The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-12-04
WHITE PINE NEWS
GENERAL NEWS.
Gathered and Condensed from On
Exchanged.

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines five grand
children will have 81 zoo, 900 each from
her estate.
The four northern counties of Idaho
are seeking to become part of Wash
ington Territory.
Enough people have gone into Kan
sas within year to found a city the
size of Baltimore.
A citizen of Hollister, Penn, delay
ed his suicide until after election so as
not to lose his veto.
1t is said by competent authority
that men spend more for hats than
women do for bennets.
There are two counties in Speaker
Carlisle's district that never had rail
road OF q telegraph station.
The losses of two leading hotels in
New York for breakage of dishes alone
amounts to $4,000 annually.
Anew Yorker publicly offers to ''live
on hay and oats for 100 days, on
wager of from $4,000 to 10000
w. Todd, of Paoli, Kan, wears
necktie made of the skin of a rattle
snake and the rattle is used as a scarf
pin.
The bunco business is languishing
in New York, and cases of swindling
by that means grow more and more
rare.
A Missouri farmer has cow six
years old which has never calved, but
supplies the family with milk reg
ularly.
Door knocks of the old.fashioned
kind are once more appearing on the
doors of fashionable New York resi-
dences.
The New York Sun declares New
York city is the dirtiest city in world.
Constantineple has had that reputa-
ton hitherto.
The total collections of internal
revenue from the time the present sys-
TEN was organized July 1, 1869, up to-
juno 80, 1886, were SO, 44S, 23O, 455.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada for October amounted to
$l2. 100000, or so per cent in excess
of the average for that month in the
past ten years.
The Russians figure that an exile
tn Siberia has only one chance IN
100000 to escape ont of that country,
but an average of 400 exiles take the
chances every year.
The Indian ladies of Lower Brue
Agency, Dakota, have their weekly
sewing circle, interchange local news
and tell stories about absent sisters
just like white women.
Miles 8. Dean, an Oregon school
teacher, has been found guilty of at
tempting to use postage stamps from
which he had removed the canceling
marks. Small business.
A band of $500 sheep, belonging to
Klubbert, who was murdered by Arm
strong last Summer near iIailey, was
sold few days ago by the Public
Administrator at 81 SO per head.
The phrase Liberty Enlightening
the World" is a mistranslation. What
Bartholdi called it in French is LIB.
erty Lighting the World The idea
was illumination not instruction.
Henry George will find his State
rent system in full force over the por-
tons of India farmed by the poor,
miserable, poverty stricken ryots, and
it has crushed them almost to death.
From pine tree recently cut down
near Evart, Michigan, nineteen saw
logs were obtained, twelve of which
we're twelve feet long, four ten feet,
one twenty-five and two sixteen feet.
1t Is estimated that enough corn has
been raised in Kansas this year to fat
ten 314,286 steers, allowing 30 bushels
to each steer, and 100000 hogs. If
this corn was used in this way it would
sell for $60,00O,000.
Montgomery, Alabama. boasts of a
war relic in the shape of an Anticipated
mule, branded Confederate States"
on one side and "United States" on
the other. He is said to have served
term on both sides in the late war.
Elijah Psiton, of Shohola Glen, has
in big cage nearly two hundred rat
tlesnakes and copperheads, and walks
among them and handles them with
absolutely fearlessness. Some of them
show a decided affection for him.