Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-09-02
Mummy Factories.

Collectors of Egyptian antiquities
will be interested in knowing that =
regular manufacturer Of mummics has
been discovered ut Alexandria. This
ingenious person, says the New York
Post, has been making Inurnmics out of
asses skins, prepared after 4 peculiar
method of his own invcntioH. After
selling largo numbers of alleged mum
mics of the ancient things of Egypt, be
thought 1t prudent to describe his wares
rs the remains of Egyptian high priests;
but this dodge ultimately led to his de-
lection. Ills manufactured Pharaohs
have deceived Il vast number of col
lcctors, and it is believed that conSid-
cradle proportion of the r1umInics taken
away from Egypt during the last few
years have bccn spurious articles.
Germs In tho Soil.
DR.. Dowd, of New York, has been
making acarcful study of the number of
germs found in the coil, which Is known
to be everywhere swarming with these
ninutc organisms. The number of
germs present in the cubic inch Of soil
was found to vary. from sixty thousand
to two and one-q :arter million.
FRESH cod iaicxccctlinGly nice boiled
ond served with c..55g Gaucc, but you must
get = piece from the thiclic6t part of tho
fish c1d it Gaodld weigh three or four
,:.runds. -
IN buying cooked lobstcrs remember
tat loDGtcr thct was clivc whom
thrown into the boiler will have the tell
curlcd u2 to the body, while one that
w&3 Gc2d has tho tail extended.
Fo:s her present to t.lc baby girl of
the duke aaI duchess of Fife, her great
grandmothc-, Victoria, has salted away
in colsois G2,000 to roll uo interest
against tho day when the Child shall
raarry aad want Il dowrv.
KIya OTTo, Of Bavaria, struts about
the gardens OF his prison-palace with 4
wooden muslzet on his shoulder and
takes an imaginary shot at every one
who approaches. The king is forty
four years old and his mental condition
seems to grow worse rather than bet
ter. .. .'ta ....t. +.
!IH. Jo:IJ -;ooL-, the English million
nirc varnish manufacturer, provided in
his viii for 2a annual income to his fon,
rIr. w 1lJO0 LSODlS, CiiS l'iSoS-'O. LAShAD~A
of parliament for Hastings, with the
proviso that &C., 900 q year shall ut once
be struck OF If he should fail to be re-
elected.
:. !, YoMING man has settled the oucs-
tion of how the prairie dogs obtain the
water they drink. He says they dig
their wells, each village having one
with q concealed opening. He says he
knows of several of, these wclls from
50 to 200 feet deep, each having q cir
cular stairway leading down to tho
water. ....'.
That Circ .s.J:ing Engagement Ring
Again -Miria,a-''IiorScc, you have
lnade u mistake. You have had II. s.
engraved in this ring instead of NJ. p. v
uoraca (sotto voce)-''DlnS that jew
clcr. told him to file out tho initials.
(Aloud) That jowelcr is slightly deaf
and you know NJ. p. sounds like Ii. 81
Jewellers Circular.
THERE ia nyoung woman in Columbus,
Ind, to whom merchant of that place
offcrcd twenty yards Of silk for dress
IL she would saw half cord of wood In
front of his Storc. She borrowed saw
and went through the wood pile in cx-
actly thrcc hours, and the admiring
crowd bought her n twclvc-dollar hat to
90 with the dress.