Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-02-17
STRAY eiTS


husset halls werc les,l tender as farthinGs
in Boston I'm HE'S.
There are 100000 books published In
Germany every year.
The Cover trade OF London Is estimated to
amount To E5:UU u DAY.
TITO milan Of Old,nwn Island, -. have
orGan:1SSi u printing iirrL.
The population of Germany, ACCORDING TO
the last ce;,s,is, Is G.Sl5.sW
There are I:E1 mountain peaks In the United
States more than lu.Vuu feet in height.
as early Us ~ TIE Council Of Nice ordered
tue f"G:.lation OF hospitals In tic principal
towns.
All tho scientists still assert that It would
take n canuon tall only eight days to rrccl,
tue moon
The monster Ill ton cannon recently man.
ufacturTi III Germany throws u projcctile
twenty inilcS
Spaniarr.s. in the Sixteenth century, h.
level that spiders Indicated gold when they
were found il uGundauce.
a g~eolosist has come across evidences In
Scotland 70 prove that the earth lay in u
liquid state for lJJ,uUU years
The TURKS regularly cut open tho outer
corner Of the eyc!idS, If the eyes Of n girl are
rot largo enough for their ideas OF beauty.
Tho largest and finest specimens OF u.ala.
cli;c Gene from Russia. In Versailles there
Is Il room entirely furnished with articles c.
r:alachiLe
Jerusalem, it is said. is fast. becoming III,
city OF the Jews In 1850 there were 40:
more than $3.50 Jews there; now there srC
more than 5000.
In Lapland the test Of oratory IS seeing
who rattlcs of the most words without stop
ping to draw n breath, anu tho women gencr-
ally como out ahead.
a Lordon author has written thirty novels
in three years This beats sc record Of any
living man, but the writer's enormous labor
has brought him only $1,000.
y North Carolina justice Of the peace fined
n citizen - for contempt OF court in not
bringing out u pan of water for the Justices
horses while lie was travelling.
An electric hand saw is the latest invention
for carpenters. 1t works like any or,liuar.
saw, the electricity being applied only in the
process OF setting und sharpening.
During the recent blizzard which descended
upon New YORK. tie Oceanic ho;e! ct Far
R~ociaway. valued at $4,000. t!oa;ed out tc
sen and disappcarc! ia III. waves.
The first locomotive imported into TIL.
country was bought ia Manchester. England,
for the Boston and Lowell rail-uad corpora.
ton. II arrived ia this country in ISL.
The largest electric plant in tho world vii!
soon &c put in operation. London is TO Uy
Illuminated 10y electricity. aud n contract for
the immense undertaking has already been
nirir.
The following are the figures showing the
size of the European armies: Russia. seq.
COO Germany, 2,"DJ.'uJ, France, 2.I;J.Up
with, perhaps, l,COU.CD mCre il Needed
Austria, l,O.i,OOJ, Italy. 2,lUU.CCJ Turkey,
SOo,CV0.
\ Young man who was married at RurIinc-
ton, Ia, tho o:hcr night, gave the officiating
Clergyman n 40 gold piCcn by miStat:c FOR
n$"'O coin, and went to the preachers resi-.
dencc III tic middle Of ths night and de-
marde,l rcsti utiou.
The salaries Of colonial governors nro worry
high. New X'alaml pays E7,5UJ n year; Der.
mcda, E3.DDl: Jamaica. 5000; Fc, leo.
G5,OO0. and British Guiana. Ej.G q. The en-.
tire FecJsc revenue Is only $4,000. There
arc e>ly II handful of whites there.
Tho most mnno.onous city in its b,:ildinrs
Is Paris, the houses there .hcin. almost al,
alike. An attempt is now bcil. made to vnrv
this b. building houses Of the style OF tE,
Renaissance and Louis NJ, anil hone is OK
pressed that the example will DO foilowco
generally.
y newly invented bolt for fastening to
Gcti!cr heavy tiInbcrs does away with the
need OF n mt The head nf the bolt il p:o.
vilci with II spring. Ulon stril.m: this
spring with II hammer two nrinS Is ont from
the shank of the Golt, pressing u;,niIrst the
timhcrnnI performing thc Office 81 n nut.
London spends between 100000 and IS.
CC0,UJJ n year Oh puttcd plants and cut
iiowCrS. Many OF these flowers como from
Holland, France and even Italy. A single
c~a!;urist in southern France claimIs To send
every year $1,000 worth OF white lilars
snowdroIs, lilies Of tho valley and roses 10
London.
California supplies moro than half Of tho
quicksilver consumed ia tho world. Tho con-
sumption Of quicksilver in tho world Eo5
averaged l:Ei,C&J Tasks n year. The PRINCIPAL
uses TO which 1t is applied are: IL Mctcuro.
logical aud o:!ICr scientific Instruments; ci
c%licf;Ii'nl preparations, CJ looking gIassus and
mirrors.
a hunting party returned to Fresno. chi.
from tho mountains report finding the rc.
mains of n i:iIn wlo evidently had been torn
TO pieces by II grizzly bear. The remains
wcrc horribly mutilGtcd. They were buried
where found. IL Is believed thoy were those
OF II former citizen OF Fresno who was inter.
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