Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-03-16
BUYS HOME FOR EMBASSY
Russia 10 Said to Have Purchased
the Pullman Mension-Hammonds
were Recent Owners.

oOhAO HOM0 va MI. anu JOuu hAyO
Hammond. at 1875 Avenue Of the
Presidents, has been negotiated. This
beautiful house, one Of the most mag.
nifcent In Washington, Is generally
known as the Pullman home, having
been erected by Mrs. George B. Pull.
man, widow Of the well-known car
builder.
Mrs. Hammond purchased the prop
erty from Mrs. Pullman last May, and
at the time was said that she paid an
proSimately $780, 00. The embassy,
however, Is said to have secured it at
a much smaller figure. The current
report fixes the sum at $375, 900.
Indians Have "FIrewater."
4 When q brewery 900 miles from
civilization was reported to the Cana
dian royal mounted police at Chipe-
wayan station 1t seemed Incredible,
for 1t was said to exist In a country
that ever the map-makers had left
blank. Sergeant Field was sent to
the Ray river country to investigate,
and (says the Wide World Magazine)
he found a happy lot Of Indians
among whom "frewater" was quite as
common as 1t used to be down in Ken
lucky. He found that nearly every
buck" was the proprietor Of a BREW
cry" and that life south Of the Great
Slave lake was one long and joyous
spree. A strange white man had sold
the secret of making "hrewater". to
the Indians, and they were making a
brew" Of potatoes, hops, sugar, and
yeast, which, when allowed to fer
ment, was strong enough to cause In.
t~oxication. During the summer
months the Indians raised potatoes
for this brew, but in scarcely any in
stance can they be persuaded to grow
anything for food.
rvrsuy Tor High Cost Of Living,
New York.-"Fuel for the BODY
should not cost more than twenty
cents a day for an adult" said Doctor
D. G.. Lusk, speaking OF THE Funda-
mental Basis of Nutrition" He rec.
commended as q remedy for the high
cost OF living a thorough knowledge
Of what food really Is.
Home Of the Glove.
About t%wo-thirds of all the cloves
come from a little island named
Pemba that lies about five degrees
south Of the equator, just within sight
Of the mainland Of Africa, between
Mombasa and Zanzibar. The island
Of Pemba is only 35 miles long and
ten wide. 1t Is a low, j~ungle-covered,
feyer+haunted spot, surrounded by
coral reefs and inhabited by indolent,
unintelligent and improvident natives
aad a small handful Of Europeans.
The Glove tree is singularly deli
cate and must have a combination of
climatic conditions that exist In a few
places on earth. Where 1t will grow
at all 1t will grow wild and in pro-
fusion.
|. Capt. ]. e. q. Craster of the Brit
ish Royal Engineers has just publish
ed an account Of a survey he made Of
the island. He estimates the average
yield OF q tree to be 35 pounds Of
cloves, and says that with a little at.
tention to the plantations this could
easily be doubled.
Right Spirit.
1.-THE right Thanksgiving spirit"
said Secretary Brayn, at a dinner In
Washington, was we'll exemplified
one afternoon In the west.
II was passing through a rich farm.
Ing country, when a superb wheat field
caused me to dismount with my cam
era.
"'You must positively let me tres.
pass on your property / said to the
farmer, long enough to photograph
that field Of wheat. It's the finest ]
ever saw
"The farmer, as he opened the gate,
gave q laugh that had the true Thanks.
giving ring in It.
You're welcome to photograph the
field he said. You'll have to do It
instantaneous. though-she's CROWN
90 Snat-1s
Statue to Locomotive Pioneer.
Cautiously enough, the memory OF a
great railway pioneer IL also being
honored In England after about n cen.
tury Of neglect A statue is. being
erected In Cornwall to Richard Ire
vithick, who IVES the constructor of
the FIRST practical locomotive. In ad.
dition to the statue, Il 10 proposed to
compile IN Official life Of the inventor.
and TO institute a course Of engineer
ing classes.