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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
BEWITCHED COWS.
A Queer Ceremonial for the Exercising of
Witches.

Witches.
"The papers had story the other day
about some superstitious German farm
ers of Bucks county, who believed in
witches, - said wholesale milk dealer
in the Philadelphia Record, ''and had
an amusing experience with one of them
early in the winter. For about year
he had been shipping me all the milk
from his farm, and at the time | speak
of the Quantity decreased SO much that
1 wrote to inquire the reason. He sent
back word that his cows were be-
witchcd, as were those of several of his
neighbors, but that they were going to
drive the evil spirits away on the fol-
lowing Saturday night
Curiosity took me out to his farm to
see how he proposed to Danish the
witches, and l found a group of twenty
or thirty men, women and children
gathered outside of his large shed. Va
rious cabalistic writings had been nailed
to the door of the shed and in large
iron pot there was boiling about two
gallons of milk, in which had been
mixed a quantity of paris green. The
fumes of the boiling liquid were to
poison the spirits that had been hover
ing around the cattle
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
FUNNY LINES.

WHEN merchant gets down to bust
ness he is pretty sure of getting up in
the world.-Baltimore American.
AFTER woman passes certain age
she would just as soon get married on
Friday as on any other day.-Atchison
Globe.
SP1cER-"It is wonderful the spell
Twiggs' typewriter has thrown over
him." Pricer-"For my part, 1 don't
think it is half as astonishing as the
spell she puts in his business letters. -
Inter Ocean.
UNEXPECTED. Cooling -"Goslin we
ceived quite a compliment from the
doctah, doncher know" Gurley-"Awi
What was it?" Codling-"S he was
thweatened with bwain fever, doncher
know. Jester,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
after of a century.
NOT VoUCHED FOR.

A COLLAR button was recently found
concealed in COW.
THERE is claimed to be snow-white
squirrel at Yellow Springs, o.
A HEN at Hawthorne, Fla, Matched
nineteen chickens from eighteen eggs.
GEORGIA has mocking-bird which
cannot only talk but whistle almost
any tune it hears.
A FoURTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy at San
Jose, Cal, thrashed his father because
he ordered him to bring in some hay.
ONE Thousand and twenty-eight
pounds of butter have been made from
a Jersey COW at Huntsville, Ala, in one
year.
A WONDERFUL tree may be seen in the
orchard of Simon Mueller, York, Pa.
One-third of it is pink with peach
blossoms, one-third bears apple'blos-
SONS, and on the remaining part good
pears grow.
CHICKENS have been acting as gold
collectors for ]. A. McConville, of
Butte, Mont. In one chickens crop
and gizzard he found some golden
nuggets. He therefore killed the re-
mainder of his brood, thirty-one in num-
Der, and found in them gold to the
value of 1887.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
NOTES FROM CHINA.

THE foreign trade of China last year
aggregated $3.50, 100000.
THE Chinese gardeners are the most
expert fruit growers in the world.
The Chinese national debt is one of
the smallest, amounting to only $685.
$1,000.
THE Chinese have their tombs built in
a semi-circular form, like horseshoe,
and the Moors use the same form in
their architecture.
THE Chinese razor has the shape of
an isosceles triangle 1t is made of
rude steel and many of them are
pounded up from worn-out horseshoes.
CHINESE annals remote as 1000 3. C.
speak of the cultivation of tea, and
classify it almost as perfectly as is done
to-day. Its virtues were discovered by
accident,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
WITH INK AND PAINT.

A PHILADELPHIA barber displays a
showcard reading: Hard cheek shay
ing speciality"
ONE of the eastern resorts advertises
that it has the finest family beach in
America"
A DAKOTA clergyman advertises that
he will answer religious doubts and diff
ficulties by private letter when one dol
lar is inclosed for reply.
A RECENTLY returned traveller says he
saw these odd signs displayed in Lon
don: Thunder g. Co., -. b. Blazes, +"
'Holyland, Floor & Heale," "Baldwil-
lie, .Treer & Co." "Peace e. Plenty" sc.
Heavens" and many others equally as
odd.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27

claimed that similar vein was struck
several years ago while a sewer was
being built in the rear of ST. Patrick's
institute, but the sewer diggers knew
nothing about geology and did not give
the matter a moments attention. Fol
lowing this location it would show that
all that portion of Toledo along Six
teenth street, extending to the river in
both directions, was at one time the bed
of Lake Erie or some other equally
large body of water.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
FACTS IN SMALL DOSES.

IT is rare indeed to find blue-eyed
person who is color-blind.
IDAHO is the only state whose name
has never been satisfactorily accounted
for.
IT requires 100000 every twenty
four hours to run Uncle Sans govern
ileat.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-27
Petrifying a King.

The late king of Spain, Alfonso XII,
although he died six years ago, has not
yet been inferred. Wrapped in the
finest linen, the dead monarch's body
reposes on a stone couch, near petri-
flying spring which flows in a cavern
called SCI Pudrido," and situated in a
flank in the mountain upon which the
Escurial is built. The body, over which
the water constantly flows in great
limpid waves, will remain in that stu
alton until it is completely petrifed,
after which it will be placed in the
royal vaults where repose Charles V.
and other illustrious monarchs. The
petrifying process demands twenty-five
years. The body of the father of ex-
Queen Isabella, thus preserved, remained
in Ell Pudrido somewhat longer than
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

vet no arrests are made. At least 30 sa-
looms are running openly in Juneau and
about 10 on Douglas Island. Squaw dance
houses, establishments whose sole purpose
is to encourage drunkenness and every other
form of vice among the Indian women, are
common, and no attempt is made to close
them. Day and night the Indian women
are drunk in these dens. the widest orgies
are permitted, and the resulting amount of
decentralization and crime is incalculable.
The fault lies partly with the community
itself and partly with the Government. The
population of Alaska contains, as might be
expected, a considerable proportion of ex-
convicts and fugitives from justice, and
public opinion is very lax. The smugglers
are aggressive, and they have the counten-
ance of an unusually large part of the peo-
pie Often this worse element succeeds in
getting its own friends appointed. to the
Offices and then enforcement Of the law is
not even thought of. When an outsider re-
ceives an appointment he is thwarted,
bullied or bribed, until he is ready to let
things take their course. If he tries to en-
force the law he finds his way thickly set
with thorns at home, and from the distant
general government he has but little sup
port and encouragement; indeed, if he is
efficient, charges may be trumped up against
him, and the lawless ones may even get him
dismissed from the service. Then. too,
when arrests are made, packed juries will
bring in verdicts Of not guilty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
The Midnight Alarm.

The fire engine drama runs close second
to that of the tank in popular favor, and
"The Midnight Alarm" is about as good a
sample of the former as we have had here.
1t was played here last year, but the ver-
sion presented at the Grand Opera House
this week is new TO a considerable extent
But the fire engine still dominates the play.
1t is good engine-almost good enough to
burst hose-drawn by two pale but fiery
steeds. Its departure from the engine
house evokes as great enthusiasm
as that of its dramatic predecessor in '"The
Still Alarm" The other realistic features,
the railroad drawbridge, and the flight of
the express across it, are also cleverly man
aged. The play is interpreted by good
company, Frederick Julian doing some
strong character acting as the villain, and
Edith Julian's embodiment of a rather
tough but right-hearted specimen of the
Bowery girl being decidedly bright. Rob-
ert Neil as the fireman hero infused plenty
of force, some of it muscular, into the part.
The rest of the cast is fair The scenery in
cludes some good views of New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

THERE is really lots of fun and many won-
derful things are to be seen at the Worlds
Museum Theater this week, and it is not
surprising that a great number of holiday
makers found their way into the popular
house on the other side of the Allegheny
yesterday. In the curiO hall Antonio Van
Gofre astounded everyone by the ease with
which he balanced huge weights suspended
by his front teeth Signor BarneIlO's fire
breathing act suggested the supernatural
and other curiosities proved entertaining
4 capital show is given in the theater by
JarDean's Jolly 1okers, who thoroughly de-
yesterday must have nearly beaten the
record.
DANIEL A. KELLY and new play, "After
Seven Years." sufficed to fill the theater last
evening and fair-sized audience was pres
ent in the afternoon. The play is a better
vehicle for Mr. Kelly's change of characters
-four of them-than was The Shadow De-
tective," and the season being SO near an
end he has been able to gather quite
capable company around him. Miss Helen
Grantley is particularly worthy of mention,
and George Aliens Feiir BdiJour ,Sho,ter is
not a bad bit of comedy work.
HARRY DAVIS Fifth Avenue Museum
Theater was packed to its utmost capacity
all day yesterday, the occasion being the
opening performances of the County Circus
and Wild West Show. Since last seen here
the show has been greatly improved. The
spectators were highly pleased ana seemed
to enjoy the various acts. The ring per-
formance is good as is the Wild West end of
the show
THE Cosmopolitan Vaudeville Stars gave a
pretty good performance at Harry Williams
Academy last night. The best features are
Ed Smiths contortion act, e. W. Williams
ventriloq uism and the comic acrobat featsN
of the Imperial Four; but there are several
other performances of average merit. Big
audiences attended the Academy afternoon
and night
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
The Pulse of New York.

'The Pulse of New York." melo drama
of the Bowery order, was played twice yes
terday to large audiences at the Bijou
Theater. 1t has been constructed apparently
for the special purpose of displaying Miss
Oracle Emmett's versatility, and in that re-
gard it is success. Miss Emmett assumes
no less than five disguises-and is success
sively young girl with money, an Irish
washlady, Yankee widow, green German
girl and newsboy. She plays all of the
and dashing style, for she stops at nothing,
make her especially effective in the rougher
parts, The play is tissue of crude impos-
sibilities, but OF considerable interest to
those who like melodrama served piping
hot. The realism includes railroad trains
and confagration The company is only
fair. Miss Emmett made decidedly good
impression, and the rest of the performers
and the play itself something less
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
THE CzAR WILL VISIT THE KAISER,
Not Because He Wishes to, but Because
Courtesy CompeIs Him.

PARIS, May 30.-The Cars visit to En-
peror William, which has been so often an
nounced and so often postponed, will take
place next Thursday. The Gar, however,
will not go either to Berlin or to Potsdan.
The visit which William paid him at st.
Petersburg. and Peterhof he will return by
going to Kiel on his yacht, the Polar Star.
AT Kiel he will stay neither eight days,
nor four days, nor two days. nor even one
day, but will spend few hours in German
waters, after which he will go direct to
Copenhagen and rejoin his family. Indeed,
he showed no inclination to land, and was
anxious that the interview should be held
on board his yacht. On this point, how
ever, he was obliged to yield to the wishes
of the German court.
That visit under such conditions can't
be OF any political importance, is evident.
1t Is plain to every one that the Gar is
acting, so to speak, under compulsion, and
that he intends to visit William because
he has visited him twice and because GER
tain rules of politeness must be observed by
sovereigns as well as by private persons.
In Germany the much-talked-of visit is no
longer looked forward to with Joy, and the
Cars reserved demeanor has produced
bad impression.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
HOT WEATHER PLAYS.
The Lilliputian Wonders Make a Big
Hit at the Alvin.
THAT FIRE ENGINE FAVORITE.
Oracle Emmett's Versatility Displayed and
Admired.
ANU SEAENTS TO SUIT ALL TASTES

A stranger in town who strolled into the
Alvin Theater last night without any
knowledge of the character of the perform
ance to be offered, would have thought
himself in the land of Palmer Cox's
Brownies. The illusion was not any more
startling, that the most of the cast
was composed of dwarfs, than that
they were so differently costumed. The
show is not one that will bear criticism. 1t
is wholly unique and must be perfect for
want Of comparison. The company is
almost entirely made up of dwarfs, all of
whom are clever actors and vocalists.
The story of the play they produce, "The
Pupil in Magic, is simple enough although
the title is misleading. A boy is sent to
his uncle's, puppetmaker of Nuremberg,
to serve an apprenticeship. The first
night in the new situation he
dreams a wonderful lot Of adventures
in which he visits various zones
of the earth and takes part in many varied
and remarkable incidents. Many startling
tricks and transformations are performed,
the company introducing novel specialties,
one of which an arrangement of that popu-
lar piece of music, ''The Dudes March,"
receiving no less than seven encores. All
of the dwarfs are clever, but special refer
ence muSI De maQe 10 tndI eGcellenL plSmy
comedian, Franz Ebert. The audience went
fairly wild over the little fellow. Miss Sell
ma Goerner as Fritz and Miss Minchen Becker
and Princess Lydia Farasoff are also very re-
markable little people. In fact, they all
did so well that it would be difficult to
pick out one more deserving of notice than
the other. 1t should be borne in mind that
although the speaking parts are all in Ger
man, there is so much more incident, action
and scenic display than dialogue, and the
entire performance so unique that anyone
without the slightest knowledge of the Ian
guage will be interested and pleased by this
performance.
The ballets are large and the specialties
quite new, while the scenery and transfor-
nations are exquisite in the extreme. In
the last respect nothing but the wonderful
'Sinbad" Of recent renown will compare
with it. The audience was quite large, con-
sidering the season, but the indications are
that the attendance will be much larger
still before the week is ended. The show
is certainly deserving of the most liberal |
patronage. 1t will be continued through |
out the week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
THE FIRE RECORD.

Brooklyn-The D. S. Ransom carriage fac
tory. Loss from $4,000 to So, 900; insurance
unknown.
Lancaster-Amos B. Hostetter's leaf to-
bacco warehouse, with 5000 cases of tobacco.
Loss Sl25, 900, partly insured.
Better street-Mrs. Collins house on Belt
ter street, East End, caught fire from a spark
from an engine on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road yesterday. The house was damaged
about $50.
Ohio street-Some boys threw shooting
crackers ON the awning in front of Rosen-
berg's millinery store on Ohio street, Allie
set fire to the awning and it was destroyed.
Center avenue-An alarm from station 24S
at 6 o'clock last evening was caused by
fire in the boiler room of Booth & Finn g
asphalt works, on Center avenue, East End
tent of $50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
TORMENTORS TURNED UPON.
A Party of Harvard Students Undertake to
Initiate Some New Arrivals+They Fill
Up on Champagne and the Tables Are
Turned Them.

A PARTY of Harvard Students Undertake to
Initiate Some New Arrivals-They Fill
Up on Champagne and the Tables Are
Turned on Them.
BOSTON, May 3O.-[ Special. - Thirteen
Harvard men left Boston yesterday after
noon to engage in an initiation cere-
mony, which developed some mighty
interesting and unexpected features.
Five of the 13 were to be
the victims, or the initiated. The party
engaged a tallyho coach and were dressed
as though they were to take part in some
swell coaching parade. Tall white hats
adorned each head when the party started,
but when they returned, at an early hour
this morning, many were minus the hats.
A big stock of champagne was carried to
the scene of the initiatorv proceedings,
which was laid at Lake Wenham, in the
town of Wenham. After leaving the coach
at an ancient hostelry they walked to
point of land that juts out into the lake,
and there the five candidates were put
through a course of sprouts that will not
soon be forgotten.
After being ducked in the pond several
times, the would-be "Roustabouts"
that is the name of the society-were COM
PEELED to climb trees in every imaginable
style. In the meantime, the champagne
was being consumed freely by the initiators
and the initiated and it was not long be-
fore two of the initiators got into quarrel.
They went to the woods to fight it out
among themselves, and were found later,
lying on the ground in each others arms,
too drunk to fight or to get up.
Their withdrawal from the party left only
six initiators to handle five candidates, and
the latter quickly seized the opportunity to
force their tormentors to do just what they
had been doing. The tables were thus
turned on the old members of the society,
but they took the joke in the proper spirit,
and the new members were voted jolly COM
rades 1t was the widest initiation lark
that has been attempted in recent years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
NOT so REMARKABLE.
A Dispatch That Can Be Duplicated In
Pittsburg Every Day.

The following paragraph recently went the
rounds in press dispatch from St. Paul:
Mr.. d. B. Albright. whose residence is 256 Far
rington avenue, ST. Paul, makes the public state
ment that it seems though he had grown ten
years younger since he commenced the use OF
Paine's celery compound.
So say many in this town to-day.
Inquiry among the druggists shows that it IS hav-
ing an immense sale here. 1t well merits this great
popularity and it is with satisfaction that THE
DISPATCH records the fact that Paines celery COM
pound is not only the standard spring medicine
used by our best people, but also their household
remedy. Many buy half dozen bottles at time,
so as to have it in case of need. They no risk
in doing this, for the compound keeps perfectly,
and the drop In the sixth bottle is as full Of
curative power the first.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
FELL IN A FAINT.

Queer Condition of a Boy Supposed to Be
Blind Out Penn Avenue.
About 10 o'clock last night, as officers
Bailey and Miller were standing at the cor
ner of Penn avenue and Twenty-eighth
street, they saw boy about 10 years of age
coming down the street, feeling his way as
though blind. He walked directly up
against the officers as if he could not see
them. Officer Miller caught him by the
arm, and he gave gasp and fell over in a
faint. He was removed to the Twelfth
ward police station, and after half hours
hard work they were unable to bring him
around.
There were no evidences of liquor about
him, and the case puzzled everybody. There
was nothing on his person to show his iden-
tity, and he was taken to the West Penn
Hospital.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
One Allegheny Case Decided.

HARRISBURG, May 3O.-The Supreme
Court for the Middle District term began its
sessions this morning, all the jurists present
except Judge Sterrett Decisions were
rendered as follows: Blood VS. Low-Carbon
Company, Warren county, reversed; Guar
antee Company VS. Powell, Bradford, re-
versed; Peoples Natural Gas Company VS.
Fidelity Filter and Trustee Company, AL
legheny, judgment affirmed; case continued
in appeal of NJ F. Koilel ct al, Franklin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
HUSTLED OFF BY A HOSE.

Firemen Drive Away a Gang of railroad
Workmen by Turning on Water
JACKSON, MICH, May 3O-The city
officials and the Michigan Central Railroad
have long been fighting over the latter's
right to lay a track over Railroad street to
their supply house. This morning gang of
nearly 100 railway laborers went to the
track and proceeded to lay rails across the
disputed property. Policemen hindered
them somewhat, but one rail was laid.
Hose was then brought into requisition
by the fremen, and stream of water
turned on the men, driving them away and
effectually stopping the work for the time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
A TOT ON A HOLIDAY,
Tho 3-Year-OId Takes a Train at Beaver
Falls and Is Found at Rock Point

Tho 3-Hear-Old Takes Train at Beaver
Falls and Is Found at Rock Point.
BEAVER FALLS, May 30-[SpeciaL J.
Lewie, the 3-year-old son of Louis Schmidt.
agent of the keystone Brewing Company,
disappeared to-day. The child was last
seen this morning about o'clock, playing
in front of his parents residence Search
ing parties were organized, and this place
and New Brighton were searched from one
end to the other.
At o'clock this afternoon no trace of the
missing child could be found, and prepara-
tions had been made to drag the river when
a telegram was received from the picnic
grounds at Rock Point announcing that the
baby was there safe and sound. He was
sent for and was found on the dancing plat
form eating a large: cake, while with the
other hand he grasped bottle of pop. The
child had wandered to Kerrwood station at
New Brighton. When the excursion train
came along he told lady his papa was on
the train and she helped him on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
Streams Too High for Trout.

"Trout fishing has been very unsatisfac-
tory this spring." said Superintendent Hol-
brook, of the Baltimore and Ohio road, yes
terday. "The weather has been cold and
the mountain streams are high and muddy.
Recently spent week along the road
near Cumberland. 1 went out several
times to fish, and had very poor luck. 1
know Of some parties who failed to catch
anything after putting in few days at the
sport. They then quit in disgust and went
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
MR.. ELWELL OUT OF A JOB.
The New York Office of the Worlds Fair
Abolished for More Than One Reason.

Abolished for More Than One Reason,
CHICAGO May 30-Director General
Davis yesterday abolished the New York
Office of the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
relieved Delmore Elwell of large and
lucrative position and left the Eastern in
terests of the Fair in the charge of the Com
mission of the Empire State. Director
General Davis said to-day he had decided
to abolish the office at the time the New
York Commission was organized. There is,
however, more behind this order than ap-
pears.
The Director General and none of the
officials of the Exposition would admit that
they are anything but satisfied with Mr..
Elwell's work; but, nevei .heless, the case
is as has been stated. Mr.. Elwell recently
organized the International Exhibitors
Association in New York, but, in organ
izing it, Mr.. Elwell committed breach of
the Exposition rules and etiquette, which
prohibit any officer of the Fair using the
great enterprise to benefit himself in the
advancement of purely personal and
private business interests. This reason,
more than any other, is said to be the chief
cause for his removal.