Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-03
REMARKAeLE 10 RELATE.

UeNNAHNA6Ie ~ He6AIE.
Tho number Of blind pcoplo "a the
World is sct down at /. 1000. 900.
TnsRE arc about half . million BIZ
cyclcs and tricycleS turning IN Great
Britain. AZ
Few ladies consider that thcy carry
somo forty or fltty railcs of hair on their
head; tho fair-hnircd may oven havc to
dress seventy miles Of threads Of gold
ovcry morning.
Mn. RILA KIrTRIDGE, said to DO tho
champion microscopic postal-card writer
In tho world, has succeeded in writing
tho Presidents last message, consisting
OF 10000 words, on . postal card.
A METHOD Of transmitting sketches by
telegraph has boon devised. Tho fugi
two from Justice will now find his path
strcwn with obstacles, for his portrait
his limo OF travel.
A MASS OF pure, compact rock salt, said
to contain %, 600, 900 tons of tho miner
NJ. IL located on an island 1S5 feet high
which rises from soa marsh on tho
route from Drashoar to Now Iberia, up
tho river Tcche, in Louisiana.
hIEs. AMBROSE Cnoucu. Of South
jackson, Mich. has boon keeping tab
on her family, and finds that during
tho past year sho has baked for Thorn
2,GG3 cookies, 1888 doughnuts, GIT cakes,
2G7 pies. 81 buildings. and 793 loavcs of
bread. Her family is not largo, either,
except as to appetite.
1T may DO surprise to many to learn
that statistics provo tho soa to DO safer
to 1.-Two on than land. Tho death ratio OF
sailors in tho British merchant marinc is
under twclvo pcr thousand; tho loss OF
lifo by shipwrock is about quarter of
this; in fact. thoro aIo moro lives lost
among miners from accident than among
sailors, and many moro among railway
employees.
An old farmer and hunter on Robinson
fork, Of buffalo river, Nicholas County,
w. Va. with his ncphow, whilo hunt
ing in tho mountain forests few drys
ago, camc on tho trail of pack of
wolves. The mon traced tho animals to
q don in tho rocks. Thoy followed tho
brutcs into tho cavo and captured scvcn
young wolves. Tho mon realized ono
hundred and forty dollars for their
capture.
AT Athens, Ga, man on his way
homo saw q dog running toward him
through tho darkness at full speed. Sur
missing that tho dog was mad, tho man
climbed up q trco and remained thoro
tho rest of tho night. with tho dog stand
ing guard below. When daylight caro
tho man discovered that the dog was his
own. Slowly and softly he began to DO
sccnd, and the truth was rapidly dawn
ing in his mind.
GROWING near tho baths of Alliaz, in
tho canton Of Vaud, Switzerland, 1900
feet above tho lcvcl of tho sca, stands
tho most remarkable trec in tho world.
Tho trunk Of the troo is littlo over
thirty feet at tho base. At about two
yards above tho ground it puts out on
tho south side soven olfshoots. Bont
and gnarled OF tho bottom. these sido
trunks soon strsighten themselves up
and rise perpendicular and parallel to
tho main stcm. Another most curious
fact 10 that tho two largost Of tho sido
trunks arc connected with tho principal
ster by sub-qunoranyular braces re-
semblinG glrlers. Tho PLACES whcro
tho sidc glrdcrs ontor tho rlain trunk of
tho trcc arc 60 smoothly barliod over 90
to mako it impossible to ascertain tho
manner in which nature formed tho re-
markable union.