The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-05

hear that the owner has refused hundreds of
dollars for it.
Bishop Whitaker's School for Girls at
Reno. has been closed and the grounds
leased. d.-Elko Free Press.
Thomas Gilbert, aged "a yeary, a son of
n s. Gilbert of Paradise Valley, was
drowned in the Humboldt at Lovelocx on
Friday.
Jacob Morgan, serving term in the
Nevada State Prison for grand larceny, re-
Gently went crazy and has been transferred
to the Insane Asylum.
Oakland Times:-De Witt Talmage is
lecturing on "The Bright Side of Things"
The things that he likes 10 see "the bright
side of are the half.dollars taken in at the
door.
William Waltz, man who was formerly
well.known on the Comstock, but who has
recently resided ID n ssl..s..ssl s..s committed
suicide in that place Friday by shooting
himself
The Salt Lake Copper Manufacturing
Company has just completed an extensive
plant in that city at cost of between $780,
900 and 800, 600, and will commence opera
tions at once.
"You are as full of airs as a music box"
is what a young man of Eko said to fair
young damsel who refused to let him see
her home the other evening. ''That may
be-" was the reply, ''but | don't 60 with a
crank. ."-Independent.
The old familiar jokes about the inability
of women to drive nail should be relegated
into silent and sympathetic dust. The
other day farmers wife in Oklahoma
successfully shingled one side of her
dwelling while her husband was in town
looking up carpenter. er.-Silver State.
The Chicago Herald says men take
their pleasures in various fashions.
Mr.. Carnegie, for example, delights to sail
around the Mediterranean in stream
yacht, while his energetic and enthusiastic
partners enjoy themselves plugging uE
blowholss in armor plate for which a gener
Gus and paternal Government gladly pay,
the highest market price.
A man interested in seven claims in the
Kennedy mining district, who recently ar
rived in Reno, says the new mining camp i.
no place for man without money, as there
is no demand for workingmen, on the ac
count of lack Of capital among the claim
there now who consider themselves luck,
when able to spar one meal a day.
A sad case is reported from Santa Fe
where a little boy became lost and wa
found seven miles from the ancient city
lying in chump of cactus, dead. The
little fellow had died from thirst The
poor mother, from whose side he wandered
away, is almost distracted Everv person
in Santa Fe who could leave his business
engaged in the pearch for the boy when i
became known that he was missing and hi
whereabouts was revealed to one of tn,
searches in a dream.
Gold is precious metal" explained tn
professor, "because of its scarcity. All tn
gold now in use in the world, he added, r.
ferring to memorandum on the hy.leaf
the text book he was using. according
careful and trustworthy estimates, could
put within the walls Of room twenty. .for
feet square. $50 could all the silver in IL
world" suggested little red-headed be
in the class, 'f you make the ceiling of tt
room high enough"
Miners working in the Empire mine
Grass Valley report very singular occur
ence during recent thunderstorm. II
lightning struck the pipe and descend'
into the mine to a depth of thousand fe
and thence into the drifts where the m
were working repairig the air pipes. T,
of them lifting piece of pipe were stru
by lightning and knocked down. NJ
working in the Granite Hill mine it is 81
were similarly fected.-Grass Vail
Union.