Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-03-16
STRAY BITS.

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During the year 1888 nearly 700 persons
disappeared in Philadelphia, large percent
nge of whom were never heard Of
A scheme is about to be launched to build
a canal between the Bristol and the English
channels. 1t will be about forty-five miles
long.
Rhubarb came from China about 1913, and
when introduced into England was called
patience" Turnip leaves were first eaten
rs q salad.
Christmas Island, the last annexation of
Great Britain, is the highest coral island
known, rising three or four hundred feet
from the sea-
A colored woman testified at n trial in
Stanford, KY, that she would have been
killed had she not seen tho bullet, which was
coming straight ut her, and lodged it,"
The pet dog of lady Mt Dumbartonshire,
Scotland, which died recently, was placed in
an elegant mahogany coffin with brass
mountings and deposited in tho family burial
ground.
A st. Louis coal company recently mined
Mt Danville, Ills, q lump Of coal that weighed
$1,000 pounds 1t was shipped to Chicago,
and the timbers in the mine had to be taken
down for its removal
The production Of the coca plant in South
America is SO enormous that one-eightieth
part of it would DO sufficient to swamp tho
markets of the outside world. Almost all Of
it is consumed in South America.
At type writing contest in London a
month ago there wero l2U entries end nearly
oil appeared. The first prize was for seventy
nine words a minute, twenty or thirty words
less than have been achieved in the United
States.
For the supper to be served ut the inau-
guration ball in Washington, there will be
provided 10000 raw oysters, 2O,COO slowed
OYSTERS 5000 chicken croquettes, COCO sweet
bread pates, 500 gallons of terrapin and other
articles of food in proportion.
A party Of San Bernardno, Cal, hunters
who went for days sport had very hard
luck until they hired small boy to play the
harElorica for them. AS soon cs tho music
began the canyon swarmed with rabbits,
and the hunters loaded themselves down
with gamo.
People on Broadway, New York, saw a
small boy working folding bed in the win
dow of q furniture house. He looked so ex-
haustcd that some one raised row and it
was then developed that a steam engine in
tho basement was doing the work and tho
boy was playing stool pigeon.
The advertising card is Of entirely modern
origin, although the Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans knew something about advertising
They accomplished the desired result through
the medium Of posters, as several bills,
painted in black and red, were found on tie
walls Of tho Pompciian dwellings.
A man applied ct the Campbell county,
Va, clerks Office for q marriage certificate,
but wanted it for quarter. The clerk ex-
acted 81, the usual price, Next day the
man returned and asked tho clerk to refund,
qs the girl refused to marry man that was
SO stingy as to try to beat down the price Of
a marriage license
The Los Angeles Tribune says that tho
quickest tino on record Of a sailing vessel
from Australia to tho United States has Just
been made by the American clipper South
American, which arrived nt San Diego har-
Dor recently, after run from Sydney of
5000 miles in Gfty-threo days. The next best
record is sixty-one days.
John Wilson, living near Astov, Fla, cut a
bis cypress treo in tho swamp, and found
therein O live alligator seven feet long. As
the opening in tho treo was not half largo
enough for the gator to set through, tho pre-.
sumption is tEat it crawled in when quita
young and lived on birds and reptiles thns
sought refuge in tho Same tree.
Tho waters Of nearly oil tho hot springs in
Blacl; Rock region, Nevada, are so strongly
impreGnated with mineral matter that they
will petrny vegetable or cnimal matter in q
few years. Ono enteTprising genius has the
bodies OF tnroe indians in soak, and when
thoy arc converted into s3oao he expects to
make fortune exhibiting them.
j. Dovlr, @ train erp,oyo ON tho New
York Central end Hudson River railroad,
fcrad O pockotbook containing S30,UO0 last
Sunday Ia seat OF drawing room cur ct
tCchcd to ali oast bound train. He returned
the money to its owner, J. E. Lotus, q Dos