Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-02-15
SUAYE, COAST AND ELSEWHERE.

London has 444 burying. grounds.
Hay is becoming scarce IN Mason
Valley.
Scarlet fever still fingers on the
Comstock.
Coasting is now being enjoyed by
Truckeeites.
Carson has received dynamos for the
electric lights.
Donner Lake is to have fish batch.
cry this Spring.
Burglars are bothering the good peo
pie of Virginia City.
1t costs Elko county about $4,000
per month fer scaips of animal pests.
Ducks, swans and pelicans are re.
ported plentiful on the Sink of the
Carson.
Billy Bliss, an old resident of Mason
Valley, died last Sunday from cry
sipelas.
Relics of Victor Hugo are in great
demand in Paris, but not likely to ex.
ceed the manufactured supply.
An Anglican curate performed the
ceremony for child eleven
years old, in Kensington, England
recently.
An English philanthropists says,
there are no fewer than 10000 gipsy
in England, of whom no more than 5
per cent are able to read and write.
An asylum for female slaves has
been maintained at Cairo since the
abolurion of the slave trade in Egypt
Its managers rescue house slaves in.
tended for the harems of rich Egypt
ians,
Runaway marriages are not popular
in Russia. A young girl has been sent
to prison for four months, and will
lose her share in the family property
because sue married without the pater
nal consent.
Lord Tennyson's dairy is known
the Isle of Wight for the
excellence of the butter, cream and
milk which tt sends to market. The
dairy is chiefly managed by the laur.
Gates daughter-in-law, Lady Hallam
Tennyson.
A school of journalism in London
is SAID to have surprised many who
believe that 1T is impossible to teach
journalism oat of newspaper office.
Besides being popular, the school has
gained for five out of six pupils good
positions.
The Turkish authorities are doing
their best to discourage Jewish immi-
grafton in Palestine. Foreign Jews
freshly arrived in the Holy Land are
forbidden to stay there longer than
thirty days. The Christians, especially
those of the Greek Church, are treated
much more indulgently.
A new plan of supplying the city of
Paris with an abundance of pure water
has just been sent in by M. G. Ritter
who proposes to bring the water from
the Lake of Neufchatel, in Switzerland
The cost of the enterprise is estimated
by him at 300,00O,O00 francs. and the
time in which to complete it at six
years
Sardou, the French dramatist, is
building a magnificent villa at Nice
for the special benefit of Sarah Bern.
hardt. The three largest and most
apartments of the villa
have been designed and furnished and
set apart for her, and the villa with its
is to be at all times open to
her when she requires period of lux.
urious rest and retirement.
1t is said that the ambition of the
life of Nine. Boucicaut, the great Paris
shop keeper was to receive the Cross
of the Legion of Honor, but she always
refused to intrigue for it or TO buy it,
hoping to earn it, The recent scan.
dals, showing how empty was the
honor that she sought, were great
blow to her, and she at once gave up
her longing for The decoration.
r. J Perry has discovered new mines
u the Summit Spring Range about
tifty miles southeast ni w nnemucca.
Several locations have been made, all
Of which lock well. One of The lodges
is about thirty feet wide, with streaks
o ore through it which assay from
fifty-fve to nine'ytive ounces IN silver