The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-10-22
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Thomas Monohan. who murdered two
men in New Hampshire while drunk,
has been sentenced to serve twenty
four years at hard labor in the State
prison for each crime. The sentences
are to be successive, making forty-eight
years in all.
1t is stated that Turkey lost less than
/ 900 men in battle in the Greek war,
but 10000 died In Thessaly of disease,
and -. 1000 were sent home inyalided,
and of the latter 5000 subsequently
died. Among the dead We're seventeen
army surgeons.
A physician who has been studying
the effect of liquors on the voice states
that none of the great singers has ever
been teetotalers. Wine, taken In mod
Grafton. he believes, is useful for the
voice. but beer thickens 1t and makes 1t
cultural,
Veneer cutting has reached such per-
fection that single elephants tusk
thirty inches long is cut in London into
sheet of ivory 100 inches long and
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of rosewood and mahogany are only
about a fiftieth of an Inch thick.
\ shrewd shopman on Broadway.
New York. has placed genuine thirteen
inch. twelye-inch and elght-inch shells
and six and one-pound shot in his big
window. The huge messengers or
death and destruction draw crowds of
"rubberneeks" from the bulletin
boards OF course the shells are not
loaded.
Somebody calling himself traveller
writes to paper in Portland. Me, pro
testing against the present dllapldated
condition of Henry w. Longfellow's
birthplace, and recommending that the
city purchase ii, repair 1t and make
Longfellow museum of IT, 1t Is now a
tenement house and bears tablet with
a Yanglorious inscription saying that
in it Longfellow was born.
The railway from the Congo Rivers
mouth to Stanley pool, 240 miles In
length, has finally been completed af-
ter eight years work, and vast area
of the interior of Africa has thus been
opened TO modern methods Of trade
aud commerce. There are 10000 miles
of naylgable waterway above Stanley
pool. and 20.000000 people inhabit the
territory which may be thus reached.
Large portions Of the old royal castle
in Berlin are TO be remodeled to make
it habitable. The Emperor's desire Is
to be able to offer Il comfortable abode
TO his guests on great festival occa-
sions. who have previously been quar-
tered in various Berlin hotels at great
expense to- the imperial exchequer.
Many hundreds of thousands of dollars
have already been expended in altering
and repairing the old castle.
5. q. Thurlow. of Belfast Me-, now
nearly 80 years old. has just received
permission TO remove from the custom
house there II desk which he bought
and put there for his personal use when
he was collector of the port thirty
years ago. Ii had got on the inventory
of office furniture through some mis-
take. and when his term expired he
was not allowed to remove It. Applca-
ton after application for permission to
do so failed until now.
The Atlanta conference for the study
of the negro problem" Is this year TO
| consider the efforts of the negroes
| themselves TO better their condition
Among these efforts are the relief work
| by secret societies. the work OF char
table and phllanthropic associations
and cooperative businesses in which
negroes engage. Some time also will
be devoted to health statistics and the
various Government reports bearing
| upon the negro.