The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23
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In the new Hotel Cecil, in London
there is telephone in each room.
OF the 1888 sailors in the United
States navy AGO are foreign born.
New buildings under way at Cripple
Greek are estimated in value at $780,
300.
Sunfower cake has been found, espe-
cially in Russia, one of the best auxil-
larry cattle foods.
American ebony is one of the heaviest
woods known, weighing S3.1S pounds
to the cubic foot.
A meteorite which fell in Australia
recently had mass of pure copper i'm
bedded in one side.
Fashionable young ladies in Japan.
when they desire to look very attrac-
tive, gid their lips.
A French railway company has or
dered clocks to be placed on the out
side of every locomotive.
The highest inhabited building in
Europe is the Alpine Club house, on
Mount Rosa-12,00O feet above the sea
level.
Slight repairs to the stone wall at
the Bloody Angle, Gettysburg, made
the other day, uncovered 100 bullets,
pieces of shell, parts of guns, etc.
The North German Lloyd is soliciting
offers for the construction of five
steamers of 5000 tons each for the
traffic between Bremen and Brazil.
African natives universally know
now to prepare intoxicating liquors
from such simple materials as the tops
Oh broom corn, sugar cane juice and
cocoanut milk.
From rough calculations lately made
by contributors to the Geological Rec
ord, 1t appears that over 500, GOO species
OF animals have been described by nat
uralists up to the present date.
The playing of golf on Sundays is
practiced to such an extent that in a
certain parish in England, it is said,
the hour of service has been changed
to suit the convenience of players.
A good deal of ''rear morocco is made
from the skin of the ray. AS for the
salmon its skin is also tanned. The
result is very attractive scale-marked
leather. This is used chiefly in Asia.
The Siamese, as class, are not over
ambitious in trade, and the greater part
of small retail establishments and vari-
Gus kinds of shops are in the hands of
Chinese. The latter also furnish the
labor of the country.
A horse dealer in West Woodstock.
VT, has owned 452 horses during his
life and has never told lie about a
horse. One man who has dealt with
him was so impressed with this remark
that he recently gave him hatchet.
A report on the State farms in North
Carolina, which are operated by con-
yicts, shows there are now 5000 acres
in corn and 1000 in cotton, and that
the condition of the crops is % per
cent. better than last year at this date.
The ancient Greeks, to secure reson-
ance without the use Of woodwork.
placed under the seats of their theaters
earthen pots, with the mouth turned
toward the stage, the vibrating mass
of air in these serving to REINFORCE the
sound.
The houses of parliament are partly
lighted by 10000 electric lamps, which
number is being constantly increased.
Fifty experienced electricians are en-
ployed to keep the system in order.
But there is still a yearly gas bill of
over $4,000.
Western Australia's supply of jarrah
and karri, the hard woods used for
street payements, is practically mex
haustible. The iarrah Eucalyptus
marginata covers 1900 square miles
of the country and karri QI. diversi-
color 1900 square miles more.
The performance of Rubinsten's
musical drama, Christ" which Herr
Lowe of Breslau superintendent at Bre-
men last year, has been forbidden by
the Prussian police in virtue of an old |
decree prohibiting the representation
Of the Savior in public entertainments.
A cruel custom prevails on the death |
Of prince of the royal family of Aus
tria. His horse, covered with black |
cloth, follows the funeral, limping |
painfully. The lameness is caused by |
irving nail through one shoe, and is
intended to typify the animals sor-
row.
There is a Kansas editor who takes
the right view. Recently, under the
headline 1--WE Are Thankful" he pub
lished the following editorial note:
We slipped and fell the other day and
peeled our shin and nose; we feel
grateful that We did not break our
Id neck"
If the Mikado of Japan carries out
his plan Of visiting Europe and the
United States he will be the first jap
anese Emperor who has ever been al
lowed to leave his country. The con-
sentative japanese are much opposed.
however, to the scheme, and it may
nave 10 be abandoned.
1t is whole days task for two men
to fell mahogany tree. On account
of the spurs which project from the
base of the trunk, scaffold has to be
erected and the tree cut off above the
spurs, leaving thus stump of the very
best wood from ten to fifteen feet high.
Kissing is out of order in the house
of commons. The rule against such an
indecent display of feeling dates back
to 1904, when 1t was decided that who
soever hisseth or disturbeth any man
in his speech shall answer for it at the
bar as a breach of order and contempt
of the house."
The very peculiar theory has of late
hppn proDOunded that II mon who mr.