Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-09
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He-My living expenses are $4,000
year. She-What waste Of money!
san Francisco has one saloon for
every twenty-five adult male inhabi-
tants.
London School Board children used
over 1000, 900 exercise and copy books
last year
There Is a pigeon range near Los An
geles which every year sends about
10000 squads TO the market.
Two troops of cavalry are stationed
In the Yellowstone National Park.
Their duties are to prevent poachlng
and vandalism.
The rotation OF waterspOut at the
surface of the sea has been estimated
by Prof. Bigelow as 35i miles an
hour. or nearly six miles a minute.
The diameter of Jupiter according to
Prof. r. j. j. Sees new determination,
Is 5000 miles; that of Mars. ABB
miles. and that of Mercury 1851 miles.
Ping pong has subdned Kaiser VIII
helm, according TO the London Daily
Mail. which asserts lat he spends an
hour playing it every day after dinner.
Duke Karl Theodor. In Bavaria. the
ocullst prince, recently performed his
four thousandth operation for cataract
at his clinic in Munich. His wife acted
as his assistant.
JACOB Vallery, of Plattsmouth, Neb.,
has attended every national Democrat
ic convention since the log cabin cam
palgn OF 1910. He was born In the
Rhine Falls, Bavaria, In 1913.
The average number OF inmates In
Bellevue Hospital, New York, is equal
to that of good sized town-that Is, II
Is from 1000 to scotland of these II
good many are unable to help them
selves.
At Santa Clara, Cal, there Is
church built of the wood of single
oak tree. The building Is 80 feet wide
and 10 feet deep, yet when Its CON
struetlon was completed 1900 feet Of
Francois Collier the composer, has
resigned the conductorship at the Sa-
voy Theatcr, In London. He conduct
ed every opera that Sir Arthur Sulli-
van wrote including 'lvanhoe.' He
joined Gilbert and sullivan in 1873.
Leo XIII. has been lucky In the be-
quests he has received. They have
amounted so far to S6,0OO000, OF
which 100000 came in the last year
alone. Pope Plus IN. in his longer
pontilicate received from this source
only 100000.
In digging up courtyard OF st.
James palace, London, coffin. con
tanning the body of monk was found,
together with lot of loose skulls and
human bones. The officials then re-
membered that the palace is built ON
the site of an old leper hospital.
Prof. Schubert. of Hamburg. has fig
ured out that. accepting the ordinary
chronology, 1,0O0.O00,000 minutes will
have elapsed since the birth of Christ,
on April 20. at 10;40 IN the forenoon.
Germans are going to celebrate the
event by sending out picture postal
cards.
''Antiseptic states" are the thing that
the careful, germ-fearing mother buys
for her children nowadays. They are
made of some lightweight material,
paper-mache, perhaps, and there Is no
temptation to spit on this slate or even
to use Il sponge on 1t. A piece of cot
ton flannel is all that is necessary for
an eraser.
Cephalonia, which Is one of the Ion
ian islands, is going to be rich twenty
Years from now. Papaghi Athanaslus
Naglano, native of the island. be-
came rich as Greek merchant In Lon
don, and died recently at the age of 81
years. leaving nearly $15.000,000 or
this, $2.500.000 are to be put at inter
est for twenty years. after which the
interest il To he used for charitable In
stitutions in Cephalonla.
1t appears that there are only 1,109
mercnant steamships III the WORTH OF
over 1000 tons and capable of making
twelve knots or over an hour. OF
these 597 are British, 40 French. LOG
German. 81 American. Al Japanese, "a
Italian. % Dutch and II Russian.
Great Britain leads all at speed. even
in the fast ships of twenty knots or
over, the number in this class being:
British, I; German, 3; American, 4;
French. .; Russian, |.
\ Liverpool coachman appeared with
his hair closely cropped. why, Den
MIS-" said the mistress. whatever pos
sessed you to have your hair cut while
you had such Il bad cold?" well,
num- replied Dennis, Il do be takin'
notice this long while that whiniver |
have me hair cut | take bad cawld.
SO thought that now, while | had the
cowld ON me. 1t would be the time of
all others to 20 and get me hair cuttin'
done: for by that course | would save
nlasplf inst ono coWld "