The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-07-02
White Pine News.
ELY, NEVADA.


All over the District of Columbia
are scores of types Of volcanic action
aud all show traces Of electrical en-
ergy.
The German Cable Company has fin
ished laying its second line to New
York as far as the Azore islands, LOO
miles.
Rent from American property own
ed by foreigners or Americans living
abroad is believed to amount annually
TO not less than S25 100000.
1t is proposed to distribute Green
witch time to vessels on the Atlantic
and Mediterranean and to European
cities by wireless telegraphy.
The gulf stream is 200 fathoms deep
off Cape Florida. Near Cape Hatteras
the depth is only half as great, the
stream appearing to have run uphill,
with an ascent of ten inches to the
mile.
1t has been estimated by an expert
in the employ of the government that
agricultural machinery reduces the
number of men employed TO do a Civ
en- amount of work to one-third, while
manufacturing machinery reduces the
number to one-fftieth.
Electric anaesthesla proves valuable
in surgery, as well as in dental opera
tlons. By high-frequency alternating
currents French surgeon has produc-
ed lnsenslbiity so lasting that Sc
rioas and difficult operation was per-
formed, the patient feeling nothing.
1t is not generally known that the
5ackal Is greater destroyer of hui
manity in India than the tiger. Sta
tstlcs published by the government of
India show that while 92S persons
We're killed by tigers more than 1000
children were carried away by jackals.
About five years ago a Maine WON
an, taking n consumptive husband to
the mountains of Arizona, was shown
an abandoned claim by her Indian ser
want. She took it, with great difficulty
secured $500 to work it and before the
year was out sold it for $4,000 and a
life interest.
ports the number of Prussian million |
aires has increased from 6,016 in 1899 |
TO 6,601 In 1902, or 81 per cent. But |
they are milionaires in marks, mill |
ion marks being little more than
quarter of a million dollars. Only 19l
are millionaires In dollars and but
two are worth as much as $4,000
600.
A newly patented German process of
giving relief to ornaments and yeining
on wood consists in gluing strips of
paper over the parts to be raised, and
then dabbing the entire surface vertl-
cally with bundles of fine steel wire.
The softer parts of the wood come
out as dust, while the protected places
and the hard annual rings remain I'M
affected
millionaire who died recently In
New York left an account book filled
with his "speculations" as apart from
his legitimate investments. The total
purchases and sales for the last three
years Appropriated $2,000000. Two
hundred and sixty dollars profits re-
manned to the financier's estate. The
wonderful part of the story is not that
the profits were SO small, but that they
were so large.
At the recent corn carnival at Pc
oria, Mo-. there were on exhibition an
apple of the pippin variety and an ear
OF ordinary yellow corn, the former
weighing six pounds and about the
size of an average watermelon, while
the latter measured fourteen inches in
length, contained 947 grains by actual
count, was two inches In diameter, six
inches in circumference, and was pick
ed from its stalk nine feet from the
ground.
Mrs. Julia O'Toole of Boston has the
satisfaction of knowing that her beau
ty is matter of court record. She
had been awarded a verdict of 500
600 against the Old Colony Street Rail
road Company on account of injuries
sustained This verdict was set aside
on appeal, the Supreme Court holding
that the jury In the trial had been
carried off their feet" through their
admiration for the plaintiff. Mrs.
O'Toole will carry the case still high |
er.
An improved machine for sealing |
envelopes has been invented by a man |
in Topeka, Kan. "In operation" says |
the Scientific American, 1.-THE envelopes |
are fed into the machine, the flaps |
moistened, turned, and finally pressed |
tightly to sealing position. The ma
chine. it is claimed, will seal from
5000 to $1,000 envelopes an hour of
an ordinary bulk, mixed sizes, and es-
pecially adjusted will seal at about the
same rate up to one-half inch in thick
ness"
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark,
has lust elected a Socialist mayor. He
is a working painter named Jensen,
who has been for some time president
of the Danish trades unions. After
his election he was met outside the
town hall by a procession of over 1000
Socialists, with torches and bands.
They conducted him through the
crowded streets, which were lined with
cheering masses of workingmen, to the
People's Hall, where fete on large
scale was held. Mayor Jensen is the
first Socialist to gain such high honor
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