The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-07-02
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Justice Willie, of the Supreme Court
of Texas, has rendered a decision that
n debt paid to the State of Texas In
Confederate money during the war Is
void and does not satisfy the debt.
A Paris landlord has recovered dam
ages to the amount of 1900 francs
$4,000 from the author of n guide book
who advised his readers that "com-
plants about the cleanliness of his no.
tel have been made to u.s."
Mr.. Chaplain has been ordered by the
Government to omit the legend "Dieu
protege la France" from the edge of
the coins he Is engraving. The motto
has been used eve since Napoleon
Bonaparte became consul.
India Is beginning TO export coal at
the rate of about 100000 tons monthly.
The principal collleries are in Bengal,
40 miles from Calcutta, and railway
extensions now In progress will do
much to develop the industry.
Jews have become farmers in Maine
in such numbers as to be recognized
as a factor in trading. but 1t Is said
commonly in Lewiston that the Jewish
farmer can be outwltted where the
Yankee or Canadian farmer cannot be.
The sale of salt Is a Government
monopoly in China, which yields a
yearly evenue Of $11, 1000, as the
annual consumption Is 1890, 900, 600
pounds, and the importation of foreign
salt is strictly prohibited. \ license
to sell salt costs $4,000 in gold.
Suits at law have been instituted at
Montpelier, VT, to prevent the turning
of sawdust into the river, on the
ground that when the river overflows
1t now no longer leaves rich ~alluvial de-
posits on the bordering lands, but In
eumbers them instead with sawdust.
Guinness & Co, the Dublin brewers,
have practically adopted the elght-hour
day. Their hands go to work at 8 In
the morning, and leave off at $40,
with an hour off for dinner. On Satur-
days work stops at noon, making "a
week of forty-slx and one-half hours.
Corea's first railway, twenty-five
miles In length, Is being constructed
by American contractors. 1t Is to ex-
tend from Chemulpo, on the Yellow
Sea, to Seoul, the capital. The exca-
waiting and rough work are being done
by native laborers, who receive 30
cents a day.
The popular amusement of shooting
Tho oIt,fass anYnopc 10 houD Y,a1, n
great hit in Atlanta, Ga, where an en-
terprising business man converted a
mountain slope 800 feet long into a
'chute." Several of the shooters
were manned and the slide has been
closed up.
A well-known prophet In London,
who Is on record as making the posi-
tive prediction that the end of the
world would surely come In the year
1900, is being laughed at because he
lately paid Il high premium TO secure
the lease of his business premises for
the text fifteen years.
England has learned n lesson from
the Jameson raid. ii. Cayendlsh, who
was making preparations TO lead u
large and heavily armed scientific
expedition into the country on the
southern border of Abyssinia, has
been notified by the Government that
1t is advisable for him TO postpone his
project.
Corea is about 600 miles long and 1875
wide. 1t is very mountainous, and the
climate is one of the finest In the
world. Nine months In the year the
skies are bright, and the winter Is SUI
perb, with its extreme dryness, clear
skies and crisp, frosty nights. From
September TO June there are no ex-
tremes of heat or cold.
The st. Louis health authorities pro-
pose to regulate barber shops 50 as to
check the increase of badness. They
believe that badness is largely induced
by the indiscriminate useof the BARRIERS
comb and brush. Hence they will pre-
scribe certain sanitary regulations for
the barber's tools, which must be
obeyed.
At Roubaix, one of the socialist
s~trongholds of France, the 11.000 pub
lie school children receive free food
and clothing at the expense OF the
town. Their dinner at school consists
of soup, bread, vegetables. meat and n
glass Of beer. At the beginning Of
summer and of winter each child re-
ceives n complete suit of clothes.
An ingenious machine for making
sandwiches is used by many of the
ocean line steamships. 1t cuts and
buffers the bread. and the machine can
be arranged SC hat the bread need not
be buttered If the operator does not
want it to be so. In making 1000
sandwiches three hams and eleven
pounds of butter are saved. 1t is said.
ON account Of the accuracy with which
hofh arQ cut.