Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-02-04
STRAY BITS.

over SS,OoO,OOO was Invested In roller skat-
Ing Kinks during the craze, and most Of it
proved a total loss
The number Of streets In London Is now
upwards OF 2S,OG0, and new ones are added
at the rate of 800 per year.
When the last Indian census was taken
there were III ,OOO lepers in British India,
100000 OF them being males.
The school fund of Texas is so large that at
the end OF the school year, July |. there was
surplus Of S5OO,OO0 OIL hand.
A new volcano is reported from Huiman.
guillo district, Tobasco, which is spoutmg
forth large streams of red water.
One out OF every five school children in
Philadelphia is obliged to wear glasses, and
the proportion is rapidly increasing.
Mobile has $500, OOO appropriation for her
uaroor, anu the largest ocean vessels will by
and ny Ike enabled TO lie ut her wharves
The football team at Durham, N C.. has
mad powerful electric lights suspended over
its grounds and proposes to play evening
The London Metropolitan Board of Works
proposes to expend nearly S3,UOJ,OUO in wild.
enlnS three thorouShfareS of secondary i'm.
portaDce.
The French mare Plaisanterie, who won
the Cambridgeshlre and Czarewitch three
years ago, was sold to Sir Tatton Sykes at
Chantilly for G9,4O0
1t is said very authoritatively that the
Russian war preparations are constantly in
creasing, noticeable movement being the
victualing of Warsaw to stand siege.
Every French bank has a PHOTOGRAPH of
every employe, and in the case Of the more
responsible ones they are under the surveil
lance OF private Detectives most of the time.
Two Ocala, Fla, ladies are the happy pos
SCISSORS of pieces of one of the court dresses
worn 10y Queen Isabella, wife of Edward II.
who reiSned over England in the Thirteenth
eutuTy.
The Brooklyn bridge Is indicating its use
fulness. During the past twelve months 49,.
llh,Sl6 people have passed over it, of whom
2,TS3,5:'3 walked across and the rest went i'm
the cars.
An INSCRIPTIONS dentist Of Paris, after
chloroforninG patient, with the proposed
intention of extracting q tooth, robIed the
helpless sufferer Of $1,000 in money and then
uecamped.
From recent archaeological discoveries it ap-
pears that the Romans. ut tho height of their
CT, iiizatlon and splendor. had no system of
street lighting. No trnce of anything or the
kind has been discovered
Some sea urchins have been dredged from
the Pacific entirely different from any pre-
viously known. They are rigid and of no
particular shape, while all others previously
dredSed have been round
There has just been consecrated in Phila.
delphia q church for the exclusive use of the
deaf. 1t is the first and only place of wor.
snip In this country, il not in tho world, that
IS managed entirely by deaf mutes
Six British soldiers deserted at Etshowe.
and on going to Natal surrendered them.
selves to the civil authorities They were
tried 10y court martial, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment, with hard labor
Among recent camera achievements is a
portrait copy taken by the light of a Cuban
FREELY In thirty seconds, and photograph of
the aurora borealis. To obtain tho iutter
hud been declared an utter impossility.
The fragrant and savory nutmeg is placed
OH the list Of nctive poisons by The uospital
or London, because boy of years, utter
eating two whole nutmcSs, fell into a coma,
toSe state and died within twelve hours
British surveying steamer Of go tons has
| been launched ready for duty with engines
aboard complete. 1t WINS remarked that
within fow years the launch Of finished
ships would be the rule instead of the ex.
| ception
The style Of hair dressing for 1880 is said
to be narrow fringe OIL tie forehead, with
narrow continuation of coils running from
the top Of the head low down OH tho neck.
Tho hair will not he so much hidden by the
hat as at present.
There was recently discovered in Central
Africa village of houses built along q
street and having gabled roofs The inhabi
tants are Of superior Intelligence, keep good
! order I'm the village and sleep in beds raised
above the ground.
| Most Of tho buhach grown in California 1,
] raised around Stockton. From it Damatiar
Insect powder Is made, which retails ut 81
! per pound The Fresno Republican advises
the farmers Of California to pay more at
| tentlon to Its cultivation.
The sling shot nuisance Is Just now helping
to make tho life OF pedestrians in Boston mis-
! cradle. day or two ago tho police visited
several schools and seized seventy five of tue
dangerous play toys. Some of them were
strong enough to send large pebbles great
| distance.