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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
A ROOF OF SALT.

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The Queer Covering of a Lake in ST.
IBERIA.
This remarkable lake may be seen at.
any time during the year, fully ex-
posed, being ever at it's best when the
sun is shining directly upon it. This
wonderful body of water is of the
safest of the salt lakes, and is situated
near Obdorsk, Siberia. The lake is
nine miles wide and seventeen long,
and within the memory of man was not
enterely rooted over by the salt deposit.
Originally evaporation played the most
prominent part in coating the lake over
with salt, but at the present time the
salt springs which surround it are add
ing fast to the thickness of the crust.
In the long ago rapid evaporation of
the lakes waters left great salt crystals
floating on the surface. In course of
time these caked together. Thus the
waters were finally entirely covered.
In 1878 the lake found an underground
outlet into the river Obi, which
lowered its surface about three
feet, The salt crust was so thick,
however, t7lot it retained its old level,
and now presents the curious spectacle
of a salt-roofed lake. The salt coat in
creases six inches in thickness every
The many islands with which
the lake is studded are said to act as
and to help keep the arched salt
crust in position Detroit Free Press.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
GREAT PEOPLE OF EUROPE.

NJ CARNoT, president of the French
public, is by descent the Count Carnot
G Feuleins, and Nine. Carnot is a
)untess, but these things don't count
S they did in France.
THE earl of Durham has leased a
hooting ground 20 $1,000 acres in extent
a the north of England. If that land
7ere put under cultivation it would
lrnish ample support for 100, 600 peo-
lie.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is the only living
tember of the Peel administration. No
neriean statesman now living was in
tive public life when Mr.. Gladstone
ID already taken a prominent position
l affairs.
TIE Arehduke Francis Ferdinand of
= @astria, son of the heir to the throne, is
ia to find his greatest pleasure in the
eful function of running a locomo-
We, and brings his train in on time and
n good order.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
GRAINS OF GOLD.

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A vAcANr mind is an invitation to
vice.
THE rich in hope are rich in every
thing.
THE thankful man never feels very
poor.
He who really deserves friends always
finds them.
IT is better to slip with the foot than
with the tongue.
LIFE would be merrier, if worth were
put above wealth.
TEMPTATIONS arc a file that rubs off
the rust of s-elf-confdence.
No MAN can come out bright who
hasn't experienced many rubs.
THE man who tries to please every
body generally has a contempt for him
self.
EVEN if we could see ourselves as
others see us, most of us wouldn't stop
to look.
WHEN some men discharge an obliga-
ton you can hear the report for miles
around.
If there is one man who deserves a
life sentence it is the fellow who is
trying to kill time.-Ram's
Horn.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
THE WORLDS ODD CORNERS.


IN the dreary deserts of Arabia the
rosemary and lavender flourish to per-
lection.
IT is said that the Eskimo alphabet
has only five characters; that the lam
guage itself is not very difficult, but it
is the only one the Eskimo ever learns.
A RIVER of ink flows in Algeria. One
stream is impregnated with iron. and
it meets another flowing through peat
moss, containing gallo acid; when they
unite they form a stream OF ink.
PLNY, that rare old gossip, tells of a
somewhere in Dalmatia where a
stone thrown in raised a regular din of
noises. Fingal's cave, on the isle Of
Staffa, has an abnormally developed
echo.
SOME of the Venetians-those who
have lever been to the mainland
have never seem horse in all their lives.
a Snowman once brought one to a fair
and called it q monster, and the factory
hands paid fifteen cents each to see the
marvel.
IN Africa people of the tribe called
Gbongo take the bodies of their dead to
o running stream, which has been pre-
diverted from its course. A
leep grave is dug in the bed of the
tream, the bodies are placed in it and
covered over, and finally the stream is
restored to its natural course.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
Ten Cents Cor a Lie.

Two ladies stopped at a fruit stand
on Cortlandt street to purchase some
Strawberries.
Are all those berries as large and
ripe as the ones on top?" asked the ell
DERBY lady, suspiciously.
The vender hesitated.
"The box will cost you twenty-five
cents, madam" he replied, finally. ii
l am obliged to answer that question:
twenty-five cents!" exclaimed the,
two ladies in chorus. "EVhy, it is card
ed at fifteen cents! What do o mean
by charging twenty-five cents?"
Five cents for the berries, madam.
and twenty cents for the lie-ffteen
cents for the berries if no questions are
Y. Advertiser.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
FIGURES OF TOLL.

THE manufacture of cigarettes has
increased, in thirteen years, from 1885,
2T6,S17 to 2,S77, 792, 40.
A cLIPPER ship for every day in the
year is required to remove California's
surplus wheat to Europe.
THE mines of the world produced
twenty-five tons of gold every week,
but the precious metal remains as rare
as ever.
THE largest cotton crop in the
southern states prior to the war was in
1860, when 1900, no bales were pro-
duced. In 1871 it was 4,352,3 17 bales.
In 1891 the production reached S,652,597
bales, and Cos, 6G1 bales of the produc-
ton were consumed in southern mills.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
our ANNUAL FISH YARNS.

A CROCODILE measuring three feet and
seven inches in length was killed re-
Gently at Whiting, Ind.
a BANGOR so~mnambulist while walk
ing in his sleep hooked a fve-pound
black bass in Lake Chemo and awoke
to find himself struggling in the water.
FISHING parties in Portland harbor
are meeting with remarkable success.
The other day a couple of anglers
hooked what they supposed to be a lob
ster pot, and were greatly surprised to
pull up a bag containing sixty full pints
of whisky.
AN old man caught on a hook in Briar
creek, Ca. recently, a rock fish weigh
ing fifty pounds. It was three and one-
half feet long, and in its stomach there
a jack fish which measured thirty
inches and a catfish eighteen inches
long.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
A a Excuse.

a rich gentleman purchased a par
rot OF a b~ird-fancier in a rather low
quarter of London. The man war
ranted Il bird to be a splendid t~allser;
but though the gentleman kept it for a
month, 1t never made any sound ap-
preaching the semblance of a word.
The gentleman called on the bird-fan-
eler' and asked him how he accounted
for it, ''Well, sir" said that worthy.
yer see that there bird was brought
up IN my humble 'ome, an L hexpect
when it went to your 'ouse and saw all
the bootiful surroundin's, it was strucle
with surprise. dare say it won't
ever talk now, sir; but in course that
amt my faultr-Pick-Me-Up
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
PAoTlMEs OF PUBLIC MEN.

SECRETARY TRACY is al expert pedes-
trian.
SENATORS SAWYER and Hiscock are
great Indian club ~swingers.
GEcj. WIsTAR, now president of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, is an en-
thusiastic yachtsman.
Gov. FLOWER is rapidly becoming an
accomplished boxer. He has trained
down twenty-five pounds-from 24O to
21S.
HoN. ANDREW D. WHITE is credited
with having made a rare collection of
posters, including incendiary placards
put up on the walls of Paris during the
French revolution.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
TREES AND THEIR FRUIT.

THE area planted to apples in Tas-
mania is 9,sos acres in 1881, and is be-
ing rapidly ~increased&
TIE india rubber tree grows wild in
Lee county, Fla, and in Fort Myers
it is used as a shade and ornamental
tree.
The experience of several experiment
stations is said to indicate that only a
few varieties of figs are adapted in
hardness to any n location.
ONE-THIRD of a tree in Simon Mutch-
ler's orchard, near York, Pa, is pink
with peach blossoms, a third is bear
ing apple blossoms and the remainder
grows good pears.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
Scientifically Deduced.

81 am afraid cook is getting care
less" said Prof. Potterby. find here
in my apple pie a specimen of the
Diptornis B~orealis Apollinaris, an in
sect that never was known to select the
apple as its habitat. Either Mary Ann
is getting careless or 1 have made a
valuable scientific discovery."-Indian-
apolis Journal.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
Told It on HerseIf.

There is q girl in town who tells this
story on herself. She is a Jealous mem
Der of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. Seeing in the
street one day a cab driver cruelty NAL
treating his horse, she went up to him
and, showing her badge, demanded his
number.
Lord, miss" said the man, with a
commiserating smile, "ef l wuz ter tell
yer II would go out of that pretty head
a1ore yer got to the next corner"
linen he drove on, leaving the girl
torn between conflicting emotions
anger and the desire to laugh.-Wash-
ington Post.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23

UNLESS an Austrian gains the con
sem OF his wife he cannot get a pass
port to journey beyond the frontier of
his country.
TIE legislative assembly Of Syria, in
Austria, has passed a law f~orbidding
poor people to marry without a special
license from the author'"i les.
A JUDGE in a Mass; 4usctts divorce
court has laid down the law that when
a woman obtains a divorce she shall not
be permitted to her maiden
am
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-23
LITERARY CHAT.

LIE nearest living relative of Shake
sPeare is probably Thomas Hart, a resi-
uent Oh Australia, who is eighth in de-
scent from Shakespeare's sister Joan.
LIE oldest newspaper in the world is
sad to be the King-pan, or capital sheet.
winch is published at Pekin, China. II
hrsI appeared in Oil, and since 1912 has
missed a single weekly issue.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08

peu. Dogs released from it are Wild for
water.
On one occasion THE CALL reporter rep
resented himself dog-Owner and asked TO
be allowed 10 see whether his animal was
inside
The slouchy young man who opened the
pen armed himself with club first and
then, as the dogs jumped up to the opening
and howled and barked at the seeming pros
pect OF being released. the club was used
vigorously, accompanied by language that
may be represented in newspapers only by
dashes.
When the dogs are shot or starved, as the
| case may be, the carcasses are taken to the
| Oakland bOneyard.
The present PoundEeeper holds his office
| Tor an Indefinite period at the pleasure of
the town Trustees. Heretofore the city al
lowed the POundkeeper 50 cents for each
dead dog. and taxpayers who had their ami
mails lmpOunded purchased their release
| by the payment Of six bits.
his Is IN keeping with the present rate
In Oakland, and in this city the fine is even
less, AS the authorities only Day 40 cents
! for dead dog
AT present Tabio enjoys royalty of 81 so
Tor every canine carcass he hauls to the
boneyard. and dog-Owners must pay 50
hne every time their animals are impouuded
This rate is conceded TO be TOO high Ii
acts. too, as an incentive for the illegal
catching OF licensed animals The Trustees
viii probably be called upon to reduce the
rate TO that prevailing in Oakland and else
where.
Meantime IL you visit Alameda this week
| you must be prepared to talk dog and dog
lmpoundlng with every in habitant for you
will scarcely find an Inhabtant OF that clas-
sic town who does not own one or more
dogs and safety bicycle.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08

sequence Mr.. Tabio's haul was bountiful
one that brought many coins to his Golfers
aud quite materially increased his yearly
income from dog-cat:hing.
He played the early bird act and played
1t we'll, but he is probably sorry now that
he did it, for the taxpayers of Alameda
have about decided TO put a stop to Mr..
Tabio's cunningness and cruelties.
Early on the morning of the 9Th of July
The dogcatchers made their appearance on
the streets of Alameda with their deadly
lassos and rickety old wagon. Everything
in sight was caught and taken away to the
pound. Private grounds were entered and
yard-gates opened IN order TO increase the
catch.
The ea:chers thought nothing of roping a
dog that happened 10 be Oh the front ste ps
or in the back yard.
Before night nearly every canine in Ala
media had been inpounded, and their re-
spectve owners were in high dudgeon.
Tie dog license did not expire till the last
day of June. The first day of the new
month was last Friday, and the three sue
office was closed and DO new licenses could
be obtained.
Not till 9 o'clock in the morning does the
Clerk OF Alameda make his appearance at
the City Hall. BY that hour half the dogs
in the town had been impouuded.
Now all this was bad enough and very
exaspeTatng to the many dog-owners Of
that quiet little city across the bay. But
this is only hall the story. The other half
is far worse.
Alameda's male population. to a very
large degree, works or does business on the
windy side of the bay. When they re-
turned home on Tuesday night and found
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
C0GSWELL'S COLLEGE.

Armed Men on Guard - Trustee spiers
Makes a Suggestion.
There were no new developments yester-
day In the Cogsweli College war The
doctor has possession of the disputed prop
erty and is maintaining his right to it with
an armed guard. Certain claims made by
the doughty doctor were, however. called in
controversy yesterday by Trustee Spiers,
who was not member of the board when
the new lease with the railroad company
was entered into.
Concerning this branch Of the dispute Mr..
Spiers says that Cogswell signed this lease
himself and also the deed for the Front
street property, which he now alleges was
sold for half its value. He made no obJec-
ton to either proceeding at the time. As
for the renewal Of the lease so long ahead
of lis expiration, that was done In consider
alton Of $4,000 as bonus, and as the trust
was heavily in debt it was deemed advisable
to accept the offer
Regarding the charge that the trustees
have been pecuniarily benefited by these
transactions. Mr.. Spiers said that the doctor
need only make that charge over his own
signature to get into the liyeliest lawsuit or
series OF suits he ever tackled.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
The pound-wagon.

their pet dogs had been impounded they
wasted but little time in blasphemy and
hastene ed TO release their CANNES be fore the
poundmaster should have a board-bill 10
add to the customary fine.
In each case they were told that they
could not release their dogs till they had
procured new license.
but the Clerks Office is closed, and we
can't get license before Tomorrow" they
protested.
We'll, pay me S4-S2 for the release of the
animal and 50 for the license-and you may
take your dog. 1 will bring you the icen Sc
Ia the morning." said the very acccmmo-
dating poundkeeper, and the taxpayers
dared not protest They paid the S4, took
"A curiously worded receipt for it and led
their dogs home in silence and sorrow.
Next morning. bright and early. Mr..
TabiO again got his work in with the early
birds. This time he had the address of
nearly every dog-owner in Alameda. He
went directly to these addresses and caught
as many of the CANNES for tile second time
as possible.
But the dogs knew him by this time and
were far shIer Of his deadly arat than on
the day before. Hence Mr.. Tables second
days catch was not so profitable by fully
one-half as his first days haul.
For all intents and purposes the dogs he
caught the second day were licensed and
under the law were guaranteed immunity
from the poundkeeper's lasso. Tabio had
the money for their license in his pocket
He had also the addresses where he was to
deliver tie licenses. Each of these ad-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
WORSE THAN LINDO.
AIameda's DOgcatcher Is Pub.
licly Execrated.
He Breaks Well-Established Rule to Enrich
Himself at the Expense Of the
Taxpayers.

The erstwhile peaceful little city of Ala
media is in the throes Of an excitement as
intense as 1t is general
Alameda's puundkeeper has betrayed his
trust. and is to-day the most execrated in
diydual In any three counties.
Ii you find a man in Alameda who is not
swearing at the poundkeeper. make up
your mind that one Of two things Is true of
him:
Either he does not keep a dog. or he has
been wise enough to take out his license
and tag before the 1st of July. You will
not find many such men in Alameda
For years 1t has been the practice 10 allow
dog-owners seven days grace after the ex-
plratiOn OF the fiscal year 10 which to renew
the licenses. In Oakland the custom is 10
allow 10 days, aud in San Francisco a
similar period.
But Aiameda's poundmaster Is nothing IL
not unconventional. To show his untram-
meied spirit this year, and evidence to all
the world his freedom from the traditions
OF the past, Antoni Tabio-for that is his
name-began to gather in the yearly batch
of CANNES Immediately after the glorious
Fourth.
Not dozen dog-owners in all Alameda
had secured the new tags yet, aud in con-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
James T.. Kerr's VIII

The will Of James z. Kerr. who died re-
Gently, has not yet been filed, but the mother
of the deceased intends to make contest.
BY the terms of the testament the estate.
consisting in part of the Breeder and Sports
man, is divided equally betw cen his mother.
Fred w. Kelley, the business manager of
the paper. and c. ID. Thompson. an Arizona
sport. The bequestto the latter is so strange
that the dead mans friends Incline IN tSe
belief that Kerr was not Ia possession of
his senses when he made his will. Ths con-
test will only be made against Thomp on
as Mrs. Kerr Is of the opinion that KeIlev ia
justly entitled to the interest left TO him.
Inc latter, however, is said TO have aban-
doned all claim TO the estate owing 10 his
belief In kerr's mental unsonndness :
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
Tho PrAAa CIuh.

At a meeting of the Press Club held last
night Secretary Black resigned.
j. p. Booth. w. F. Burke and E. C.
Sickle were elected to membership.
The club resolved to hold its next cleo
ton according to the Australian system.
Inc following named were placed in nomi-
nation: For president, Harry NJ. Tod and
Ed A. Moran; first vice-president, l.. O..
Carpenter; second vice-president. T. T.
Bonnet; third vlce-president, H. ii. Egbert :
librarian, Il. +. Pendergast and n r.. Mer,
rift; recording secretary. Z. a. Phillips ;
financial secretary. Arthur Barendt: board
of William NJ. Bunker. General
John f. Sheehan, L. T. Williams, Albert
May. John Washington, ID. NJ. Fraser. c.
NJ. Coe, j. Ross Jackson, Frank Burke and
John McGillivray,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08
ARCHITECTS BANQUET.

Somi-Annual Dinner Of the 6. r. Chapter
or the American Institute.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Ameri-
can Institute OF Architects assembled in the
banquet hall of the Vienna Cafe last night
for the semi-annual dinner and the presenta-
ton of medals and diplomas to the success
full students of the architectural class of 49,
George Saunders was the chairman and
William Curlitt the POSTMASTER of the even
ing.
George w. Percy made the presentation
speeches and each of the three candidates
for the hOnOrs responded briefly. Their
names are Samuel G. Benson, j. Linden
Boer and &. A. Meusdorffer
Aiter-dinner speeches were made by
many present James 4. Wolfe's remarks
were especially we'll received, and "the
youngest member of the profession" l.. Il
Townsend, who is a veteran of 40. told
amusing stories Of the early days in CALI
fornia.
The evening was a very enjoyable one.
and the designers of houses had a royal
good time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08

at their next meeting, but far verse than
all these are the cruelties Of which Tabio is
guilty.
Things go by contraries in this world"
said the ola woman when she had recovered
from the shock Of being treated ciyiliy once
by Southern PacRc official, and probably
that Is the reason why member of the So
clety for the Prevention of Cruelty tn AMI
mais should make cruel poundkeeper.
AT all events Tabio is a member of this
society-he is Poundkeeper, and his cruelty
TO the CANNES which fall into his hands is
said to be barbarous.
In the first place the lariat method of
catching dogs is In itself q barbarous cru
city. A slip-knot at the end of long rope
is thrown over the dogs head and pulled
taut about his neck. A jerk on the rope
draws the unwilling animal toward the
dog-eatcher; another jerk pulls him into
the screen-covered wagon. where the rope
is IooSe1ed and prepared for the next victim
At the foot of College avenue i'm a lonely
unfrequeDted spot on the shores Of the bay.
stands rickety old barn. To one side of
the barn Is built little shed, not six feet
square and not seven feet high. In the
'front.' OF TINS shed Is an opening about two
feet square. The opening is about in the
center OF the front, perhaps three feet above
the ground.
Inis is the Alameda dog pound. On a
not day you can smell it many blocks away.
INTO this little pen are thrust the dogs he'll
Shoitot. I1tTc lDey are imprisoned IN
darkness and without food or drink till they
are shot or redeemed
How do they kill the dogs?" asked a
GALL reporter of an Alameda policeman.
Starve them to DEATH" came the reply.
In response to the same question, one of
MT. Tabio,s dog-catchers said they shot the
animals He is probably correct, for the
average dog will live more than three DAYS
without food or water.
DO you ever feed them or give them
water?" asked the reporter.
Course we do; every once In a while"
was the reply.
People who live in that vicinity and claim
TO know say the dogs are never fed or given
water. Several times The CALL reporter
visited the pound, and at different times of
the day. There was never any evidence of
1000 or water to be found in the little dirty
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-08

dresses eefs favored 49, Alamedans say
Cursed " tps visits from Tie poundmaster
Wednesday,
1hs tfss visit eeFiy In the morning was
10 chleb The dog sgsIh the see6nd visit late
10 the afternoon Was 10 deliver the license
ana ia many instances 10 notify the owners
that ther CANNES we're safely lodged Ia the
pound, from which they could bs fseoveft.1
by the payment-for the second time-of
the customary 81
Some paid and then growied. Some
erowled first. '"''
The latter didn't have to pay nj nil. Tbsv
complained to the Chief OF Police. and tha,
official, himself smarting under the sting Of
one Of MIR. Tabio's early bird tricks, brought
the poundkeeper to terms by threatening
to send posse out to the pound and release
every dog IL contained.
A. Tabio has been poundkeeper of Ala
media for six years. During that time he
has made himself a public nuisance In q va
riety OF ways, and now the taxpayers are
going to ask the Trustees to release them
from the thraldom of his mean and petty
tyrannies.
Testimony Is not lacking to show that
Iabio has on more than one occasion shared
dogs that were duly licensed. and 30 women
are ready TO tell how no or his minions have
come into their yards and taken puppies
away from the children
All these things, 1t is quite likely, will be
broaghtt to the ears and eyes OF the Trustees