Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-11-29
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| America mas ZoS female lawyers.
The use of the fan originated IN
China.
Persia first grew the cherry, the beach
and the plum.
Our clocks and sun dlals were invent,
ed in the Orient.
One-fourth of the inha bitants of fl.
Argentine Republic are Italians.
Sixteen ounces of gold are sufficient
to gild wire that would encrcle huI
earth.
Denver, Colo. has more bicycles in
proportion than any other city in the
country.
Although her husband is worth S95.
100000, Mrs. Paul Kruger does the fam.
lily cooking.
| Russia is making a vigorous effort 70
supplant the United States as the butch
er for England.
One thousand vessels cross the At
lantic Ocean regularly each month aud
some Of them twice month.
The value of hogs is $166,272,1IO
more than the total amount deposited
in all the saving banks in the country.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern Railway Company will try plan
of cooperative grocery for its EN-.
ployes.
| The average life of a car wheel is ten
years. 1t requires 100000 new wheels
each year to replace those worn out in
the service.
The woman who invented satchebot-
tom paper bags was offered $2NNN0 for
the patent before she could get away
from Washington.
Eggs as an article of diet were first
used by the Malaccans, and when we
speak of Shanghai chickens We but
mention an Asiatic name.
Japan has to rely entirely upon fol-.
eign countries for her supplies of leath-
er, there being only two tanDeries
worthy of the name in the country.
In America the ministry is being
more used as profession by women
than the law. There are about 800
women ministers in the United States.
Six hundred and fifty thousand
pounds Of tea are consumed in Britain
every day, which gives $500 gallons
minute, night and day, throughout tA .
year.
Sprinkling railroad tracks with crude
petroleum to keep down the dust hss
been abandoned. Live sparks from 10
comotives set fire to the oil and caused
much damage.
| During the exposition in Paris neIq
year there viii be ninety-two Omnibus
lines and 1900 vehicles, performing u
600 journeys day and capable
transporting 1,Q29,000 passengers
Tacoma proposes to use salt VaHl
for sprinkling the streets. Sea Wi''i
does not dry so quickly as fresh vslfi'
with the result that one load Of w
equal to three loads of fresh water
Investigations made officially IN I'M
nois show that pound includes zi''.
900 seeds of blue grass, L42l,w VI
timothy, $4,000 of white clover, loo''
600 of red clover and 243,0OO OF aiaii''
Austrian women can be seen LII u.
best restaurants with huge gias' y.
beer standing a foot high on tne lA .ss
| in ~
liquor with ease and evident ep'"
ment.
Over 100000 pounds Of p'u.u'
and nearly 36,OOO,O0O dozen OF I'll
produced in Missouri, were nahoieu a.
transportation companies last year. y
aggregate cash returns for when w
| $S,29S, 232.
London capitalists are interes1 y,
the proposal to lay cable from
couver, B. c., to Skaguay, Alasaa
connect with the telegraph line ~ ~
son City. AN
The area Of the Transyaal Is Ivy
square miles, or about the same s
the combined areas Of the sIae' ~,
Pennsylvania, New York, Masss, -,
sets, New Jersey, Connecticut anu y
mont. -,
Though Russia is one OF the gre'. M
lumber-producing countries ans
world, considerable quantities u
wood, such as cabinet WORK w.
rosewood, mahogany, etc, are ifnp'
every year.