Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-10
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The report of the Geological Survey
showed the total value of minerals
produced in this country In 1900 to be
S1,070, 10S,ss9.
The I rail was invented in 1880 by
Robert L. Stevens, the President and
engineer Of the Camden & South Amboy
Railroad and transportation Company.
The Sultan of Morocco has seven
lions az pets. These he permits TO
range the courtyards of the palace at
night, to act as guards to the royal ha'
rem.
I'm nobody's fool, I'd have you
know, Miss Northside.n said young Mr.
Fitzgoober. 'Indeedp' replied Miss
Nortiiside; that's odd. Everybody says
you belong to Miss Splfins."
Il. A. Sampson of Sedalia, Mo, has
given to the Missouri Historical So
ciety his library of 1000 titles bearing
on Missouri history, which he has been
collecting for thirty three years.
South Australian apple growers get a
fancy price In London by packing the
fruit separately in tissue paper, sur
rounded by excelsior and corn husks,
In small long boxes, containing 100
each.
They say President Roosevelt Is a
clever amateur actor and that h9 sings
very acceptably. His voice Is barry
tone, and he once took the part of Dick
Deadeye in an amateur presentation Of
s'Pinaforc."
In England an electric automobile
has recently run 0fA miles on one
charge 1t carried four persons and
the averaged speed was IL miles an
hour. The vehicle weighed 10000 and
the battery 200.
The connection between mosquitoes
and malaria was suspected as long ago
rs the time of Lanclsi, the great Italian
physician, who flourished at the end of
the seventeenth and the beginning of
the eighteenth century.
One of Baltlmore's harbor notables Is
n colored woman, who goes out In a
boat In all weather to get washing
from ships arriving. "She obtains the
business" the account says, "and her
husband does the washing"
Emperor William Is a soldier even
when he goes to bed, for he sleeps on
regulation camp bed, such as his off
GERS use. The bed clothing Is of the
rough regimcntal pattern. He retires
at II p. m. and is up and dressed soon
after 8 a. m
1t is estimated that the value of land
along rural delivery routes has In
creased from 81 to So an acre. Then,
too, there is an educational value in the
rural free delivery, in that thousands
more magazines and periodicals are
finding their way to peoples homes.
A writer states that the difference in
susceptibility to electric shock between
horses and men Is largely a question of
shoes. The sole of a mans shoe has a
very high resistance, but horse. with
his four iron shoes. fastened on with
iron nails, is apt to get the full benefit
of the current.
The monument to the memory of
Richard p. Bland, to be erected in Le-
banon, Mo-, by the citizens of that
place, will consist of base of white
bronze, surrounded by frieze made as
If from silver dollars. The base will be
surmounted by a lifesize figure of Mr..
Bland in white bronze.
In the latest grist of amusing answers
to examination questions are the fol-
lowing: EVERY sentence and name of
God must begin with a caterpillar" A
young gentleman's dissertation on the
author of certain standard works In En-
gllsh literature is delightful: Samson
Augusta was one of Ch1ueers principal
works. as it contained his life giving
full account of It, He also wrote some
thing about Paradise
One of the finest Anglo-Saxon words
among recent new additions is the word
"housesmlth." which describes the
workers on the new iron structures used
In the building of apartments and large
office establishments. The trade which
Is Ill Spllt way tlN tuiillbNtN VI liit
housesmiths Is that of mechanics who
pull down old city buildings to make
way for new. 1t has been hard to coin
n name for this trade The latest at
tempt here Is 'housewreckers."
All mills in Japan run day and night
and change hands at noon and mid
night. The vast majority of mill-work-
ers are children. who werk eleven hours
ut low wages In one mill, ut Osaka.
1900 workers are under 10 years of
age and operate only 3,Too spndles In
this country 800 persons operate the
same number. Take Il Lowell mill of
4061 looms. and $4,000 spindles. which
are operated by 100 males and 1000 fe-
males. In Japan 1t would take $4,000
persons to do this work.
Mrs William Astor tells this story of
clever retort made by one of her
oochnpn Sha had hpDn ont ,lriyfn,, Il,