The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-05-04
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A Caribou. Maine, church society set
the admission to n chicken pie supper
given recently at cent for each inch OF
waist measure.
A civil war veteran in Blnghamton.
y. Y, who was drawing a pension OF
$50 month for liver trouble has lost
his pension through allowing n popular
liver pill firm 10 advertise that they had
cured him.
La Revue Graphique Beige says that
because OF the scarcity of raw material
for the paper mills OF Holland they
have pressed into the service the
haulm or stalks OF the potato plant
which can be bought OF the farmers for
30 cents per ton.
Russia has an amusement tax,
which was Instituted n year or two ago
to found an institution for the poor.
under the title OF the Empress Marie
Foundation" The tax is laid upon ey-
cry amusement ticket sold and the
managers raise the price accordingly.
An English artillery officer has In
vented a new food for military and ma
val purposes, which is so concentrated
that a 6,000-to vessel could carry the
equivalent of 324, 900. 900 pounds OF
meat, or rations for the whole popula.
ton of the British isles for eight days
Rev. DIR. X. NJ. Patterson, after u
study OF reports, finds that more than
half the Presbyterian churches OF the
country have n membership of less
than 100 each. One-seventh of the Pres
byterian and one fifth OF the Congrega-
tionallsts have less than twenty i've
each.
The czar OF Russia has ordered that
no article containing Information about
foreign royalties during their soJourn
in Russia as the guests of his majesty
or members of the imperial family can
be published except with the authorize
ton of the minister of the imperial
household.
Russia has been pleasantly surprised
by ukase of the ear ordering the
Academy of Sciences TO make prepare
tons for fitting celebration of the
hundredth anniversary of the poet
Puschkin's birth. The University of
Moscow is arranging for n Puschkin
exhibition next year.
According TO report made to Con
gress last year "A per cent. OF the petty
officers and SO per cent. of the enlisted
men In the navy OF the United States
were of foreign birth and some of them
ha1 tuE 10 nj fhoir n
ton papers. The percentage OF for
elgn-born officers is very small.
The enormously expensive new Opera
Comique OF Paris is already causing
dissatisfaction. 1t Is said that the stage
Is too small, that the seats are badly ar
ranged. that the removal of the parti-
tons between the boxes destroys prI-
yacy and that the abolition OF the sa-
Ions Mt the back OF the boxes does AWAY
with soclability
The annual field maneuvers of the
British regular and volunteer forces are
much hampered by restrictions grow
Ing out OF laws forbdding trespassing
on game preserves. Enclosed woods
and plantations" cannot be entered by
troops. despite the fact that In war
woods and plantations" are frequent
ly the keys OF positions.
1t is estimated that in the United
States there is a mile OF street railway
track for every $500 Inhabitants, an
average far beyond that OF any other
country. In London 100000, 900 street
passengers are carried annually, In
New York 100000. 900, in Paris 450. 900, :
600 and In Berlin 360,000,000. London