Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-02-24
ELKo, NEVADA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY "a, 1889.
CURIOUS THimGS or LIFE


shinsEc nail Was found in n perfectly
trCsh egg recently by II farmer near Niles
Mich.
Western fakir is selling an adjustable
/ engagement ring that can be t:Iade 10 lit Gny
finger
Michigan chiropodist is making trI.
uInphal progress Us William the Cora
curcr."
Thomas Wilkinson. OF Vernon. y. Y, has
beard five feet long. which he wears tucked
under his vest
man named Life has been appointed
postmaster OF Il Virginia 'Own. 40 will have
nothing 70 do with dead letters
The champion economist OF the Nineteenth
century lives in Fulton county Ga He has
his SOCKS and gloves made from his o:n hair
Pine City. w. T., claims to have tho small.
est living woman. She is27 years old, twenty
nimo inches tall nnd weighs thirty.thrco
pounds.
Texan who Is blind, deaf, crippled md
savage offered Sl,OO0 10 any woman who
would marry him, and he had received nine
applicants III two weeks
hta young mems debating club In Red
BluiT. Cal. the following question was dis.
cGNscd: Dos chiincra Illuminating in
vacuum dcvuur second inteutionsr IL broke
up the club
at Scottlalc, Pa. tho other dav n brake
mnn fell between the ears of II moving train.
lie countc ! sixteen cars and cabOose ms they
passed over him and then jumped up and
took his place again ut the brakes lo was
not scratched.
Al plymouth. Mass, workmcn whilo sink
Ing well found about ten feet below tho
surface numerous large tinII,ers that arc SUD.
posed 10 have been portions of u bridge built
early IN the last century. The timUers are
only very slightly dersiyeL
An Elston, Pa, woman bought a pair Of
SHOES, and at home found a small purse nest
ing IN tho toe of ono OF them. 1t contained
SI,-0J IN negotiable bonds Sho found the
owner, WHO refused to believe she had lost
the bonds ut first, but was soon convinced.
An assistant 10 n Connecticut plumber
poured a small quantity of water into pot
.! hot lead, in order to satisfy Doubt in his
mind as 10 what the effect would he He
WASH seriously injured, but is likely To carry
a reminder of tho experiment ta-tie gray.
wiiirthm
Thirty five years ngo George NJ Woodruff.
OF l'trh!icli, Conn, cut his initials Oh tho
lInb OF an apple tree. They disappeared in
tiIhc, but when the tree was cut down md
spill! INTO iircwood not along ago tho initials
we're found four inches from tho surface pc,.
fcctly distinct
la tho little town Of Arvcsncs, in Franco.
there arc iorty-two young marriaGcable girls
nni only three young mru who arc caldi.
dates FOR mntrimOny, and ono of thcss has
proved SO rccrcamt 10 home influence that Lc
Is about TO marry girl belonging to neigh
boring village.
Some ti:no ago, Matte FcnnclI, n young
woman of Santa Barbara, Cal, had some
lemon juice accidentally spilled over her
hair on one side OF the head. Since then tho
hair Oh that side has become perfectly white
and tho cnds of the hair curl, as though,
treated with IL curling iron
JOHN Simmons, of Galveston. found n good
sized pearl in dish OF raw oysters a fey
days since. lilo placed the pearl in u collar
DO" III his bedroom. Two days later ho found
Tho pearl soft grayish mass with n red
center IL finger is placed on tho pearl il
becomes hard and tho rc,l spot disappears.
st. Louis suicide wrote: 81 nm e. years
Old. In eight years ] would hnvo been 20,
nn Old, dilapitntcd, tottcrinS fossil. | have
played thc world out, and it don't owo mo n
cent Two had moro fun than n mulo in n
corn field, aud I've GOT enough. Therefore
will cheat the course Of nature and Jump the
time to Gomez
Norwegian wood chopper near Carson
City. Nov, madc an ingenious nsc of an acci.
dent llo discovered n leak In ono Of tho
mains OF tho water company, where Jet was
forced ont under enormous pressure After
experimenting he found that this would cut
wood equal TO n fine saw, 80 he set TO work
and now makes handsome brackets Of chuico
woods which find II ready SALE
J. W. Smith, of Pittsburg, has recently re-
fro. F,. Ii.
scious for three weeks. llc first experienced
sensations rs though ho wcro In dream.
This condition lasted several days, Wien lio
lost consciousness ana was pronounced dead
aud his funeral arranged for. Signs Of Iio
were aftcrwnrd detected in him, aud ~ was
Kept alive by hypodermc injection" OF brandy
ard beef tea.