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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
A Tricycle for Land or Wafer.

The people along Ogden boulevard,
near Douglas park, at $3.50 o'clock
one morning stopped and looked with
wonder at a slender man who was rid
ing a queer machine toward the park.
The amazement of those who followed
was not diminished when they saw the
man ride into the park, down the drive
to the water and out on the lake. The
man was L. j. Olsen, boot and shoe
maker.
The machine somewhat resembled a
tricycle., but ON the spokes of the drive
wheels there were paddles and the little
wheel was covered with sheet iron and
served as rudder. Underneath the
main axle and about four inches from
the ground two boats six feet in length
and eighteen inches beam, about two
feet apart like the hulls of a catama
ran, adapted the queer craft to the
water. The speed attained was equal
to that of rowboat. and Mr.. Olsen
claimed it was more easily propelled. -
Chicago News-Record.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

Not long ago the Prince of Wales was
one OF house party, his host being a
well known peer. After dinner the roy
al guest, the host and the other male Wis
itors repaired to the billiard room. On Il
table at the side were two or three boxes
OF cigars, and the prince was helping
himself to one, when an ambitious mil
llonaire approached him, and taking
nom his pocket a cigar case held it out
to the prince, saying, Il think, sir, you
will find these better"
Mr., -" replied the prince, "if
a man S dinner is good enough for me,
his cigars are good enough for me"
The millionaire was unexpectedly
called away to town next morning on
business. Detroit Free Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
FIGHT THE LICE.

You cannot become entirely free from
the pest of lice in your poultry-house.
You can get rid of the pests, but the
work of keeping them out must go on.
When you cease operations they return.
1t is not necessary to 90 to extremes ex-
cept to get them out, but care must be
taken when once lice are driven out that
the quarters will not be very inviting for
their return. Once week saturate the
roosts with kerosene, on both under and
upper side, and sprinkle the premises
with soap emulsion and kerosene. II
the droppings are removed, and the
nests kept clean after so doing, there
will be but little danger from them
Poultry Keeper.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Senators In the BARRIERS Chair.

A workman in the senate barber shop
in Washington is credited with saying
that the senators are 1.-The most peace
full" men to shave he has ever met,
though some of them are particular.
One senator, he says, he has twice shay
ed three times in one day, not because
his beard grows so fast, but because the
senator likes the sensation" Another
senator has pair of little side whis-
kers of which he is fond and to which
he devotes any amount of attention"
He did not reveal all this to any sena-
tor, and to the helpless man to whom it
was communicated he said with a de-
spairing tone, You know we are not
allowed to talk to our senatorial Gus
toners unless they talk to us first" Who
would not wish to be United States
senator while being shaved?-Chicago
Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
After the Wedding,

How soon should calls upon bride
be NADER" is question that has been
frequently asked. Calls upon bride
should be made very soon after her re-
turn from her wedding trip, if no day
for such has been designated, and as
Immediate a visit must be paid to her
mother or person at whose house the re-
ception was held. The bride returns
her calls soon and so far as possible in
the order in which they are made. Her
neglect to acquit herself of these debts
would be inexcusable, and a person 50
careless would deserve to be socially
forgotten. Detroit Free Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Too Profitable a Fire,

The following is a copy of a letter
from town in New Hampshire received
at the office of the Hartford Fire Insur-
ance company one day last week: 81
inclose 800 in this letter, which want
paid to the Hartford Fire Insurance
company of Hartford. | thought got
more insurance than my right" In
closed was 500 bill of the First Ma
tional bank of Concord, N. H. The
writing is identified as similar to two
previous communications received bv
the company, inclosing, respectively,
$50 and 500, making a total of $3.50
already received from this one source.
1t is evident that some beneficiary re-
ceived more than his due, and is en-
deavoring to quiet his conscience 10y re-
turning in installments the amount
overpaid. Several thousand dollars
have been received by the Hartford un-
der similar circumstances.-Har
Courant,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Chicago Streets,

Great city," said the stranger re-
hectively. Wonderful city! The build
ings are magnificent, the boulevards are
superb and the hotels are unsurpassed,
but-but why don't you name your
streets?"
"Name our streetsn' exclaimed the
Chicagoan. I'VE do. You can't find a
street in the city without name"
We'll, then" went ON the stranger,
why not derive some benefit from it?
Why should there be any secrecy about
it? Why not treat all streets alike? Why
put the name of one street on the cor.
ner lamppost and not the name of the
next? And why not have some uniform
ity about it?' he continued, warming
up to his subject. why tack the name
of ore street onto a building, put the
next on lamppost, the third half way
up an electric light post, the fourth
clear at the top of it and have no sign
at all for the fifth" -Chicago Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
The Barrister's Retort

A case was once tried in Limerick
before Chief Baron O'Grady. A bar
rister named Bushe was making a
speech for the defense, when an ass be-
gan to bray loudly outside the court.
Wait a moment, said the chief bar
on. One at time, MI Bushe, if
you please" The barrister waited
for chance to retort, and it came
presently. When O'Grady was charg-
ing the jury, the ass again began to
bray, If possible more loudly than be-
fore. Il beg your pardon, my lord, :"
SAID Bushe. May | ask you to repeat
your last words? There is such an echo
in this court | did not quite catch
them. -" Seventy Years of Irish Life. !"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
The LIBERTY CAP.
Its Origin and Significance and Those Wbc
Have Worn 1t.

Have Worn 1t.
The liberty cap, that bag shaped
headgear so often seen ON the head of
the Goddess of Liberty, and which sur
mounts the national colors on nearly
all Of eli, silver coins, owes its origin
to the Roman empire, where 1t was
given TO slaves as IA sign of their manu-
mission. The principal significance of
the liberty cap TO the American mind
is not, however, its Roman origin, but
rather its use as the official cap of the
successive doges of republican Venice
that model of the most stable govern
ment ever framed by man. " In the
doge's palace at Venice there is gal
lery full of portraits of the men who
ruled the republic for 700 years, and the
conspicuous place occupied by the liber-
ty cap in these portraits shows its i'm
portance as a national symbol of free
dom.
1t rather heightens the significance of
this ancient symbol in the minds of
good Americans when it is remembered
that the Emperor Frederick BarbarOssa
humbled himself before wearer of the
liberty cap, and that Andrea Dandolo
wore it ON the fourth crusade and at the
conquest of Constantinople. 1t occu-
pied a place in the forefront of the adj
vancing hosts that in the early part Of
the fifteenth century swept the Dalma-
tian towns and conquered the entire
coast from the estuary of the Pc to the
island of Corfu.
While Columbus was discovering
America the wearers of the liberty cap
were acquiring Zante and Cyprus, and
when the first half of the half starved
settlements on the Massachusetts coast
were battling for existence the republic
from which we borrowed our liberty
cap, having successfully resisted a
league of all the kings of ChristendOm,
was at the zenith of its glory.
The liberty cap is not as conspicuous
in our national signs and symbols as it
was in those of the rulers of the Adri-
attic, yet in modest way it immortalizes
the greatest republic of early times. s.
Philadelphia Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Three Black Crows Again.

The growth of "hue and cry" was
well illustrated the other day on the
banks of the Seine. Two fishermen in a
boat got into an alteration with wom-
an engaged in washing a poodle on
shore, splashed her with water and fled
from her wrathful shrieks. A crowd
collected, the cry was raised that a
woman had been drowned, and scared
by the success of their joke the two fish
ermen attempted to escape down the
river.
They were finally arrested at some
distance on the charge of having muir
dered a woman and her baby for the
sake of the rings worn by the former,
and of having thrown the bodies into
the water, and it required all the en-
ergy of the police to save them from the
1900 people who had followed them
along the shore in order to lynch them.
London Globe.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
A Ruined Wedding Cake.

An English gentleman residing in
Calcutta brought an action against
firm of Paris pastry cooks and confec-
TONERS under rather interesting circum-
stances. The plaintiff was about to be
married and ordered what has been call
ed phenomenal wedding cake from
the defendants. A sum of $l20 was
paid down for the cake on delivery.
The colossal and expensive article of
confectionery was packed by the plain
tiff's order, and he took it with him to
Calcutta. On opening the case contain
ing the cake when he arrived in India,
the Englishman found that he had lit
orally nothing but shapeless mass of
crumbs. The splendid gateau had been
hopelessly bruised and broken during
the voyage.
An action was then brought against
the Paris firm for sum of $l35, which
included, besides the price paid for the
cake, the cost of packing and transport.
The defendants maintained before the
Paris tribunal of commerce that they
had no more responsibility after they
had delivered over the cake to the per-
son who ordered 1t. 1t was true that
they recommended a packer, but that
expert acted under the orders of another
individual, who had been selected by the
plaintiff to superintend the operation.
The tribunal decided in favor of the de-
fendants.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
"a Comfortable Warm Weather Dress.

"
"Never heard of Chinese collapsing
from the heat, did your" asked a West
side doctor as he famed himself vigor-
ously and occasionally tugged away at
his shirt collar. "They may be heather,
but they have more common sense in
apparel than all of us good Christians
combined. | just passed one of the
queued gentry standing at the corner of
Madison and Clark at high noon, the
sun pouring upon the top of his head
and the thermometer registering 81 in
the shade, He was cool as cucumber.
He Wore no band about his shirt and
no collar to shirt or blouse. Vest he had
none. You and have from twenty to
twenty-five thicknesses of cloth close
about our jugulars and then we say we
are Christians. Christians know suicide
to be sinful, don't they? Then how dare
they choke themselves in blistering
weather? And the Chinaman isn't idiot
enough to clinch his undergarments to
his back with perspration producing
suspenders, nor wear his shirt inside his
trousers. He affects cool sandals and
light hats, and in all shows a superb re-
gard for his safety Next to following
the example of our first parents in their
first estate, the Chinese plan in summer
is the most comfortable style of dress
upon the face of the earth. "-Chicago
Mail,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
A Fortified Cornse

At Hazlewood cemetery, near Monte
yuma, Ia, one day last week, Charles
Block, wishing to remove the remains
of his wife, who died eight years ago,
opened her grave. He found it full of
water and was astonished at the weight
of the coffin. The combined strength of
five men finally brought the coffin out of
the grave, and when opened it was
found that the action of the water had
turned the body to solid stone, preserv-
ing its natural appearance to remark
able degree. Even bouquet of flowers
held by the dead woman was perfectly
petrified. The skin was fair and the
hair as black and glossy as in life
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
An Eastern Dainty.

The Chinese are certainly strange
people-strange in appearance, customs
and tastes. One of their greatest deli
cacies of food, regarded from a Chinese
epicure's point of view, is "milhi, I"
which, in plain English, means new
born mice, yet blind" These are placed
alive on little trays and set before each
guest, who dips them one at time into
a jar of honey and then swallows the
tiny creatures. When the emperor's we'd
ding was celebrated few years ago,
30, 600 of the helpless creatures were
thus consumed. New York Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
IN CRiCAGO'S SluMS.
Five Cent Lodging Houses Where Chain
Take the Place of Beds.

five Cent Lodging Houses Where Chair,
Take the Place of Beds.
Finding a lodging place for the night
when one has but cents-an ordinary
street car fare nickel-is no easy Job.
Lodging houses where the beds rent for
10 cents hold as grimly to tariff prices
as a coal combine III arctic weather
would do. 1t is case of fiat money
with those people. If they had 500 beds
and but FIVE dodgers, the sixth could not
get an abatement, even though his flesh
were dropping from his bones with
frost. No pay, no bed, - is the motto,
and they stick to it.
Nowadays dimes are being with
drawn from circulation. At least the
people who are forced into begging
them report that to be the state of the
money market. Two nickles make
dime, it is true, and so do 10 pennies,
| but there seems to be bear movement
in small coins, and this form of cur
rency also is hard to get, especially SO
! for those who either cant, don't or
won't work for it.
As matter of fact there are many
hundred persons in Chicago every night
who cannot purchase lodging for lack
of means and who stay out so late that
access to the station houses is denied
because they are already overcrowded.
These people will then sleep anywhere.
All they want is cover from the night.
That can be had in Chicago for
cents. But the lowest tramp, if for
tune favored him with dime, would
shrink with horror from lodging in
such place. There are one or two
places of the kind in Chicago, and they
are hard TO find. When found, they are
the very apotheosis of degradation, dirt
and dinginess. Beside the cent places
those where admittance is dime are
palaces. For 5 cents the ledger is al
lowed the privilege of chair until
morning - simply that and nothing
more.
The keepers of such places form the
lowest elements Of society. They do
not treat their patrons as humans, nor
yet as beasts of the field. The cent
wretch becomes an object for blows and
kicks. When his nickel enters the greasy
pocket that gapes for it, he is then an
atom of squalor, and he is treated &C
cordingly.
Recently the Atlas hotel was visited.
1t is probably the worst lodging house
in Chicago. The prices begin at cents
and run to Is cents 1t is located on
Custom House place few yards from
Van Buren, street. On one side of it is
a stable. There the horses get clean
straw every night Tor bedding. On the
other side is deserted church, which
has been purchased and which will be
shortly converted into another lodging
house. Amid such surroundings the
poor fellow who has but nickel is al
lowed to stay over night. He can sit on
three legged chair, or he can lie down
on the floor. In either event he is forced
to sleep with another man half cover
ing him, for every night the filthy Gel
lar is crowded. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
PLANT MORE POTATO SEED.

The experience of the Michigan state
station, corroborated by those OF other
stations, show that for ordinary distances
the half potato gives better results than
any smaller amount. For weak growing
varieties or varieties ha wing small tnbers,
even larger amount of seed will be
found more profitable. A careful inves-
tigation shows clearly hat an increase in
seed within the ordinal y limits, produces
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Rather Uncomfortable.

Inc following notice is posted in the
pension Office at Washington:
Members of the medical division are
forbidden to have their hats or clothing
on preparatory to leaving this Office be.
lore o clock. Any one breaking this
RUE VIII be charged with demerit of
10 minutes. VI
1t Is perhaps not strictly our bust
ness but we should think it would he
rather uncomfortable for the clerks Of
the medical division to work all dav
without any clothing.-New York Trib.
una,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
A Public Spirited EXnman-

Mrs. Matilda Gross MacConnell has
given the city of Pittsburg five squares
OF ground for "A public park. She is the
third woman in the city who has given
land for park purposes; thus helping to
remove from Pittsburg tho stigma of
being perhaps the only town in the
country devoid of open squares, plazas
or public lawns. Yet these public spir-
tied women cannot Notwithstanding
Letter,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

The biggest diamonds in Saratoga do
not belong to any of the women who
are stopping at the big hotels. They are
the property Of the stout woman who
has a cottage on one of the streets lead
ing up from Congress Hall. And she
wears her gems day and night She has
them on when the sun is shining bright
ly and later when the sun has gone
down and the stars have come out.
Wherever she goes there goeth also the
flash and the sparkle of the big gems
Saratoga Letter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
The Bones Were All There.

An auctioneer in New England city
recently sold horse at auction for so
cents. The horse was SO bony that the
auctioneer said by way of explanation,
that they the bones) were exhibited
Intentionally, for the purpose of show
Ing that none had been extracted"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

The real balm of Gilead is the dried
JUICE OF low shrub which grows in
syria. 1t is very valuable and scarce,
Tor the amount Of balm yielded by one
shrub never exceeded 60 drops day.
according to Josephus, the balm or
balsam Of Gilead was one of the pres
ents given by the queen of Sheba to
King Solomon. The ancient Jewish
physicians prescribed it evidently for
dyspepsia and melancholia. -Metho list
Protestant,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
NEVADA.
ON THE FRONTIER.

Two giant minds have stamped the mental
world,
Instructors of our times and times to be;
Toiling to bring mankind 10 harmony,
Smoke from each study on the frontier curled.
They searched more for fnality than growth,
Not for the footprint but the thought of God.
They worshiped wisdom in the Christening
rod
That scars transgressors, and yet both
Felt beauty as she moves through cycles vast,
And knew the hopefulness that cheers us
here
In our promotion toward the perfect sphere;
they loved the future and esteemed the past.
Revere their lives, . man, for ne'er again
VIII this old world contain two lovelier men!
Edward 5. Dreamer in New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19
Novel Why of Selling a Corn Curer.

A gentleman who has been travelling
in France relates that in Paris the bar
Der who was shaving him stepped two
or three times upon the side of his foot.
At last the customer called out:
please don't do that any morel |
have a corn"
Exactly what was trying to find
out, monsieur" said the barber bland
ly. 1--WE have an excellent preparation
for removing corns, for sale at franc
per bottle. Texas Siftings.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

Father-My boy, who is only three
years old, said to me this morning
tells the same old story.
Friend-Yes, and isn't it strange that
child only years old can repeat jokes
that are at least 25 years old?-Hallo.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

California (Mo) young ladies have or
eahized cooking club, and the young
men, IN retaliation, have established an
eating club, Reciprocity has been de-
termined on.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

a lady in Passaic, N. j., is reputed to
nave been literally talked to death by
swo rival sewing machine agents re-
trade,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
NOTICE or SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance
of an order of the probate court of Salt
Lake county, territory of Utah, made on
the 18th day of April. 1894 in the matter
of the estate of Jens Jensen. deceased,
tie undersigned, the administrators of the
said estate, will sell at public auction to
TO confirmation by said probate court,
en- the 18th day of July, 1894 at Il O'Clock,
M. at the south front door of the county
&C urt house of Salt Lake county, in the
city and county of Salt Lake, territory of
Utah. all the right, title interest and es-
tate of the said Jens Jensen at the time
of his death, and all the right, title and
tion of law or otherwise acquired other
than or in addition to that of the S id
Jens Jenson, at the time of his death,
in and to all that certain lot. piece or
parcel of land, situate, lying and being in
said city and county, and DIES ,ribed as
follows, to-wit: A part of lot six (6), IN
block twenty-five CD, plat "B,' Salt Lake
city survey, bounded and described as
follows: Commencing at a point one hun
the northeast corner of said lot six 81,
thence running west forty (40) feet, thence
south eighty-one tsD feet and seven %
riches, thence east forty (40) feet, thence
north eighty-one (SD feet and seven IN
inches to place of beginning. Teens and
&C nditions of sale, cash, ten per cent
of the purchase money TO be paid on the
day of sale, balance on confirmation of
sale by said probate court. Deed at ex-
Administrative of the Estate of Jens Jen-
son. Deceased.
Dated June 49, 1894.
James H. Moyle, Attorney for Estate.