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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
Saved by a Boy.

A lusty young man with a fur cap drawn
down over lis ears and pair of bright red
mlttens on his hands stopped boy at the
corner of Grand River avenue and Girls
void street the other afternoon to ask the
way to the city hall The lad waited a
minute to size him up and then replied:
Gimme Il quarter, and I'll put you
through rs slick as grease"
Put me through2"
YES know what you want You want
to go to the county clerks office fur mar
riagc license
pose do?'
"Well, youll have to ask three or four
times before you find it, and by the time
you git in there the hull crowd will be onto
you bigger'n a house"
II don't kcre."
NO, mebbe yOu don't care if 80 different
fellers laugh and giggle and wink around.
but when the reporters come out with their
articles about knee sprung lavseed lOlIy
poppin around fur half day to git license
to marry Jerusha Josh, who wears No. 10
shoes and spits on her hands to chop, it
won't be so mighty funny"
will they do that" asked the Young
man in alarm
They do that and wuss if you give 'em
a chance, Fur quarter | walk on ahead,
and you foller. | steer you into the city
hall. l skip you into the county clerks of
flee. While you are gittin license stand
the reporters off, and they don't even git
onto that catskin cap. It's with a dollar,
and that's my reg lar charge, but bein it's
you, and bein'-
"Ill doit-here's quarter-lead on"
interrupted the candidate" and as moth
ing about a "haysecd and a "Jerusha" has
appeared in the papers it is likely that the
boy worked the racket without a skip.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

What in the world is to be done with
those otherwise good people who persist IN
conversation in using "I' and "he" in tn,
objective? Most of these people know bet
ter, though some of them are college grad.
yates, but they go on saying, "Win YOU
20 with Dick and | to the symphony
and even, at was between he and -
though they would never, of course, say.
Twill you go with ~ The number of
people who use this solecism is apparently
increasing. Public school teachers use il,
and the sound of it is not altogether unf;;.
miliar in what is called good society,
though "me and him did it" is not whit
more ungrammatical than "between YOU
and l." Evidently some people use the
phrase without knowing that they do it.
but why should they? Still other people
who have been taught that "me and him
went is not correct, ignorantly suppose
that between you and me" is also uu.
grammatical. In this case, of course, the
mistake is duefo pure ignorance, and no
one can complain of it, because ignorance
Is generally misfortune rather than a
fault. But when people who have been TO
school use the nominative case in the oh
Jective and say between you and |. ~ or
II will let you and he know" one feels like
projecting some convenient article Of fur
niture at them. Perhaps some form Of vi
olence will have to be resorted to in order
to break up the practice Boston Tran
Script
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

4 sum total OF nearly 100000. There
must be something sadly wrong about
cur horse matters or there would not be
annually this amount of money leaving
our country. With care We can produce
better class OF horses than any country
on the globe, and at a much cheaper
cost. For years millions OF dollars have
left our shores for this purpose, and now
1t is time that the tide should change,
and instead Of this amount going from
US dUubly the mum her OF dollars should
be coming this way. BE more particu-
lar as TO the proper Kind OF mating and
1t will not be long until the breeders Of
this country will be getting back what
has left us in the last thirty years. With
selection as regards constitution, size,
bone, quality and brceding-and We
have the stock IRON which to make
choicc-it will only take few years Tor
us to bring all nationalities, with their
dollars toour doors. The sucker at home
has been well supplied, and at great
detriment to our home interests, so in
the future our aim should he to produce
the best possible horses from the best
sources. Each State should contribute
premiums in good sums to the three
best individuals in each class as n slim
ulation for this great business, the money
to be distributed annually at State horse
fairs, held some time during the late fall
or early winter, thus keeping up this
great interest nearly the year round. As
an auxiliary to this cause each owner OF
a stallion should contribute one service
fee in cash, which, together with the
money given by the State would make
handsome premiums ion exhibitors. |
And any owner whose penurousness is .
80 great that he cannot contribute, or
his stallion so poor that he cannot earn
the necessary amount, should be ex- /
GUIDED from any benefits therefrom. /
This certainly in a short time would .
place horse interests on much better
basis every way.
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Right In His Line,

The police court reporter, who had been
called upon in the absence of the regular
society reporter to 90 to wedding and de-
scribe 1t to the best Of his ability, had Just
returned and was struggling with his notes
pertaining to the brides toilet.
She was attired," he wrote. in a dress
that had business running in gorgeous
loop down in front, then up around the
waist, over the shoulders, and had big wrin
kIed sleeves made of cloth that looked as if
1t had been gouged out of some rich materi-
al OF bright cream color, dappled with
iron gray"
rs that the way you are going to do it
up inquired the sporting editor, looking
over his shoulders at the manuscript.
why not;' fiercely retorted the police
court reporter. I'm doing this on space
rates.'-Chicago Tribune.
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Strange Guatemalan Indians.

Speaking OF the peculiar customs of the
people of Guatemala" Vice Consul
Chandler remarked, almost all the
freight is carried on the backs of Indians
with US, the average load being about 900
pounds, and days journey for one Of
these natives thus loaded about twelve
leagues or thirty-six miles. The strange
thing about It is that on the return Jour
ney, If the porter cannot get a load to carry
back, he fills his pack or sling with stones.
This is to keep his balance, for, having
become used to forward leaning position
under his usual load, he cannot make sucb
rapid progress without some burden. Fur.
thermore, so safe is the country down there
that ba! containing 81 900 in silver can
be sent with absolute security on the
backs of these Indians from one place 70
another. "-Chicago News.
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CONCENTRATED FOODS FOR LIVE
STOCK.

Within comparatively recent period
various concentrated foods have come
into very general use by live stock own
ers. The old method of keeping animals
upon grass and hay until they reached
maturity has very largely given way to
the more scientific and also more prof.
table plan of supplying good deal OF
bran, meal, or some similar material in
connection with the coarse fodder. The
new system is great Improvement upon
the old, whether the object to be at
tanned is growth, fattening, pro luctiye-
ness or labor. The inability OF animals
to digest sufficient quantity OF bulky
food to supply them with all the nutri-
tious matter which they can proftably
use is a very serious defect which can
not be remedied while the old method is
exclusively followed, but which is COM
pletely removed by the addition OF
suitable quantity and quality OF concen-
trated materials.
Though concentrated foods are indis-
pensible to the highest degree OF success
in the management OF live stock. it is
possible to use them too freely. Many
feeders have found this out to their own
cost, and the injury OF some OF their
animals. Grain OF any kind may be
used to excess. Even though the total
quantity supplied is not extremely large.
1t may prove injurious by being given
with loo small 4 proportion OF other
substances. Ruminant animals especi-
ally need bulk OF food as well as nutri
ton. Hay, straw, or some similar ma
terial must be given in connection with
1t in order to have meal or any other
concentrated food give its best results. +
This is true not only as regards the .
growth or productiveness Of the animals. /
but also in respect to their health. /
In order to act properly upon its con-
tents 1t is necessary that the stomach be
somewhat distended. Ii material for
this purpose is not supplied in connec-
ton with the highly nutritive matter,
indigestion, with its long train OF serious
i'll, will be produced.
1t is true that the great majority OF
farmers err it the direction of not giving
enough rich food. But there are many,
in all, especially among dairymen and
producers of beef and mutton, who are
inclined to feed a smaller proportion of
'roughage" than their animals really
need. There are, also, many Young
farmers, who are intelligent and ener-
getic men but who have more zeal than
experience, who are Liable to make the
same mistake. For this reason the sur-
sestlon that in giving concentrated foods
TO animals there is an extreme in the
right direction as well as the wrong one
may not be either untimely or uuprofit- /,
able.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

a clever Frenchman who has original
ideas on most subjects employs a kind Of
barometer which may safely be called
unique. 1t is nothing more nor less than
the figure Of a general made of ginger
bread. He buys it every year at the place
du Trone, takes it home and hangs it bv a
string on a nail
Gingerbread, as every one knows. is cas-
lily affected by changes in the atmosphere
The slightest moisture renders it soft In
dry weather, on the contrary. it grows
hard and tough.
Every morning on going out the French
man asks his servant What does the
general say:' and the man applies his
thumb to the gingerbread figure.
Sometimes he replies, The general feels
habby about the chest; he would advise
your taking an umbrella" On the other
hand, when the generals symptoms are
hard and unyielding," the Frenchmau
sallies forth arrayed in his best, with no
fears for his spotless suit or his new hat
tie says the general has so far never
proved unworthy Of the confidence placed
IN his representations Compan
ion
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

\ friend once informed me that upon
one occasion, as he sat in his shalashka at
blackjack tok, he was surprised to oh
serve that all the blackjack presently took
flight and left the field As he sat and
wondered what could have caused this
sudden exodus, the reason for their alarm.
in the shape Of large bear, abruptly made
its appearance, steering straight down
upon the shalashka. Having only small
shot with him no. q, my friend did no,
quite know what to do, but as the bear
showed unmistakable signs of his intention
to investigate the shalashka and its con
tents, he thought he would see what little
intimidation would do, so he fired off his
gun over the beasts head. The wisdom
OF this move was evident, for no sooner had
the smoke cleared than Mr.. Bruin was oh
served in full retreat, galloping off toward
the forest as though he had to catch a
Magazine.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
TO TIiLERS Of THE SOIL
Hiat That May Prove Of Benefit 10
Our EeIgbbors,
idiCIe: O Jai3G5td Worth 10 the Farmer Collected
From Reliable Sources.
LADYBlRD EATS THE RED AND
BLACK SCALE.

Despite an unfavorable start and an
impression that the Koehele Australian
Iadyh had proved a failure, il appears
to be doing effective work in destroying
the red and black scale. An investiga-
ton has just been made Mt the Kercheval
place, near Los Angeles, where the steel
colored parasite was placed last fall, and
the result is said to have Eeen most
gratifying. A reporter who accompanied
the investigating committee says:
"Although it was late in the after
noon, an inspection OF the big lemon tree
where the colony was placed last year,
and upon which the surviving specimens
OF the bug were found, only occasionally
showed they had taken new lease Of
life. Upon and under the leaves from
top to bottom the stecl-blue bug was
seen, and there must have heen over 4
] thousand on that tree alone. There was
still some red scale on the old growth,
but not anywhere near the quantity
there was last year, and upon the new
growth there was scarcely trace. The
lemons were bright, and altogether the
tree presented the appearance OF
healthy, clean tree.
"But the investigation was not con-
fined to the lemon tree upon which the
parent colony had been placed. The
surrounding trees were examined, both
lemon and orange and everywhere the
ladybird was seen. Upon every tree, as
far as they were examined in the orchard,
there was specimens OF the OrchuS chdiV-
JeuS. They were not inert and sluggish
as when observed last fall, but were
thoroughly alive and alert, and the gem
tleman in charge informed the visitors
that during the early part OF the day
movement OF the leaves OF 4 tree would .
cause number OF them to fly up.
THE bugs have not been watched. No
attention has been paid to them, and all
by themselves they have been propagat-
ing and cleaning up the red scale in the
orchard after they have been officially
declared to be extinct. OF course the
original colony has long since passed
away and the present generations have
become accustomed to the country OF
their adoption and are overcoming the
obstacles that were necessarily in their
way.
According to the statements, they 4
nave but three generations a year, and
zach female deposits about $50 eggs.
Now that the bugs have overcome cx-
inction and are spreading all over the ,
rees in the Kercheyal orchard, it would
eem that Mr.. Koebele's modest claims
or them are being verified, and that {
hey will yet prove an etfectual foe to the ;
ed and black scale pest"
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PUT INTO RHYME.

. .----.., = = -
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE POPULAR SONGS CON-
TANNED IN HARhoNIzED MELODIES.
My Pretty Pearl, scotch Lassie JEAN"
Down by the Surging sea-"
..Where Many Mansions Be-
Across the Bridge" "Our Little Oueann
wen Triumph BY and By"
And Give Kiss to Me-" blue Eyesn
The Gift" "'Twixt You and T."
II Can't Forget the Happy Past"
And Coming Thro' the Rye"
WIKI "Ielua Lee and "LeOnore,"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
An Example of skin.

Among the experts employed at the Bath
Iron works is talented copper worker
who is foreman of Il copper shop Not long
ago he took small copper cent, hammer,
ing it into miniature teakettle The
words 'one cent, occupy all the space on
the bottom. There are a swinging handle
ana a movable cover, while the kettle is
hollow, and the nozzle too. Water can be
boiled in it. Eight hours labor was given
in the making. The artists name is Robert
Quicker and he receives twenty-seven dol
lars per week .-kennebec Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

The best hawk scarer and fighter we ever
had on the farm was a tame crow that we
called Mig. Father had taught the crow
to fight with the ROSTERS, and he had sent
TO the city and got a pair of steel gaffs for
for him. Mig was always on the alert for
hawks, and if he saw one lowering over
the farm buildings he made for it and
knocked it about in the air until it steered
for the peak, when Mig would come sailing
home with a song of triumph. After father
had got Mig well trained in the use of the
steel spurs he left them on the crow in the
daytime while the chickens and turkeys
were small.
While the family was at dinner one dav
we heard terrific screaming out in the
meadow. We all rushed out. and there
was Mig and mammoth hawk in lively
conflict. The crow was jabbing his steel
spurs into the hawks head like a game
cock, and lie was making it so hot for the
hawk that it didn't rise three feet from
the stubble before Mig hit it clip in the
head and downed it again. Mig killed the
hawk in short time, and a few DAYS
afterward he drove another one into the
top OF an apple tree and spurred it to
Cor. New York sun.
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He came from where he started
And was going where he went.
He hadn't had smell OF food
Not even had scent.
He never even muttered once
Till he began to talk,
And when he left the kitchen door
He took the garden walk.
He said: There's no one with me.
Because l am alone.
might have scintillated once
My clothes have always shone.
got here fore the other ones
Because started first.
The reason look shabbily
Is cause I'm dressed the worst"
Then asked him where he came from
This was just before we parted
And he muttered indistinctly,
oh, come from where started.r
Chicago Mail. T..
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

Ola people often take great delight in re-
Vertlng to the scenes of childhood and vie
win each other in early rcc3llections.
sometimes they assert confidently that they
can remember things that occurred in their
infancy.
One remarkable instance of this sort of
memory Is recorded in an old family Bible
IN New England household. The Bible
was published III lS!5, and on one of its
family record pages there may be read the
io!ioWlng entry made in a trembling hand:
Nancy Ann Sparks, born on the 4th Jan
uary' l'o2 according to the best of her rec
ollection.'-Iouths Companion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

Brown-l've got an excellent plan for
getting rid Of duns.
Green-Ha! that so?
B.-l have; never fails.
G.-Then, old fellow, you must let me
into the secret, for I'm worried to death
by EN-.
B.-Well, I've tried it several times of
late, and find the man never comes hack
again.
G.-Aye,-aye; what do you do,
B.-I pay him.-Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
Pigeons Milk Not "A JoLa

Inc Joke about pigeons milk has ,
louhdation in fact. After the incubatjon
OF the young has been completed the cr r,g,.
OF the parent birds become thicker ana =,
crete sort of curi, with which the ynnn..
are fed. This description of nonrisb 80,
is necessary for Them for il the voun,, n;p.
cons are deprived of it during the rs,
week or two after Matching they ara sn,s
to die.-New York Journal. SUN
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

Mrs Justgotrich loudly in crowded res
taurant(-Waiter, bring some Of that New
Rochelle cheese.
Jack huowit annoyed and in Whisper
You mean Neuchatel, don't youi
Mrs. Justgotrich Qouder than eyerl-
How stupid Of me- was thinking of New
Rochelle salts.-New York Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
IMPORTED HORSES.

Notwithstanding the reported overpro-
duction OF horses in this country there
has been during the last year imported
into the United States II, 400 horses at
an average cost of $3.50 per head, making
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
A Deserved Fate.

Some poet wrote the following: Long
is that morn that brings no eve: tall is the
corn that no cobs leave; blue is the sky
that never looks yeller; hard is the apple
that never grows meller; but longer, and
bluer, and harder, and tall, is my own
lady love-my adorable Poll" p. s.
The author has since died in great agony.
London Tit-Bits.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

IL Is said that mulberry wood makes the
most durable fence posts. Near Strode's
mil IN Chester county, Pa, there is n
farm which was inclosed with mulberry
posts nlnety-five years ago. They are sill
In good condition, and are now sunnortir,,
the sixteenth set Of rails, fPO' ''Ns
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

The jade mines in upper Burmah prom.
lse TO become a more regular source Of ma.
tiohaI prosperity than the ruby mines
themselves, Jade is going up in value. ow.
ing to the large demand from China. where
cups and various vessels are made of the
precious material, besides ornaments.
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Sealing a Compact with r,r,,.

Goths and lberians completed an agree.
ment by licking and joining their thumbs,
as Scotsmen once did and Moors still do
and rustic lovers once betrothed them.
selves by licking their respective masters
nngers and then pressing them together,
as they vowed TO remain faithful to each
other forever and day.-Irish Times
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

What we want" said the well known
publisher, is man to make maps for a
history of Africa shat we are about to pub
lish." fN'
Il think l am just the man you want
said the applicant, with glad smile, For
several years have been Il designer in n
cloak house."-Cloak Review.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

STA. ''0'' SspeP-
bent-im sorry for you with all nv
heart, old man. Ans
MIS- Bent-1ou are, are you? Well. if Won
are are so sorry as that for him, what do Won
lhlhk OF me?-Someryille Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08

LEY 1e,weler-How do you like your alarm
Customer-First rate
.. Vss ,Nt didn't seem pleased with it
Tit-Bits, "'oAeh now
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1t Is estimated that the cost Of support.
ing such an establishment as would be ex
pected Of married man in society in New
York city would not be less than $50. 600
year and would be more apt TO reach
sl0O, 200.
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In Doubt,

he-1ou are the most beautiful WON.
She- on are trying to flatter me.
He-But indeed it is true
9he-oh, know it is true. but I donbted
T T you really meant it-Indianapolis
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Little Boy-Please gimme some smashed
potatoes
Mother-fou should not say smashed.
say mashed. What made you SO late To
dinner5 i"'e "
Little Boy-There was "a mash up on
tn railroad-Good News Np y"
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NEVADA.
HAVE YOU HEARD THE NIGHTINGALE.

Yes, lave heard the nightingale,
As IN the dark weeds ! wandered
And slresmed and pondered
A voice passed by all fire
And passion and desire;
| rather felt than heard
The song Of that lone bird.
Yes, have heard the nightingale.
Yes, have heard the nightingale,
heard il and followed;
The warm night swallowed
This soul and body of mine.
As burning thirst takes wine.
While on and on pressed
Close to that singing breast,
Yes, have heard the nightingale.
Yes, have heard the nightingale.
Well doth each throbbing cnbcr
The flame remember:
And l-how quick that sound
Turned drops from n deep wound!
How this heart was the thorn
Which pierced that breast forloru!
Yes, have beard the nightingale
r. W. Glider in Century
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enc (sympathizinglyJ-I feel so sorry for
.he poor street car conductors. 1t must be
all day long. - vi 'l'e'i iee'
,,hre-Humph! They amt. They're on
the passengers feet more'n half the time ~
Buffalo Courier '''' '''o '''ne'-
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go, 1ou look depressed, WHITE
feel depressed, old man"
Una nat the matter' Business or Iova,p
t,sa business IS Alice de Million has lust re.
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WIS Wltherby-I wonder if | have On,
everything in this trunk. eo'
Mitherby-The only way to tell is for mo
=" LOCK II and strap it first.-Truth,
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Ieacher-Now, can you tell me how
many muses. there are!
German Boy-Nein, fraulein.
Teacher-That's right.-Harper's Bazaar.