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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
slREs AND SONS.

Theodore Thomas, the conductor, has
Just celebrated his sixty-eighth birth
day.
John Pollock and Henry Gorell
Barnes, sons of English noblemen, are
enrolled as students In the Harvard
Law school.
Ex-Governor F. NJ. Drake of Iowa
has just given 5000 to start a Bible
college in India. He had previously
given $1,000 each for Bible colleges In
China and Japan.
C. e. Whittier. a brother of John
Greenleaf Whittier. is a resident of
Winnebago county, La. He Is past
seventy-six years of age and in good
health. He is engaged in farming.
Charles NJ. Booth of Englewood, N.
j., who has just celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday. claims to be the Oldest
holder of a life insurance policy in the
United States. He was insured In 1913.
The celebrated German weather
prophet, DR.. Rudolph Falb, has just
died near Berlin at the e OF sixty
five. He first studied theology. which
he abandoned for the study of meteor
ology.
]. NJ. Zion, an Indiana horticultural,
says his ambition in life Is to produce
an apple measuring twenty inches in
circumference. He Is experimenting
with several varieties and thinks he
Will sonn attain his desire.
John Howard Parnell, who has been
selected to contest South Meath in op-
position to David Sheehy, is a brother
of the late Charles Stewart Parnell and
city marshal of the city of Dublin.
Mr.. Parnell represented one of the di-
visions of Wicklow in the 1895 parlia-
ment.
The president of the Ohio Bankers
association is Henry Flesh. He is one
of the oldest bankers of the state and
has been cashier of the Citizens Ma
tional bank of Piqua for more than
twenty-five years. He is also president
of the Citizens National bank of Gov
ington, o.
The last of Wellington's aids-de-camp
passed away when the Duke of Rich
mond died recently. He had the unique
distinction of being a duke four times
over, having the strawberry leaves of
Richmond in England. Lennox in Scot
land, Gordon In the United Kingdom
and D'Aubigny in France.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
ROUND n

King Emmanuel is one of the great
est living numismatists and possesses
the finest private collection of coins
In the world.
King Edward has become exceed
ingly conservative In matters of dress
since his accession to the throne of
Great Britain.
Although Joachim A1brecht, prince
of Prussia, belongs to the generalstab.
he cares very little for military mat
tiers. His ambition Is to be known as
a composer.
The following are said to be the
names of the sultan of Jolo's wives:
Scent Of Lilies, Hearts Desire. Honey
Of Life, Dancing Sunbeam, Blush of
Morning, Oasis In the Desert, Moon
Upon the Waters, Song of Nightin-
gales, Whisper of the West Wind and
Rose In Bloom.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

Even Wall street Is showing some
difficulty In distinguishing between
trust and distrust. w Post.
A Scotch challenge for the Americas
cup Is now rumored. Are we now to
have Thistle l.. Thistle III. and Thistle
Ill. In lieu of Shamrocks7-New York
World.
OF the great powers there are but
three whose position obliges them to
have a world policy In the true sense.
These three powers are Great Britain.
Russia and. latterly. the United States.
Berlin Kreuzzeitung.
The University of Michigan has put
on a course In Journalism just to show
that a newspaper man can be devel-
oped outside of a newspaper Office.
They can raise potatoes In a dollhouse,
too. but they don't. usually.-Boston
Herald.
1t Is estimated that 100000 farmers
have telephones in their houses. The
old idea Of the farmer as a man who
whitfield pine sticks and chewed tobac-
co Is disappearing. The successful
farmer today must be a business man.
Washington Star.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
NJ AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. Margaret B. Guion, now resid-
ing In st. Louis at the age of ninety
years, claims to be the oldest native
born resident of that city.
The Duchess of Marlborough is very
superstitious, one of her frmest be-
lIefs being the very common one that
black cats bring good luck.
Lady Henry Somerset has a con-
tempt for William Waldorf Aston be-
cause he once spoke disparagingly of
her work as a temperance advocate.
Miss Minnie Eloise Kehoe, a stenog-
rapher of Pensacola, secured the en-
actment by the legislature of Florida
Of a law providing for the appointment
of official stenographers in the circuit
courts of the state.
Miss Helen Keller, the blind deaf
mute, has been elected vice president
of the senior class at Radcliffe college.
the woman's department of Harvard.
She Is pursuing four full courses. two
In English and two in Latin.
Mrs. La Toilette, wife Of the gov
ernor of Wisconsin, is said to be an
enthnsia site dress reformer and builds
much also ON the physically %regenerat-
Ing effect of physical exercises of all
sorts, though her favorite form Is not
walking, but running.
One of the mementos Miss Helen
Bertram. the actress, is said to have
discarded upon entering upon u third
marriage was the ashes of her second
husband. whose body had been cremat-
ed. She had been carrying them about
with her, but decided to bury them.
Mrs. Jerusha Gilfllan of East Bar
net, Vt, who is ninety-two years old,
won the first prize for a knit afghan
displayed at the Caledonia county fair
recently. Mrs. Gilfllan is blind. but
In the last five years has knitted and
sewed four rug eight afghans and
over 100 holders.
Mrs. Olga Goldzier of Chicago has
been selected to fill the new chair of
dressmaking In the Ruskin university
at Glen Ellyn. This new professor of
dressmaking was awarded the gold
medal by the international exhibition
of fashions In Vienna last year against
competitors from the Austrian capital,
London and Paris.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
SCIE STRINGS.

Arsenic in appreciable amount has
been found by Gabriel Bertrand In all
parts of the hens egg. This confirms
the new belief that arsenic Is in all liv-
Ing cells and probably serves u special
function.
For many years scientists have
known OF the existence Of a faint COM
panion to the north star. So close and
faint Is this companion that owners of
small telescopes have often used 1t to
test the power of their eyes and instru-
ments..
DR.. William Oswald. professor OF
chemistry in the University Of Lelpsic.
has made the discovery that light Is
not needed for the printing of photo
graphs. He produces the required
changes in the sensitive paper by the
use of silver on negatives treated with
a solution of peroxide Of hydrogen.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
TRAIN AND TRACK.

Massachusetts has now more miles of
electric railway than of steam railway
lines.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad com
pany has voted to spend $9,500.0O0 for
improvements.
During last year no dividends were
paid on $867 100000 of common and
preferred street railway stock. which
Il not less than so per cent of the total
issued.
Some time ago the Russian govern
ment employed a number of women as
officials on the Ural railway. The ex-
pertinent proved successful, and at a
recent conference at st. Petersburg 1t
vas resolved to engage women for 9th
er railways also.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
THE ART OF WAR.

The 10 inch naval gun throws a mis-.
sile weighing LOO pounds; the 6 inch
100 pounds.
English military experts have decid-
ed that American army tactics. involv-
Ing the principle of sklrmishing rather
than that of mass formation. Is the
most effective In the world.
The British army under the new
scheme requires $4,000 recruits annual
ly. According to the director generals
report, only 6s.000 are examined annu-
ally, and Of these about 23.5O0 are re-
5ected. giving a deficiency Of $500 per
annum.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
THE

Dowie says the newspaper editors
are ali going to perdition. Dear, oh,
dear! And he's an editor himself
Philadelphia Press.
II would be easier to believe that
Dowie Is a reincarnatlon of the spirit
Of the late lamented p. T. Barnum
than of the ancient Elijah.-Exchange.
DIR. Dowie might pose as a restorer IL
he were selling a hair tonic instead of
religion. His patriarchal beard would
be q good -exhibit.-Washington Times.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
COUSIN CANADA.

Canada still has a chance to get all
she asked in the Alaska case-by COM
ing into Uncle Sans family.-New
York World.
Daniel Webster euchred us out OF
Maine. ard Sir Richard Webster (Lord
Alverstone) has done the trick in the
west. Let us hope there are no more
Websters to hear from.-Montreal Her
aid.
If the Canadians are determined to
have free access to the Pacific along
their entire coast line. there Is n sure
way to get It. All they have to do is
10 accept annexation with the United
States Chicago News.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
TOWN TOPICS.

In Boston there are one and a half
electric lights for each person.
More than one-third of the inhabit-
ants of st. Louis are of German blood.
In the city Of New York there are
only 787.477 white persons born of ma
tive parents.
The superintendent Of the Washing
ton police reports that of $50 bicycles
stolen in that city In 1001-02 more than
IS per cent were recovered.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
RUSSIA.

There Is n promise Russia IL striv-
ing with all her might to keep. She
promises to dominate the world.-Nev
York News.
Russia Is one OF the coolest post
poners In the business. A law -
debtor could not he cooler
Minneapolis Times.
1t is now firmly believed that
will go so far IN the interest
eidc settlement as a promise
nsste Korea Mt some date III i
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Sea level is a level only in the imagi-
nation. For instance, the water In the
bay of Bengal Is 900 feet higher than
the surface of the Indian ocean,, and
along the Pacific coast Of South Amer
lea the sea is often 200 feet higher than
its lowest surface. The differences re-
suit from the attractive power Of great
mountain ranges.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
First GLASS Windows.

The first glass window In England
was one put In the Teltrom abbey in
the year $50 A. ID. Glass windows did
not come into general use for many
hundred years after that date. As late
ms 1877 the glass easements Of Aims
worth castle regularly taken down
and packed away whenever the owner
aud his family went visiting.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
BOSTON BRIDES.

Marriages are on the increase in Bos-
ton, according to statistics. And this
Notwithstanding the llrgely increased
attendance at Radcliffe and Wellesley.
Lowell Citizen.
There's no depression in the mar
rage industry. There were twenty
i've more October brides in Boston this
year than there were in the same time
4 rear ago.-Boston Globe.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

A young man in Vienna wanted TO
commit suicide the other day. but at
the last moment his courage failed.
Taking out a cigar. he asked a police
man on the bridge for a light. A few
pulls revived his courage. and he jump
eu over the balustrade and disappeared
in the waters of the Danube.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

When a live lobster is required for
boiling or other purposes here Is a sim
pie and comparatively painless mode Of
killing 1t: Run a long. narrow bladed
knife into the tail ut the third joint
from the end, having the blade slant
downward. This will cut the spinal
cord. and death will quickly follow.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Lemon acts on the finger nails with
a wonderful effect. It cen to polish
them, at the same time softening the
skin around them ~marvelously and re
moving any traces Of ink. fruit or stain
Brushing Is said to roughen the nails,
and the brush should be used only
when necessary.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Cats In Japan almost universally
have short tails. says an authority,
aud If a cat comes into the world with
a lengthy caudal appendage 1t is usual
ly chopped off. for the Japs detect a
likeness to snakes In the long tail and
cannot endure 1t.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
Beetles.

Beetles as a species are absolutely
destructive to fertility, both above and
below the surface. Some families. such
as the common cockchafer. actually
undermine turf In such a way as to
spoil whole fields Of pasture.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

The old joke about the alliance be-
tween doctors and undertakes Is not
In vogue in Bavaria. In some districts
of that country one-half. In others even
three-quarters, Of the population die
without having had medical attend
ance in their last illness.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
To Cut Glass.

TO cut glass with scissors hold a
sheet Of glass horizontally under water
and then cut 1t. as you would a sheet
of paper, with a strong pair Of scissors.
The cutting is easily accomplished, but
1t will not be as neatly done by a long
way as with a diamond.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Vienna Is of nearly circular form, be-
ing twelve miles in circumference. The
old city, or city proper, is, however.
scarcely three miles round. 1t was
formerly inclosed by Notifications.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
Musical ~naects

More than 5000 persons find employ
maDt In Japan in bringing up and
training musical insects" known as
Kusa hibari and resembling crickets
The sound they make is like that Of a
silver bell.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
n Grain WEIGHT.

BY an English Inv passed in 1893 II
was provided that q silver penny. call
ed a sterling. should equal in weight
thirty-two wheat grains. well dried
and taken from the center Of the ear.
This is the origin Of our grain weight.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

A child of five should weigh forty
one pounds. be forty-one and one-half
inches in height and have a chest girth
of twenty-five and one-half inches.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

A New London (Conn.) man present
ed his wife with a deed to q cemetery
sot MS a present on the thirteenth ami
yersary of their marriage.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

More than s.000.OO0 of the i3.5oo.ooo
people In Mexico do not work. Count
ing out the children and aged. there re-
main 3.774.14S possible producers who
produce absolutely nothing.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

A Siberian bride on going to her bus
bands house is required to forthwith
prepare a dinner as a proof of her skill
In housewifery.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
Heart Dfaeaae.

Fifty-slx per cent Of those dying
from heart disease are over sixty years
old.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Because Of the pressure a whale can
not dive to a greater depth than 300
feet
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
II Stands Alone.

Kittery. Me-. is the only town Of that
name In America.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

English Farm Machinery.
England makes but a third OF the
machinery used by Its farmers.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07
Rats.

Rats are estimated to destroy food
to the value of 5000 900 yearly.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-07

Farm hands In Norway receive $40
to $50 a year.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
NATIONAL 1BuSE WASHINGTON a. rauRsbAH NR1t Il 1906
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row, VN6 the ADVANTAGE to as OF being
Z whole lot nearer youf kins-row."

row, viz the advantage to as OF being
whole lot nearer yonf kins-row."
"And our king-row worth . whole heap
more than yours" added the Adjutant.
eyes, indeed" conceded Ex-Johnny.
IL we could have ever captured Washing
ton England and France would've recog-
pied Us, and the war would've been over.
That was our biggest and best hope"
well, the war wouldn't We been over
By q long shot," said the Adjutant de-
eldedly. "We should have had to lick
England and France, too. and we could
have done Ii. Our monitors would have
knocked their old wooden ships into kind
ling wood IL they had ventured onto this
side"
We're now coming to Bristoe Station"
said Ex-Johnny. 1--WE once thought we'd
cut of the Second Corps Of your army
there, and was going to capture it, but
Gen. Warren outmanuvered Hill and
Ewell, and beat them off. We lost a
whole lot OF prisoners and a battery of
artillery. We were terribly disappointed in
not going into Washington and then in not
capturing the Second Corps, and nil the
satisfaction we got was in tearing up the
Orange & Alexandria Railroad again."
Poor Orange & Alexandria Railroad.
murmured the Adjutant. But it must
have got used to being torn up by that
time. If / remember right, you didn't get
off so easily after all. The Army of the
Potomac warmed you up mighty lively at
Rappahannock Station. Where is Kappa
hammock Station!"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
THE NEW ORDER.

The Pension Bureau is now sending out
the following letter, explanatory of its in
terpretation of the New Order:
'In response to your attached communi-
cation, you are advised that under the pro-
visions of section 2 of the act of June u,
1870, as amended by the act of May 8,
1900, any officer or enlisted man who
served 80 days or more in the army or
navy of the United States during the late
war of the rebellion and received an hon
orable discharge therefrom may be en-
titled to pension as such, provided ne is
now or may hereafter be suffering from any
mental or physical disability or disabilities
of a permanent character, not the result
of his own vicious habits, which so inca
pacitates him from the performance of
manual labor as to render him unable to
earn q support.
"In the adjudication of invalid claims I'M
der said acts, it is taken and considered
as an evidential fact, if the contrary does
not appear and if all other legal require
ments are properly met, that when a claim
ant has passed the age of 62 years, he
shall be regarded as disabled one-half in
ability to perform manual labor and may
be entitled to the minimum rating of S.
per month; after 65 years of age, to 50
per month; after 6S years of age, to $40
per month; and after 20 years of age, to
the maximum rating of $12 per month. A
declaration stating that the claimant is GO
years of age; 60 years; GO years: or 20
years, as the case may be, is a sufficient al
legation in cases of this kind even il no
other disabling cause is set forth, but In
all cases the exact date of birth should be
stated.
allowances under said acts at a higher
rate, not exceeding $12 per month, will
continue to be made as heretofore, where
disabilities other than age show a condi-
ton of inability to perform manual labor,
month, which is the maximum rate of in
valid pension provided for in said acts and
is not subject TO increase for any cause.
This ruling will not take effect until
April IL, 1904, and shall not be deemed
| retroactive, and declarations filed for the
purpose of obtaining the benefits of said
acts by reason of same should not be filed
in this Bureau prior to April 13. 1904. The
former rules of the Bureau fixing the mini
mum and maximum at 20 years and Is
years respectively are accordingly modi.
fed as above.
Pensions granted under the provisions
of section of the act of June q, 1890,
as amended, whether affected by the late
ruling or not. are not in addition to pen
sion allowed under any other law, as the
law prohibits the payment Of more than
| one pension to person for the same
period"
This settles one point, about which there
has been some anxious questioning the
| amount of proof that would be required for
age. This says that mere statement as
to age, accompanied by exact date of
| is all that will be required.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14

THE death of Isabella II, ex-Queen of
Spain, revives the memory of more than
half a century of very interesting history
now more or less forgotten. conspicu-
GUS part of this was the attempt of the
willy old Louis Philippe of France to per-
manently annex Spain, and put his dynasty
on a rock foundat ton. by marrying his two
sons to the two daughters of Ferdinand,
the elder of whom was to inherit the
throne of Spain. Louis Philippe was only
prevented from accomplishing this by
and then he did the next best thing in
marrying Isabella, the heiress, to q hope
less incompetent, and her sister to Louis
Philippe's eldest son. This provided that
the Queen, dying without issue, her sisters
children-that is, the grandchildren of
Louis ss. philiRpe ; inherit the throne
out, and would have been very success
full one il Queen Isabella had only been
satisfied with 1t. She was not. and had
quite a number of children. the only GER
tainty about their pater, ity being that
they were not her husbands. Altogether
Queen Isabella was superior to the usual
run Of Spanish monarchs. These Kings
oA~ S"S~AS 0AS AlciS hSuIcucduS, anu tue
question is as to the ring which is behind
them. With all its rapacity and unscrupu-
lousness, the ring which put Isabella on The
throne and held her there for many years,
was superior In essential particulars to
the ring which had tried to put Don Carlos
on the throne. When the opposition got
too strong, as must come sooner or later,
there never being plums enough to 70
around. Isabella was forced to abdicate and
retired to the very comfortable provision,
which she had laid up for q rainy day in
Paris. She had foresight enough to COM
pol the ring Of which she was the head to
"diyvy" its plumber squarely in her favor,
Of the figures In the little eoterie of ban
ishsd rulers, who, like herself, had laid
away in Paris a sufficient provision for
the time when their exactions would lead
to a violent change in the administration
OF their countries
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14

RUSSIA must not only get hundreds of
thousands Of men into Manchuria, but she
must carry food thousands of miles to
them over a single-track railroad. The
japanese can certainly overpower her
when near the seacoast, but when they at
tempt to advance in the country, their
real difficulties will begin, and it is only
a question Of the length of the advance
when their troubles will be proportionately
as great as Russia's. This seems to point
to the debatable ground being established
somewhere south of Hardin. 1t will be re-
membered that Hardin is about $50 miles
from Newchwang, which the japanese
will in all probability make their base
and these $50 miles of rough, mountain
Gus country affording no supplies, will
test the strength of the two combatants.