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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

Professor smythe was once lectuIing
in a provincial town On natural philos-
opby, and in the course OF his expert
meuts he introduced most powerful
magnet. with which he attracted =
block Of iron from distance Of two
feet
Can any of you conceive a greater
attractive power?" demanded the lee
turer, with an air of triumph.
81 can. answered a voice from the
audience.
mot a natural terrestrial object?"
Eyes, indeed.
The lecturer, somewhat puzzled,
challenged the man who had spoken tc
name the article. Then up rose old
Johnny Sowerby. Said he:
. | will give you facts, professor, ant
you can judge for yourself. When wai
a young man, there was a little piece o
natural magnet done up in neat cot
ton dress as was called Betsy Maria
She could draw me A miles ON Sunda,
over plowed land, no matter what tn,
wind or weather. There wasn't no re
sistin her. That magnet o. yourn j
pretty good, but it won't draw so far a
Betsy Maria. Strand Magazine.
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1t seems like something OF an achieve.
ment to make Wild deer take its own
portrait, but such feat was lately ac-
complished by Mr.. Charles Hughes, of
Red Bluff, Cal.
He conceived the Idea of causing a
wild animal to take Il tlashlight photo
graph as it passed along trail in the
Coast Range of mountains, secure I'M
der cover of night.
To accomplish this purpose Mr..
Hughes set up the camera short dis
lance from a trail over which deer were
known to run, and then connected the
shutter and the 1ashlight materials
with trap. When the deer stepped
upon the trap the camera was opened
and the hashIight set of ut the same
instant Mr.. Hughes thus secured the
negative in the dead of night, and when
there was not a soul within sight OF
/ hearing of the animal.
On developing the negative Mr.
Hughes found the photograph of deer
The frightened appearance Of the ami
mai as he was startled by the suddeI
flash of light is clearly shown in thu
picture.
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cv.lo.se Was the Youngsters Name and
He Richly Deserved 1t.

cv,loue Was the Youngsters Name and
He Richly Deserved 1t.
Several nNn gathered about horse
near the western market commenting
upon the prominence of the beast s
ribs and general lankiness. The ami
NAL belonged TO a farmer living near
Ynsilanti, and, it was said, never per-
united grass to grow under its feet on
+be road. The farmer was not pleased
with the remarks and the strong IN
ferences that the poor thing had never
realized the sensation Of corn and oats.
What do you call your horse?" was
asked.
"Cyclo1ta, and don't he look it?'' re-
plied the man from the rural districts.
"Cyclone! What name! He certain
ly looks as if one had struck him.
That's what happened TO him, my
friend. 1t was just like this. You re
member the awful breeze we had out Il
Ypsilanti about three years ago! Thu
Teller was sucking colt at the tim'
and was in the barn with two horses
The cyclone, regular old hummer, CAM
along and thrashed the barn off its leg
and dropped it nigh on to 100 yard
away. After the twister had raised al
the hob, fences and sheds it conld W
went out to look things up. The tw
horses were stone dead and the colt
would you believe iti-was nowhere {
be found.
"Next day turned over the hen
coop, which lay i'll the field half mil
away. Right in that coop and layln
on the door which faced down was III
colt. He commenced kicking when b
heard us. and we took him out III
hurry. He wasn't scared bit, te
you. and was cool rs cucumber. III
neigbbors say they saw the coop gol
through the air and the colt after
The little Teller caught the coop III
got inside of it TO save himself, that
what he did. That's the plain trutl
and ii you don't believe it ask the col
Good day. strangers. "-Detroit Fr'
Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

The readers of this paper will be pleased
=, learn that there is at least one dreaded
dsease that science has been able TO cure
in an its stages and that is Catarrh. Halls
Cafarrh Cure is the oriy positive cure now
Known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
cure is taken internally, acting directly
mon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
nroprietors have so much faith in its cura
i've powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that il fails to cure
send for list of Testimonials.
Address, F.J.UHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Spots on the Sun.

oThe sun has great activity in spots,
says Bayne's "Pith of Astronomy"
these being sometimes $4,000 miles il
diameter. These spots are enormous
vents for the tempests of lame that
sweep out of and down into the sun.
An up-and-down rush has a velocity of
about twenty miles second, aud side
rush a velocity of one hundred and
twenty miles second. These tempests
rage for days and months at time,
and as they cease the sides of the spots
fly together at the rate of 10000 miles
an hour They strike together and
the rising spray of fire leaps thousands
of miles into space. 1t falls again and
rolls over the Himalayas of fire as the
sea over the pebbles on its beach. /
strips as large as this earth were placed
in such tempest they would be mere
corks as tossed by an ocean storm.
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ENGLISH IN CHICAGO.
Discussion on Grammar Between n News
paper and a Citizen.

Discussion on Grammar Between n News
paper and = Citizen.
The Chicago Inter Ocean becomes
both sarcastic and indignant when any
enc questions the purity of its diction.
so when reader named Campbell ven
tured to oriticise expressions used bv its
society editor the captious one found
that he had caught Tartar. This is tl,s
way The Inter Ocean puts it:
lnclosed with the following letter.
received few days ago, were two clip-
pings from the society columns of The
Inter Ocean:
Here are three harharislns that caught my
eye in this mornings issue Of your paper
There is no such word as ..gowned" lit i
nearly a Coekney yulgari.m that had its
/ origin in London. England. SWEETEST IS u
the same sort-and same origin-No American
having any regard for purity Of Language car
use such slang-As ell these words appear in
% called society items take il your Society
editor is male or female dude and needs
lesson in language-The harm done by the Us,
f such words in your paper is very great a
thousands Of children read it and absorb il
words-Do stop this Cockney vulgarity-
JAMES CAMPBELL
There is no doubt you mean we'll
Jim, but term in night school would
be beneficial even to you before you be
gin to give lessons in English. To begil
with. you would be taught there tina
our grandfather, Lindley Murray, al
ways told us to use periods. You ough
to have known Lindley, Jim. He wa
distinguished grammarian, 70
5 know, or perhaps you don't know
3 And then, Jim, there was Tennysor
He said of heroine in one of his poem
that she was "gowned in pure white.
So you see Lord Tennyson found tn
d word "gowned to be useful long b'
fore you learned to walk steady on you
hind feet or TO eat with your frol
Il hoofs. Webster says "gowned" meal
dressed i'll gown; clad. "
You say that these barbarians "caugl
your eye" and you fail to mentiC
d which eye they caught. How is Il
other eye?
q You are right when you say that OF
e society editor is either male or a I
s male. Do you belong to one of the
i sexes? We suspect not. When you wri
ar again, spell merely" as it should b
T. The way you spelled it is like spellil
IN your name "eamel'' instead of Cam
I'd bell. " Sec that hump?
IL We don't like to offend your sensiti
er ear, or the other one either, jim. B
IS. Webster's Dictionary and fourth rea
as er. Start right, and your sensitive {
may outgrow its affection.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
The Alaskan Dog.

The Alaskan dog is almost human in
intelligence. He weighs about 100
pounds. Heavily laden, he will travel
as many as sixty miles a day.
With twenty dogs in a team no two of
them are in straight line from the
driver. When unhltched for the night
they pile upon the first blanket that is
thrown upon the snow, and there they
stay. When you crawl into your sleep
ing bag and pull robe over ii the dog
will get under the robe. Unless you are
careful he will be inside Of the bag in
the morning. Their endurance is phe-
nomenal and they are capable of strong
affection. They are great fighters.
A traveller who recently returned
/ from Alaska says Of the treatment ae
f corded these faithful animals:
The whip that is used on them i
the cruelest thing Of its kind that Il
known to man, Thirty feet in length
and two inches thick near the shor
handle, it has lash ten feet long tina
cuts like a knife, The Russian knou
isn't in 1t. When a dog is struck yo'
hear sharp yelp and then your sleig
whrls past bit Of fur or possibly
piece of bloody skin lying on the snow.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

1t rains on an average 20s Gays in
the year in Ireland, about 100 in Eng
land, at Kozan about 80 days, and in
Siberia only go days.
At sea level an object one hundred
feet high is visible little over thir-
teen miles. II five hundred feet high
it is visible nearly thirty miles.
Many Of the streets of Paris are lined
with trees. If tree dies another OF
the same kind. age and size is brought
from the State forests and put in its
place. The cost is tremendous, but
Paris is the most beautiful of modern
cities.
The records Of lightweight years
show that tornadoes have width OF
ten to 1850 feet, length of track OF
three hundred yards to two hundred
miles, and a velocity of progression OF
seven to one hundred miles an hour
With the assistance of the latest ma
chimes, piece of leather can be trans
formed into pair of boots IN thirty
four minutes, In which time It passe
through the hands of sixty-three PEG
pie and through fifteen machines.
A new German lamp chimney ha
the bulb in the upper instead of tn
bottom part, and the upper rim is Gu
obliquely. 1t is claimed that TIL
shape makes it safer to blow out III
light, while the flame is improved D.
being made taller and steadier.
A new and wonderful substitute 10
common brittle glass is announced D
Il Vienna journal devoted to the gias
and porcelain trade. The substitute
said to have all the properties OF con
mon glass, except that it is flexible
is made Of collodian wool,
A new electric lamp for bicycles an
carriages has small electro-magn'
which il turned 10 generate electrlcl'
by friction wheel pressing again
the side of the front tire, wires ful
3 ming to small storage battery or ell
- directly to the lamp, which Is su
u rounded by case to keep out the aus
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

peans are much more familiar with
them than Americans are. The horse
less carriage Is In very common use in
Europe. although II is cumbersome and
unwieldy. The general opinion is that
since American genius has taken up the
matter the horseless carriage will Oe-
come a great success.
The hOrseless carriage has more ad-
vantages than appears at first sight.
/ or course there must be place to keep
/ IT, The horse. the feed. the clearing up,
the constant breakage OF harness and
the perpetual annoyance OF feeling that
ones animals are not half cared for
will give place TO the ease and comfort
with which the hOrseless carriage caf
be kept Ii will not be difficult 10 learI
TO manage these carriages, and wheI
repair shops become frequent, the prob
lem OF getting about win be so simpll
fed that everybody win wonder VIII
we never had such a convenient vehiel
before.
An expert I'm mechanics is the author
ity for the assertion that the horseles
carriage Will run much more success
full and rapid career, everything eonsi,
cred than the bicycle.-New YOr
: Ledger.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
Perverted Judgment.

The cause of wrong taste Is de-
feet of judgment. And this may arise
from q natural weakness of understand
ing lin whatever the strength of that
faculty may consist, or, which is much
more commonly the case, it may ARISE
from a want of a proper and well d.
rected exercise, which alone can MAKE
it strong and ready. Besides, that lg-
norance, inattention, prejudice rash,
ness. levity, obstinacy-in Short al
those passions and all those vices which
pervert the Judgment in Other matters
prejudice it 10 less in this Its more re-
fined and elegant province. - Burke
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

In the summer of 1910 Henry Clay
went to Kentucky on his vacation,
Three nights after his arrival at Ger
tain springs a sooiable game began. In
the game were Mr.. Clay, Josiah Black
burn, John Hardin and Sam Clay, Il
cousin of the statesman. 1t began on
Friday night and ran along with vary.
ing luck. They were all old hands and
had the nerve to back their cards. At
IL O'Clock Saturday night Blackburn
quit little ahead. He had been mar
ried only two months and was afraid
his young wife would think he was
dead. Sunday morning at O'Clock
some one raped on the door. 1t was
opened, and negro girl stood Ill the
hall She had clean shirt in her hand
and on the bosom was note from Har
din's wife, "For Mr.. John Hardin
wherever he can be found" The doc
was closed and play resumed Hardin
changed his linen at the table. --sal
Francisco Argonaut
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
VOWED NOT TO SPEAK,
And at the End of Fifty Years Whei
She Tried he Cou' d Not.

And Mt the End of Fifty Years When
She Tried : he Cou d Not.
There is possibly no other woman IN .
the world like Miss Experience Gull
ford. of Bluehill, Me. 1t IS proverplal
that woman's tongue never Stops 4
Int Miss Guilford's case is an exception
TO this rule, and for half century she
has held her peace. Not one single
word or audible Sodnd has this woman
allowed to pass her lips for period OF
fifty years.
The original reason for Miss 6uil-
ford's speechlessness was anger pc
cause she could not marry the man OF
her choice. When she was 10 years OLD
! she fell in love with William Simpson,
tha village schoqlmaster. They were
| to be married on June Is, 1911. one OF
| Miss Gulford's rejected suitors told
tales about the schoolmaster, and Miss
Guilford,s parents stopped the we'd
ding. Miss Guilford thereupon said:
81 swear | will not speak word,
though l live for fifty years, unless
marry this man.
She kept her pledge. Her parents
died. and she went to live with her
married brother. When he died she
made her home with a sister, and after
the sisters death she went to a camp
In the woods, and kept house for a
brother, with whom she is now living.
All this time she performed her share
Of the household work, and did not
show any regret for having made the
vow. When the fifty years OF silence
expired she was visited by large mum
her Of relatives and friends, who Wen
. TO the camp for the purpose of beinl
nresent when she was at liberty Il
sneak Soon after the midday mea
Miss Guilford dressed herself in TIT
garments she had not worn for half ;
century. At O'Clock she stood befor
the people, smiled and opened he
mouth TO speak; but though she trle
hard. and got red in the face in trying
she could not litter sound. Her voca
, muscles had become atrophled troI
long disuse and refused to work.
when Miss Guilford found she coul
not speak she sent to Bangor for phi!
sician and took to her bed. The doctt
gave no hope of recovery, but sugg9s
I'd that she be sent to Boston no
nital for treatment, Az soon 40 MI
Guilford gets strong enough to take Il
: tourney she will make another effort
y regain her speech. Her father left II
a good sum Of money at his deaf
which has been growing every year
e a savings bank, so that she is well AT
10 to obtain the treatment she requires.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
Clnthes of Paner.

Paper underclothing has a strange
sound, but Il Is asserted that the Jap
anese have for a long time been max
ing such garments from their finely
crlsped or grained paper, after the
sheets have been pasted together at
the edges so as to form large pieces
When the paper has been cut to pat
tern. the different parts are sewn to
gether and hemmed, and the places
where the buttonholes are to be form
cd are strengthened with calico ant
linen. The stuff Is said to be yer.
strong, and at the same time very fex
! thla
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
An Automatic Ticket seller.

An automatic appliance for the de-
livery of railway tickets, which bids
fair to hold a respectable place among
similar devices, has been tried abroad.
The machine works with absolute cor
rectness, and dates as well as issues
the tickets. 1t is particularly useful
where a number of tickets have 10 be
issued at fixed fares, such as for loca
messenger traffic.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
The Safe Side.

"slowly tells me he can draw Ills
check for 800, 900. " :. Gov
$50 he can. lie can draw IL io ~,
$1,000, 600, 600 But if he owes you .S So
mneh as 80 cents insist on having 'he
coin. detroit Free Press
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
Condiments and Digestion

The introduction of mustard or pep
per into the stomach of a rabbit caused
the secretion of pancreatic juice to be
trlpled and even quadrupled. This &C
counts for the stimulating effects of
these condiments upon digestion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is
the sure reliance in this hour of trial.
Thousands have found it the never-fail-
Ing power to correct all Irregularities
and start the woman on the sea of life
with that physical health all should
have.
Womb difficulties, displacements and
the horrors cannot exist in company
with Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

But for the English and Scotch half
the villas at the French watering places
would remain inlet till they fell to
pieces, half the shops would be shut and
half the hotels would be bankrupt.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

There are more wrecks in the Baltic
sea than in any other place i'll the
world. The average is one wreck u day
throughout the year
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
rrAr rEKRIBLE scouRoE.

,,.t.yial disease is invariably supplemented
Assitsss1rbanee Of the liver, the bowels, the
..i!omach and the nerves TO the removal o.
botn Bitters is fully adequate. Il g nils
-tsiii, a. no other remedy does, perform
tls - work thoroughly. Its ingredients are
us and Wholesome, and II admirably serves
puh,fId mn a system broken by Ill health and
70 u-' "a Strength Constipation. liver aud
sidney complaint and nervousness are con
auered by it.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
PURE rood.
slOo REwAED, 500.

Tea Garden Drips is a pure sugar product
rbs sweetest and best favored table syrup evei
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

sIll never ask another woman to
marry me as long as liver Refused
againF" mo, accepted"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
PURE FOOD.

Toboggan Maple Syrup is absolutely pure and
rich I'M flavor. Recommended by ply sicians.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

Nv doctor said | would die, but Piso's
Cure for Consumption cured me.-Anos
Keiner, Cherry Valley, HIS, Nov %, so.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

Rssts Boston The most exciting game at
,-ie'dike Is when the miners play poker with
fssns for chips. The man who wins % beans is
- ~ meal.
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A FAST COLT.

rry schllllng's Best tea and baking powder.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
A MOTHERS DUTY.

Your daughters are the most pre-
cious legacy possible In this life.
The responsibility for them and their
future is largely with you.
The mysteriousc change that develops
the thoughtful woman from the
thoughtless girl, should find you on
the watch day and night.
As you care for their physical we'll
being, so win the woman
be, and so viii her child
rem be also.
Lydia E 7N
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14

Methodism.-Th Methodist denomi-
nation. from being the smallest and
poorest has now become the richest
and largest in the land. 1t controls 200
colleges and 10000 schools, in which
there are 2,250,000 pupils. When the
missionary society was organized in
1919 1t secured gift of $500. Its last
| wears collection amounted to more than
! 81. 800. OOO.-Rev. $. L. Howe, Metho-
dist. Roston, Mass.
Church Degeneration.-The world is
full of costly church editices, tine
choirs, learned preachers aud regener'
ated. cultivated members, Yet many
of these churches and members seem
as helpless to reach the lost as is an in
fant's hand to shatter Gibraltar. They
are powerless. Many of these churches
, look like lighthouses out of which al
the light has gone.-Rev. w. H. Pick
ard, Baptist, Louisville, Ky.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-10-01
Perhaps both. Hence his Ignorance is
due to his surroundings.
pops BADLY Defcated.

The Populists in the Farmers Ma
tional Congress were badly defeated
during it's sessions. "Calamity" Wei
Ter, Of Iowa, introduced a resolution
for the restoration of the free
coinage of silver. This was re-
ported unfavorably and rejected. Ven
came Il resolution favoring the prohlDl-
ton of "private monopoly i'll public
necessities" even to the extent OF the
exercise of the right of eminent do
main and the requirement OF such ne
cess;ties by the State. On a call OF
States Il th%rec-to-one majority against
the resolution was developed. Another
financial resolution was similarly dis
posed of after Il short discussion to
avoid tilibustering, which had been re-
sorted to by the Populists. Later in
the day the Popul;sts were again
turned down on the final report of
II Committee on Resolutions. Neso-
lutions We're adopted commencing the
Secretary of Agriculture for his eff
forts i'll behalf of the dairy industry;
favoring government inspection II
grading of butter for export. and the
reduction of official salaries; providing
for committee to report Il plan for CO.
operation between the States for me
prevention of the spread of contagious
diseases among domestic animals.
Resolutions introduced by Mr.. Loucks
%favoring the income tax, government
control of telegraph and telephone. the
prohibition of corporate ownership of
land for speculative purposes, and the
initiative and referendum had been
turned down in committee, and Mr..
I1oucks had made Il minority report in
each case. He was allowed to speak
in support of each of the resolutions,
and then the congress overwhelmingly
sustained its committee.-New York
World.