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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

Mr.. Andrew Thompson has made an
instrument resembling in its appearance
the oil well locator, which will locate
gold or silver ore. This instrument will
act on these metals whether in ore deep
in the earth or in the shape of coin or
jewelry. Gold and silver money was
placed on the floor and the instrument
quickly located it. The coin was then
placed high above the floor and its loca-
ton was quickly and accurately deter
mined. 1t was also tried ON gold and
silver ore with the same result. Many
inducements have been offered Mr..
Thompson to disclose the secret of the
little machine, but he has refused all
offers, some of them very liberal ones.
He has selected well known resident
of the south side, to whom he intends
before he dies to impart the secret of the
unattractive looking but most potent
machine. The gentleman designated to
receive this important trust as yet knows
nothing about the instrument except its
effects. He can handle it with as much
dexterity as Mr.. Thompson, but posses
ses no knowledge of the machine other
than that impaired in this article
Pittsburg Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

j. A. McConville, who lives on Mon
tana street, killed one of his chickens
for dinner, and on cleaning it was sur
prised to find quantity of gold mug
gets i'll the crop and gizzard. Having
about thirty more chickens on hand, he
began killing and examining them. In
each of them he found pro rata of mug
gets, the total amount gathered from the
thirty-one hens being 1887 50-an aver
age of $3.50 a head. The gold VS. sent
to the State National bank and pro-
nounced eighteen carat fine.
Mr.. McConville Immediately bought
fifty more chickens and turned them
out on the gold fields in the vicinity of
the hencoop. AS an experiment one of
them was killed and $3.50 in gold taken
from its inside works, the result of a
four days run. Mr.. McConville has a
virtual bonanza, and expects to be a
millionaire before fall if the chickens
hold out.-Butte Mining Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Do Swans Sing Before They Die?

The story that tells of swans singing
before death is very old, and of course is
founded upon fancy. The idea has been
brought down from ancient myths. The
voice of the swan is extremely harsh
and disagreeable, without single mu-
steal note in it, and no good reason can
be found for likening some of the worlds
sweetest poets to this unmelodious voiced
fowl.
The only approach to verifcation
we have ever seen is the following,
clipped some years ago from Virginia
newspaper:
"a sporting friend, recently returned
from foray upon the Potomac river,
below Mount Vernon, was the guest of q
venerable and highly intelligent lady,
who has always lived ON the Potomac.
Speaking of the swan, she gave it as her
decided opinion that this bird was in the
habit of singing or making plaintive
noise when dying. The reason she gave
for entertaining this belief was that on
very many occasions in the last so years
she had been awakened at night by a
sweet and exceedingly sad noise, some
thing like the tones of fiageolet coming
over the water, and that on every sub
sequent morning dead swan was found
to be floating on the water or to have
been washed ashore. "-Pittsburg Dis
patch
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

One of the most noticeable changes in
fashion this season is that which affects
the dressing of the hair. The fringe"
has been gradually giving place to softly
waved bandeaux, and the bandeaux are
creeping gradually lower down until the
return seems imminent to the pulled and
waved bandeaux to be seen in the por-
traits of Jennie Lind taken along in the
ifties. To young and delicate faces the
style has an agreeable piquancy and
quaintness, but to women past their first
youth or with strong, coarse features the
bang has a softening effect much to be
desired.
Another style now gaining favor and
one becoming to round faces with low
foreheads is that of turning the hair
back from the forehead loosely in twist
that is lost in the light coils and puffs ar
ranged in the middle of the forehead.
In this style of couture the front hair is
parted off on either side and twisted in
the old fashioned way into two rolls
New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Halibut in Plenty,

The fishing schooner Surprise, Captain
James Bell commanding, which sailed
from Astoria in November for the pur-
pose of prospecting the coast of Alaska
and the Alexander archipelago in hopes
of finding banks where halibut could DO
taken during the winter, returned to
Astoria Saturday. She cruised around
till April, visiting every point where
there was a prospect of finding halibut
and setting travis in many places with
out success until on the Sth Of April, af-
ter rounding Cape Chacon on Prince
Edward island, the most southwesterly
point of Alaska, the first run of halibut
was encountered.
The fish We're so plentiful and easily
caught that Captain Bell, foreseeing his
supply of ice was to run short, hove
away to the northeast and headed mp
Frederick's sound for the Lacont glacier,
which was reached after two days
run, and on the 18th, with the hold full
of ice, sail was made, and the 18th found
the Surprise again off Cape Chacon.
standing off and on, with set lines and
travis out, and the sea fairly alive with
halibut. Some idea can be formed as tc
how plentiful the fish were from the
fact that in two days Captain Bell, his
two sons and an Indian caught, cleaned
and packed in the ice ten and half tons
of halibut..-Portland Oregonian.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Digging Greens.

1t is time to pick green's or, rather,
dig greens. Travelling the rural roads
in Connecticut just now, especially in
the neigbOrhoOd of cities, one sees chill
dren and women ON the green lots by
the roadside digging in the ground just
as fast as they can. Each one carries a
willow arm basket or tin pail, and
short bladed case knife. The little
squads chatter and laugh and talk
gossip, and now and then one trills the
refrain Of a popular song. They are
not skylarking or merrymaking; they
are digging greens-red and yellow
dock, dandelions, burdock and plantain
for home consumption.
Everybody wants greens now, and
trade in them is very lively. In few
weeks the garden greens-cultivated
dandelions or spinach-will be ready to
market, and then the popular demand
for wild greens will cease. Most of the
will greens gathered by Connecticut
women and children are dandelions and
dock, but some of the holder ones, MIN
BILE footed maidens, put on rubber boots
and SLOUGH hats, penetrate into the tan
gled swamps, leaping from one quaking
tussock to another, and harvest bushel
of wet and shining cowslips a day.
About decayed old stumps in forest
dales skole thrives, and they pluck it in
handfuls.
At the beginning of the season dan
delion greens are worth forty or fifty
cents peck in the market, and the re-
tail dealers sell them for fifty or sixty
cents; later the price runs down to
twenty-five cents a peck.-Cor. New
York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Death from IngrOwing Toe Nail.

Some time ago there was published
the story of the death of a Long Island
physician from blood poisoning result
ing from an ingrowing toe nail. A well
known surgeon chiropodist said the
other day to the reporter: 1.-The death of
that Long Island doctor is not the first l
have heard of from the same cause.
"The cause of the disease is common
and painful and usually directly trace
able to narrow toed shoes. 1t causes
pain as severe as a toothache and not
infrequently, when neglected, results in
blood poisoning. | know of an opera
ton for ingrowing toe nail in an English
hospital where the patient suffered SO
much pain that they gave him a mixture
of ether and chloroform. The operation
was successful, but when it was finished
the physicians found that their patient
had died from the chloroform. New
York Sun
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
THERE WAS GOOD FISHING.
Likewise Good Luck ON IA PhenomenalIy
Good Imagination.

LlkeNlSe 1OOu Luck on u fhenOmenally
Good Imagination.
The scene of the following incident
was about 40 miles from Gloversville,
n. Y. on a beautiful little lake Just
across the tableland at Piseco lake, in
Hamilton county. The day was all that
a fisherman could desire, and every con-
dition was right for good fishing. \
party of three were in the boat-namely,
l.. +. Everest. his friend, Professor
Spencer from Brooklyn, and the writer
They had taken nearly 80 pickerel in
less than half day, and the size was
good, weighing from % to 6 pounds.
The last turn around the lucky point
was being made before we started for
home. Everest, who was trolling one of
the lines, said: I've got another. He's
big one from the way he pulls" Ever
est let him play at one time nearly 200
feet of line before the fish could be
turned. When he had been brought
into sight, he was not so large as some
we had already in the boat, but there
was an unusual motion all about him.
Soon the line was drawn so tightly it
was necessary to let him play again.
When brought back, it was discovered
that a large pickerel had attempted to
swallow the one on the hook, which was
now quite exhausted.
The big fellow still followed, shark
like, for the dead body of his victim,
which, however, we We're not disposed
to give up. Just as Everest was about
to swing the fish on his hook into the
boat the professor took up his oar, hop
ing to strike and thus capture the large
one. The movement of the oar attract
ed the attention of the fish, and in a
twinkle he made a pass at it. The blade
was about Z inches wide, but his jaws
grated across the upper and lower edges,
saving a groove ON either side with mis-
sharp teeth. The professor, by carrying
his oar forward with the movement of
the fish, at the same time raising it from
the water, landed the huge fellow into
the boat.
He weighed 1871 pounds. The fish on
the hook only weighed three pounds, but
showed signs of battle, being bitten in
several places. Upon opening him we
found, as is often the case, fish of
smaller size in his stomach. This one
showed signs of life and was opened.
We then discovered a pretty little gold
chatelaine watch and were surprised
that the time agreed with our watches
and that it was running.
More than pleased with our fishing ex-
petition, we returned to the Adirondack
hotel and informed Landlord George A.
Mccoy of our good luck, at the same
time showing the watch. In less than
two minutes all the guests about the
house We're in the Office, and among the
number was pretty young lady from
Albany, who said that the watch was q
token of friendship which she had priced
very highly. When ON the lake in the
early part of the day, it had fallen into
the water, and, she supposed, was lost
1t is needless to say she was overjoyed al
its recovery.-Albany Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

In answer to a correspondent news
paper says: THE deluge mentioned in
the Bible was threatened in the year
1856 B. c., and began on Dec. Z, 1856 b.
G., and continued 3i7 days. The ark
rested on Mount Ararat on May 6, 1855,
but Noah did not leave it until Dec. IS
following" Any reader who imagines
that it would be an easy task to figure
these details from Biblical account can
find basis for his calculations in the
seventh and eighth chapters of Genesis.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

Lovers of the beautiful, the beautiful
in plant life, should pay visit to a
garden belonging to private house at
the corner of Market and Church streets.
To say that it is blaze of color is to
convey but faint idea of it; scarcely
bare spot of ground is to be seen for the
length of an entire block-roses, pinks,
calleopsis, phlox, pansies, sweet alyssum,
all thrusting forward their claims for
recognition. But the browning glory of
the garden is its poppies; surely such
poppies never grew anywhere else than
right here in Jacksonville and in that
one garden. They are of all shades,
from delicate pinks to deepest reds, and
as double as it is possible for flowers to
be. They grow from two to three feet
high and the flowers themselves are at
least three inches in diameter. That
garden is worth walk to see.-Jackson-
vile Times Union.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

That slavery still exists in the Pacific
is evidenced by the fact that the steamer
Moneserrat is fitting out for blackbi
cruise, and will sail shortly for Gilbert
island, whence it will carry hold full
of natives to work on the Guatemala
coffee plantations.
All this is to be done under the guise
of an equitable contract.
Last September the brig Tahite, load
ed with 100 Gilbert islanders, and noto-
riously SLAYER, was blown off its course
and put in at Dukes bay. Learning that
it was likely to be seized, its captain
put hurriedly to sea and the next that
was heard of it was when sighted bot
tom up off the coast, all its crew and
cargo having persisted. The same have
planned the Moneserrats shaving cruise
hoping to recoup themselves.
There will be no difficulty in getting
a cargo, as agents at the island are now
at work inducing the natives to sigr
contracts. Washington Star.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
The Aston Fortune.

1t is believed that the estimate of S6l,-
100000 which is made of the shares of
his fathers estate which John Jacob
Aston received is under the mark. Upon
the division of the property which Will
liam B. Aston left his two sons, William
Astor's share was inventoried at about
500, 000, 900, and while his family have
lived extensively, yet they did not be-
gin to spend his income, and although
he did nothing to increase his wealth,
the yearly accumulations are believed
to have increased the property by some
Sl5,O0O,OOO Deducting from this the
S6,0OO,OOO given to his daughters, or
100000 apiece, and the charge on the
estate of 100000 a year for the benefit
of his widow, it would still leave for
John Jacob Aston between 500, O00, 900
and $40, 100000.
1t is not the amount, however, which
the young man receives that causes spe-
cial interest. The sum is so large that a
million either way is of little account.
The question which interests people here
is what is John Jacob Astor going to do
WIFI Ills property! IL Ho DecOlneS, as his
cousin William Waldorf has, man Of
keen business instinct, he will have to
change remarkably. He has one trait
of the Astors perhaps more strongly de-
veloped than it was in any of the others,
and it is trait which in some men
would be called parsimoniousness. He
is an extremely close tigurer, and is Of
such disposition that when he secures a
dollar he feels like making it a prisoner
for life. Whether he branches out as a
daring and conspicuous builder of real
estate properties or not his fortune is
certain to increase steadily, because no
rich man in New York, not even Russell
Sage, will figure more carefully over his
expenditures, both personal and bust
ness, than John Jacob Astor will do
New York Cor. Philadelphia Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
May BE Soap Advertisement ts.

L. G. G. Harris, of Bertha, Lake
county, Cal, writes that he has discov-
cred upon some rocks in that section a
large number of painted hieroglyphics
of the most interesting character. There
are many hundreds of characters, and
Mr.. Harris, who has studied them close
ly, believes that he has hit upon a clew
to their meaning. In the same locality
he has dug up number of arrowheads,
one of which is made of abalone shell,
and the characters engraved upon it are
similar to those painted ON the rocks
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Lightning Kindled the Fireplace Fire.

Saturday night there was a pretty big
thunderstorm. An old negro named
Henry Wishum lives at 551 Jefferson
street. There was no one in the house
while the storm was in progress. The
building was struck by lightning and
the whole front of the house was torn to
pieces. On the opposite side of the room
was an open fireplace filled with trash,
before which a screen had been placed.
The lightning ignited this rubbish as
nicely as match could have done, and
without setting fire to anything else in
the room. When Wishum's wife re.
turned shortly afterward she found the
fire burning cheerfully. - Americas
Times Recorder.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Diplomacy.

Hungry Higgins-l didn't git nothin
to eat from the woman next door
Mrs. NORTHUMBERLAND you will get
nothing here.
Il WASH goin to ask you for nothin,
but | wanted to tell you that there
woman next door jist spoke of did say
she would hand out the grub if find
out how you keep your complexion so
beeyutiful. Would you mind helpin a
starvin man by tellin meF
"Er-oh-do you like sugar and cream
in your coffee%-Indianapolis Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

A contemporary relates that there was
a tragedy in the composing room of a
Philadelphia paper the other day. The
compositors were busy at their cases
when one of their number, a young
woman, tainted away, and she was con-
veyed to her home. Another compositor
finished her "take,' which proved to be
an account of suicide in another city.
There were forty compositors in the
room, but this particular copy fell to
this particular young woman, and the
suicide was her affianced sweetheart.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Electric Lights on "a Train.

A novel lighting plant of sixty-fve
lamps capacity is carried by the railroad
Car at present making tour of the
country exhibiting California fruits.
The furnace, boiler, engine and dynamo
are placed completely in one corner of
the car, and current is furnished to the
lamps distributed in and around the car
The experiment has proved SO satisfac-
tory that steps are to be taken to equip
the entire train.-New York World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
500 REWARD, 500.

The reader of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is caterrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh beng constitutional dis
ease, requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly on The blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease 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 testimonials
Address, F. J. CHENNEY Il CO., Toledo, o.
EHF- Sold by Druggists 75c.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
CAI TON.

limitations have been putupon the market
so closely resembling ALLcocK's Porous
PLAsrEks IN general appearance as to be
well calculated to deceive 1t is. however,
in general appearance only that they COM
pare with ALLcoCK's, for they me worse
than worthless, inasmuch as they contain
deleteriOus ingredients which are apt to
cause serious injury. Remember that ArL.
COCK KS are the genuine porous plasters-the
best external remedy ever prodHced when
purchasing plasters do not only ask for but
make sure that you get ALlCoCK's
BRANDRErH' PILLS. the best anti-bilious
remedy.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

Mr.. Yelkins had a fine bay horse that
had mania for catching chickens, and
one day last week, when he went out to
the stable, he found the horse lying dead.
He cut the body open and found that the
horse had actually eaten whole chicken,
and the bones had cut through the stom-
ach, causing death. Maria (Cal.)
Times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
A Reform in Words.

An important reform movement is be-
gun by the Rochester On. W Post-Ex
press. In the matter Of the typewriter,
so inconveniently double in its meaning,
our contemporary suggests remedies
for both doubt AMI inconvenience:
For "typewriting" say tipping"
For typewriter (the machine) say
"typer."
For typewriter" Ghe operator) say
"typist."
For typewriter" say typed"
For "to typewrite" say "to type"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
Shakespeare's Birth day.

Shakespeare's birthday celebrations at
Stratford-on-A Avon and in London were
attended with great success. The Me-
mortal theater in the poets native place
was crowded by pilgrims from all parts
of England, as We're also those thea
tiers in the metropolis where Shake
spearean plays are presented. London
TELEGRAPH,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

The Tacoma papers tell of the interest
that has been aroused in the state of
Washington by the prospect of the open
ing of the Puyallup Indian reservation.
The land of the Puyallups is fertile,
we'll timbered and contains mineral and
coal deposits.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

An electric exhibit will be one of the
features of the exposition to be held at
Buffalo in August. A model of Niagara
Falls tunnel, showing how it is to be
utilized in the transmission of power, is
one of the novelties suggested.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

Brilliant and impulsive people," de-
clares a lecturer on physiognomy, "have
black eyes, Or if they don't have them
they're apt to get them if they're too inn
pulsive. London It'll Bits.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
MUSCLE AND VIGOR DIFFER
ENCE.

Many muscular men suecumb to fatigues
borne with ease by persons far their interiors
in physical strength. Muscle does not imply
Vlgor In fact, it is not dithcult of proof that
athletes do not live as long nor enjoy as good
health as the average individual who is vigor-
ous-that is to say, whose digestion and sleep
are unimpared, whose nerves are tranquil, and
who has no organic tendency to disease These
requisites of vigor are conferred upon those in
herently weak, no less than upon those debli-
tated through wasting disease, by thorough,
persistent course OF llostetters Stomach BitteTs,
the leading national tonic, Endorsed and recon.
mended by physicians of eminence. 1t will not
endow you with muscle of Corbett. but il
viii nfuse energy into your system, and renew
functions. 1t averts and cures malarial rheu-
matte and kidney complaints, and overcomes
dyspepsia, constipation, liver trouble and ner.
vouSneSS.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
The limited States senate has reoues

The United States senate has requested
the secretary of agriculture to obtain
information concerning the use of cleo
tricity as a motive power to drive farm
machinery and implements, and also on
the propagation and growth of plants in
foreign countries.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22
SURE CURE FOR PILES.

Sure cure for blind, bleeding and itching Piles.
One box has cured the worst cases of ten years
standing. No one need suffer ten minutes after
using Kinks German Pile Ointment. 1t absorbs
tumors, allays the itching acts as poultiCe,
gives relief DR.. Kinks German Pile Ointment
is prepared only for Piles and itching of the
private parts, and nothing else. Every box il
Sold by Druggists and sent by mail on receipt
of price, $l.00 per box. j. J, Mack 4 Co., Whole
sale Agents, San Francisco.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-22

Costa Rica is about to have a law
making the sale of Indian antiquities to
foreigners u crime, punishable with
severe penalties.