Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-02-13
STRAY elrs.

4uU0 nTe IV,VUUUV oooo pobltshed In
Germany every year.
The flower trade Of London Il estimateti to
amount to e5,OOO a day. -
The Indians Of Oldtown Island, Me-, have
organized a printing firm
The population Of Germany, according 10
the last census, is 1855, 7OL
There are 49s mountain peaks in the United
States more than 10000 feet In height.
As early as s25 the council of Nice ordered
the foundation Of hospitals in the principal
towns
All the scientists still assert that IL wouId
take cannon ball only eight days to reach
the moon.
The monster III ton cannon recently man.
ufactured in Germany throws a projectile
twenty miles.
Spaniards, in the Sixteenth century, b.
lieved TINT spiders indicated gold when thew
were found in abundance.
geologist has come across evidences In
scotland to prove that the earth lay In a
liquid state for 1000 years
The Turks regularly cut open the outer
corner Of the eyelids, if the eyes of q girl are
not large enough for their ideas Of beauty.
The largest and finest specimens of mala.
chite come from Russia. In Versailles there
Is room entirely furnished with articles of
malachita
Jerusalem, it is said, is fast becoming tho
city Of the Jews In 1850 there were noe
more than 5000 Jews there; now there are
more than $4,000
In Lapland the test Of oratory IA ceeino
who rattles OFF the most words without stop.
ping to draw a breath, and the women pener.
ally come out ahead.
A London author has written thirty novels
IN three years. This beats S;ae record Of any
living man, but the writer's enormous labor
has brought him only $1,000
North Carolina justice Of the peace fined
citizen IS for contempt Of court I'm not
bringing out a pail Of water for the Justices
horses while he was travelling.
An electric hand saw IL the latest invention
for carpenters. IL works like any ordinar,
saw. the electricity being applied only In the
process OF setting and sharpening.
During the recent blizzard which descended
upon New York the Oceanic hotel at Far
Rockaway, valued at $4,000, foated out To
sea and disappeared in the waves.
The first locomotive imported into tbis
country was bought in Manchester, England.
Tor the Boston and Lowell railroad CORPORA.
ton. 1t arrived in this country in 1884.
The largest electric plant in the world will
soon be put in operation. London is to BE-
illuminated by electricity, and a contract for
the immense undertaking has already been
NADIA
The following are the figures showing the
size OF the European armies: Russia, 1000,
700; Germany, 2,5OO,O00; France, 2,43O, 600
with, perhaps, 100000 more IL needed
Austria, l,O77,OO0; Italy. 2,4OO,OOO; Turkey,
100000.
A young man who was married at Burlinp.
ton, In, the other night, gave the officiating
clergyman $40 gold piece by mistake for
a $3.50 coin, and went to the preachers resi-.
dence In the middle Of the night and de-
manded restitution.
The salaries Of colonial governors are very
high. New Zealand pays R7,5OO year: Ber.
muda, $4,000; Jamaica, $4,000; Feejee.
e5|OOO, and British Guiana, $500. The en-
tire Feejee revenue IL only 975OOO. There
are oily handful Of whites there.
The most monotonous city In It's Building.
IL Paris, the houses there being almost all
alike. An attempt is now being made to vary
this by building houses Of the style of tha
Renaissance and Louis XXI, and hope IL ex
pressed that the example will be followed
generally.
A newly invented bolt for fastening to
gether heavy timbers does away with the
need Of a nut. The head Of the bolt Is pro
vided with a spring. Upon striking this
spring with hammer two arms fy out from
the shank Of the bolt, pressing against the
timber and performing the Office OF nut.
London spends between 100000 and g..
100000 year on potted plants and cut
dowerS Many Of these flowers como from
Holland, France and even Italy. A single
culturist In southern France claims to send
every year e60.OnO worth Of white lilac.
snowdrops, lilies Of the valley and roses to
London.
California supplies more than half of the
quicksilver consumed In the world. Tho con-
sumption Of quicksilver in the world has
averaged l33, 900 TASKS year. The principal
uses to which it Il applied are, (i) Meteoro-
logical and other scientific Instruments: ca
chemical preparations; C8 looking glasses and
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