Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-30
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600 bushels Of grain were received al
Chicago.
Recent discoveries have given
fresh impetus to boring for petroleum
in Japan.
James Butler, the great grocery man,
owns one hundred stores in New YORK
and its vicinity. Hs
In order that a rainbow may be pro-
duced the sun must not be more than
u degrees above the horizon
MulhalI, the great siatisticlan, de
voted nearly thirty years to the prep
iaration Of his Dictionary of Stats
ties
The hardest wood in the world Is not
ebony, but cocus, which is much used
for making flutes and other similar
instruments.
All Orentas are great lnguists.
They seem to have faculty for pick.
ing up languages that is not enjoyed
by Anglo-Saxons.
King Edward VII. has bestowed the
first Garter at his disposal, that held
by the late Earl F'itzwilliam, npon the
Duke of Bedford.
Russian and other miners are being.
employed in English coal mines, and
an agitation against their employment
is being considered.
The Erie canal. in New York, was
the first artificial waterway begun IN
this country Ground was broken for
this enterprise July /, 1917.
sydney, Australia, reports that the
bubonic plague is not communicable
between individuals. Rats, mosquitoes
and yermin alone convey it.
An Instrument called the oud, 4 sort
of lutte, is very popular in Syria. 1t
is the mandolin with very short lam
die, and is played with plectrum.
Ii has been found that at the present
price of alcohol in Germany about l3o
cents GALLON, alcohol completes with
all forms of motive energy in engines
of less than twenty horse power.
Jennie Lind used raw onions and
raw carrots on her hair at my sugges-
ton and every time | went to dress her
hair she told me the treatment was
the best tonic she had ever tried says
one Of the oldest hair dressers in the
United States
A feature of the service at New
York's new $5,000,000 hotel, the Astor,
will be an automatic dish remover.
Walters will waste no time in carrying
dishes from the tables. They will SIM
ply transfer the dishes from the table
to the remover and, presto, the soil
ed china will be whsked automatically
to the washing room. -
The existence of man eating sharks
has been Investigated by Judge T. G.
Defrles, in Nantucket. Mass. He has
interviewed old whalers and other mar
liners of that town, and found several
who said they had been eye Witnesses
of fatal encounters of men with these
sea monsters They gave dates, locali-
ties, ships and names of victims.
A Brooklyn woman endeavored to
have her husband arrested for non sup
port. the specific charge being that he
had refused to buy her $I.9S Easter
hat, and that she had not had a new
one since the previous Easter. On
learning that her husbands income
was SIS week, the poormaster advised
her to make the best of the situation.
Free medical dispensaries connected
with the thirty medical schools of Chi
cago together with the dispensaries
conducted as charities, give aid to 105,
$50 patients every year at total cost
of $44.229.4 3. Forming the greater
part of this cost are 124, 259 prescrip-
tons at 20 cents each, and 10000 WIS.,
Its, costing on an average of 16 cents
each.
One dark night recently a Russian
schooner was lying in the bay of Glib
raltar when two dogs, swimming, APP
preached the vessel and were taken
ON board. They had bags around their
bodies containing several pounds of to.
bacco. 1t seems that this Is the means
by which smuggling is done across the
bay into Spanish territory where the
tobacco duty Is very heavy.
Upon the graves Of the dead in the
Turkish cemeteries little vessels of
alter are placed for the benefit of
the birds. and some of the marble
tombs have basins chseled out for the
same purpose, the superstition being
that birds carry messages about the
living to the dead, and. like everybody
else in Turkey, are suspected of being
spiteful unless something Is done TO
curry their favor.
Two remarkable historic relics have
lately come under the auctoneers
hammer in Europe. At the Falkcn-
hayn sale in Vienna the pen used by
Gar Alexander L. Emperor Francis
IL. and King Frederick William III. of
Persia TO sign the Holy Alliance"