Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-02-06
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

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CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.
A shingle nail was found In a perfectly
fresh egg recently by farmer near Niles,
Mich.
Western fakir Is selling an Adjustable
engagement ring that can be made to tit any
finger.
A Michigan chiropodist is making trt-
umphal progress as "William the Corn
curer."
Thomas Wilkinson, Of Vernon, N. Y, has
a beard five feet long, which he wears tucked
under his vest
A man named Life has been appointed
postmaster of a Virginia -own. de will have
nothing to do with dead letters.
The champion economist of the Nineteenth
century lives in Fulton county, Ga. He has
his socks und gloves made from his own hair
Pine City, W. T., claims to have the small:
est living woman She is2T years old, twenty
nine inches tau and weighs thirty three
pounds.
A Texan who is blind, deaf, crippled and
savage offered $1,000 to any woman who
would marry him, and he had received nine
applicants in two weeks
az young uens debating CLUB In Red
biuh, Cal, the following question was dis
cussed: docs chimera Illuminating in
vacuum devour second intentionsP' 1t broke
up the club.
AT Scotttlale, Pa., the other day a brake
man Tell between the cars of moving train.
de counted sixteen cars and q caboose as thew
passed over him and then iumped up and
took his place again at the brakes. He WINS
not scratched.
AT Plymouth. Mass, workmen while sink
ing we'll found about ten feet below tho
surface numerous large timbers that are SUBJ
posed to have been PORTIONS Of bridge built
early In the last century. The timbers are
only very slightly decayed
An Easton, Pa, woman bought pair of
shoes, and at home found a small purse nest
ling in the toe Of one of them. 1t contained
Sl,2OO In negotiable bonds She found the
owner who refused to believe she Ind lost
the bonds at first, but was soon convinced.
An assistant to Connecticut plumber
poured small quantity of water into a pot
or hot lead, in order to satisfy doubt in his
mihd us TO what the effect would be. He
wasn't seriously injured, but is likely to carry
reminder of the experiment to the grave
with Tim
Thirty five years ago George NJ Woodruff,
OF Litchfield, Conn.,, cut his initials on th,
limb of an apple tree. They disappeared in
time, but when the tree was cut down and
split into firewood not along ago the initinls
were found four inches from the surface per-
fectly distinct.
In the little town Of Arvesnes, in France,
there are forty-two young narriageable girls
and only three young men who are candi-
dates for matrimony, and one Of these has
proved SO recreaut to home influence that he
Is about to marry girl belonging 20 neigh
boring village.
Some time ago, Matte Fennell, a young
woman Of Santa Barbara, Cal, had some
lemon juice accidentally spilled over her
hair on one side of the head. Since then tho
hair on That side hus become perfectly white,
and the ends Of the hair curl, as though
treated with a curling iron.
John Simmons, Of Galveston, found good
sized pearl in dish Of raw oysters q few
days since. lie placed tho pearl in collar
box in his bedroom. Two days later he found
the pearl a soft grayish mass with q red
center. Ii finger is placed Oh the pearl is
becomes hard and the red spot disappears.
A st. Louis suicide wrote: 81 am 90 years
old. In eight years l would have been 10,
an old, dilapitated, tottering fossil. [ have
played the world out, and it don't owe me q
cent. I've had more fun than mule in @
corn field, and I've got enough. Therefore
will cheat the course Of nature and jump the
time to come"
A Norwegian wood chopper near Carson
City, New, made al ingenious use Of all acci-
dent. He discovered a leak in one Of the
mains Of tho water company, where jot was
forced out under enormous pressure. After
experimenting he found TIM. this would cut
wood equal to fine saw, SO he set to work
and now makes handsome brackets of choice
woods which find q ready sale.
J. w. Smith, Of Pittsburg, hus recently re-
covered from trance, after being uncon-
scious for three weeks. He first experienced
sensations as though he wero in dream.
This condition lasted several days, when ho
lost consciousness aud was pronounced dead
and his funeral arranged for. Signs OF lilo
were afterward detected In him, and re was