The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-03-20
GENERAL ITEMS.

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than go feet.
The stenogTapher's fees, III prolonged
contest over will in New York court
were nearly 5000.
| A bin il before the Ncw York Assem-.
bly, prohibiting the use of terra alba, car.
ytes, tale, ETC., in candies.
A copy of the first book on arithmetic,
Of which only two copies exist, was
sold in London recently for 5000.
Sir Charles Warren, who scientifically
scooped in Bechuana land in South Africa
for the British crown, has been made a
major general.
A paper dollar, say Treasury officials,
will last about five years. This will
make man who has had any church
fair experience smile.
Members of the British Parliament
are always entitled to seats in st. Mar
garet's Church, which is the church of the
House Of Commons.
The Austrian Government will shortly
make vaccination compulsory i'll the EN-.
pre-. Small pox is taking of too many
soldiers in Vienna.
The earthquake at New Haven, Conn.,,
lifted beds with the people in them and
moved them about. The shock was felt
Cor pinatx, mil uro,cJ
Sam Brown, the millionaire coal dealer
OF Pittsbnrg, is going to build railroad
with his own money. from Henderson,
KY, on the Ohio, to Milan, Tenn.
The stagnation in the ship.building
industry on the Clyde is past, aud work
10 going GU in all the yards. One con.
Germ has six large vessels on the stocks.
L. L. Dodge, Boston plumber, was
detected Monday in robbing his own
safe Of s2,727 Of his own money. He
furnished no explanation Of the peculiar
act.
The Pennsylvania Superintendent Of
Public Instructions sadly admits there
are 355. 200 children in the State not
attending school. and growing up in ig-
uorance.
No wonder that the bailias lately re-
fused to serve 500 ejectment notices on
Lord Carbery's estate in Cork, seeing
that some of their brethren have actually
been made to eat such notices.
David A. Wells will go before the
House committee and present his views
in favor Of the Mexican Treaty. He was
opposed to the Treaty until his recent
travels in Mexico. and now strongly
fayors it.
The Grand Army Post Of Table Rock,
Neb., has been presented with gavel,
the handle of which has ben made from
the spokes Of the buggy in which Jeffsr.
son Davis rode out Of Richmond when he
vacated that city.
A fine of fifty cents is now imposed in
Chicago on drivers who leave their horses
standing united on the street. 1t is
thought tine plan will lessen the number |
of runaway accidents.
A single drug store in Saco, Me-. put |
up 10000 prescriptions last year. The
population Of the town is about 5000, |
and liquor can be sold only for mechani.
cal and medicinal purposes
In divorce case the other day at Chi. |
caso q lawyer argued that il a woman, |
Oh being married, misrepresented her age
to her husband, she was just as liable as
a man selling horse and representing it |
to be Of certain age when it could be
proved that it was older.
At the last meeting Of the Shake.
speare Society in Columbia College the
copy Of Second Folio Of Shakespeare,
discovered in Utah some months ago,
was exhibited. The book, which is vel.
low with age, bears upon the fy.leaf au.
tograph signatures, which are said to be
those Of Shakespeare and John Ward, the
actor.
1t is reported in the German press that
the Singer Sewing Machine Company,
owing to the recent unpleasantness at
Elizabethport, N. j.. has decided not
only to enlarge its factories at Glasgow
and Vienna, but also to erect large fac
tory in Germany, to which end the ncgo.
tiations for the purchase Of city lot are
said to be going on in Berlin, Dresden
and Hamburg.
Johnathan Reynolds, Of Pembroke,
Me-, is an aged man who has always glo-
ricd in being called an infidel. Last Sun.
day he caused to be read in the Methodist
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