Mohave County miner., 1889-12-21
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.
Tho Oldest Mason never Giss and yet he
b always dying.
Wolves and other kinds OF game arc
plenty 10 northwestern Florida.
The King of Siam is . glittsring object
He wears jewels worth million dollars.
Il Is easier to exaGgsrate the wealth OF
the rich than to overstats the poverty OF
the poor.
A sand pump near Boise City, Idaho. re-
Gently brought UP flint IDOL from depth
Of $40 feet.
"A friend In need Il . friend indeed"
Aiasl that the latter should BE- the hrst 10
forget the fact
The widow Of M,llet paintsroc'' The An
gclus," pronounccs her name - u II wero
spelled Meeyay.
A Japanese man-of war, recently launched
at Yoxosuka, made nineteen knots pcr hour
on the trial trip.
Men are generally lacking In manners and
fine sentiments who think that saying mean
things y frankness.
Ths American Travellers say. courtesy
doesn't cost much but it pays mighty big
interest on the investment
Lockjaw hes resulted from the injury re-
ccived by d boy st PittAburg who was
struck in the back with an apple.
Chickens hatched In patent incubators
are said to b silly-idiots. In fact or
course their moral Rsture must be low.
The man who said, II never object TO my
wife going into my pockets" meant that
the remark should be taken In sPickwickian
sense
A Harrisburg woman placed her sleeping
infant on railroad seat and covered u
with . newspaper. A careless drummer
came In end sat down on II.
In revival meeting at Walls Walia,
Oregon. Q man confessed that he was
murderer and asked forgiveness He 70
fused To reveal the circumstances.
Billy Fife Of North Carolina 10 looming
up % q Sam Jones style of an evangelist
In the use of slang he Is said 70 be "more
abler" than Sam. He viii succeed.
There has been discovered near VisaliA
Cal, the stump Of sequoia which, Tour
feet from the ground, measures ~ fest 10
diameter and ls3 feet in circumference.
Senator Edmunds takes great store 10
his daughter. He says that she 10 as good
o lawyer - he IL. She b his smanuensb
and advises him on doubtful legal points-
The parior for home Is no more. 6torest
milliners, BARRIERS and saloons have parlors
Homes Just have their rooms where they
receive people Tbe homo parlor " no
more
The old gunbost Condor, which. under
the command of Lord CharleB Bercsford,
did such efficient service atsthe lombard
ment Of Alexandria, has been condemned
and sold.
A Santa Clara correspondent Of the San
Francisco Bulletin gives list OF eleven
women in that county who run and manage
prunc orchards, doing much OF the worS
themselvsA
No matter II the man is worn out In back
stomach and nerves Il makes him fecl =
good deal younger II he can say, swell, old
man. to the fellow who 10 only two or three
years older.
Eearsightedness 10 oyerrunning the
French people - much ~ the Germans.
Among tho senior boys in the different
French colleges more than 10 per csnt are
nearsightsd.
A Waiting card with each end bent for .
quarter Of an inch tosupport IL like table.
can be made 70 embarrass people who boast
Of great deal Of good sense The point v
to blow Il over.
An eastern exchange says: The unplcas.
antness between Harvard and Princcton
grows apaca. It 10 doubtful II yellow and
black and crimson can ever be made har.
monious colors
The English are coming. This time they
don't bring swords and muskets They now
propose 70 bring people down with money
bags. These Gro effective weapons in this
day and generation.
Emperor William thinks tho end justifics
the mesna He has authorized the estap-
lishment OF . lottery for raising FUNDS for
q monument 70 his grandfather. Nothing
Is said of his father.
Pittsburg, Pa, h often In good luck. A
New Yorker died and left the Iron city
cool l million doliars for charitable pur.
poses. The gift viii be acceptable The
rich and the poor meet In l'ittssurg.
Georee Paradies, theatrical director In
Moscow. recently closed contract with
Coquel.n according TO which the French
actor will make . starring tour In Russia
between now and the niddlc Of next March.
Charles A. Dana ID usually autocrstlc
and Aristocratic, but ho 10 coming homo
from Spain In IN Italian steamer. This 10
regarded ~ an evidence that the editor
will hereafter try 70 - - child Of the
people"
In certain dispricss OF Washington the
street numbsrs arc badly mixed uR II 10
said that when the coiored people move, -
they frequently do. they generally take the
door numbsr with them and put IL on their
new house.
Alfred East . celebrated artist has ~
turned to England after . trip around the
world. He states that in Hasa, Japan, he
saw native post reading Tennyson's I'm
Menoriam,n which had been done up in tn
tongue Of Satsuma
Taking the whcts area Of the United
States, the farmlands comprise $50 acres in
every 1000. leaving I'll acres unoccupied-
OF the former quantity 153 acres are pro-
ductive, 1o3 woodland. and 81 unproductive.
though partly susceptible OF Improvement
Boston is studying voispuk. Probably
it will be substituted for Yankee dialect
The Boston Herald says: Thu class in
volapuk In the svening schools will Be con.
Quoted without any sxpsuss TO the city.
We shall thus got our moneys worth, any
how.
A friend Of Hrs. Burnett corrects the
statement which 10 going the rounds TO tho
effect that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
gave Mrs. Burnett ring with . moonstone
some years ago, and from that time for