Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-11-27
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Railway earnings are S1,o00,0o0 a
week greater this year than last.
A plague of white ants is devour-
Ing the wooden houses In New Or
leans
The profit to the government on pen
MES pays the entire expense of the
mint
Forty three per cent of the inhabi-
tants OF Cincinnati are of German
blood.
Germans eat the most Irish pota-
toes, the annual consumption being
over forty million tons.
Most reptiles are noticeably deaf,
except eaymans and crocodiles; the
boa seems absolutely so.
There Is In the United States Treas,
ury cash and bonds to the amount, In
round figures, of $1,000, 100000.
Mexico is buying abroad about $780,
900, 900 worth gold year and selling
abroad over 1896, 100000 worth.
Farm machinery saved In the plant
ing and gathering Of last years crops,
In the United States. 300, 100000.
The new statistics show that we sold
to Canada In the fiscal year 1923. 500,-
0GO worth, while buying from 1t but
500 100000 worth.
1t Is estimated that there are now.
only 1,500 chamois in the Swiss Alps,
owing to indiscriminate killing Of
these animals at all seasons of the
year.
Queen Marie Christina, of Spain. ex-
regent of that kingdom, has just reach
ed her forty fifth year She Is Stu
art, as well as II Hapsburg, and Is de-
scended from King George ii. of En-
gland. as well.
While one-room tenements In Lon
don have decreased from 1882 to
las, 524, or IA per cent, two-room, three
room and four-room tenements have
increased 10 per cent, Is per cent and
q per cent, respectively.
Ill some SeCtlOuS Vi 1eAdS CottoH
growing Is being abandoned because
of the boil weevll pest, and the land
is being turned to other crops, while
In some cases Texas cotton growers
are moving to Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. where the boil weevil has
not yet reached.
Scotland has an area of 1902, 1872
acres, of which 1884 ,466 acres are un-
der cultivation; 112 persons own one
half of the total area, and eighteen
persons own one-fourth of It. One
fourth of the tenants hold five acres
or less, and nearly one-third hold be-
tween FIVE and twenty acres.
Animals have language made up
of signs or inarticulate sounds ex-
pressing Impressions, sensations, pas
sions, but never ideas So this Ian
guage excludes conversation and is
limited to interjections or signs or
movements expressing joy, grief, an
ger, fear, all the passions of the sens
es, but never more.
Out of the forty three metronymic
markings, taken straight through from
the beginning Of the first volume Of
Beethoven's sonatas, the four-stand-
ard editions as working basis, nine
teen are set to a rhythm of seventy
two and seventy-si& to the minute, a
rate exactly that Of the average nor
main healthy adult pulse.
Tobacco is both cultivated and con-
sumed on large scale In Japan. The
plant was introduced by the Portu-
guese In the seventeenth century, and
the trade In 1t is a government mo-
nopoly. Tobacco is almost universally
used in small pipe. While cigarettes
are manufactured In large quantities,
they are nearly all exported.
Another largest automobile In the
world" Is a harvester In Southern
California. The machine Is sixty feet
long and thirty feet wide The mo-
tive power Is furnished by oil. Eight
men are required to run It AS the
machine starts off the grain begins
falling In sacks on the opposite side
from where II is cut, and the straw
drops Into cart behind.
The most wonderful bird flight noted
Is the migratory achievement of the
Virginia plover. which leaves Its
Northern haunts in North America,
taking course down the Atlantic,
usually from 400 to 500 miles east Of
the Bermudas, reaches the coast Of
Brazil In one unbroken flight of IF
teen hours, covering a distance of
1900 miles, at the rate of four miles
a minute.
The steamship Britannia of the
White Star line, which ushered In the
era of speed and luxury In ocean trav-
81, now, after twenty-nine years OF
service, goes to the boneyard. She
first reduced the record to below eight
days. has never lost day through
accident to her machinery, and has
crossed the Atlantic $40 times, trav-