Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-09-17
Imi.atI on Mushrooms.

Commercial enterprise carried to ex-
tremes is apt to develop into license. A
genius living in the department of Avey-
ron, France, struck by the high prices
at which mushrooms were sold In his
district, had a bright ida. He fabricated
the expensive delicacy out of turnips,
cutting the innocent turnip into mush-
room shapes, drying the latter, artisti-
cally completing their appearance with
q few blotches of paint, and then
palmed them off upon his unsuspecting
customers as the genuine article. For
some time the manufactured mushrooms
were sold to advantage; but ono dav
a connoisseur discovered the trick and
brought an action, and the ingenious
manufacturer got two months imprison-
ment, in spite of his efforts to demonstrate
that the turnips were quite as wholesome
as the richer vegetable they personated,
and he now Is leisurcly meditating on
the rashness of genius in substituting
dried turnips for delicate mushrooms.
The Old Gar and His Doctor.
An interesting story is told in the
Pail Mall Gazette of the manner in
which the celebrated Russian physician,
DR.. Botkin, who has just died in the
south of France, lost the intimate friend
ship Of the late Car, which he had pos
sessed for many years. 1t appears that
through serious illness of the present
Emperor DIR. Botkin remained day and
night at the patients bedside, and sue
ceeded after hard struggle with death
in saving the then Czarowitch. Alex
ander II. was deeply grateful, and asked
the doctor to choose something with
which he might recompense him. DIR.
Botkin replied: "Your Majesty, 1 do
not want any thing; but I beseech you
to have mercy on Tchernicheffsky" (the
Socialist author, who died few weeks
ago and who had been banished to ST.
beria). The Car turned away without
saying word, but next day DR.: Botkin
received the st. Vladimir order and
100,0O0 rubles. Internationally remain
H. WIZ. m was
Old Teoumseh's Pewder-Horn.
The G. A. r. post at Lawrencebure,
Ind, has been presented powder-horn
that was once the property of the great
Indian chieftain Tecumseh. 1t was the
gift Of Henry Morris, OF Lawrenceburg.
He Is the son of William Morris, better
known to Ohio valley pioneers as "In-
dian Bill" who figured in many savage
and bloody encounters. After tho great
fight seventy-six years ago "Indian
Bill" found the body of tho slain war
rior. The powder-horn, still attached to
the string around Tecumseh's neck, lay
on his breast. The scout removed it and
preserved it as the most sacred of his
relics. At his death q few years ago he
presented it to his son Henry, who has
now given it to Huff Post, and it hangs
on the wall in that organizations hall.
The horn was cut from the head of the
first buffalo Tecumseh killed.-Chicago
Herald.
A Birds Travels.
A newspaper paragraph telling of a
curious place chosen by robin for its
!; nest reminds Mr.. Richard Dean that a
few years ago, when acting as one OF
the Judges at the summer show of the
Reading (Pa.) Horticultural Society, he
! found in one of the large cone-shaped
lycopods submitted for competition q
robins nest with four eggs. The plants
had been brought by road for several
miles, and they were not taken back
again until late in the evening. Mr.
Dean says: 81 was glad to learn after
wards that the henbird returned TO the
nest when the plant was placed in its
position in the greenhouse and Matched
out her young in due course. The par
ent birds were able to pass in and out
OF the greenhouse at pleasure"
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