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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. NEVADA, i One of Belmont's citizena held a j ticket in the Royal Havana lottery, j the number of which came within oue of drawing $500,000! The Inyo Independent is responsible ! for tho statement that a pair ot ducka i went to sleep in a pond, and were j found next morning frozen fast in the ice, andTvere chopped out and com-imenced com-imenced waddling about- as though nothing had happened. A $2,000 fire at Austin on Monday. It ia rumered that a credulous eastern east-ern tourist waa recently grossly swindled swin-dled by an Austin man, who aold him an ordinary bed-bug of that locality, representing it to bo a rare specimen ol sagebrush terrapin. Virginia is soon to have another theatre, which will be erected by John Piper on Union street as soon aa the weather will permit. A rich strike has bean made at the Alps mine, Pioche, an assay of rock, Thuraday, showing $7,500 to the ton. How to Treat Unexpected Guests, When one of "father's" business friends drives into the yard at about halt-past eleven, the good wife knows that he will surely stay to dinner. Father is a great story-teller, and he likes to get hold of a new auditor. How aptly comes a frown of dismay and displeasure on the smooth, iair face of his helpmeet. What can be done ? Work is going according to the day's plans in the kitchen, the dinner waa arranged for none but tho family; the children are coming home from school and making a clatter; all isbuatleand confusion. She feels that the best dishes must be used, and eomething extra cooked for the inopportune inop-portune guests. Now, good woman, don't do it ! Your fine dinner, with its attendant irritation and "upsetting," "upset-ting," will taste no better than what you had prepared. Make no difference m your plana, but aeat your visitor with a smile and easy greeting at your hospitable board, and he will feel more comfortable and happy than though you gave him a banquet. You save temper and trouble, and gain the enjoyment of giving your friend a real coay time. A sensible peraon knows that farmers do not have six courses upon their table daily, and tho wholesome, whole-some, hearty fare, with good nature and hospitable cordiality, will be tinctured with a sweet, domestic sense that ia inevitably lost in grand dinners. din-ners. Smiles and neatness are aauce for homely meals. Golden Rule. One r&ison why the Canadian government gov-ernment refuses to keep its contract for the construction of a transcontinental transconti-nental railroad is, that though the country has 5,163 miles of iron track, not a company is paying a dividend on the ordinary stock. All are unprofitable un-profitable to the stockholders, though they are indispensiblo to the growth and even to the maintenance of the present prosperity. With such results in the fertile, level, and densely-settled districts east of Lake Huron, there is little encouragement for the expenditure of $75,000,000 or $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 in the barren, mountainous and uninhabited regions further west. S. F. Alia. |