Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-01-13
OF eEnERAty INTEREST.

I'm revival meeting at Walla Wal
10, Orc, man confessed that he was q
| murderer and asked forgiveneSS Hero
fused to reveal the circumstances.
An advertisement in the Media
(Pa.) Record announces tho location Of
piece Of property up for sale as ono
and one-quarter inches from the town
of>NVawa.-
81 always return from Europe more
In love with my own country than ever"
says Senator Washburn, of Minnesota.
Europe is nothing but an armed camp"
just what full-grown black bear
can do in the way Of hugging was DEM
onstrated in Maine week or two ago,
when bruin seized barrel OF beef, gave
it squeeze and crushed it in pieces. 1t
was estimated to BIO q squeeze Of two
horse power.
-Unacquainted with the game birds
OF this country, q newly-arrived Ger
man, living near Scranton, shot barn
yard turkey under the impression that
1T was wild fowl. Ho took it homo
and had it cooked, and was about to sit
down at the dinner-table to eat it when
no was arrested for killing his neigh
boris poultry.
"A Saco (Me.) blacksmith is the
latest convert to the belief that early
rising is not always in practice what it
Is in theory. He got up dark and carly
the other morning. and had his fire
blazing by four o'clock. Tho next thing
he knew the Saco fire department. had
the hose turned on his blaze, and the
neighbors were Streaming ''f1ro" ct the
top Of their voices.
"A family OF Burnside, ILL.,. had boon
annoyed for many weeks by strange
noises, and suspected that some noxious
animal was in tho house. The other
night they discovered the intruder in
the shape of hugo rattlesnakc, which
had been aroused to fury by a cat
There was intense excitement. espe-
eially among the ladies of the house.
hold, until the reptile was dispatched.
There arc various degrees of folly
exhibited by individuals in the daily
routine Of life; perhaps no greater ono
could be adduced than that. of search
ing for On escape Of gas with o naked
light, says the London Lancet. A man
OF mature age has recently had occa-
sion to be impressed with the negli-
gence no displayed in his endeavor to
find tho origin of an escape of gas in
his house. Besides being badly burnt
on tho face, head and arms he became
aware ut the Same time of considerable
damage done to his household prop
crty.
Ono Of the Philadelphia Institutes
had pleasant experience the other day.
Some years ago the managers admitted
pupil to its school who was unable Mt
tho time to pay tho regular fees. 1t wzs
understood that no should pay at some
future time, but no account was opened
with him, and tho incident had almost
been forgotten, whom the pupil returned
to pay the money-fifty dollars. Tho in
struction no had received enabled him
to got employment, and when he had
saved enough OF his earnings to meet his
obligations he camo up manfully and
paid the cost of his tuition.
Among the curiosities to be found
In the Minnesota State Law Library are
two volumes Of the colonial laws Of
Massachusetts, 1850 to 1772. They arc,
OF course, reprints, but I'VE olden style"
has been faithfully Reproduced. The
codo Of laws in vogue in those provincial
days was truly very crude. 1t was then
that the whipping-pOst was resorted to
as a mode Of punishment, but tbs stipu-
lated that mo man shall be beaten with
above forty stripes, nor shall any true
gentleman, nor any man equal to gen.
tleman, DO punished by whipping unless
his crime BIO very shameful and his
course Of life vicious and profligate."
Again the code says: "ff any man shull
Blasphome the name Of god, the father,
Sonne or Holy ghost, with direct, ex-
prresso, presumptuous or high handed
blasphemie, or shall curse God In the
hko manner, he shall be put to death"