Mohave County miner., 1889-12-07
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

| Ing tSh AiSrc cuaHtb are fcpDltnE up most
OF the srade In South America.
Pianos boxed in white cherry are nev
and so are stools with fiddle back.
Electricity u used Ia some Pennsylvania
coal mines 70 draw the car up the level.
There are more stove foundrics in Ii.
South than can bc profatbiy employed.
A Texas democrat Of eighty. five year,
has just had twenty first son born to hin
| Edison Is an inveterate smoker. He con
sumes twenty eigars day. He drinks M
liquors.
| A Buffalo preacher says there win b<
horses in heaven but he II not sure about
the drivers
An Alliance firm is building the larges.
travelling crane ever erected, for the
Washington Navy Yard.
The acids in coal tar are now taken out Of
u, and 1t 10 thus rendered good and chcar
coating for iron aud steel.
The Atchison Globe says: "The trouble
with man covering up his tracks u that
nc makes new ones In dong it.n
An eastern Ohio man has been married
three times. Each time there was opposition,
and he hsd to elope with the girl.
The Louisiana Press says that oil lthe
certificates in the world wouldn't take the
"quackness'' out Of some doctors.
Yale proposes to endow chair Of music.
It viii be the first university In America 10
confer the honor upon the "cause.n
DIR. II. A. Girard Of Chattanooga has ten
living wives. The doctor is in adurancc
vile" He now believes In cclibacy.
The great jefferson oil fields Of Pennsyl-
vania have shrunk In their oil production
from 1860 bhls per day 70 500 bbls.
A bronze casting to weigh 1900 pounds,
is TO be cast In one piece, and placed on the
top Of the City Hall in Philadelphia
The proposed canal from Beaver, below
Pittsburg TO Erie, will revolutionize trade
between Pittsburg and the Northwest
They have taken the school house bell
and hung it on the judges stand at the
trotting park In an eastern Maine town.
In the newly tea plantation Of
Assam red spider has suddenly appeared,
and threatens serious injury to the plants.
Sir John Lubbock has just discovered
that the death rate in London is 1871 per
1000 rs against l7,1 in other English cities
A plucky Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
widow took an ak and attacked and killed
bear that was trying to steal one of her
pigs.
General Neal Dow, the prohibitionist, Is
SC years old, but still has clear eye, good
physique and wealth Of snowy white
hair.
An industrial school is to be started at
Chattanooga, Tenn. Building and loan
associations are springing up all over the
south.
Women seem tc be given tofiction. Pub
fishers OF books and magazines say that
three-foarths OF the novels offered are by
women.
English schools are putting in swimming
baths. The same thing will soon be done
in this country. "Work ana be clean' Is
the motto.
The Westinghouse people, at Pittsburgh,
have induced the Pekin Chinese to put up
a big electric light plant European com
petitors tried to.
A Paris butler won last month the $780,
900 prize in the exhibition lottery. His wife
runs the goat carriages for babies in the
Tuileries garden.
A piece Of Washington real estate was
recently sold at the rate of SO q square
foot-the highest price ever paid for prop
erty In the capital
Some very large steel ships are to bo
h1xf far Lob oar-rino In lafnaf r,va rn,, Z
tracted for will be capable Of carrying OF
1900 tons Of freight.
Letters From He'll" have been repnb-
lished with an introduction by George
acDonald. According TO s.the new vers-
ion'' the title is misnomer.
The new steam cruiser Philadelphia win
have two electric light plants Of the most
approved pattern, and the most compact
system adapted to marine work.
George bancroft, the historian, seems to
have pretty wholesome tastes. After his
tory, which Is his business and his pleasure,
he loves trees, roses and shakespeare.
A young woman Of Crescent City. Cal,
picked up q pebble on the beach and sent 1t
TO lapidary in San Francisco. He pro-
nounced 1t q true emerald, worth $4,000.
Even queen may be partial Queen
Victoria is in hopes that Prince George Of
Wales will be king Of England some day.
She likes him better than any Of her grand
children.
The cost OF tho projected bridge across
the Hudson River at New York is Ss0, ,0O0,-
900, and capitalists are seriously consider
ing the advisability OF putting that amount
Of money In IT.
OF novel writing there is no end. Char
lotte M. Yonge has just completed her l0ist
book. She has written nothing great and
nothing bad A respectable mediocrity has
been her style.
Some one sent Missouri church deacon
. postal card advising him not TO preach 50
loud, and not TO attempt TO sing at all, and
he Just backslid and licked three OF his
neighbors inside Of week.
"Budger is the name of tame crow be.
longing to Miss Oriie Wheeler, ofJoliet, Ill.
He goes all over town alone and returns ~
his home at night He Is fond Of beer and
will drink 1t until intoxicated.
Near Silverton. Oregon, Is q quarry OF
what is called Fireplace stone" 1t is soft
when mined, and can be sawed or chopped
In any desired shape, and when subjected
10 intense heat does not seem to be affected.
An effort will be made TO save the
American bison from utter extinction. A
company interested In the propagation Of
the buffalo has secured large tract Of land
In Utah, where herd Of bison will soon DO |
1omiciled.
Northern capitalists continue TO buy up
aree lumber and mineral tracts In the |