The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-08-23
NEWS NOTES.
Miscellaneous Items Gathered From vari'
Gus Sources.


Playing cards were invented in
1890. 1t is estimated that the pres
annual output exceeds 100000.
Envelopes were first made in 1899,
and sold for 10 to % cents apiece.
Now they are sold at from two to five
for cent.
The marriage took place in New
York church last week of a couple
whose courtship extended over pc
Rod Of twenty one years.
The latest proposed ship canal is
to run from Toledo to Cincinnati,
making Cincinnati rival to Chicago
for lake traffic. The government is
to be asked to assist.
A Boston Post reporter, recently
describing a suicide, said: sit is
quite certain that he was unmarried
and there is absolutely no apparent
native for self-destruction
A tribe of Central Africa has adopted
a rule that speakers shall only speak
as long as they are able to stand on
one leg. The Boston Transcript COM
mends this rule to congress.
Eastern Washington grain harvest
this season promises to be the best
ever known. The average yield from
British Columbia to the Oregon line
will be thirty bushels to.the acre.
In consequence of the scarcity of
the silver coins, the Italian govern
ment has ordered the issue of $1,000
900 bronze coins and $6,000,000 in
notes Of one Ira each. The Ira is
equivalent to about 1912 cents.
Hoke Smith is to be burned in
effigy by the indignant people of
Petersburg, w. Va, because he has
cut off the pensions, the only means
OF subsistence OF many poor and help
less old soldiers OF the vicinity.
A white man in Montana married
a colored woman, and the match was
not approved by society. A delega-
ton OF neighbors called, tarred the
groom black, kalsomined the bride
alabaster and departed satisfied
Only one woman in the country oc-
cupies the position of president of a
national bank. This is Mrs Annie
Moore OF Mount Pleasant, Texas.
She is described as bright, attract
i've in manner and highly educated
Lieutenant Nelson OF company
"a" Oregon national guard, died
day before yesterday of injuries re-
eeived in sham battle. He was
struck by wad from one OF the guns
OF battery he was trying to capture.
Kansas women justices deal with
the tramp question in their own way.
One tramp was sentenced to two
baths a day for 10 days and hard
labor on the stone pile, with the
order that he was to be fed if he
worked and starved if he shirked.
The local Grand Army post at Col
fax, WASH, has asked for the coop
Grafton OF all other posts in request
ing the government to pay pensions
in silver. The object is to strengthen
the gold reserve and show the conf
dence of the veterans in all forms of
federal money.
Two young Swedes have just left
Denver for their native country with
$4,000 each in hard cash as the savings
of five years while employed at one
of the smelters of the city. They es-
timated that $4,000 in Uncle Sans
dominion is equal to $4,000 in the !
1t required the young
Swedes just five years to make their
fortune in America.
The most expensive horse in the /
the world, the stallion Ormonde, was
landed in New York last week from
England. Young Macdonough, a
millionaire, paid $l50,000 |
for him and will quarter him in that
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