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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Good Time to Go Cunning

John Hummel, the noted gunner and
narrator of wonderful tales, was in
town on Monday. He was full of those
big cunning stories about himself, and
wherever he stopped he drew crowds of
boys and men, who listened to his awful
tales in astonishment. John has brand
new book with this years record in it,
and it contains figures that are astound-
ing. His greatest game this summer
has been groundhogs, and according to
his figures he has killed several freight
cars full of them. He has also given
considerable attention to butterflies,
bees, ants, etc.
He was sorry that he had to come to
town on business, for he would have
killed thirty-six groundhogs had he re-
manned at home. He said that he went
out cunning the other day and ground.
hogs We're SO plentiful that the barrels
of his gun became hot from shooting.
His coat sleeve took fire from the gun
and it almost burned off. He then sci
the gun against fence and post tool
fire from it. He says that he has new
way of shooting turkeys when people
request him to slaughter such fowls. He
shoots a load of shot against a cows
horn and when they strike they glance
off and kill turkeys a mile off.-Lan
caster pa Intelligencer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Banquet Below the Sea.

Some time ago the labor of deepening
the harbor of Ciotat was completed. On
that occasion the contractor gave to the
members of his staff and the representa-
tives of the press banquet unprece.
dented for its originality. The table
was set eight meters below the level of
the sea, at the very bottom of the harbor,
inside the caisson in which the ex-
cavators had been at work, and only the
narrow walls of this caisson separated
the guests from the enormous mass of
water around and above their heads.
The new fashioned banqueting hall was
splendidly decorated and lighted, and
but for certain buzzing in the, ears
caused by the pressure of air, kept, up
in the chamber in order to prevent the
thrush of the water, nobody would have
suspected that the slightest interruptio
in the working of the airpump would
have sufficed to asphyxiate the whole
party. After the banquet an improvised
concert prolonged the festivity for sew
eral hours, after which the guests reas-
cended into the open air.-Vita Che 81
Viye
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Young Author.

The "Son of Esau," which is attract
ing attention in the literary world just
now, is the work of young girl, Min.
ME Gilmore, only daughter of the late
Patrick S. Gilmore. She is young al
most to childishness, exceedingly beau
tiful and gentle in manner, and person.
ally unsophisticated and inexperienced
in the worldly wisdom which manifests
itself in her book. Upon reading her
book, upon which she spent two years in
writing, and which was never seen by
any one until after it was transcribed by
the typewriter, her father exclaimed, 81
cannot understand how this little girl,
kept by us as in clustered walls, has
written this book"
Miss Gilmore was educated at the
Convent of the Sacred Heart and Eden
hall, and has travelled much with her
parents both in this country and abroad.
Her ambition in life is to become a sue
cessful writer.-New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Mourning ROotblaeks.

The shoeblacks are almost in despair.
As the fall approached they have been
watching and waiting For the dictators
of fashion to declare against the russell
leather shoes. On the contrary, the
makers of fashionable footgear say that
this fall the yellow shoes will be more
popular than ever and that quite likely
they will be worn during the winter also.
While the inventive genius Of some mass
i've intellect has prepared patent yell
low polish, for which the shoeblacks
charge ten cents for each application,
they do not find anything so pr ftable
as the old black calfskin shoes which
had to be polished every day, and sone-
times night and morning. The yellow
shoes, notice, are being worn more and
more every day.-Brooklyn Eagle
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06

Dessert dishes made with peaches are
the most delicious connections of pastry
imaginable. One of the most accepta-
BILE and easiest to prepare is peach cob
bier. To make it fill a deep pie dish or
pudding dish with ripe, peeled peaches,
leaving in the pits. Add cold water to
half fill the dish, sugar to taste, and
cover with light pie paste rolled twice
as thick as if for pies. Cut Sits across
and prick with fork. Bake about
three-quarters of an hour. In serving
cut the crust into sections, lay each piece
upside down upon the plate and pile the
peaches upon it. Serve with sweet cream.
Bavarian cream, with peaches, makes a
delicious and handsome dessert, and re-
quires very little time for preparation.
The ingredients required are two quarts
of milk, one cupful of sugar, four eggs
and one package of gelatin. Soak the
gelatin in one cupful of milk and put
the rest of the milk over the fire in ia,
rina kettle. When it nears the boiling
point put the gelatin in, add the sugar,
and when the gelatine is dissolved add
the.yolks of the eggs strained. Cook five
minutes and then pour into molds. When
it has thickened to about the consistency
of custard. cut up the peaches and ar
range in layers, with the cream in the
mold. Beat the whites of the eggs with
half a teacupful of sugar. When the
mold of cream is turned out pile this
meringue about it.-Demorest's.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06

The Worlds fair at Chicago should be
local and traditional interest, tending to
arouse genuine American feeling, as
possible. If by means of the exhibition
we can make any strong historical asso-
citation of state or even of a neighbor-
hood the common property of all the
people, the fair will be of more than
material advantage.
Each state-in the building which it
is to construct at Chicago for its "club
house" or beadquarters-aims at some
thing representative in some way of its
special conditions of life or its history.
Many appropriate devices for state
headquarters have been hit upon, but
none is more interesting or fitting than
the selection of New Jersey.
Few houses associated with the men,
DRY of George Washington, with the
exception of Mount Vernon itself, are
better known or are the objects of a
deeper sentiment than the beautiful old
mansion still standing at Morristown,
New Jersey.
This house is noteworthy not only for
its associations, but also because it is a
pure and noble example of colonial
architecture.
With slight and harmonious addition
this old house is to be reproduced by
New Jersey on the Worlds fair grounds
at Chicago. There it will speak elo-
quently of the father of his country, and
together with such buildings as the Mas
sachusetts building, which is modelled
after the Hancock house in Boston, il
will speak also of the large, serene and
hospitable life of the people before the
Revolution. Youths Companion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06

The least appreciated worker in the
community is the school teacher. One
of them retired from the New York
public schools the other day after fifty
seven years of service-tifty-seven years
of molding human character in the
nations household, and the nation &C.
cepts the service with the same COM
placency as though she had been cook
ing pies instead of morals. It's an
achievement to make good pies, but it's
greater achievement to cook good
morals. They receive small measure of
homage-do school teachers, and they
gre not an envied class of workers. The
field is trihe narrow to the outside OBJ
server, but some one has to work i'll the
narrow field.
In all vocations there are rules that
govern routine work. There is good
bit of red tape in modern educational
fields, a good many ledgers and day
books to be kept and schedules to be
made out, and minutes and hours are
accorded due importance, but for the
/ inner workings of the educational ma
| Cnlne Inere are no rules. lnere are no
rules bearing ON attrition, on the moral
sensibilities, on the sympathy between
teacher ana pupil, on the sentiment that
must live in the breast of these foster
mothers of the nation to make them a
success in their vocation. The monetary
compensation for this work is merely
nominal
Fifty-seven years of teaching-think
! of it!
Eleven thousand four hundred days
by actual count-22, 800 times of re-
spending to the call of the school bell
reception committee to horde of ar
rant young anarchists, whose mothers
bless their absence for the peace il
brings.-New York Recorder.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Singing the Old Songs Once More

A sacred concert was given at Welsh
Run bunker church on Sunday after
noon which brought together large
and appreciative audience to hear some
of the old time singing teachers. These
We're Professor Solomon Baughey, who
for more than fifty years has been known
in southern Pennsylvania for his charm
ing voice, and in his younger years as a
most successful singing master; Jacob
Maugan, of Maugansville, Nd, who in
1874, with Solomon Baughey, gave ID
similar concert in the same building,
and Mr.. Myers, of Broad Fording, who
is also we'll known conductor. Each of
the gentlemen took the floor.
All of the dear old church hymns were
gone over. The large congregation,
which had been constituted the singing
class, united in the song service with
spirit Professor Baughey is now we'll
advanced in years, but he still has a
sweet, melodious voice and the presence
and manner on the floor which have
never deserted him. There were many
persons present from Maryland and
Pennsylvania. 1t was notable occa-
sion and one that revived pleasant and
delightful recollections of We olden time.
-Chambersburg (Pa.) Public Opinion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
The Boundaries Of Oxford.

The custom, 7Tilch is only observed
at rare intervals, of perambulating the
boundaries of the city of Oxford, Eng.
land, was followed this year, and was
of more than usual importance owing
to the fact that the boundaries had been
largely extended since the last occasion,
when tour was made six years ago.
The mayor and other members of the
corporation in their robes left the city
buildings at 8 o'clock in the morning,
preceded by band and the city mace
bearers.
During the day many amusing Incl.
dents took place, some of which might
have proved dangerous. At Wolvercote
there was dispute about the boundary
and clergyman who opposed the city
forces was somewhat roughly handled.
At the Cherwell punts were used, and
the one containing the mayor, the sheriff
and several members of the corporation
and the mace bearer, with the mace,
was upset in the middle of the stream.
London Letter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Mexican Excavations,

The Mexican government has recently
been making some excavations in the
plaza of Tialtelolco, which have re-
suited in uncovering some very interest
ing remains of the ancient Aztecs.
Three feet below the surface white
floor of cement was found. Three feet
farther down was another. Below that
steps of terrace work painted blue were
uncovered, forming low pyramid; be-
meath this were crypts, containing hui
man bones and same relics. Among the
Ii ter were whistles of glazed pottery, a
stoae maskoid and a pottery stamp, in
which appears the cross of Quetzalcoatl.
In another part of the excavations
over 400 small idols or household gods
were found, some representing the god
dess Of water and others the moon. One
thousand arrowheads of obsidian and
serpentine were unearthed. Many ar
ticles used in the game of ball were also
excavated. Agreat many other interest
ing relics OF the ancient Nahautl civil
cation were brought to light.
Transcript.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Women in Art Work.

The large art schools of the country
significantly indicate the direction art is
taking. Among them the Woman's Art
school of the Cooper union affords a
suggestive example, and its sister schools
throughout the country tell the same
story of the broadened intellectual life
of women. When we allude to the
schools of Boston, Philadelphia, San
Francisco and Washington, and mention
the new buildings that have lately been
erected for museums and schools in
Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago
and speak of the art departments con-
nected with Harvard or Yale, in which
women have equal opportunities with
men for study, to say nothing of the
studios filled with art collections at srch
women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley
and Smith, we see how large field art
now occupies, without counting the
myriad children now learning to draw
in the public schools of the United
States.-Mrs. S. N. Carter in North
American Review.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Boarded by q Monster Tarpon.

A day or two ago the schooner Flour
Bluff, Andrew Anderson, captain, and
John Anderson, mate, was passing
through Flour Bluff channel some eight
or ten miles down the coast from Corpus
Christi. Everything was running along
smoothly when suddenly the smoothness
was broken by 6-foot tarpon landing
ON deck.
The big fish at once began making
things interesting on the boat, and for >
few moments the sailors contemplated
seriously leaving their vessel and "tak-
ing to the woods They finally regained
control of their nerve and decided to
have it out with the fish, so one of them
seized an ak and the others handspikes
and at the tarpon they went. The
struggle was long and fierce, and one of
the sailors (there were five of them in all)
was knocked overheard by coming in
contact with the tarpons tail. A rope
was thrown him and he was pulled back
on deck. AT last the fish succumbed to
the repeated blows of the ak and hand
spikes and lay along the deck as dead as
mackerel. Cor. San Antonio Express.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Twentieth Child.

Monroe county can boast of a wonder
full child. 1t has little girl only six
years old who is musical prodigy. She
can play on the piano any piece she ever
heard and fancied. Her hands are not
larger than child's of four years. She
is too small to get on the piano stool, yet
she plays we'll and with ease, and Just as
well when blindfolded. She is a daugh-
ter of W. H. Thurman, and strange to
say she is the twentieth child, without a
funeral in the family except that of his
wife. He is the inventor of the Thur.
man car coupler. The little girl ia
named Vivian, is a pretty child and can
play almost a whole day, always diff
ferent tune.-Griffin GAL News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Cost of Cabling,

The navy department has issued new
table of cable rates of the world. A
chart of the world is published, on
which the submarine cables are indi.
Gated, with the principal communicat.
ing land lines and the seacoast stations.
Detailed maps are also given of the tele-
graphic accommodations in Central
America and the West Indies, in eastern
Europe and in the Mediterranean coun.
tries. The tables of cable rates include
the Atlantic cables, Cuba. Bahama,
Bermuda, African, European, Asiatic
and South American.
1t appears that it costs more to send
messages to the West Indies than it does
to places in Africa. All the important
places in Africa are now reached by
telegraph, and you can sit in Gila Bend
A. T., and communicate with bust
ness men at Asaab for $1.31 per word
If you want to reach anybody in Vene-
zuela from New York, it will cost 1894
per word, and then the message must go
by mail from Quayaquil.
The islands in the Pacific are now
about the only places with which imme.
date communication by telegraph can
not be had. Washington Letter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
The Dictionary Habit.

eyes, it's good thing for man to
refer to the dictionary, but this practice
can often be carried to excess" said a
well known magazine writer. "Why,
I've seen man get so much addicted to
this habit" he continued, "that he could
not write an ordinary letter without
turning to the dictionary three or four
times in order to ascertain some big
words that he could use. This, think,
is very great waste of time, as he does
not express his meaning bit better than
if he had used some shorter and really
English words"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Profit of s1.4a5 from Eight Acres

j. G. Russell, who owns large tract
Of land about two and one-half miles
north of Traver, has nearly completed
harvesting his peach and nectarine crop
from eight acres on his ranch. There
are about five acres of peaches and three
of nectarines. From the peaches he has
now harvested $4,000 pounds of dried
peaches, which, at thirteen cents a
pound, the price now quoted, would net
him $1,000. 1t will cost him $685. to
harvest this crop and market it, which
will leave him a Net profit of 81 1926, or
$3.50 per acre. The nectarine crop has
done nearly as well, the difference being
only in the price of the two fruits. Mr..
Russell has hired all his work done, and
therefore the expense account is correct
and covers everything.-Fresno Gal. J
Advance.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Remarkable Swan.

One of the most novel wedding pres
ents which Princess Marie of Edinburgh
is to receive will be from the poetical
queen of Roumania-Carmen SYLVIA
and will be a pleasure barge in the form
of an immense swan. 1t will not only
be built to initiate a swan, but it is to
swim like swan and be like swan in
every particular of motion. The feet
are to be so contrived as to take the
place of oars. The neck and head will
rise to height of eighteen feet and the
body will form cabin large enough to
hold ten persons. Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
WEALTH CANNOT BUY THEM.
Brs. Lynn Linton Enumerates Few o
Life's Unpurchasables.

Mrs. Lynn Linton Enumerates Few OF
Life's Unpurchasables.
When Mrs. Lynn Linton forgets to be
original and radical, she is capable of
saying some fairly pleasant things. The
idea that many things of value cannot
be bought, and that those things which
can be bought are only of secondary i'm
portance in the world, is not strikingly
new. Two or three people had hit upon
it before Mrs. Linton. But what she
says about the unpurchasable things is
not the less interesting and timely be-
cause they have been said ever since the
deluge
There is happiness, she tells us, that
gold may not buy. When the woman
you love deceives you, and the portrait
gem clasped' worn over her heart shows
another face than yours-when the hus-
band you were unconventional enough
to love in the fearless old fashion lies
dead in your arms, and your whole fu-
ture is darkened and storm riven-when
your son has disgraced his name and
by his own lack of honor has slandered
and cast doubt on his mothers do your
Claudes and Turner'S, your Limoges en-
amels and old Venetian glass ease the
smart? Does your splendid collection of
first editions in their perfect bindings
dry the tears which come to mems eyes
as well as to women's, when the bitter
ness is full and by its very fullness per-
force wells over? What do your fields
and farms, your balance at the bankers,
your carriages and horses do for you
when your favorite daughter runs off
with the groom, and her sister browns
herself in despair? Mol Happiness is
not to be bought"
! Then there are love and honor and
youth that the gold of the Indies will
not purchase. And in these days when
creams and lotions, dietings and exercises
claim to put off the evil hour of age
it is well to read what this very level
headed woman says about youth.
You may buy fashion cosmetics" she
says, "artful enhancements, subtle dyes
that look almost as good as the real
thing, but you cannot buy youth MOI
Z pN"uby' IL SpilO Va az ypul SdlC, duu
though you give 10 shillings for the val
ne of penny, you cannot put back the
hands of the clock nor blunt the scythe
of time.
"That enamel is cleverly done; that
dyed, frizzed hair is veritable work OF
art; those painted cheeks simulate the
carnations of youth more creditably
than in so of your competitors, but-tht
cruel fact remains untouched-youtl
cannot be purchased and old age cannot
be bought off. The poor old shrivelet
skin gradually grows more and NOR,
like parchment. The fading eyes los,
their brightness, and not belladonna it
self can bring back that dark line around
the iris which age and weakened vital
ty replace by that all eloquent 'arcu
senilis'"
None of it is very new. 1t is not nearly
so striking as her views on the "wilt
woman" but still it is good to recall
few of these interesting facts in thes,
days of dancing grandmammas and eli
gible bachelors Of go or so.-New Yorl
World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Stole His Stories.

Stephen Bonsal, the young American
newspaper man, whose story of the
quarrel at Fee between the British Min
lister and the Sultan was recently the
sensation of the day in England, has an
extensive rod in pickle for F. Hopkinson
Smith. Mr.. Bonsal says that he met Mr..
Smith on the Bulgarian frontier, and
sat up all night telling him stories of
travel and adventures in the interior of
the country. Great was his surprise
when he found that the author had
made these incidents the basis of q
magazine article, written as if from the
standpoint Of Mr.. Smiths personal ex-
perience and observation. London
Letter
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06

One of the earliest telescope discov-
cries by Calico was that Jupiter is at
tended by four moons; one of the latest,
by Professor Barnard, with the huge
Lick telescope. is that our largest plan
etary neighbor has fifth satellite. The
first discovery was received with deri-
sion by even the philosophers of the Sew
enteenth century. Professor Barnards
announcement is enthusiastically hailed
by the multitude as one of the greatest
achievements of the age. The world
has moved. Ohio State Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
A Three Years. Contract.

In sheer logged patience nothing can
surpass the Chinese race. A pious man,
whose exploits were recently noticed in
the Chinese papers, has become candi-
date for the highest distinction of holt
ness by undertaking to sit on his moth
er's grave for three years. He has al
ready sat there for some months in a
rude hut provided by the charity Of his
friends. He is an object of devout curl
osity to all the visitors to the cemetery,
and it is confidently expected that when
ne has sat out his term the matter will
be reported to the throne, and he will
receive q suitable provision for life
London News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06

The people of Burmah believe that the
ruby is kind of fruit which will ripen
if you give it time. They say that most
rubies do not ripen simply because they
are not allowed to do SO. If you want to
"ripen" the ruby in your ring, according
to the Burmese idea, you must take your
ring and lay it in the sun for one month
without disturbing it at all, and at the
md of that time it will be "ripe" and
,ood to eat.--New York Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-06
Three Bits of Calico.

Three pieces of the first calico printed
in the United States will be presented to
the Worlds fair commissioners for ex-
hibition through Commodore Bradley,
one of the best known men in northern
New York, who got them from Judge
Waldron, of North Creek. The calico
was printed at Johnsburg, Warren coun-
ty, and one of the pieces is from the
wedding dress of the first lady married
in that town.-Albany Argus.