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Some of the Big Gold Nuggets.

Sierra County (CalO Tribune
On the 18th of August, 1860, large
piece of gold was taken from the Mon
umental Quartz Mine, Sierra Buttes,
which weighed / 1916 ounces troy, the
value of which was estimated ut from
S21, ,O0C to $4,000. The nugget was
sold to III. b. Woodward, of San Fran
cisco, for S21, $50 52. A fine specimen
was taken from the Rainbow Quartz
Nile, Chipp's Flat, in 1881. 1t was
taken from depth of 200 feet. Later
it was shipped to London and worked
there 1t yielded $22. 1000. In 1855
nugget was found ut French Ravinc
that weighed 532 ounces, and was
worth $4,000. 1t contained consid-
able quartz, which is not calculated in
its weight. In 1851, at French Ravine,
n nugget was found which weighed 426
ounces, and was valued at $4,000. A
nugget is reported to have been found
at Minnesota valued at $4,000.
In 1880 a piece of gold quartz was
found in French Ravine which con-
tanned 263 ounces of gold, worth 81 1893.
At Smiths Flat, in 1866, piece of gold
was taken from claim which was
w lJH % ~, anu NtlO llcU ltO OuIlCtS'
AT Smiths Flat, in 1864, nugget was
found weighing li0 ounces and worth
Sl.605. At Little Grizzly Diggins, in
1869, a nugget worth 81, 900 was found.
A nugget weighing 81 ounces and val
ned at S1.770, was found at the Hope
claim, four miles below the Mountain
House. AT French Ravine, in 1860, n
nugget was found worth $l,757 and
weighing 93 ounces. At Smiths Flat,
in 1861, II nugget was found which
weighed 80 ounces and was valued at
81 500. From 1854 to 1862, II gold
nuggets ranging from 30 to l47 ounces,
were taken from the Live Yankee
claim at Forest City. From 1856 to
1862 numberof gold nuggets, varying
from 30 to 100 ounces, were found in
the Oregon claim at Forest City. A
specimen worth $4,000 was taken from
the Oriental (Gold Gate) quartz mine.
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awaited her; the child was drowned in
the bath. The childless mother, dis
tracted and desperate, rushed out of
the house and hanged herself on n
branch of tree. The wretched
father. overwhelmed with misfortune
his fortune gone, his wife and children
gone-seized n revolver and put an
end to his existence. The artistic com
pleteness of this tragedy gives it n
certain air of unreaity; but the Hun
garian journal vouches for the exact
truth of these details.
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Danger in Oleomargarine.
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Medical Record.

Medical Record.
A number of COWS in the same herd,
owned by n farmer at Salem, n. j.,
having died very suddenly, TIE veterina-
ry surgeon submitted specimen of
the blood from the last victim to Prof.
Leidy for microscopical examination.
The animal was apparently well on one
evening, and was milked as usual; it
died the next morning. The cause
was not clear, but was suspected to be
5he result of anthrax or splenic fever.
A post mortem examination was made
the following day, and the abdominal
viscera were found much cOngestcd,
especially the spleen, which was gorged
with blood. The specimen of blood
from the spleen was examined and
found to be teeming with bacteria of
the form known as Bdcill1tS dnthrdc,
which is now viewed by most compe-
tent authorities as the cause of anthrax.
The bacilli were actually more numcr-
Gus than the blood corpuscles, which
appeared unchanged.
This case shows that milk is forward
. to market drawn from COWS which
are within "a few hours of their death
from splenic fever. Such milk can
hardly be wholesome, and doubtless
contains the bacilli capable of giving
contagion.
Let us hope that the fat from the
carcasses of such animals is not sent To
the nearest oleomargarine manufac-
tory, as this substance is rendered only
at temperature under l20 deg. by the
patent which is now supreme. We
need not state that the thermal death
point of bacilli IS far above such Il tenn
peraturc, and we leave our readers to
draw their own conclusions respecting
the results when such uncoOked ami
NAL produce is used as an article of
diet.
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ST JalncS's Gazette
A peculiarly sad and shocking do
mestic tragedy is reported from the
town of Bstyn in Hungary. The
keeper of a crossing on the East
Hungarian railway near that town
happened to win few days ago some
hundreds of tiorins in a lottery. The
poor fellow, who had never seen such
a large sum of money in his life, took
the bank notes home and amused him
self in turning them over, forming plan
upon plan for their disposal. All at
once train was signaled, and he
rushed to his post, leaving the precious
roll behind him. As ill-uck would
have it, his little daughter was playing
in the room at the time. Struck by
the peculiar appearance of the notes,
having rarely if ever seen one before,
and not knowing anything whatever of
their value, she proceeded to use them
as plaything, and presently flung
them into the fire, where they were
burned to ashes. just then the father
returned, missed the notes, and learn
ed what had become of them. In his
fury he struck the child violent blow
which stretched her lfeless on the floor.
The mother, who was giving bath in
an adjoining room to her second child,
an infant, rushed in on hearing the dis
turbance, picked up the littl, girl and
tried to restore her to consciousness
Her efforts were vain; the child was
dead. She flew to the bath in which
she had left the infant, Another shock
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,James FeputInore Conner.

Cooper was the most intensely
American of American authors. He
was born IN Burlington, II. j. 1889.
the eleventh in family of twelve chill
dren. His father was a Quaker, and
his mother of Swedish descent. He
was fitted for Yale College, and en-
tered in 1906, but in his third year was
dismissed on account of bovish es-
capade. He went to England and the
Mediterranean rs n sailor, and when
he returned in 1903, he got com
mission rs midshipman. He quit the
navy to marry, Jan. /, 1911. He
showed no inclination to write until
long after. when one day, reading a
book on English society, he declared
he could write n better description
himself. He tried. was encouraged by
his wife, and finished a story which
got printed in England, though it at
tracted no attention here. He then
wrote The Spy" which was pub
liShed in 1921. 1t met with an eager
and enthusiastic reception. Cooper
had found his life work. He next
wrote "The Pilot, and The Last of
the Mohicans" was brought out in
1926, and five editions of THE Prairie"
were issued simultaneously in 1880.
He was then the most successful and
popular of American writer's. His
books were Immediately translated in
to French and German. and his fame
in Europe was not eclipsed by Scott
whose Waverly Novels created such a
profound sensation there. And the
remarkable thing about it is that they
held their own in Europe better than
here, they compelled the preiudiced
Britons of that day to read and admire
them and give credit to the country
they affected TO despise. When he
visited Europe, however, his sOca
success was greatly improved by the
pride of country which would not bear
the attacks made upon America every
where. 1t appeared to him that Eng
lish people made point of saying the
worst things they could think of
against the United States on purpose
to irritate him, and he resented the in
suit, sometimes rather brusquely. The
fact seems to be that they were so used
to disparaging this country, and knew
so little about it, that their rudeness
was largely unconscious. Some of the
papers in this country, knowing his eX-
treme SenSitiveneSs, attacked him in
quite contemplate ways, and he re-
taliated by libel suits, in which he act
ed as his own lawyer and won his
cases, actually forcing Thurlow Weed,
after he had been mulcted in success
sive fines, to print an ungracious re-
traction. Cooper was a striking char
acter in many ways-a man of great
force, proud of his nationality, original,
striking. honest.
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Women and Their Work.

The American sentry.
Previous to the present century, rs n
rule, to which there were not many ex-
ceptons in civilized communities, the
employment of women and children i'm
shops and factories was not introduced
and established. The weaving of wool
en- and cotton cloths in those days was
generally done in the homes of the
workers, as matchmaking is now in
Switzerland There, doubtless, all
hands helped in the work occasionally,
But in this century isolated labor
stands little chance against collective
labor, and competition in the last soon
introduced the cheaper labor of women
and children into the mills and factor
les of Great Britain and other coun-
tries. At present, it can truly be said,
good parents often hesitate to expose
their children to the dangers of factory
life, but necessity has no law, and in
most instances the wages the latter OBJ
tain are needed for the support of
their homes.
Dr. Dix, rector of Trinity Church.
has lately delivered n course of lectures
on subjects connected with the welfare
of women. He deprecates the present
system, and demands for girls the
purity of life at their homes. This is
well, but the question is, as the average
rate of mems wages is only about S345
per annum, how are they there 10 be
supported? The Rev. DR.. Pullman of
the Church of the Savior, in a lecture
on Woman in the Nineteenth Cent
ury," defends the present system and
declares:
The old idea that by divine or
dinance all men were to support all
women is abandoned. We come into
life under certain divine ordinance.
1t is the law of labor. Toll is the por-
ton of every one. Is it not strange
that man should say to woman: 1--WE
shall work, we shall support you, or
else you'll starveP" The idea of con-
demning any set of Gods creatm cs to
idleness is against the spirit of any
divine ordinance. An idle woman is
as accessible to danger as an idle man,
and her greatest safeguard is occupa-
ton. But, it is said, her sphere is
home. Granted, when that is possible,
but when it is not, any honorable call
ing should be open to her"
Thus it will be seen, that, in regard
to the subject of the outdoor, or rather
industrial employments of women the
doctors disagree; and, rs might be ex-
pected, a champion has stepped for
ward from the ranks of that sex to de-
fend the rights or claims of woman.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake recently
delivered the concluding address of %
series of lectures in reply to DR.. Dix,
under the ominous title: lis it Crime
to be II Womanp'
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THE LOG CABIN"
A Description o. Horace Greeley's News.
paper Published In 1S41.
ngston CN. " Freeman.

paper Publi-hed In 1S41.
Kingston (N y Freeman.
The other day a newspaper called
The Log Cabin, published by II.
Greeley, at No 70 n street. dated Nov
6, 1S41, came into the hands of Free
man reporter. The paper is made up
almost entirely of correspondence and
is very different from a newspaper Of
the present day. A state election had
Just been had, and Mr.. Greeley, the
editor, says: I'VE do not waste much
space in the details of our state cleo
ton; il is needless. We have already
ann ounccd the loss of the assembly by
an overwhelming majority. The SEN
ate may or may not have gone with it,
but in tornado like this it is wise to
apprehend the worst. At all events,
the whig cause in this state is tenn
porarily prostrated. Fifty thousand
whig voters have refused or neglected
to vote, etc. He says there are many
causes for this reverse, though no rea-
son for it, He foreboded much of this
when his ear was first stunned with the
sad tdlngs of Gen. Harrison's deatl .
"The fall of the general is too often
There seems to be about as many
murders noted in this paper as in the
papers of the present day. One cor
respondent saws: - drop you q line
to give an account of one of the most
horrible murders ever committed in
this part of the country, being at
Franklin, La.
''It seems Capt. John ID. Hart, a
planter was shot with shotgun, the
gun being loaded with buck shot and
six of his negroes having been arrested
they confessed" Here is an item
from The Hudson Republican quoted
concerning thesuicide of Col. Simon y.
Rowley. While mentally deranged he
jumped from a third story window
Before that he had attempted to shoot
himself with n pistol. The deceased
the correspondent said, had taken "ar
active part in ridiculing the Apostles
of Temperance, getting up anti-tem
perance lectures and invoking the aiC
of Baechus."
He rather intimated that any one
who would do rhat might be expected
to commit suicide without notice. The
paper speaks of great Temperance,
convention held at IlttSburg, ant
states that there are "cheering evi
dences of the progress of that grea
temperance movement whose inestima
BILE blessings are gladdening Thousands
of homes throughout the land one,
darkened by the blighting curse o
drunkenness. 1t contains an inter
esting letter from Yankee travelling
throughout the great Kanawha vale,
in Virginia, about a burning spring
which was discovered, it seems. b,
Gen. Washington at any rate, SO say
the writer. There is letter regarding
Henry Clay and also one from cor
respondent in England.
The following is the style of joke
which was considered about the righ
thing to do. 1t is headed "A DeaC
Loss and is as follows:
"Well, Esther, you missed grea
deal by not being able to 90 and see
the man hanged this morning."
Dear me, thought so! How hate
full of Aunt Jane To send for me totent
the nasty little sick baby! But no"
was it?"
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"Oh! when he turned off he kicked
for five minutes on a stretch!'
"Oh dear! Now what a shame it is
| was not there to see IT,
This paper has a picture of a log
cabin of most approved style, and it
says that ten yearly copies will be sent
for &1O
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The Cost OF the Cup.
Demorest's Monthly.

DenOrests s Monthly.
The amount of liquor consumed n
Great Britain is enormous. 1t amounts
TO 100000, 600 every month, i. e.. $l5,-
600, 600 every week and about S25 for
every second day and night. There
are 3,508, ,4S0 letters in the bible, and if
S2O6 were placed on every letter il
would represent the annual expenditure
in Great Britain and Ire and. The
grain consumed by brewers and dis
tillers is sufficient to provide four
loayes week To every family in the
united kingdom. These figures are
really startling.
A ll0pound turtle was caught near
Ripley, Tenn, laet week
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Brand advertisements SIS Per Year.

g8-~Rates for Display Advertisements
made known on application.
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THE cheyenne TRANSPORTER

Is the only Paper published within
radius of hundred miles.
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Subscription, $lD0OPer Year, in nAdVance.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-16
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

RAN, the goat and the wild corniiroro
are the only animals capable ofresistinc O.
AS TO the nature and bropagation of
electricity, NJ. Ledies holds fiat thew
are substantially subject to the same
heat. IL 1isSii' "iie'
me editor of the Journal of Science
records record. that young man of his ac-
iu'lhtance has been in some danger
IRON the sting of bee. Altogether the
symptoms were such as to excite no lit
'1e alarm. The roof of the mouth
S"eiled, the 9sophagus was for time
completely closed, and breathing be-
came exceedingly difficult.
ACCORDING to the Medical Times and
Gazette the oyster contains IA per cent
Of tiosh-forming material, this being al
most precisely the amount obtained
IRON the egg. Lean beef contains but
. per cent. more of muscle-making mat
ter, and but 2 per cent. more of fat
than the oyster.
1EEEs with cut tops, says Magerstein
and BlIek, produce larger quantity Of
reserve matter than if they we're left
alone; the clipping from the roots has
q like result. Healthy fruit trees
should have the roots cut. but not Their
tops; but II the case of stone-fruit trees
the tops may be pruned with the adj
VaAtageouS effect of conducting to their
general development.
HERE is a hint by Dr.. G. Boeck which
may be OF Industrial value. Ifpotatoes
are peeled and treated with s parts
sulphuric acid and 100 parts of water.
and then dried and pressed. a mass is
OBTAINED very like celluloid, and which
can be used instead of meerschaum or
ivory. 1t is not stated whether the
invention is protected by a patent OF
not
4 FRAUDULENT substitute for glycer-
ne has been introduced into the French
markets. The ordinary physical char
acter Of the liquid closely resembles a
line specimen Of glycerine; II, however,
has bitter taste. due to an impure sui
phate Of magnesium, and contains glu-
coSe. Quantitative analysis showed
that the preparation was simply sat
urated solution of sulphate of magne-
SUM, with 100 grains of glucose to the
liter, to disguise the taste of the salt.
SOLE time in 1853 salt deposits were
discovered near Middlesbrough, Eng
land, at depth of about 1900 feet.
An attempt to make the salt an indus
trial success failed at first. Now the
efforts to bring it to the surface are
very profitable. Wells are sunk down.
and in them two tubes are placed, one
within the other so that an annualar
space is left between them. Into the
circular space water is poured, which
dlssolves the salt, and the brine thus
formed and subsequently pumped out
yleLds about 100 ton of salt week when
evapOrated
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Too Much Encore.

Let lis suppose hungry man goes
into restaurant, and orders dinner
lie finds it excellent, and devours il
with relish, Worcester sauce, probably.
Il he. encores that dinner by humping
on the floor with his cane, and shouting
"hravo!" until he is hoarse. the pro7
pr1etor OF that hashery does not furnish
the enthusiast q second dinner. ey-
cept on the express understanding that
he Is to pay for two meals instead of
one. A man goes into cigar store. III
vests nickel in q cigar, and. upon
lighting 1t, discovers that it is very fine.
Ahat man may stamp the heels off his
boots, but under no circumstances does
the tobacconist come forward. with q
gracious bow and beaming smile, and
hand out complimentary cigar, at
least we have never noticed anvthig of
the kind
These things being so, how does it
happen that an Intelligent audience that
has paid a dollar head admission Will
so o. as if they were going to tear the
opera house down, if the performers do
no5 duplicate the programme, and give
ti@m two dollars worth instead of one.
l. tie performance is so much better
tii&9 Tie audience expected, it seems to
us that 1t would be more reasonable for
item TO Land over another dollar apiece
at the ticket Office as they passed out,
after the performance was over.
The truth is, that in every audience
there are few fellows who want to
make The spectators believe they know
good music when they hear it-that
they are music sharps. They start the
racket, and the rest of the audience
catch the coHtagion, just as other merry
OILS diseases are caught. An occasional
encore is admissible, but when an audi-
cuce encores everything, then the young
man who starts the nuisance ought to
he pointed ou% to the congregation
Icr0S SJtingS.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-16
Gen. Grant as a Traveller.

Grant is queer old fellow. When
he was President Of the United States
he nearly always travelled in a special
car, but now, since lac has become a
private citizen, he travels just about the
same as ordinary folks. You can
always find Grant in the rear end of the
car, in the smoking apartment, with q
cigar IN his mouth, and there he sits,
with hand on either arm of his chair,
and smokes and smokes, thoroughly
ob1lvlous of everybody in the car. He
never looks at any one; sometimes he
Will look out of the window for hours :;
when he's not doing that he's glancing
over newspaper. He's Indifferent to
everything that's going on. Why, if
the train he is IN stops on the road in
the open country for some minutes he
never moves, never inquiries what's the
matter, but sits and smokes stolidly
until the train starts, while all the
other passengers put their heads out of
the windows or get off to see what's
gone wrong.
Il remember trip to Chicago Grant
made In my car some time ago. His
seat was directly behind lady who was
travelling alone-and who, by the way,
knew very little about travelling. She
had her window up for some time, and
it was pretty chilly, beside the black
smoke poured into the car. I watched
Grant for a little while, and I saw he
was annoyed, as the smoke and chilly
breeze blew right over him. Presently
he got up, and leaning over the Iady's
shoulder put his hand on the catch and
let the window sash down. The little
woman gave an involuntary start, and
turned round fieEcely, but Grant never
noticed her, and dropped back into his
chair. After little while the little
lady hoisted the window again, and
some of the passengers who had seen
the affair smiled at one another. Then
the little woman beckoned to nae and
said: Conductor, who is that hog back
of me?'"
"'That's Gen. Grant, said I.
SO OBJ said the little woman, and
she dropped the window Immediately.
Grant heard the question but never Let
OF and went on reading his paper as if
nothing had happened. "-TQM aCth q
Conductor.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-16
TGe brakeman.

The brakeman is q man who is en-
pioyed by q railroad company to stand
upon the top of the freight car, and
work both hands at the engineer, and
20 help stop the train when it is neces-
eary.
Next to being bareback rider in a
circus the small boy pants to be brake
man, so he can sit on the wheel of a
lrake and chew tobacco while the train
is running at full speed. The fact that
a brakeman is often seen pegging broad
| raSt over the land on a wooden leg. or
ihi':us one arm, often causes people to
i'elieye that he is an old soldier, or has
served term in baseball club.
There are two kinds of brakemea-
the passenger and freight. The passen-
gcr brakeman is a gentleman of consid-
crdbIe leisure, and by the nonchalant
way i'll which he comes through q car
and tramps on the passengers feet is
often mistaken for the conductor.
lie does not have much else to do but
slam doors, growl at the porter, and,
" ken the train arrives at a station, to
Yell "Ponooyah" when he should say
'ontchatoula."
lie freight brakeman is an entirely
different man. He is grim, silent and
dignitied He seldom speaks except to
curse the green hand ON the rear end
OF the train, whom he affectionately re-
fers to as a "pudding." Despite his
faults, however, he works hard and
very often arises to a position of i'm
portance, unless some day he tries to
use his body as ooupling-pin and
fails.
At night, when freight train is side
tracked at meeting point, and all his
companions are squatted an pile of
cross-ties, the brakeman is in his glory.
lie then discusses ad llbit9m the affairs
OF the road, and criticises every one
from the President down to the most
humble official. He does not hesitate
to say that if the President can't run
road any better than he does he should
t somewhere and drive a canal
boat.
49,. brakeman is to be admired for
the remarkable manner in which he
gets VIVID of various and sundry plans
which the management intend to place
III operation and wish to keep quiet.
The brakeman will sit on the end of