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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
CHURCH AND CLERGY.

EIGHTY-FIvE hundred churches were
built in America last year.
THERE are 11S annual conferences in
the Methodist Episcopal church north.
THE British Sunday-school union re-
ports 6,661 schools, with 1872, 977 teachers
and ,531, 432 scholars
THE Christian Endeavor societies
cain at present a total of 1,370,200
members, and they are covering the en-
tire world.
JEWS in Hungary will shortly be
placed on footing of equality with the
different Christian creeds, while the ex-
isting prohibition of unions between
Jews and Christians will be abrogated.
Christian Standard.
THR Most Rev. j. j. Marchal, arch
bishop of Bourges France, is dead. He
was born on April %, 1922. He was
named bishop of Belley by decree of
June s, 1875. He took his seat as arch
bishop of Bourges on April 81, 1850.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
FADS AND FASHIONS.

FASHION dictates how to hang lace
curtains straight, SO as to show their
full design.
INDIVIDUAL asparagus holders which
secure a single stalk of the vegetable
are among what would seem to be I'M
necessary novelties,
THE latest novelty in high-priced
poclketlxnives is mother-of-pearl Slip
per, which has variety of blades and
implements packed away in it.
A PURSUIT among Englishwomen is
that of bookbinding. Many country
houses have rooms especially fitted for
the purpose, where the ladies exercise
their industry in this direction.
IT is said to be very fashionable in
England for husbands and wives to
openly differ in their political views,
the wife tying buff ribbons On her
horses head and the husband pinning
blue rosette on the baby
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
POPULAR SCIENCE.

IT has been discovered that colors
when passing through prism can be
made to produce sound
AN alloy of rs per cent. gold and %
per cent. aluminium is the most brilliant
known.-Scientific American.
A BLOCK of carbon fourteen inches
square represents the amount of that
material that goes to make up the con-
stitution of a man of average weight.
A SPIDERS web is SO light that
pound of it will reach around the world
and then leave enough to reach from
New York to San francisco.
SCIENTISTS estimate that every year a
layer equal to fourteen feet deep of the
surface of all oceans and other bodies
of water is taken up into the atmos-
phere in vapor.
SCIENTIFIC men now declare that eat
ing before sleeping is of great benefit,
and that bowl of bread and milk or
saucer of oatmeal before retiring will
in short time result in an increase ia
weight, strength and general tone
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
RECORDS HARD 70 BEAT.

New YORK city on single day re-
Gently consumed 76,ess,14e gallons of
water.
NEARLY four hundred bears were
killed in Maine during the year ended
in May.
Few families can show record like
that of the Gross family, of Richmond
Ind There are six brothers and FIVE
sisters of the family and there has NOT
been death among Them for fifty
years.
THE greatest days nun Of an ocean
steamship is about SIS miles. The
steamer in question was 5e2 feet long
and had previously been Known to-
make 500 miles per day for three days ini
succession.
WALTER M. REASON, of Lapeet,
Mich, lately took stenographic notes of
524 words in one minute, as they were
dictated to him. This is almost at the
rate of five and one half words per sec
ond. He subsequently correctly read
them
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
EXCHANGE is NO ROBBERY.
A Thief and yagrant Traded Identities
for Mutual Advantage.

A Thief and n Yagrant Traded Identities
for Mutual Advantage.
Here is bald statement of facts, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, and it reads like
an ingenious bit of fiction. 1t only
happened recently, and the authority
is the report of the police Office. A poor
man wandering in the Paris streets
came up to q constable and entreated to
be arrested He said he was penniless
and hungry, and that at the lookup he
would at least get a bed and break
fast. The constable took him at his
word-took him, in fact, into custody
and he was locked up for the night In
the lookup he met thief, whose ante
cedcnts were rather troubled, but who
had great hopes Tor the future if he
could only escape. The one wanted lib
erty, the other wanted money, and they
had all the night to make their arrange
ments. When the morning came bar
gain was struck The thief was able
either to produce or to guarantee fifty
francs. and in consideration of that it
came to a change of identities. When
the roll was called over each of the two
prisoners answered for the other. The
thief came in for some pity, some sym
pathetic advice and his liberty. He ac-
cepted all three and mtdc immediate
and excellent use of the last. The other
prisoner was put back" But the fraud
was discovered-it was almost inevita-
bic that it should. He was brought up
again and sentenced to fifteen days i'm
0risonment for conspiring to defeat the
ends Of justice. The report says he was
delighted With the sentence and re-
,urncd to his cell in triumph. The story
you'd have seemed improbable in
lsvel; but fancy The satisfaction of tho
oona-fde thief when he read the report.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
LABOR INTERESTS.

INDIANA alone will turn out rs, GOO BIZ
cycles from her manufactures this year.
SIX millions of dollars are invested in
the manufacture of dynamite in the
United States.
THE menhaden fisheries of the United
States annually yield s2,OOO,00O worth
of fertilizers and oil.
STATISTICAL reports show that the
value of sheep focks is greater by s42,-
1000 in 1892 than in 1870.
PENNSYLVANIA wooden mills have q
capital of s3G, 900, turn over so, 0OO,-
600 of product and employ $4,000 hands.
AN English syndicate controls five of
the largest potteries in this country.
with capital stock at three million
dollars.
MONSTER turtles are so abundant in
'Magdalena bay, Lower California, that
a company has gone into the business
of canning the extract for expectation.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
SEA In POPULATION.
The Women Of the United States
Outnumber the Men.
Official Statistics Showing the Various
Changes In Numbers, Nationality and
Location of the People In
This Country.

The population in this country is
sexes, although according to bulletin
Just issued from the census Office there
are about 1 100000 more males than fe-
males in the 62,5O0,0o0 of population.
In the New England and middle states
states there are $4,000 more females
than males In the south middle sec
ton, including the district, the females
outnumber the males by some 100000
While in the northern central section
of the country as far west as Nebraska
the males are in the majority by over
800, 900, in the south central portion this
excess reaches only about 10000 In
the western section of the country the
predominance of the males is shown by
majority of over 500, 900.
In this district the males number only
100, 5S4, while the females number 120,-
sos; 51.21 per cent. of the total popula-
ton returned in 1890 are males and 1870
percent are females, In 1880 the males
represented 50.SS per cent. and the fe-
males 1912 per cent. The percentages
of males and females in 1870 were about
the same as those just stated for 1880,
or 50.56 per cent. for males and 40. Al
per cent. for females, while in 1860 they
were very nearly similar to those given
for 1890, or 51.16 per cent. for males and
As. 81 per cent. for females. The excess
of males over females in 1890 is 1,513,-
$40, as against an excess in 1880 of $751;
S57. In 1870 the males only exceeded
hn 1ac 1NxrA I
there were 727, 0S7 more males than fe-
males. In 1850 the males exceeded the
females by 4S3, 444. The very large ex-
cess of males in 1890 is readily accounted
for by the greatly increased number of
immigrants who have come to this coun-
try since 1880, over three-ffths of the
entire number of immigrants being
males.
Analysing the results of the distribu-,
ton of population according to native
and foreign born, it seems that a. n per
cent. of the popu alton in 1890 are for
eign born, as against 13 80 per cent. in
1880 and 9.68 per cent. in 1850. Tho
native born in 1850 represented 90.3%
per cent. of the whole population, whilo
in 1890 they represented 1928 per cent.
According to the census in 1890 there
are in the United States "a, 9S3, 500 white
persons and 963S, 800 colored persons,
by "colored" persons, those of |
African descent, Chinese, Japanese and |
civilized Indians. There has been an |
increase in the white from 1880 to 1896 |
If 11,5S0,920, or 26.6s per cent, and an
in the colored for the same de-
,ade of SS5, 547, or 1913 per cent. For
5he decade from 1870 to 1880 the white |
1922 per cent. and the col |
'red, apparently, $500 per cent. AS
las already been explained in previous
bulletins, however, the increase from
$40 to 1880 was to certain extent ic-
itious, particularly as regards the col
red population of the south.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
A CURE FOR HAY FEVER.
Pine Needles Mixed with Smoking Tobac-
co Clear Out the Head.

A Freehold IN. j. man, named Allen,
who is an inveterate smoker and an an
nual sufferer from hay fever, which
heretofore has compelled him to for
sake home, friends and business and
HE himself to the mountains as soon as
he began to sneeze, as discovered what
he claims is sure cure, says the Phil
adelphia Record. SIT is an extremely
simple remedy" he said, land the credit
of its discovery must be given to the
North Carolina mountaineers. Two
years ago when / first began to feel the
effects of the rose cold, 1 took a train
for Asheville, N. c., and found lodge
ment with an old cracker away back in
set in my supply of cigars ran out.
could not do without my smoke and
was obliged to fall back on a cob pipe
and long green tobacco raised by my
host. l noticed that when he smoked
he always mixed pine needles with his
tobacco, and when l asked the reason
he answered that it was to 'cl'ar out hia
head My head needed 'clarin out,
and tried the old fellows remedy. 1t
worked like charm. When 1 came
home l recommended it to my friends,
and several who were suffering from
declared that it helped them
greatly. An enterprising tobacconist
to whom spoke about the cure got
supply of pine needles and began the
of cigars, cigarettes and
smoking tobacco thus medicated The
flavor of tobacco thus dosed is very
pleasant, and the odor of the smoke is
deliciously aromatic. Last summer L
stayed at home and the hay fever didn't
bother me. If 1 escape the complaint
this year 1 shall feel pretty certain that
the pine needle brand of tobacco and |
cigars is sure enough cure.''
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
Death by a Glass Of Water.

A tramp known as the ''Terrible Sa-
voyard' used to sell pencils in the streets
OF Paris. France. He loved drink and
was drunk from morning till night I'M
less his money or the foolish kindness
of his friends gave out. The other day
he halted before wine stall managed
by widow called Clementine Pruvost,
on Destroy street, and begged of her to
give him glass of wine. ''Not drunk
enough yet at s o'clock in the morning.
cried the woman. you ought to have
nothing but water; wait, will give it
YOU" She filed glass with ice water
and threw it into the face of the drunk
ard. With an oath he took step to-
ward her intending to strike her when
he fell and lay on his back almost mo-
tlonless as he struck the pavement A
physician was called, who could do
nothing but pronounce the man dead.
lie stated that the sudden reaction of
the cold water upon the brain over
heated with drink had produced apo
plexy of the brain, ending in immediate
lcath, .l,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
CONCERNING DYNAMITE.

Several Million Dollars Invested In Its
Manufacture in the United States.
Very few people have correct idea
of what dynamite is, of what it is made,
and the uses to which it is put To the
French belongs the honor of it's discov-
cry and its practical use.
Nitro-glycerine is the force of all high
explosives. Dynamite is the name most
usually given to these explosives,
though other names are sometimes used.
Dynamite, says the Detroit Free
Press, is simply nitro-glycerine mixed
with various ingredients. Nitro-glycer-
inc is made by mixing sulphuric and
nitric acid with sweet glycerine, the
same that is used by the ladies to pre-
vent chapped hands. Mixing the acids
and glycerine is where the great dan
ger lies in the making of nitro-glycer-
inc. The mixing-tank or agitator, as
it is called by dynamite makers, is
large steel tank, filled inside with many
coils of lead pipe, through which, while
the mixing is in progress, a constant
, flow of ice water is maintained, This
flow of ice water is used to keep the
temperature of the mix below eighty
five degrees, as above that point it
would explode, and hole in the ground
would mark where the factory had
been. The nitro-glycerine is stored in
large earthenware tanks, which are
usually sunk in the ground to guard
against blows or severe conclusion.
The other ingredients for making
dynamite are: Nitrate of soda, which
is found only in Chill, carbonate of
magnesia and wood pulp.
Dynamite is put in paper shells
usually one and quarter inches in
diameter and eight inches in length,
and weighs about one-half pound to
each shell or cartridge. 1t has largely
taken the place of black powder for
blasting, as it is many hundreds of
times stronger and consequently more
economical. 1t is used chiefly in mining
all kinds of ores, coal and rock and
submarine blasting and railroad build
ing. Without it's aid many railroads,
especially those crossing the Rocky
mountains, could not have been con-
structed; without it Hell Gate in New
York harbor could not have been de- |
stroyed, and without it the miner, at |
prices now paid for mining ores, could
not earn his bread.
Dynamite will not explode from any
ordinary fall or jar; it will burn with
out explosion and freezes at forty-tw
degrees, ten degrees above ordinary
freezing point. The bomb of the an
archist is made of metal or glass and
filed with pure nitro-glycerine ar
ranged SO as to explode by severe con-
tact with any hard object. These
bombs are, of course, never made by
dynamite factory.
Five or six millions of dollars are in
vested in the manufacture of dynamite
in the United States, and its use is con-
stantly on the increase. The fumes of
nitro-glycerine produce intense head
lche, which can be cured by taking
very small dose of it internally
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
sIFTERs FROM SETTINGS.

"DoN'T give me away" pleaded the
girl, when invited to step on the scales.
THE grocer who sells twelve ounces
for pound depends on his winning
weigh.
Few are qualified to shine in company,
but it is in most mems power to be
agreeable. e5sa
A MAN who found that his bride was
very tart, recognized that he had made
a sour mash.
A DENTIST with good practice ought
to make frst-class oarsman, as he
does considerable pulling.
WHEN man loses borrowed money
betting on races he cannot feel the
same sorrow he would if the money
came out of his own pocket.
A WOMAN always carries her purse in
her hand, SO that other women will SEQ
it. A man carries his in his inside
pocket, SO that his wife won't see it,
Texas SiftinCS.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
THE CORPSE OBJECTED.
Kicked the Coffin Lid or When All Was
Ready for the Burial.

Thomas Kelly, colored man, disap-
pointed a large audience in Chester, Pa,
the other day by refusing to be buried
when the audience was ready to bury
him. He had been picked up for dead
on wharf the night before and had
been tenderly removed to the coroner's
office to await an inquest and funeral.
When the undertaken came around the
next day he had the corpse put in an
lce-box, while he went for hearse and
some mourners, and the preparations
for sepulture were nearly complete
when Mr.. Kelly kicked the lid from
the box, got up and asked for his over
coat. Instead of giving the corpse its
overcoat the Brooklyn Eagle says, the
coroner and other officials took to their
heels, not that they were averse in
granting the dead mans request, but
that it was not in the usual order of
things for dead men to make requests.
Presently Mr.. Kelly climbed out of
the box and in plaintive language,
punctuated with hiccoughs, went about
town complaining of the indignities to
which he had been subjected and also
OF headache. At last accounts he was
still wandering around Chester terrify-
ing people by these remarks and Great
ing strong sentiment in favor of his
recapture and burial. A pretty state of
things Mr.. Kelly is trying to establish!
If he has spark of consideration for
the feelings of his fellows and the fees
OF the coroner he will go back to the
undertaken and ask him to finish the
work that he had begun. His refusal
to be put into his coffin is a direct re-
Election upon the acumen of the police
and the personal qualifications of the
coroner, and, again, if his example
should be followed to any great extent,
it would create no end of confusion and
lead to vast amount of trouble with |
wills. Mr.. Kelly should submit to be
buried
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
nc Japanese to Study Russian.

1t speaks volumes for the marvellous
rapidly and intensity with which the
RUSSIAN influence is encompassing all
the countries, nations and governments
If Asia that the japanese government
has introduced into the house of con-
gross o bill making the Russian Ian
g.lagc u branch of instruction obliga-
tory upon the schools of the land. BY
admitting the language of the Russian
empire as next in Importance to their
native tongue, the japanese practically
recognize their intercourse with Russia
to be the most important of their inter-
national relations. The government of
Japan, Gays the Novoe Yremya, intend
to engage natives of Russia to teach
their language at the public schools.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
TO COME TO AMERICA.
The Finest Private Library in the World
About to BE Sold.


About to BE Sold.
For some time past it has been r,1-
mored that the famous Althorp library,
which Dibdin called the finest private
collection in the world, was about to be
sold, and now the announcement is
made upon authority, says the st.
James Gazette. 1t is hoped to sell it
en- bloc, but should that not be possible
1t will be put up at auction. Selling
the most famous of the worlds private
libraries in lump can mean only one
thing selling it to America. We trust
that may not happen, since Lord
Spencer's collection contains many vol
umes which it is national pride to pos
sess-such, for instance as the famous
Valdarfar ''Boccaccio," which Lord
Blandford wrested from the second
Earl Spencer for co, 26O, to be ultimate
ly bought for Althorp for the bagatelle
of ESQ. 1t will. be an epoch-1naking
sale, for this great library contains
some $4,000 volumes, mostly priceless.
Scarce editionG ON vellum and large
paper, magnificent printing, and daz-
zling bindings by Pasdeloup and Roger
Payne-these are its glories. Many of
the books, too, have famous histories.
They have felt the touch of the Pompa-
dour or of Diane de Poitiers, or the elo-
giant grasp of Francis l. There arc
cighty-two out of the ninety-ninc
known productions. of Caxton, to say
nothing of the famous Mentz Psalter. a
copy of which has fetched g5, 900. To
sell the Althorp library. indeed is AL
most as though we were to sell the
rarest rarities of the printed book de-
partment of the British museum.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1892.
ONE OF THE MYSTERIES.
Something About Sound That Cannot Be
Understood.


Something About Sound That Cannot Be
Understood.
81 am an old man" he said slowly to
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche reporter,
land I've lived a long time longer than
most men who have lived as long as I
have, for there's mighty little in this
world that l oughtn't to know that
don't know; but there is one thing I
don't know, and I've been trying to
learn it for fifty years, more or less"
whats that?' interrupted Gamaliel,
who is but beginner.
well, my son, it's this: don't know,
and don't believe ever shall, why it
is that when a man gets home at 8
o'clock in the morning and he finds he
hasn't his night key in his pocket he can
ring the bell and thu1np the door and
throw pebbles up against the windows
and disturb the whole neighborhood,
and keep on doing it for three-quarters
of an hour or more, before he wakes
anybody in the house; but if he gets
there at the same time and has his
night key in his pocket, and slips it into
the lock as still as a mouse, and turns
IL WITHOUT d cTedk, ana SINUS Cne door
as softly as the dew falls, and creeps
upstairs in his sock feet as stealthily as
a cat, and gets into his room as noise
lessly as the stars go to their rest, he
not only wakes up his wife, but the
next morning everybody in the house is
asking him what he means by coming
in at that hour of the night, and if he
must come in then, why doesn't he
make less racket and not disturb the
whole country"
The old man in an excess of emotion
gasped once or twice and began to mop
his brow.
''That's what I don't know, young
man." he went on, ''and I'd like to live
until you have lived as long as have,
to see if you can find out, but don't
really believe you ever will"
''I'll try" briefly remarked Gamaliel,
and those who know Gamaliel have
sublime confidence that he has made
noble beginning.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
He Was the Only Kilmarnock Man.

How many of the best and raciest
Scotch stories are connected with the
sturdy old town of ,Kimarnock! Per-
haps the most humorous of any, illus
trating as it does the ingrained concelt
and self-satisfaction of the Caledonian
character, may be here recalled. A
drunken weaver who had stun bled into
the old 'kirkyard" of Kilmarnock, and
there fallen down over grave, was
reused from his Scottish slumbers in
the dim light of the breaking dawn, by
the horn of the mail coach as it ratified
past. Up rose the bemazed Tammas at
the sound. What awful voice was that?
Surely it could be nothing less than the
sound of the last trump; and he-was
he alone of all the occupants of the
klrkyard fit person to respond?
Slowly appearing himself, and behold
ing no other spirits rising from the
surrounding tombs according to his
view, 'Hech, sirsr' he cried aloud, his
soul stirred within him to find that he
only was to have part in the first rcsur-
reetion, ''Hech, sirsI it's puir show
Tor kilmarnock!'-C Chicago Herald.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-09-03
WONDERFUL MAN.

A MAN obtains his maximum height
at forty years of age, woman at fifty
years.
EVERY cubic foot of air expired from
the lungs contains on an average O.O1151
milligrammes of ammonia.
THE right side of the body perspires
more than the left, and the palm of the
hand four times more than tho skin Of
Glc chest,