Mohave County miner., 1888-09-08
STRAY BITS.

A school tsachsr on the Pacific coast bears
the suggestive name Of WaiIop.
II In ciairned that Washington Territory
has gained 10000 by immigration tho past
year.
A novelty in rife targets is q glass ball
dancing ON jet Of water. II 10 . most diff
cult shot
Piah, noted Ute chief, died few days
ago Mrx Piah, four In number, n good
deal cut up.
A log Of solid redwood WAS struck 40 feet
below gravel in sinking an srtssian well at
WatsonyiIIe, New.
Astoria, Ore, has q Chinese missionary
tracts large audiences
The last truss Of the Poughkeepsie bridge
Is about finished IL costs ~, 900 10 give the
bridge two coats OF red.
| II IS said that This Century Maxaine re-.
ceives an average of 1000 manuscripts q
month from literary AspirantA
"Excuseriesn Is new term for exhibitions
In London, since they are all more or les OK
cuses for the gardens and music.
| The Hondurian government has ordered Q
scientific survey TO be made Of tho ruins OF
Copan, and take sketches Of the sams
One OF the odd features Of our naturalixa.
tlon laws Is that an array officer need not bs
q citizen, but o naval officer must be.
A recent fire as Sulmn, Cal, which de-
stroyed s400,0co worth Of property, was
caused by children playing witch matches In
barn.
Bridal parties and titled foreigners appear
TO have adopted Niagara Falls as their own,
as they are said 10 form the majority Of the
visitors
A firm OF Fort Gaines shipped recently .
car OF melons which they claim didn't con.
tain melon that would weigh undsr afty-
FIVE pounds
Philadelphia hotel men calculate they give
away 5000 worth Of stationery year to
letter writing fends who don't pay ths
hotels a cent
The unprecedented number of l6, 900 odd bills
have so far been introduced In tho house this
session, against Ii 200 for the two sessions Of
the last congress-
The Mexican state OF Morelos offers a pre-
MUM for ths establishment Of nsw industries
and granbs exemption from taxation for the
sarne for The term OF five years
shoddytithka. the chief the Conanchs
! Indians, Is dying In Philadelphia hospital
Three Of his wives are with him, and two
others are On his ranch in tho far west.
The first things taught Alaskan children
are to dance, shoot the bow and arrow, and
to smoke. IT is common thing to be a
mother take the child from her breast and
| give IL ber pipe. ..
A tribe in the palm region Of the Amazon
radles the young in palm leaves. A single
leaf turned up around the edges by some
/ native process makes an excellent cradle,
and now and then il Is made 70 do service a
q bath tub.
At Strong City, Kan, boys between the
ages Of and Ia go In bathing every after
noon during the summer under the direction
| Of the city marshal, and the number Of
drowning accidents has materially decreased
since the arrangement was made.
Tobacco is to be shut out at the Chambers.
burg Pa) academy. No boy win be adj
nritted who uses 1t In any way. Boarding
and day pupils viii be treated alike. The
| ground taken IL that tobacco produces bape-
ful effects on the minds and the health Of the
| students.
The number OF rabbits killed for the bounty
last year in one Australian colony was 1o,-
1s2 $50, and the bounties paid In that year
have been estimated at e., ,t0o,0 In addi-
tion millions OF dollars have been paid for
hundreds Of miles Of rabbit proof fence.
4 And stiIl the rabbits seem to DO as numerous
\ as ever,
4
In cultured Boston they do not hiss an
actor or public speaker when they wish to
express their disapproval Of his Efforts
instead the audience simply exclaims "Boof'
In loud and denunciatory tones. A promi-
nent preacher was thus "Booed!" the other
| night at an indignation meeting In Fanuil
ball and has felt very bad over it ever since.
The art Of proofreading has been brought
! to q high degree of perfection by
The London Times. Five years ago Lord
Winchelsea made bet that he would find
| 30 misprints In six numbers Of The Times
The stakes were $500 and $50 additional for
| every blunder additional, more or less Six
numbers wers taken at random and three
| misprints were discovered. Lord Winchel-
sea lost nearly 5000
The average length Of a Wall street career
| is said to be ten years. In that time the
means or vital energies Of most men are con-
sunled In the furnace Of speculation. The
number of those who hold out twenty years
| Ia few, and fewer still tho number who can
bear the excitement for a longer period.
| One broker has Just been sent to lunatio
asylum, AID another. with broken down
nerves, has been ordered by his doctor TO
| IN Ia atIaoitffa rnatf ...