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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
EARS As CIGAR HOLDERS.

The women Of Burma, like the
smokers Of Siam, use their ears as cigar
holders, but they use them in different
way, says q correspondent in the Courier
Journal. Every Burmese girl prides her.
self on the size Of the hole she can make
in the lobes of her ears, and have seen
Burmese ears which had holes in them as
big around as napkin These holes are
made when the girls are young, and the
lobe both stretches and grows until it gets
as big around as the thumb Of big. blonde
man. Into these holes some Of the poorer
Of Burmah put their cigarettes and cigars
when they move from one place to an
other. Cigars are more used than any.
thing else, and burmese cigar is the big.
gest of its kind in general use. It is
from eight to ten inches long, and is
often more than an inch in diameter.
The Burmese women are very beautiful,
and even their big cigars cannot take
away the beauty of their juicy red lips
They make the mouth look little larg'
while they are in them, but resumes it
natural size when the young lady, holding
her cigar between her two first fingers
blows the smoke out stream. 1t is no
unusual for Burmese maiden to max
her love bundle Of cigars as a presen
during their courtship, aud some Of tn
best of the Burmese imported cigars ar
made by women.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
COAST NEWS.

A woman of Healdsburg runs butch
er shop and can handle the cleaver as
deity as any man.
The Illinois Central is seeking pass
through the Cascade Mountains, and
contemplates an invasion of Northwest
ern fields.
There has been no snow 10 the WILL
lamette Valley, but the submits OF the
whole Cascade and Coast Ranges in Ore
gon are heavily covered.
The HOLSTER Free Lance is urging
the claims of Judge j. F. Breen for NOM
nation to the Supreme Court. He came
to the State in lS49 with the famous
Bonner party.
Farmer Hudson of Templeton, San
Luis Obispo county, pulled beet that
weighed l54 pounds. 1t was seven feet
long. That beet should have
pulled farmer Hudson. That he won
the fight shows that he was man OF
"pluck."
Says the concord Sun: An oak tree
cut down on the Bancroft farm, near
Walnut creek, was found to contain
about q sackful of almonds-the Win
ters supply of a family of woodpeckers,
who had bored into the tree. An al.
mond orchard is near the farm.
The hiding place Of "Big Fork, q
noted highway robber Of fourteen years
ago, was found seven miles from Clover.
dale last Monday by . party of hunters.
Some rusty pistols and a camp outfit was
hid under dense thicket of chemisal.
Says the Grass Valley tidings: The
new rotary snow pillow used on the Gen.
trail Pacific, between Immigrant Gap and
Truckee, is q success and the snowsheda
must go. Under q full head of steam
the pillow last week threw solid stream
of snow over the telegraph wires and l5C
feet from the track.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The family Of Thomas Stevens, four in
number, at Farmingdale, Maine, have
the queer hallucination that they are
prosecuted by monkeys, whose appear.
ance is infinitely described by the de.
luded victims. The lghostly tormentors
demand money in letters, and the money
is left where they can get it. The de-
tectives are satisfied that the old man
and woman are being robbed by unscrup
ulous parties.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The WESTERN congressman have deter
mined to work together hereafter in
matters affecting the general interests OF
the western country. This is right, and
will give Nevadas delegation better
opportunity for effective work. Hereto
fore they have worked in combination
with the California delegation-for Cali
forpia interests. When Nevada's inter-
csts were at stake they were ignored by
some Of the G aliforinans. These men who
were recreant to the people as well as un'
true to their colleagues, will probably
now be made to understand that such
thing as good faith is sometimes neces
sary, even to California Politician.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

TEMPERANCE LECTURES of very eth
Gent kind are given to our children daily
on the streets of Phoebe. They come in
the shape of object lessons, -wrecks OF
men, whose lives, once fair as any, have
drifted on the sea of alcohol into useless
existence, full of misery to themselves and
often full ofdisglstto theirfellows. Still
everything has some use. Perhaps this
is the reason that a considerable number
of our yonth are growing up in the just
fear of strong drink. Theseobiect lessons
are valuable, and well they may be; for
each one has cost'practically humanlife.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Reno Gazette: A bill has been intro.
ducsd in Congress granting to the State
of Nevada all of the arid lands within
her border and limiting the. ownership Of
said lands to so acres. This is as it
should be, for the temptation is too
great to intrust to the Legislature the
making Of laws for its disposal. The
1000, 900 acre grant has actually been
drawback to the State in years gone by,
by allowing the ownership to 70 in very
large tracts to private individuals. thus
keeping out homeseekers. What Neva
da wants is population, and any lane
laws passed that do not look to that enc
are worse than none at all.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
.aTURDAY. .pECEM8E" rs. 1859.

SPEAKER REED has appointed what
appears to be very good committee on
coinage, the most important committee IN
congress in its relation to the special local
interests of this State. Blandof Missouri
is member, and though Democrat, has
all along been a thorough and consistent
friend of silver. Our own congressman,
Mr. Bartine, is, very properly, member
of the committee. 1t is in the appointment
of committees that speaker exercises
much of his power, and We must say that
we arc most agreably disappointed in the
friendship which Mr. Reed has shown to
the peoples cause in this matter and we
hasten to give him credit.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
On q Mexicm u street Car.

Although the etiquette of Mexican
street car is free easy, and men smoke in.
side or on the platform, women are
invariably treated with respect, and hall
dozen men will get up to give place to
any woman, young or old, rich or poor.
The Mexican gentlemen has all the
courtesy for which tho Latin races are
famous, and life is smoothed and it,
angles rounded b., the constant courtesy
Of this most polite nation.
Do not imagine that because people
smoke in the street cars their interiors
resemble the American railway smoker
all filth under foot, and the air befouled
with rank cigars and old pipes.
The windows are generally open, and
constant current Of air drives the smok'
out. Boston Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The Virginia Enterprise says: The
English flnanciers keep a close watch OF
affairs on this side of the water. When
some time ago-it was reported that
the full limit of $4,0OO,0OO month in
silver was likely to be coined, the white
metal advanced in price in London. The
Presidents message treasured the Lon.
doners and drop in silver followed.
Free coinage of silver in the United
States would be bitter pill for the
English to swallow just now when they
have got everything working SO charm
ingly between their little island and
India.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Some Gend recently sent the name Of
Governor David B. Hill Of New York to
western matrimonial arency as can.
didate for correspondence with view to
matrimony. There was mo shutting of
the food, and every day brings the un.
fortunate Governor scores Of tender mis-.
sives, and photographs, and soul-harrow-
ing injuries.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The Eiffel Tower, in Paris, is 994 feet
high; the next tallest building is the
Washington Monument, 555 feet high;
after that comes the tower OF the City
Hall in Philadelphia, 535 feet high, The
spire of Cologne Cathedral is 5ll feet
high, that of St.Stephen's Church, vi
emma, is 40 feet, and Cleopatra's Needle
in New York City, is sixty.eight feel
high.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
Hundreds Renew like This:

AFTER two yea r.
have felt no rheums-
tism. I Am cured per
m anently after -
yesEs su6ering."
Second Statement.
April ., lees.
M. J. 2. BoHsALL
writes: give yeen
sro I used st. JacobA
II effected an entire,
permanent cure. No
return Of pair"
Third Statement.
April q, 1883.
M. ]. r BoNsALL
writes: "Xy health
continues good. No
return Of fheum o.
| tisun since 1881, when
cured By st. Jacob
| Oh. Suffered over q
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Why Do THEY "A correspondent Of
an exchange writes: Apropos Of left.
hardness, should like tosce asatisfacto'
ry explanation Of the fact that women
always with exceedingly rare sxceptions
button from right to left, and men from
left to right. Personally ! have remarked
only four cases Of exception to the rule
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

An exchange says: Iron is rolled so
thin at the Pittsburg iron mills that it
takes 1000 sheets laid one on another
to make q single inch in thickness.
Light shines through these sheets as
readily as it does through creased It's
sue paper.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

A remarkable "sink" exists in Brad.
ford county. Fla. 1t is 200 yards across,
perfectly round, with smooth sides, and
the water Is 100 feet below the surface.
No bottom has ever been found. The
sink is surrounded by beautiful shade
of trees.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

A resident of Murfreesboro, Penn,
presented ticket issued in 1855 on the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad the
other day, and rode in . palace car on
the same bit Of pasteboard that would
have secured his passage in one Of the
clumsy coaches of thirty.four years ago
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Henry E. Searle, the champion single
sculler. died at Adelaide. N. s. w.. on
December 9th, Of typhoid fever. He
had bright promises before him, and at
the age of23 years had .bested the best
sculler Of the world, but TALL glory and
triumphs were short lived with him.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Speaking Of the what.would.yo u'do.if
you. were-a.man question, it was an I'M.
feeling woman who said she supposed she
would make fool Of herself just like any
other man. indianapolis Journal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

In Philadelphia Margaret Watson wa
convicted of being common scold. The
court directed her to move from the
neighborhood.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

By not being without the thingwed don't
need, we sometimes have to do without
the things we do need
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The wise man expects everything from
himself; the fool looks TO others
Jean Paul Richter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28
First Statement.

First Statement.
Liverpool, Pa,
Feb. q, 1882.
Nh. J. e. B0NsALL,
CLERK Of Co urts.
Perry Co., Pa.,) cerd.
Ties: =" I am -. At Is
was prostrated with
InAammatory rheum-
atism.
"In 1896, had
another violent A.
tack; got about again.
but was never free
from pain. Winter -
and 81 could n OF
walk.
Morphine was pre-
scribed 70 give ne
rest. Used BIT. Jacobs
Oil BY advice. l used
Il freely, and 1t e6ec-
- tad 4 cure.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28


Captain Metz has twenty-four monkeys
employed in mines near Chesterfield,
South Carolina, along with the miners.
These monkeys follow the wheelbarrows
in which ore is conveyed from the drifts
and pick up every particle Of quartz
which drops in transit and place it on the
wheelbarrows and have the faculty OF dis
tipguishing between quartz and waste
rock. The men frequently pick up partio-
les Of quartz and place them in their pook'
ets out Of sport. This action 10 observed
by the monkeys, who iabber and follow
them until the quartz 10 again placed IL
| the wheelbArrows.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

The ring Of coin is often the knell Of
friendship.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Lawyers are like cobwsbs, which may
catch small aies, but let wasps and
hornets break through Swift
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

Adversely undermines many struct.
ure of prosperity.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-12-28

More helpful than all wisdom is one
draught of simple human pity that will
not for g. George Eliot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04

the country, is a case in point. IF q COM
bination should be formed to control all the
pottery factories in the country, and thus
put up the prices 50 as to yield an excessive
profit, it would not be twelvemonth be-
fore host Of new factories would spring
into existence. These factories would either
have to be admitted to the trust, or else
their competition would make prices lower
than ever before; and the final result would
be wider and more irrepressible competition
than existed at the inception of the combi-
nation.
1t is hardly possible that the keen-sighted
business men who are engaged in organiz-
ing these trusts all over this country, and in
England as we'll, are so blind that they can
not see this point; but the fact is that there
is another and more prompt profit from the
organization of these combinations, which is
probably the real purpose in their creation.
That is the profit of passing off upon de-
luded investors the shares in the trusts at
prices largely above their actual value. 1t
is the same game as the negotiation of
watered railway stocks, in slightly altered
form. The public has got the idea that
everything in the shape of a trust is going
to be enormously profitable; and therefore,
it is concluded, investors will be ready to
snap up trust certificates at almost any price
which the organizers may choose to put
upon them. So long as this delusion pre-
walls there is, therefore, an enormous and
quick profit in buying up the factories of
almost any industry at from five to ten
million dollars, capitalizing them at twenty
or forty million dollars, and unloading the
shares on the confiding public. This is un-
doubtedly the sole purpose of such English
enterprises as the Brewery Trust. and prob
ably the salt combination; and there is
little reason to doubt that the same idea is
largely responsible for some of the Ameri-
can trusts which are already floating their
certificates or the New York Stock Ex-
change.
OF course this phase of the matter does
not modify the obnoxious and wholly dis
honest character of the trust. Where they
cannot make a legitimate profit by extor-
tion from the consumers, they propose to
secure the same end by the delusion of in
vestors and obtaining money under false
pretenses. Either method is a violation of
the equities of trade and finance, and
results in concentrating fortunes in the
hands of the INSCRIPTIONS few at the cost
of the public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
A NEW DIPLOMATIC LIGHT.

1t is assuring to learn through the unofTi-
cial channel of a private letter from Hicks,
of Wisconsin, that he is booming the diplo-
matte business in Peru. Hicks, it may be
remembered, is the otherwise unknown citi-
zen who was appointed Minister to Per1 on
the strength of a Senatorial signature, which
the Senator forgot all about until, upon pro-
testing against the appointment, ne was con-
fronted with his own handwriting. But it
seems that the adventitious Hicks, upon his
own statement, is the right man for the
place. He has been welcomed by President
Caceres, who has asked him to dinner and
done everything to make Hicks feel at home;
and Hicks certifes that ne has eaten the
dinners and received the visits from the
Peruvian President, IN an enthusiastic
manner, calculated to solidify the relations
between the two American republics. So
long as dinners are TO be eaten, and other
festivities partaking of the nature of blow
out, are to be gone into, Hicks is certain
that he was born for diplomatic greatness.
If it had not been for that uawitting Sena-
sorial signature the country might have for
ever remained in ignorance of Hicks mar
yeloIs capacity for diplomatic feeds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
PROMINENT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

CARDINAL NEWMAN has been spending
some time at NJ alvern, in promising health.
Mr.. GoscHEN is the only leading member of
the British Government who is not also MEM
Der of the Golden Club, and 1t is said that he is
about to join it
GENERAL J. w. SINGLETON. once leader
of the Illinois Democrats, has retired alto
gether from politics, and spends most of his
time among his books.
A FINE crayon portrait of the Rev. DIR. s. f.
Smith, author of my Country tits of Thee"
has been placed in the library of Colby Univer-
sity. He was for many years trustee Of that
institution.
MRS. M. THoREsEN, Henrik Ibsen's talented
mother-inlaw. has recently celebrated her
SEVENTEEN birthday. kilograms and gifts of
flowers from all parts poured in upon the old
lady, whose fiction is very popular in Sweden
and Norway, and who was first introduced into
the world of letters by the poet Bjornson.
THE London Star says that Miss Mary An
derson is gradually recovering her health, but
she is living almost incog. in the outskirts of
Hampstead. 1t was always favorite suburb
of hers. Even when her headquarters were In
Brompton she would drive up and spend all
the summer afternoon on the heath, which had
the same attraction for her that it used to have
for Charles Dickens. She has collected by this
time quite museum of theatrical cufiosities.
The trophy she most values is dagger given
her by Lady Martin, which was always used by
the donor when she played Juliet So It was
passed direct to Mary Anderson from Helen
Faucit with all the associations of q great
name.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
BOGUS TRUST VALUES.

The multiplicity of trade organisations,
taking the form of trusts, is generally re-
garded as an indication that trade is pass
ing under the rule OF combination, and that
this mcdernized form of monopoly is the
latest development Of commercial method.
The purpose of the original trust to secure
the enjoyment of exorbitant profits, by the
suspension of competition, is without ques-
ton; but the adoption of the same form Of
organization in branches of business where
it is impossible to smother competition, in
dicates either that there is a great deal Of
ignorance and miscalculation as to the pos
sibilities of the trust, or else that another
motive is at the bottom of these organize
tiOns.
The public evil Of these organizations is
generally regarded solely as bearing on the
increased prices which they will attempt to
levy upon the consumer. This is unques-
tionable, provided they are successful in
their purpose Of abolishing competition;
but it is no less plain that great many of
the reported trusts will be utterly powerless
to accomplish that end to more than the
most temporary and transient degree. The
rumored Pottery Trust, which has just re-
eeiyed notice throughout the newspapers OF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
DEATHS OF A DAY.
William M. Lyon.

In the person of william N. Lyon, who sudden
" expired at 5 O'Clock yesterday morning in the
Monongahela House, death has taken away one of
the oldest and best known iron manufacturers in
Western Pennsylvania. The deceased was SO
years Of age, and up to the hour Of his death he
mad always enjoyed good health, and his sudden
demise was q great surprise to the many friends
of Mr.. Lyon. William M. Lyon was born in
Harrisburg in 1903. His father was John Lyon
and his mother was daughter of the late Hon.
William McClay. The family came from Tyrone
The young man was called to Pittsburg by his
father in 1888 to take charge of the Sligo Rolling
Co. Mr., Lyon succeeded his father In the firm
and he afterward owned the entire plant. In 1885
Mr.. Lyon purchased the old Monongahela House.
and he at once established his residence and live
there ever since. In ls45. after the fire, the
present bull ding was erected by Mr.. Lyon. In
is74 he sold the hotel to j. Med. Crossen, Charles
j. CLARK and A. II. Miller. In 1875
by dIsposing Of the rolling mill TO Colonel VIM.
Phillips and Alexander Nimick. There have been
very few business interests in Pittsburg during
the last 80 years with which Mr.. Lyon was not
izers of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company.
He helped to start up the Safe Deposit Bank, and
he was q large stockholder and director in that
institution from its organization until his death
Pirtsbarg and Lake Erie Railroad.
As result Of fortunate speculations Mr.. Lyon
became very wealthy. but during the panic Of
1873 he lost heavily, but after few years he re-
his death he still considered to be worth about
o. 900, co., He owned about 600 acres of valuable
iron ore land in Center county.
brothers and one sister. James b. Lyon. George
w. Lyon. 3. Stewart Lyon, Thomas +. Lyon and
Mira dane L. Ayers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
POINTS FOR REFORM.

Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew rarely talks for
publication without giving the newspapers
O good many subjects for discussion. The
discussion may not always be favorable to
Mr.. Depew's views, but the topics which he
presents are invariably fresh and interest
ing. An example of this sort is presented
by his recent statement on behalf of the
President, whom Mr.. Depew took under
his enlivening protection a week or two ago.
After certifying to the harmony which ex-
lists between the President and Mr.. Blaine
which seems unnecessary since Mr.. Joseph
ManIey got the Augusta postofice-Mr
Depew proceeds to draw picture of the
effect of the rush after Office which is very
instructive. Four thousand applicants for
$50 consulates are pointed out BY Mr.. De-
pew, and his belief is asserted that this pro-
portion will be maintained if not increased
through all the departments. Consequent
ly, "public business is at a stand-still. I"
The testimony Of Mr.. Depew that the dis
tribution of Office on the principle of the
spoils system results in keeping pub
lie business at stand-still after the admin
istration has been in operation four months
ought to suggest some very pertinent con-
clusions. 1t is a tolerably strong inference
that a system which would distribute offices
on an entirely different basis than the con-
sideration of political service would be very
superior to the one now in force. Mr.. De
pew omits to draw this conclusion, but when
he puts the premises for it so very percepti-
bly,, he approaches very closely to the condi-
tion of the hated mugwump.
But this is by no means all. Mr.. Depew
goes on to say that "the whole country
seems to think that Cleveland removed and
replaced all the oficeholders and that
vacancies can be made everywhere. The
fact is that he removed only about one-third
of the place holders" This is also an in
teresting and important point, as bearing
upon the relative sincerity of the two ad-
mInistrations in their reform professions.
We do not remember that Mr.. Depew made
any such statements with regard to the
small proportion of removals by the Cleve-
land administration, during the campaign
which resulted in Mr.. Harrison's election.
OF course Mr.. Depew is now making good
the omission. with the intention of i'm
proving his influence with the present ad-
ministration for the purpose of having Mr..
Cleveland's example followed.