Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-05-22

lho danger from gases only in connection
with house drainage are ssid to be compare
lively easy to avoid, the main consideration
being continuous thorough ventilation Of
the pipes
There are propositions In France to con-
struct canals from Bordeaux to tho seaboard
OF the Atlantic and from Narbourne to tho
Mediterranean. total length, $50 miles; cost,
S13O 600 ono
10 the changed condition Of vessels mag
netlsm by induction during lengthy voyage
may be attributed the loss of more vessels
than is usually thought to be the case among
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Professor Geddes calls attention to two ten
denotes in organic evolution-the vegetative
and the reproductive-and asserts that evo-
luton is the result OF tho universal subordi-
nation of the former to the latter.
DR. Rutgers, Of England, after an exten-
sive series of dietetic experiments, declares
| that a vegetable diet can easily be lived on,
and that vegetable albumen Is, weight for
| weight. equal to animal albumen.
In the new process of metal plating tho in
ventor does away with batteries and dyna-
mos and depends upon a double electrical
| composition. in copper plating cast iron an
alkaline bath Is used in place OF ON acidulated
| one
| Cuo Ca Tile cnIel features pa
per fabric for building purposes is the ease
| with which It can be worked into sheets Of
any required width or thickness that will not
be affected by changes or temperature OF hui
/ midtv
Mrs Crawshay, OF Erecon, England, mas
| placed in the hands Of William RoSsetti the
| sum of $l3, 3,5OU, the income of which is to he
used annually as prize to the women passing
the best examination ON tho writings Of
! Byron. Keats and Shelley.
The English manufacturers Of ready made
white vests have prepared for the London
and American markets an extensive line oI
white vests. They are OF flno linen drill in
fancy woven patterns, piques end novelty
called hopsack linen.
Our older poets, Holmes, Lowell, Stedman
| Aldrich and Whittier, have not written much
| during the past year They arc always equal
happy opening for dedication or memorial
service, or tho special holiday numbers cal
forth their best energies
At a recent meeting Of the Academy of
Sciences the prince of Monaco read q paper
demonstrating the possibility of shipwrecked
people, who have taken to the bouts and are
without provisions, being able to sustain life
with what they could catch in a drag net
trailing overheard over night
Full dress bows nlade Of white satin arr
coming to the front in London. Their use Il
by no means general, nor ore they recognized
as correct by men who are quoted Gs critcri
ons Of taste. At tho some time there is every
evidence that they are growing in favor
among the patrons Of the higher grade q
Quitting establishments in London, pressed
In some bright hue.
A rIttsDurg mGn is said to havc really mar
ried girl under the impression that he was
marrying her sister. His courtship Of the
other girl was brief, and the sisters go closely
rcsenbled each other that he proposed and
was accepted before he discovered his mls
take. He has never confessed that he mnde
this odd error, but the girl who lost good
husband because of 1t insists TO this ttny thnt
sho ought to be in her sisters shoes
Professor klrciihoiR, Of Hall estip,ats.< fhnt
the language most spoken on the globe tor
tho last thousand years at least; is Chinese
for II Is without doubt the only ono which /,
talked by over 400, 600, 900 Of tho human rare
tho next language most in Use tbut at very
great distance behind Chincse) being Hindu
stani spoken by over lO0,O00,00n. Then fol
low English, spoken by about l00,OOOOOO
Russian, over 5O,OO0,O00 German, over g.,
0oO,0Oo, and Spanish, over 47,00o,OO0.