Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-10-18

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any other dramAtiSt They number
ten In all.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese
Of Maryland has q communicant list Of
more than 10000. 1t contributed In
1882 1887. 200 and In 1888 34S3. 600.
viii you marry me. BridgetP" .
widower, Of year asked his cook.
'How many afternoons q week out
kin have. sorrP" she asked in reply.
-SoutheHsteru Maine has some
rather venerable academies. That at
south Berwick was Incorporated in
1871. and those at Fryeburg and East
Machias the yea" following.
Tho city of New York has 600 Sun
day-schools. with q total OF 1877, 900
scholars and teachers. Philadelphia
has GIG Sunday-schools, with total
OF 1876. 802 teachers and scholars.
1t was only the other day that a
man who swore that he wouldn't cut
his hair until Henry Clay was elected
President thought Of a way out of II.
He let his wife cut it-Texas Siftines-
-Whitfield's old Tabernacle. in
Iottenham Court road. London, has
been declared dangerous, and is now
to come down. This will remove one
OF the most interesting relics in the
city. '1o
Mr.. Wilkie Collins Is short and
delicate-leokiug, with very small
hands and feet and q cheerful face
His luxuriant hair and beard are
snowy white. and he habitually wears
spectacles. He Ia an inveterate
smoker
-''Been on your vacationP" '.No.
Whyp" II saw you riding home in a
hack the other day, and thought like
ly you had just returned" do YOU
suppose could have afforded to ride
home in d hack if 1 had been on my
vacationP" Citizen. -
The Presbyterian Banner calls at
tention to the fact that 0f the 474 min
listers who left the Established Church
OF Scotland at the disruption in 1843.
sixty five are still living. among whom
Is the venerable ex-president of
Princeton College. Rev. James Nc
Gosh, d. D.. LID.
--Husband-"And what leads YOU
to think that Mr.. Springday and our
daughter are finally engaged to be
married." Wife-"Well, he doesn't
come 80 often as he used to. and when
he calls they most always have quar-
rel and say mean thln0s to each
other. Omaha World. =.
Amherst College claims the hon.
orable distinction of supplying from
tts graduates larger number Of min
listers than any other American COL
lege; twice as many as either Yale or
Oberlln, three times AZ many as Will
Jams. four times as many as Dart
mouth and nine times as many as
Harvard.
"A valuation of church property in
st. Louis, Mo-. recently made. resulted
rs follows: Forty-six Roman Catholic
churches. nunneries and schools, g.
100000; Is Methodist churches, $1,-
100000; 80 Presbyterian churches,
81, 100000; ID Evangelical tUnited)
churches. 1871, 800; IL Lutheran
churches and Concordia Seminary.
&57O.OOO.
"Disapp' intcd in oklahomaP'
Nary disapp'int." "But what are you
coming back for with your family and
stuff" CANT git no claimP" ''Ther
how does it happen you are not Gisap
pointedp" oval, Betsy, she's allut
preached It they want no other foo
! sech blamed FOOLS be; but sence
TUX her down to Oklahoma she hahn
he'd nuth'n TO Puck.
John Loss consulting a clairvoy-
ant)-''My watch has been stolen, and
want information that will lead to it:
recovery" Clairvoyant-"Cross my
palm with silver dollar" ct Il
done aud the c!airvoyant falls into q
trance.) Your watch is in the
pocket Of bad man. Find him; cause
his arrest, and the timepiece will
again be- yours "--Jeweler's Weekly
Acknowledgements, you know
year ago told you would not MARI.
you un:il you had saved $1O. 900" Al