The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-09-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

A well.known German scientist has
discovered that mental diseases are re.
markably frequent among soverigns and
nobility. Lunacy occurs sixty times a.
often in reigning families than among
common mortals, and the cause is said to
be the onc-sided education and the arti.
6cisl separation Of the privileged
classes from the rast Of their fellow. .crea.
lures.
Some timid brother, who is frightened
at the doings Of the Anarchists, remem.
bers that more than thirty years ago Car.
lyle said that ''America, too, will have
to strain its energies, to crack its sinews.
and all but break its heart, as the rest
Of us have had to do, in thousand fold
wrsstles with pythons and mud. demons
before it can become habitation for the
gods"
They tell of clergyman in Lynn who
hired out to church at nominal salary
Of $4,000, agreeing privately to make the
church present Of 81 600 Of it, A con.
gregation in Connecticut heard Of the
$4,000 preacher thought he must be
extra good, and offered him 81, 500. snd
got him. Then the Lynn people under.
stood why he pretended his salary was
~ 200.
The multitude Of friends Of the Rev.
DR.. Reuben jeffrey. lately Of Brooklyn,
will be pleased to know that that minis.
tor has, in an open letter to his Indian
apolis church, vigorously protested
against the threatened invasion Of that
city by the man Jones. who has been
hippodrcming various parts of the coun.
try as an evangelist" Taking for his
text Jones' coarse dsnunciation Of all
Baptist ministers and laymen as ''liars."
DR.. Jefry justly said that "when this
moral scavenger dares to reckon as of1al
any accredited denomination Of Christian
people for the sihspN fSzsea that they
are true to their conscientious convic.
tions, he proves the coarseness Of his
moral fibre and puts himself beyond the
pale Of recognition on the part Of all who
have regard for the amenities OF Christian
brotherhood, Of social comfy and decent
speech"
The great seal Of England has only
three times been lost twice Temporary
and once permanently James II, on
leaving the Kingdom IN his abdication,
threw the seal into the Thames, whence,
however, it was next morning tished up
and brought to the Whitehall. Lord I'll.
don buried it in his garden in Queen
Square during one night when his house
caught Gre. and he thought that in the
confusion it might be stolen. And. =
writes the Chancellor 10 his diary,
when the FIRE was extinguishsd quite
forgot in the morning where l had buried
it, and while the carriage waited to take
me to Court my lady and and all the
household were digging with pieces o.
sticks till we luckily found IT," Lure
Thurlow, who always held it during thu
night in his bedroom. had IL actually car
ried of by burglars, from whom IL wa,
never recovered. A Privy Council wa
called the next day, new seal wa
rapidly made, and during the remainde
Of his continuance in office L ,rd Thurlov
invariably deposited it Of q night unde
his pillow.
The Washington Chronicle is responsi
BILE for the following: The clock hat
struck midnight in the residence OF
Congressman and still the young man II
the parlor did not 20. The young fellow
had been away for two weeks and tn
girl's father was willing that he shoul'
have fair show, but this was too much
and at last he went to the stairs an
listened minute. 'Mollie!" he called
called, sharply. "Yos, papa" came tn
silvery voice Of his child, with slight
smothered accent. ut is after !
o'clock" "Yes, papa, and we're doin
al to expudiate the accumulated bus
moss. We will adjourn by.and.by, pspa.
The helpless father, unable to answer tn
argument advanced. returned to his be
in tears.