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Show NEVADA NOTES. . Carson Appeal: A correspondent, evidently taking us for a natural history his-tory journal, wants to know a receipt that will keep a cat from killing chick-eus. chick-eus. Our usual mode is to open the cat's mouth as wide as possible, reach down her throat far enough to get a good grip on her tail, and then neatly and suddenly turn her inside out. .Then if she forgets herself and eats a chicken, the feathers get tangled up in the fur, and the convention is unanimously adjourned ad-journed Last week's report of the Comstock mining superintendents show that S31S tons of ore wore crushed during the weok, the battery sample assay giving a value of $109,l)Uv. The Enterprise says: Calculating that the mills will work the ore up to 80 ner cent of tho battery as says, the product of last week would be $87,951.20. Fifty-sin per cent of this is silver, or $49,851. This is figured on the basis that silver is at par, or $1.2929. Figuring at $1.08 as the price of silver the Comstock companies are 1 1000 better bet-ter off this week than they would be with the price of silver at 91c, and they are about $7000 worse off than they would be if silver was at par. ' . i . |