Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-01-31

sold him tn @ for Clio. How much did
A makef" It depends upon how much
the horse cost A in tho first place.
Inter-Idsho:-The first train old
Chief Two-Bits ever saw jumped out Of
tunnel close by him, snorting and
with its headlight turned on, and dis
appeared in another. Two Bits locked
at it minute and said: "UghI Devil
run out of one hole and run into
another! Heap nre in his teeth
Ugh!
Mrs. Jobberly-I should think some
body would shoot those dreadful biz
yards. Mr.. Jobberly-How is your
mind working now, my dear3 Mrs.
Jobberly-Why, it says here in the pa
per that the billiards. have stopped all
the trains in Dakota. What is the good
of Indian reservations il the Govern
ment can't keep these warlike tribes
shu> up2
Which is the better man; the North
ern man who while under the protection
OF the stars and stripes denounced the
soldiers of the Union as "Lincoln hire
lings," enlogized the Confederate cause
and prayed for the success of the south
ern arms, or the Southern man who
took up arms and risked his life and
his fortune in defense Of the Confed-
eracy?
A correspondent of the Chicago
Times, writing from the South, thinks
that the negro race there is not only de-
generating in character but actually dy-
ing ont. There il every reason to be-
lieve," he says, "tLat the census of
1890 will convince the world that
the negro race is rapidly dying out,
ami unqu stionably un Ter that law
which orduins the survival of the fit
test"
The question put to convention of
hotel. keepers, "What keeps the hotels
from making money!" was sententious-
ly answered by IN old hand, Hogs. :"
He meant the people whose eyes are
bigger than their stomachs and who
order four times as much es they Gun
cut. The stewar of big Boat IN. hotel
said recently that from the tables of
his house il taken a wagon.load Of un-
enten food eyery dny.
Scientific Press: Arizona ia about to
erect dam which in magnitude sur-
passes anything in the, country. and
probably in the world. The reservoir
will store $1,000, 900 gall ,ns Of
wnter for irrigating thousnn ds of acres
of the richest placer AMI COLL bearing
lard in the territory. In dimensions
the dam is ITO feet high, 400 feet lon
at the top and 40 fee: thick at the bnse /,
tapering to. ten feet ut the top.
Reno Gazette:- When the Govern
ment reduced letter postage FROM three
to two cents it loft the rnte on "drop'"
letters the same an before. and, lame hts
the San Francisco Bulletin, it costs "a
much to send letter from Montgomery
to Keerney street as from San Francisco
to Boston. This comes within an acc
of violating che "long.and short. haul"
clause, and should be corrected by re-
ducing "drop" letter postage to one
cent.
Alta:-Bismark refuses to let Ameri-
can pork into Germany on the ground
that It kills people. He is now expell.
ing Anarchists because they also kill
people. Why did IL not occur to him
to keep the Anarchists and feed them
on American porkp In this way he
would have made . friend OF America
by making pork market. We would
have got rid OF his Anarchists. In some
matters we can give Otto points In
craftsmanship. . 81. ;.
Avalanche Idaho Territory, espe.
oiaIly that portion known as Owyhse,
1, blessed with the best Summer and
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