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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-26
AN ISLAND OF THE DEAD,
Miles of Bare Rocks Covered with Thou.
sands of Human Skeletons.

sands of Human Skeletons.
A party of explorers from Ventura.
Cal, recently returned from an expcdi-
ton to San Nicholas island, which is
located seventy miles off the coast of
California, opposite Monterey county.
The island is twelve miles long and four
miles wide. On the east side of the
island the party found human bones for
distance of five miles along the beach.
They also discovered the remains OF
hundreds of human bodies upon the
higher land half a mile from the beach.
In some places two and three skeletons
were found together as if they had been
buried in the same grave. The wind
had blown the soil away, exposing the
CHASTITY relics of some unknown race.
From all appearances, says San
Francisco paper, upward of four or five
thousand bodies must have been buried
on the island. A rude hut was found
on the west side of the island, buried to
the roof in sand. The explorers visited
the islands with view to taking up gov
eminent land. After walking around
for two days on a carpet of human
bones and bare rocks they concluded
not to exhaust their rights on land so
valueless. The rocks were entirely des-
titute of soil, givin G the whole island a
very desolate appearance.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-26
NE WAS A FARMER.
slut lie Knew what 60 DO IN . squaii
just the same.

slut lie Knew What 60 10 IN . goaali
Just the same.
II was ladies' day ~ the Rochester
Yacht club. says the DEMOCRAT Of that
city. and as one ~ the yachts az shall
he shameless Tor obvious reasons) was
ON It's way out Of the river toward the
lake, one OF the yachtsmen noticed a
man of distinctly agricultural appear
ancc lolling ON the pier, and apparently
watching the yachts with the curious
eye Of man who had never seen any
thing in the boat line other than canal
boat.
'Sec that farmer over there" said
one Of the sailors. "l'll bet he never
saw yacht before. Lets take the inv
out and have some fun with him." The
rest Of the crew assented and the cap
tain called out: Say, farmer, want TO
go ont for a ridc?"
wal, | dunno. Ant goin' out fur,
be yep"
"oh no; only going ont for little
sail. There's no danger"
wal, b'gosh, + We ant goin' out fur
I'll jest hav' ter go We" And he
climbed awkwardly aboard, sat down
in the cockpit, and looked around
curiously.
The breeze was fresh and the Yacht
bowled along merrily. The farmer had
nothing to say, and after vainly trying
to kid him and finding that he was not
to be kidded, the yachtsmen left him
alone to enjoy the sail. After being out
for short time the squall that scared
so many of the yachtsmen on ladies'
day came up, apd on this particular
yacht, before the sailors knew what
had struck them, a mainsail halyard
snapped and it looked for a minute as if
the boat was going over. There were
dozen orders, but before any of them
could be executed the farmer Skinned
up the mast, captured the flying hal.
yard, and, bringing ito the deck, made
1t fast with as perfect hitch as was,
ever made on board man of war.
Then he walked back to the cockpit
and sat down again.
After the squall had died down and
the excitement had subsidized the cap
tain said to him: You're no farmer.
You must have been sailor"
WAL" said the farmer, 81 was six
years in the navy
And the yachtsmen had nothing to
say.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-26
Lawn Tennis and Englishwomen,

Lawn tennis continues to decline in
popularity among Englishwomen.
The fact is that the game, among ex-
perts, is now played at so furious a
rate that it is more like hard work than
play. When it was introduced at first
1t was carried on in very leisurely
fashion, without serious disarrangement
OF costume or overheating of the per-
son, both serious evils to the feminine
performer of the less enthusiastic
kind. The game, moreover, has be-
come so scientific that the casual play
or has no chance of distinction, and as
no young woman is ever willing to be
seen at a disadvantage, it naturally fol-
lows that the experts have the field al
most entirely to themselves, and that
The crop of rising players of the softer
sex is growing smaller every year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-26

Brooklyn has horse with sweet
tooth. He lately strolled into u con-
fcctioners on Fulton avenue, picked up
stick of candy with his mouth, and
invitingly held it toward the lady at
tcndant. The lady imagined that the
horse wanted the candy wrapped up
ana sent home, and was about to com.
ply when the owner of the animal
entered the store. He explained that
inc horse was fond of candy, and usual
" ate it while some one held it for him
to bite off. The horses action in
dicated that it wanted the lady to hold
the candy for him.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Sun Snois and Weather.

Mr.. Tacchini, the Roman astronomer,
has been devoting a good deal of time
and attention to the study Of the sun and
its relations to the earth. He says that
of the heat radiated from the sun the
earth receives but one twenty-five hun
dred millionth. Mr.. Tacchini has been
engaged during the past winter In o0'
serving what is going on in the SUI. lie
has found the solar disc in an extremely
disturbed condition. "During the first
three months OF 1884," says Mr.. Tao
chini, "the phenomenon OF spots AMI
faculae was much more pronounced than
in the previous three months, and, by
reason of the greater activity OF the sun,
the number of days without spots has
been much smaller than before" Dur
ing February the activity was particularly
marked, metallic cruptlonS being among
the striking phenomena noted oy 'he oo'
server. The temperature of its radiating
surface and the temperature of the earth 5
surface must, according to the prevalent
theory. be thereby affected. The in
crease of the suns power may be very
minute, but very slight addition to 1t
would produce considerable difference
in the meteorological condition of our
globe. ."-Picdyune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Eiuuest Turtle Yet.

About two miles below the junction,
in this county, can be found a deep hole
Of water in Current River, in which
large turtle, measuring about four feet
across the back, has been seen at differ
cnt time, for the last fifty years. Various
plans have been devised aud put into
execution to capture the tortoise, but up
to the present time to no avail, as he
seems to be proof against armies, spikes,
spears, gigs, gunpowder and dynamite.
A few days since a hunter residing in
that neighborhood, while passing along
near the river bank, espied his turtle
ship bas1ing in the sunshine on the root
of large oak. Quickly bringing his
Winchester to his shoulder IA forty
eight -callbre) he fired, the ball striking
the monster fairly between the eyes. But
Judge OF his chagrin and surprise when
the turtle, intead of tumbling over dead,
quietly let go his hold and swan away
as placidly and unconcerned as if he had
been thumped by a gravel. Upon ex-
animation the hunter found that the
ball, after striking the turtle, had
glanced upward and embedded itself in
the body of the oak to depth of six
inches. 1t is supposed that the monster
sheIl6sh made his wpy up from the Mis-
sissippi River in the great freshet in the
spring Of 1S41.-Emineace No. Current
Wdre.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Electrical Progress.

The inability of man to limit the pos
siblities of electricity is becoming daily
more manifest. Passenger rapid transit
at $50 to 200 miles an hour is close upon
us, and may possibly be adopted before
Mr.. Edison peyfects the instrument that
will show US the actual image oil an
actor on distant stage with every action
and expression accompanying the voice
which is heard at the same moment.
Telegraphing without wires has been al
ready practiscd, and now Mr.. Nikola
Tesla convinces US by actual denonstra'
ton that not only can incandescence be
maintained with one wire. but that for
certain descriptions of electric lighting
wires may ultimately be dispensed with
altogether. Little less wonderful than
these marvcls, from another standpoint,
is the gun, exhibited in New York dur
ing the past week, which fires with such
astounding rapidity that by sufficiently
cleyatiug the muzzlc, COO cartridges
which constitute one charge can all be
discharged before the bullet from the
first of them has fallen to the ground,
aud each cartridge is discharged singly.
Commercial Adrertiser.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07

its surface is low and level. This is
mistaken notion. Nothing is 50 scarce
in deserts as sand. Even water is more
abundant in comparison. What is re-
garded as sand is finely pulverized soil
containing not a grain Of sand. Sand is
found in a certain part Of the African
desert but in this case it is derived from
the high ranges of sandstone rocks.
The desert is a desert for lack OF water.
The soil varies in different localities
consisting of gravel shinglc, alkaline
dust, yellow loan, clay, or rock. The
surface, in some places smooth aud level,
is in Others rugged and mountainous.
In the Colorado aud Mcjave deserts the
soil is almost exclusively finely pulver-
lied feldspar, derived from the disinte-
grated granite ranges which traverse the
region. -Meu York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07

THE Foreign Committee OF the Worlds
Fair Commission gave a banquet in London
at which many prominent Englishmen wers
present; assurances were given OF English
aid.
ACCORDING 10 advices from San Salvador
the population OF that country is now 64,.
5l3 or seventy inhabitants TO the square
mile During 1890 the imports Of the coun-
ay. a5y were - s'''S''' and 'n' exports ''''''''
A DISPATCH from Santiago, Chill, says
that Claudio Vieuna has been elected Presi.
dent. He will assume the Office on the 18th
Of September.
DISPATCHES received from Mecca say that
the death rate from cholera is 40 day al
that place and thirty daily at Djeddah.
FOURTEEN employees Of the Essen PRUSSIA
Water Works were drowned while crossing
the Ruhr River.
SIR RICHARD CARTwRTGHTs Unitet
States reciprocity resolution was voted down
in the Canadian Dominion House by eighty
eight to ia.
AN immense crowd OF people, estimated at
p, 900. gathered at st. Mande, France, TO
witness the funerals OF the victims OF ths
terrible railroad disaster There were
twenty-four hearses in the line. and thou
sands Of mourners followed the bodies TO the
grave. All the houses Of ST. Mande wers
crsped with signs of mourning.
JOIN DILLON AMI William O'Brien, ths
Home Rule Agitators, have been released
from Clomncl Jail by the British authori-
ties.
ITALY has concluded loan Of SIC, 100, 900
through Berlin syndicate.
NJ. DUBOIS the champion bicyclist Of
France, was murdered at Luz by tram
workmep, who blocked his way and refused
to let him ride past.
The census Of Jamaica, just completed.
shows an increase in population Of 81, 637 in
total of 5s0,s ,sJ2.
STARVATION has caused several bread
riots in Bessarabia, Russia, and village
shops are plundersd, one OF the local police
Of koushamy being killed. So many people
are dying Of starvation in VolhYnia that ths
prisoners from the Jail are detailed 10 bury
them.
SIMON BEnGEvISE postmaster at Malone
Bay, Nova Scotia, is under arrest charged
with stealing ten thousand dollar package
from the mails
COrroy to the value of s25o00O was de-
stoyed by fire at Liverpool, England.
BRITISH army authorities are seriously
alarmed by the Information that socialistlc
literature Is being widely distributed among
the enlisted men.
THERE was fatal collision in the English
Channel. off Dover, England. The steamer
Godmunding collidsd with and sank the
Norwegian schooner LORNA. Eight persons
we're drowned.
VEsUvIUs has again burst forth into a
state Of eruption. The lava reached tho
village of Rio del Cavallo.
SIX persons were lied by an explosion OF
Rre-damp in the Karlsglueck pit in West
pbalia.
Mr. PARNELLs over cures to Messrs. Dill
lon aud OBrien for a reunion Of their forces
were rejected Mr.. Parnell mas been de-
serted by ths Dublin Freeman's Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Washington.

THE Office of tho Chies of tie Appoint
msnt Division Of tho Treasury Department,
vice Mr.. Moore, resigned, has been rendered
to General Daniel McCauley, OF Indiana.
TIE Census Office issued q bulletin on the
subject Of prisoners in county Jaiis. ~
shows that the total number OF such prison
ers on June J. 1890. wos 10, 5SS: tho number
repcrted in 1880 was l2,09l an increase In
ten years OF 7,S47, or st this rate OF 5S.yo per
cent The increass In the total population
was 2iS6 per cent.
Tpr reciprocity treaty betwssn the
United States and San Domingo has been
signed.
A STATEMENT prepared at The General
Land Office shows that there were issued cy
the Office during the year ended June 81
over li4,0OO patents for agricultural isnos
These include presumption, homestead ana
other classes of entries.
AT tho meeting OF tbs Republican National
Executive COMMITTEES in Washington Sena-
tor Quay resigned MS Chairman OF that Com
mittee, and Colonel Dudley as Treasurer.
The designations were accepted. james o.
Clarkson was CHOSEN as Qnay's successor.
TuE Navy Department approved the re-
mort of the Board OF Examiners for foremen
or master mechanics az tne Ware 1sia"o A'e'
Ward and filled all the places by the appoint
ment OF the candidates the board recon-
mended.
THE Census Office issued bulletin show.
inc the total production OF coal in West Vir-
ginia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia,
Georgia aud North Carolina in 1889 at ii,
64p. EOS short tons, valued at 09s3,0s9.
GOVERNOR MARKHAM, of California, has
been asked by the State Department TO
investigate complaints OF outrages on Chi
nese in that State.
ABOUT 1000 clerks out of the force Of 800
who have been employed at various times in
Washington on work connected with the
eleventh censls had been discharged up 10 a
recent time.
SECOND COMPTROLLER GILKEsoS decided 1
that there is no authority Of law for the
change made two years ago by the Secrc-
tary Of the Navy in the rating OF the Ma
rine band as fixed by the act OF 1861, under
which the band was organized.
1T was announced that Secretary OF the
Interior Mobiles resignation had been placed
10 the hands Of the President.
CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY LACEY
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
CHICAGO has Is. 900 Italians.

CHICAGO has $1,000 Italians
SMALLPOX is raging in Honduras
ENGLAND is to have free public schools.
SOUTHERN CHINA is in a state Of turmoil.
SEALING has been stopped in BehrinS See
PARcHED INDIA is at last relieved by
rair.
REPORTS OF the crops are generally favor
able.
FRANCE has taken formal possession Of
Tahiti.
NEW YoEK CITY has 35Is public school
teachers.
The New Orleans mint is turning out 100,
COO dimes daily.
The conyicts have been sent back 70 the
mines in Tennessee
BANKERS estimate that it will take So
100000 to move the crops this year.
GOLD in Buenos Ayres. Argentine Repub-
lie, is now at 3l7 per cent. premium.
CHINESE immigrants are coming to Gals
fornia by means of bogus certificates.
FROM s75, coo TO $4,000 is the cost Of the
electrical outfit on one Of our new cruisers.
THE attendance on the races has fallen OH
at least twenty-five per cent within year.
TOWN has been discovered in the Andes
Mountains nearly Il, 90 feet above sea level.
A CALIFORNIA lobbyist sues twenty-four
members OF the Legislature for services rem
dered.
The internal revenue receipts for the last
fiscal year show IN increase OF s., ifJ,bSJ
over 1890.
THE police statistics show that l3o, 900 per
sons are dependent upon charity for suosist-
ence in Naples, Italy.
IN Lawrence County, ILL.,. disease is rag
ing among cattle which kills within ntteen
minutes after the attack.
The German Bundesrath is preparing
bill tor the suppression OF vice IN which the
Emperor is greatly interestei.
THE Chilians are organizing small armies
Of recruits in the Argentine Republic AMI
other South American countries.
REGARDING the recent experiments in New
York State as entirely successful. Germany
is about TO introduce 'electrocution"
TRUs far an aggregate OF 81, COS, 900 has
been appropriated 10y twenty-nine States for
representation at the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago, III.
SOME of the small shopkeepers of Paris
have appealed to the Pope for protection
from the big concerns that are driving them
0utOI tfadP.
FIRST returns Of the potato crop show a
condition higher than the average Of recent
years, while that OF tobacco is higher thai
10 any year since 1885.
SMoKELEss powder was '.sei for the first
time in this country the other day in An
eight.inch rihed gun at Sandy Hook, n. Y,
with surprising results.
1RLRE is likely to be large demand for
American focdstuffs during the next twelve
months owing TO the failure OF crops in
India, France and Russia.
THE Chicago Exposition Company has
leased right OF way Of its own. providing
every railroad coming into Chicago with an
entrance to the Exposition grounds.
RUSSIA has made large purchases OF cora.
and the Government is storing large quaint
ties of grain supplies. The rise OF prices in
cereals in Germany is partly due to Russian
buying.
MRS. ANN MILLSER WOODS, OF Gym.
thiana, KY. diet recently. aged ninety
eight She was ono of the original follow
ers OF Llexander Campbell in founding the
Church or the Disciples
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Stamms srinq.

OptcCu 10 'Si } SOlh p4S"N~' IiNSS'''
Many muscles, and as many nerves, are
concerned in it, with a delicacy and
rapidity of movement truly wonderful.
The whole process is presided over by
cerebral centres, which supply the ner-
vous force and coordinate or harmonic
the various movements. We learn to
use our vocal organs so early that our at
tention is not called to the difficulties in
volyed, and we arc much surprised at
occasional failures.
In stammering, the trouble may be
said to be in the BRAN, but there is no
organic injury. Something so interferes
with the normal outflow OF motive force
from the nervous centre, that some Of
the muscles concerned in speech act
spasmodically. The spasm may be in
the larynx, or in the muscles of respira-
ton.
The difficulty very rarely occurs in
pronouncing vowels or in singing, since
singing has mainly 10 do with the vowel
sounds. The chief difficulty is with con-
sonants, especially with the explosive
consonants, b, p, d, +, g (hard) and k.
The trouble generally shows itself be-
tween the ages Of four and fourteen.
Many causes may originate it, and it may
pass away with the cause. Even con-
firmed stammerers commonly improve af-
ter maturity.
Medical treatment is OF little avail.
The main reliance is on educational meth
ods. The patient must train himself to
speak with calm deliberation; to keep his
lungs we'll fllel with air; and to check
himself and begiu the sentence again, in
stead of struggling with the impeding
letter. lie should also give much atten-
tion to deliberate reading.
An eminent physician, who had been
terrible stammercr in boyhood, aad
who never fully oycrcame the defect,
SAYS that the letter "m' gave him special
trouble. But he could speak it readily,
if he uttered the letter 80" before it.
His upper teeth would wound his under
lip in the effort to speak the word
"methcd" in public.
lie found great difficulty in saying
"good morning." the So as we'll as the
I'm" troubling him, but he could say it
If, at the same moment, he raised his
hat. lie could easily read lecture in
public, if he had carefully read it over
beforehand, and thus secured calmncss.
Sometimes finding himself about to stam-
mer over a particular word, he would
substitute an equivalent expression, and
thus escape Youths Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
Cane God is Disappearing.

Theic isn't the least doubt but that
Cape Cod, Mass, is gradually being
eaten up By the greedy ocean. Less than
100 years ago Lighthouse was placed
on tho hcadlaad by the Government.
The original deed calls'for plat Of ten
acres in extent. At the present time the
enclosure embraces hardly six acres. On
a point Just north of thc marine stations
at Highland light shc face OF the bluff
has moved in nearly 25O fee. in the last
seven years. A this rate Il is only a
question of time when Cape Cod viii be
q tniug Of the past.-Ss. Louis Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
sHALLIT BE FOR THE WRONG OR
THE RIGHT?

As the number.ess grains of silvery sand
Form the far out-stretching shore,
As the whispering breeze which the flower
has famed
Swells out in the tempssts roar,
As the murmuring brook is lost in the sea
While it adds its contributing mite
So the moments of time form eternity.
Shall we make it for darkness, or light?
As each heart-thro5 tells us how life flows
on,
As the pulse-beat measures its space,
And each tick of the clock marks moment
gone
OF our vanishing, mortal race
As each breath we breathe watts our Lark
away
Toward the haven beyond our sight,
Shall it anchor in joy or go down in dis
may:
Shall our freight be the wrong, or the
right?
As showers from glisteniuS raindrops are
made
When they fall on the furnishing plains,
As the emerald carpets are formed blade by
blade.
And the harvest is counted in grains,
As tiny drops blending MAKE vast oceans
power
As the waves and the billows unite,
So our deeds make life as life fills the hour;
Shall l. be for ths wrong, or the right
Prank " Scott, in Boston Transcript