The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1899-02-22

A newly married editor gets off the
following minstrel joke: what is the
difference between "a honeyconib, u
honeymoon and a pretty girl2 A honey
comb is a small cell, Il honeymoon IL il
big se Il and u pretty girl Is adainstl.
Replying to A. f.. Cheney, r. s. Os-
burn says: His remark that the cor
ruption OF City Councils is notorious
might elicit the Observable that the in
tegrity OF courts in their decisions IL ire
q%uenily questioned" =
A Kansas man has discovered that
brandy can he made from wet elm saw-
dust, and a discouraged Prohibiiionist
asks what chance the good cause Will
have when a man ran go forth with a
rip say and get drunk on a fence rail.
j. Walter McRaye's entertainment
given in Music Hall Monday evening
was fairly attended considering the
conflict in dates. The gentleman is al
artist in his line however and will give
a performance ut Music Hall tonight.
The ponds connecting with Washoe
Lake contain tons of dead fiell, mostly
perch. The fish, seeking shallow water
in which to deposit their. spawn, took
to the ponds, the water OF which was
frozen solid during II cold snap, causing
the fnny inhabitants TO perish.
A bill has been introduced in the CAL
fornia Assembly by Blood making it IA
felony for any person 10 make false oath
setting forth that he has performed 800
worth Of labor on al unpalented mining
claim. The punishment Tor such false
swearing Is fixed At one years impfison-
nent in the county jail, 800 fac, or
both.
Andy Redmond, a pilgram printer,
celebrated Sunday by getting gloriously
drunk and bomlarding the Reception
show windows with rocks. fle brought
his elegant jay from the Comstock but
that did not prevent the projectiles be-
ing thrown with precision and landing
Andy in the county cooler.
A general meeting in London Of The
shareholders of the Central Pacific
railroad, summoned by tho London COM
mittee, has approved the amalginiatioi.
of the road With the Southern Pacific
and has instructed The committee To
take immediate steps to carry it ont.
There Wal only one dissenting vote.
John Lee will shortly have n fine line
Of Spring goods and to make room for
them will, during the month Of frltn-
airy, sell all percales and Dress goods at
10 per cent discount.
II IL the greatest desire OF all parents
that their children should be given The
best advantages to be had in the way OF
an education, says the Enterprise. From
time to tine law thinkers introduce
measures In the Legislature and try Ia
improve on our present scAool system,
but generally their efforts are u failure.
An instance OF this kind is now before
the present session in Assembly Bills
Nos. 90, So and 81. The author vi these
bills has taken the sctiool laws OF a
thickly populated State and %endravored
to make them fit the conditions existing
in nevada. Ii the bill should pass they
they would he the MEANS OF DESTROYING
the schools OF this State, and every mein-
Der OF Che Legislature who has the well
fare III the children of Nevada at heart
should vote against the measures. The
truth OF the matter is that our school
laws do not require any changes, snl
they should not BIZ tempered with b. II
man utterly unfit 10 do so.