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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

THE next board of supervisors in
Onondaga county, New York, will be
overwhelmingly republican, thanks to
Governor Hill and his recent steal of
the legislature. Thirteen towns in that
county voted last week Tuesday, and
the republicans carried all but four.
The counties of Cortland, Steuben and
Chemung helped along in the good
work. 1t was in these four counties
that the Hill gang "put in their best
ticks" Many other counties report
heavy republican gains, and in some
sections, it was stated, the Cleveland
men joined forces with the republicans
to defeat Hills supervisor scheme. A
square deal pays in the long run.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

THE New York Herald has figured
out a reason for Hills scheme of mid
winter state convention in New York.
1t is this: Heaven only knows when
the silver question will bob up in con-
gress. Like Banquo's ghost, that is a
problem which will not down. The
senator is bound to vote and he is
pretty sure to vote for free silver. If
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

JosEfH WARREN has hanged himself
Brattleboro.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

DURING the convention of republic
can league clubs at Burlington, last
week, the Free Press canvassed the
opinions of the delegates assembled in
the Office of the Van Ness, on Thurs
day evening, as to their choice for gov
ernor. Twenty-four preferred Colonel
Levi X. Fuller; six declared for Col
onel U. A. Woodbury., three yearned
for Franklin Fairbanks; two for Josiah
Grout, and one each for Colonel George
w. Hooker, Lieutenant Governor
Fletcher, Governor Page, and ex-Sena-
tor Edmunds. The others had not
quite settled the question in their
minds; or, if they had, they preferred
to keep dark.
THE st Johnsbury Republican came
out last week in double-leaded edi-
torial for Hon. Franklin Fairbanks for
governor, and set forth the reasons
why, in its judgment, he should be
nominated. Caledonia county, it says,
after the lapse of half a generation
presents candidate. During this
time certain of her sister counties have
had governors and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ors, and now it should be Caledonia's
turn. Its noticed that the Caledonian
is silent on the matter of Colonel Fair
banks candidacy. Is there any lack
of unanimity? or did the Republican
obtain or seize an unfair advantage
over it's neighbor?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FLETCHER,
it is reported on good authority, will
not be a candidate for governor. Per-
sonally Colonel Fletcher is a stout OPP
ponent of the promotion practice, as
also were many of his most earnest
supporters in 1890, and he takes the
action which all who know him as a
man of entire singleness of purpose,
true as die and straightforward in
all his DEALING, believed he would
take. In the Office of lieutenant-gov-
ernor, Colonel Fletcher has developed
those sterling qualities his more init
mate personal friends and acquaint-
ances knew that he possessed, and has
greatly enhanced his reputation in the
state at large.
A DISPATCH to the NeU York S,m,
last week, from Burlington stated that
"when the new quartermaster of the
Burlington Cadets, whose members are
the sons of Burlington's most promi.
nent citizens, took charge of the books
on the first of the month, he found
that the funds had been misappropri
ated, and it is now said that the defici
may reach $1,000. The qnartermas
ter predecessor, T. c. Underwood, 9
son of the late Ex-Governor Under
wood, left for Chicago about two
months ago, and talk on the street in
dicates that the mourners thereby are
numerous This has been common
talk in Burlington for some weeks, bu
we have not noticed anything about i
in the Burlington papers.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
FUTURE SPEED OF STEAMERS.
VIII BE Regulated by the Material Out
of Which Ships Are Built.

VIII BE Regulated by the Material Out
of Which Ships Are Built.
1t must be remembered that increased
speed is not simply question of more
power relatively to displacement, but
that each shape of vessel has a speed to
which it is especially adapted, and that
any attempt to drive it beyond that
speed would lead to a great expendi-
ture of power with little useful result,
as the energy would be chiefly ex-
pended in raising waves. 1t is found
by experiment that for ordinary speeds
the resistance of the water to the pas
sage of the ship through it is proper
toned to the square of the speed, and,
as the work to be done is equal to the
resistance multiplied by the velocity, it
follows that the power needed to propel
a ship varies as the cube of the SIP ced
For higher speeds itvaries at a higher
power than the cube, which can only
be ascertained by experiments with
actual ships or with carefully prepared
models. 1t can also be shown that the
power required for propulsion varies
approximately as the cube root of the
square of the displacement.
These points must be carefully re-
mcmbered in considering the possibili-
ties of still further increased speeds,
and they show the necessity for increas-
ing the size along with the speed. If
anything like the present speed had
been attempted with vessels of the size
which were common on the Atlantic
thirty or forty years ago, the Scottish
Review says, the size of engines re-
quired, and the extra expenses involved,
would have reduced the earning power
of the ships very much, and possibly in
many cases made it disappear, but re-
the second of the above
mentioned points, namely, that the
power required varies as the cube root
Of the displacement squared, it is evil
dent that the proportion of power to
tonnage will decrease considerably as
The sizes OF the ships increase, and con-
that it will be more eco
lomical to propel large ship at higher
speed than small one. The future |
Development of the steamship, how
,ver, depends on conditions about
which it is impossible to say anything
cry definite. The materials OF CON
;truction have been changed from
wood to iron, and from that again to
teel. We cannot foretell the possibil-
ties of bronze, manganese, aluminium
md other metals.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
SIDE REMARKS.

FIRST TRASfP-"Dld you get bite at
the last house at which you called?"
Second Tramp-''Yes; and lost the seat
of my trousers by tn. Y Press.
SOUR accident insurance company,
sir, will pay you 500 for broken
leg" AN pfwat thin would yez be
payin' for whole n?"-Indianapolis
journal.
Mrs. De SMITH-"Why are men so
set in their ways?" Mr.. De Smith,
don't know, my love, unless it is be-
cause their wives have all their
change"
AN ExPEcTANT YoUTH.-Scadds pere)
HAS this lover of yours any fortune?'
Amy Scadds-''No, pa, but he has great
expectations" ''Of what nature?"
"He expects to marry my fathers
daughter."--Detroit Free Press.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
PEOPLE OF MANY LANDS.

THE original of Rider Haggard's
mighty hunter, Quaterman, is said to
be Mr.. Z. C. Selous, who for some time
past has been constructing roads in
Mashonaland.
LADY Ii, wife of the great Chinese
viceroy, Ii Hung Chung, is dead. She
was warm friend of Mrs. Grant and
acted as her hostess when she was in
China with the general.
M. PAsTEUR disclaims possession of
any of the various microbes that have
been reported as undermining his sys-
TEN. He was at recent meeting of the
Academic des Science, apparently in
the best of health.
QUEEN LnIUoKALANI has an income.
as queen of Hawaii, of $4,000 and
revenue from the crown lands of $780,
900 more. Her standing army consists
of sixtyfour men, thyee of whom are
generals.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
AT CHICAGO NENl YEAR.


AMONG the relics to be exhibited at
the worlds fair is a necklace which
once belonged to Pocahontas.
THE chamber of commerce of Calais,
France, has contributed 1000 francs to-
ward the expense of making show OF
French lace at the worlds fair.
BRLLAcosEID, the notorious Corsican
bandit, is soon to be put on exhibition
in Paris and viii subsequently come to
Chicago as a side show to the worlds
fair.
HANDSOMELY framed, large photo
graphic views of the prominent features
of the numerous seaside resorts of New
Jersey win be shown in the exhibit OF
that state at the worlds fair.
THE executive board of the Aberdeen
Angus association has appropriated
50, goo for premiums for that breed of
cattle at the worlds fair, in addition to
the premiums offered by the exposition
authorities.
RHODE ISLAND will present its worlds
fair building to Chicago after the expo
sition closes. The structure will be
very picturesque in appearance, being
reproduction in part of the famous
Old Stone Mill" at Newport.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
THE CURSE OF GOLD.
Apparent Fulillment of Strange Super
stitiOn.

Apparent Fulhllment of Strange Super
stition.
The goldseel1ers of both America and
Australia have a singular but we'll
grounded superstition that the discov-
erers of hidden treasures are sure to
meet with violent deaths. The original
proprietors of between thirty-five and
forty of the most prosperous gold and
silver mines in this country are known
to have come to just such ends. Out of
the forty or less twelve were shot or
stabbed to death in saloon and other
broils; five committed suicide; three
were engulfed by landslides; five turned
murderers or robbers and were caught
and executed in various ways; one fell
into o boiling spring and had the flesh
literally stewed from his bones, while
the others disappeared and no one
knows what ever became of them.
George II. Fryer, once the millionaire
proprietor of the "Fryer Hill mine"
committed suicide in Denver after
spending the last nickel between him
self and starvation. The discoverer of
the great Standard mine California;
was caught and swallowed up in an
avalanche; Col. Story was killed
by Indians; William Fairweather of
the famous alder Gulch mine" died
with the ''frenzied horrors after con-
tinuous two-years' debauch. Farrell
of Meadow Lake" died with terrible
disease in a San Francisco hospital.
The owner of that great mine, the
'Hamestal1c," became a highwayman
and was shot while robbing stage
coach. John Homer tried the same route
that Fryer went. 'Doughnut Bill"
''Ninernile Clarke, sold Eureka" and
many others were killed in saloons.
Plummer, known as Montana" tho
discoverer of the richest mine in the
world, and at one time sheriff of the
largest county in the United States"
was finally hanged on his own scaffold.
st Louis Ropublic
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
SONS OF AMERICA.

BUFFALO Bill. was one of the lions of
the evening at one of Mrs. Macl1ay's re-
;ent London receptions.
TIE assistant secretary of war, Gun.
Lewis A. Grant, is q stout, broad
jhouldered, bald man of medium height,
with long, iron-gray side WHISPERS.
IN the days of his prosperity Billy
Boyd, of San Francisco, spent $4,000 a
lear, and frequently took a champagne
,ath, each of which cost him $500. A
hort time ago poverty led him to COM
nit suicide.
EDWARD C. SPoFFoRD, who gave a
library of $50 volumes to the West Point
mess and another of 600 volumes to the
cruiser New York, is a New Yorker of
about thirty-seven years of age, inter
estcd in the shipping trade.
WILLIAM REESE, the pioneer iron mill
founder of Pennsylvania, who died re-
Gently at Bolivar, Westmoreland coun-
ty, at the age of one hundred and two
years, leaves, it is said, about six hun
dred descendants. Several sons of the
dead man are in business in Pittsburgh.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, sEPTEMBER24 1892.
POPULAR SCIENCE.

PROF. STIRLING, English naturalist
has found fifty species of electric fish.
A PARTISAN meteorologist has written
book of three hundred pages to prove
that the electricity of thunderstorms is
caused by the friction of rain drops on
hailstoneS.
THE Koch tuberoulin has been found
to be an excellent diagnostic agent for
tuberculosis in cattle, as it gives a con-
siderable rise in temperature in cattle
which are affected with tuberculosis.
THE difference between the so-called
chemical focus and the visual focus of
telescope may be little or it may be
half an inch. In either case the photo
graphed image will be decidedly out of
focus if allowance for this difference be
not carefully made.
A NEW method of quickly rendering
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture consists, according to the
Industrial World, in forcing into the
melted materials stream of oxygen
gas, the enormous heat generated oxi-
dining all deleterious materials.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
OUT OF THE RUT.

A ST.. CLAIR (Me.) hen has lately
Matched eight young quails.
TWENTY persons in Wilkcsbarre, Pa,
have formed Cripples' association.
On farm at Palmyra, Me-, is tree
utterly devoid of bark. It's trunk is
smooth and of light buff color, and
the tree flourishes finely.
JOHN McDARBY, of Salmon Falls,
Mass, has double teeth all around and
stomach which doesn't rebel when he
chews and swallows glass, stones and
other indigestibles.
THERE is frame house in Lawrence,
Kan, that is six feet long, six feet wide
and six feet high. 1t has six windows
with six panes of glass and shelters
family of six people.
A NEGRO living near Cherokee, Ga,
owns a dog which attends all the re-
ligious meetings in the neighborhood,
stands up and tries to follow IN the
singing and goes up to the altar with
the rest of the mourners to be prayed
for
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
The Useful Apple Wood.

The best handles of small tools, says
an expert on the subject, are made from
the wood of the apple tree, which is ex-
tremely hard when dry, and possesses a
line grain. Moreover, it does not check
easily after it has been dressed. In the
case OF plane, while the handle proper
Will be of this wood, the best wood for
the block in which the cutting part of
the plane is fastened has been found to
be second-growth beech which has
grown ina clearing. The trunk of such
a tree below where the branches start is
used for this purpose with the best re-
suits.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
AvERsE 70 ANY CHANGE.
Chinese from Their Infancy Learn to Ig-
more Any Such Thing as Monotony.

Chinese from Their Infancy Learn to Ig-
more Any Such Thing as Monotony.
1t seems to make no particular differ
ence to a Chinese how long he remains
in one position. He will write all day
like an automaton. If he is handi-
craftsman he will stand in one place
from dewy morn till duslIy eve, work
ing away at his weaving, his gold beat
ing or whatever it may be, and do it
every day, without any variation in
the monotony and apparently no
special consciousness that there is any
monotony to be varied. In the same
way, says writer in the Melbourne
Leader, Chinese school children are
subjected to an amount of confinement,
unrelieved by any recesses or change of
work, which would soon drive western
pupils to the verge of insanity. The
very infants in arms, instead of squirm-
ing and wriggling as our children be-
gin to do as soon as they are born, lie
as impassive as so many mud gods.
And at more advanced age, when
western children would vie with the.
monkey in its widest antics, Chinese
children will often stand, sit or squat
in the same position for great length
of time.
In the item of sleep the Chinese
establishes the same differences be-
tween himself and the Occidental as in
the directions already specified. Gen
orally speaking, he is able to sleep
anywhere. None of the trihing dis
turbances which drive us to despair
annoy him. With brick for pillow
he can lie down on his bed of stalks, of
mud bricks or rattan, and sleep the
sleep of the just, with no reference to
the rest of creation. He does not want
his room darl1ened nor does he require
others to be still The .'infant crying
in the night may continue to cry for
all he cares, for it does not disturb
him.
In some regions the entire popula-
ton seem to fall asleep, as by com
mon instinct dixie that of the hiber-
mating bear) during the first two hours
of summer afternoons, and they do
this with regularity, no matter where
they may be. At two hours after noon
the universe at such seasons is as still
as at two hours after midnight. II
the case of most working people at
least and also in that of many others
position in sleep is of no sort of conse-
quence. It would be easy to raise in
China an army Of one million-nay, of
ten million-tested by competitive ex-
animation as to their capacity to go TO
sleep across three wheelbarrows with
head downward like spider,
their mouths wide open and a fly inside
The same freedom from tyranny of
nerves is exhibited in the Chinese en-
lurance of physical pain. Those who
have any acquaintance with the oper-
atoms in hospitals in China know how
common or rather universal it is for
The patients to bear without flinching
l degree OF pain from which the
,toutest of us would shrink in terror.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
GENERAL AND PRIVATE.

Or Waterloo veterans France has
eight left.
RUSSIAN soldiers are to be furnished
with hand5erehiefs at the governments
expense.
THE private in the German army is
paid eight dollars per month, out of
which there is daily deducted five
cents for mess expenses.
THE first gun fired from TT. Sumter
in answer to the attack in April, 1861,
was aimed by Gen. Abncr Doubleday,
captain of artillery. Gen. Doubleday
now lives at Mcndham, N. j., and is
oae of the only two surviving officers of
the old fort.
GEN. McCooK, commander of the de-
partment Of Arizona, is sixty-two In
the late war he was on Shcrman's
staff. He had several brothers in the
late war, all of whom were killed. He
is West Pointer, and at one time was
an instructor there.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
PROSE AND VERSE.

Miss RHoDA BRoUGHToN's forthcom-
ing novel is entitled ''Miss Bligh.''
JEWISH writers say that Isaiah wrote
the famous old ode on the fall of the
king of Babylon at fifty-two.
'SoNGs OF SUNRISE LANDS" is to be
the title of Mr.. Clinton Scollards forth
coming book-a book of poems evolved
from travels in Greece, Syria and Egypt.
EDWARD SALTUs has recently con-
structed poem on a betrothal, in which
in few lines he sings sweetly of ':as-
tragals of gold" and the ''murmur of
citoles."
Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD, it is said,
while writing David Grieve," took
lodgings at a small farm in the wilds of
Derbyshire, where she constantly
studied the ways of farm life and
talked with the laborers. The result is
the farm lore and unusual dialect of her
novel
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
III DAKOTA.

Travellers in the West and Northwest Pass
Through the Famous Fad Lands.
just after entering Dakota we passed
through the famous Bad Lands. The
formations here are very curious. Wv
idly colored clay and rocks rise in
mounds and buttes from fifty to one
hundred feet above the level, resem-
bling domcs and pyramids, and forming
rolling valleys and rounded hillsides
The valleys often contain small streams
OF water, and the hills are covered with
a nutritious heritage. All through this
region the stock men have their
ranches, and the cattle raising industry
is in a tloulishing condition. Evident
~, from the external appearance, this
tract of land has once been under
water, for remains of she'll and CLANS
are found here, with fossilized and pet
rilied stunps of trees. Coal beds have
been burning here for ages, and in
some places the fires still exist. The
name of this section seems to be de-
rived from the designation first given to
this region by old French trappers and
hunters who called them ''mauvaises
tcrras pour traverser," but they arc in
reality not SO bad as they are painted.
Fannie c. w. Barbour, in Chautau-
guam.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
DOES EVERYONE KNow2

THAT York, Mont, has natural ice
mine in gulch near by?
THAT twenty words per minute is the
average at which long hand is written?
THAT ten thousand lead toy soldiers
arc turned out in Nuremberg every
day?
THAT the gold mines about Nevada
City are the deepest and richest in the
world?
THAT New York city has fewer alleys
than any other city in the world, not
withstanding it is one of the largest?
THAT the facial resemblance of hus-
band and wife is closer than that of
brothers and sisters?
THAT four different peaks in the
mountains Of Idaho are from thirteen
to twenty-thrce feet lower Ey actual
than they were fifteen
years ago? Biologists do not attempt
to explain the why" of their settling.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
SAID ABOUT WOMEN.

BRAcED UP-The suspender-wearing
girl.
OLIVE THoRNE MILLER, the authoress,
knows about as much ornithology as a
professor. She devotes six months of
every year to the study of birds and
bird life.
On her fathers death Reading
daughter presented a bill for the years
she had taken care of him. This is a
noteworthy instance of com bining
flial piety and business.
KATE FIELD, in her Washington, asks
Secretary Tracy to name the next new
cruiser the Isabella in honor of the
friend of Columbus, AID supports her
plea with an eloquent argument.
AUNT SARAH HEATH, of Bedrninster.
N j., is now one hundred and three
years Of age, and when she has all her
family around her the "little ones" in
clude five grandchildren, seventeen
Observation-Disclosures and six grcat-grcat-
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-24
VIII CANieLs in AMERICA.
A Herd of More Than Sixty Roaming tho
Arizona Desert.

A Herd of More Than Sixty Roaming tho
Arizona Desert.
The camels that were brought to this
country before the war, to be used by
our army as draft animals in the de-
serts of the southwest, are still to be
seen or rather their descendants
roaming the sands of Arizona, between
Yuma and Gutenberg on the north and
south and Wicllenburg and the Colorado
river on the east and west. The herd
has increased to more than sixty, al
though many of the animals have been
taken away by circus men and others
have been killed by prospectors. AS
''ships of the desert" they were fail
ure, the pebbles and rocks of the foot
hills proving too hard on their feet,
which became so sore that they were
finally turned loose to shift for them
selves. In those days there were no
white men to speak of in the region of
the Arizona desert, and the wanderers
had nothing to fear from Indians, who
superstitiously gave them wide berth.
Not SO the prospectors when they came.
Their high spirited little mustangs were
so often stampeded at the sight of the
long-necked and unwieldly beasts that
the riders found it convenient to take
shot at them whenever opportunity of
fered. A prospeetor, writing of his first
experience with the expatriated camel,
says: s'We were coming through vast
expanse of grease weed, almost as high
as my head, when suddenly the burro
stopped, raised his head, and gave
snort that could have been heard half
mile. L thought it must have been In
dians, and, throwing a cartridge into
my Winchester, took cover in the brush
Peering over the top of the wheels l
soon saw the camels coming with their
peculiar, swinging trot, showing only
their heads and humps above the brush.
That bllrro evinced more life than had
ever seen him show before, and do not
think any horse in the country could
have outrun him. My pack broke in
the first one hundred yards, and meat,
beans, coffee and tools were scattered
for five miles. The camels went on their
way, and it was several years until
saw them again, when one of them was
captured and brought into Phoenix,
where it finally died" He thinks the
government ought to take some steps
to protect the camels against malicious
injury by trappers and prospectors.