Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-01-25
NEWS NOTES.

A pair of George Washington
breeches were lately sold at Auction
in Philadelphia for S4OO
Talking of marrying in haste, a
Judge lately decreed eighty
divorces in forty minutes
The actual value of the silver in
one Of the World fair souvenir half
dollars is about 30 cents. The coins
sell for 81 each.
The term of the president of France
is seven years. He receives a salary
of 1920, 000 year in addition to $50,
900 year for expenses.
Men believe that they have their
own way, but every man objects to
having his little girls hair banged
and every little girls hair is banged. -
The State Capitol at Albany is the
costliest building of modern times.
Nineteen million six hundred thou
sand dollars have been expended on it
to date
A medical journal asserts that peo-
pie who drink cows milk are more
prone to consumption than those who
use the milk of the reindeer, the buf-
falo, the ass, or the goat.
Whitelaw Reid is coming out to
the Pacific Coast shortly, but the
report that he is coming to take
editorial charge of the Virginia
Enterprise is probably incorrect.
Have a pair of crocheted bedroom
shoes coming high up the ankle with
which to patter around the room at
night, or to slip ON when getting up
in the morning to start the fires.
Chronicle: If it is right, as John
Sherman proposes, for the Govern
ment to control a subsidized canal,
why is it not right for the Govern
ment to control it's subsidized rail
roads?
Senator Stanford denies that he
will resign No one ever believed he
would 1t is rumored, however, that
he will return his salary for the days
he was absent from his seat. APP
peal.
Flour ready Drowned is a great
convenience to have at hand for
thickening gravies, etc. Put in a
pan in "a hot oven, stirring occasion
ally that it may brown evenly. Keep
in a jar in dry place.
In the first sixteen days of Deem
Der money orders aggregating about
81, 600, 900 were sent from the United
States to Europe through the mails,
by former emigrants to their kindred
in the Old World
Mr.. Holman desires to use the
ships of the navy for deporting Chi
nese to their homes. He might
improve the plan by having the
coolies work their passage, so that
the sailors could rest on half pay.
A story is atioat that a pugilist
was recently offered S25, 600 to lose
fight. His proud breast heaved,
his check hue came and went, and
he refused He knew that the fell
low who agreed to pay the money
was lying
London has the distinction of
being the first city to use coal. This
was in the latter part of the twelfth
century Its use was prohibited
shortly after its introduction, and
one man was actually executed for
violating this law.
Ministers of Portland express great
sympathy for the Chinese, and a
fervent desire that the hardship of
having to obey the laws be not i'm
posed upon the yellow visitors Vet
other people comply with laws and
seem to feel that they are not being
wronged.
In was to have been expected, per-
haps, that the French, being more
intense, should go to greater lengths
in corruption than men of colder
race, but who would have believed
that American statesmen had so
much to learn in the way of expedit-
ing legislation
H. b. Sharp, the missing Wells,
Fargo Il Co. S agent at st. Helena,
has been induced by his friends to
come in from the hills where he was
in hiding They will make up his
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