The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-09-10
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Arizona papers are now strongly adVo-
eating the water storage system for irri-
cation.
A Torpedo net Constructed of inter-
locked steel rings is soon to rs put to a
/ practical test.
A Washington dispatch says Miss
Fannie A. Weeks of Nevada has been
promoted to copy holder and indexer in
the Interior department at salary of
5000 year.
The largest spring in the world is at
Monmouth Springs, Ark, from which
10000 gallons of water gush forth every
minute, making total of l2S, 10000
gallons day
A man had better have a milestone
tied to his neck and be cast into the sea
than promise to marry Texas girl and
then back out. The whole country turns
out to hunt him, and be is generally left
to grow up with the tree.
While potatoes are going begging in
San Francisco they are in the greatest
demand in South America. While the
tubers are selling on the wharves in San
Francisco at 20 to % cents a sack, they
are bringing in Chile and Peru 81, IS
and So
Reno Journal: A House of Correction
would be good thing for Nevada. In
almost all the towns of the State can be
found boys who seem to be too young to
be punished in the manner of veteran
rogues, who yet need to be taught that
laws are made for their benefit as well
as older persons.
Two of the world records were broken
at Independence, Iowa, on the 4th inst.
Allerton trotted a mile in 2:l0 fiat,
browning himself king of stations and
enhancing his value $4,000. Direct
covered mile in 2:06, breaking the
worlds records for both trotters and
PAGERS,
Brooklyn is having a sewer built that
might suffice almost for railroad tun.
mel. 1t will be 9,400 feet long and
twelve to fifteen feet in diameter. Three
thousand feet of the sewer are to built in
N oman out on1 tha hoIon,o 70 n tunnol
ranging from thirty.fve to eighty feet
below the surface. The walls are six
teen inches thick.
According to the Lyon County Times,
Miss Mamie Saul, of Sutro, who is a
young lady of lG years, and who weighs
about l40 pounds, ran from Sutro to
Dayton, distance of three miles, in %
minutes and 81 seconds. The trip was
made on bet that she could not cover
the distance in half an hour She won
the money and did not feel at all out of
killer after the exercise.
When John Mackay was a struggling
young miner, with hardly one cent to
rub against another, he stamped the mi
tails and the date on copper cent, and
put it in circulation. Recently Mr..
Mackay received some pennies in change
at the Twenty third Street Ferry, New
York, and on looking them over hefound
the coin he had stamped was not among
them.
A young woman living near Isabella,
Georgia, recently gave birth to twins.
Mrs Alyord farmers wife, with no
children of her own, learning that the
mother desired to dispose of her offspring
offered to adopt the babes. The mother
demanded so cents piece for the in
fants, land when the price was paid
gladly gave them to her
Star, Grand junction, Colo. The
party which passed through this city in
July under the leadership of Harry Nc.
Donald to explore the canyon of the
Colorado river has been wrecked in
Catarack canyon, and though no lives
were lost several had narrow escapes.
One boat was wrecked and the men
thrown into the rapids. They lost every
thing, including their clothing, and were
compelled to stock up again at Hite
City.