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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

The Kutztown State Normal School
of Virginia opened last week with
nearly 800 students.
The great Catholic College at Stony
hurst, England, is about to celebrate
its opening, 100 years ago.
Every State and Territory in the
Union except five have temperance
education laws. The five are Indiana,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina.
There are now $40 school savings
banks in this country. Pennsylvania
takes the lead, but some very flourish
ing banks of this kind have been estab-
lished in Colorado, Kansas and North
Dakota. AS rule per cent interest
is allowed on deposits of $3 and over.
Nikolai Michailovitch Jadirnzaff,
the founder of the Siberian University,
died recently in st. Petersburg. He
was the editor of well-known weekly
journal and had explored almost every
part of Siberia, writing number of
books upon the country. He was born
in 1912.
The University of Lille, France, is
said to be the first institution of learn
ing on the continent to add a depart
ment of journalism. Able DIR. Cooten
will read lectures on the great editors
of England and Germany. Professor
Gaud will lecture on the laws govern
ing the press, and M. Tavermer of the
Paris 'Univers," will speak upon the
duties of newspaper men and the way
a paper is printed.
In many of our institutions coeduca-
tion-unheard of in former times-is
now approved, and young ladies at
many southern colleges sit on the same
benches with the male students and
take the same curriculum. They win
degrees, and not infrequently take the
prizes of good scholarship from compe-
Tutors of the rougher SEX They have
their fraternities' as the boys do, and
keep their secrets with perfect success.
christian Advocate.
A teacher in kindergarten says she
finds the principles she demonstrates of
use many times in her own life exper-
fence. In several hours journey on
the cars, for example," she says, 81
apply the idea of change with great
benefit. / change my position in the
seat from one side to another, or, if
that is impossible, from sharing it with
another, | stand up at stations, step out
III the aisle, anything to relieve the set
OF muscles that has been bearing the
burden continuously. If persons writ
ing or sewing would take advantage of
this simple fact, they would find them
selves much less fatigued at the end
too, OF longer hours of work.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
PIcKINGS.

The Compulsory Vaccination Bill in
the Massachusetts legislature was
so that children presenting a
certificate from a regular physician thar
they are unfit subjects for vaccination
are not subject to the law.
While some workmen were Digging
recently among the ruined temples of
upper Egypt, they unearthed an iron
box containing metal plate, which
two scientists, who have regulations at
stake, declare to be camera and lens.
The cocoa palm is the most useful
tree on earth. The nuts furnish water.
food, milk and wine, and the buds a
good substitute for cabbage, the shells
utensils and the fibre clothing and tex
tile fabrics, its juices ink and its leaves
pen and paper.
Miss Kate Hilliard, in paper read
before the New York Theosophists,
speaking of hypnotism, says that no one
while under the influence has ever been
induced to surrender a vital secret.
Many experiments have been tried with
this intent, but without success.
Poisonous snakes are so numerous in
Venezuela that snake bite is almost as
common there as in India. But there
are fewer fatalities, for the natives
have discovered that a plant known as
the ocumillo, when powdered and ap-
piled to the wound, results in cure in
almost every case.
" If body n4etx body
Coming through the rye,
Can't body kiss a body
For fear of bacilli p"
The microbe theory is 1000 years old.
for Terentius Varro wrote, 81 B. c.,
that there are invisible animalcules
growing in swampy regions which get
into the body by way of the mouth and
the lungs, and cause serious diseases.
A free and constant ventilation and
an out door life are the safeguards
against consumption, and wherever
these can be carried out mechanically,
or in an automatic way, or wherever
these conditions are persistently main
tanned, there is your beneficial climate
whether it be on the coast of Labra-
dor or on the Mediterranean shores of
America. -Southern California.
An operation for appendicitis re-
vealed the fact that the disorder was
due to the presence of tooth brush bris-
ties. CHEAP tooth brushes" remarked
the surgeon who had charge of the case,
''are responsible for many obscure
throat, stomach and intestinal ailments.
The bristles are only glued on and come
off by the half-dozen when wet and
brought in contact with the teeth.
Professor Garner is by no means a
pioneer in the investigation of the Sim
ran language. Lady Burton records in
her husbands biography that the late
Sir Richard had forty monkeys which
sat down daily with him at dinner,
and that he had quite mastered the ele-
ments of their speech. He had made a
list of about sixty of their most famil-
lar words, but the paper was lost in "a
fire.
Our lives are universally shortened
by our ignorance. In attaining COM
plete knowledge of our own natures
and of the nature of surrounding things
in ascertaining the conditions of ex-
istence to which we must conform, and
in discovering the means of conforming
to them under all variations Of seasons
and circumstances-we have abundant
scope for intellectual progress.-He
bert Spencer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
IN THE sIERRAs.

The rocks loom FER the tranquil vale
Like ruins vast and hoary;
Each gray old turret has its tale,
Each seam and scar its story.
A hundred centuries have penned
Upon these time stained p iges
A secret lore that is not kenned
By wisest seers and sages.
The fire, the frost, perchance the storms
OF some primeval ocean,
Have worn and torn these ragged forms,
This petrified commotion.
The wears have softened all the scene,
The winds have sown the grasses;
And sun and rain have clothed with green
The naked slopes and passes,
Here, on the granite crags, lie,
Lulled by the winds low walling;
And watch against the distant sky
The eagle slowly sailing.
The silver moon, with mellow ray,
Across yon spur is drifting;
The rosea;e tints of dying day
Along the west are shifting.
The gray mist gathers in the gorge,
Where bright cascades are flowing:
While, like the CLEAN of lighted forge,
The snow crowned peaks are glowing.
Rare pictures, born Of sun and shade,
H. Came with the evening shadows;
Nightnestles in the silent glade,
And wells the emerald meadows.
Above, the moaning pine trees stand;
Below, the shining river;
Uncovered, in this temple grand,
worship God, the Giver.
-Lucius Hdr,cOod Foote, IN Boston Tran
script.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
TANNING SKINS.

We have had a number of inquiries
at different times for directions for tan
ming skins for the purpose of making
rugs. We find in an exchange some
directions which the writer says have
been used in her family for several
years and can be relied upon. Dis
solve one-half pound alum, one pound
salt-petrie, five pounds common salt
and two ounces corrosive sublimate i'll
two gallons of water. Put it in large
stone jar or small tub, and cover so
that no animal can drink it for the cor
rosive sublimate is poison. If there is
much flesh on the hides lay them on a
board, flesh side up, and rub them with
brick or dull knife until it is re-
moved. After all the ingredients are
dissolved put the skins into the liquid
and allow them to remain two or three
weeks. Of course large skins require
more liquid as they must be covered
with it all the time. When they are
taken out, rub and work them until
they are dry, and they will be soft and
pliable.
A calf hide, with long black hair,
makes very handsome laprobe. The
hides of cats, rats, squirrels and rabbits
are nice for trimming or for making
caps, muffs or capes. Sheepskins make
beautiful rugs tanned in this way. AS
white rugs are so easily soiled most
housekeepers prefer to dye them Dis
solve one or more packages of diamond
dye, for wool, by tying loosely in a
piece of cheese and soaking in
water all night. Then put in large
dishpan and add boiling water. When
it has boiled two or three minutes let
two persons standing on opposite sides
of the stove, pass the pelt back and
forth in the dye with the wool side
down. 1t will be more convenient to
hold, if a strong Irvine string is fast
ened in each corner of the pelt. Do
not allow the dye to cover the skin.
When the wool is the desired shade
rince and dry. The center may be cut
out of one pelt, and the border of an
other, and where it is necessary to piece
it sew the seams from the back over
and over loosely so it will lie fiat. The
center may be olive green with border
of garnet, or pink may be used for the
center with golden brown border
In fact they may be made of any colors
that will harmonize with the room in
which they are used. They should
then be lined with some heavy ma
terial.
Rugs may also be made of other kinds
of skins, such as wolf, fox, dog skins
etc, left their natural color. Very
pretty trimmings are made by tanning
young lambskins that are curly and
dyeing them black or seal brown. Dia-
mond dyes are the only kind that can
be used satisfactorily in this work.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

M. de Paris (Deibler, the executioner
OF Paris, is generally hooted and
stunned whenever he travels for an ex-
cursion; but lately, when on visit to
houen, he was the hero of the day. He
went there to guillotine man named
damelin, who had maltreated and
murdered little girl. The feeling
against the criminal was so strong that
.he executloner was respectfully
saluted.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

Professor Hayem, of Paris, has re-
Gently shown that there is a marked as
ISOLATION between dyspepsia and tuber-
culosis in a great number of cases. The
disorder most commonly present is sim
pie gastritis. As the digestive disorder
usually occurs first, and paves the way
for the pulmonary disease, it is impor-
tant that disorders of digestion should
receive prompt attention. Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

Sweden, with population of 1885,
900, has but 2S9 drug stores, or one to
each $4,000 inhabitants. In the city
of Boston alone there are about 400, or
at least a hundred more than in all of
Sweden. No patent medicines are al
lowed to be imported into Sweden nor
there.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

A man who travels frequently by the
coastwise steamers to Southern ports,
and who is liable to be seasick when
the water is rough, says he would be
sick much oftener, and often much
sicker, if he did not, instead of the re-
clining steamer chair, use an ordinary
rocking chair during his voyages.
When the motion of the ship makes the
chair rock. it seems perfectly natural,
and just what might happen on hotel
porch.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

N. S. Nesteroff, an attache of the
Russian Department of Agriculture, is
in Michigan inspecting methods en-
ployed there in cutting and marketing
lumber. His object is principally to
get information respecting improve
ments in saw-mill machinery. Mr..
Nesteroff pronounces the Saginaw Val
ley mills the finest he has ever seen.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

This is your little sister, Tommy, 7"
said his father, showing him the baby.
You will love her dearly, will you
not?' Yes, of COURSE, replied Tom
my, inspecting the latest arrival, but
it'll cost a good deal to keep her, won't
1t" Il presume So YES" said
Tommy, with long drawn breath,
and when l asked you the other day
to buy me white rabbit you said you
couldn't afford it..
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

When Sidney Smith was rector of a
parish in Yorkshire, he found his YES
try We're discussing the propriety or
otherwise of paving a certain approach
to the church with wooden blocks.
Having decided to undertake it, the
question arose as to how. Gentle
men, said the witty rector, 81 think
if you will all put your heads together,
as the saying is, the thing can be ac-
complished without much difficulty"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

The trolley party is Brooklyn's latest
fad. You collect your party, board a
trolley car about p. M, go to the end
Of the line, and come back ON the same
car, singing and having a good time
generally both going and coming.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

N. X. White of Russellville, KY, re-
Gently plowed up bombshell from a
battlefield Of the late war; He built a
fire upon it and ran away, and it ex-
ploded in as lively fashion as if it
hadn't been buried thirty years and
mora
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

A "sign Of the times" is the great
plenty Of venison in the London mar
ket. Formerly those who owned deer
shooting sent the bucks to their friends;
now they send them to market to make
q little money.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04

Milk, applied once a week with n
soft cloth, freshens and preserves boots
and shoes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-12
TWO ATTACHMENTS FILED.

One Suit for S5,0OO Alleges Fraud and the
 Other for 2,OOO Alienation of Affec-
 tiOns.
 Attorney Jason P. Thomson and Real Estate Broker Frank H. Russell, both of this city, have been made the defend- ants in civil suit brought against them by Miss Elizabeth A. Bradley, also of this city, claiming $5,OOO dam ages Property belonging to the de- fendants and located on Chapel street near Ellsworth avenue and on Admiral street has been attached by Deputy Sheriff Pond. The suit is returnable to the September term of the superior court.
 The plaintiff, Miss Bradley is over eighty years old and in her complaint her counsel for number of years, col lecting rents, etc., for her. She further alleges that about July 6, 1893, she was
 the owner of a piece of property on
 State street, and being desirous of rais- ing some money, authorized Attorney
 Thomson to dispose of it. She clain-5
 that he concocted plan with Russell
 to dispose of the property and defraud her of her just deserts. Subsequently, it is claimed they entered into a deal
 to sell the property to John H. Whiting of New York for s11 ,000, but represented to her that they only received $7,000 for | it. In exchange for the State street | property it is claimed that they receiv- ed from Whiting the equity in four pieces of property, $3,000 mortgage 1 note and a promissory note for $1,0OO,
 making in all a total of $11,0O0. Out of the entire transaction Miss Bradley | claims that she received only the $3,000
 mortgage note and $4S9.16 in cash. Miss Bradley further alleges that the deeds of Writings property and the promissory note were made out to one James D. Monahan instead of to her. A | copy of the writ was filed in the town clerks office late yesterday afternoon. | Miss Bradley is represented by Alling, | Webb & Morehouse
 There was also writ in another at- l tachment, this time for $2,000, alleging 1 alienation of affections, filed with. the l town clerk. The plaintiff in this suit is
 Mrs. Flora Brown of Jefferson street, and the defendant is Miss Annie Tal- ] madge of 126 Monroe. street. The per 1 son whose affections it is alleged have
 been alienated is Mrs. Browns hus.
 band. Property belonging to the de-
 fendant and located at the corner of
 Ferry Path and Monroe street has been
 attached and the New Haven, National
 and Connecticut savings banks garnish'
 eed. MT. and Mrs. Brown intermarrieo
 September 22, 1884, and the alleged
 alienation of affections commenced Sep
 tember l, 1893. The suit is returnablt
 to the September term of the superior
 court.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-12
BLOCK INLAND IMPROVEMENTS.

A Channel That win Enable Excursion
 Boats to Save Considerable Timo.
 To cut a canal three hundred feet wide through a sand strip at Block Is- land the legislature of Rhode Island has appropriated s25,0oO and the town of Block Island s25.oO0 more. This done. Great Pond will form one of the finest harbors in the world, being sixty feet deep and large enough to harbor all of Uncle Sam's ships at one time.
 The Rhode Island commissioners were there last week. staked the canal out. advertised for bids, and will open them on the 2eth. If 1t can be done within the appropriation, the canal will be made six hundred feet wide in- stead of three hundred, which will be an obvious advantage.
 When this work shall have been com plcted Norwich and New London boats will have easy access to the island. sav- ing three-quarters of an hours time on the trip each way. However, the old harbor will be handler for the Newport and Providence boats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-12
4 NoraBLE BRfDaEr0Rr CASE.
Supreme Court sustains Judge IhaSefs Decision and Decides tho pishissai "' Pinkerman Legal.

Supreme Court sustains Judge Thaysri Decision and Decides tho Dismissal [" Pinkerman Legal.
 Bridgeport. July 1.-The supreme court of errors yesterday sent to th' clerk of the court in this city deei
 sion in the famous ease of eS-captaif of Police John P. Pinkerman againsl
 the board of police commissioner
 which removed him. in favor or the
 board. The court holds that the he' | ton of the board in dismissins cap tain Pinkarman for cause was legal and right. and the matter is there fore finally settled.
 The action was first brought In the form of mandamus proceedings in July | 1892. Just previous to this time cap tain Pinkerman had been disfnisssf from the force after a hearing oelor' the board. He claimed the board haG no cause upon which to dismiss him and brought the suit for reinsthte ment. Attorney Howard Knapp. wh' was at that time city attorney. at once filed a motion to quash In behalf or the police board on the ground that the charter placed the whole matter of re- movals within the discretion of the board, and claimed that after the board removed a man. the court had not power to review their decision. Captain Pinkerman's counsel. did not take up the case until a few months ago.
 Previous to the time 1t was argued Judge Thayer had rendered decision favorab ble to Officer Murphy in his man. damus case against the board. This was encouraging to the captains coun- sel and the case was argued before the same judge as soon as possible. Judge Thayer, however took different view of the Pinkerman case, because the captain had been dismissed after full hearing had been accorded him, while Murphy had been dropped with out that ceremony.
 Judge Thayer therefore sustained Attorney Knapp in his motion to guash and Captain Pinkerman ap- pealed to the superior court. The case was argued the first week in June at New Haven with the result as above stated.
 The captain therefore cannot recov- CT the salary of the office for the time intervening since his dismissal, and Captain Birmingham therefore has an undisputed title to the office to which he was promoted immediately upon Pinkerman's dismissal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-12
Ouails Increasing.

Members of the Portland Game club are highly pleased with their purchase of western quails made last winter. From present appearances their pre- serve will afford excellent shooting next fall. The birds have mated well, as is evidenced by the many flocks of little ones seen almost daily in the fields there. While moving last week, three broods were found in one field, and in another three nests each con- taining thirteen eggs. President Jud- son Brainerd has arranged to have sev- eral acres soWn with buckWheat, which will be cut and left where it grows, especially for the birds to feed on. The club also proposes to pur- chase two hundred more birds next winter, which will be liberated on the same preserve the following spring.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-12
THE sOIDIERS' HOME.
At Soroton-An Account of n Recent Nisi'
 There.

N
 There.
 The Soldiers home. Noroton, was new tr, says party of New Haveners who recently visited 1t. under better man hgement. The following from the Minsted Citizen Of July 10 is an hc- count by winsted resident Of a Visil made the home day or two ago,
 The Soldiers home is located at No rotor twenty-ons miles bearing west from Bridgeport on the main line of the New York and New Haven railroad. The home is situated on the western shore of Long Island sound upon an eminence overlooking the placid wa iors upon which numerous shipping crafts Of all descriptions are constant ly visible 10 the old veterans as they Sit and ioli around under the numerous shade trees that dot the beautiful lawn surrounding the home.
 The grounds comprise about eighteen ncres and with the exception of large garden in which vegetables of all des' rriptions are raised for use In ihe home Ii Is laid out with numerous walks ana rross-walks making convenient access 10 every part of the grounds. Flowers In brilliant colors and artistically ar ranged border the walks and drive Mays, making it a thing of beauty
 q Ns ecutive ability of Mir. James N. Coe' q dormer Winsted man. who is supcrln- fendent and general manager of the in- Btitution.
 The main ward is a large massive building four stories high. with long wide piaZzas extending from each story. affording from this elevation distinct view of Long Island shore across the sound. Upon these verandas were seated many of the old vets snuffing the salt air and contrasting, no doubt, their present surroundings to those of thirty years ago when they were snuffing gun powder on the banks of the Rappahannock in front Of Fred ericksburg, or the James in front ot Richmond
 Perhaps this article will suffice as all Introduction to a short series. l may write in reference to the general man ngement of the home, as We were very rourteously received by Mr. Coe, and taken through the institution by MT. M E. Dutton, another Winsted man, who superintends the laundry work, n very important and interesting feat lre of the institution. description of which We will give later.