The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-09-03
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In the first i've months of 1898 more
rain fell in Kansas than during the
whole of last year
| Berlin has Il service of dinner carts
which call ut the homes of the working
meh and collect lunches TO convey To
lie men at the factories.
In recent test of speed NJ Gibraltar
| the British channel squadron succeeded
In putting in 5000 tons of coal and get
ting ready for sea in forty-eight hours.
An Italian doctor has discovered that
there is In the common pineapple sub
stance similar to pepsin, and that one
pineapple is sufficient TO digest ten
pounds of beef.
A servant girl on n farm near Cam
| brai, in Northern France has lived sew
enty-two years with the same family.
She is now 81 years of age aud still
does her work.
The cylindrical bales of cotton now
shipped from the United States to Liv-
erpool are pronounced a great improve
ment upon the first specimens and also
upon the old bale.
The discovery has been made that
metal filings of any kind can be COM
pressed into bars which will stand as
severe tests as the original bars which
supplied the filings.
The British army rife has eighty
two component parts, in the production
OF which 90 machines are employed,
as well as various processes which do
not require machinery.
The lack of cheap coal Is a serious
impeachment 10 Mexican progress, as
with the extension of railroads and the
development of manufactures the de-
mand is increasing rapidly.
A substitute for honey has been In
tfOduced in Germany under the name
of sugar honey. and consists of sugar
water. minute amounts of mineral sub
stances and free acid.
A Roumanian manufacturer has an
nounced his intention of sending TO the
Paris exposition in 1900 pianoforte of
such exceptional sorority that its tones
will be heard at n distance of six miles.
While boring for water Tennessean
struck what he thought must be lake,
his drilling apparatus sinking rapidly
score Of feet, but when the liquid spout
ed he found that 1t was very pure oil.
For preventing II railroad disaster by
the timely discovery of broken rail
and the stopping of an approaching
train locomotive engineer at Halle, on
the Saale, received reward of 30 cents
from the railroad company.
The liegest wild beast bounty pay
ment ever made in any State Is now
being made at Helena, Mont II
amounts to $50,096 and represents the
/ balance due on the States payment on
the skins of 1865 wolves and coyotes
killed in 1897.
! Anli-Semltism has broken out in Lon
J don. At an inquest on Spitaltields
| Christian boy, killed by the throwing
of stone, It came out that fights be-
tween Jews and Christians have been
going on In that district for some time
past.
Mr.. Dusen. n German traveller who
recently explored the west coast of Pat
agonia. says that mosses of all species
are developed there to an extraordinary
degree. They grow In immense heaps,
the explorer sinking to his armpits in
some of them.
In parts of Delaware very much
greater acreage is devoted to tomato
raising this year than in former sea
sons, some farmers having signed large
contracts with canning factories and
others having determined that the
open market offers good inducement.
Incidental information concerning
municipal street cleaning methods IN
ST. Petersburg, Russia, Is found In big
petition being circulated there asking
for the abolition OF rubber-tired vehi
cles. because rubber tires splash NJ
more mud than the old kind
. Goats milk Is the milk of Spain. what
little pasturage there Is being devoted
, to bulls instead of cows. This milk Il
so unwholesome in warm weather tina
: 1t gave birth TO this proverbs "Marcl
, milk is good for yourself; April milk Il
good for your brother, and May milk Il
| good for your mother-inlaw.
An ordinance adopted by the Louis
: lana constitutional convention forbid
the acceptance by any public official o
free transportation, franking privilege
or discrimination in passenger, tele
: graph or telephone rates. The drawe
: of the ordinance acknowledged in tn
debate that he had pass In his pocket
Missouri has more chickens than an,
| other State in the Union. In 1890, whei
4 the latest United States census wa
: taken, the chicken population amounted
: to $1,000, 900 fowls of other varieties
, The product in eggs for that year wa
: $4,000, 900 dozen, valued at about s..
: 100000.
: There Is n real estate dealer In Wash
4 ington named William Mckinley. Their
{ used to be real estate dealer Their
) named John sherman, and he cause,
his venerable Senatorial namesake
2 good deal of annoyance. II looks quee
! to see signboards upon vacant lot
= offering property for sale or rent b.
| William Mckinley.
: At the Top Notch OF Velocity.
She-Your friend Owen seems 4
!. have run into debt pretty deep;
Hp-Run into debti He seorched =