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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE.
Population in the Omitted States Densest
with Moderate Rainfall

Population in the Omitted States Densest
with Moderate Rainfall.
The census bureau has ascertained
that the main body of the population of
the country inhabits the region in which
the annual rainfall is between 80 and so
inches, three-fourths of the inhabitants
or Whereabouts being found there. On
/ either side, as the rainfall increases or
diminishes, the population diminishes
rapidly.
The arid region of the west, says the
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, where
the rainfall is less than 80 inches-a re-
gion which comprises two-ffths of the
entire area of the country contains at
present less than 3 per cent. of the
population. The greatest density of
population is in the area enjoying from
40 to so inches of annual rainfall, the
average of this region being SO inhabit-
ants to the square mile.
The most favorable conditions of hui
man life would seem to exist where it is
neither too wet nor too dry, and we
have had an illustration of this lately
in the large increase of the death rate
from diseases induced or fostered by ex-
cessively wet weather.
The census bureau also investigated
the distribution of population with ref
erence to the mean annual tempera-
ture Elaborate tables are given
which show that in 1870, 1880 and 1890,
more than half the population was liv-
ing under temperature between As
and So degrees, and that between As
and 60 were found from 20 to rs per
cent. of the inhabitants. Only trife
over per cent were living where the
temperature was greater than 20 de-
grees, while in the region whose tenn
perature was above rs degrees the num-
Der of inhabitants was trifling.
The number of inhabitants to the
square mile not only expresses the den
sity of population but also gives
measure of the absolute
number and the increase in absolute
The greatest density is and has been,
since 1870 where the temperature
ranges from so to So degrees. From
This as maximum it diminishes rap
dly both with an increase and decrease
N temperature. The most rapid pro-
oortional increase in population has
aiken place at the two extremes, where
t has treblcd during the twenty years
between 1870 and 1890,
While in the same time it has increased
out 50 per cent. in the most densely set
led group.
The average annual temperature of
he Uaited States, excluding Alask
rom consideration, is SO degrees. The
lverage annual temperature under
which the people of the country live,
al1ing into account the density of set
lement. is practically the same.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
aold RInes and white uorses.

An extraordinary belief or supersti-
ton has broken out among the little
girls in eastern cities. Strangers have
wondered because they have been ac-
costed by little girls not yet in their
teens and asked if they have ring. If
the gentleman has a ring on his hand
they want to touch it. That is the only
formality of the immediate proceeding,
but it is part of ritualism that is as
founding. The belief that has gained
currency among them is: 'If | touch
and count twenty-five rings, then count
five white horses, and then see FIVE col
ored people, then the next boy speak
to viii marry me-"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
BENEATH SAND OR WAVE.

Covered Cities Whose Streets Were Once
Full of Life and Action.
The city under the sea which has
been discovered between Grade and
Palo, in Istria, is believed to be the
ruins of elisa, mentioned by Pliny as
situated on an island of that name A
diver reports having seen the streets,
walls and quays, but the doors and win
dows of the houses appear TO be choked
with silt and seaweed. While on this
subject, says Cassell's Family Magazine,
we may mention that the remarkable
ruins of Zimbabye, which have been
discovered in Mashonaland, are to be
explored by Theodore Bent, with the
aid of the Royal Geographical society.
Great progress has been made in I'M
earthing the Romano-British town of
Silchester, near Reading. The site COW
ers a hundred acres, and is situated on
the Strathfeldsaye estate of the duke
of Wellington. Walls, gates, streets,
baths and private houses have been laid
bare, and a rich collection of pottery,
implements and coins has been made.
Among these are an iron carpenters
plane and blacksmith's tools. Some of
the edge tools are still keen enough to
work with. A piece of tile retains the
imprint of baby's foot, and another
that of a shoe or sandal with springs in
the sole. The pottery ranges from
coarse cooking vessels to artistic ware;
the iron work shows ornamentation and
the needles or other household articles
bear witness to fairly high degree of |
civilization among the Ibero-Celtic pop
who, to the best of our znowl-
edge, made up the ancient Britons. 1t
is mistake to speak of these, our early
forefathers, as Celts. They were prob
ably more Iberian than Celtic, at least
in England proper.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
MEN OF BRAINS AND POSITION.

'CAPRIvI, the new German chancellor,
! has a face that reminds the observer Of
Bismarck's In manners, however, he
is totally unlike the man of blood and
iron, for he is mild, conciliatory and
| courteous.
| Gov. PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, is a
man of tall and handsome figure. His
complexion is dark and swarthy and his
hair coal black. He has one daughter,
girl of sixteen, and son few years
younger
Mr.. GoscHEN, the English statesman,
is a man of slender physique, stoop-
shouldered and pale. He is painfully
nearsighted and can read letter only
when it is brought to the end of his
large nose.
JOHN D. RoCKEFELLER has sent word
to the Ohio oil fields that hereafter the
standard pumps must remain idle dur
ing the Sabbath. 1t is one of his theo-
ries that men can compass better to-
tai of results in six days labor than in
seven.
EDITOR HEARST, of the San Francisco
Examiner, will amuse himself the com
ing summer cruising about the Pacific
in one of the most palatial yachts afoat.
1t has just been built for him at Bris-
toll, R. l., and the contract calls for a
speed of twenty-five miles anhour.
M. CARNoT travels free on the rail
ways during his presidential tour in
France, but when it is concluded his
secretary figures up what it would have
cost if paid for at regular rates, and
this sum is handed over to be distribu-
ted among the poorest paid Of the rail
way men.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
.wsLL LISTEN TO THE SUN.
Edison's CosmicaI Telephone to Hear sun
Spots Roar.

AWflL IISI I'm ~ I7E SON.
Edison,s Cosmical Telephone to Hear Sur
Spots Roar.
One of the most curious arrangements
contrived by this most curious man fol
his personal amusement and gratifca.
ton, says the Chicago Tribune, is the
arrangement which Mr.. Edison calls
his ''cosmical telephone" Edison owns
an iron mine at Ogden, N. j. There is
a bed of magnetic iron ore about mile
long and so feet wide, which he says
runs down into the earth for five or six
miles. He estimates the amount of iron
in the mine at 1900, 900, 000,0 900 tons.
Around Ogden there is an enormous in
classification of the magnetic forces of
the earth. 1t is well-known fact that
the daily variations in these magnetic
forces, as shown by the needle, are di-
rectly influenced by the disturbances in
the suns spots. These variations are
regularly recorded every day at Kew,
near London. Mr., Edison says that at
his iron mine near Ogden he has more
than million times the concentration
of magnetic lines that there is at Kew.
To, record the daily variations in his
own magnetic lines at Ogden, Mr.. Edi-
son has constructed his cosmical tele-
phone.
There are the most wonderful
things going on in the suns spots all
the time,'' he says. Didn't you ever
see them? Why, they are beautiful.
! The disturbances are tremendous.
Bursts of hydrogen fly out of these
spots 600, 900 miles long. Awful things
happen up there. You can see them
every day with my telescope. F"
To construct his telephone he has
surrounded the whole bed of magnetic
iron with poles. On these poles he has
strung cable of fifteen copper wires.
The ends of this cable run down into a
little house and are connected with the |
ordinary receiver of common Bell
telephone. The idea is that the sur
rounding of this enormous bed of mag
netic iron with copper wires will oper-
ate for the formation of a gigantic
magnet such as is used in the receiver
of the everyday telephone. Through |
this tremendous receiver Edison saws
he will be put in direct telephone com
munication withthe sun, only the com
munication will be onesided. He can
hear everything that goes on up there,
but he can't do any transmitting. He
believes that every disturbance in the
suns spots will cause corresponding
variation of the concentrated magnetic
lines at Ogden, and that this variation
will be at once detected in some way by
the receiver of his cosmical telephone
''Yes sir" he says, 81 can hear them
with this telephone. The next time
there is any violent change in the suns
spots which disturbs the magnetic
lines or earth shall know it, and if
100000 miles of hydrogen go chasing
away from the sun l shall hear it,
The cos1nical telephone is not yet
completed, as the wire stringing is not
but scientific people other
than Mr.. Edison will watch with curl
Gus wonder to see what success he will
achieve
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
A Frog That Cries.

A Baltimore freak is a frog of good
size and triAe light in color, but APP
parently not different from any other
frog. The frealzishness developed when
his frogship was worried, when, instead
of hopping off or giving utterance tc
the deep, sonorous note usually heard
from frogs, he simply opened his mouth
and cried The cry is nothing if
not human, and suggests, both in tone
and volume, peevish child. The cry is
not single note, but several, and is
continued even after the annoyance
ceases.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
A SINKING HILL.
A Curious Phenomenon on the futile
Farm In Bloomfield, Conn.

Farm In Bloomfield, Conn,
Jeremiah futile, farmer of Bloom.
I field, has hill on his big farm in that
town that is sinking into the bowels Of
the earth, says Hartford Conn., cor
respondent of the New York Sun. Mr..
futile has a beautiful farm, most of
which is in normal condition. There
are great fertile meadows, wide reaches
of noble forest, and here and there spa
cious pastures in which his blooded
COWS Craze on heritage that is almost
| knee-deep. The queer sinking hill is
in one of the big pastures, in what Mr..
futile calls the rock pasture" The
grass is finer in that one than in any
other pasture in the whole region. EX-
| actly in the center of the big lot is a
hill, capacious of girth, but not more
than twelve feet high. The oldest in
habitant of Bloomfield, who is upward
OF eighty-fiye years old afirms that the
hill is as familiar to him as any room in
his own home, for many Bloomfield
people have been in the habit of taking
short cut home across Jerry's rock
pasture, and that he never noted any
thing odd about the hill until lately.
Now, since the hill is said to be sinking,
Bloomfield people avoid the rock pas
ture, for they believe it is enchanted.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Tuttle sent his
hired man, Michael Flann igan, who has
worked on the futile farm for years,
to the rock pasture with the cows, and
in half an hour Michael came home hur-
riedly with a startled look in his face.
When he entered the pasture, he said
later, he stopped in alnazement, for he
saw at glance that the hill had gone
down into the earth several inches since
his visit to the lot day or two before.
To be sure that his opinion of the hill
was a correct one he went close to it
and took an estimate of its height,
sighting across its top at old-time and
trustworthy landmarks, and was salts
fed that it had gone down not less than
eight or ten inches. After he had told
his story, everyone, Mr.. futile, too,
guyed him mercilessly. But Michael
doesn't drink, SO he took the gliding
good naturally, and persisted in affirm
ing that this statement was correct.
His earnestness finally impressed
others, and Mr.. Tuttle and some of the
visited the rock pasture with
whose declaration at once
was seen to be true. The hill had sunk
several inches since Michael's previous
visit. Moreover, the hill is still sink
ing daily. Slowly and persistently it
is being swallowed up. 1t is now only
a slight undulation in the lot, and it's
top but foot or two above the rest of
the land there. What is the cause of
5he phenomenon no one attempts to ex-
plain, but the Bloomfield people are
certain that very soon the hill will have
entirely disappeared.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
THE OLDEST LIVING NAG.
A Kentucky Animal That Carries Deep
Scar from the Mexican War.

Scar from the Mexican War.
The oldest horse on record is owned
| by Mai. Robert Mas, of Louisville, KY,
who possesses papers proving its age to
be something over forty-seven years,
says the Memphis Commercial Ivan
hoe, as he is called, is large bay,
with white spot on his forehead, and.
up TO rev years ago, OF a gentle, af-
fectionate disposition, but has grown
peevish and capTicious with his increas-
ing age. This, however, is only shown
toward strangers, while he is devoted to
his master and his children, who play
about him with perfect fearlessness.
Ivanhoe was stolen several times dur
ing the civil war, but invariably made
his way back in safety to his pasture,
having contrived in some way to escape
from his captors.
He bears on the right flank the scar
of a. gunshot wound received in the
Mexican war, at the battle of Buena
Vista, while ridden by Mai. Mas
grandfather. 1t is over thirty years
since lvanhoe has known bride or har-
ness, but spends his days strolling about
his pasture, into which he will allow
no other horses to be placed, but will
resent all intrusions with vigorous
use of his teeth and heels. His facul-
ties all appear unimpaired, with the ex-
ception of total deafness, resulting
from a severe attack of disease prev
alcnt few years ago.
Far from being feeble, Ivanhoe moves
briskly about, and will often permit two
or three Of the younger children to
mount and ride him about the pasture
He has, however, lost nearly all of his
teeth, and lives upon boiled corn and
other soft food. He made his last APP
pearance in public at the cattle fair held
N Lexington last fall, and came home
completely denuded of his name and |
tail, by people securing thus relics of
The oldest horse known.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
swIFTER THAN PIGEONS.
Swallows Successfully Trained to Act as
Carriers.

SWALLOWS successfully Trained to Act as
Carriers. ~
The experiments lately made in the
north. of France py M. Jean Desbouv11e
IN training swallows as carriers have
proved SO successful, says the London
Chronicle, that they will probably re-
suit in the establishment of regular
training stations. M. Desbouvrie be-
gan his experiments by taking a nest of
young swallows and their mother, and
letting them fly from his doorstep at
Roubaix to their nest under the tiles
above. He gradually increased the
distance to Lille, from which they re-
turned to Roubaix in about four min
utes-over a mile a minute. At
last the birds were taken to Paris,
one hundred and forty miles from
their home, to which they returned in
an incredibly short space of time. NJ
Desbouvrie at last arranged a race be-
tween his pigeons and his swallows
from Paris to Roubaix, the result of
which was the triumph of the swallows,
who were home three-quarters of an
hour before their rivals, the distance
covered being, as we have said, about
one hundred and forty miles. 1t is pro-
posed to hold grand swallow COMPETE
ton this summer in the north of France,
at which valuable prizes will be
awarded to the owners of the winning
birds.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
Hard to believe.

A man keeps two railroad restaurants,
one in Charlotte and one in Central in
the Carolinas. He gives better meal
than anyone ever ate in such place
before, with game and native claret
thrown in. But the queerest thing
about him is the way he orders his wait
ers to treat the people: "Take another
quail, please" they say. do have
some more wine, please. Take a piece
OF each kind of pie, as well as the pud-
ding, please" And when the meal is
over these walters beg the people please
take the floral decorations to the ladies
on the train, and please to carry off the
fruit to the children.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28

TREES planted along the fences and
also along the roads take but little
room compared to placing them in an
orchard and in some sections the apple
answers well for the purpose.
PROF. WRIGHToN says agriculture is a
born science. It is full of botany,
zoology, geology and entomology. tits
full of chemistry, from the soil to the
growing plant, the ripening seed and
the animal life which is the outcome.
"a
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-28
HE PUZZLES THE CLERKS.
A Daily Visitor at Pittsburgh Hotel
Who Has Strange PecuIiaritIes.

A Daily Visitor at Pittsburgh Hotel
Who Has Strange PecuIiaritIes.
"There goes a mysterious character, +"
said one of the Anderson clerks, to a
Pittsburgh Dispatch reporter, as he
pointed to man who was going away
after looking over the register. ''We
call him the unknown around here"
The man in question is familiar on
the streets, but nobody seems to know
his name or business. He smiles little,
yet is pleasant in his manner, and he
talks seldom. II would like tollznow
something about him." continued Mr.
Wells. 'He has been coming into the
hotel at q certain hoSsr every day for the
last few years to look over the register.
His general salutatioD is Good morn
ing,' and he was never known to say
anything else. During all this time he
has asked to see but one man. Do you
wonder that we often speculate about
his business and name? He is worse
than Chinese puzzle. The unknown
is SO regular in his habits that we have
thrown our regulator into the street
and we now set the clock by his APP
pearance. He is always on deck at ten
o'clock in the morning and about 4:O5 in
the afternoon" - ----
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Sin Icmpfrat.
Rad, Garueu'e zoo.


Sonbon, IA. Sitober. - yTreemans'
Sournal" III Dublin fiibrt iiber ben Seid)luB
Der parneuttlld)en Harlament5partei, Die
Sehoe nit Der @cgenpartei unerbittllh fort
Sufuhren, elubriu9lld)e Sel6meroe. Colt
ten Die TarnelIiteu, lagt ONs SIatt, aui Die
lem unbetlUollen @ntld)lune perbarren, 10
milroen 1ie bas Sanb in einen enOloien, bit
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ratb, Der Ie on Der lrrdeu Sache begauQeu
moroeu If. 9lN auoerer Stele bemertt Oas
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lfeu Den belpeu 6aftloneu unm0eld) ge=
moroen lei. IS haite Ild) nunmehr pers
pilidtet, bem irlldeu Solte ~ ratben, Die
9nbdnger Der 0tlnorltdtspartei (ole McGarz
thpiteu) aus hem 0iientlid)en gebeu Ill per-
baunen. 9le yfatlonaI. GreB" erflQrt in
ibreu Selpredungeu beS bon ben Yarneliz
ten geltern erlaiienen 0iaulfeites, oaB Die
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nell hattie trot IelneS gSunid)es, Die irid)e
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uiemals ieiue Giupili9un9 Su elmer ser
slnlgung Swilteu ben SOrtanlpieru Der naz
tonalen Ghre Srlauo'S uuO 9euleuigen ae=
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LAMBS Sad)e betradJtete.
Sin bonn Gapltdn S'Sbea, pem friiberen
Gatten Der 6rau EarneQ, am Sage Dor Der
Seerplgun9 Harueu'S geIdlriebener Sriei
wirb beute uerOfientlldlt. 9erielbe erfldrt
inter 9lnOerem, gilemanO babe 9e9enm6rtg
in Der irlid)en Yolitlt cine Chance, Der nltJt
ein uSrangeman" ober Elm pIionoldein=
ler" icl.
2as BON SbomaS Ioper S'Gouuor ae=
idriebene rgebeu 8aruells" 1T i'm 3rud
erid}ieneu. 9usielbe ert!drt Die bisber gill.
tige Angabe, baB Barneu in 2lponbale ge-
boren mUrbeH iel, fiir uuridtig, uuo tbellt
nit, BE- &triaiier habs aus Yarneu'8 eiqe.
nsm Niunoe eriabreu, oaB OerieIbe III
Srigbtou Suerit OaS gld]t Der gSelt erblidte.
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(stns nnierer seitrisen 2. gsorssn=aussabe.l
Spep's Wad,folger.
SIDBIidie AbIssuma oes 9raiipentcm Der
,,aoame' @rprch=G ump." SnterciIante
SuthtIIuuoeu III Wusjtc1t

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Sanforp aus Bridgeport, Conn.,, muroe
beute ltadmittag als Na6folger pes Srn.
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Iu5oertauf Der pSOfOner 9eSpatd) ,GrpreBz
Comp" uuO Der rSinSlepeGrpreBz Comp"
al Die uNoamS GrpreB Comp" permittelt
bate. Der &uuiprelS beuug $S00,000.
9ladbem Die 9irettoreu III ibrer geltrtgen
Stgung Die IbieBung oeS Brdtoeuten 0oen
beidllonen batten, reitte Slce RrdiiOent
9lapp lelue 3ieIgnatiou eiu.
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eru6te 9r. SauiOrO, uadloem er ;r1 NrGs
iiOeuten ermdblt moroen mar, ben 6rn.
t5oep, ieiue SteQe alS Director nieberSu=
le9en. 9Oep weIgerte itA platterotngS, 9teS
Su tbuu uno eYflarte, 0a5 0ueftorium fonne
-tbu aI6 BruitOcnten, leood) nidlf ais Yiit.
gIleb uer0rdn9eu. Der neue 8rGilOent bat
ein @omlte ernauut, meIteS etne Inter
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pagnie einleiteu lOu. Seue5 @OmItc mwO
Dem Greftortum III ieiuer ndd)ieu SIeuug,
AM 2S D. WttS, Sertd)t eritutteu.
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Scr 9ampfer .Soitoniau" aeitranset.
Inter 2trreit seiteat.
Naior 5bro dmortom, SeiebISb babsr pom sort
sdupIcr, wesen ShpiuoeIs ieines Som=
~ clithnheu

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2rmee, SefebISbabec pou Sort Sd)uuler,
wurOe geitern inter Der 2luflage, wertbloie
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pHap SOuder5," i'm SOrauS all perdieOeue
YerlOuen uerpIGnoet Su baben, letneS Som.
manOo5 entbObeu uno inter Nrrelt geitellt.
Der S0aftbelebl muroe pom General sNialor
6owaro III 6olge bon Snltruttlonen, meld)e
lbm uon Nalhtngton aus Suglngen, au5ge.
itellt, mo pte 2iutlage wurOe pom Seueral>
SuIpettor tougbeS, iOwle pom Senerals
3ablmelter Smith erbobeu. Dtalor @Glef
bat auf Sefsbl Oe5 @eueralz WalOr5 9owaro
Oas Commando i'm Sort iiberuommeu.
0taJor SbrOdmOrton miro inter STREET blelz
ben, bis General ShOfielO, Sberbefehl5z
buber Der SuGOeSarmee, Den 6all nuteriuft
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Sort Stupler erregte Die 9iad)rid)t iiber
Shrodnortou'8 Sail meni9 GrItaunen, oeuu
ilc muBteu id1ou lelt 9SOdJeu, oaB Inflagen
in SOrbereitung moreu. Inter ben nit Dem
NiaJOr beireunoeten @eitdit8mduuern oa-
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uno Iamn1t aus einer iehr au9eiebenen 6az
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