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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-30
STRANGE FOREIGN Pn4cs

WHEN a person wishes to leave a
Japanese theater temporarily he is net
given a pass check, as in this country.
The door-keeper takes the person by
the hand and stamps on it the stamp of
the establishment.
In Switzerland, it is said, they will
pay higher wages to millSmaid who
can sing to tho COWS than to one who
can not. This is done on the principle
that bad treatment of COW injuriously
affects It's milk
THE form Of oath binding on tho Mo-
hammedan conscience is to make the
Koran rest on tho head while tho oath
is administered. But if the Koran is
skillfully held just above the head the
form is not valid and the oath not bind
ing.
THE favorito food of the Sandwich
Islanders is the flesh of the Mexican
hairless dog. 1t is said to taste like
spring chicken and is considered a
great dainty. These dogs are raised in
large numbers and fattened for the
market.
3 an oNOi ohC bIVy VI bcIlIu uIc WudU
are called "molkeris' or milk stations.
In the basement of an elegant block of
buildings q few cows are kept These
are we'll fed and cared for and furnish
elegant milk for the patrons in the
neighborhood.
The Siamese have great regard for
odd numbers and insist on having an
odd number of windows, doors and rooms
in their houses and temples. There must
be an odd number of steps in the stairs
and an odd number of feet in the height
of all steeples and minarets.
ANY vessel causing disaster at her
launch is regarded by the Japanese as
doomed to ill-fortune for her whole ca
reer. At Osaka lately vessel capsized
while being launched, several persons
being drowned. She was destroyed by
night with much ceremony.
In Paris it is not customary for pa
tients to wait in the ante-chambcr Of
great physicians, but inquiry has to be
made by letters, which are rarely an
swered unless they come from some
aristocratic quarter of the city. In some
cases, however, numbered tickets are
given out at six in the morning.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-30
An Indian Ark.

The Messiah craze among the Indians
OF the North, West and Northwest re-
wives interest in any thing that pertains
to the queer delusions and beliefs that
have been rife among the different
tribes for the last century. 1t is remem-
bered now that in 1888 the Sanpoels, a
small tribe in what was then Washing.
ton Territory, became greatly agitated
over the teachings of an old chief who
professed to believe that another food
was near at hand. He said that the
Great Spirit had commanded him tc
collect tribute and build an ark that
would outride the waves. His great
canoe, 112 2ss feet, is still to be seen
in an unfinished condition near one OF
She tributaries of the Columbia.
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TAKING THE CENSUS.
The Enormous Amount of Work Done
One Day.

The Enormous Amount of Work Done II.
Il One Day.
BY the el,nesfsabont seventy machines
it was found possible to declare tho pop
ulation of the United States in six weeks
after the enumeration was completed.
The work done, however, was equiva-
lent to the counting of $4,000, 900 per-
sons, since it was deemed necessary, III
order to insure accuracy, that every
schedule should be counted twice. 1t
was of course natural that the rapidity
at which the count proceeded should in
crease as the clerks familiarized them
selves with the use of the machines.
The record of the most efficient days
work, says writer in the Chautauquan,
shows the registration of 1,342, 1913 fami
lies, or about 6,711, 500 persons. To
bring this amount of work within the
compass of the mind SO as adequately to
appreciate what it means, requires the
graphic language of the gentleman who
invented the electric tabulator with
which it was done. He says:
"This means that the clerks handled
about fifteen tons of population sched-
ules. They actually turned over sheet
by sheet this mass of paper, scrutinizing
each schedule, often correcting the cr-
rors of the enumerators and recording
the data on the machines, besides malS-
ing numerous transfers to result slips
and attending to many other details of
the work. An engineer might indeed
stop to calculate the number of horse
power of physical energy developed by
this clerical force. Or if one can not
appreciate what this means let me ask
him to consider stack of schedules of
thin paper higher than the Washington
monument, and imagine the work re-
luired in turning over such pile Of
chedules page by page and recording
he number of persons reported on each
,chedule. This iswhat was done in one
lay by the population division of the
Census Office"
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PEOPLE WHO WRITE.

JULES VERNE is the author of tNent,
four novels.
WILLIAM BLACK, the English novel
lst, likes Americans very much and ha
hosts of friends among them.
GENERAL BUFFERS, autobiography is
rapidly approaching completion, and
may be expected in book form within
eight or ten months.
TsHENG-KI-ToNG, the Chinese General.
has published in French book that is
said to be an imitation of the modern
French novel.
BIsMARcK's autobiography will appear
early next year, and it will be printed
IN Paris to avoid any restrictions by the
German Government. .s G
SIR RrcHARp BURTON had one strange
peculiarity-he would never permit the
blinds to be drawn at night in the room
in which he was seated at study.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE stands six feet
high, is broad shouldered and lookslike
short-haired, modernized edition of his
father, who wrote 1.-THE Scarlet Letter. ''
FRANK II. CUSHING, tho writer upon
tho Zuni Indians, is under medical
treatment at private dispensary in
Buffalo. His ailments were brought on
by his life in Arizona.
OWING to his physicians advice,
James Russell Lowell has cancelled an
engagement to deliver six lectures on
the old English dramatists at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
ME-. BANCROFT goes out for walk al
most daily in Washington, but he has q
muscular valet with him all the time
His lnow-whlte hair is partly hid be-
neaih black silk cap, the visor of
which shades his eyes from thesun. His
ovorcoat is buttoned closely around his
spare form and his beard shelters his
throat from the wind
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Application for a Patent

tA.
Eureka, Nevada, December "a, lsS7. 4.
NOTICE IL HEREBY GIVEN THAT DANIEL.
IN Boneili, whose postofice address is Rio
vile, Lincoln county, Nevada. has this day
hundred linear feet of the "North Divisior
Mormon mine or vein, bearing salt, with sur y
face ground six hundred feet in width, situated
in st. Thomas Mining District. County OF LIN.
field notes and official plat on Ale in this ONCE
as lot number 3S, in township II south, range (.
6s east of Mount Diablo Meridian, said lot No.
3S being as follows: tJtT ~ IL, -''~1'f
Beginning at a post marked No, /, U. 8. sur
yey No. 38; thence running first course north.
30 deg east 655 $40 feet to intersect section line
between sections 27 and 81 west, 1852 4.lO feet
from section corner to sections 49, ~, "a and SIS,
township II south, range 68 east, 1900 feet to
post marked No. 2, u. 8. survey No. 3y: thence
second course south, 60 deg east, 600 feet to
post marked No. 3, U. 8. survey No, SO; thence
third course south. 80 deg west, 397 $40 feet
1ntersect section line to sections az and "a west
1853 6-l0 feet from section corner TO sections 20,
~, "a and 30, township II south, range 68 east,
1900 feet to post marked No. 4. U. 8. survey No.
38 thence fourth course NORTH go deg west. 10
feet to post No. 4, U. 8. lot 81, South Division
Mormon lode on line 600 feet to post No. !. tho
place OF beginning. Magnetic variation l6 deg
east containing IT 907 acreg. sN M sgff 4
The location OF this mine is recorded In the
Recorders Office of St. Thomas Mining District
Of Mining Records. The adjoining claimants
are unknown.
< ANY and all persons claiming adversely any
portion OF said North Division Mormon mine or
surface ground are required to file their adverse
claims with the Register OF the United States
Land Office at Eureka Nevada, iu the State a
Nevada duflhg the sixty days period Of publ
catieR hereof, or they will be barred by vir 10
o&thS Spxcvisions Of the Statue.
M < srqtmuAs D, h. HALL, Register. n
IT ia hereby ordeved, that the foregoing notice
h..x .krJT
period of sixty days, item consecutive weeks),
In the Phoebe RECORD, Aweekly newspaper pub
lished at Phoebe, Lincoln county. Nevada.
jan7-1Ot d. II HALL, Register,
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JNTHE DISTRICT ouuRr OF THE STATE
L OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
,! eeel OF LINGoN.
lii tie matter Of the Estatel M
ew of H
John Dustin, deceased. = a

The application of James MeFadden for let
ters Of administration npon said estate having
been filed in sni Court
Notice IL hereby given that the,said applics-
tion viii be heard by said Court on Wednesday,
the 10th day OF Deeamber, A. d. 1890. at 10
o'clock AN. OF that day, or SO soon thereafter
AZ said Court may be In session, at the Court
Room Of saif Court, In Phoebe, in said County
Of Lincoln, at which time and place all parties
Interested may appear and contest the same.
10. KELLY,
Nov. ~, 1890, Clerk OF said Court.
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iiouor Department.

We will ta
rextra in,..cements IS We are d + te
determined to reduce u 3 q
to make for other goods, The consists
old Kentucky Bourbon whisky Tea Kettle Whisky
Old irish Whisky, Braugh French =
and California Brandes, Jamacia as 3at t4
POLAND Gin, Port, Sherry, ..vi e.s yE Z 81
et wine, etc., etc. ..i-
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Fay and Gram constantly hand supply oEarae
Collars and sweat pads, Buggy whips all of which wlbs
sold Cheap for Cash or good security.
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ments to ascertain how long it is possi-
BILE to remain in a balloon without de-
scending. On whom are the expert
ments to be made? On the aeronauts
themselves, or on the outsiders 'willing
to oblige?p Perhaps the cheapest way
would be to test the aerostatic endur-
ance of the eight dogs.
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Application for a Patent


No. 9Gl.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
Eureka, Nevada, November 10, A. ID, 1890.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT J.
~ POUJADE, whose postof1ice address is
pioche, Nevada, has this day filed his applica-
tion for patent for fourteen hundred and
eighty and nine-tenths linear feet of the Spring
Mine lode or vein bearing silver, with surface
ground two hundred feet in width, situated in
Ely Mining District, County of Lincoln and
notes and official plat on file in this Office Ms
lot No. 81. The exterior boundaries of said
lot No. 81 being as follows, to wit:
Commencing at the Discovery Monument of
claim being post AKA. 4feet long, marked
feet deep beors,S so degrees W II feet, thence
alorg center line of claim N As degrees rs min
utes east, so feet to the mouth of Spring Tun
mel on line; 1856 feet spring bears NC degrees
35 minutes, +; 103 feet distant; $50 feet cross
shaft nc feet to the northeastery end of center
line OF ciaiu. Returning to discovery, along
center limo of claim, 8 go degrees, 10 minutes
W, 1917 10 feet. to stope from underground
workings, $50 feet to stope from underground
workings; 76i 9:10 feet to the southerly end of
the center lire Of claim; thence s 81 degrees.
| OF minutes 100 feet to q AKA, feet long pine
Il post marking the southwesterly corner OF the
location and marked "P No. L." U Survey No
81, for corn No. Of claim; thence, LIST course
81 degrees, 07 minutes W, 200 feet to post No.
2, U Snrvey.No..5l: thence 2nd course N GO
degrees, o minutes E, 764 9-1O feet to post No.
3, U 8 Survey No. 81; thence Sd course. AZ
degrees, 02 minutes E, 226 ITO feet to southern
boundary Of Yuba claim, U s SURVEY No ID.
43s $40 feet to northern boundary of said q s
Survey No. ~, TIT feet to post No U Survey
No 81 whence the original location monument
bears 45 degrees e, 3 feet: Wheeler's Mopu.
ment established by the U s Government in
1872 bears n "a degrees, 80 minutes W ii66 Stu
feet and the corner common to sections "a. 2s.
% and 27, Township One North, Range Sixty.
seven East, Mount Diablo base and Meritiane
, bears II degrees 80 minutes W. 9f4
| feet: thence 9TH course, S 81 degrees, OF min
utes E, 205 7-l0 feet to Post No u 8 Survey
No 81; thence 9th course as. degrees, 90 min.
| ufes West, 25l lilo feet to easterly line OF s
Survey No ~, Yuba lode, 3l1 $40 feet to south
|. erly lire Of said U Survey No AZ, Yuba lode:
| us 2-l0 feet to post No U Survey No 81.
| thence 9th course, GO degrees 10 minutes W
| 7Gl go feel to post No U s Survey No 81.
| Total area of claim, 6.750 acres. ,fs st K
| Area in conflict with Yuba mine, u Survey
| No AZ 0 9l7 acres. fflt 3pd seiTT TTf =
| Magnetic variation IS degrees IS minutes
| East.
Any aud all persons claiming adversely any
| portion of said Spring Mine Lode, orsurface
| ground, are required to file their adverse
claims with the Register of the United States
Land offco at Eureka, In the State Of Nevada,
during the sixty days period of publication
hereof, OF they will be barred by virtue Of the
provisions OF the Statute. 7}EF
J.p. DUNKLE. Register.
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Grocery Department,

The department is constantly supplied
lowerhan the lowest Also Crockey
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-30
Notice Of Forfeiture.
,y'o THou,e vcnoNALD AND JOHN WARD
CHRISTIAN, their grantees. successo-s or

tuHiNllNN, inetr grantees, SucceSSo~s OF
assigrs. ..s..s ! ..e.ss aF s
You are hereby notified that the undersigned,
co-owner with you in tho mining claims
known ns the Minnie Gafney
mining claim. sitnsted ja pahranagat
Lake Mining District. Lincoln County, State of
Nevada. has performed the work and made the
expenditures on said above mentioned claims
aud each of them necessary TO hold the same
as required by Section 1924 Of the Revised
Statutes Of the United States for the year A. d.
1890, and that the amount duo from you. your
grantees, successors or assigns on account ~
such expenditures on sRid claim IL az f'l
lows:
Thomas Mcdonald Il interest in said claim
S2s.
John Ward Christian u interest in said
claim. SIS.
And If within ninety days after the publies.
tion Of this notice you fail refuse to contrib
nte your said proportion OF such expenditure
as co-owntrs. your interest in Haid claim will
become the property OF the subscriber under
said Section 232i.
w GEER.
q Hiko, Jalu,ry %. 1891.
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l. 10 hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF application for patent, be published for
the peri of sixty days, ten consecutive
weeks. in the pIoonE WEEKLY RECORD, a
newspaper published at Phoebe. Jincoin
County, Nevada. ..,,5.,
Nov,22.lot. }. p. DUNKLE, Register.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Business and the Face,

A mans occupation has a great deal
to do with making his facial express
sion. Studies, or scholarly professions.
intellectual pursuits, when coupled with
moral habits, brighten the face and
give superior look. An unseIfsh ma
ture, Or love of studies or arts, with q
bright pleasant face; but or the con-
trary, says the New York Ledger, a
man may have face that does not
please any one, because of pure selfish
ness. 1t may be noticed that soldiers
get q hard, severe look; laborers look
tired; reporters look inquisitive; math-
ematicians look studious; judges look
grave, and q man whose home life is
unhappy looks all broken up. The
business often makes the face. How
often we think this man is q butcher,
this one lawyer, that one minister,
the other doctor, and so on. It is
seldom we are mistaken, for the call
ings show through the faces. And who
fails to recognize the genuine farmer
the minute one sets eyes on him?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
A Gold Wine Oh a Roof

Three thousand dollars for an old
tin roof would be a pretty steep price.
but the man who gets the battered
roof from the old Tabernacle church
at Broad street and South Penn square.
which is now being torn away. for that
sum will be in great luck. Some years
ago the paint was scraped off the old
roof and yielded s.. 900 in fine gold.
1t is almost certain to yield as much
this time. The gold comes from the
mint. When gold is being coined
considerable quantity of it voiatilizes
with the smoke through the chimney.
and as soon as it strikes the air it falls.
Much of it falls on the roof of the
mint, so much OF it that the officials
save even the water that falls on it
during a shower. All the drains from
the mint are connected with large watts
in the cellar of the mint Before the
water finally gets to the sewer it is
strained through many blankets and
sleeves which retain the gold Not
withstandiDg all these precautions. the
gold that is annually washed into the
Delaware from the mint is worth
thousands of dollars. Every particle
OF dirt swept up about the mint is care
fully stored away with the washings
from the roof. and once every year it
Is sold to the highest bidder. as it can
not be used at the mint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
AMERICAN OWLS,
Interesting Birds if One Is Acquainted
With Their Habits.

The tiny saw-whet. Or Acadian owl,
stays with us in winter, though, being
entirely ''bird OF the nighttime" it
Is seldom seen; and the tremendous,
vibrating note Of the screech owl is
well known in rural neighborhood.
The Tletues of the entire owl tribe COM
olne III this gentle, miId-mannered
| ORD, and he does not deserve his inap-
proprla-e, repelling title, say d writer
in Frank Leslie's Monthly. With
spring in his heart, his ambition
leads him to attempts song, resulting
In succession of soft subdued notes
that may be exceedingly pleasing. He
may even take up his residence in un-
| used buildings. or small houses placed
TOR his accommodation, and, if dis
turbed, flies about in bewiidered man
ner. confused by the sunlight. His
worN begins when the night comes
down, and through him woe overtakes
many mouse walking out under the
cover OF darkness. In the little hollow
where his housekeeping begins-for
you know he is scarcely larger than a
roAin-the four to six spherical eggs
lie upon the leaves and feathers pro-
vid:7d to receive them. and it is to be
regretted that the blinking owlets are
oot regarded in friandlier light.
The long cared owl is resident, hiding
closely in the forests. or, in company
with the short cared, in the thick
marshes.
The barred owl was once abund-
and. but their immense size revealing
them to the sportsman, year by year
they gradually become rarer.
After mild winters day, as 1.-The
evening shadows lengthen, an unusual
sound comes from the leafess elms be-
side the frozen river, hollow, wierd.
dnearthly cry, proceeding only from
tho great snowy owl of tho Arctics,
whose l"rge size and snowy color are
well defined by the blackness of the
bare hills beyond. A guest of rare
distinction, my admiration is tinged
with awe as l watch this ghostly SEN
tinel and wonder over those regions of
;heerless solitude far to the north,
where it makes its home. The shadows
sorw longer and longer the twilight
comes, the evening hastens, and still
the vision fingers. When the risen
moon reveals at midnight the appari-
don, white as the icebergs of its native
and, and the terrific voice increases a
thousand fold the loneliness of the
n1ght l draw my certains and by my
cheerful fire forget the desolation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Confederate Prisoners.

We were to be sent to Johnson's Is
land, Lake Erie. writes an ex-confed-
crate in the Century Magazine Our
route lay over the Erie railroad, and
we made the trip on parole. The
guards placed at each door of our
coach wcro for our comfort only, as
We were objects of marked curiosity
during the trip and would have been
overrun with visitors had not admit
lance been refused. At the different
stations we mingled freely with the
people on the platform and found them.
with few exceptions, courteous but
inquisitive. We were, no doubt, q
disappointing lot. There was nothing
in our apparel to mark the rebel SOL
der and as we mingled with the crowd
surprise was freely expressed that we
were not as their fancy painted us.
though just what shape that fancy took
l never learned. The ladies, as was
the case both North and South, were
intensely patriotic, and read US severe
and no doubt salutary lectures on the
evil Of our ways, which were submits
sively and courteously received and
duly pondered.
There was one question that you
could safely wager would be asked by
five out of ten, and that was, do you
honestly think you are right?" This
conundrum was offered to me SO often
that whore time allowed, being in
President Liucoln's country, answered
in President Lincoln's style by stating
that it reminded me, " and told them
of the couple who took their bridal
trip on an ocean steamer with the usual
result. As the husband would return
from sundry trips to the rail of the
vessel his young wife would inquire.
Reginald, darling, are you sick?" To
which he at last replied, Good
heavens! Rebecca, do you think am
doing this for fun?n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
The Panorama.

The panorama was invented by a
5cotchman named Fpi.c~t Barker, who
obtained a license in London in 1887.
aud erected a rOtunda on Leicester
square. He was associated with Robert
Fulton, the practical inventor of the
steamboat who introduced panoram as
INTO Paris in 1896, but resigned in
favor of Thayer, perhaps in order to
give his attention to the application OF
'team to boats. Thayer raised a
:otu1da on the Boulevard Montmartre.
ThClce comes the name OF the Pas ago
aes Panoramas. Bonaparte caused plans
% be drawn up for eight panoramas,
n which his conquests were to be
shown to the Parisians, whom he al
ways tried to impress with the magni-
Ilde OF his achievements in order to
Keep them faithful to his star. But
hese projects were never realized.
darker was imprisoned for debt at
Edinburg in a cell with one opening
only, in one corner of the roof of the
dungeon. It was so dark that he could
aot sea to read, but he found that by
olacing the paper near the narrow
shaft Of light that fell through the hole
n the ceiling the letters of the writing
became surprisingly distinct. This set
him thinking and after he was released
,e began experiments on pictures
strongly lighted from above in a dark
DON.