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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-09-27
The Old Fashioned Genius.

Everything changes with the fight of
the years. The genius of today is no more
like the old fashioned style of genius
than digging potatoes is like the first kiss
of love
1t used to be that genius could be told
by his appearance at a considerable dis
lance He wore his hair long and in a
scrambled condition, II vest with soiled
front, and sprinkled his coat collar with
dandruff. His wife, poor creature, had to
support him and the family, and while
every one pitied her, and the neighbors
brought in food and clothing for the chill
dren, she felt secret pride in being the
wife of real genius.
A genuine worthless genius used to have
everything about his own way. Nobody
charged him anything for drinks, the police
refused to arrest him, and even the grocer
expected to lose much of the amount
charged against him. He could dress as
disreputably as he pleased, and everybody
admired his eccentricities. Traits that
would have been downright evils in any
one else were simply oddities in his case.
He jollied along through life without ever
doing square Gays work, and at death
was given the IT, est funeral his town had
seen in long VIII.
/ But it is different now. The genius of
today, in order to hold his job, has to have
his hair cut, brush his clothes, keep sober
and saw wood just like common people.
He must pay for everything he gets and
receive no more favors than drayman.
But the change had to come because men
of genius were becoming so very numer-
Gus and commonplace that something had
to be done to reduce the tax they were
levying on ordinary folks.
The geniuses had a real snap, but like
lots of other people they spoiled it by over
working it,-Chicago Times.
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The pail, or ''precipice," can be reached
by long drive from Honolulu. When
two ladies who had travelled much ard
were accustomed to hearing French spo-
ken in foreign countries were told that the
pail was one of the places to be visited
they translated the word palace" As
they were invited to the latter place to a
reception one evening they ordered car
rage and set out, in their best finery, after
giving the coachman the order, ITO the
pail"
Il fear you will have an unpleasant
drive" the hotel clerk had ventured to re-
mark, but they only replied:
"Oh, no; we have determined to go, and
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Overheard at Niagara.

"The Niagara river, you will Observe"
said the guide up at the falls, runs more
rapidly on the American side than on the
Canadian. This is natural. 1t is due to
the larger degree of quickness in vogue in
the United States. If the falls were en-
tirely in the Dominion of Canada all the
water that is bound for Lake Ontario
would never get over the precipice, and
Lake Erie would fill up and overflow the
country, and there wouldn't be any coun-
try"
THANK heaven, then, that it's in the
United States" said the Philadelphia.
Not by a darned sight," retorted the
guide; "if you want to fire off any graft
tude you'd just better be glad it's in New
York state. If the falls were in Philadel-
phia they'd be stopping to think all the
time or going to sleep, and deluge would
come of it, and there wouldn't be any Phila-
delphia."
And then he resumed his monotonous
chant of, And in the next cage you will
find the whirlpool rapids where Captain
Webb"--
And so on.-New York Herald.
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In England the ordinary domestic pin had
become in the Fifteenth century an article
of sufficient Importance to warrant legisla
tive notice. An act of parliament passed
in 1883 prohibited the importation of pins
AS necessity of the toilet pins were intro
duced into England in the latter part OF
the Fifteenth century by Catherine How
ard, queen of Henry VIII, who received
them from France
Very good pins were made at this period
of brass, but large portion of them were
made of iron, which were blanched and
sold for brass pins. In order to prevent
this imposition upon the good people OF
England, parliament, in l543 passed an act
providing that mo person shall put to sale
any pins but such as shall be double headed
and have the heads soldered fast to the
shanks of the pins, well smoothed, the
shanks well shapen, the points well round
ed, filed, canted and sharpened"
England continued to depend upon
France for its supply of pins till the year
1926, when John Tilsby introduced the
manufacture into Worcestershire. His
business grew to such an extent that it is
said he gave employment to about 1,5OC
persons; at any rate, his pins-Stroud pins
as they were called-gained high reputa.
tion. In 1886 the manufacture was intro
duced into Bristol and Birmingham, the
latter place ultimately becoming the great
center of the industry Washington Post
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"Let There he KiItens.O

Jenny and Ned were discussing the beau
ties of Tabby's new kittens. "Now, Ned,
why are they all born together? Why
aren't some older than the others, like you
and me, you know" asked Jenny.
well, it's easier for the Lord to make
lot at once"
well, how does he do it?"
ION, he takes dust and covers it with
fur and"--
But he don't make babies like that"
well, babies aren't kittens, are they9
Inc Lord takes more pains with baby.
lie only makes one at time, but when
he wants kittens he just says, Let there
be kittens' and there are kittens" Jenny
was satislied.-New York Advertiser.
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A Military Canine.

San Francisco possesses IA dog that does
regular military guard duty. He is New.
foundland and the pride of Battery X
Fifth artillery. This dog is marvel in
his way. Every night at dusk, as soon as
the sentries are about to patrol the premises
around the official quarters and the bar
racks of the enlisted men, Ned, as the dog
is called, after wagging his tail to the
officer in charge of the patrol, starts on the
grand rounds. If there happen to be any
men lying around or suspicious characters
lurking about Ned soon spots them, and
although the dog will not bite, yet he will
hold on to his captives until relieved by
the appearance of a sentry.
A few nights ago Ned strayed down tc
the beach beyond the troopers stables anG
espied the carcass of COW which had beer
cast upon the sands. His loud yelping
soon attracted the officer and guards, anf
when they arrived Ned was busily engaged
in tugging at the remains of the dead DO
vine.-San Francisco Bulletin.
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The Laps call their country SABINE or
Same and themselves Samelots, and the
term lots has generally been supposed to
be contemptuOus nickname given to
them by foreigners, derived from the Fin
nish ''lappu," and meaning simply ''land' .
end folk" A more plausible suggestion,
however, is that Of Professor Friis, of
Christiania, who refers the term to an old
Finnish root "lappaa," signifying to roam
or wander about, in allusion to their nomad
habits. In the mouth Of southern or more
civilized Lapps it appears to have become
synonymous with rude or barbarous, and
is so applied by them to the less cultured
northern communities.
Anthropologists seem to have some diff.
Guilty in assigning to the Laps their exact
place in the human family, but it may be
safely affirmed that they are combination
of Caucasian and Mongolian types Be this
rs it may, their physical characteristics are
emarkable-decidedly more remarkable
than attractive. They are probably the
shortest race in the eastern hemisphere
unless it be Mr.. Stanley's demoniaca
dwarfs. A man over five feet in height
would be a giant among them. and tn,
women are rarely more than feet
inches. They are also the shortest headed
and the thinnest skinned people in tn,
world. Some Of them indeed are Ions
headed enough in the intellectual sense
and know as well as any how to drive
bargain and deal with strangers, but the,
are none the less prominently what tn,
scientific people designate as "brachy
cephalic. GOOD Words.
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Boarding in New York,

Boarding houses form the home of many
single men and women and small families
in New York. Rooms can be had in some
of the best locations in the city for all the
way from $50 to $40 and SIS a week. The
first named price is the minimum for a
ballroom in desirable locations. Thou.
sands Of young and middle aged men and
women are rooming in one house and taking
their meals in another Table board can be
found without going but few doors or
block away for from IS to 81 a week. Room
and board in good boarding house. with
the music of a piano thrown in, cost from
81 to $40 and $l5 week, in some locations
as high as $50 for single man. But in a
majority of the better grade of boarding
houses from IS to Sl2 is fair average.
know men with wives who pay only $17 for
one room and board for two.
Married men without business of their
own, but who earn from S25 to $50 week
and there is a vast number of this class in
New York--live in boarding houses Hotel
living is more expensive than the best
boarding house life. A single man cannot
live in second class hotel even for less
than SIS week, and married man with
out children will have to pay for one room
and board S25 to 800 week. At such
hotels as the Fifth Avenue and Windsor
500, and even more, would have to be paid
for similar accommodations. Prices vary
according to the size and location of apart
ments.-Sydney Dean in Belford's Maya
vine
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The Popularity of the Canoe.

The canoe is growing to be on water
what the bicycle is on land. Each is COM
paratively inexpensive when the cost of
horse or team or that of a yacht is con-
sidered. Each also gives the owner an easy
means of transportation to spots somewhat
off the beaten road of travel, and each
moves along with grace and speed not al
ways found in the larger and more expen-
sive vehicles of transportation. The canoe
is not yet in such common use as the
bicycle, but it is steadily growing to popu-
lar favor as the public discovers that it is
by no means the unsafe craft that on first
appearance it seems to be. Still it is al
ready in quite common use, especially
around the larger cities and at the differ
ent summer resorts where there is any
amount of navigable water.
1t is met in the gloom of the forest lake
or along the sandy shore of the fashion
able watering places. Daring tourists glide
down the banks of European rivers on its
polished seats, and one of the most interest
ing bits of description of foreign travel has
recently come from the pen and pencil OF
two canoeists who journeyed from the Black
forest to the Black sea in a canoe. Boston
Advertiser.
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TennYsOn's Vanity.

Tennyson did not object to homage. ANY
form of it that was sincere gave him real
pleasure, but he decidedly objected to be
ing stared at. He saw no reason why
strangers should wish to come or should
be permitted to come trooping over his
grounds, peering into his windows or in
tercepting him in his daily walks But il
they chose to take off their hats as thew
passed him on the road, that was another
matter.
Sir Edwin Arnold says that Tennyson
had vanity-a noble vanity-a proud
pleasure in the very notorety which
brought strangers peeping and stealing
about his gates to get sight of him, al
belt you saw Private Road painted on the
first rod of his domain and Private
Grounds inscribed upon the first boundary
fence. He did not like the country people
to pass him on the road without recogniz-
ing him, and now and then, when "a visitor
from afar came with genuine alteration,
he could and would be immensely gracious
and generous. Cor Boston Herald.
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How Earthquakes Record Time.

Man long ago found out that in order
to get at many of natures secrets he must
contrive some plan of watching her at
work while he himself slept or was busy
with other occupations. The numerous
automatic instruments that we now pos
sess. such as thermometers that register
with pen the variations of temperature,
without interruption by day or night, have
been invented to supply this want of
sleepless eye in the service of science
Among the latest of these inventions is
one devised in Italy to make earthquakes
and earth tremors record, in clock time,
the instant of their own occurrence.
A seismograph is an instrument in
which delicately suspended pointer
marks the oscillations due to any shaking
of the earth surface. DR.. Cancani has re.
Gently added to the seismograph contriv-
ance by means of which every earthquake
shock makes, together with the telltale
drawing of its own oscillations, photo
graph of the face of chronometer, there
by recording its exact time of occurrence.
This is effected with the aid of an in
candescent electric lamp, connected with
circuit which is only closed when shock
affecting the seismograph causes a lever
to form the electric connection. The face
OF the chronometer is thus brilliantly illu-
minated for the fraction of a second,
and the position of its hands is photo
graphed upon Il sensitive plate exposed for
the purpose. The instant the shock is
over the instrument automatically adjusts
itself in readiness for the next disturb
ance.
With such ingenious care is the earth
being studied by man near the close of
the nineteenth century! But there is no
doubt that our ancient mother will have
an abundance of problems left for solu-
ton when the twentieth century, too, hears
the footballs of its successor Youths
Companion.
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II There Were No Mirrors

1t would be interesting to consider some
of the effects upon the world at large II
mirrors had never been invented. 1t Is
certain that the mortality by drowning
would have been increased, such is the
vanity of the human breast. There is no
doubt that the present fastdiousness in
matters of dress is largely the result of the
faithful reflections of the looking glass.
How could II woman bother herself about
the set of her gown in the back if she had
no looking glass to tell her she had Il back
"a thing which being herself in front, as
the little girl in Punch used to say, she
would not otherwise suspect?
This doing away with the set of n gown
in the back would have marked change
upon the feminine nature. For any one
knows who has made even the most super
fetal study of woman's mind that so
close is the connection between the set OF
her gown in the back and the set of her
mind in front, so to speak, that the veriest
seraph that ever lived will become almost
anything from an arch fiend to an idiot if
she finds that her new bodice wrinkles iii
the back. And there is no doubt that the
emotions attendant upon II glove fitting
waist are akin to those of religion.
Further effects upon the moral nature
are not confnedsto women. Lying, with
no mirror to tell the antidotal truth, would
become the most magnificent and dsas-
trous of vices. The art of flattery would
be no longer fine art, but the most enter.
prisng business in all the world. With a
little practice one would be able to bring
about the most grotesque performance in
the world. For example, imagine an enor
mously stout man fully persuaded by dot.
ing friends that he has the proportions OF
perfect manly beauty and behaving him.
self with fitting attempts at airy agility.
Or, sadder yet, fancy a woman who is
hideously ugly and pathetically ignorant
of 1t, making herself grotesque with all the
airs and coquetries that make beautiful
woman irresistible New York World.
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The Students PRAYER.

There was long ago Divinity hall pre-
sided over by most amiable and dignified
professor. On certain days the senior
students opened the proceedings of the day
with prayer One morning raw youth
from remote region performed this duty,
ana 1t was a memorable occasion. None
VINO were present can forget how the ven
cradle professor turned and gazed on the
untutored lad, who prayed for him as fol.
lows; Lord, have mercy on our professor,
for he is weak and ignorant. Strengthen
his feeble hands, confirm his totterinp
knees, and grant that he may GO ont and
in before us like the he goat before the
dock. "-"Twenty-five Years of St. An.
drews."
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Old Time Remedies,

Strange as it may seem to some, the in
gradients of the witches caldron in "Mac-
beth, " at least part of them, were once
standard remedies among Europeans. In
the tenth and eleventh centuries a sover-
eign cure for ague was the swallowing of
a small toad that had been choked to death
on st. Johns eve, and splendid remedy
for rheumatism was to fasten the bands of
clothing with pins that had been stuck
into the flesh of either toad or a frog
physicians frequently recommend the wa
ter from toad's brain for mental affec.
lions and that live toad be rubbed over
the diseased parts as cure for the quin-
sy.-Chicago Herald.
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Getting Even with Law Men. ,

The antipodean young man seems to be
quite up to date in the matter of Incidence
at dancing affairs, but the young Austria
liam girls are just now triumphing in the
possession Of an ally in no less a parsonage
than Lady Hopetown, who invites to the
social functions of Government house SO
many less ladies than men that the former
are in great demand, and able to enjoy the
feminine privilege of discrimination to
their hearts content. 1t is also quietly
understood that the eyes Of the distin-
guished hostess are upon the dancers, and
that the young man remiss in his duties
will be very apt to be missed at the next
gathering York Sun.
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Red, Blue and Orange HaiIstop.

Humboldt. an authority on atmospheric
phenomena who has never been disputed,
tells of heavy hailstorm which passed
over Tuscany on March IA, 1878, every ice
globule of the entire fall being of beauti-
full orange color Five years prior to this
extraordinary event Carniola, Germany,
was treated to fall of five feet of blood
red snow, followed by a slight fall of blue
hail, which is said to have given "the
whole face OF the earth an exceedingly Gu
rious aspect" Red hailstones fell at Am
sterdam in l726, at London in 1868 during
the time of the great plague), and at divers
places in Ireland and France in the early
part of the present century.-St. Louis Re-
public
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When Ulman Stromer long ago estab-
lished paper making in Germany he had
no foresight of the important position pa
per was destined to assume in the civiliza.
ton of man. In book printing, and out
side of it, 1t Is the most efficient agent in
the advancement Of the race, and has be-
come supreme necessity. It's the founda.
ton of the book and newspaper arts, the
Indispensable aid of science and instruc
tion, as well as of commercial and social
intercourse. In short, it so governs our
whole age that hardly anything could be
thought of without paper in its present
shape, ,Eduard Crosse in Popular Science
Monthly
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Wool Treated with Chlorine.

Attention is called to the fact that wool
which has been treated with chlorine &C
quires stronger affinity for mordants and
dyestuffs, and in consequence is dyed much
deeper shades than untreated wool. This
being the case, care should be taken in so
treating wool that too much bleaching
powder be not used from to 216 per cent.
OF the weight of the wool being quite suf
hcient, this to be made into clear solu-
ton, acidilled with sulphuric acid. the
wool being worked in this for thirty min.
utes, rinsed in water, and then dyed in the
usual manner.-Textile Mercury.
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One of O'Connell's Bulls"

Some extremely amusing mistakes have
been made by even the most practiced
speakers in their desire to carry their audi
ence with them. O'Connell once, In an
election speech in Cancellation hall, told
his followers that il measures injurious to
Ireland were brought into parliament he
would 70 over to England and Idle on the
floor Of the house of commons in opposition
to them" and when he came back he
would say. "Are you for repeal nowi"-
London Standard.
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Low bookshelves," says furniture
dealer, who is a lover of books as well.
have an origin in reason besides the
caprice of fashion. Heat is injurious to
the binding of choice books, drying out the
natural oil of the leather and making them
warp and get out Of shape. Most rooms
are verys warm in the upper parts and
these five and six foot bookcases are a
necessity rather than notion. Cold is as
hard on books as overheating, and an at
mosphere that is too damp or too dry also
Injuries them. Thesun pouring in directly
on, the shelves fades the bindings. You
can have cheerful, sunny library and yet
keep the volumes out of the SUMS full
power New York Times.
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l draw my thumbnail over the melon,
scraping off the thin, green skin. II the
edges of the skin on each side of the scar
are left ragged or granulated, and the rind
under the scar is smooth, firm and white,
and has something Of CLASSY appearance.
the melon is ripe. But if the edges of the
scar are smooth and even, and the thumb
nail has dug into the rind in places, and
the skin does not come off clean, then the
melon is green. You can easily learn on
Two melons, one ripe, the other green,
noting the difference after they have been
opened. Southern Stockman and Farmer
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Over a Game OF Chess.

An awful example of the risks to be en-
countered by those who play chess with
adversaries Of uncertain temper is recorded
in the ANNALS Of the Four Masters" Two
kings Of Irish provinces began game on
the best of terms, but he who got the
worst of it seized one of the rocks and
flung it with such force at his royal oppo-
nent that 1t entered the brain and killed
him on the spot.-Blackw woods Magazine
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DID you find out what that woman
wus hollerin aboutY" said Farmer Corn
tossels wife when the old gentleman re-
turned to their room in the hotel.
asked the clerk, he replied.
What did he says''
HE said it was II Trovatory' didn't
IKE to show my ignorance by askin more
questions, but reckon maybe it's ther
susiety name fur toothache. washing
ton Stur