Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-06-26
FACT, FANCY AND WIT.

Don't talk shop all the time
Think of something else besides yonr
business. Here's a batch of items that
will both amuse and instruct. The
rest of the paper tells about your work
on the farm or in the home This
corner just for fun
The Chinaman who was convicted of
murder in Philadelphia has legal
right to be hanged even if he hadn't
the right to vote.
A cold and austere manager has cut
PATHS terms down one third. Now
she receives only So, 900 a night and 1t
is said that she is retrenching.
The United States navy has signed
a contract for the construction of the
Holland submarine torpedo boat. Mr..
Holland says he can sink it so feet in
four seconds.
In order to perpetuate the Indian
religion A. J. Blackwell, the rich and
erratic Indian, announces that he will
build temple at David City. Okla
which, by the way, he owns-to cost
100000.
Grover Cleveland is having his por-
trait painted Just at present, but the
artist confesses that the hardest fea-
lures of the Presidents face to paint
are his eyes which are very blue and
very choleric.
Out in Eldora, Ia. the people are
Dragging about fire ghost which
shows up in the heavens about 9 o'clock
every evening A rash man named
Springer fired a gun into it without
"phazing" it bit.
Deacon Hapgood-There is a glow
ing report from our missionaries in
Africa.
Mrs. Hapgood-Yes? Do they think
those savages will soon be able to help
us out with our church mortgage?
A London articulator with whom
business was dull recently advertised
skeletons cheap today. Large re-
auctions in tibias. Fifth ribs abso-
lutely given away" He had evidently
had the run of whole graveyard.
France has new plan for granting
state pensions to aged workingmen who
have subscribed to benefit society for
ten years. Their allowance will be about
365 francs year. The bill has been
passed and credit of 100000 a year
voted.
Probably the most remarkable case
of crazy quilt patchwork of the human
cuticle ON record is that of a New Jer-
sey boy, upon whom 10, 900 pieces Of
skin have recently been grated. He
was terribly burned in Fourth of
July affair and the burns would not
heal. His friends came willingly to
his rescue, one young man especially
interested in the subject giving 1000
pieces of his precious skin.
There is clergyman in London of
whom good story is told. He was
applied to by member of his congre-
CATION for his advice, who complained
of the continual noise of a from bone
made by his next door neighbor. Can
a man." he asked, "who practices on
such an instrument from morning to
night be a good Christian?"
The clergyman replied: "Such a
man might possibly be good Chris
tian, but his next-door neighbor
couldn't t. VANITY Fair.
Children are too often little spend
thrifts. They use up an entertainment
for which their parents would be CRATE
full. and then look about them for
something new. 1t is said that while
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling was in England
during the past summer, he became
very fond of Miss Dorothy Drew, Mr..
Gladstone's granddaughter. He met
her at a country house and being very
fond of children. took her about the
grounds and told her stories. After
time Mrs. Drew. fearing that Mr.. Kip
ling must have had enough of the
cbild's society. called her and said
"Now. Dorothy, l hope you have
been good child. and have not been
wearying Mr.. Kipling.''
"Oh, not bit, mother" replied the
little girl, "but you've no idea how
Mr. Rir1inr hoe haan