Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-01-27
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been grown near Nidan, Germany,
which is said to be in the exact form
of baby, even to the fingers and toes.
The East London Water Company
has issued a notice forbidding the use
of garden sprinklers and all similar
apparatus. drouth in London is I'M
minent.
In some parts of England when yon
haul a drowning man out of the water
you get nothing. but if you let him
drown and then haul him cut you get
shilllngs.
More than 10000 persons are engaged
In the manufacture of explosives In
England. Lest year forty persons in
the business were killed and 167 In
jured by accidents.
I4ifeboats are now being made in
some quarters out of pumice-stone. This
is a material of great lightness and
strength, and boat made thereof will
support a considerable load, even when
full of water.
Madrid schools are so bad that Ger
man residents of the city have united
to establish a school where their chill
dren may obtain as good an education
as in more civilized parts Of Europe for
a reasonable outlay of money.
A feather bed ON which they were
/ sleeping, saved the lives of two women
at Bonnie Terre, Md. Lightning struck
1 l.tt r. I<1 or hn oh
mattress In a blaze, but the feathers
diverted the electricity from the
women.
According to Swiss contemporary
an engineer named Tauxe has just In
vented a new process of tempering steel
by electricity which not only makes the
steel much harder but at the same time
gives 1t the proper elasticity; that Is,
1t is not brittle Hike steel made very
hard by the usual process.
Librarians are at work cataloguing
the Indian library of the British India
Office, and when finished the library
will be the most complete for oriental
scholars probably In the world. There
are now seven miles of book shelves,
and when the new floor is complete
there will be nearly fifteen miles of
/ shelving
A nOn-poisonous match has been de-
vlsed by French chemist potassium
permanganate and amyl acetate being
among the inofrensive ingredients. The
matches are made easily and without
danger, ignite readily, and are not
liable to explosion when stored In guam
tity, and have an odor said to be posi-
lively agreeable.
There are many authenticated ex-
amples of increased power Of mind dur
ing sleep. One of the best known Is
that in which the great naturalist Agas-
siz successfully reconstructed from GER
tain remains the skeleton of fossil
! fish, at which he had been working I'M
successfully in his waking moments for
several hours.
A recent issue of L Energie Electrique
gives the following mixture for clean
ing the parts Of machinery, which II
states attacks the hardest crust of
hardened oil: Boil the parts for three
minutes in a solution of $50 parts of
sodium carbonate and Is parts of caus-
tic In soda In 1000 of water, after
which rinse and dry the metal
A statistician who has been interest
ing himself in the population of the
earth says that 32,214,OOO annually;
that Is, an average Of 9S,s4O day, 4,01O
an hour and 81 minute. The annual
number of births, on the other hand, Is
estimated at 36,792, 900, an average of
100,S00 day, 1900 an hour and 20
minute, so that the population is In
creasing at the rate of three to the
minute.
A sensational discovery has been
made by the appeals and transfers COM
mittee of the city council of Cumber-
land, Md, which involves the taxation
of over $4,000 worth of property in
South Cumberland. 1t appears that a
boundary stone had been moved in, and
been evading taxation. The city en-
gineer has ascertained the true line and
the property above named has been In
cluded in the city limits.
A druggist of Winamac, Ind, re-
ceived another order the other day from
President Cleveland for three boxes Of
fish-hooks for bass fishing in the sea.
With the order Is letter from the
president stating that "the last ordered
had been received and used by himself
and Secretary Thurber with good re-
suits" This is the third order for fish
ing tackle that the druggist has re-
ceived from the president, and he Is
proud of his ability to please.
A curious instance of the red tapelsm
of the English postoffice comes from
Norfolk. A letter carrier with a long
country round, recently purchased a
tricycle., which enabled him to get
over his district with greater ease to
himself and more convenient prompt
ness to the public. In some way or
other the department became aware Of
this fact and sent down an official CEN
sure to him for having dared to buy his