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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Tourist Zeitung publishes a list
of Alpine accidents for 1892. There
were 81 fatalities in all, &c having oc-
Cured in ascent without guides and 6
with guides. Twcnty-six were tourists
and 6 were guides. Ten were caused
by attempts TO gather edelweiss.
SEVEN years ago Scotch woman
established in London a 'IIome for
the Dying" ten beds being prepared
for dying people. The applications for
admission became so numerous and
pressing that steps have been taken to
enlarge the institution very greatly.
ONE of the most curious stones in the
world is found in Finland, where it oc-
ours in many places. 1t is natural
barometer and actually foretells proba-
BILE changes in the weather. 1t is called
semallIir, and turns black shortly be-
fore an approaching rain, while in fine
weather it is notified with spots of
white.
TIE subjects of Great Britain are the
most tremendous patent medicine swal-
lowers on the globe. During the past
year the revenue derived from the
stamp upon patent
medicines amounted to $1,000, 600.
Licenses for the sale of patent medicines
have increased 1,340 in England and Ill
in Scotland.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
WHAT PEOPLE DO AND SAY.

! w. S. GnBERT, the writer of opera
librettos, goes occasionally to Wagner
performances, but declares that he no
more understands the music than he
does Chinese.
Mrs. WILLIAM BLACK, of Orange, N.
j., sprang from her saddle while riding
in Montclair the other day, stopped a
pair of runaway horses, and saved the
crippled occupant of the carriage they
were dragging.
TENNYsoE is credited with once hav-
ing advised man to read verse from
the Bible and a verse from Shakespeare
daily. ''For," he said, one will teach
you how to speak TO God and the other
how to address your fellows"
ANDREW LANG says there are not
many people now, perhaps none, who
can write really good fairy tales, ''be-
cause they do not believe enough in
their own stories and because they
want to be wittier than it has pleased
heaven to make them"
Cyril FLOWER, of the house of com
mons, whom the queen has just elevated
to the peerage, is forty-nine years old, I
and has been liberal mem Der of the
house since 1880. His daughter is a
wife of the late Sir Anthony Roths-
child. They are both deeply interested
in the welfare of the lower classes.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17

The largest serpent of which accurate
measurements have been taken and
noted was an anaconda which DR.. Gard
ner found dead and suspended to the
fork of a tree during his travels in Mex
leo. 1t was dragged out into the open
by two horses, and it was found to
measure thirty-seven feet in length.
Inside of it were found the bones and
1esh of horse in a half digested state,
and there was no doubt that it had
swallowed the animal whole. DIR.
Gardner and other travellers say that
anaeondas, pythons and boas attain
length of over forty feet, but there is
no recorded instance of one having been
encountered longer than that which
has been mentioned, though many per-
sons have seen serpents alive which
they estimated to be of considerably
larger size
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
Equals.

The great musical composer, Rossini,
was an odd and whimsical humorist.
After finishing his great works he in
dulged himself in long pc Rod of
leisure, and did not write a line of
music. This habit of his once fur
nishcd him an opportunity for joke.
a friend called on him and found
him writing his autograph with senti-
ment at the bottom of some photo
graphs of himself
One of these read: ''To M. Pnlet
Win, my friend and my equal in music"
"What!'' cried the visitor, you are
not serious? M. Pillet Will is not your
equal in music?"
Certainly he is-since 1 am doing
nothing" exclaimed Rossini.-Youth's
Companion.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
A NEW ALLOY.

GIVING a Metal Which Has Wonderful
Properties of Resistance.
The name of margarine has been
given to a new alloy brought forward
in Germany as material of great re-
iisting power, and which consists of
copper, nickel and manganese, says the
New York Sun. The specific resistance
Of this article is given as forty-two
microhm centimeters: that is, higher
even than that of nicBeline, which has
hitherto passed as the best resisting
metal Another advantage of man
canine is its behavior under variations
Of heat, the resistance, it is claimed.
being effected only in minute degree
by high temperatures; on this account
it is adapted to the manufacture of
measuring instruments and of elcctri
cal apparatus in general, those which
are required to vary their resistance to
as slight degree as possible under
different degrees OF heat. A further
interesting fact is mentioned, namely.
that while other metals increase their
resistance by the raising Of the temper
allure, that of margarine is diminished.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
Bedouins for the Fair

Fifty Bedouins under the leadership
of an Arabian sheik will be seen at the
worlds fair. A contract was closed
yesterday with Mr.. Levy for providing
room and accommodations for the
sheilz and his followers In order to
properly set forth this display palace
several centuries old will be reproduced
on the Midway Plaisance. The build
ing will be one hundred and fifty
by fifty feet in dimensions. It win be
chiefly of wood, on the various portions
of which will be carvings of centuries
ago. The palace stands near the his
toric Mount Lebanon. 1t will be a re-
lnarlzable structure in Chicago, and Mr..
Levy guarantees its accurate reproduce
ton. The Bedouins. who are to make
a display in connection with the shiell's
palace and the Turkish village, will pre-
sent all the features of home life. They
will bring their Arabian steeds and exc
cute the maneuvers of war. The
swords, scimiters and guns common to
the soldiers of Arabia will form dis
tinct feature.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

1T makes all the difference in the
world whether we put truth in the first
place or in the second place. - Whately.
THERE is q perpetual beauty and love
illness of life that viii gladden. us hour
~ if we open our eyes to LILLIAN
Whiting.
EVERY nation that has weakened its
women, narrowed their sphere of ac-
ton. crippled their opportunities for
usefulness and power, has by so doing
introduced an element of weakness into
its government, blocked the wheels of
advancement, and deprived itself of a
great element of strength. f. Will
bur
THERE may be men who take every
moral height at dash; but to the
most of us there must come moments
when our wills can but just rise and
walk in their sleep. Those who in such
moments wait for clear views, find,
when the issue is past, that they were
only yielding to the devils chloroform
C. W. Cable.
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a Four-Legged Lackey.

A gentleman with a handsome equip
age, followed by fine English mastiff,
drove up in front of Cincinnati hos
telry the other day, says the Times-Star
of that city, and jumping from his
buggy, snapped the hitch-strap into the
ring of his horses bit and then placed
the other end of the strap in the mouth
of his mastiff, which by this time had
seated himself on the curbstone. There
the nlastiff sat like a statue of stone
holding the strap securely while his
master went in to ''see man" Ontbe
gentleman's exit the dog yielded up
the strap and the gentleman drove off,
closely followed by the faithful four
legged laclley.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
HAWKS Are Afraid of nummine Birds.

Notwithstanding their dininutive
size, pugnacity is one of the most con-
spicuous traits of humming birds.
Even kingbirds and the boldest hawks
are afraid of them, being compelled to
retreat before the impetuous assaults
of the tiny warrior, whose boldness is
only equaled by the Hghtning-lilse
rapidity of his movements, thus battling
any attempt at resistance on the part
OF the more powerful adversary. The
lance-like thrusts of the needle-like
bealS are usually directed at the eyes of
the enemy When two or more indi-
viduais of either sex happen near the
same spot spirited and often violent
conflicts are almost certain to ensue.-
Boston Transcript.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
a Strange Coincidence.

An ironmaster of Prenzlau, near Pots
Dam, Germany, was married on the
same day as Emperor William H., Feb
ruary ~, 1882. Like the emperor. he
has had six boys, whose respective
birthdays conceded with the dates on
which the young German princes were
oorl But what is still more curious is
that ms wife presented him with girl
on exactly the same day as the German
empress became the mother of an i'm
perlal princess. For once we have a
subject agreeing with his sovereign.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17

age age of marrying men remains at
the former figure of twenty-nine and
one-half. In 1881 it was twenty-nine
and two-thirds, in 1886 twenty-nine and
two-ffths. So that men marry neither
less often nor at a later age than for
nerly On the other hand, a great diff
ference has taken place in the class of
men who marry. Only forty per cent.
were independent; that is, either with
private means or tradesmen, officials or
officers; sixty per cent. were laborers,
servants or factory hands. The latter
form the majority.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
OLDEST oF The ODD.

AMONG the relics in the rooms of the
New Historical society is the tail of
George III horse which was taken at
Bowling Green.
ENos KERR, man well known at
Knoxville, Ia, found perfect minia-
ture ear of corn with grains no larger
than mustard seeds growing on a stall,
of foxtail.
THE pyrometer measures heat in de-
grees and fractions and will give accur-
ate figures, even though the heat runs
up to the unthinkable intensity of
1000 degrees.
1T can be proven by a simple calcula-
ton that the number of people which
have existed on the globe during the
last 5000 years approximates the grand
total Of G6,000, 700, OOO, 900, 900.
THE glow-worm lays eggs which are
themselves luminous; however. the
young Matched from them are not pos
sessed of those peculiar properties until
after the first transformation.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
DRUNK ON MUSHROOMS.

Tho Sort of Stimulant Used by the Inhab-
itants of Northeastern Asia.
The inhabitants of the northeastern
part of Asia use mushroom to promote
intoxication 1t is known as the fly
blown mushroom, and the Horticultural
Times says it is also very abundant in
Scotland. The fungus is gathered in
the hottest part of the year, and is then
hung up by string in the air to dry.
Some are dry before gathered and these
are said to be far more narcotic than
those artificially preserved. Usually
the fungus is rolled up like q bolus and
taken without chewing, for, if masti-
Gated, it is said to disorder the stomach.
One large or two small fungi produce
what is looked upon as pleasant state
OF intoXication for one day. The effect
a quantity of spirits or wine, except it
is delayed from one to two hours after
the bolus has been swallowed. At first
it produces very cheerful emotions Of
the mind. 1t renders some persons ex-
ceedingly active, and is stinulant to
muscular eXertion. Thus, if a person
affected by it wishes to step over
straw or small stick it i1npels him to
take jump sufficient to clear low
hedge or the trunk of tree. 1t keeps
those fond of music perpetually singing,
and under its influence tallative per-
son can neither keep secrets nor silence
hence it is a source Of danger to ladies
and politicians.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
REPLY POSTAL CARDS.



New Feature in the Mail Service.
An issue of double or reply postal
cards for domestic and international
use has been decided on by the mail
] authorities. 1t will soon be on sale in
the post Office at the rate of two cents
apiece. The card consists of two parts,
one for the message, the other for the
reply, the parts being separable by
means of scored line.
The message part of the card, says
the Philadelphia Press, has a stamp in
the upper right hand corner, bearing a
portrait of Gen. U. S. Grant in citizens
dress, three-quarters face, looking to
the left. in horizontally-lined oval
frame with line around its inner and
outer edges. A white five-pointed star
in small black circle is on either side
of the frame, which bears above the
words Message Card, - and below Zone
Cent " To the left of the stamp in
pre- minent black letters with outline
she ling are the words POSTAL Card
with Paid Reply" below which in
shaded German letters the inscription
United States of America appears,
and underneath the latter ''This Side
Is for Address Only The direction,
'Detach Annexed Card for Answer, is /
given in the lower left-hand corner.
The reply part is the same as the mes
sage part, except that it is marked Ere
ply Card,' and there is a little less print
ed matter. The color of the card is light
manila, and the ink employed black
The size is three and one-half by five
and one-half inches.
The international reply cards will
cost four cents each, and are, of course,
for foreign correspondence. The stamp
is horizontal lined oval frame, the
words Message Card and 1.-TWO Cents''
The head of Liberty, coro-
netted, as on the twenty-dollar gold |
piece, is in the frame, which is adj |
iressed with rosettes. To the left of
,he stamp in black, unshaded capitals
arranged in curve are the words;
Universal Postal Union" with the
equivalent in French underneath. A
border surrounds the whole, and ''Pos-
al Card with Paid Reply" and its
french equivalent also appear, as wen
IS the direction, ''Detach Annexed
ard for Answer" The reply part is the
anne except for a word or two, and the
mission of one line. The paper is
1ale gray, the imprint blue. The size
5 three and one-half by five and one
alf inches.
These cards must be properly used or
hey viii be thrown out of the mails.
the message card is not detached
he reply card will be unavailable as a
cstal card. The cards may net be
trimmed or mutilated nor anything be
asted to them except an address label.
he reply must in no ease be used fer
he original message, nor can the cards
. had in sheet form.
1t is not stated how soon they may be !
ad at the post Office, but they are cx-
ected soon.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
INDICATIONS OF AGE.
1t Is Shown IncontrovertibIy by a Mois
Eye aud Dry Palm.

1t Is Shown IncontrovertibIy by Moist
Eye aud Dry Palm.
"Do you know the surest indication
of old age?" said physician the other
day, according to the Albany Express.
The surest indications in man" he
continued, ARE a moist eve, dry
palm and a shrinllage of the calf of the
leg. All the indications are due to
some action of the nerves consequent
apon advancing years. In the matter
Of the eye the fifth section is inter
fered with, and it is this which causes
flow of water. The dryness of the
palms is caused by an interference with
Che functions of the body, also due to
the action of the nerves, and the
5hrinlage of the leg follows from SINH
ar causes. In old age, too, you notice
some men become more corpulent than
IN the early portions Of their lives.
With drinking men the change is often
produced by the quantity of saccharine
Thich they consume with their drinks.
md with those who do not drink it fol-
lows from other physiological changes.
As to the hair growing gray, it results
IN the majority of cases from the par
-ial closing of the hair cells and the re-
iuction Of the quantity of natural col
ring matter which the closing pro-
iuces. With women the dimness of the
we does not come so soon as it does in
men -
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
Altar of Roses Costs MONEY.

When you see genuine altar of
roses" offered on the bargain COUNTER
for twenty-five cents half-pint, YOU
are justified in suspecting that article,
remarks the Buffalo Commercial The
real altar comes in copper eanteens
which weigh about twenty ounces.
They are valued at one hundred dollars
apiece. The present supply of altar is
chiefly derived from small tract of
country on the southern side of the
Balkan mountains, in the Turkish prov
ince of Roumania. The principal seat
of the trade is IN the town of Kizanlik
and the daInask rose is the flower grown.
The peasants plant it in rows in gar
dens and field. During the month of
May the flowers are gathered by boys
and girls in sacks and close baskets.
The flowers are daily distilled that they
may lose none of their odor by delay.
1t is said that about seven thousand five
hundred pounds of flowers are required
to produce two and one-quarter pounds
of pure altar
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THEY DISTURBED HIS NAP.

! WAS Sleeping on q Mountain Lion and
Friends Walked Him by Shooting 1t.
''The most remarkable adventure
know of was that of a ten-year-old boy
in Colorado" said Rienzi Beauchamp to
st. Louis Globe-Democrat man. "a
party of us had gone from Pueblo for a
weeks hunting and fishing along the
Arkansas river. We carried tents and
camped out.
ga man named Britton had his young
son with him-a manly little fellow,
who could land a trout and bring down
an antelope with the best of us. One
day he got separated from the party,
lost his way, and spent the night in the
mountains. He had with him short
thirty-eight-caliber sporting rifle,
good weapon for small game, but in the
section where we camped mountain
lions were plentiful. His father was
well-nigh distracted, and we searched
all night for the adventurous youngster
without avail. Just at sun up we
started to return to camp. AS we de-
seconded ravine we discovered the OBJ
iect of our search sound asleep, with
his head pillowed on an enormous
mountain lion, which was curled up as
though enjoying a nap. Three of us
approached cautiously to within fifty
yards, drew bead on the animal and
at given signal fired.
''The brute never stirred. The boy,
whom we supposed dead, half rose,
rubbed his eyes, and inquired peevishly:
What are you fellers tryin' t do? l
killed this we're lion four hours ago."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
TO COLOR MEERscHAum PIPES.

Don't Smoke Fast, Let Your Bowl Cool
Repeatedly, Avoid Sudden Chill.
10 color meerschaum properly is an
art, says a writer in the Washington
Star In the first place one must smoke
1t slowly and only just fast enough to
keep TIE tobacco burning, without over
heating the bowl. As soon as have
smoked one pipeful of tobacco let the
pipe get cool again. In this way 1 shall
eventually give to the whole delicate
ly-shaded tint. Only a careless smoker
Will permit the bowl of his pipe to get
scorched around the edge. Further
more, new pipe should never be
smoked out of doors in cold weather
nor laid on cold marble or glass. as the
chill is apt to crack the meeschaum.
Meerschaum would not color at all but
for the fact that it is boiled in wax. If
used in its natural state it would quick
ly become soiled, the material being so
porous that it absorbs the slightest
moisture from the hand or anything it
comes in contact with But the wax
fills up the pores and gives the meer-
schaum sort of enamel. A pipe that
has been spoiled by overheating so that
1T will not color can be reboiled in wax
and restored to some extent. This kind
of work is done in the trade by experts
for it requires great skill. Vienna is
the greatest center for meerschaum
carving, which has attained very high
artistic development. The raw mate
rial comes in such odd shapes that much
skill is exercised in obtaining from each
piece pipe that shall be as large and |
well shaped as possible. The rough |
block is first soaked in water to make it
soft, when it can be cut as readily as
cheese. After the carving is completed
The final polishing is done by women,
With fine sandpaper and kind of grass.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-17
Baby .Iaok,a Theology.

The doctrine of original sin is diff
cult one to controvert, taking the
world at large into consideration, but
it is one which Baby Jack, aetat TWEEN
ty-three months, steadily and sturdily
refuses to admit into his theology. He
says: Now lay me-, with the utmost
fervor and in a language of his own,
which only the audacity of a mother
would claim to mean anything. He
asks: 'Dod" to "b'ess" every one of
his relatives to the forty-fourth de-
gree, not forgetting his pet cat and
''Hoo-Polly" the unclean rag-doll, but
when mamma prompts; please make
Jack good boy" Master Jack says:
"Das" in response as earnest as that of
any good Methodist brother. ''Das"
means ''yes," and Jack thinks he is a
good boy, and no moral suasion can in
duce him to suggest to Providence that
there is the slightest necessity for max
ing over.-N. Y. Recorder.
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THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II. 1892.
THE BRIGHT CONDUCTOR.
Still Passenger Worked or q Counter
felt Bill on Him.

1e-@- . = oooChBcr tOCktQ Ou IA SOuHbeT-
felt Bill on Him.
"No," said the cable-car conductor in
answer to question by Washington
Herald reporter, Il don't often get bit.
Some who are not up on money get left
badly sometimes, though. You would
not believe it, but l sometimes have as
many as half q dozen persons try to
work off mutilated money on me during
single trip But I'm not often caught;
I've had too much experience in making
change" The conductor then turned
to mild-loolSing man who had bill
folded lengthwise between his fingers.
The man with the bill had got on the car
some squares back. and the conductor
should have collected his fare before. but
he had allowed the man with the bill to
wait. As the conductor turned towards
him, the man with the bill said: ''Here,
quick, make your change, | want to get
off at this corner" He showed the bill
into the conductors hand; the latter
just looked at the denomination of the
bill, pushed his hand into Ills coat
pocket, and after being told tickets
by the passenger, gave him seventy-five
cents change. Then the passenger
jumped off, and the conductor took out
a long pocketbook in which he kept his
bills and prepared to put the one no
had just received with the rest. AS he
spread the bill out he took a second
look at it and his face assumed an
anxious expression. Then he looked at
it again and passed it to a bank clerk
who was standing on. the rear end OF
the car smoking a cigarette. The bank
clerk carefully scanned the bill and
then handed it back with the single
word counterfeit" Then the bright |
who had but moment be-
fore been Dragging about his shrewd-
ness, growled out: 'Duped againl
There goes half of my salary, too. l
think I'm the unluckiest man alivel'
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TO EXHIBIT THEoLD GENERAL. ;.
The Locomotive VIII stand in Front of
s!lo characterization Tuil6inr

The Locomotive VIII stand in Front of
tlio transportation building.
An interesting exhibit at the worlds
fair will be the old rebel engine Gen
eral, . which was at the beginning of
the war part of the equipment of the
Western G Atlantic railroad. In 1862
it was captured by andrews Raiders. -
many of whom paid the penalty of their
exploit with their lives Several wears
ago the General" was discovered
neglected and side-tracked at an OBJ
scure station in Georgia so overgrovn
with weeds that it could hardly be
seen. Some time afterward General
Manager Thomas, of the North Caro-
lima & st. Louis railroad, had the old
engine removed to the Atlanta loeono-
tive shops. Here it was put in precise
ly the same condition as when captured
in 1862. The General" was ten
aered the Chicago Commercial and Tray
cling MEMS clubs to draw the special
train to Rockford on the occasion Of the
great republican rally November 2.
When the fair opens the General will
De found in front of the Transporta-
ion building, where it is sure to be an
'bject of great attraction, especially to
he veterans of the war.