NET-MAKING. 



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until within thirty years has the trade been 

 mainly supplied in this manner. The machines 

 most used in the United States are those of 

 John McMullen, 13. Arnold, and Jouannin, a 

 Frenchman. The last named, with certain 

 American improvements, is regarded with 

 favor by the large manufacturers. Such ma- 

 chines are necessarily complicated, and no 

 very clear idea of their detailed working can 

 be given without elaborate illustrations. It 

 may be understood, however, that with two or 

 more threads or sets of threads, machinery may 

 be constructed that will make the regulation 

 knot, which seems to be the only one that 

 fully meets the requirements of the case. In 

 Fig" 10 the warp thread is, for distinctness, 

 made black, while the woof is merely outlined. 

 The series of open black loops being made by 

 means of pins or hooks, the other series, with 

 the aid of many ingenious and self-acting de- 

 vices, is made to pass over and through them, 

 as shown. The number of continuous threads 

 is not limited to two, as in the illustration, but 

 may be indefinitely multiplied and supplied 

 from bobbins or spools on which the thread is 

 wound. Thus, in the Jouannin machine, two 

 sets of threads are used, marked a and 5, Fig. 

 11. The a threads are drawn into simple 



variety-shops, needles and mesh-sticks are kept 

 in stock. These last, however, are easily made 

 by any one who can use the common wood- 

 working tools. 



NEVADA. State GoTcrnmcnt. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Jewett W. Adams, Democrat ; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, 0. E. Laughton; Secretary of 

 State, J. M. Dormer ; Treasurer, George Tufly ; 

 Comptroller, J. F. Hallock ; Attorney-General, 

 W. H. Davenport; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, C. S. Young ; Surveyor-General, 

 C. S. Treble. Judiciary, Supreme Court: Chief- 

 Justice, Thomas P. Hawley ; Associate Justices, 

 O. K. Leonard and C. H. Belknap. 



Constitutional Amendments. The Governor, in 

 his message to the Legislature of 1885, says: 



Your attention is called to the fact that five amend- 

 ments were favorably passed upon by the last session, 

 \vhich will come before you for your consideration. 

 If you adopt any of them, it will be necessary for you 

 to provide the mode of submitting the same to a vote 

 of the people. The first amendment changes the time 

 of the assembling of the Legislature from the first Mon- 

 day in January to the first Monday in February. The 

 second amendment requires naturalization six months 

 before the election ; a residence of one year in the State, 

 instead of six months, and a residence to ninety days 

 in the county, instead of thirty, as necessary qualifi- 

 cations for an elector. The third amendment changes 

 the mode of amending the Constitution by requiring 

 the vote of but one instead of two sessions of the Legis- 

 lature to submit the question to the people, and by mak- 

 ing two thirds of each House, instead of a bare majori- 



FIG. 11. 



loops, over and through which the 5 threads 

 are passed by means of an ingenious arrange- 

 ment of hooks one hook to each mesh which 

 seize the 1) threads, pull them through the a 

 loops, give them a twist, and pass them over 

 the & spools. This forms the knot, which is 

 subsequently tightened, and a repetition of the 

 process produces successive rows of meshes 

 with great rapidity. Nets of all kinds and 

 sizes, except circular and scoop nets, are now 

 made by machinery, and sold at a price which 

 has practically driven the hand-made nets out 

 of the trade. Few American fishermen who 

 live within reach of a market now do more 

 than repair their own nets, but something of a 

 demand has sprung up of late years for hand- 

 made hammocks, tennis-nets, and the like, and 

 many amateurs have learned the stitch as a 

 species of fancy-work affording gentle exercise 

 and an agreeable pastime. White and colored 

 twine is furnished by all dealers, in a great va- 

 riety of beautiful shades, and, in many of the 



ty, necessary to submit to the people such amendment. 

 The fourth and fifth amendments pertain to the mode 

 of investing our school funds. Under pur present Con- 

 stitution, the school money derived from the sale of 

 lands and other sources can be invested in United 

 States and Nevada State bonds only. As the interest 

 on an investment in United States bonds is only three 

 per cent, per annum, it was thought by the last ses- 

 sion of the Legislature best to extend the class of bonds 

 in which school moneys could be invested. It seems, 

 however, they could not agree upon any one plan, and 

 therefore adopted two amendments for your consid- 

 eration, one or which you will doubtless submit to the 

 people and reject the other. One of these amendments 

 directs that the school moneys shall be invested " in 

 United States bonds or bonds of this State, or the 

 bonds of such other State or States as may be selected 

 by the boards authorized by law to make such invest- 

 ments." The other amendment provides that the 

 school moneys may 'be invested " in United States 

 bonds, the bonds of this State, or such other State 

 bonds or other securities as may be authorized by 

 law." 



Consolidation of State and County Offices. On this 

 subject the Governor says : 



I simply give expression to the general demand of 

 popular sentiment throughout the State, when I rec- 

 ommend that our Constitution be so amended as to 

 reduce the number of State officers, and thereby econ- 

 omize in State expenditures. Nor is there less need 

 of the consolidations of county than of State offices. 

 The whole amount of taxes levied for the support of 

 the State government for the year 1883, including Or- 



Ehans' Home, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, State Prison, 

 asane Asylum, salaries of officers, and all incidentals, 

 was, in round numbers, $249,000, while the amount 

 levied for conducting the fourteen county governments 

 for the same year was $614,000. Among the statutory 

 measures that will most effectually economize^ county 

 expenditures, is the consolidation of judicial dis- 

 tricts. 



