Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-08-15
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L A train had TO stop in Coffee County,
Tennessee. to allow a bear to get OIL
the track.
Herman Merivale has received civil
fist pension from Mr. Balfour, as he
has lost his money by one Of the re-
cent failures of solicitors in London.
"Cycliste" and "cyclisme" has been
accepted as dictionary words by the
French Academy after hard struggle,
recording to the London Daily Tele-
graph.
Herbert Spencer never made any
money on his books. In some Instances
he lost On his eight volumes OF
e'Principles of Sociology there was
deficit of $4,000.
Fred Burnham, the famous American
scout, who was specially cabled for by
Lord Roberts from. the United States
has been sent home, owing to severe
spraln to the abdominal muscles.
An Irish witness In the House of
Commons committee-room the other
day mentioned that near Sligo there
was q waterfall which ran 300 yards
up hill" He was surprised that the
audience laughed.
e. Henley, formerly editor Of the
Scots Observer, has lately been con-
Tossing that Kipling's "Barrack-Room
Ballads" which were first published
in that journal, attracted little atten-
ton at the time and had absolutely no
effect on the circulation
Colorado has sold sixty miles Of tim
Der near Devils Head Mountain, where
it Is estimated there are 10000 gray
squirrels. which have lived and multi
piled there for years, protected by
public sentiment The squirrels Will
be evicted by the woodcutters.
Senator Caffery's invariable summer
rig is a suit Of linen homespun, topped
off with a manila hat. the whole shad-
ed by huge umbrella, green lined.
Thus arrayed the Louisiana states
mans squat, fat figure presents
somewhat amusing appearance.
Chicago capitalists have made some
heavy land deals in the Yazoo-Missis-
sippi delta, their purchase amounting
to more than 100000 acres, and for
which they are said to have paid an
average of $40 per acre. Ten years
lgo these lands would not have brought
S0 confs an acrp
The new central station at Noting
ham, England, erected by the Great
Central and Great Northern Railway
Companies at a cost Of nearly million
sterling, was opened for traffic recently.
The site covers twelve acres, and 10
three quarters Of a mile long and 800
feet broad at It's widest point. Its
twelve platforms have an aggregate
length of mile and thrse-Quarters.
In his recently published memoirs
Edmond de Amicis describes visit he
paid to Jules Verne, who showed him
bookcase containing 4 complete collec-
ton of his books, eighty In all, besides
translations of many of them into most
European languages, as well Is Arabic
and Japanese. "And yet" said Verne,
Il owe my prosperity not to these
books, but to the dramatiEation Of come
Of them"
When student at Harvard Gen.
Leonard Wood was Intimately connect
ed with athletic sports Of all kinds, but
principally with running and walking.
The free and easy gait of those days
has never left him. The regulation
army step Is thirty-eight inches, but
Gen. Woods ordinary stride is forty,
and II is said he can cover more
ground in day than any other man
In the army.
Jacob Balgemann, public clock wind
er at Hebron, Bavaria, has struck
FOR higher wages. He asserts that
every year he has to mount 2SS, 900
stairs, turn his keys AL $50 times, and
raise weight of eleven tons. Now,
however, a new church and a new
school have been opened and their
clocks added to the list. This means
another $1,000 steps to mount, and a
proportlonate weight, and number of
turns of the key.