The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23


We're eonsecrated almost entirely TO
astrology and alchemy. The Oldest
printed almanac of which we have any
knowledge is said TO have appeared in
vienna In l460. Fourteen years later
heglmontanus, a German mathema-
ucian living in Hungary. published a
series or almanacs from 1475 to 1906.
Inc only animal known in the world
which, on the approach OF dissolution.
seeks out the general burying ground Of
It's species, and there digs its own grave
and lies down to die, is the guanaco, or
Wild llama. 1t is peculiar in other re-
spects, too. These animals, in fact,
nave a regular sanitary system, which
they respect like human beings.
A Bangor woman who had read that
camphor sprinkled around the room
would drive away flies and MOSQUITOES.
Jumped out of bed the other night,
seized the bottle of camphor In the
dark and gave the bed a plentiful
sprinkling. The next morning she
aWoke to find the white spread covered
with Ink spots and the ink bottle empty.
The Foudroyant, which, it will be re-
membered, was saved from being
broken up in the German timber yards.
Is now nearly restored to what she was
when she fought under Nelson, and is
as near as possible an exact reproduc-
ton of a line of battle ship of the
most glorious period of England's naval
history.
A midget" testament, three-duarters
of an inch long and half an inch wide.
weighing only twenty-six grains, and
mite" Bible, one and three-uuarters
OF an inch high by one and one-eighth
wide, containing 936pages and weighing
$50 grains, have just been published by
Glasgow firm. They are said to be the
smallest Bible and Testament in the
world.
The Dominion Of Canada, consisting
Of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. came
into existence on July 1, 1867. 1t was
subsequently augmented by the prov
ince Of Manitoba and the northwest
territories in 1870, by British Column
bia in 1871, and Prince Edward Island
in 1873, and now includes the whole of
British North America.
NJ. Henry, a French savant of the
school of higher studies, has revealed
the power of sulphate of zinc to absorb
sunlight and give 1t back in the dark.
A powder produced from this mineral
gives a soft luminosity to a fair young
face. A cyclist busted all over with the
same material is in himself lamp on
a pitch dark nlghc. Damp will not spoil
the effect. Rain is incapable of dimin-
ishing its brightness.
There are more Jersey cows in Amer
lea than there are in Jersey, and yet
there are more cows in Jersey than in
any other similar area. England has
twenty cows to every 100 acres. Jer-
sey has fifty-eight, but then every farm
there has its cows, and the farms are
small, ranging from three to fifty
acres, the reason being that the old
Norman laws that still prevail in the
island prevent the accumulation of prop
erty.
Dutch fishermen make astonishing
catches by means Of the following very
simple plan: They put a number of
live worms and insects in bottle par
TALLY filled with water and then cork
1t securely. The bottle is dropped In
to the water, the fisherman sinking his
lines alongside. 1t appears that the
sight Of the wriggling contents of the
bottle so excites the appetite of the
fnny tribes that they fall easy victims
to the bated hooks.
There has been great complaint of
late by foreigners in Paris regarding
the quality of the coffee served In the
hotels and cafes. Paris has been noted
for the excellence of the
coffee dispensed to visitors, but for
some unknown reason the coffee served
recently has been Of the very lowest
grade. 1t has always been difficult to
obtain a cup of good tea on the con-
tinent but no complaint against the
coffee has ever been heard before.
The recent death of DR.. Richard Sal
mon in England, at the ripe age of 100,
bears out the truth of DR.. Saltymann's
statistics regarding the increasing
among medical men. From
the archives Of his province DIR. Salty
mann shows that whereas the Average
duration Of life among doctors In the
sixteenth century was SO years and 5
in the seventeenth century 1t
had risen to 45 years and months,
and at the present time had reached 56
years and months.
There are at present no less than g.
500 journals published in Paris, In
which number the technical Journals
hold the foremost place. There are
over 200 financial papers, 100 medical
papers, 10 political papers, 10S fashion
papers, 104 illustrated journals, 60
sporting papers, and, among others, 8
papers entirely devoted to philately.
The Gazette de France is the oldest
political newspaper in France, having
lately celebrated its 275 anniversary:
Les Petites Ottiches Is 2S4 years old,
and the Journal des Debatis 1O7 years.
A citizen says that he was riding on
the front platform of street car In
Boston, and, as there was no one out
there but himself and the driver, he,
in a fit Of Observation-Disclosures, repeated
a few lines of Virgil in an undertone.
To his surprise the driver of the car
took up the lines where he left off and
carried them on to the end, and in
Latin. And yet in cultured Boston,
there hangs sign board on which is
printed this legend:
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VETERINARY SURGEON.
HORSES CLIPPED Salts
FACTORILY IN THE REAR.