Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-02-15

Florida.
The price of tin in Londan is 9170
per ton. Last July it was e104.
A syndicate is being formed at
Lewistown, Name, to rnn the lcsyc
mills of that town.
A Buffalo statistician has figured out
that the women of this country pay
$8,O0O,00 per year fer bustles.
A Jackson, Miss. man died not long
sgo and his wife has written letter to
him every day and placed it on his
grave.
A company is being organized to
pipe natural gas to Chicago for fuel
and Illuminating purposes. 1t is cal
culated that the plant will cost $1O,.
100000.
Although glass. blowing is an art
nearly fonr thousand years old, and
and perhaps older, no means has yet
been discovered of dispensing with
with human lungs as the working
force.
More than ten million dollars worth
of oysters were shipped from Mary.
lard to all parts of the world last year.
Over fifty thousand persons are en-
ployed in the industry in that State.
In portions of Florida people are
planting the peach tree instead Of
orange. The idea is that the peach
will be the more popular fruit, and it
begins to yield return earlier than
the orange.
An undertaken at Rochester, Penn.
distributes cards at his rivals funerals
announcing that he is prepared to
furnish coffins, hearses, carriages aad
bearers at the very lowest rates.
There is concern in New York
which employs girls to crack and pick
nuts, the kernels of which are sold to
confectioners. The shells are sold to
be ground up and used in the manu-
tacture of spices.
The gypsum deposits of the Black
Hills in Dakota are pronounced equal
to those of Movia Scotia, which are
the purest yet discovered. The manu-
facture of plaster has already begun ut
several points.
OF over LOO steam vessels which
last year crossed the ocean, carrying
50,761 SIC bushels of American grain
to feed the hungry mouths Of Europe
the United States flag tloated over but
one vessel, the steamer Illinois.
A house in New Jersey which had
been kept insured for eighty nine
years, burned down the other day
between the lapse of one policy and
and the taking out of another.
The Grand Jury in Smith county
Kansas. found "true biil' against the
officers of the Smith county Agricultu.
raj Society, for permitting gambling
on the Fair grounds.
A ten year old boy atJamestown N.
Y, swallowed nail 215 inches long
last July, and it was feared that it
would be one in his coffin as he stead.
ily declined in health until last week
when he coughed it up.
Alr. Moody says that be does not
want church members to go to the
evening services at the Tabernacle, as
they crowd out others who cannot
attend at any other time.
An etfectual way of cleaning side
walk of ice and snow in Philadelphia
A rubber hose is connected with
boiler in the cellar of building and
jet of live steam tarown upon the side
walk, The ice soon disappears.
A school teacher in Chatham county
N. G. was about to whip one of his
scholars, when the scholars aunt, also
pupil, drew IA revolver and fired
twice at the pedagogue. The bullet
made hole IN his coat, as he was
skipping lightly out the school house
door
At Readboro, VT, Mrs. Bishop aged
eighty, who was supposed to have
died few days ago, and who was
iald out for burial astonished III
watckers, after twelve hours of appnr
ent dean, by .s'ng from her cottia
and opening II conversation She IL
still hviug.
One of the best amateur boxers in
Maine Is said 10 nh a Pastor of a lead
ing Congregation C ~ b. esiiis