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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
A QUEER PRESENT,
What Minister'S Wife Received as a Re-
ward for Many Kindnesses.

What a Minister'S Wife Received as q Re-
ward for Many Kindnesses.
Here is story from western Pennsyl-
vania which matches any told by Miss
Wilkins and other delineators of New
England thrift and unconscious humor,
says the New York Times. A young
woman, whose maiden home was in
one of the small cities of interior New
York, followed the fortunes of her hus-
band, a Calvlnistic minister, to his first
charge, Center church near the
Ohio line of the keystone state. The
young wife soon discovered that she
had married the congregation, and, as
it was a widely scattered one, her time
was fully occupied. The most persist
enu CLAIMANT OF ner aJJenJlon and Off
ces was an old dame to whose an
nounced deathbed she was summoned
within week after her arrival. The
so called dying woman revived, how
ever, the next day, and for two years
developed with great regularity fire.
quent periods of approaching dissolu-
ton. AT every fresh recurrence of this
condition the pastors wife was immedi-
ately sent for and always promptly re-
sponded, which, as the house was three
miles away, often meant night in at
tendance.
Finally the old lady did die and was
duly and properly buried. The follow
ing week her married daughter called
at the parsonage, asking for it's mis-
tress. After some desultory talk upon
the virtues of the departed the visitor
produced a small parcel carefully
wrapped. ''Ma," she began, using the
long, fiat "a" of the neighborhood,
thought right smart of you, an she
said she wanted you to have something
of hers to keep. So she wanted me to
bring you these. They're as good as
new, cause ma never wore 'em much.
You can't use 'em right away, but by
and by they'll come in handy. If they
don't fit they can be fixed easy
Mystifed, but grateful, the minister's
wife took the package and the visitor
left. Then she opened the paper. 1t
contained the dead woman's teethl
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
TUESDAY, JULY 81. 1891.
BLACKS OF THE SOUTH.
An Observer Gives Some Interesting
Views of the Changes Among Them.

An Observer Gives Some Interesting
Views of the Changes Among Them.
A colored preacher in Brooklyn, who
watches the movements of his race,
holds that there is no likelihood of any
extensive migration of the colored PEG
pie of the southern states to the north
ern, says the New York Sun. A few
thousand come every year to this state
from the cities of. the southern sea-
board; some go from Virginia and Ken
lucky to the states lying north of them,
and considerable number in the Gulf
states have been anxious to settle upon
the lands newly opened in Oklahoma.
But it is doubtful whether the annual
migration from all the southern states
is as high as one hundred thousand. The
reports received by the preacher as to
the progress of the colored people of
the southern states at this time are en-
couraging. The majority of them, who
have been born in freedom since the
close of the war or were emancipated
in early life, have acquired habits of
self-reliance which their enslaved an
cestors did not possess, and in several
states are as well educated as the
whites. The new census shows that in
North Carolina the proportion of col
ored children who attend school is as
large as that of white children, and in
Virginia it is but little less, while the
reports from most of the other states
are good.
The preacher argues from the growth
of prosperity in the southern states that
time has now fully proved that the
colored people are possessed of industrl-
GUS habits, and that the notion preva-
lent in slavery time that they would
never work under freedom, has been
disproved by the experience of quarter
of century. They raised the crops of
cotton, sugar, tobacco and cereals as
they did before the war, Colored me-
chanics were few in number under
slavery, but now there are tens of
thousands of colored workers in skilled
industries.
The colored preacher also speaks with
pride of the fact that among the colored
people in the south there is now a body
of excellent scholars, who have gradu-
ated from various institutions of learn
ing. They exercise an elevating infiu-
ence, and are very useful as teachers.
Finally, the colored preacher refers
to the interesting fact that there has
been change in the speech of the col
ored people of the south, and that the
"Sambo dialect" is going out of exist
ence A large proportion of them
speak the English language as well as
it is spoken by other people, though
there are parts of South Carolina and
the Gulf states where the plantation
lingo still holds its ground. The change
has been brought about by the school
ing of the new generation.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
Lady Cigarette smokers.

Russian, Spanish and Mexican ladies
smoke cigarettes habitually in their
own and their friends houses, writes
George Augustus Sala. That 1 know
from ocular experience. That Turkish
and Greek ladies also indulge in ''the
weed at home have often heard, but
as yet have not penetrated into the
interior either of the harem or the gy-
n@ceum. Multitudes of French ladies
smoke, but have never seen them in
dulge in the practice in public. The
most inveterate female ''tobacconists"
are, perhaps, the Italians. l have seen
italian ladies in railway carriages pull
ing Justify not only at cigarettes, but at
''Cavours'' and ''Minghettis."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
NEW USE FOR THE PAPAw.
Its Leaves Used to Render Tough Steak
Tender.


In the West Indies one of the char
acteristics of an intelligent cook is the
care with which he or she will see to it
that a papaw tree is growing within a
short distance of the kitchen door.
The fruit of the papaw, says the
Pittsburgh Dispatch, if large and well
grown, is not to be despised as a break
fast dish, and its rich, golden flesh is to
many much more palatable than that
of the popular melon. But the attrac-
tiveness of the papaw for the cook con-
sists in its leaves, which possess the re-
markable property of rendering meat
tender. The toughest beefsteak or the
most hopeless old rooster can be made
soft and comparatively juicy by being
wrapped for an hour or twoin the large,
dark green papaw leaves.
DIR. Mortimer Granville, who has
been for some time studying the proper
ties of the juice which works such won
ders, states that he has discovered in it
remedy for cancer, when used with
some other preparations. The organ
lied ferment of the papaw is believed
to be a bacillus; but DR.. Granville says
he has satisfied himself of the thera-
peutic value of the juice, or certain of
its elements, as solvent of the morbi-
ficially indurated tissues in cancer,
when administered in combination with
certain specified adiuncts. -
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
ENGLISH SPELLING.
The Work of Compositor Who Had
Grown Weary of Well Doing.

The Work of Compostor Who Had
Grown Weary of Well Doing.
Some compositor, Disguised with the
Inconsistencies of English photography,
has been at the pains to construct the
following elaborate travesty, which APP
pears in the Printers Album. The in
genious reader can lengthen it at his
own pleasure: Know won knead
weight two bee tolled thee weigh too
dew sew.
A rite suite little buoy, thee sun of a
CRATE kernel with rough around his
neck, fue up the rode as quick as a
dear, After thyme he stopped at a
gnu house and wrung the belle. His
tow hurt hymn, and he kneaded wrest.
He was two tired to raze his fare, pail
face. A feint mown of pane rows from
his lips.
The made who herd the belle was
about to pair pare, but she through it
down and ran with awl her mite, for
fear her guessed wood knot weight.
Butt when she saw the little won, tiers
stood in her ayes at the site.
''Ewe poor deer! Why dew you lye
hear? Are yew dyeing?"
"Know," he said, II am feint."
She boar hymn inn her aims, as she
aught, two rheum where he mite bee
quiet, gave hymn bred and meet, held a
cent bottle under his knows, untide his
choler, raped hymn up warmly, gave
hymn suite drachm from viol, till at
last he went fourth as hail as young
hOarSe
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21

PRUSSIA has only 1,O62 citizens whose
annual income exceeds $25, 900, and 49,,
521 whose income exceeds SIS, 900,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21

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THE SALT LAKE
.TRIBUN j.
Is a newspaper devoted to the best interests of
the Western slope, and particularly to the devel-
opment of the Inferno ui tain country.
For advertising purposes incomparably the
best paper between San Francisco and Denver.
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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-21
The Effect of Music.

1t is curious to note the influence of
music in a mixed crowd, says the New
York Sun. In Central park ON Sunday
at least as many as ten thousand per-
sons were within hearing of the band
when it suddenly struck up a Strauss
waltz The crowd was divided, and
half were moving toward the lake
while half were facing the park gates.
All were so nearly packed together that
locomotion was difficult. In two min
utes after the music began to make it
self felt the people fell to keeping time
to it with their steps, and then to sway
ing their bodies in unison with the
musical time. Those who were at one
side or the other on the paths saw the
strange scene of ten thousand persons
swaying to and fro, and could not ac-
count for it until they approached near
enough to hear the strains of the band.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1891-12-21
Chicago Jofpital Tiir5raarn mo
8;a,0er!

ECke Adams U. PauIIna Str., Ch1capO
Getunbbetts. SaItanb Der bette iedsebn gait unbbltr:a
nripotaimmer fe1s &ronfeni6le nit Glib 9uSiidbt.
Gebiibren fir 8rinatSiuluIer Don $l0-2O per MpGt,
te nah Der Sage oes .3tmmers uHb NufDartune. @rp
botJyatierten f6Hnen ibreu arst aus Der SobI ber ans
~aeEelteu oNer be1uGenben Aer5te DabIen.
SebEbren in cronfcnidlen IS per apobe nit gutey
ETege.
sHerate 19arneu) uHh 10 beIu9enhe Mtrste (Serren),
Cine Observation-Disclosures dule lit i'm polpttoL
meaen Gin5eibetteu meHhe man fi1 utter phigd
MhrehTe an ben 6anpts9lTat ober man ienbe eine BnT
az ~ lit eiu GtrcuIaT 26ng2tCSr q =
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1891-12-21

Ser 0oftor bate bret Sage perQeheu
lailen, ebe Ct letnen .8eiu6 III &lefebui h
erneuerte. @r muroe abermals nah benz
@)arten Su leiner Yatientin oenielen. Doh
audi bort fano er iie nid]t. 9as @arlcnz
baus mar Ieer, uno er lab ii6 ucygeblih
sDiiden ben 6lteoerbil6en uno bliibennen
Gohner nm.
0a tam Gu5 g%elprun9en.
vOart," iagte ite 6aL6 i6eu, bdlb sltraus
Iid, unh mics Den @urtenpFeo Diuunter, Der
su Der baIbofelen Sbilr III Der S6lebDorns
oede, in Gin bob in 9ebren ltebenDe5 Nog>
senielo fibrte.
v0anfe," nidte Der 9oftor unD fo[9te Der
Weilung. @r ging einen idpmaIen WrabeI=
rain entlang, iuelder tief snliden ben Sell
bern lag. Bon betOen Seiten ragten Die
Qlebren 0es bier frGftig beitanoenen Jtoggens
ibm iiber bas 6aupt. Ser @eru6 9elatz
tieter Geife itieB aus Dem &oru. uno bier
in Der ninoItiIen 9fube oes N6enblonrsn>
i6einS iDitroe Die Stilnme beS Seloes Iaut.
USE bas 3irpte, ihnirrte uno pftff, tpie
es iubelte uno tlagte, lodte uno flebte
Bodies, relics leben, cine 2Selt i'm &ieinen,
uno ldbon lino Die Siheln Der S6nitter
9eipebt, Die Grnte gu balten, ben Sob 3u
bringen, Der Die Sru6t iAeioet bon Der
Spreu. Damn tperben Die rotben unb Die
blauen 8lumen, Die ieBt 10 lieblid Spii1en
ben 6aImen leuhten, auf benz &ebri6tbaus
fen weIfen, tpenn Die iru6tihweren Nebren
ein9elammeit peroen in Die Sheuern.
Gin elmer Biegung oes Stains, no 5tuet
@rdben iid freujten, iaB6rteoel i'm bIibens
oen@ras, i'm Dellen Sommertleio, Die Qrme
um bas &niee geihlungen, einen srOBeh
S~tro6but tlef i'm Jiaden.
Sbr YrofiL bob ii1 leuAtene in ieiner
@lfenbeinpeiBe bon benz e%int0nig graugeIben
Ninteraruna Des Gornfeloes ab. Sic
i1ten in tiefeS, na6oentli6es Sinnen ners
loren, bod als iie ben Obftor 9etpabr
tDuroe, ftano fie arf uno fam ibm freunolI1
eInige Shritte %entge8eH.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
Naming Twins.

was called upon to perform my first
private baptism under circumstances
which, if not SO embarrassing to myself
or Sc amusing in the description, were
not without certain interest as betray-
ing lamentable but by no means rare
Ignorance of the simplest Scripture
kn0wlts1ge was sent for by the
mother Of twin boys, and soon arrived
upon Il scene of the utmost squalOr, dirt
and restitution A three legged table,
a riclety chair and It bed on the floor
comprised all the furniture. Dirt reign
ed supreme, aAd the ashes from the fire
place reached half across the floor The
woman, with matted hair and squirt
which gave her an evil expression, feared
her babies would die, and had at least so
much knowledge Of Christianity as to
desire baptism for them
When asked to name them she said
that as they We're twins she would like
them called Cain and Abel, whom she
supposed were the twin brothers Of our
first mother pointed out her mistake,
and demonstrated, moreover, upon the
name of Cain as unfit and of evil omen.
She knew absolutely nothing of the
fratricide A girl of ten in the room,
upon my refusal of Cain, exclaimed:
Have it Isril, motherI' chose, how
ever, the name Of David and put an end
to the discussion. Cor. London Tit-Bits.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
The Ballet Girls Headquarters.

The most curious of all the agencies
is certainly the ballet girls agency.
There come all the dancers of the CONT
nent, and from thence they are shipped
off all over the world The ballet is
considered to be in its decadence, but
that is a great mistake. There have
never been so many dancers as there are
today. Perier has 5000 addresses on his
list The agency is an odd sight when
the engagements are being made
The rooms themselves are on the
ground floor, three wee closets into
which scarcely a score of people could be
crammed; but the courtyard is large,
and into that theSe crowd some sixty or
eighty ballet girls, jolly, noisy creatures,
full Of fun and mischief, teasing any I'M
happy man who may fall into their mis-
chievous clutches They tickle him,
they pull his hat over his eyes and gen.
orally make his life burden to him.
No one can control the turbulent band
but Perier himself, who, with an Olym-
plan frown and a stern and resonant cry
of ''Silence!" con- ives occasionally to
bring the impish lot into comparative
order.-Paris Cor Philadelphia Tele-
graph
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23

Even the dignity which hedges round
the judicial bench is not always safe pro-
lection from conscious or unconscious
sarcasm Of too blunt witnesses. A GER
tain judge who when denuded Of his Of
fetal wig, was as bald as a billiard ball,
had before him, by strange irony of
fate, a dispute as to the real proprietor
ship of a patent hair re5torer. During
the progress Of the case the judge, who
sometimes INDUCED in a little sarcasm
at the expense of a witness, asked bland
~ whether the restorer had ever been
known to restore wornout broomheads
to their pristine condition of hirsute lux
urlance, OF the lost bristles to old clothes
brushes
Of course there was a laugh, and the
judges wit was rewarded with looks of
admiration. But the witness, to show
that he had every faith in it's being a
sure hope for human badness at least,
replied very innocentIy that, "If | didn't
know it was necessary for your lordship
to always wear wig in this court, !
should have declared that you had ex-
perimented with my hair restorer on
yourself. London Tit-Bits.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
The Antiquity of Geese.

There is much curious amusement to
be had in tracing where the foodstuffs
we use and the domestic animals we eat
or use, originally came from. Professor
Max Muller, reasoning through his sci
ence Of words, finds that the goose was
domesticated very early, or at least some
bird like it.
Goose in English, ganse in German;
dropping the & according to the laws of
language, the word becomes anser in
Latin and correspondingly in Greek,
with the aspirate that marks the Digam-
ma was dropped and so back to ansa in
the Sanscrit. Our prehistoric Sanscrit
ancestors of the Indian fable lands, had
geese. Professor Muller therefore, con-
cludes birds resembling them closely,
though thousands Of years the name has
remained, varying only according to the
known laws of the change of pronuncia-
ton, and probably the livingston
throughout behind the name. Such is
the antiquity of geese. New York Even
ing Sun
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
A Remarkable Painting.

The vivid and stupendous processes in
modern iron working, with their remark
able capabilities of representation ON
canvas, have been availed Of, it appears.
in a most attractive manner by Ger
man artist, Adolf Mcneil. In a great
picture, the ''Cyclop's Workshop" there
is represented the interior of a large iron
foundry with its giant steam hammer.
its blast and pudding furnaces, and its
huge cylinders, that roll out glowing
masses of iron Of vast weight as if they
were but soft paste One of these glow
ing masses forms the center around
which the interest of Menzers picture
moves.
1t has passed through the first rollers,
and Is being taken up with great tongs
by the foremost worknen in order to be
passed on to the second, IA proceeding
that involves prodigious exertion Of
strength. Other workmen are employed
III different processes-some directing
the machinery, one in the foreground
wheeling away newly forged cylinder
on a barrow, others are undergoing a
very necessary process of publication
and shirt changing, while others again
are seen in group in the background,
already beginning their midday meal,
and in the background of all is dimly
visible the iron and steam monster that
supplies the motive force for all this
wonderful work. New York SIM
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
Killed by Preacher. Skinned by Deacon

Killed by Preacher, Skinned by Deacon
DR.. Harmon Jones tells a good story
which actually occurred in the early
settlement of this county During those
days the Usage Indians prowled around
in these woods, and bears, panthers and
wild cats were plentiful 1t was the
custom to carry a gun most everywhere.
There was always few who carried
their guns to church on Sunday morn
ing. One Sunday Rev Stephen Ham
was preaching down on Loutrie. 1t was
way back in the 20s. While the Rev.
Mr.. Ham was closing his sermon with a
red hot exhortation he saw deer pass
the window He stopped preaching,
told his audience to keep still, picked up
an old rife and went out and killed the
deer. He completed his sermon while a
couple Of the deacons skinned the deer.
DR.. Jones went home with one Of the
deacons to dinner, and says he never ate
better venisOn in his life. Dock is now
seventy seven years old, and has been a
practicing physician and druggist for
tifty-three years. He practiced medicine
in East St. Louis four years and in Paris,
Mo, seven years. He is the Oldest drug
gist in the county, and came here when
this country was wilderness. Fulton
(MO.) Gazette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
Tennyson and His Clay Pipes.

Alfred Tennyson, the greatest living
poet, has shown his appreciation of to-
bacco in deeds rather than in words
For nearly fifty years he has been a
steady smoker His finest fancies have
come to him amid the curling wreaths
of his pipe. For a pipe and not his cigar
is his habit Partagas, regalias and
cabanas have no charm for him. OF all
the pipes in the world the common clay
pipe is his choice. His den is at the top
of the house When in the morning he
sets down to work, the aromatic weed is
before him in an urn large enough to
contain the budget Of the chancellor of
the exchequer and dainty enough to be
casket for Cleopatra jewels
A box full of white clay pipes is at his
side; filling one Of these he smokes until
it is empty, breaks it in twain and throws
the fragments into another box prepared
for their reception; then he pulls out
fresh pipe, fills it. smokes it and destroys
it as before. He will not smoke pipe a
second time New York SIM
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23

How the Musical Scale Was Invented.
How was the musical scale first invent
ed? That query, which has troubled the
theorists of all lands, and has had its
answer hitherto only in mystifying
speculations and unintelligible theories,
the Chinese will reply to by a legend
most ingenious and most apropos, which,
they hold, offers complete explanation
Of the mystery. In the reign of Hoang
ty, they say, there was once a prince
called Lying lun, who was the most beau
tiful man and at the same time the most
profound musician in China He, under
pain Of IA severe penalty by the order
loving emperor, was commanded to ar
range and regulate Chinese music on
the same principle wherein Hoang-ty
had arranged law and politics through
out the Chinese empire.
Full of thought Lyng-lun wandered to
the land Of Si-jaung, where the bamboos
grow. Having taken one of them he cut
it off between two Of the knots, and
pushing ont the pith blew into the hol-
low The bamboo uttered a most beau
tiful note to Lyng-lun's intense surprise.
simultaneously the river Hoang- no,
which ran boiling by, roared with its
waves, and the tone was in unison with
the note of the bamboo. Behold, cried
Lyng-lun, ''the fundamental sound Of
nature" Two magical birds then came
and perched themselves upon some trees
near, and sang one after the other the
seven notes of the scale, starting from
the tone which had been reared by the
Hoang-ho and warbled by the bamboo.
Here is a scale, say the Chinese, at
once ineligible, inimitabe and easily
revealed. Lyng-lun had merely to cut
seven more bamboos and tune them to
the pitches he had heard, and the scale
was made This he did; and thus was
the art Of music inaugurated and found
ed by Hoang-ty's court musician on
firm and unalterable basis.-Chambers'
IOurnal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
THE TURNPIKE ROAD.

So strange it seems, 50 strange and sweet.
That here life's busy tide once flowed:
That bravely trod our grandsire's feet,
With light heart, or with heavy load,
Through this forsaken turnpike road.
AS walking in some holy nave
We tread the grass grown ruts today;
As if they marked some ancient grave,
We search upon the milestones gray
Their numbers almost worn away.
Beyond the wood and winding stream
Beat the world S pulses, strong and clear,
With roar and rush of steel and steam;
But, changeless through the changing year
A sacred silence reigneth here.
Yet violets and the windhower sweet
In fairy hosts here greet the spring,
And following Summers hasting feet
Blue Gentian--shy and winsome thing
Comes forth to hear the last bird sing.
And Fancy weaves mystic spell
Around this nook in Natures bowers;
Perchance the smiles and tears that fell,
The conquests and defeats as well
That made life in those bygone hours,
Have here found root and bloom in flowers.
And could it be, on every tomb
LAS to our toilwon goal we speed,
That some sweet flower should live and bloom,
Harvest of brave or holy deed
All, who could ask richer meed2
God rest their souls in byways fair,
Who heavenly seed on earth have sowed,
While we who still life's burdens bear
Patiently lift our loads of care,
Renewing for our last abode
Such bloom lis fills the turnpike road.
Annie Louise Breckenridge in Springfield
Homestead.