The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-07-10

Rochester, New York, while returning |
from fishing trip, were attacked by two
fierce eagles. One Of the men had fish |
spear, aud with it he struck at the birds,
finally disabling the wing of one OF them
40 it could not fly. The other bird then
asw away The ~oupded, eagle fought
with bsak aud talons, and it was not nn.
I'll one Of its captors held its head down
with stick while the other tied piece
Of fish line around its legs and hand
kcrchiei around its head that it gave up
the struggle.
Andrew Shores Of Sheshequin, Pa, cut
down tall, hollow tree on his farm last
week. While chopping it up after it fell
he discovered an enormous rattlesnake
crawling out Of the trunk fifty feet from
the butt. The snake was killed. A few
mor -ats later two other rattlesnakes
crswled out of the same spot. They were
both killed. These three snakes were the
largest Of the kind ever known to have
bsen killed in northern Pennsylvania.
One Of the snakes measured six feet ten
inches, the second six feet eight inches,
and the third. Eve feet nine inches. The
three had forty.two rattles.
''The Spring Of the present yoar, said
senator R. II. Low Of Orange county, N.
y, twas the earliest that has been
known in Orange county for at least 100
years. My mother settled there in 1885.
ior fifty year, without missing year.
she kept record Of the date Of the bios.
soming Of the apple trees. They bios
solned on the Sd Of May, 1856. That is
the earliest date mentioned in my moth
er's half.century's record. For the last
fifty years l have myself kept up that
record faithfully, and until the Spring o
lssG there has not been year of oil thai
time when the apple trees were in bios
som on the Sd Of May.
John Burrows, farmer of Elkland
Pa, had pet eve with twin lambs run
ming in field into which two.year OLE
colt was turned a few days ago Th
next morning he found the colt and on
Of the lambs on one side Of the field an
the eve and the other lamb bleating di,
consolately on the other. Mr.. Burrow
went to fetch the stray lamb away frol
the colt, but the latter kept runnin
around in a circle. keeping itself betwee
the lamb and the farmer and trying
every way to prevent him from interfe
ing with it. Burrows finally returns
the lamb to its mother. The colt fe
lowed and drove it to the other side
the field again. 1t was necessary to tal
the colt out Of the lot IN order to ke
the three sheep together.
Hundreds Of lights are to be seen
nights in the great onion beds in the
cinity Of Chester, N. Y. They are ID
terms and torches in the hands OF mi
women and children, who are careful
seeking what is known as the "oni
grub" This is q worm which first ms
its appearance last year, with disastrt
results to the crop. 1t has appeared
increased numbers this year, and
farmers have, as yet, found no means
destroying it except by hunting it
night. during which time it does
feeding. Many bushels Of the grub
collected every night and burned.
this onion crop Of the Chester mead'
amounts to something like S5OO,0o
year, tho Importance Of successfully C
batting the grub is apparent.
A French geologist, Mons. de lap
ent, lately called the attention OF
Paris Geological Society to the ell
gravitation has in heaping up sea wa
upon the lands. The continents arc
all situated ON tops Of hills Of water;
in crossing the Atlantic the ships
tirst to 60 down hill, then to Gro
valley, and finally, to climb another
Tho calculation has been made tbs
midocean the surface may be more
half q mile below the level it would
been had continents exerted no at
tion. rs
A whole parish In Wales is on
for reduction Of ten per cent. in
tithes. The Vicar offers to come
Eve per cent, but this has been rej