Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-05-17
STRAY BITS.

There arc in India about 200 separate species
Of snakes, but only thirty-three of these are
poisonous
No Laplander has ever written a song, and
no Finlander has ever written q book. No
wonder they arc happy people.
The London Times has the figures to show
that Spain has degencrated faster than any
nation on earth-even faster than Patagonia
The statistics of New England prove that
seven out of every ten women left widows
under the ago of 50 marry again within two
years
Tho electric light is making great progress
in Berlin, the number of lamps now in uSe
there hcing about $4,000, against $50 at the
end of 1856
The word FOLKLORE" invented by the lato
" Thomas for use in English, has been
adopted by the French and appears in the
titles of new publications.
Experimenters at Manhattan, Kan, have
discovered that tho use of salt on wheat fields
will greatly increase the yield 1t is also an-
nounced that salt will kill potato bugs
The Pawneo Indians havo become so civil
izerl that most of tho bucks wear paper col.
lars, the squaws wear red stockings. and all
arc catching on to popular songs and slang
words
According to experiments recently made
the tensile strength OF wet rope is only one
third that of the samo rope when dry, and q
rope saturated with grease or soap is weaker
STILL
In its editorial department The Detroit
Free Press has eleven persons whose service
averages over seventeen years. The manag-
iag editor was engaged in lS65, the editor-in-
chief in 1861.
There has been made in Geneva a musical
box that plays entire operas, the solos rem
Gcrcd by pipes representing the human voice.
These newest Of harmonious inventions are
to be exhibited at the Paris exposition.
Hotel keepers at Monte Carlo endeavor to
have the habitual gamblers pay their bills
| considerably in advance, lest, in bit of dis
/ appointment over great losses, they commit
suicide end leave the boniface their creditor.
| Twenty years ago there were ninety-two
! lightning rod factories in tho United States
! Today there are but three, and those doing
! q tl'iGing business. The lightning rod was
| the biggest humbug Of the Nineteenth cen
tury.
A Frenchman has invented new system
! for propelling canal booTs. 1t consists of an
endless cable running along tile two banks.
| The boats are moved at double the ordinary
speed, and can readily be attached and de-
! tached from the cables
An omnibus run by electricity, the only
! ono in tho world, has made successful trips in
London. 1t runs on any kind of q street
without tho use Of rails, whilo the so called
electric omnibus Of Paris is in reality n tram
car running OH track.
There is nothing startling in tho fact that
many Russian pooplo have been frozen TO
death this winter. 1t is the business Of Russia
to be very cold for three months in the year,
and something would DO out of order if few
hundred people didn't freeze TO death.
One Newman, Of Rushville, Ind, has q
crow which has forsaken it's kind, and asso-
ciates altogether with tho chickens IN the
barnyard. At night it roosts with the poul
try, and during the daytime feeds With them
and altogether conducts itself as q well dis
positioned chicken.
q contrivnnce has lately been introduced
on tho railroads ia Russia to indicate the
| next station at which the train viii stop II
is dial, the indeS Of which points to tlc
station. One is set up in every car. and The
ildices Of all are moved at once 10y electric
ity, working from tho locomotive,