Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-10-31
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The Detroit River is the outlet ofShe
greatest bodies of fresh water in the
world, aggregating $1,000 square miles
Of lake surface
whip-cracking by drivers Of vehicles
has become such a nuisance in some
German towns that special bylaws
have had to be passed against It.
Before the Siberian Railway was
available, trip from London to Shang-
hal cost from 1925 to $40. Now II
can be made for from 500, third-eiass,
90 $3.50, first-class.
Foxley parish. in Norfolk, has had
but one change of curates In ITO years.
Canon Norgatc, the present rector, was
appointed in 1910; his predecessor had
held the living since 1892.
In Guatemala the Indian population
tries TO double It's chances for the ell
cacy OF prayer by woishiping at
Christian altar with images of It's hea-
then deities hidden behind It.
Fowls are supposed to have been first
domestlcated in China 400 Il. @. This
IL probably about the same period
when. according to Lamb the Chinese
discovered the succulency OF roast pig.
The Town Council of Berlin is to is
sue licenses for cats. Just as 1t does for
dogs. Cats are only to perambulate
the city when wearing their authorized
little badges, hanging, locketlike. from
their throats.
while planting flowers upon the
grave Of her son, Mrs. Edward Baum
gardner, 55 years old, of Marburg, Pa,
scratched her hand with rusty trow
ell Blood poisoning developed and
death resulted.
Taking the United States as a whole,
the census shows that one person in
every forty has telephone. San Fran
cisco leads the world In the generality
Of telephone use; there one in twelve
has telephone.
Yucatan Is one of the great hemp
producing countries of the world. The
product is not so fine as that exported
from Manila, but 1t is stronger and in
greater general use. All that Is raised
Is marketed In New York.
Alfred G.. Vanderbilt Is one Of the
most simple minded of millionaires. He
dresses always in the quletest manner,
and his whole manner of life shows
the influence of the economic habits to
which his father trained him.
Women insure against being old
1,N
fore they are 40, what they have paid
In goes to the less fortunate, and these
last are pensloned for the remainder
OF their lives on scale proportionate
on what they paid in.
George Dewey Fong, a 16-year-old
Chinese boy Is said to earn salary of
$1,000 year in tea and coffee house
In New York City. Young Fong was
born in America, but both Of his par
ents are natives OF China. He received
his early education in the primary
schools Of California.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
has sent King Edward a full-length
portrait Of himself, painted by the
Hungarian artist Gyula. The Emperor
Is represented in the uniform of the
colonel-in- chief of the First Royal ORA
COON Guards. The picture is to be hung
in the private apartments at Windsor
Castle.
when the Aryans declared in set
terms that their purpose was benevo-
lent assimilation" the sevages were
IL A eri,, tIut tN,,f
claimed these simple people. And
does this mean that we shall be fair
skinned, too?" "Well, skinned at any
rate" said the Aryans, being very care
ful not to promise too much.
The only place In the world where
that form Of carbon known as the
black diamond, or bort, is found in
marketable quantities is in Bahia, in
South America. The substance is used
for points for stone drills and saws
and is powdered and used to polish
diamonds and other precious stones.
There Is wide and growing demand
for II.
The Chinese are very thrifty people
The Rev. Mr.. Sears, Baptist mission
AIRY to China, in q letter to friends in
Mexico, Mo-, relates that the body OF
the head of a family of his acquaint-
ance was kept by his economical chill
dren until their mother died, SO that
both could be buried together In this
way, the needless expense Of providing
two graves was avoided.
Nhen Admiral Rodgers was i'm Jano-
nese waters lately he entertained with
distinguished honor Hirai Sukekichi, Il
poor fisherman, who was of consider
able service to Commodore Perry on
the latter's historic visit, which opened
Japan to the world. Hiral Is now 90
years old and on his visit to Admiral
Rodgers was accompanied by his son,
grandson and great grandson.