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Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, clcanses the sys-
TEN efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habtual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptablo to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, ~. VIEW YoRk. N.Y.
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Herman, James
Lee, II. G.
Lewis, Mrs. Kate
Lee, Miss Mary Jane
Lewis. Sidney B. (2)
Marsters, Benjaman
Manning, Louis
Moar, Miss Matte
Michal, r. G.
Maison. Tom
ON manney, Mrs. A.
r.
Ogles, f. II.
Porter. Miss Eller
Porter, G. w.
PETER, Mrs. Sallie
Pitcher, Thomas
Robinson, r. ID.
Rupe, Walter
Smith, Miss Hannah
Suter, John W.
Sudduth, Mann e E.
Stewart, Mrs. Mars
Simmons, Mrs.
Martha
Scott, Miss Sallie
Thomas. Miss Katie
Turner, Mrs. Willie
Williams, Mrs. Cassie
Yancy, E. II.
Young, Miss Winnie
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these letters say ad-
. NJ. SAFFELL,
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1891:
Arnold, johnson
Arvin, William
Banks, Eugene
Booker, Fountain
Brown. Mahallie
Barker, Jack
Buskirk, Miss Sallie
Beckett, William
Brown. w. H.
Carroll, Hampe
Clarke, John
Cunningham, Mrs.
j Julia
Conway. l.. l..
Collins, DAVID
Dean, Grant
Deuvall, Washington
Denham, Francis
Fox, W. G.
G raham, Bert
q arret, Mrs. Flor
snce
Glass, II. j.
Gordon, James
Hunley, George
Hunley, Amanda
Herndon. George
Howe, Matte
Higgins. p.
Hunt. Walter
Ice, Mrs. Mary A.
When calling for
vertised.
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Below will be found a list of advertised
letters for the week ending Aug. 22d,
1891:
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Administrators NOiCG

LII persons having claims against the estate of
"A william dean VIII present the same to me,
proven accOr' iIg T., law before September 1st,
1891. All ., rsOns knowing themselves indebted
to the estate of said deredent are requested to
come forward anu settle at once.
JOS. +. STATEN.
Administr tor VIM. Dean. decd.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
EARLY TRACES OF MAN.
He Existed in Denmark and Scandinavia
Seven Thousand Years Ago.

He Existed in Denmark and Scandinavia
Seven Thousand Years Ago.
When was man first placed on earth?
No one can ans wer that question.
Hugh Miller says that mans habit of
burying his dead out of sight makes it
very easy to be mistaken on that point;
for, because of burial, mems bones
may be found among the animals that
have lain in the earth for ages. There
is one thing, however, that gives us an
inkling of when he came. Certain
tools, that only man could have made,
have been found buried in caves, in
peat beds, and in the bottom of lakes
Often these are covered by layers of
rock; and, by calculating how long it
took to make the layers, a guess can be
made as to when the tools were put
there. Still, it is only a guess, and no
one pretends to regard the question as
settled, because under some conditions
the layers would be made much faster
than under others. But the bones of
certain animals, the mammoth and
other great creatures OF that time,
which have long since died, have been
found with these tools, writes Theresa
Crofton in st. Nicholas. By calculat-
ing in what ages these animals lived,
and how long it takes a race of ami
mails to die out, surer result can be
arrived at. In cave in England, bur-
led under limestone layer from one to
fifteen inches thick, tools have been
found mingled with the bones of ele-
plants, tigers, rhinoceroses and hye-
mas, which roamed over that country
thousands and thousands of years ago. |
The peat Dogs of what is now Denmark |
and Scandinavia are filed with stone
tools. Some have been found in beds |
of gravel, underlying peat which is
certainly seven thousand years old.
This seems to show that man must |
have dwelt on earth at least as many
wears ago.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
MUSICAL DEvoTEES.

DrPPEL, the German operate tenor,
is not yet thirty. He is slender
blonde and does not look strong, yet he
does an enormous amount of work.
Forsyth COUNTY, in Georgia, has de-
veloped an infantile prodigy, who at
four years of age can read difficult
music correctly at sight. His voice is
soft and tuneful and he bids fair to be-
come famous.
RUBINsTEIN is making book on
Music and Musicians, excluding refer
ences to living men. He makes the in
teresting declaration that instead of be-.
ing reformers, Wagner, List and Ber-'
lioz placed serious obstacles in the path
of musical progress.
THE duke of Sutherland, WHO'S some
thing of a musical enthusiast, has.
erected large organ in the grand hall
at Stafford house, London. The instru-
ment, which is the largest and most.
complete of any in private residences in
England is blown by hydraulic en-
CINE, and cost &c. 900. .
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
mEonr, ON Toast.

A good story is told of NJ. Tame.
Max Muller, it is said, went to the din,
ing-room Of hotel in Oxford and there
saw Tame sitting with a dish of roast
beef and vast quantities of buttered
toast The learned German was sur
prised at the combination and at the
large quantities Of the toast. SIS that
French dish?" he asked. NO." said
Taine; but they keep on bringing it to
me, in spite of all can say to the con-
trary." what did you ask for?" OBJ
served his friend. ''Why," replied Taine,
II keep telling them to bring pottertos,
and each time they bring me a fresh
dish of toast" NJ. Taine's pronuncia-
ton of potatoes" was so much like
"battered toast that the astonished
waiter could not be blamed.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
STRANGE HIBERNATION.
The Queer Way in Which Some
Fishes Pass the Winter.
Interesting Observations of a Student of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Remarkable
Phases of Submarine
Life,

We have heard of toads that have
been imprisoned in solid rock for CEN
turtles and that were found alive when
their abiding place was cleft Open
! This reminds me of things have OBJ
served about certain fishes in winter
says writer in Harper's Young Peo-
pie A large number of fishes, some of
them living in deep ponds, brooks, or
out in silent hooks of the sea, will re-
main for four, five, or even six months
in the same position without eating or
SO much as moving fin or tail
In the government fish hatchery, I'M
der the management of Mr.. Wilmott,
superintendent of pisciculture for the
Dominion of Canada, at New Castle,
Ont, | had much opportunity to study
certain fishes in winter, for they could
be clearly seen through the glass sides
of the tank. In one tank, about one
third of the way up from the bottom,
were half dozen German carp, all
facing the direction from which the
water flowed. / noticed their positions
about Christmas, saw them again in
January, twice in February and two or
three times in March, and in all that
time not one of them had changed it's
position or moved fin or tail.
Mr.. Wilmott told me that this is quite
usual among these fishes. He per-
mitted me to raise the cover of the tank
and poke couple of them with my
stick. Each one made slow, lazy
movement and relapsed into stiffness.
just above the carp, in the same tank,
was an eel about three feet long. When
first saw it in December it was curved
like perfect S, and all through the
wintcr it preserved that shape without,
so far as Mr.. Wilmott knew, once NOV
ing.
This, may add, is how many kinds of
fishes spend the winter. So long as
they remain perfectly still there is no
waste OF animal tissue, and they do not
need food. Put frog in tank at the
beginning of the winter, then place a
small piece of wood in the tank; the
frog will get upon the wood, with his
eyes looking straight up, and never so
much as move until the weather begins
to get warm in the spring; he will then
begin to jump about and look for some
thing to eat.
But the Strangest case of Information
that know has been related to me by |
DR.. Ferguson, the pathologist of New
York hospital In one of the small |
tanks belonging to the hospital museum
a carp of particular description had
been placed. One very cold night the
water where the fish was kept was
frozen through and the fish imbedded
in it. The caretaker took the ice from
the vessel and placed it on top of the
where rubbish was put away.
The cylinder of ice remained where it
was put for about two months till the
hot spring sun one day melted it down
to the place where the fish was frozen.
Some attache OF the hospital then was
to notice fish wrig-
Cling in piece of ice. The carp had
the imprisonment, passed the
period of Information, and resumed his
Old activity
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
BROKE UP THE BAND.
How the Sight of Lemons Demo rallied
Blowers in a western Town.

How the Sight of Lemons DemoraIized
Blowers in a western Town.
''Did you ever try the plan of sucking
an orange or lemon before a band that
was playing?' asked theatrical man
of reporter of the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. ''Well, If you want to see a set
of performers go to pieces, try it some
time. had heard of the trick, but
never believed it would have such an
effect. Not long ago l was in a small
town in the west. The village band
was serenading newly married
couple, when | thought of the trick.
/ had supplied several boys with lem
ons, ana instructed them to suck the
fruit where the players could see them.
The effect was very laughable The
man with the brass horn caught the
first sight. His mouth commenced to
twitch nervously, then his dry throat
suddenly expressed desire for lemon
juice, and between it all he lost his
place and quit playing. Other players
had the same experience, and they
couldn't blow together to save their
lives. The boys were clean off and the
music was recommended. | have been
told by several band men that lemon
sucked where they can see it while play
ing is very exasperating, as the blowing
makes their lips dry and lemon would
afford them great relief
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
Easily Settled.

A famous Chicago lawyer once had a
singular case to settle. A physician
came to him in great distress. Two
sisters living in the same house had
babies of equal age, who so resembled
each other that their own mothers
were unable to distinguish them when
they were together. Now it happened
that by the carelessness of the nurses
the children had become mixed, and
how were the mothers to make sure
that they received back their own in
fants? But, perhaps" said the law
yer, ''thc children weren't changed at
all" "Oh, but there's no doubt that
they were changed" said the physician
Are you sure of it?" Perfectly"
"Well, if that's the case, why don't you
change thelp back again? L don't see
any difficulty in the case"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
MONDAY, DECEMBER Z. 1891.
MILLIONS OF STOCKINGS.
They Cost New York City Over Two Mil
lion Dollars a Year.

lion Dollars Year.
The women, girls and children OF
New York wear close upon 5000, 00C
pairs of stockings in a year, and that is
putting the average only trifie above
three pairs for each, says the Philadel-
phia Press.
The difference in the price of stock
ings is so great, ranging from the I'M
bleached cotton, which you buy for four
cents pair, up to the beautifully en-
broidered silk pair, made to match the
costume and bringing 800, that it seems
absurd to try to name an average price.
But let me get at the totals in another
way.
There are about $500, 900 pairs of cot
ton, wooden and Isle thread stockings
and socks bought in the city every year,
and average these at 20 cents pair,
the lowest price being four cents and
the highest $1.75 to 81, the sum paid for
them would be just 100000.
This, I am assured by large dealers in
hosiery is quite below the mark But
consider the other 100000 or 10000
pairs of mixed silk and pure silk stock
ings and socks worn by rich girls and
women, actresses and others who like
to make display of costly hosiery and
the figures are almost incredible.
Their chief wear is pure silk, and the
stockings range from $3.50 in plain
color up to $50.
Add in this list the fancy, all-silk ar
ticles, those hand-embroidered with all
kinds of artistically wrought figures,
produced in open work and done to
match the costume, and the prices range
from $40 to $780,
But put the average down to So pair
and you can scarcely purchase an all
silk pair for less and the bill for the
1000 pairs is 81, 200, 900, which, added
to the half million dollars for the stock
ings worn by the poorer classes,
amounts to 81, 100000.
1t would be no exaggeration to say
that it costs New York city every year
for socks and stockings for her female
population round s., 1000 900, or enough
to maintain whole city for a year in
food.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
cuLrlvArlNo eeNevoLsNce.
Tho Experience of One Mother in Raising
Philanthropist.

| Tho Experience of One Mother In raising
Philanthropist.
Albert's mother had to count her pen
MES carefully, for she is. a conscientious
! little housewife, and her husbands sal
airy is far from magnificent, says the
New York Tribune. Her ideal virtue
is benevolencc, however, and she tries
to instill it into her boy, both by pre-
cept and example. One day an uncle
gave Albert his first quarter of a dollar
to spend on anything he liked He
went out to squander it, and in the
evening his mother, who had been
wondering for hours if the habit she had
been trying to cultivate in her little
boy had begun to bear fruit yet, said to
him:
ALBERT dear, you need not tell me
unless you like what you did with all
that money but l should like to know,
my boy, if you do not mind? Did any
part of it go to lessen the sorrow or
tighten the burden of some poor person
less fortunate than yourself? 1 am
almost sure it did"
Albert hung his head minute, and
his mothers heart sank, but presently
he said in low voice, as if ashamed to
tell of his own good conduct: Mother,
l gave it all to lame and ragged wom-
an, who sits all day long on the side
walk near our school,
albert, my darling! 1 knew it,
knew it!' exclaimed the delighted
mother. ''You will grow up to be
great philanthroplst, and all the worl
bo+ l,lo 7 o,,1fi
waited the habit of benevolence in you
heart when it was tender and young.
Won't you, my boy?"
Eyes, ma, said the dutiful Albert.
Pennies and nickels came much more
beautifully in Albert's path after thi,
than they had ever come before, and
most of them found their way to the
ragged woman who sat on the curb
near the schoolhouse. Albert seemed
to take deep interest in the welfare of
this woman, and his mother determined
after awhile to teach Albert another
lesson in benevolepce, that it is the
duty of a philanthropist to find out
whether the object of his charity be
worthy one. Albert opposed this idea.
He was sure that she was poor and
lame, and she looked sick. That was
enough. The thought that she might
be drunkard or an imposter seemed
to shock him, so that his mother de-
cided to investigate the woman's case
by herself But she had many calls
upon her time, and several months
elapsed before she found an opportunity !
to do SO.
She gave Albert five cents, and he de-
clared his intention of giving three of |
them to the old woman. Then she fol-
lowed him to school at distance, and |
as she approached the building she saw
a little knot of children surrounding
some object, which she soon found to
be ragged woman sitting on the curb
with a tray of candies and chewing
gum in her lap. As she edged her way
into the crowd she heard the sweet
tones of her dear Albert driving a hard
bargain with the lame vender, and
heard him complain:
I'm the best customer you've got in
this school, Skinny Biggs, and if you
Try 10 put up the prices ON me I'll get
all the boys to boycott yer, see?"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
BURSTING OF A GLACIAL DAM.
A Lake High Among the Alps Suddenly
Empties Into Valley.

| a Lake High Among the Alps Suddenl,
Empties Into Valley.
In the Austrian Tyrol is the we'll
known glacier several miles long ant
about one thousand two hundred fee
thick. On its way down the mountain
it runs right across a valley. Water
trickles into this valley above the
! glacier, which for years has been a
barrier in the way of the collected
streams, SO they formed lake high up
IN the mountain one thousand feet long,
about three hundred and fifty feet wide
and fully eighty feet deep
About the middle of June last, saws
the New York Sun, the streams which
fed this lake became unusually high,
and the lake rose until its waters be-
gan to flow over the top of the glacier.
There was an immense pressure of
water behind the glacier, and the
stream flowing over its surface rapidly
cut into the ice. Finally the top of the
glacier gave way entirely, and the
waters of the lake were suddenly pre-
cipitated down the valley. Compare
lively little water had been flowing
through the valley before, but it now
became the bed of a roaring torrent.
1t was fortunate that not a single
village lay along the bottom of the val
ley in its upper part, for had there been
a village there it would most certainly
have been destroyed. A few houses,
however, were carried away, but the
inhabitants had feared for two or
three days the bursting of the glacial
dam, and had prudently removed fur
Their down the valley with their cattle.
When the waters reached the villages
it had spread over so great a width and
had so largely diminished in force that
no serious damage was done, though,
of course, the sudden flood was the
cause of a great deal of discomfort and
inconvenience. All the bikes and roads
were flooded and the paths in the up
per part of the valley were entirely de-
stroyed and covered with debris.
This is one of the ills that Alpine
jewellers have to suffer. Lakes high up
in the mountains, formed by a glacial
barrier which has crossed the bed of
some stream, are not of infrequent oc-
currence, and there is no telling when
the barrier may give way and let the I
pent-up flood all of sudden down the !
mountain with a roar like an earth
quake, carrying destruction before it.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
Turkish Fanaticism.

There is said to be a good deal of IN
easiness among Christians in the Le-
want at the signs of increasing fanati-
clsm among the Turks. -Four Christian
boys and a Christian officer in the
turkish army have lately been found
dead under circumstances leading to the
Deilet that they were sacrificed to re-
ligious bigotry.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

Dr.. DAvIa, of Bound Brook, n. J.,
broke one Of his ribs in his efforts to re-
strain violent fit Of sneezing.
A FINE pussy cat in Chester (Pa.)
family jumped for rat, caught it's neck
ribbon on a nail and strangled to death.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07

A NEW sewing machine by a Jones, of
Cardiff, has no shuttle or bobbin. The
thread is supplied directly from two
ordinary spools, and sews through the
assistance of a rotary topper. 1t is
vastly more simple than any other sew
ing machine.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-07
HIS LITTLE JOKE FAILED.
One Learned Doctor Is Outwitted by tho
Shrewdness of Another.

One Learned Doctor Is OutWItted by tho
shrewdness of Another.
An excellent story is told in the Lon
don It'd Bits of the late Prof Rogers
and DR.. r. Dale, of birmingham. These
two gentlemen were giving a series of
lectures in Lancashire, and at every
town he visited DR.. Dale noticed that
his colleague, who always spoke first,
made the same speech. In fact, so often
did the professor give that speech that
the worthy doctor knew it all by heart
and this led the latter to think of way
of taking the wind out of his friends
sails.
On their arrival at town in south
Lancashire DIR. Dale asked DR.. Rogers
to allow him to speak first, an arrange
ment to which the latter readily agreed,
so DR.. Dale rose and proceeded to de-
liver the speech of DR.. Rogers, looking
every now and then with the corner OF
his eye to see how that worthy gentle
man was taking this practical joke.
DR.. Rogers sat calm and composed,
and when at length his turn came to
speak, he just as calmly rose and de-
livered, to DR.. Dale's utter astonish-
ment, a new speech.
At the conclusion Of the meeting DR..
Dale said to bis colleague:
81 thought had taken the wind out
of your sails tonight"
DIR. Rogers replied: sob, no; I de-
livered that speech when L was here a
month ago"
WE know men who are very piou
whenever God gets them in tigh
place.
THE poorest mans best weighs a
much on Gods scales as that of The
richest.-Ram's Horn.
Arizona republican., 1891-10-03
The Patient Chinee,

A wonderful example of patience in the Chinee is afforded by a consular re- port dealing with the manufacture of salt in central China. Holes about six inches in diameter are bored in the rock by means of a primitive form of iron drill, and sometimes a period of forty years elapses before the covered brine is reached, so that the work is carried on from one generation to an other. During this time the boring, as may be imagined, goes down to an i'm mense depth. When brine is found it is drawn up in bamboo tubes by rope working over n large drum turned by bulloclls. The brine is evaporated in iron caldrons, the heat being supplied by natural gas, which is generally found in the vicinity of the salt wells.
Arizona republican., 1891-10-03
A Snakes Big Undertaking.

A negro woman in Georgia hood cot ton until midday, and then lay down for nap in the shade of a tree. She was barefooted., Suddenly tickling sensation in one of her big toes dis turbed her slumber. She looked sleep lily in that direction, and saw a sight that made her teeth chatter. A huge blacksnal<e had swallowed the toe, and was acting as though he proposed to swallow the rest of her. As she gazed along the sleek baclx.of the undulating serpent he seemed so long that his tail was below the horizon. When she re- covered from her temporary paralysis she arose like a sRyrocket fired slant wise, and disappeared in the pine tim Der with blood-curdling shriek. After being jerlxed through the underbrush for few rods the snake let go.
Arizona republican., 1891-10-03
First Confederate Ordinance.

The first legislative move toward a southern confederacy was the conven- tioh that met at Columbia, s. C., De- cember l7, 1860, and ton account of epidemic) adjourned to Charleston, $. C., where, December 20, 1860, the fol- lowing ordinance was passed: "We, the people of the state of South Carolina, lin convention assembled, do declare and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in conven- tion on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, where by the constitution of the United States was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this state ratifying amendments of the said constitution are hereby repealed, and that the union now subsisting between south Carolina and other states. under the name of the United States of Amer. ica, is hereby dissolved"