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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
SONGS OF THE INDIANS.
Compositions Accurately Transmitted
Through Generations,
Why the Music Of the Red Men Seems Out Of Tune 10
The Ears Of Civilized People,

In every tribe there are hundreds of
original songs which are its heritage.
| Many of them have been handed down
through generations and embody not only
the feeling of the composer, but record
some past event or experience They are
treasured by the people, and care is taken
to transmit them accurately. People who
possess written music have some mechan-
cal device by which a tone may be uni
fOrmly produced, as by the vibrations of
q chord of given length and tension, the
tone becoming the standard by which all
others can be regulated, and succession
of tones can be recorded and accurately
repeated at long intervals of time and by
different persons.
The Indians have no mechanism for de-
termining pitch. There is no uniform
key for a song 1t can be started on any
, note suitable to the singers voice. This
absence of standard pitch and the In
dams management of the voice, which is
similar in singing and in speaking, make
Indian music seem to be out of tune to our
ears, conventionally trained as they are to
distinguish between the singing and the
speaking tone of voice. Although the In
dams have no fixed pitch, yet, given a
starting note, graduated intervals are OBJ
served. Not that any Indian can sing a
scale, but he repeats his songs without any
material variation. Men with good voices
take pride in accuracy of singing and of
ten have in their memories several hundred
songs, including many from tribes with
the members of which they have exchang-
| ed visits.
Hhn hnrItOnn m
mezZO soprano among women are more
common than the pure tenor bass, con
| traltO or soprano. As a rule, the Indian
voice is reedy and steady in tone and some
times quite melodious in quality, but the
habit of singing in the open air to the &C
| compartment of percussion instruments
| tends to strain the voice and to iniure its
sweetness There is little attempt at ex-
preston by piano or forte passages, or by
swelling the tone on given note, but as
| the songs generally descend on the scale
there is natural tendency to less volume
at the close than at the beginning or mid
die part of the tune
Where several take part in the singing
it is always in unison. The different quail
tiles of male and female voices bring out
| harmonic effects which are enhanced by
the wOmen's custom of singing in high
reedy falsetto an octave above the male
voices, The choral generally presents two
or three octaves and one becomes con.
scious of Overtones. Evidently the Indians
enjoy this latent harmony, as they have
devices to intensity it. They employ a kline
of throbbing of the voice on prolonged
note, producing an effect similar to that
obtained in vibrating a string of the cello
by passing over it the bow in an undulat.
ing movement. In solos like the love song
where there are sustained passages, the
singer waves his hand slowly to and from
his mouth to break the flow of the breath
and to produce vibrations which seem t.
satisfy his ear-Alice c. Fletcher in Cen
tury.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
4 pETRlFIED BEAUTY.
Supposed to BE a Woman of Quality Who
Died 700 Years Ago.

Died 700 Years Ago.
Who was the beautiful woman whose
petrificd bust, with arms and lelt manu.
stands on a pedestal in an artist studio
in Strasburg? Some workmen VINO were
repairing the old Church of st. Fldes III
Schelttstadt, in Alsace, found this bust IN
a tomb under the choir. This part OF the
church was built in 1904 by the grand
mother of the great Emperor Frederick
Barbarossa. 1t is known that these tOmbs
contain the remains of mem bers OF the
great families of the neighbOrhood, whose
descendants kept these resting places OF
their ancestors in repair down to the mid
die of the seventeenth century and some
until now. This tomb that the wOrkmen
opened had been rebuilt in the seventeenth
century and was supposed to date IRON
that time When it was opened, the re-
mains of wooden coffin were found, ana
this wonderful petrifaction OF bust ana
head with the features clear cut ana I'M
wasted. About the head are two bralds OF
hair the right arm lies across the breast,
and the left hand is perfectly preserved.
The clothing is of the finest quality, a long
linen chemise, linen underclothing and
wooden Jacket, with a costly mantle, such
as might have been worn by the lady abb
bess of a convent.
The clothing and the way the hair is
worn prove that this woman lived in the
eleventh or twelfth century. She was
evidently woman of quality, about 40
years old, maybe the Duchess Adelheid, the
aunt of Barbarossa and daughter of Hill
dergarde Won Schwaben, who built the
church. Tradition has it that Adelheid died
of the plague and was buried at Schlett-
stadt. This woman undoubtedly died of
a contagious disease, and it is to this fact
that her preservation is ascribed. When
she was buried, mortar of some kind, or
some preparation of lime, was poured over
her which, as it hardened, preserved the
face and bust The face is of great beau
ty, the features clear cut and refined and
the expression noble. 1t might well be the
face of a woman who died as Adelheid is
said to have died-while nursing the
plague stricken peasants of her neighbor-
hood.-Springfeld (Mass,) Republican.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
The Abuse of Slang.

1t is not the Use of slang which is to be
deprecated it is the abuse of it. The girl
who every time she opens her mouth pro-
jects from it some such word as lawfully"
lawfully NICE" lawfully horrid -
lawfully square, lawfully round" and
so on until you wish that she would, at
any rate, advance into the alphabet as far
as the b's-is not only slangy person
she is also in all human probability fool.
The same civil observation applies to
the man who has become indissolubly
joined to some slangy catch phrase as, fol-
instance, "Don't you know, "He's a
nice fellow, don't you know, ;" at seems
to me to be queer start, don't you know"
~ can't stand clever people, don't you
know"
We quite realize the truth of his last
statement without his putting himself tc
the trouble of giving it audible utterance
just as clearly as we surmise that it is Just
possible that clever people can't stand
him.-All the Year Around.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
THE RED SPIDER.

The following extracts from pam
phlet issued by w. r. Gunnis, horti-
cultural commissioner, will be Of inter-
est to our fruit growers:
The red mite, commonly called red
spider, may be said to be universal
pest, and within few years has spread,
as it were (unnoticed), until many Or
chards in this State are seriously in
tested by it. Observation leads us to
think that the female does not deposit
eggs, but, at maturity, fastens herself
to the bark or leaf, and dies. The cover
ing removed from fifteen to twenty
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
NEVADA.
SWEET MARIE.

I've secret in my heart, Sweet Marie;
A tale would impart love, to thee.
Every daisy in the dell
Knows my secret-knows it well,
And yet dare not tell, Sweet Marie.
When hold your hand in mine, Sweet Marie,
A feeling most divine comes to me;
All the world is full of spring,
Full of warblers on the wing,
And listen while they sing, Sweet Marie.
In the morn when awake, Sweet Marie;
Seems to me my heart will break, love, for thee,
Every wave that shakes the shore
Seems to sing it Ger and DER,
Seems to say that adore Sweet Marie.
When the sunset tints the west, Sweet Marie,
And sit down to rest, love, with thee,
Every star that studs the sky
Seems to stand and wonder why
They are DINNER than your eye, Sweet Marie.
Not the sun glints in your hair, Sweet Marie,
Nor because your face is fair, love, to see.
But your soul so pure and sweet
Makes my happiness complete,
Makes me falter at your feet, Sweet Marie.
must hush or shall tell, Sweet Marie,
But perhaps it's just as well, love, for me,
For my soul is so distressed.
Lean your head against my breast,
And you can guess the rest, Sweet Marie.
-Cy Warman in Creole Chronicle
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
Coating Iron with Copper.

A process has been introduced for pro
tecting steel and iron by means of coat
ing of copper. When the invention was
first made it was applied to the construc-
ton of telegraph wires, but since then
further developments of the process have
enabled it to be employed in the manufac-
ture of complete ship plates. The method
employed is similar to that of the old silver
plating process, in which plates of the two
metals were rolled together without any
chemical or electrolytic means being en-
ployed.
A short copper ingot is cast on a core of
iron or steel; the copper is shorter than the
core and not placed symmetrically, but so
disposed toward one end that the unequal
travel of the coating, when afterward ex-
tended by rolling, may be compensated
for. Save for the provision of special groov-
ing of the rollers to prevent the formation
of fins of the softer metal, the subsequent
operations are conducted in the ordinary
way. Advantage is taken of the retention
of heat by the steel core to diminish the
excessive ductility of the copper by chill
ing the covering. When the porosity of
the coat of copper and the difficulty in OBJ.
tanning perfect adherence is overcome, the
process will become u commercial success.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24

"Harem, in the modern acceptation Of
the word, merely means the private apart
ments, and these would be called by the
same name even in bachelors establish
ment inhabited solely by men, but gpner-
ally it is applied to every place intended
for women. The end of the Turkish rail
way carriage, curtained off from the rest,
is harem. So is the ladies' cabin on board
ship and the latticed gallery in Il mosque.
In the dwelling house it is all that quar-
ter inhabited by the wife and children and
other ladies of the family, and here, may
say, in passing, that very few Turks now
adays have more than one wife. The ira
ditional Turk with his innumerable wom-
en- no longer exists except as very rare
exception, but the Mussulman has not
sacrificed the advantages of the privacy
granted him by the MOhammedan law and
custom. Magazine.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
Water and the Human Body.

Comparatively few people know what a
large amount of water the human body
consists Of man weighing 200 pounds
is made up of 1870 pounds of water and so
pounds of solids. The latter includes bone,
muscle, etc, Even the fat of the body con
tains . per cent of water, the liver is made
up of go per cent and the blood of SO. The
skin contains - per cent, the brain IS and
the muscle rs.
1t may be naturally supposed that flu
id so universally distributed throughout
the body must constitute very important
article of its existence. Recent expert
ments have shown that on water alone life
may be sustained as long as 90 days
whereas if dry food only We're given death
would ensue in a quarter of that time, and
this in most agonizing way. The terri
BILE agony that shipwrecked mariners some
times suffer in this way will induce them
to drink sea water, and this adds hun
dredfold to the uncomfortable thirst that
induces delirium and death. entleman s
Magazine
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
X EROSENE EMULSION.

Two gallons kerosene; one gallon
water, and one-half pound whale oil
soap. The soap is dissolved in the water,
brought to boiling heat, removed from
the fire, and the kerosene added; then
churned rapidly by pumping it back
upon itself with force pump until emul-
stication is perfect. This will not re-
quire over five minutes. The mixture
swells considerably during this opera
ton, and when the emulsion is complete
it will adhere to the surface of glass
without oiliness. For insects in general
this has been found very effective.
For use against scale insects and red
spider dilute one part of the emulsion
with nine parts OF cold water. For most
other insects dilute one part of the en-
ulsion with fifteen parts of water. Fol
soft insects like plant lice the dilution
may be carried to from twenty to twenty.
five parts of water.
For use against the red spider the
emulsion may be improved by the ad.
dition of pound OF flour of sulphur to
each nine gallon of the diluted emulsion
adding the sulphur at time of diluting
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
The MARQUIS Paid,

The famous surgeon Velpeau was Wis
tied one day at his house during the con-
sultation hour by marquis renowned for
his closeness. Nelpeau informed the mar
quis that an operation was urgent, and
that the fee would amount to 900 francs.
At this the marquis made wry face and
left. a fortnight later DR.. Velpeau, while
making his rounds in the Hospital de la
Charlie, had his attention ATTRACTED by a
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
Why the Mouth Should BE Kent Clean.


1t has long been known that warmth
and moisture favor the DEVELOPMENT and
growth of microbes The mouth furnishes
these conditions to peculiar degree
All germs that float in the air are liable
to find Judgment in the mouth and nose
Here they may remain, and as most of
them are not harmful under any circum-
stances they give no indication of their
presence, and even when noxious germs
are thus lodged in the mouth thew nav
produce no symptoms.
If swallowed into the stomach the iuioos
there contained may cause their destrnc.
ton and disorganization. If for anv raaeon
their vitality is not thus DESTROYED thev
may be absorbed in the system. II ia Noe.
s'ole that even then they may be DESTROYED
or excreted and give rise to no disease II
is after their entrance into the svston
however, that their presence is ant tn he
manifest. W. ~
The danger of their entering the svstem
II should be made clear, is increased when
the mucous membrane of the digestive
tract is broken at any point. When the
SKIN or mucous membrane of any part nj
the body is broken one is perhans consid.
erably more liable to absorb germs of .I,
sorts-1 Youths Companion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
What n Dozen Il.

The child is taught at school that a
dozen means twelve every time, but when
the child grows into man he finds that "A
dozen is a very elastic term. A bakers
dozen is thirteen, and so is publishers or
news agents in many parts of the world.
In some sections a dozen of fish means
twenty-siX, and there are other anomalies
of this kind. But to find dozen indicat-
ing anything from two to fifty it is neces.
sary to go to the earthenware trade
Here the size and weight of articles de
eide how many make dozen, and in jugs,
bowls, plates and so on there are two, four,
six, eight or more to the Dozen A dozen
composed of twelve articles is a very I'M
usual thing in the wholesale pottery trade,
and as result there are few clerk ships
more difficult to hold than in this line.
tried the work once and failed ignomin-
iously. To have to find the cost of 500
articles at so much dozen when that
dozen may mean anything is very diff
cult task until a man gets thoroughly used
to it.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
Modern Methods of Grinding Wheat,

Millstones run in the old, crude way
used to turn out to 5 per cent. of their
grist in the form of middlings-wheat
finely broken, but still far short of the
powderiness of flour. Formed from the
part next the husk, hard in texture and
refractory to the milstones, these mid
dlings were at the same time the wheat's
richest substances, the portion most sensi-
tive to the action of leaven. Mllers were
quite well aware of their value but mixed
as the middlings were with bran, germ
and fiber, they were ether run into the
refuse heap for cattle feed or made into
low quality of -four. When the middlings
purifier was invented, its cleansed and sep
al ated product yielded -four so superior
to any brand previously manufactured
that millers began to study how the per-
centage of mddlings might be increased.
This led to the introduction of new
process milling" which was simply high
| grinding~on millstones, the upper mill
stone being of an increased height from
| the lower. This process was in turn dis
carded for the Hungarian roller system
A very striking Transformation has re-
suited. Whereas the miller's aim has
been to make as much -four at one opera
| he endeavors today to make all the mid
J dlings possible, and at his earlier opera
| tions as little flour as he can. To produce
the largest possible yield of middlings he
uses series of rollers to break up his
wheat. The done, rollers in a second ex
| tended series reduce the middlings to -four.
Uncounted experiments have shown that
in both operations it is best to proceed de-
| liberately. Gradual reduction permits
| gradual publication, and no publication
can be thorough which is not gradual.
In abandoning methods that seemed sim
pie, and which were really too simple, mil
lers have built up what looks like round
about process. Their justification is in its
| splendid results. Today out of 100 pounds
of flour they will have some seventy to
seventy-five pounds of whiteness and
breadmaking quality such as the old mills
| knew not, twenty pounds or SO as good as
the old mills best and only the remainder
five to ten pounds, of low grade.-Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
The Giant Squid,

Undoubtedly the giant squid, which has
only become Familiarity known to science
within few years, has frequently been
mistaken for sea serpent. In all qualities
which can render marine monster horri-
BILE this huge and frightful mollusk may
be said to compare favorably with any
creature of fact or fiction. When full
grown it weighs 10000 pounds, having a
body fifty feet long and two arms, each 100
feet in length, as well as eight smaller
tentacles. A model of a diminutive indi-
vidual measuring only forty-two feet from
the end of its tail to either tentacular ex-
tremity is on exhibition at the National
museum in Washington. Chicago News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
A Dog Whose Fame Lives On.

The good deeds of Bob, the fireman's
dog, are still fresh in the memory of his
human comrades. 1t was at a fire in Duke
street that Bob darted into burning
house, and oblivious of the hereditary an
mostly between the two races brought
out-there being no other living thing to
rescue-a half suffocated cat, which he
carried in his mouth to place of safety
At another fire in the Westminster Bridge
road the brigade thought that all lives had
been saved, but Bob having made his usu-
al rapid survey began TO scratch and bark
furiously at little door till, in spite of
their fear of tanning the flames by Great
ing a draft, the firemen broke in and dis
covered child crouching down in a cor
ner panic stricken. Bob was always in
attendance at the old Southwark fire sta
ton, ready to follow an engine and to run
up the ladder and jump through the win
dows of a burning building even more
quickly than the tiremen. He died, it will
be remembered, at the post of duty, run
over by the wheels of an engine --London
News
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24
ASPARAGUS CULTURE,

The best soil for asparagus is warm,
sandy or gravelly one with good drain
age. A soil with hard-pan bottom will
answer, if worked deepand underdrained
with tile, but it is best to avoid such,
because of the cost OF preparing it for
the reception of the plants. 1t is not
advisable to place manure under the
plants; but all manuring, except that
used at the time of setting out the
plants should be applied to the surface
and worked in with light pillow or cul-
tivator. The manure will find its way
down to the roots soon enough in any
soil that is kept cultivated, and it is
only wasted if worked in deeply, or
placed in trenches under the plants at
the time they are set out. Make the
ground only moderately rich at the time
of planting, then follow with an annual
top-dressipg, as heavy as you can af-
ford, or circumstances demand. Sur
face manuring, drainage and giving the
plants plenty or room for development
and growth, are the main points to be
observed in cultivating asparagus.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24

Louis Philippe was wit. What he
specially excelled in was the clinching Of
an argument, such as, for instance, his final
remark on the death of Talleyrand. He
had paid him visit the day before. When
the news of the princes death was brought
to him he said: "Are you sure he is dead p''
Very sure, SIRE" was the answer; why,
did not your majesty himself notice yester.
day that he was dyingS" 81 did, but there is
no judging from appearances with Talley.
rand, and | have been asking myself for
the last four and twenty hours what inter.
est he could possibly have in departing at
this particular moment. San Francisco
ArQOnaut
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me Easy Going Long Islanda.

Whether it be due to salt or to Unborn
!aziness' the fact cannot be disputed that
the native Long Islander is the most som.
noient. slow going human being this side
OF Philadelphia. We suppose that tbere
are hundreds of people between Brooklyn
ana Montauk Point who have never trnv.
eied ON railroad, never seen n glimpse NJ
city life and never wanted to do anytbi n ",
t uuU cav, urink and sleep. For enterprise
.na! Is positively clamlike the stretch of
, ,errioory at the eastern gateway of Brook.
Ign Eagle. '''ooh'
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THREE MINSTRELS.

The Ministries sing at dawn and dark,
And through the slumberous golden noon
The dove, the robin and the lark,
Here at the threshold of the June.
At dawn the robins matin song
Is first to wake the dreaming notes,
And while its changes still prolong,
The Angelus rings clear and strong
From out myriad yellow Threats;
Then, as the daylight wakes dim,
The wood dove coos its vesper hymn,
The robin at the early dawn,
The lark at noon, at dark the dove
Three minstrels-but the theme is love,
Anna NJ. Reed in Californian.
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Naming Twin.

A., "A recent baptismal narrative told at n
ainner table is of negro woman who
brought forward twins. "-'"n "Ho
In inquiry. '"' preacner'
A. us one is Bigamy, after his paw. and
York Evening Sun. '' NAV" new
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24

Among the ancient Jews burial pre-
vailed, as it has done since among Chris
tian nations. The idea of death as tenn
porary sleep has doubtless had much to do
with the strong hold which this custom
has obtained among Christian peoples.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24

Everybody who has ever looked at the
moon with telescope knows that it is a
wonderful world of extinct volcanoes. We
have upon the earth no craters to be COM
pared with the giants of the moon, some
OF which are fifty or sixty miles in diam
ptpr
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-24

The state of Massachusetts was named
from the bay of that name. The origin of
the word Massachusetts is from the Indian
word "massa," great ''wadehuash," noun.
tain or hills, and the suflix, "et," meaning
at or near