthy,
perhaps, who would still be able to sup
port husband comfortably--if youns
fellow only knew where to find them.
The Rev. j. s. Lane, pastor of The
Haddington NJ. Il. Church Of Philadcl
phia, on whose advice Abe Buzzard sur
rendered himself, insists that the famoui
Pennsylvania outlaw was converted be
fore he surrendered. and that he ha
been unjustly convicted and imprisoned
The usual story Of the remarkable
travels Of q pin is At hand. This tim
the scene ID laid in Newton, Ia, wher
thirteen years ago Mrs. Cyrus Gag
dropped > pin 10 her ear. The pin ii