Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-01-11
MISSING LINKS.

OF old age.
Ten per cent of the population of In
dia are widows.
Only one person in 5000 lives to be
. centenarian.
The London Geological garden now
contains 3, 100 animals.
The fur seal and fur otter trade OF
Alaska is worth 100000 year.
Hindoostan is about twenty-five
times as large as the state OF New
York.
The hourly rate of water falling over
Niagara Falls is 100000, 900 tons.
In every minute sixty-seven people
die in the world and seventy are born.
Two hundred and fifty million letters
pass through the postal offices of Lon
don every year
New and valuable halibut banks
have been found to the west OF Cape
Flattery, Washington.
Muffs were first used by doctors to
keep their fingers soft and were adop-
ted by ladies about 1900.
The Greek stage had three doors,
one in tho center, the royal door, be-
ing for the principal characters.
Yeddo, the capital of the japanese
empire contains 100000 inhabitants
and has a greater area than London.
Among the relics in the rooms of the
New York Historical society is the tail
Of George IFS horse, which was taken
at Bowling Green.
A New York oyster-house keeper
has discovered in little neck clam
pearl, for which he has already been
offered good price.
The British government has made
Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery
national property, paying $4,000 for
it. Fifty years ago it was sold at f345.
Women require one hour of sleep
more day than men. Fewer of the
latter reach the age of so than the
former, but afterward the sterner sex
has the best Of it.
Enos Kerr. man well known at
ture ear Of corn with grains no larger
than mustard seeds growing on stalk
of foxtail.
In Great Britain 1t is illegal now to
employ girls in shops under IS for
more than seventy-four hours week,
and shopkeepers who dsobey the law
are liable to be fined.
An English experimenter, f. I.
Chaplin, has given an account of hyp-
nothing laying hen and inducing
her in the same manner to sit on "A Sit
IN ~ until Of than, had
Matched out.
A shark recently washed ashore at
indian, British Colum bia, had two
distinct tails, three perfect eyes and
what appeared to be the rudiment of
fin or flipper hanging to the under
jaw.
The glow-worm lays eggs which are
themselves luminous; however, the
young Matched from them are not pos
sessed Of those peculiar properties I'M
til after the first transformation.
In England. Notwithstanding that in
their own dependency of Malta the
hangman receives ESQ year from the
British government, no eXecutioner
has had any official status since the
death of Calcraft.
The largest volcano in the world Is
at Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands.
The crater is twenty miles in dame
ter, and the stream Of lava flowing
from it is fifty miles long and in places
four miles wide.
There are said to be more than 5000
prehistoric buildings in Sardinia They
are almost all in the fertile districts
and built in groups, which are sepa.
rated from one another by wide and
generally barren places.
A German doctor of reputation pre-
scribes aluminium as II cure for rheu-
matism. A finger ring made of this
metal, joined with another, generates
gentle current of electricity, which
is said to make permanent cure.
The salary of the prince of Wales is
100000 per year: duke of Connaught,
1925, 900; duke of Edin burgh, 1925, 900,
and the duke of Cambridge. the
Queens cousin, $4,000 The royal ia
mily costs British taxpayers $4,000 a
week.
The product of some California orch
ards are somewhat astonishing. For
example, sixteen-acre orchard of
German prunes in Sonoma county,
from five to eight years old, yielded
10000 pounds of dried fruit this year
and net profit of 81 800.
In Bohemia there are To- societies
and clubs which have for their object
the advancement of the cause of wo-
men. A great deal is done in this way
to procure for the women of Bohemia
better employment and greater indie
pendenoe.
In connection with the Egyptian ma
tons the gnostics, as we'll as some of
the early christian fathers speak of
Christ as the scarabaeus and symbol
ize him as man with beetles head.
The Egyptians always mbalmed this
sacred insect.
We learn now that the famous jubi-
lee shot fired from twenty-two-ton
gun in Queen Victoria's jubilee year,
to ascertain how far shot could be
carried, remained in the air sixty-nine
hi a.