Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-02-15
CURIOUS rAIaes OF LIFE.


John conneston, Of Louisville, KY, has
mule which chews tobacco
A Spanish paper announces that Spanish
naapmaker has proved the world to be flat.
A single gold dollar can be made into
sheet that will carpet two rooms l6I< feet
square.
Swiss has invented musical box which
introduces the human voice and also the trill
Of birdA
They are going back to the old fashion Of
selling grains and vegetables by weight In
stead of measure in PHILADELPHIA
Among the students at Princeton college f.
one % years old He Is studying for the min
tstry, and expects to graduate this term
A COW broke into Brooklyn oyster deal
ers establishment ard devoured eight quartz
OF raw oysters before she 'Sis discovered.
The Baxter family, Of Norwich, Conn.,,
found a valuable diamond ring slowed away
In the interior OF their thanksgiving turkey.
California farmer, believing that cats
will exterminate squirrels and gophers, pur-
chased large number and set them at lib
erty on his land.
A Chicago paper, In trying to refer to ttthe
late lamented," gets it: 1.-THE late lieuten-
ant" and what makes it worse is the fact
that it was q woman.
William Solomon, an Ohio tourist, fell
through slSyhght in Kearny street, San
Francisco, lodging house. fragment of
glass caught him in the right eye and gouged
the member out
Gum chewers should take warning from
the fate of a Newton, Conn.,, girl, aged 10.
A piece of gum slipped down her throat, and,
vOrlrrf L.
caused fatal liberation.
An Iowa well digger who was imprisoned
for five days in a we'll says he did not suffer
much for food or drink, but he was much
vexed that he did not think to put a novel in
his pocket when he left home that morning.
A citizen Of New Ulm, Mimi, owns horse
which he considers an unerring weather
prophet He can always tell when q storm
Is coming by watching the animals eyes,
which change from a very light color to dark
blue twenty-four hours before a change in
the weather.
colored nurse girl Of McRae, Ca, play.
fully put q baby in q bureau drawer to
amuse it. The child, of course, screamed,
and everybody became so excited that the
baby nearly smothered before anybody could
regain sufficient presence Of mind to open
the drawer.
There was too little water in the baptis.
NAL pool Of a colored Baptist church in Kirk
vile, Ala, and when the sexton started the
fire it bl'w up. The church was full of peo-
pie and the pastor had to be taken off the
rafters-whither he was thrown-with lad
der, but no one was hurt.
freight train ON the Southern Pacific
railroad lately ran into herd of cattle,
striking yearling calf, which jumped at
one bound on the pilot of the locomotive; 1t
laid down quietly and rode for nine miles
AS the train approached Tucson the signal
whistle aroused it and it jumped from the
pilot and scampered across the range.
The Detroit Journal shoulders this state
ment: "a Grand Rapids family named
Smith use a combination bedstead, which
serves for an upright piano, desk and side
board during the day and couch at night.
The other morning Mr.. Smith got up first,
and had scarcely donned his clothes when lie
heard click, and looking around sow tho
furniture had closed with Mrs. Smith inside.
He opened the combination quickly, but Mrs.
Smith was badly used up by the accident