Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-04-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

d uOi0 III HIS COdG duu
shirt. and tearing out the pocket.
In Kansas the hides of Galloway
cattle butchered are cured and made
into lap robes. The jet black hair is
thick. glossy and handsome. and makes
a heater robe than the buffalo, while it
is equally warm.
"A Representative in the Nebraska
Legislature writes to Lincoln paper
denying that he tried to blow out the
incandcscenL light in his room. but adj
mitted that he bathed his head with
the contents Of a hand-grenade under
the impression that it was bay rum.
The average depth of the Pacific
Ocean between Japan and California is
n little over 1000 fathoms; between
Chilli and the Sandwich Islands $500
fathoms and Chill and New Zealand
1900 fathOms. The average depth Of
all the oceans is from 1000 to $500
fathoms.
-Delaware's Senate consists of nine
members only, who spend most of their
time. report says. waiting for the
House TO do something. When q Wis
itor appears they try to assume an as
pect Of Legislative dignity and in
dustry, but relapse into story telling
AMI general conversation when he re-
tires.
Catherine I. of Russia had mu-
Steal watch. In tho interior was the
holy sepulchre and the Roman guard.
BY touching a spring the stones moved
away from the sepulchre. the guard
kneeled down, angels appeared, and
the holy woman stepped into the tomb
and sang the Easter song of the Rus
sian churches.
The King of Wurtemburg has
fancy TO ascertain whether the moon
is inhabited by causing photographs
to be taken Of that luminary, and then
magnifying the negatives u hundred
thousand-fold. The pictures produced
by this process show nebuln with little
dots, and the King declares the dots to
be men and women. He hopes eventu-
ally to get some of them into d dis
tinct shape.
"A Knickerbockcr. proud OF his
Dutch descent, strobe into the surro
! gates Office in New York to see the
signature OF his illu<triouS grandam to
the will by which she bequcathed the
real estate that he has inherited. The
document was found, dated in 1888.
written by scribe who had also
signed her name. under which was q
circle like the letter 0, bearing the lc-
gend, Her Mark" The Knicker-
ct, do Lo
hastily turned his back on this flaw in
the family escutcheon.
The original Eau de Cologne is
made from a recipe which, according
to writer in the Leisure Hour, has
been known to only ten people since it
was discovered nearly two hundred
years ago. The written copy of it is
kept in q crystal goblet, under triple
! locks, in the room in which the essen
| tial oils are mixed. The casks in
which the perfume is kept are made
| of cedar wood from Lebanon, which
! is stronger than any other and does
| not smell. More than two million bot
| ties are sold annually, and of these
$50, 600 go to one house in London.
Divers lately discovered two YES
! sells, one of which was loaded with sill
YER, that went to the bottom in the
| Gulf of Finland moro than q century
ago. They were overgrown with sea-
weeds and tang, which was cut through,
! but the holds of the crafts were not
explored, as the divers feared that the
decks were too rotten to hold them.
! No trace of silver was found, but the
remains OF apples, cucumbers, buckles
| coffee pots and shoes with pointed toe;
brought to light, together with some
! wcll-corkcd bottles. all Of which burst
rs soon as the air touched them.
1t is stated that there are more
ducks in China than all the world out
side of it. They IRE kept on every
farm, on the private roads, and on al
the lakes, rivers and small streams
/, There are many boats on each o
which as many rs 1000 arc kept
Their eggs constitute one Of the mos
important articles of food. They are
hatched in establishments fitted up fol
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