The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1886-02-25

Some of the Florida hotels have
more servants than boarders this sea-
son.
The Kentucky Senate has passed /.
bill prohibiting the sale of pistols and
bowie knives.
The newest novelty in bric-a- brac is
aPair of parlor scales with which to
weigh the baby.
Moro than ten thousand persons
registered at the Pratt Free Library
in Baltimore within fortnight.
A large number of oolored immi.
grants'are expected in North Louisi-
ana from North Carolina and Georgia.
In Philadelphia a guild Of kind
hsarted ladies has been formed to. do
msnding for bachelors, at low rates.
Five hundred thousand young cod
have just been deposited in Htmpton
Roads a. IN experiment in 6sh-culture.
Hard times are. reported among the
1,7OO lawyers of Philsdelpnia, there
not being business enough to 20 round
1t il said that tha Postmaster Gen.
sral has ordered that the name of .
little postofice in Colorado changed
from "BlAine" to Cleveland"
New York City is growing at q tre-
msndous rate. More new houses were
projected during the last three months
than ever before in the history of the
city.
The Blizzard. issued by the snow
bound passengers At Kinslsy, Kan.
WAS complete success fnsscially.
Over 1,200 copies we're sold at ten
csnts each.
A mining company with capital of
s5, 900, 900 has been incorporated at
Helena, Montana. 1t will control
thirty seven gold and silver lodes at
Red Mountain. ..z.....
Last week wagon arrived in Alex
andria, Va, from the region bordering
thereon, on whose axletres were found
half -duzsn chickens whose feet had
been frozen thereto. sse
The melting Of ice interferes with
the New York ferry travel, and the
rush on the Brooklyn bridge il conse.
quently so large that passengers are
being carried across at the rate Of be-
tween 1000 and 5000 an hour.
Fully 6,000 people, headed by brass
bands, marched to the depot at Hast
ings, Mich. to witness tho simultans-
Gus arrival of delayed trains. Twenty
nins passenger trains pulled into the
Union depot inside of thirty minutes.
The blockade had lasted ten days.
In the cities celebrating ice carni-
walls the wooden figures before the to-
bacco-stands are no longer clad in the
paint and feathers Of the Indian war
rior, but are arranged in toboggan cos
tune Of the brave of to-day. He
smokes his pips with tho eld-time ease.
A New York Assemblyman wishes
to substitute esthetic stained glass in
the windows of the elevated cars in
place Of the vulgar plain panes now in
use. He has double motive. One,
the love of the beautiful, the other the
feeling Of modesty, which aims to pre-
vent occupants of cars playing the part
of ''peeping Tom" by looking into
sscoRd-story chambers.
Nilsson may retire = some day.
Nine. Christine Nilsson has given her
friends to understand that after her
return in june, 1887, from farewell
opera and concert tour in America,
she will settle down in the house which
is being built for her in Kensington.
1t is not, indeed, impossible that, in a
certain event, she may soon afterward
take farewell Of opera in England.
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A London special to the Paris News
says: The opening of Parliament has
given rise to big scandal in upper
society. One of.the first gentlemen Of