Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-01-18
MISSING LINKS.

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1t costs the Americans about 81, 000,-
600 year to plug their teeth.
A clock owned by a resident Of
Trappe, Pa, has licked since 1866.
Only one case of sunstroke occurred
in st. Paul during the whole summer.
The rent of land in England 800
years ago was about shilling an acre.
The snare drum was brought into
Europe by the Saracens about 1O3 A.
G.
Twenty million acres of the land of
the United States are held by English
men.
Theirs finished the History OF the
French Revolution when he was 70
years old.
Half of the 400 street railroads in
the United States are now operated by
means of electricity.
1t is claimed that the bees 90 to dis
tances of from two to four miles in
search of honey in good weather, and
fly at a rate of seven miles an hour.
The smallest bible in existence has
recently been issued by the Oxford
university press. 1t is 3-4 inches
long, 2 l-8 inches wide sand seven
eighths of an inch thick.
st. Peters church. in Rome, is the
largest church in the world; the sec
ond largest is the cathedral or duomo
of Florence. Italy; the third largest
the cathedral of Milan, Italy.
Mount Ararat the resting place of
the scriptural ark is, in reality, two
mountains separated by valley. The
higher peak is 17,21O feet and the
lesser 1900 feet above sea level.
The Russians have become so alive
to the value of women physicisns that
the imperial government has granted
100000 for medical school for
women, to be established ut st. Peters
burg. The site has been given by the
city.
Up to 1889 the shad was unknown in
California waters. Young shad were
sent there that year and planted in
the Sacramento river. Shad is now so
plentiful in California that it sells in
San Francisco by wholesale at 2 cents
a pound
The total colored population of the
United States, as returned under the
census of 1899, is 1855. 36J OF this
number Z 40, 040 are persons of Afri
can descent, 107, 475 are Chinese, 2,U39
are japanese and 5S,S)6 are civilized
Indians.
The largest sum ever asked or of
fered for single diamond was 81
100000, which the prince of Hydera-
bad, in India, agreed to give the jew
eler who then owned the imperial,
which is considered the finest stone in
the world.
France has total of $4,000 men in
her active navy and Great Britain has
$4,000. Her reserve includes 100000
men and Great Britain's $4,000. Rus
STA has the third strongest navy, and
Spain probably has the fourth, if we
can judge the strength of navies by
the number of sailors and marines in
them.
The introduction of bells into
churches is usually ascribed to Saint
Paulinus. bishop of Noa in Campania
(400 A. d.. Their use in churches
and monasteries soon spread through
christendom. They were introduced
into France about $50, and Benedict,
abbot of Wearmouth, brought one
from Italy into England about $50.
One Melchoir Parker. convict in
the penitentiary at Szrezdin, in Hun
gary, has invented Il patent shaving
machine whereby he can shave man
in twenty-five seconds. With this
machine he shaved all the inmates Of
the prison. 49, in nun Der. to the COM
plete satisfaction of the governor.
What the prisoners said is not stated.
When the church of Scotland petit
toned Lord Palmerston to appoint
day of fasting and prayer so that the
cholera might depart from "their
midst" he told them instead to get
down on their knees and scrub their
floors and let in Gods light and air,
and keep everything clean. They
voted, however, to resent his advice as
blasphemous and insulting. That was
thirty years ago and such advice
takes better now.
A bicyclist has been sentenced to
seven months Imprisonment at Glas-
hutte, Germany, because every night
he would cross the railroad track at
some point just in front of the locomo-
tive. so that the engineer was in great
straits not to kill him. One evening
he was accompanied by another wheel
man who fell, and thus the offender
became known. 1t was impossible to
catch him before.
AS evidence of the peeuliarities of
chance. western paper narrates
singular instance. A wagon loaded
with gunpowder, this paper says, NOV
ing on a perfectly level road near
Wenachee, Washington, exploded last
week, while in the same week another
wagon loaded with dynamite, drawn
by four-horse team, went over the
grade not far from the same spot and
rolled 100 feet without doing bit of
damage.
The word quarantine, which is now
of significant meaning. comes from
the Italian, quarantine. The monkish
or the late Latin term was applied by
. II