Daily Independent

SALMAGUNDI.

Fresh Oranges and Lemons at Mrs. Ricord's.

Judge Rising left this morning for Virginia City.

Hunt Bros. sign painters, left this morning for Carlin.

Mrs. J. L. Wines, of Eureka, gave this office a friendly call this afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mitchell left this morning for their home in Huntington Valley.

Mrs. Ricord has just received a case of Fresh Oysters of the very best brand. Try them.

Walter Adriance came up yesterday from the Humboldt House and will visit here for a few days.

Isaac P. Woolverton, of North Ruby Valley, came down from Halleck to-day and dropped in at the INDEPENDENT office this afternoon.

Miss Aggie Hall came over from Eureka yesterday and will remain the guest of Mrs. J. L. Wines until Thursday when she leaves for Carson City.

S. F. Post: - John L. Sullivan can create almost as much excitement by getting drunk as the President can by sending a message to Congress. Great is the slogger.

"Jack the Ripper" has reached the footlights at last. Mr. Marlande Clark, an English actor, is going to produce a play founded upon the Whitechapel horrors. He will try it on Brooklyn first to get it in shape for Chicago.

The Examiner devotes nearly two pages to a detailed description, by its special correspondent at Apia, of the situation in Samoa. The distant rumblings of a war between Germany and the United States over this question may be heard.

White Pine News: - There is a proposition to pass a bill compelling assessors to assess all property at full value. (Union Appeal. They generally have assessed this print shop for all it is worth, and for more than we could sell it.

Enterprise: - One week from next Tuesday the Chinese will have their New Year's jubilee. By that time the celestials of this city will have their lilies in full bloom, all accounts wiped from their slates and nothing left to do but have a high old time.

Lady (to applicant for cook's place) -- Do you ever drink anything, Bridget?

Bridget -- Wance in a while, mum; a glass o' warm gin with a bit o' lemon an' a lump o' sugar, if ye plaze, an' thankye kindly, mum.

Detroit Free Press: -- "Your honor, I object to being sent to the Workhouse," said a vag after conviction the other morning.

"Isn't it a good place?"

"It's too good, sir. You sent me there for sixty days about three years ago, and I got so fat and lazy that I haven't done a day's work since."

N. B. Nye, Jeweler, J. Henderson, Barber, the Red Rock Saloon, the Humboldt Brewery Saloon and the Independent office are also ornamented with artistic sign painting. The work was done by Hunt Bros., of Gunnison, Colorado, who are traveling west. They are first class artists, and will stop at the various towns along the Railroad for the purpose of doing work in their line.