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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
Unfortunate Chickens.

A farmer who has tried Shanghai fow!
and found them wanting gives the follow.
ing account of their peculiarties. Their
true name, he says, is SHANK high" and
he pronounces them rightly named.
They have no body at all, and when the
head is cut off the legs come right apart |
don't see how they can sit on their eggs
my jackknife can sit as well as they can.
They cont sit on the roost the same as
other chicken do; not a bit of it. When
they attempt to sit as other chickens do,
they fall off backward.
They sit when they eat, know, for pve
seen 'em do it, And I've seen 'em try to
eat standing but they couldn't fetch it;
for when they peck at grain of corn on
the ground they don't more'n half reach it,
but their head hobs right between their
legs and makes 'em turn complete somer-
set.
I'd as soon see II pair of tongs or com
passes walking about my yard as these
shank highs.
They crow, too, a long time before day,
when it isn't day. Probably because their
legs are so long that they can see daylight
long before II common chicken can
Youths Companion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

ing them as If she had never tasted any
thing more delicious. | sat down beside
her and initiated her.
'DO you know that l bought them my
self"
You, princcss?"
She tried to initiate the manner and
speech of the shopkeeper, but ended in a
wild burst Of laughter. Then, having
poured the large glass full of water, she
drank half and offered me the rest.
Drink" said she, drink" | emptied
the glass with one draft, and resumed my
absorbed contemplation of the beautiful
creature.
"What is the matter with your" she
asked.
81 am intoxicated.
already Graciousl What will it be
when we have finished the pitcher? Come,
eat"
81 am eating" l said, devouring her
with my eyes.
Come, be wise; it is necessary to dine"
But it took us Il long time to finish our
fried potatoes
Oh, the delicious feast!-Chares Aubert.
Translated by Emma Frances Dawson for
Short Stories.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
PascaI's Early Observation.

Blaise Pascal. who wrote remarkable
treatise on the laws of sound, was con-
stantly observing the familiar occur
rences about him, even as a boy. When
he was only 10 years old, he sat at the
dinner table one day striking his plate
with his knife and then listening to the
sound.
what are you doing with that plate,
Blaisep" asked his sister.
"See," he replied. when l strike the
plate with my knife, it rings. Hank"
Again he called forth the sound.
"When l grasp it with my hand So"
he continued, 1.-The sound ceases. lwon,
der why it is?"-Youth's Companion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
Simplicity the Rule.

The nightgown has become a dream
dress. The idealized garment demanded n
new name. The straight, plain, unadorned
thing our grandmothers slept in, that was
baggy and uncomfortable and very nm
lovely, hardly even suggested the dainty
ruffled and embroidered dress of TODAY
They have puffed sleeves and rufIles of lace
falling over the hands; have yokes and
heart shaped backs; are adorned with bows
on the shoulders, and have the waists con
lined with ribbon sashes. For summer
they are sleeveless and have pretty little
puffs for all armholes. They are hem
stitched at every seam and lie softly on the
ground an inch or so.
Sometimes the Vatican plat terminates
IN tiny train, but whatever degree of
decoration may be attained, the woman of
refinement never permits more than the
FINEST bit of color in the shape of a bow
or two to appear on her nightwear. The
colored SILK garments of n season or so ago
are RELOCATED to the background and the
hlghtwear of the girl of today is as white
ana dainty as her dreams.-New York
Press. h
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
The Sturdy Camel.

A camel has twice the carrying power
of an OK. With an ordinary load of 400
pounds he can travel ~ or IA days with
out water, going 40 miles day. They
are fit to work at years old, but their
strength begins to decline at 20, although
they usually live to 40. The Tartars
have herds of these animals, often 1000
belonging to one family. They were
numerous in antiquity, for the patriarch
Job had 5000. The Timbuctoo or Me.
harri breed is remarkable for speed and
used only for couriers, going 800 miles
In eight days with meal of dates or
grain at nightfall. Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

There Is no impression more unjust,
Tor more difficult to efface from the
minds of well intentioned women, than
that the entrance of women into indus
rial pursuits lowers their moral stand
ard. This is not always formulated
;hus plainly, but it is implied in all the
efforts of these well meaning women to
mitigate the condition of women work
mg for their weekly wages. If they
establish comfortable boarding house
u lodging house care is taken to insti-
lutte moral safeguards, which in many
Eases are so rigorous that self respecting
working girls refuse to enter them. If
they organize classes for recreation or
mental Improvement it is considered
quite within their province to address
these classes with words of warning and
personal admonition that it would be
considered an i1npertinence to address
to girls OF their age in other walks in
life If they desire to get bill passed
in behalf Of working women at Albany,
1t is the moral aspect that is urged out
of all proportion tothe legitimate reasons
in its support.
A feather worker once said, after
listening to combined amount of ad-
dresses at working woman's meeting:
why do ladies talk to us in that way.
sit at table with a dozen girls every
day and not word is said that would
offend those ladies, except our gram
mar. The alliance between poverty
and crime Is by no means exclusive.
The fact that girl spends nine hours
day in factory working for her daily
bread is an argument in her favor as
against satan and all his works.-New
York Evening Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

An Interesting Change of Color.

gu shterestihs tnahse Oh Nolofs
A. F. Walters, young chemist and
electrician of Jersey City, entertained
few of his friends some nights ago with
a bit of legerdemain that Hermann him
self might be proud of. Seating one of
the company in tie middle of the room
the chemist produced mysterious look
ing black wand which he began to wave
about the head of his subject The face,
neck and hands of the subject, who was
of very light complexion, instantly be-
gan to grow darker and darker until
they were very dark brown.
After the astonishment of the specta-
tors had subsidized the young chemist ex-
planned that his magic was but the re-
suit of very difficult chemical reaction
that he had been working to obtain for
year He had washed the face, neck
and hands of the subject with trans
parent solution. Under his own arm he
had concealed a small rubber bag of
gas, which was connected by rubber tube
with the black wand, itself a hollow
tube, so that while waving the wand he
had elected the gas. AS soon as the gas
came in contact with the solution on the
skin dark brown compound resulted
from the reaction.
Mr. Walters got the idea Of mis- inveu-
ton while watching the transformation
tricks in one of the Hanlon plays. His
first experiment he made ON the face of
young German. 1t worked perfectly
as far as coloring tho man was con-
cerned, but the black would not wash
off, and the German spent several un-
happy days trying to wear it off. But
now Walters has worked on his com
pound until it will wash off more easily
than cork Il New York World.
Cutting lee by Electricity.
A new departure in ice cutting has
been proposed by man who contends
that it is quite practicable to cut the ice
by means of wire, heated electrically.
His plan is to install portable steam
and dynamo plant at some convenient
point on the shore, near to the ice har-
vesting operations, and run from the
dynamo q suitable steel wire of the re-
quired length with proper return. By
generating sufficient current to main
tain the temperature in the wire at about
200 degs., and by stretching the wire
taut along the surface of the ice a
means of cutting through the mass
would at once be established. -Philadel-
phia Ledger
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
Implicit Obedience.

The prime rule in the training of chill
dren should be implicit obedience. The
child is happier for knowing that when a
command or prohibition is stated there is
no appeal from the sentence, and that
COaXing avails naught. Uncertainty is as
trying to small men and women as to us
who are more advanced in the school Of
life.
So much depends upon this great princi-
pie of obedience that it is marvellous tina;
parents ever disregard it. Ihave known
in my own experience three cases in which
it was impossible to make child take
medicine and death has followed in con
sequence. One of the most painful recOl-
lecLiUns | have is of seeing a child six
years old forced to swallow febrifuge
that was not unpalatable in itself The
mother, father and nurse held the strug-
Cling boy, while the physician pried open
the set teeth and poured the liquid down
his throat. Under these circumstances it
is probable that the remedy proved worse
than the disease.
| have not space to do more than touch
upon the great influence of early training
on the future life! All my days l have
been thankful for the gentle but firm hand
that, as a child, taught me moral courage,
self denial and submission. The tempta-
tions of life have been more easily resisted,
the trials more lightly borne, because of
the years in which was in training for
the race set before me- We do not want to
enter our children on the course as I'M
broken, 'soft" and wild colts, whose
spirits must be crushed before they will
submit to the work assigned them. They
may be young, yet strong; spirited, yet
gentle; patient, yet resolute.-A1arion Har-
land in Housekeepers' Weekly.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
New York No Place for Young Lawyers

Law students generally regard New York
as Mecca for their practice. The great
quantity of business in this city, the high
social standing of lawyers and the rapid
growth of all enterprises, to say nothing
of multitudinous railroads and CONSEQUENT
accidents, dazzle the eyes of students and
attract them as the candle does the moth
Newspaper stories about fabulous fees
abound, and the natural result is that
New York is filled to OVERLOOKING with
lawyers, so per cent. of whom do not make
comfortable living. The fact is that the
practice of law in New York has changed
greatly within this generation.
Twenty-Five years ago the most success
full lawyers seldom paid more than $1,000
year for office rent. Now the rent paid
by the largest law firms is nearer sl5 Oo0
than 81, 800. 1t requires as much room and
as much money to run great law firm rs
to manage good sized factory Such n
firm occupies from six to ten rooms in n
great down town Office building, and it
pays from 5000 to $4,000 a year in rent
few of the larger firms have fifteen or
twenty clerks, besides several Junior mart
ners, two or three stenographers and n
corps of Office boys. Their ordinary ex-
penses exceed $4,000 a year So, unless n
young lawyer intends to become a clerk on
a settled salary, or unless he has excep-
tional ability in parscular ,specialtes, he
had better keep out of New York Inter.
collegiate Law journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

Married on an Eleven-year-old License.
Vaclav Koran and Elizabeth friedrich
were made husband and wife by Justice
Daniel l.. Wheeler Friday afternoon on
the authority of marriage certificate
issued Sept ~, 1881, eleven years ago.
The license bore the signature of County
Clerk f. F. G. Klokke. Koran is now
forty three years old, and she is two
wears older. The obstacle which had
kept apart their yearning hearts so many
years was the veto of an angry father
A year ago the father died, and after
waiting twelve months for propriety's
sake the constant lovers We're married
Chicago Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
ASPIRATION.
The nightingale sat on a bough

The nightingale sat on bough
And smoothed a shining wing.
.Who taught you'-scoffed the terrapin
who taught you how to sing?"
The nightingale blushed fiery red:
She had not been to school;
She unused on what the tortoise sail
And sighed. Twas not by rule"
A rabbit skirted down the path.
Advancing in the sun.
"Who taught you'-scoifed the terrapin.
"Nyho taught you how to rum"
The rabbit blushed fiery red,
He had not had master,
He flung his heels against his head
And tried to run the faster.
The nightingale she cracked her voice
Learning to sing by rule,
The rabbit broke his forward leg
In gymnasium school
The terrapin, who could not sing,
Who could not follow after,
She sat beside her native spring
And shook her sides with laughter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

The Christian name Ralph is a word
concerning the pronunciation of which
there are great diversities of opinion.
Lord Tennyson, in late outburst of
what may not irreverently be described as
uninspired poesy, urged, "Do not call it
'Rafe' to rhyme with 'chafe,' but Raft TO
rhyme with 'chaff.'"
Even this amended form would be hard
lythe thing in the ears of our Scotch neigh
bors, who, following the vowel sound rec
commended by the laureate, give the ''l' in
the word its full value We have heard
among others, lineal descendants of Sir
Ralph Abercrombie thus pronounce it,
London Tit-Bits.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
Encouragement to Literary Beginners.

Encouragement to Literary Beginners.
The Brownings had an apartment near
the Rond point, where we used to go
and see them, only to find the same
warm and tranquil atmosphere that we
used to breathe at Rome-the sofa
drawn out, the tiny lady in the corner
the afternoon sun dazzling in at the
window. On one occasion Mr.. Hamil-
ton Aide was paying visit. He had
been talking about books, and, half
laughing, he turned to a young woman
who had just come in and asked her
when her forthcoming work would be
ready. Young ec-stns--sre- ashamed.
and very properly so, of their early fail
ures, of their pattes de mouches ana
wild attempts at authorship, and this
one was no exception to the common
law, and answered Never" somewhat
too empha@cally.
And then it was that Mr.. Browning
spoke of one of those chance sayings
which make headings to the chapters of
ones life. "All in good time" he said
and he went on to ask us all if we re-
membered the epitaph on the Roman
lady who sat at home and spun wool.
You must spin your wool some day."
he said kindly to the would be author
ess; every woman has wool to spin of
some sort or another; isn't it SOP he
said, and he turned to his wife.
| went home feeling quite impressed
by the little speech, it had been so
gravely and kindly made. My blurred
pages looked altogether different some
how. 1t was spinning wool-it was not
wasting ones time, ones temper-it was
something more than spelling paper and
pens.-Anne 7. Richie in Harpers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

MIS- bediord-Chord-I see that afte,
iiiaNlhs me a gown and a tea jacket of thai
sllk you had enough left to make curtain,
,or your waiting room window. Mmn
hohgDlll' ! won't complain if you will tell
me why Nine. Cutwell refused to toncb
mat SILK and said there was not enough n
it for even a gown. '''''Sn Vi
NINE. iLongbill Calmly Probably Nine
out"eil waiting room has two windows
Kate Fields Washington. D
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
A hush rested upon the whole village

A hush rested upon the whole village.
The converted cannibal woman had re-
turned to her home the evening previous
and eaten her husband and three children.
She was now relapsed into hopeless and
defiant savagery.
poor thing" they whispered among
themselves. Her zeal in her new relations
was too great. This is the reaction
They told in subdued voices one to an
other how she had attended 90 o'clock
teas within month and shuddered as they
thought of her temptation.-Truth.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

At the May meeting of the French
academy there were thirteen candidates
to fill one vacancy-historians, critics
poets, dramatists and men of science.
Seven ballots were taken without result
rs no candidate secured more than ten
votes
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
An Anecdote of Caleb Cusbiny

Caleb Cushing once asked an acouaint-
ance in whose company he happened to he
what name was given to the part left aftor
check had been torn from a checkbook
me gentleman could not inform him. A
Re" Gays after he received n letter from Mr.,
Cusning with the single word Stub y
trivial as the question seemed, he could
'ot rest until it was answered. Green Rae
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

Wife-My husband is the queerest
man.
Friend-In what respect?
Wife-Why, before he married me I
couldn't get him to leave the house be-
fore 10 o'clock, and since can't get him
to come to 1t before that time.-Detroit
Free Press
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
Realistic.

First Artist received magnificent
tribute to my skill the other day at the ex-
hibition.
Second Artist-What was itS
First Artist-You know my picture, "A
Storm at SeaY Well, IA man and his wife
We're looking at it, and heard the man
say, Come on, my dear; that picture
makes me sick. "-Brooklyn Life
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
A Change,

Husband-You have changed washer.
women, see.
Wife-Yes How do you know
Husband-Instead of getting Brown,
Jones and Robinson's shirts, am getting
some strange garments | never wore be.
fore.-New York Weekly.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

Editor-How often must | tell you, sir,
that cannot use your verses? Tell me,
why do you write poetry anyway?
Poet-Ah, Mr.. Editor, wish so much to
see my name in print
Editor-Then why don't you have some
visiting cards printedP-Fliegende Blatter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05
school Teacher RepeIs n Tiper.

Miss LucindaQ Gore, of Lackharabad,
india, Is school teacher. Not long apo
she was standing at her blackboard
When, turning around, she saw in the
doorway the glazing eyes of a tiger,
with woman's instinct she seized a
broom and drove it in the tigers face
brush foremost, One of the straws en-.
tered the tigers eyes end he drew bacl;
with howl of pain to make a spring
When she slammed the door in his face.
Tho door was heavy, but the supports
We're frail' While the tiger banged the
door with his head Miss Gore lowered
the largest of the little fellows out of the
window to alarm the neighborhood.
When the brave little fellow was safely
OH MISS Gore took her broom and went
BACK to defend the door, which the tiger
was still assaulting At length-and it
seemed ages-there were shots, cheers
ana aterrible cry. Then the door opened
the crowd rushed in. Miss Gore did not
then faint, nor afterward. Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

Ordinary sticking plaster makes n mod
ieiheuy ior corns, us 1T keeps them soft and
prevents the rubbing. -New York Journal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

D.. Inc Australian aborigines appear
t bor 20 aylng out Last year the nun
per OF them in Victoria was ,,nder
S IEv, IN the i2 months there were 10
a oir.ns, ~ deaths and 1 marriage of
aDoriginals in the colony.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-10-13
RINGED, STREAKED AND STRIPED.
Neither Sucker nor Bass, St0netOter
nor Sundarter.

Lamar Powell, editor of Fairmont
and farmer of Clinton, is solely and
alone responsible for the following
fish story. At last accounts he was
resting easy: A few nights ago
Messrs. Jonathan Jollif, Horatio
and Grant Swisher, of Catawba,
caught new kind of fish in the Mo
nongahela a short distance below
that place One Of the party gigged
it. They thought at first it was
white perch, as it was of that shape.
1t was about two and a half feet
long and weighed nine pounds. On
either side of it there were two rows
of scales, and between the rows the
skin was blue and smooth like that
of catfish Its back was also like
the scaleless streaks on its sides.
The half of its flesh was white like
that of the ordinary fish, while the
other half waa red like beef We
were shown one Of its scales, which
was almost as large as a half dollar,
When caught the scales we're the
color of gold. No one could tell what
kind of a fish it was, the oldest in
habitant had never seen anything
like it, so the fishermen threw the
flesh away and kept the skin. If
any of our readers have knowledge
of such fish we would be GLAD to
hear from them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-10-13
800 Reward, 800.

The readers of this paper will be
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is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work
The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers, that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials. Address,
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