Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-03-28
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over 100000 exercise and copy books
last year.
st. Peters is in the form of a cross.
1t is $50 feet long by 450 feet wide. The
dome is 44S feet high.
Judge Morris, OF Ohio, recently held
that there Is d distinction between a
habitual drinker and habitual drunk
ard.
Twelve million New Years cards
passed through the Berlin city post
office OH Jan. /, exclusive of those sent
out of town.
Kaiser Wilhelm has been surprised
on examining his maps to find that New
York City would extend from Berlin to
Potsdam.
The Hamburg Marine Observatory
offers three prizes to inventors Of any
country for the best instrument to
measure wind pressure.
Metal railroad ties have been tried
several times In this and other coun-
tries, but they have not given as good
results as the wood ones.
"Maude's new automobile coat is an
awful disappointment to her. Whats
the matter with it?" why, II doesn't
make people stare bit!'
Cyrus Carleton, of Providence, X. l.,
who recently spent several months at
Ormond, Fla, found that there We're
ffty-seven different kinds of birds in
that section.
The Senecas of western New York
are splendid musicians. They have
their fine bands and are much in de-
mand with show folks, and they travel
far and wide.
Shanghai bids fair to become the
great halfway house between East and
West, the terminus eastward of the
European lines and the westward of
the transpacific
London took practically one-half Of
the ice imported by England during
1901, the total for fifty-one ports of the
United Kingdom being 46O,946 TONS
valued at EGGS, S97
Snuff Is coming into fashion again.
says the London Daily Chronicle, with
the early Victorian fashions. Snuff
taking Increases the size of the nose
and keeps 1t In state of perpetual irri-
tation.
Australia has, proportionately more
churches than any other country, the
number being 6013, or 210 churches to
every 100000 people. England has IA
churches to every 100000; Russia only
fifty-five to the same number.
Earthern reservoirs are rapidly TAX
Ing the place of ordinary oil tanks at
Beaumont. Tex. Two companies have
recently undertaken to establish reser-
yoirs, each to hold about 100000 gal
Ions. The soil is of such nature that
earthen reservoirs can be used to ex-
cellent advantage, and they are much
cheaper than anything else.
Spanish annals declare that between
1900 and 100 the Tapaya mines in
Mexico produced $SO,OO0,OOO and that
after that the Indian slaves employed
in them murdered the Spanish owners
and the mines were lost. On old Span
ish maps they appear III northwestern
Mexico. about fifty leagues from the
sea, and near the town of Dos Pilates.
They have now been rediscoyered near
Cianteguta.
above all things" says the Army
and Navy, of London, ''Tommy's heart
loves a sewing machine. Although he
In getting 1t home to England, yet If he
finds one on farm he will tow 1t along
with him, overburdened as he already
is upon the march. Whereupon the ex-
act fascination lies Is mystery, but
grlzzled reseryist and callow youth
alike cannot resist this housewives
help"
There Is a row over the beautiful cas-
tects declares that the ruins are in
dangerous condition and proposes the
restoration of the greater number of
buildings to the condition In which
they were when the French burnt the
castle in 1882 Others assert that the
ruins will stand forever. and that the
projected restoration is an act of van
dalism. The ruin IL the chief attrac-
tlon in the town to Germans and for
eigners
An application to repeat in the Pan
theon the pendulum experiments tried
by Leon Foucault In 1851 has been
made by the Astronomical Society of
France. A pendulum was swung from
the dome and swung to and fro. leaving
a little notch in sand ridge built in a
circle on the floor of the church. The
notch made by each successive swing
was little distance from the preced-
Ing notch, and at the end of twenty
four hours they had gone completely
around the circle. This proved that the
earth had revolved.
Velvet cuffs on coats after the plan eff