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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-08
A Story Of tho Petersburg Mine.

General Horace Porter tells the fol
lowing anecdote of the explosion of the
Petersburg mine in his Campaigning
With Grant" in The Century: A sur
geon told us a story, one of the many
echoes of the mine affair, about pris-
oner who had been dug out of the crater
and carried to enc of our field hospitals.
Although his eyes were bunged and his
face covered with bruises, he was i'll an
astonishingly amiable frame of mind
and looked like a pugilistic hero Of the
prize ring coming up smiling i'll the
twenty seventh round. He said: "I'n
jest bet you that after this I'll be the
most unpopular man in my regiment.
You see, appeared TO get started lit
tie earlier than the other boys that had
taken passage with me aboard that vol
cano, and as was comm down l me-
the rest Of 'em a-goin up, and they
looked as if they had kind O. soured OF
me and yelled after me, 'StragglerP "
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The Political Handkerchief.

There has just been sold by auction
in France the complete set of an old
newspaper which was probably unique
It was called the Mouchoir de Poche
Politique political Pocket Handker-
chief and was published in 1881.
The proprietors hit upon the idea OF
printing it on cheap cotton stuff for the
purpose of evading the high paper duty.
The complete collection consisted of l44
numbers-just gross of pocket hand
kerchiefs-for it is evident from the
title thai the publishers believed the
newspaper would serve two purposes.
The price was 8 pence-3 shillings
per dozen-not high price to pay fol-
news, articles, theatrical criticisms and
a pocket handkerchief combined.
Unfortunately the cotton required toe
much ink, and the scheme had to b(
abandoned. London Globe.
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Cremation In England.

The report of the council of the Gre
nation Society of England for 1896
shows that 1877 cremations were carried
out at Working during the year as COM
pared with $50 in 1895. The decrease
is not important, as the figures for 1895
still show material advance on any
previous year, 1895 excepted. The fol
lowing table of the cremations at Wok
ing from the commencement of opera
lions will show the growing popularity
Of the disposal of bodies by incineration:
1889 1890 1891 1902 1893 1894 1895 1895
40 81 90 l04 l0l lbs l5O lS
1t has to be remembered that three
crematories are now open in England
and Scotland besides that belonging to
the society at st. Johns, near Working
namely, at Manchester, where 90 Gre
nations took place during 1896; at
Glasgow, where there were II crema-
tions, and at Liverpool, where crema-
tons have been performed. -Westmin-
ster Gazette.
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ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
A Strange Experiment Made In Zooloa
ical Garden.

A Strange Experiment Made In a Zoolog-
ical Garden.
A violinist was playing various airs
before the cages of the animals. The
bow, which had been passing backward
and forward half drowsily, took up a
gait that would have distanced one of
the deer in the pen by the buffaloes'
yard. Then there was transformation
scene in the home of the lioness as rap
id and as complete as that of the tune.
The cubs went into ecstaeies. They roll
ed about, jumped, fell over one another,
raced over their mothers recumbent
body, and danced unrebuked on her
head. They ceased their tantrums only
with the ceasing of the music.
Then they gathered at the front bars
of the cage again and silently and pa
thetically pleaded for more. Their plea
was successful, end i'll response to the
delicate fiattery conveyed by their man
ner the player gave the lullaby once
more. They simply sat and listened TO
it as silently as they had at the first.
The transition to the jig music was
once more made speedily. The first note
of the lively air had barely left the vio-
lin before its riotous contagion had
once more caught the cubs. They rol.
licked and rolled about and stopped on
ly when the professor, fearing to tire
their little limbs, took his bow from
his fiddle and told them they had danced
enough for debutantes.
The hyena is an uncanny brute. Hi
very appearance goes great way to
ward bearing out charges of graveyard
robbery brought against him. He ha
no music in his soul nor room for any
Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal t,
everything in his nature that they i'll
spire him with nothing but fear, ant
the most abject fear at that. When Pro
fessor Baker tried to interest the tw
skulking hyenas in his performance OF
the violin, they began trembling visibl
at the first notes utterance, and then a
the music swelled they sought the far
thermost side of their prison and trie
their best to squeeze their ungainly boo
les through the bars to escape the me-
ody. -Philadelphia Times.
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HOW FEAR WAS sAnIsnkn.
George Kenuau's Method for Over
coming His Natural Timfdity,

George Kenuau's Method for Over
coming His Natural Timidity.
when ! was II or is years of age"
said Mr.. KEENAN,, Il went as a tele-
graph operator to Cincinnati. / had
become so morbid and miserable by
that time that l said to myself one
day, I'm going to put an end to this
state of affairs here and now. IL I'm
afraid Of anything I'll conquer my
fear OF 1t or die. IL I'm a coward
might as well be dead. because l can
never feel any self-respect or have any 4
happiness in life, and I'd rather get /
killed trying to do something that I'm I
afraid to do that to live In this way /
was at that time working at night. and
had to go home from the office between
midnight and o'clock in the morning.
1t was during the civil war, and Gin
efnnat was a more lawless city than
1t has ever been since. Street robberies
and murders We're of daily occurrence
and all of the might men in our Office
carried weapons as a matter OF course.
l bought a revolver. and commenced
course of experiments upon myself.
When finished my night work at the
office, instead of going directly home
through well-lighted and patroled
streets, l directed my steps to the
slums and explored the worst haunts
of vice and crime in the city. II there
was a dark, narrow, cutthroat alley
down by the river that felt afraid to
go through at that hour of the night
l clenched my teeth, cooked my reyol-
yer and went through it-sometimes
twice in succession. IL | read in the
morning papers that a man had been
robbed or murdered on a certain street
l went to that street the next night.
explored the dark river banks, hung
around low drinking dives and the
resorts of thieves and other criminals
and made 1t an invariable rule to dc
at all hazards the thing that thought
/ might be afraid to do. OF course
had all sorts of experiences and adven
lures. One night l saw man attacked
by highwayman and knocked dow1
with slungshot, just across the street
l ran to his assistance, frightened away
the robbers, and picked him up from
the gutter in state of Inconsistencies
Another night, after ? o'clock, | saw
a mans throat cut, down by the river
: and a CHASTITY sight it was, but al
though somewhat shaken | did not be
S come faint nor sick. Every time
went through a street that | believes
0 to be dangerous, or had any startling
: experience, felt an accession of self
respect.
! I'm less that three months | had sal
o isfied myself that while | did fee
fear was not so much daunted b
y any undertaking but l could do it If
IS willed to do it, and then l began
feel better.
u soon after this time l went on m
l first expedition to Siberia, and Their
! In almost daily struggles with ditticu
ties, dangers and sufferings of all sort
l finally lost the fear of being afral
which had poisoned the happiness {
D. my boyhood "-Atlantic Monthly.
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A Hopeless Case,

Carlyle was terribly bored by the per-
sistent optimism of his friend Emerson
II thought, +" he said, that ! would try
to cure him. so took him to some of
the lowest parts of London and showed
him all that was going on there. This
done, l turned to him, saying, And
moo, man, dye believe in the deev!l
noo?' oh. nor he replied. All these
people seem to me only parts of the
great machine, and ON the whole l
think they are doing their work very
satisfactorily. Then" continued the
sage, II took him doun to the hoose O.
commons, where they put us under the
gallery There | showed him ae chiel
getting up after anither and leeing and
leeing. Then turned to him and said,
And moo, man, dye believe in the dee
vii noo?' He made me, however, just
the same answer as before, and l then
gave him up in despair. "
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Diet and Hair,

The relation of the diet to the hair
has been tested by good authority. a
diet consisting of beef, starchy materi
ais and milk causes atrophy of the roots
and falling of the hair. Probably no ar
ticle of diet nourishes the hair so well
as oats A bald headed Scotchman who
takes his porridge regularly is "a rarity
The poorest diet for the hair is milk.
1t is claimed that the loss of hair as
the result of fever is largely due to the
habit of feeding the patient almost ex-
clusively on milk diet, and it will be
interesting to note the cases where those
having fine heads of hair are known tc
live principally upon vegetable and
grain foods.
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mentary halO and asks inquiringly;
elephants" NO" says the negro IN
painting whisper, Lion! There, there;
no. not there. You see that ant hill?
Well, climb on to it's side and you VIII
see the hon lying in clear space JUST
beyond. male lion, truly; its body is
nearly white and its name is black"
With Express rifle at full cock, the
doctor advances gingerly through the
interlaced grass, bent nearly double,
keeping the muzzle of the gun directed
straight before him and shields its SEN
sitive trigger from the intrusive grass
stems. The ant hill is reached; he clam
bers to it's sloping side. Good God,
the boys right. What beauty! And
asleep, toov' But something in the doc
tors coming has aroused the lion, not
ten yards away; aroused him partially,
for there is a sudden movement. He
raised the great head set In collar of
yellow, brown, black name; slowly the
dim nictitating membrane passes over
| the yellow eyes, but as they are focus
ing TO meet his own gaze the doctor
fires. fires precipitately (his position on
the s.oping ant hill is lnsecure), wounds
the lion somewhere, somehow, but does
not kill him. The beast gives a SHARP
explosive roar seems to jump into the
air with all four feet and then in thres
bounds has crashed off into the grass
Jungle. Silence. We'll, I'm a muffr
thinks the doctor. HE wasn't ter
yards away and ! didn't kill him dead
l don't know quite where l hit him
in the chest, think. But he can't b.
far away and l must finish him off.
He descends from the ant hill into tn
clear trampled space where the liol
had been lying. At the spot where tn
| beast had made its first bound into tn
dense grass hedge there is grea
squirt Of blood over the tangled greer
ery-the dark crimson liquid still drip
: from leaf blade to leaf blade. "Al
: thought so; he must be pretty badl
hit"
Two black faces, with starting eye
and anxious grins, now cautiously pee
around the ant hill The doctor, raj
0 ing his head. recognizes his boys an
beckons them down. The three col
verse in whispers. The situation Is e,
v plained-how the lion was wounds
d the direction in which he boundf
away. The boys urge caution. Lilo
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Finnigin to Flanagan.

wuZ Flannigan;
Boss ay the siction wuz Finngin;
Whiniver the kyars got often the thrack
An muddled up things t tn divil an
back
Finnigin writ it to Flanagan,
Afther the wrick wuz all on again;
That is, this Finnigin
Reported to Flanagan.
Whin Finnigin furst writ to Flanagan,
He writed tin pages-did Finnigin.
An he tould jist how the smash occurred:
Full minny tajus, blunderin' wurrd
Did Finnigin write to Flanagan
Afther the cars had gone on agin.
That wuz how Finnigin
Reported to Flanagan.
Now Flanagan knowed more than Tin
nigin-
He'd more idjucation-had Flannigan;
An it wore'm clane an completely out
To tell what Finnigin writ about
In his writin' to Muster Flanagan.
So he writed back to Finnigi
Don't do SIGH a sim agin;
Make 'em brief, Finnigin!'
Whin Finnigin got this from Flanagan
He blushed rosy rid-did Finnigin;
| An he said: I'm gamble whole month
| pa-ay
That it will be minny an minny da-ay
Before Sup'rintindint, that's Flanagan,
GIFTS whack at this very same sin agin.
From Finnigin to Flanagan
Reports won't be long agin."
Wan da-ay on the siction av Finnigin,
| On the road suprintinded by Flanagan
A rail give way on a bit av a curve
An SONS kyars went off as they mad'
the swerve.
'"There's nobody hurried" SEE Finnigin,
"But reports must be made to tlannl
gan"
An he winked at McGorrigan,
As married a Finnigin.
He wuz shantyin' thin, wuz Finnigin,
As minny a railroader's been agin,
An the shmoky Of lamp wuz burnir
bright
In Finnigin's shanty all that night
Bihn' down his report, was Finnigin!
An he writed this here: Muster FlaI
nigan:
"Off agin, on agin,
Gone agin.-Finnigin."
S. w. Gillian, in Atlanta Constit'
ton.
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plenty fierce. Mkango mkall nditu.
Master must take care; better climb
tree and look all around-not 90 into
grass" But there is no tree anywhere
near. A boy hoists himself to the slen-
der summit Of the ant hill and reports
that he sees the grass moving In the
direction whittier the lion had with
drawn-moving as though sta
tionary animal were shaking 1t with
conyulsive throes TALL Of which is ex-
planned more by gestures than by
words. The doctor, clambering up be-
side the boy, thinks he can descry las
the grass stems bow and droop before
some writing object the lions wav-
ing tail and yellowgray haunch. He
load. A rush comes through
the grass, a deafening roar, some great
yellow object in the air above him
momentarily dark
against the sky yellow eyes
Qnsensibillty).
"'Click clock, click clock, click clock
wonder what that funny sound
is am in a train? No, 1t Il
the engines of the steamer-or is 1t the
pulse beating in my temples? They
have been asleep, and in broad day
light, with the blue sky above me anC
in the broiling sun! How foolishl Blu
no-it must be something more. know
there has something happened-let M
think the Lion, of cours'
lion jumped at me. Then
must be wounded? Let's see" (raise
himself painfully on his right arm
MY God! pool of my owl
blood my left arm has no fee
ing chewed by the lion, han
. almost detached. rest of arm a mas
of blood, muscle, bone and KHAKI
oh, God! I'm going to die
7 can't live-he has torn open my ston
= ach - that must be the par
i creas. I'm like a butchers shop.
= (Whimpers. A blubbering sound n
: tracts his attention.) "Hullo! you her
e Juma? Plucky chap; thought you
Y have cut and run. Where's Saldi? Ell
t Speak louder I'm deaf o.
3 gone to gunboat; quite right
S What? the lion?" turns his head Sigh
= ly) "there, still living; looks pretty sic
n too" (The lion is lying four yar'
i away, partly on his side, one cripple
: forepaw turned back, the other OF
: stretched and the great head resting {
It it, eying the men with solemn yello
Y eyes no longer fierce, the pupil shruI
IS to a pin-point. With each convulsi
e shudder of the lions body the bio
n pool round him widens slightly) Il
s. heavens, if I've got to die, I'll die Ii
IS man, and he shall go first. Who G
o. tell? He might recover and hurt I
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THE LITTLE OLD SHOE.

II II only tiny shoe
That she touches with tender care,
A cunning little bit Of thing
That baby ussd to wear
And she gently raises IL to her lips
And lovingly holds it there.
1t IL worn and faded and old,
But il brings up the happy past.
She sadly signs Is she thinks Of the joys
That were zoo sweet to last.
In fancy she sees q little child
As It gambols upon the floor.
An eliike creature with golden hair
Is cooling a baby song once more,
And tear drops down on the tiny shoe
That the beautiful dream child wore.
"Ah. WELL" she sighs to herself,
:" It's, alas. the will OF the fatesl
I used to be able to wear this shoe,
But now take number Fights"
-Pearson's Weekly.
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Tedious Work Of old Book makers.

Tedious Work Of Old Bookmakers.
During the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries monks frequently isolated
themselves from the world and repro
duced the Bible in Illuminated manu-
script. The work was necessarily slow
and in no instance was 1t accomplished
in less than thirty-five years. Guido
de Jars was a producer of these illumi-
mated manuscripts and a beautiful
specimen Of his work was sold along
with the books Of Sir. W. BurreH In
1900. This copy of the Bible had occu-
pied half century In its production. A
note In the beginning of the manuscript
In Jars handwriting indicates that he
began his task In 1914 and did not con-
clude 1t till 1904.
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THE BEST HAND.
II Was Held by an Outsider. and n Feat
an aAce FULL

II Was Held by an Outsider. and n Feat |
an SAGE Full"
Say" said the drug clerk to is
friend at tie soda water fountain, Il |
ran against play last night that made
me think that Twas the unluckiest Iaan
that ever drew q card.
what was it," asked the man at the
fountain.
why, l had an ace full beat by an
other full. I'll tell you how it hap
pened. Yon know we have a quie. lit
tie game over here on Dearborn street
nearly every Saturday night. Well, last
night we got into a five handed game.
There were Julius. a chattel mortgage
man, in whose Office we were playing;
a real estate man. clerk for bicycle
firm, a lawyer and myself Well, it was
a small game cent ante and a &c
cent limit. Along about IL O'Clock /
opened the pot ON pair of aces The
lawyer raised me half dollar, AID
Julius stood the raise. OF course had
to stand it too. was the first to draw
cards. drew three cards. thought
was pretty lucky when picked up an
ace and pair CT tens, making me an
ace full. The lawyer, who had raised
me on three queens. drew down to his
hand and caught u pair of sevens, which
made him queen full julius asked
for one card and made spade flush.
"Well, bet a check on the go, the
lawyer raised me another half dollar.
Z Julius called the raise and l raised
: back We raised each other till we 60
b about 81 in the pot. Just then the JAM
/ tor of the building appeared on tn,
n scene. He had been out attending
< wedding aud happened in at this rathe
8 unreasonable hour. He was pretty wei
loaded with some kind of scandinavian
:, wine He was good and ugly. 1t was
:, great surprise to him to see a game o
cards going ON in the building owe
: which he had control, and he knew tina
: if the facts ever came to the ears of til
! owner of the building there would be
janitor looking for job.
y Now, what do you suppose that fe
= low did? Why, he just walked over
" that table, kicked it over and sent I'll
= cards aud chips flying in all direction
y Then he told us to get out, and to do
quickly; that he would call the poli'
= and have us pinchcd.
y 1--WE Get oct aud hunted up sma
n room in Lotel to Continue the gam
y When we get settled down again,
ID made a kick for tho pot on the la
IS hand. told the boysshat had an a
Kl full aud that there wasn't another FL
= could beat it. Pat old Julius spoke I
n ard SAID: "Oh, yes, there was. Vat
n you t'ink of janitor full?"-Chica
}. Triblne.
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T T E is a young doctor and a sur
RI geon on board one Of the small

r T E Is a young doctor and sur
RI geon on board one Of the small
4 Il gunboats placed on great AZ
rican lake. Fresh-colored still, though
slightly tanned by exposure to the lake
winds, with merry. Irish eyes of blue
gray, square-cut jaw and obstinate
chin, long upper lip, a little whisker
at the temples and short wiry black
brown hair. Like many men Of his
class, he is potential Darwin, and,
having no means to travel and study
natural history, has entered the navy
as a surgeon. He has landed on the
shores Of the lake for days shooting,
hoping to get an elephant at least, but
meantime content to study sunbirds.
Let us in Imagination enter his mind,
see through his eyes what he saw and
lay bare his thoughts.
Grass! a forest Of grass, with stout,
knotted stems six or eight feet high,
and abundant leaves starting from ev-
| cry joint. Each stem ends in droop-
Ing plume Of ripened seed. As the
doctor forces his way through the tan.
/ gled heritage and cane-like stalks the
seeds shower down upon him, each one
steadied in its descent by it's long feath-
cry stipule. The seeds are sharp point
ed and barbed at the ends, so they
pierce their way through his khaki
clothing easily and scratch the per-
spring flesh beneath. This raises to
evaporation the discomfort already
felt to be well-nigh unbearable, for the
doctors face Is now the color of raw
beef from the sitting heat and the
frightful exertion of forcing his way
through such a thicket Of grass, and
his hands are scratched and cut by
contact with the raZor-edged leaves
His Terai hat is constantly being
dragged off his head and it is all he cal
do to carry his gun and elbow his way
through the obstructing heritage, pro
tecting his face as we'll as possible witt
per and cannot stop to notice the weav
er birds Of fame color and black, thu
extraordinary stick insects (eXactl.
Stimulating stalks of grass and tn
: green, leaf-like mantises which thronl
the dense brake on either side. He i
after bigger game. The most expe
rienced of his boys pioneers hin
through the sitting grass jungle, anoth
er boy with a second rifle follows be
hind. The idea is elephants" ele
plants having been reported hereabou
r the previous day, when suddenly (the
: have reached space where the gras
Is a little drier, little less dense) tn
pioneer "boy" comes doubling back o
his master with every gesture express
i've of "Hushv' The doctor stops, mol
his boiling face thankful for the M
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boy. See here, Juma" Ito Juma, who is
supporting his back, 'be very gentle,
take a cartridge out of my belt put it
in the rifle - so; now
....... mind my arm now,
give me the rifle in my right hand and
come between my legs So
stoop very low down, like that Now
I'm going to rest the rifle on your shoul,
der and take aim. Keep very still. l
won't hurt you keep still
I'll aim just below the brute's
eyes" CA minute pause. Bang! Doctor
falls back fainting Lion stretches out
his head three times with spasmodic
upward movement, the tail and the
limbs-all but the crippled one-stiffen,
the claws stand out from their sheaths
and beast dies.)
"Juma, is that you? Water, how
| delicious! more-and on my forehead
so what brick you
are! Upon my word, I'd like to leave
you something, Juma. You must tell
them that l said so, you know, fol
sticking by me. God bless you! Is the
lion deadT (The sobbing boy mods
"Yes.'O well, then, l must die too
Pm enough of doctor to know that
Don't cry. Tell them l bore 1t like s
man. But it's beastly hard! Who'C
have thought my days shooting would
have ended like thisT' CWhimpers.
'Beastly hard. I'm so young, and ry'
done so well up to now ant
there's mother Who will break it t
; her? She'll never get over it
, and Lily and, damn it all,
can't even send them messages! How
: can one tell such things to black boy
S'pose I'm dying primarily from tn
e shock know I'm dying some
e how-can't raise my head to loo
: - Mother! Mother!
: What rot to go on like that, as If
$ could do any good! Now, lii
!! ten. Inc ndirinl ANAL, ndl miong,
y I've oh, God! How can 1 tie
him? It's all slipping away from M
$ For the blood Is the lif
Z Where have l heard that? That bloc
) is the life slipping away-sli
q ping away must be in boa
1t is so soothing; up and down, up al
! down; so restful" (Sighs gent
d Dies.)-Sir H. II. Johnston, in the Sa
N urday Review