Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-11-22
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The fifty miles between Milan and
Varese, Italy, are covered in fifty min
utes by the third rail system.
Many Western mining sections are
being supplied with electricity brought
from fifty to.seventy-five miles.
Utah has more than doubled Its man.
ufacturing plants since 1890, the num-
Der increasing from $50 to 1,40O.
The years harvest In the south Of
Ireland is stated to be the best expert
enced for quarter of century.
Animal collectors working In South
Africa for European and American ZOO
logical concerns command high salar-
| les.
| England has had beer tax ever
since the twelfth century. Last year
It yielded the government the sum Of
| $67, 100000.
| Eleanora Duse, when not acting or re-
hearsing, seeks absolute rest. She re-
ceives no one except old friends and
only a few Of them.
Guest-What splendid dinnerl l
don't often get as good meal as this.
Little Willie (son of the host)-We don't
either.-London Tit-Bits.
In 1868 Japan's export and import
trade amounted altogether to only &c.
246,545 yen, or silver dollars. In 1890
1t reached the figure Of 435 1881 800 yen.
Some day the comic newspapers may
possibly get new joke and drop that
old one about the difficulty of keeping
servants in suburban homes.-Wash-
| ingtOn Post.
The experiment is being tried in a
large New York public school of giving
the boys shower baths In the basement.
The equipment is such that each boy
can have bath once in two weeks-a
| good deal oftener than the boys would
battle otherwise. The baths are taken
in recess time, and the institution Is
said to be popular.
| The Publisher-You say this is your
| first novel, A Chinese romance. Never
been abroad, hey? Just made it up as
you went along. WE'LL this is find!
| ITO clerk)-James, order fifty thousand
copies printed at once, advertise whole
edition Of two hundred thousand sold
before publication, and get out litho-
graphs of the young lady.-Life.
Charles f. Saacke returned from Ger
many on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse with the following Fatherland
Joke, upon which he was not required
to pay duty. The translation is his own:
what Is the difference between the
Lord Almighty and Kaiser William"
'The Lord Almighty knows every
thing; the Kaiser knows better. New
York Press.
The plan to stock the woods Of Maine
with elk from Wyoming or some of the
Western States has caused no little
amount of interest among Maine guides
and hunters and among sportsmen gen.
orally Although nothing has been said
officially in connection with the matter
as yet, 1t Is probable that the plan will
eliminate In bill which will be
brought before the next session Of the
Legislature.
The advance in the price Of linen adds
heavily to the expense Of maintaining
the equipment Of the big hotels in this
city. The manager Of one Of these
hotels said not long ago that he paid
$4,000 year for linen to keep up his
supplies, and that looms were run all
the year round at Belfast for his hotel.
The wear and tear and loss of hotel fur
nishings make a more serious item in
the expense account than the patron
realizes.-New York Sun.
Boston Corbett, the cavalryman who
shot John Wilkes Booth, the slayer of
President Lincoln, Is still alive, and
not dead, as was reported some thir-
teen years ago. Corbett, now man of
sixty-three, is perfectly sane and trav-
els in Texas for a Topeka, Kan, firm,
and is fairly well off. The Government
owes him thirteen years back pension
money, and he has claim to eighty acres
of good farming land in Cloud County,
Kansas.-Sp (Mass.) Republi-
can.
There Is reason for the almost uni
versal admiration of blue eyes," says an
experienced optician of Philadelphia.
"Nine-tenths of the railroad men, pilots
and men in whose business keenness
and correctness of vision are neces-
sary adjunct, possess blue eyes. In
great many years Of practice l have
discovered that very few blue-eyed
people are compelled to wear glasses.
Blue eyes are very attractive, but
brown eyes are the most beautiful. In
tellectuality is usually denoted by gray
eyes, and hazel eyes indicate a talent
for music. The commonest eye is the
gray eye. and the rarest is violet
Philadelphia Record.
An hour after Colonel Roosevelt took
the oath of office as President, one of
the more famous gun manufacturers in
the world had artists at work making
picture of His EXcellency standing