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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-12

Familiarity with danger seems to
breed. if not "a contempt for it, an utter
carelessness. We have seen the Mo
hawk Dutchman," the celebrated ex-
pert with band scroll saw, rub the
ball of his thumb in dirty grease and
them cut the grease off with the rap
idly running saw as clean as could be
done with soap and water.
We have seen man put his finger
under a powerful triphammer in mo-
ton Just to show how he could manage
the machine. Many other foolish things
are done just to "show off" But most
of the accidents happen through care
lessness resulting from familiarity. So
long us an operator is afraid of his ma
chine he is not apt to get hurt. Many
human minds are SO constituted that
they cannot bear Il sustained effort in
one direction-that is, cannot be al
ways equally on the alert in regard to
certain contingency.
A train dispatcher or switch tender
may hold place for years without ever
making a mistake and at last make a
terrible one, from some cause he could
not explain. The only way to lessen
the number of casualties-they cannot
be avoided entirely-is to take all pre-
cautions. This is required of the own
ers if they wish to escape costly damage
suits, but when all possible precautions
haye been taken one can then only trust
to luck,-Chattanooga Trades,uan.
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An amusing incident has just come to
light anent the recent marriage of a
prominent young railroad man to an
up town belle. AS is usual on such oc-
casions, the arrangements, including
the financial end Of the transaction in
hearts, were left to the best man, him
self we'll known club man and a
cricketer of local repute. The story
that Is now going the rounds, and which
is creating considerable merriment,
deals wholly with the part played by
the latter young man. By some unac-
countable contretemps the youth in
question delivered to the organist the
magnificent sum of $50, while the shock
headed youngster who supplied the
wind for the instrument was gladdened
by the gift of $40.
When it came to the clergyman, how
ever, the lavish expenditure previously
made had so depleted the nuptial funds
that only 50 remained. With unblush-
ing effrontery and perfect sang froid
the best man rendered the two plunks
to the dominic, whose feelings can bet
ter be imagined than described.
The organist says the wedding was
the most brilliant of the season, while
the shock headed boy who supplied the
wind characterizes it as "hot stuff" 1t
would be interesting to know what the
clergyman who tied the knot thinks
about philadelphia Record.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-12

In country places where amusement
is not abundant and people depend upon
each other for diversion, neighborly ia
miliarity naturally fourishes, and the
habit of running in" to visit friends
may be carried to an unpleasant excess.
A family living in North Carolina
found it something of strain upon
their ideas Of hospitality to be obliged
every day to entertain a tedious woman
of 50. The favOrite book or the neces-
sary piece of work had to be put aside
in order to shout bits of conversation in
her ear.
At last the father, in desperation,
planned to 60 into sudden fit of tenn
per i'll the presence Of the obnoxious
caller in the hope of convincing her that
they were not pleasant people to visit.
Accordingly one evening, when he re-
turned from business and found the old
lady present as usual, he began to talk
loudly and in an irritated voice. Then,
growing more excited, he stamped about
the room, knocking furniture right and
lelI anu eHVeu ny SOllS out ana Dang
ing the door after him.
The old lady knitted away quietly
through the confusion, and when the
man was gone she turned to the family
and said in comforting voice.
81 reckon it was mighty lucky l was
here, or you'd had to take it. But you
needn't be frightened. I'll stay right
here with you till he gets over it. -
Exchange
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A fellow member of the cabinet call
ed on Secretary Herbert one day shortly
after the inauguration. His face was
not familiar, and he was stopped at
the door.
Are you commodore?" asked the
messenger.
The cabinet member caught his
breath and said he wasn't.
Then you cant go in" said the
messenger decidedly.
1t took some explanation to set things
right. The cabinet member was a
commodore, " but he did not know it.
Commodores, in the understanding
of the navy department messengers, are
not those of that official rank. Senators
and representatives and all of such off
cial positions and relations as entitle
them to prompt admission to the score.
tary are "commodores. st. Louis
Globe democrat.
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THE DREADED TUBERCULOSIS.
Calculated to Cause One Seventh Of
the Total Human Mortality,
A Fruitful Source Of InfeCtIOn-AtCRs Of Clothing Worn
By Sufferers Should be Destroyed,

DIR. Anderson, the medical officer of
health Of Dundee delivered an inter-
esting address recently, with view Of
quickening public interest on the i'm
| portant topic of tuberculosis. After re-
| ferring to the history of our knowledge
of the specific germ and Of the manner
of its propagation, he mentioned the
fact that tuberculosis had been calcu
lated to cause One-Seventh of the total
mortality of the human race. 1t was
remarkable that, notwithstanding this
important fact, little practical interest
had been taken in the matter by the
state, local authorities or individuals.
An assumed theory of its unavoidable
nature seemed to lie at the root of this
baneful fatalism. DR.. Anderson main
tanned that all tubercle bacilli were
derived from predecessors of the same
character, and pointed out the facility
with which this bacillus adhered to
moist surfaces and propagated itself I'M
der insanitary conditions such as pre-
vailed in the overcrowded houses of the
poor.
He also mentioned the opinion, held
by psychologists, that the expired
breath of those suffering from the dis
ease was comparatively innocuous, while
their sputum swarmed with bacilli and
on evaporation and desiccatiOn was apt
to become fruitful source of infection.
Hence the paramount necessity for a
systematic destruction of the sputum,
dislnfection of apartments occupied by
those suffering from tuberculosis, and
disinfectiOn or destruction of articles of
clothing likely to retain the germ.
Referring to the large MOI tally from
tuberculOse disease, DR.. Anderson men,
toned, as an instance of public apathy
in the matter of its prevention, the fact
that very few people applied for disin-
lection of material after death from this
cause in comparison with the number
of those who took such precautions in
the case of the various fevers. Passing
to the subject of the disease in cattle,
he pointed out the large mortality
among these animals from this cause,
and also the relation of milk supply to
infant mortality from tuberculosis.
The proportion of deaths from this
cause in children under years of age
in Dundee was found to be l in
II. All these facts pointed to the ne
cessity for the householder to safe
guard his own interests. DR.. Anderson
concluded his instructive address by
mentioning in detail the preventive and
disinfectant measures necessary to Sc,
cure the highest possible immunity from
the scourge. Lancet.
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cURIOSITIes OF SEEING.
Remarkable Experiments Which sho"
How Easily the Eye Is Deceived.

Remarkable Experiments Which Show
How Easily the Eye Is Deceived.
Some very remarkable experiments,
which any one, with little care, may
repeat for himself, have recently been
made on the perspective effects of color.
If on screen of black velvet placed
about 10 feet away large letters are
pasted, some blue and some red, the let
tiers will not appear to be at an equal
distance from the eyes. To some per-
sons the red letters will seem nearer
than the blue letters, while to Others
the contrary effect will be manifested,
the blue letters appearing nearer than
the red ones.
To produce this curious effect both
eyes must be used. When one eye is
closed, the letters are all seen at the
same distance. On opening the other
eye one set of letters Immediately APP
pears to take a position in advance of
the others.
The explanation offered is that sort
of stereoscopic effect is produced in the
eye itself, depending on color. The i'm
age of a blue object is shifted by the
eye toward one side, and that of red
object toward the other side, the cause
of the shifting being the eccentricity of
the pupil of the eye.
This eccentrlcity may be increased by
holding black screen close to the eye
so as to cover one-half of the pupil.
The effect is best viewed by screening
both pupils at the same time. If on
looking at blue and red letters on black
background placed 10 or - feet away
you see the red letters nearer than the
blue ones, screen off one-half of the pu-
pill of each eye, on the outside, and you
will then see the red letters retire be-
hind the blue ones.
If you screen the pupils on the side
toward the nose, you will see the red
letters advance apparently still farther
ahead of the blue letters.
If, on the other hand, you naturally
see the blue in advance, screen the in
ner side of your pupils, and the red will
come to the front.
1t has lately been shown by DR.. A.
D. Waller that very beautiful effects
can be produced with one eye alone
when, instead of letters, red or blue
rings are pasted on background of
the opposite color. Placing red rings
on blue paper and using the right eye
with the inner side of the pupil COW
cred, the appearance is that of circular
red hillocks resting upon blue ground.
To produce this effect in its highest
degree the paper should be held to the
left and sloping in that direction. When
the outer side of the pupil is screened,
the red ring become circular trenches in
the blue paper.-Youth's Companion.
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HE PRIZES THE BANDAGE.
The Life of Young Man Saved by tn.
Petticoat of Fair Texan.

The Life of "A Young Man Saved by tho
Petticoat of "A Fair Texan.
Arthur kaufman, young Memphian
who was in the wreck on the Wabash
road, arrived home with his head bound
up in bloody white bandage, which he
regards as his most precious possession.
He says gold and jewels couldn't buy
that strip of cloth. Kaufman says that
when the collision came something hit
him, and he lost consciousness. When
he regained his senses, he was lying be-
side the wreck of the car, bleeding copi-
ously from deep cut on the head and
unable to help himself. Just as he was
about to faint again from weakness, an
awfully pretty girl came up and spied
him. She was Miss Taylor of Jetfer-
son, Tex, who had escaped injury in
the wreck.
She realized at once that the young
man would bleed to death if not attend
ed to. Without moments hesitation
she whipped off her petticoat and tear
ing out strip bound it tightly ON Kauff-
mans head. The bleeding was checked
and his life saved. To say that he feels
deeply grateful to the fair Texan would.
be drawing it very mildly, and he vows
be will keep the bandage as long as he
lives. Memphis Cor. st. Louis Republic.
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The manicure with the golden hair
was bending over the hand of a new
customer.
do you want your hands bleached?"
she asked.
Eyes"
She applied the bleach, using more
than the ordinary quantity upon the
thumb and forefinger of the right hand.
After working for about five minutes
she stopped and said:
at is always difficult to remove nico
tine with the first application"
"Wh-a-a-t:' gasped the society girl,
elevating her eyebrows. Nicotine?
What do you meanl"
1.-The cigarettes, you know" re2lied
the manicure. cts perfectly awful how
they stain the fingers, amt it," And she
smiled smile that even the society girl
couldn't resist. That made them friends
and they fell to discussing the different
brands of cigarettes. And when the lob
was done the society girl whispered:
"What'll take the stain Off"
"Use lemon juice-I dove all do"
"Thanks. New York Herald,
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Ancient Tonbs.

While legal proceedings as to the
ownership of the famous Red Rock
caverns, below Mention, in which has
been recently found a still further group
of neolithic skeletons of giant man,
are still pending, an almost equally in
teresting discovery has been made in a
deep railway cutting at Andresy. in
Seine-et-Oise, near Paris, where the
workmen ran upon huge Meroyingian
cemetery of the Sixth century. Already
there have been uncovered nearly 900
tombs, extending over an area of 2l5
miels, yielding a hitherto unheard of
mass of carved sarcophagi, knives,
spears, vases, ornaments and pottery of
unique shapes and styles of decoration.
1t is recalled now that the tiny hamlet
of Andresy, in the generations succeed
ing the introduction of Christianity bv
Genevieve and Clovis, was an important
missionary center. The expected scien-
tifc examination of these multitudinous
remains will throw food of light on
the origins of the church among all
ranks.-Paris Letter.
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Concerning Pronunciation,

An Englishman who has been visit
ing in Chicago says it is very amusing
to listen to the American ridicule of
Englishmen for pronouncing Cholmon-
deley "Chumloy, " Beauchamp Beech
am, etc. In England, )" he declares,
you will find, as a rule, that people
pronounce Massachusetts 'Ma-satch-
azettes. Absurd? OF course it is, but
how are you going to tell? Tho rule by
which it is pronounced Massachusetts
is purely arbitrary The most curious
of all your mispronounciations are per-
haps the adopted French names. How
in the name of the eternal fitness of
things do you get 500 Saint Mary out
of Sault Ste. Marie? Terry Hut for
Terre Haute is just little worse. 1t is
unaccountable, too, how you came to
call Prairie du Chen Prairie doc
Sheen. OF course You have right to
arrange your own pronunciation, but
give us the same liberty. We at least
have The excuse that our names are 10
or 3 centuries old and have had oppor-
tunity to grow naturally corrupted in
the lapse of time. Chicago Standard.
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About Opals,

The prejudice against opals appears to
be disappearing. Anyhow they are pop
ular. There are several varieties of opals
and therefore several degrees of merit.
The precious, or noble, or oriental opal
Is the supreme, This has all the colors,
and when these colors. are broken into
spangles it is then called the harlequin
opal. Then comes the fire opal. or gira-
sole, with hyacinth red and yellow retiec.
ton. The former comes from Hungary,
the latter from Mexico. The common.
or semlopals, are nonopalescent. The hy-
drophane. or oculus mundi, is nontrans-
parent. but becomes so by immersion
III water or any transparent fluid. The
cachalong is nearly Opaque and of a blu
ish white color. The hyahte is colorless
pellucid and white. The opal iasper or
wood opal is the petrifaction of wood
opalescent, but without the coloring
which makes the noble" gem SO pre,
cious.-Chicago Tribune.
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Did the Queen Know?

Newspapers here recently announced
with great display of type that the
queen had been graciously pleased to
present many bottles of wine to various
London hospitals for the use of poor pa
tlents. The same papers have carefully
refrained from giving currency to there
port published in reputable provincial
journals to the effect that most of the
VINE IN question was the refuse of the
royal cellars and unfit for use in hospi-
tails 1t was in very bad condition.
many OF the bottles were half empty,
and Others were so badly corked that tho
contents had turned sour. 1t is charita-
oily suggested that her frugal majesty
was Ignorant of these defects. New
York Suns London Letter.
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An Elastic Appetite,

The American black bear has an ap-
petite that may be appropriately term
ed elastic. He will kill IA thousand
pound steer or capture the tiny field
mouse for meal with equal indiffer-
ence. If a pig or sheep is not handy
to his reach, he will dine on colony
of ants or nest of wood grubs.
He will feast on dainty birds eggs
or sweet stores of wild honey and on the
foulest carrion with like gusto. He will
fish for the savory trout, but at the
same time snap any warty toad or Shiny
lizard that may happen along that way.
He will seek the luscious wild plum
when it has ripened or the wild grape
among the branches where the vine
chambers and bears its fruit, but will
not miss the opportunity to make food of
any snake that may lie in ambush there
for birds that come to peck at the plulns
or grapes. The bear has comprehen-
sive palate. There is scarcely thing
in the animal or vegetable kingdom
that will not tickle it.-New York Her
aid.
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Overlooking TEAMS.

A great many men who use animals
for labor are neither careful nor skilful
drivers, and because of their want of
care and skill they fail to obtain all the
service which their teams are capable of
rendering. The animals not only regu-
larly fall below proper standard of
efficiency, but they are also especially
liable to suffer from accidents and in
juries.
One of the most common faults of men
who use teams injudiciously is over
loading. From this various evils result.
Ii the animals are young they are likely
to become either discouraged or vicious.
After repeated experiences with loads
that are too heavy for them the teams
get balky, and will often refuse to move
loads which they could draw without I'M
due exertion, and upon which they
would never have thought Of refusing to
put forth their strength if they had not
previously been unduly loaded. And
when the habit of baking has been
formed it is exceedingly difficult to over
come. This is one of those things in
which little prevention is worth more
than quantity OF cure.
The attempt to make team draw too
heavy loads is a great waste of time.
! Three trips with moderate loads might
be made in the time required to delivered
two very heavy ones. More work would
be accomplished in given time, and
both team and driver would be saved q
good deal OF livery decided unpleasant.
ness. The risk of injury to the animals
by over-straining and by fractions efforts
which is very decided when the loads
are too heavy, is also avoided when there
is proper adjustment of the load tC
the strength of the team. And last
though it can hardly be accounted the
least, reason why overlooking of teams
should be avoided is found in the fac
that such cause will remove from the
drivers very strong temptation to anger
and profanity .-American Farm.
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HOW AN ENGLISHMAN LIVES.
The Whole Globe Plays Him Serving Mar
to Spread His Table.

The Whole Globe Plays Him Serving Mar
to Spread His Table.
Without being luxurious, the whole
globe has played him serving man to
spread his table. Russia gave the hemp,
or India or South Carolina the cotton,
for that cloth which his wife lays upon
it. The eastern islands placed there
those condiments and spices which were
once the secret relishes of the wealthy.
Australian downs send him frozen NUT
ton or canned beef, the prairies of
America meal for his biscuit and pud-
ding, and if he will eat fruit the or
chards of Tasmania and the palm
woods of the West Indies protfer de-
licious gifts, while the orange groves Of
Florida and of the Hesperides cheaper
for his use those golden apples which
dragons used to guard.
His coffee comes from where Jew
eled humming birds hang in the bow
ers of Brazil, or purple butterflies fut-
ter amid the Javan mangroves. Great
J clipper ships, racing by night and day
under clouds of canvas, convey to him
the tea from China or Assam, or from
the green Singhalese hills. The sugar
which sweetens it was crushed from
canes that waved by the Nile or the
Orinoco, and the plating of the spoon
with which he stirs it was dug for
him from Mexican or Nevadan mines.
The currants in his dumping are
tribute from classic Greece, and his
timed salmon or kippered herring a to
ken from the seas and rivers of Canada
or Norway. He may partake, if he
will, of rice that ripened under the hot
skies of Patna or Rangoon, of cocoa,
that food of the gods, plucked under
the burning blue of the equator. For
his rasher of bacon the hog express runs
daily with 10, 600 grunting victims into
Chicago. Dutch or Brittany hens have
laid him eggs, and Danish cows grazed
the daisies of Elsinore to produce his
cheese and butter.
If he drinks beer, it is odds that Bel
GUM and Bavaria have contributed to
it the barley and the hops, and when he
has finished eating it will be the Mis-
sissippi flats or the gardens of the An
TILES that fill for him his pipe with the
comforting tobacco. Sir Edwin Arnold
| in Longman' $ Magazine.
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lines, strength OF the harness, the use Of
the whip and the ability of the driver to
control the horse by sheer brute force.
Hence there are so many fatal accidents.
The horse is a sensible and sensitive
animal, possessed OF many attributes,
among which fear often predominates.
On the road the horse sees or imagines
danger, and the ignorant driver, instead
of allowing time for the horse to take in
the situation and satisfy himself that he
is mistaken, plies the whip in the most
| vigorous manner. The sensible horse
always resents such treatment, and
scared and angered, dashes off in fright
and fury. If the harness is strong, the
| bits reliable, the driver able to guide
and control the horse, all may be well +;
should something give way the results
are serious.
A safe horse must be one with sense
enough and so trained that in emergen-
cies it does not become frightened and
uncomfortable. 1t may require some
patience and tact to talk a horse out of
running away or kicking things to
pieces, but this should be possible with
safe horse. A horse should be taught
to stand still when it is desirable either
! for getting in or out Of the wagon, or to
mount or dismount under the saddle.
The horse should understand that it is
not to start until the word is given. 1t
is of the highest importance that the
horse should be taught to stop for the
word whoa, whether on the farm or on
the public highway. 1t might be con-
sidered ridiculous for the driver to be
calling out gee, haw, whoa, get up, etc,
to team of horses on the boulevard,
but it would be wonderful safeguard
to have a horse SO trained that he knows
what to do when spoken to by his driver
in firm quiet manner. Horses should
be taught to go down hill in a slow,
careful manner, and to stop and hold
the wagon whether going up or down a
hill. In no case should horse be al
lowed to cross a bridge in any gait but q
walk. This should be drilled into a
horse, so that in case it should be run
ming away, it will come to walk when
bridge is to be crossed.
1t is the reckless driving of horses,
the depending on the man, and what is
called good luck, that causes so many
disasters and fatalities. 1t is time to
, train drivers OF horses as well as the
animals. 1t is not every man who can
hold pair OF lines and whip that is
fit to do so.
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We Like OLIVES.

This country has become within three
decades one of the most important olive
consuming countries of the world. When
olives were first imported into the Unit
ed States, they were luxury of the
rich. They are still consumed in cities
rather than in the country districts,
and New York, with its great popula-
ton of people from the Mediterranean
regions, is of all American cities by far
the greatest consumer of olives.
cago Herald.