Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-13
HUMOROUS.

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have often read of people poor but hon
but honest?" ''Tut, tut, my son, nobody
would believe them," answered the
father.-Liverpool Post.
Miss Langham-sYo You Americans use
the name of George Washington very
frequently, do you not?" Mr.. de Yank-
''Yes, indeed. Why, George Washing
tom has been on every ones tongue since
postage stamps were invented. IN. Y.
Sun.
-"Blinkins is nice fellow" eyes:
but he shows such a marked disposition
to exaggerate." '"Fo be sure; but that
is counterbalanced by one thing"
t'What is thatP" 'sThe general indis-
position to believe him."-Merchant
Traveller.
-Visitor-"Yourp pastor seems to be .
very earnest man. His voice trembled
with emotion when he read the lessons
this morning." Soprano-"Oh, it wasn't
that; he had just had q row with the
choir-leader, and he was mad clear
throughp-Puck.
When the teacher of the grammar
class asked: "What is kiss?" a young
lady candidate for graduation honors re-
piled: sit is what young man gives
you when he says goodnight at the
front door," The teacher blushed, and
said that wasn't the right answer.-N.
Y. Ledger.
Young Mr.. Green-"RealIy, nv
dear, you must get rid Of that cook of
ours. This dinner is particularly dread
fulp Young Mrs. Green-sI don't dare
to, Richard. l must give her weeks
notice, you know, and there is no telling
what she might do in that time,"-Mun-
sey's Weekly.
Too Amiable. who has
just knocked his cigar ashes Anto the
eyes of a Prince in front of him-"Par-
don, your Highness; 1 am inconsolable" {"
! Prince (rubbing his eyes)--sI beg you
will not trouble yourself. There are
! occasions when it is quite pleasant to
have cigar ashes in ones eyes."--
DISPERSION OF PLANTS.
How Weeds Are Carried from One Part
| OF tho Globe to the Other.
1t is matter Of common traditio that
many Of the worst pests OF our fields
were introduced by the early colonists
under some mistaken notion OF their
value. In all newly-settled parts of the
/ world the same mistake is being re-
peated over and over again. An English
man writing to Nature from one Of the
South Sea Islands says:
Thousands of acres Of pasturage have
been destroyed in this island by the dis
tribution by birds of the Ldntand, which
was unfortunately introduced here by
the first Roman Catholic missionaries to
form q hedge for their property at St
Louis or Conception.
The "Gendarme plant" was brought
here in pillow by gendarme from
Tahiti. 1t was seed attached to wing
of sill cotton. The gendarme shook out
his pillow, the wind carried the seed
to a suitable spot, and now 1t vies with
the LartanG in destroying our pastures.
The seeds Of water-plants are con-
veyed to vast distances, adhering to the
hairs and feathers of the legs of water
birds--ducks, herons and waders of all
sorts. In London the basins Of the
fountains in Trafalgar Square were peo-
pied by Lgymnga brought thither from
the Serpentine, attached to the feathers
of the sparrows who bathed, first in one
and then in the other
We have Just got a plant here bearing
lovely flower. but whence It comes no
one knows. 1t has hard wooden seed
capsules, each furnished with two hooks
as hard as steel and as sharp as needles.
These. hooking into the hide Of any
spimals, would be carried for days, until
forcibly dislodged.
The Bathurst burr' was introduced
into the Cape In cargo Of wool wrecked
at Cape Agulhas, aud spread out to dry
first there and then at Simmons Town
at both OF which places the burr sprang
up. believe and hope destroyed the
f1rst and last plant of IL that Bprang ur
in New Zealand some twenty-five year,
ago The seed had been brought in the
living fleece of q fine merino ram. The
J owner OF the pasture was cherishing the
wonderful new plant" and was not .
: little Mortified when took out my knife
and carefully cut IL down. He was more
horrined when told him what 1t was.