Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-12
AT HOME ANo ABROAD.


OVER two thousand persons live in
one immense building in Vienna.
CURRENCY is reported as being so
scarce in parts Of Bolivia that citizens
are cutting the notes into pieces and
passing these as fractional currency.
STANDARD time has been fully &C.
copied In Asia by not less than forty
million people, in Europe by almost an
equal number, and in America by more
than sixty million.
A TRAVELLER has discovered that bru-
Notes are not the rule in Spain. Many
Spanish women are fair, with blue eyes,
especially in Cadiz, while even the
Basque women often have auburn hair.
OUT Of the average half million let
tors that arrive daily in Berlin ten
thousand are insuff1ciently addressed or
not addressed at all, some only bearing
the names Of the addressed. Thirty
three post officials are kept constantly
at work for ten hours day sorting and
redirecting these letters.
AT quarry near Salt Lake last week
frog hoped out of a pocket in the CEN
ter OF rock which had just been blasted.
The animal was of small size and per-
fectly white. Its eyes were unusually
large, but apparently blind. Where tho
mouth should have been there was only
line. The frog died next morning.
QUEBEc customs. officers were out
thanked by shrcwd vancouver Of some
smugglers the other night. The officers
received hint that two carts, with four
casks Of whisky, were to be found ON
the BEAUFORT road at midnight, and they
spent several hours on the watch. They
captured the carts and the contents, and
while taking them into Quebec the
smugglers landed 14S casks on the island
of Orleans.
IT is said that in many French villages
boards are set up bearing the following
instructions: S1edgehog: Lives on
mice, snails and wireworms. animals in
furious to agriculture. Don't kill a
hedgehog. Toad: Helps agriculture;
destroys twenty to thirty insects hourly.
Don't kill q toad. Cockchafer and it's
latvse: Deadly enemies to farmers. lays
seventy to one hundred eggs. Kill the
cockchafer! Birds: Each department of
france loses yearly many millions Of
francs through the injury done by in
scots. Don't kill tho birds" ..
hCSSIdNS arc IOInt Oh tue pleasures OF
the table, and during waking hours eat
about six times a day-an average of
once every two hours. When YOU 90 to
the house Of Russian, DO he friend or
stranger, you are at once invited to n
side table, where sailed meats, picked
eel, saEted cucumbers, aud many other
spicy and appetizing viands are urged
upon you with an impressivencss that
knows no refusal. This repast is washed
down with frequent cups of vodlli, or
NussiHn whisky. That over, and when
the visitor feels as if he had eaten
enough for tweRty-four hours, tho host
says: "And now for dinner"
AN illuminated cat is among the curl
ostties Of the Patent Office at Washing
ton, D. G. 1t is made Of pasteboard or
tin painted over with phosphorous, and
Is intended to frighten away Gratis and
mice and such small deer" in the daple-
hess OF collars and gNrrets. Another
patented cat Is OF sheet-1ron with inte-
ftor cl0ck-works and bellows. 1t has
poisoned steel claws and toeth, and
when property set, bowls with such Ell
ergy and naturalness, bristling its tail
meanwhile by means of the bellows,
that all the pussies in the neighborhood
arc attracted to it and killed if they
venture too n ear the terrible steel claws.
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS.
THE experiment. of tanning leather
with palmetto roots has been success