The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-07-12
LIARS N LIARS.

Inc ostrlches OF Africa are the inyen-
tors of the waltz.
Farmer Trolson OF Churchill is paying
two bits n piece for cats to clean out the
squirrels on his ranch.
We are minus our Office cat. Judge
Farwell serenaded the DIsrArcH last
night with some wiry strains from a
crippled banjo and pussy thought no
tom cat in the neighborhood could
"tech" the Judge" and she went with
him.
1t was IN a beautiful sunny morning
in May that Charlie Lewis thought he
would see if it wal true-that talk about
a hell on earth-and bought a ticket to
Terrace. At Winnemucca he was doz-
ing q little and when Guessford yelled !:
Stage for Paradise" Charlie fell ont
of the window and broke-his resolu-
ton. 4
AL Griswold is responsible for this /;
A young matron who has not been mar
-ied very long Thought to make a little
change in in the bill Of fare by the adj
dition thereto Of oxtail soup. She
stepped, overt to the Homie Meat Market
Tor one of the articles required and as
Lievre was chopping the tail up she
said sweetly "Yoh need MT mind taking
out the bones"
Tt has been a~sceftained that the
Piutes of Mason Valley are. large
purchasers of all kinds of extracts from
the store-keepers. 1t has been found
out that the willy red man has been pur-
chasing this stuff for what alchoh.l they
can get out of it, and sometimes they
get very drunk or. q few bottles Of
vanilla, lemon, pineapple and banana
extracts.-Times. ~
At the time Ike Lothrop,,s house was
destroyed by fire all the trees were
burned to the ground. This Spring
young shoots started up and made such
growth THAI Ike to crafty his curiosity
measured the growth of a locust and
found it to be exactly two inches per
day.. This particular shoot is now
seven feet high and me and one-quarter
inches in diameter at the base.
1t was on the pasture at Mud
Lake that Andy Russell under
took to break the yearling bull, and to
make sure he did not get away tied the
rope around his waist. The breaking
process angered the yearling, and he
split a crack in the atmosphere toward
the swamp. Andy only hit the ground
in the high places. In their mad career
they. passed Brooks McClane who yelled
to Andy. "Where are you going?"
'Blanked if / know, he replied as he
sailed through the air. Ask the BULL"
Leland Stanford Sterling was telling
his mother at the breakfast table that he
expected to be President of the United
States some day. He's a good deal like
Cleveland and takes everything that
comes his way. Mrs. Hettenhausen
came down from Reno the other day and
Lei. in helping her off the train didn't
hesitate to take possession of two bon
nets, a bird cage, q dish-pan, and the
thirteen other trifes the dear ladies
bought when shopping, He put the
dish pan OH his head, the cage in the
pan and Rugged the bonnets and made
for home.
Alonzo Dodge says in the early sixties
he was living on the Carson river and
had some business at Wadsworth with
Tom & Joe and came hither. 1t was
about the time Of Governor Nye's APP
pointment as ex-officio Indian Agent for
the Pyramid Lake Reservation and Nye
had come from the East. With his APP
pointment came the idea that he was
the. chosen to c~ivilize the barbarous
Piute and he took advantage of the East
ern markets to buy seven bales Of hoop
shirts for the squaws, as civilizers. The
Inguns did not know what the hoops
were intended for and the leader OF the
Piute select set the fashion by using one
for a necklace. This did first rate until
another genius discarded her robes and
adorned each leg with a hoop-skirt. Bill
Nichols says that was the only time he
ever admired the use OF hoops. This ran
for a short time like fashions other