The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-16
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In Queen Elizabeths reign the ex-
penses of the British navy were about
$4,000 a year, contrast to the present
huge sum of 125.0OO,O00 spent annual
ly on the fleet.
German university students have in
creased In number from about 10000
twenty-five years ago 10 81, 241 last
year. The increase is out of proportion
to the population.
model farm on the American plan
and run with American machinery,
stock and methods Is about to be es-
tablished by Chinese mandarin who
lives near Shanghai.
The most costly piece of railway line
In the world Is that between the Mon
sion House and Aldgate stations, in
London. which required the expendi-
ture of close upon $4,000, 900 mile.
After n litigation lasting fourteen
years the will disposing of a San Fran
cisco estate once worth $4,000 has
just been sustained and litigation sns-
pended. because the estate has been ex-
hansted In paying legal fees.
An Ohio woman has patented n
match box for pocket use which Is
opened at the bottom to load, the
matches being pushed out one at a
time by a button on the side Of the
safe. the head coming last and passing
over n roughened surface TO ignite 1t.
Mr.. Godln, French minister of public
works, in a circular addressed TO rail-
way boards, urges the construction of
n larger number of corridor carriages.
especially third-class, so that by 1900
all fast trains going long distances may
be exclusively composed of such car
riages.
The violin used by Nine. Camilla Ur-
so, who Is giving concerts throughout
the country. was made in Itnly in 1I2I
by Joseph Guarnerus Del Jesn. Mime.
Urso purchased the instrument in Lon
don several years ago and has on sew
eral occasions been offered $4,000 for
It, She would not part with 1t for any
price.
According to a note In the Courier
de Paris, the Athenians and Greeks
collectively intend to exclude all bach
elors from their parliament. The idea
seems TO be that the bachelor has no
stake In the commonwealth; II he Is
represented, that is as much as he can
ask; a representative he ought never
to be. for whom does he represent ex-
cept himself?
One of the most novel and radical de-
partures from ordinary methods of IN
PRODUCING new Improvements In rail-
way management is the formal an
nouncement by an electric headlight
company that II Is ready to guarantee
railroad companies from any loss from
head-on collisions occurring at night
where the locomotives are
equipped with our headlights"
The ingenuity of the counterfeiters
now appears to be chiefly devoted 10
the turning out of bogus copper and
nickel coins, rather than those of larger
denomination. According to the report
of the United States treasurer for the
last fiscal year. no less than 69,265
pieces of this character were detected
last year. and they circulated chiefly in
Boston. New York and Philadelphia.
Faneuil Hall IS being made fireproof.
but the process seems to the reverent
people of Boston more like destruction.
Havoc has apparently been worked in
the interior. Stairways have been torn
down. floors ripped up and balconies
demolished, It seems, ruthlessly. But
II has all been done with care and rev.
erenee. Each piece of timber and each
strip and board that is TO be used in
the reconstruction has been tagged and
stored in fireproof vaults. The founda-
tons have been strengthened and put
in condition to withstand the raYages
of time for ages, it is hoped.
An old Pennsylvania law has been
singularly revived in Plttsburg. Eff
teen years ago Frank Leslie Gould had
a leg cut off by a ear of the South
Side Passenger Railway Company. He
was then only years old, but attain
ed his majority recently, and now
brings suit under an act Of assembly
approved March II. 1T13, which per-
mits a minor 10 bring an action for
damages within six years after he be-
comes 81 years old, in his own right,
and without reference to the time
when the cause for action may have oc-
Cured. As late as 1881 the Supreme
Court Of Pennsylvania decided n case
IN which the act was declared to be
good law. Young Gould claims 500, 900
damages for the loss of his leg.