Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-02-17
ELKo, NEVADA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1889
HERE AND THERE

Tho skin Of Julia Cisco. n middle nEod
co!ored woman Of jersey City. hus turhcd
whita
brooklyn fireman. who was buried On
der q falling wall. say, that his only tholsh:
was OF his lan,lla,ly He owed her for two
weeks board, and no was afraid she'd lose it,
glove shop in Paris has tho following nm
nouncenirnt posted over the door. Wanted
samll bands Persons taking eight and a
quarter sizo had better not como TO this
shop"
single pair Of herrIngs. tf allowed to rc-
produce uudisturOed for twenty years. would
not only supply the whole world with nbun-
dance Of food, but would become inconvenI-
emily numerous
While a colored lahorer was uphea Wing the
soil In tho lot Of r. Broadstrect OF TnIla.
degu, Ain, he unearthed silver spoon hny-
ing OH It the Initials W. Al e., and the tinte.
July, lSGo. The spoon had laid there over
twenty-five years aud was In good condition.
While the schooner William D. Marvel was
drifting toward the shore in the late storm
near tho Delaware BrcaEwater, Ina ring lost
her anchors, tho captain took his galley
stove. filed it with coal and scrup, tied a
cable To 1t. lung It overheard, nnd by chance
secured drm anchorage and saved tho vcs-
sci
man in London, who owned two cats
desired 10 get rid of them by drowning them
lie plnccd them in IL bag. in company with q
brlckbat, and dropped them into deep water
Three months after ono OF the cats returned
home, looking very wrctched. Tho hug must
hnve burst almost rs soon as it was put in the
water.
Chinnman wns discharged from the Los
Angeles national bank and another one in.
stalled in his place Tho former empIoye
laid Tor his successor In front Of tho bank
with n horsewhip. John No. was foro.
warned and brought whip with him. and n
duel resulted, tue like OF which has never 10
fore been seen
Maggie Wilson. OF Cincinnati. who died
there snort tinio since. left Ia clause ia her
will which read rs follows: "It is my will
that the two china dogs now in my room
TO separately put In n box with glass fronts,
both alike, aud ono placed OH my dear hus.
bands grave ut Spring Grove, and tho other
on my grave, nnd NIL TO be paid for out OF
tho money ! leave"
The case OF NJ Chauffat, n Frcnchmnn, IS
attracting medical attention In London On
Que occasion last year he slept continuously
Tor thirteen days aud a half and at tho latest
adviccs from England, lie was lying asccp
ut tho Alexandra palace, having fallen into a
eoil oI trance SIX days bcforc. His appear
anco Is generally normal, but nt times his
limbs nrc set in uncommon rigidity. No
respiration is pcrccptiblc, and there is a con.
stdnt twtching OF his cyelids.
There Is almost as much pathos rs humor
In the following story OF nn Albany, Ore,
boy OF tender years: Shortly after his
mothers death he, with his father, visited
her grave, being carried thcro by n horse
which his fnthcr had recently bought The
fnther, standing apart from tho grave, was
naturally III n contemplative frame OF mind,
md tho boy, being unable to stand the CD
Prcssive silence any longer, lifted his childish
voico aud said; ma, we'vo got new horse.n