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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-23

Standard trotting bred "7NILKES
STALLION.n Rule VI. Vol. VIII.
Bay horse. star. hind ankles white,
154 hands high, weight 1859 pounds.
Bred by Crib Davis, Harrodsburs,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
ALL KINDS OF SCIENCE.

TEN MILLION nerve fbers are said to
be found in the human body.
A DEPTH of 2,406 fathoms has been
lately found in the Mediterranean, the
greatest yet known in the sea.
THE sun, according to observations
by Prof. Bass, of the Dudley observa-
tory, has a velocity of twenty-six miles
per second.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON of England,
says that out of every ten patients which
came under his knife, nine would never
have done so had it not been for errors
of eating and drinking.
OcULrsTs profess to have discovered a
connection between wood pavemepts
and ophthalmia. It is said that the
gaseous emanations from the pavement
are very injurious to the organs of Vi
sion.
A FRENCH electro-metallurgieal com
pany asserts that it will be able to sell
the aluminium at price equivalent to
less than Is cents a pound, provided it
is in a position to dispose of a yearly
output of 5000 tons of the metal.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
DoINes OF FOREIGNERS.


THERE are seven Hebrew members
who have seats in the British house of
commons, and they are all related to
the Rothschild family.
MADELINE BRoHAN, one of the most
charming of the actresses of the
Francois, turns out to be the daughter
OF a Scotehman named Brown.
THE costliest cigars ever exported
from Havana were quantity made ex-
pressly for the prince of Wales, and
valued at s1.s7 apiece in the factory.
BARON HIRscH is said by London
newspaper to be the richest man the
world has ever known, the statement
being that he is worth six million
pounds sterling year. This implies
a capital of about five hundred million
dollars
AMoNG several hundred congratula-
tory messages received by Carl Hell
merding on his SEVENTEEN birthday
was one from Prince Bismarck, which
was as follows: Heartfelt good wishes.
But the first seventy years are the
best )"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
IN MuSlC'S REALM.

THE list of musical prodigies in Bos-
ton at present includes a young Cbero-
l1ee Indian girl.
IT is reported that Salvini is soon to
make tour of the world, and win play
a long engagement in this country.
Able LIszr's first concert programme,
when he was only nine years old, has
been discovered. 1t bears the date of
1920 The performance was given in
0ldenburg.
THE highest priced piano in the United
States belongs to the Marquand family
of New York city. It was designed and
painted by Alma Tadema, and cost
forty-six thousand dollars.
PIETRo MAscAGNI, the brilliant young
musical composer, whose "Cavelleria
Rusticana" attracted so much attention
last season, has finished new opera,
Lies Rantzans,' which is soon to be
performed in Florence He has also in
hand two operas, ''Vestilia" and
'zanetto," and will attempt a grand
five-act opera, "Nero."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
FOREIGN GATHERINGS.


THE Nile has fall of only six inches
in 1000 miles.
A LAPLANDER will often skate 15C
miles in day.
In WITH, East Africa, they are max
ing sugar from cotton seed, which is
fifteen times sweeter than sugar made
from cane.
MONACO, with its territory of eight
square miles and its standing army of
1876 men, proposes to have universal
exposition next year
In Germany aluminium cravats are
now on sale. They are advertised as
feather-light, silverwhite wash-goods
that will wear forever.
DURING the month of October the
rainfall in Paris was three times as
great as the average, and heavier than
in any year since 1860. The mean
temperature was IL degrees cent?
grade below the average.
THE city council of Vienna recently
suppressed a gymnastic society for
adopting the colors of the German
empire for its own and passing a res
olution to admit no foreigner except
Germans to membership.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
ALL OVER THE GLOBE.


YUcATAN is said to rival Jersey in
giant mosquitoes
A COUNTRY jail in Mexico is said to
consist of a live oak tree. with chain
and staple attached.
IT is estimated by explorers that one
third the people inhabiting the Congo
basin are cannibals.
ROBINSON CRUsoE's island, Juan Fer
nandoz is inhabited by about sixty per-
sons, who attend to the herds of cattle
that Craze there.
THE largest volcano in the world is
at Manna Loa in the Sandwich islands.
The crater is twenty miles in diameter,
and the stream OF lava flowing from it
is fifty miles long and in places four
miles wide.
A CURIOUS custom exists in southern
India among some of the primitive non
Aryap tribes. This consists of wedding
a girl t. a plant. tree, an animal, or
even an }nanimate object, the notion
being that i'll luck will be averted by
union of this kind.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
WORDS OF THE WISE.

He who would not be Illustrate of his
hope to write well hereafter in laudable
things, ought, himself, to be a true
poem.-Milton.
NEVER speak anything evil of man
if you do not know it for q certainty;
and, If you know it for a certainty, then
ask yourself: ''Why should 1 tell it?"-
Lavater.
ENOUGH that thing is. The birds
sing and the stars move in majesty over
the wilderness and no man sees the
splendor. In fact, everywhere in and
out Of man more passes unseen than
seem. P. Richter.
IT is not merely the right, it is the
duty of every one competent to the task
to do what in him lies to strengthen the
fitful and uncertain influence Of a sound
intellect upon the vast and intricate
tumble of conflicting opinions in the
world at large.-Leslie Stephen.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
; HOME AND SOCIETY.

WHITE mahogany is the latest fashion
in furniture woods.
FOLIAGE effects are late decorative
table schemes with florists.
LARGE heur-de-lis jardinieres come
in yellow-shaded brown and red pot
terry.
A SPRAY of pure oil Of turpentine
mixed with one per cent. of lavender
oil is said to have an astonishing effect
in purifying the air of living rooms,
the action being attributed to the ozone
formed.
SEVERAL observant ladies have dis
covered that vegetarians have clear
compleyions, and have either renowned
the use of meat entirely or partalze Of
it sparingly. Lady Peget, wife of the
British ambassador of the Austrian
court, is one of the recent converts to
voCetarianisln.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
SOME EXAMINATION PAPERS.
Struggling Students in India Their
Knowledge of History.

Struggling students in India L Their
knowledge of History.
A writer in the Deccan Budget gives
some amusing examples of mistakes
made by Indian students in their ex-
animation papers. In q historical paper
the question was to explain the SEN
tence, ''She Queen Nary was not
only his wife, but his friend" The
translator made the passage to run:
''She was not only his wife, but the
wife of all his friends
Another student has given an eE-
PLANTATION of Salic law which ct once
accounts for the fact that monarchy
has come to an end in Franco. lie de-
fines Sale law as "a law in Franco by
which no man deacerded from the fe-
male sex was to get the French crown.
One student explained that '.the
habeas corpus act was a very important
act passed in 1928. 1t declared that the
bread and wine taken at the Lords
supper is the real blood and body Of
Christ .
Another who imagined the act Of
uniformity to be law said that it
meant that all soldiers should dress
alike"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
FARMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

On the average the potato crop OF
Jersey is yearly worth to the growers
about three and half millions ster-
ling.
A FARMER living near Scott City,
Kan, raised enough wheat from 100
acres this year to pay for 500 acres add
joining.-N. Y. Press.
THE tea crop in the Assam valley is
the smallest on record. Compared with
last years it shows decrease of S,000,-
900 pounds.
HEAVY shipments of inseed have
been made to England from India at
very low prices, owing to the cheapness
of silver. Indian exports to the United
States are also large at low values
THE average price obtained for colo
NAL woods in the grease at the London
sales was IS cents per pound in 1885,
10 cents in 1856 and 1888, 81 cents in
1899 and 1890 and 20 cents in 1887 and
1891.
THE last seasons shipment of Aus
tralian fruit to London was proftless
to shippers, owing chiefly to inferior
packing. Another such season will de
stroy the English market for Australian
fr-11it
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
DO YOU KNOW

THAT stale bread will clean kid
gloves?
THAT bread crumbs cleanse silk
gowns?
THAT gloves can be cleaned at home
by rubbing with gasoline?
THAT tooth powder is an excellent
cleanser for fine fligree jewelry?
THAT corlls warmed in oil make ex-
cellent substitutes for glass shoppers?
THAT little vaseline, rubbed in once
day, win keep the hands from chap
ping?
THAT a lump of camphor in your
clothespress Will keep steel ornaments
from furnishing?
THAT milk, applied once week with
soft cloth, freshens and preserves
boots and shoes?
THAT weak spots in a black silk waist
may be strengthened by sticking
courtplaster underneath?
THAT gum arabic and gum tragacanth
in equal parts dissolved in hot water
make the best and most convenient mu-
cilage you can keep in the house?
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
WHAT FLOWERS TEL.
Language That Our Grandm others
Knew by Heart.

a Language That Our Grandmothers
Knew by Heart.
The language of flowers is study at
once interesting and innocent, cultivat-
ing as it does taste for the works of
nature, filling the soul with the sweet
est emotions and presenting to view one
oftle most enchanting phases of beau
full world of wonders.
Following are few of the best known
flowers and the sentiments which they
represent:
Sweet alyssum, worth beyond beauty;
apple blossom, preference; bachelors
button, single and seliis h; balm. sym
pathy; barberry, sourness; candytuft,
Indifference; carnation pink, wonan's
love; Chinese chrysanthemum, cheer
fulness under misfortune; clematis, men
tai beauty; columbiue, folly; red clover,
industry.
Dahlia signifies dignity; white daisy,
innocence; faded leaves, melancholy;
forget-lne-not, remembrance; ionquil
affections returned; lily of the valley,
return Of happiness; myrtle, love in alb
sence; pansy, you occupy my thoughts;
moss rose, l am worthy of love, sun
flower, haughtiness; yellow rose, inf
deity.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
AdvertIslng il the Clonds.

The old idea of advertising by throw
ing illuminated designs on the clouds
has been revived in England and some
Of the London papers are appalled, at
the prospects which it opens out. 1t
appears that select party of engineers
gathered together near London, made
some very successful experiments in
throwing luminous letters on the clouds
by means of electricity and the surges-
ton to cover the sky with huge, fam
ing advertisements naturally followed.
One leading paper, after expressing the
conviction that the county council have
battled in vain against ''s1y signs" on.
the top of houses, if the clouds them
selves are utilized for business pur-
poses, states that it has received let
ter from three electricians to the effect
that they had patented an invention of
this nature six months ago. They
further assert that not only did thew
succeed in projecting images of letters.
and landscapes on natural clouds. but
were able to create artificial clouds for
the purpose so as to be practically indie
pendent Of the weather.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
4 Cnrinnn Ritn

The ceremonies attending the inaupu-
ration OF new railroads are scarcely sim
liar IN the east to those which prevail
IN America. At the opening of the
Ja1fa-Jerusaiem railway a curious Mos
lem rite was observed. Three sheep
were slaughtered and their blood be-
sprinkled on the rails before the first
!rain was allowed to proceed upon it's
journey. This superstitious ceremony
had FOR its object the soaring away of
evil genii, who would have otherwise
eNerted a baneful influence upon pas
sengers using the line.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
THIS WAS MANLY SPORT.
Some of the Features Included in the
Olympian Games.

Some of the Features Included in the
Olympian Games.
The sacred games of Olympia were in
stituted nearly seven centuries before
Christi and an oath, confirmed by sacri-
fee, was imposed on the athletes before
they entered the lists, binding them to
play fair and take no fraudulent advan-
tage over the other competitors.
A reference to these national festi-
walls of ancient Greece says Black
woods Magazine call to mind their ex-
traordinary duration. There is no
modern parallel to them in this respect.
We reckon our derby, our university
boat race, our Elton and Harrow cricket
match, to be venerable institutions, but
they are very epheneral observanees,
in sooth, compared with, say, the 18th
milan games, which, founded about b.
c. $50, still constituted, three centuries
and q half later, sufficiently i'm
portant anniversary for Flaminius to
select it as the occasion for proclaiming
the liberty of Greece in B. C. 1876, and,
two centuries and half later still, for
Nero to repeat the proclamation in A.
d. CT. Such permanence puts to shame
the life of a dynasty, and there is GER
tainly no important event in our sport
ing world which derives its origin from
the year 1900.
But there is another remarkable
feature about these gatherings, namely,
the unchanging character of the per-
Torrance enacted at them. Assuming
the era of Homer to have been five
centuries earlier than the Inauguration
of the Isthmian games, that is, about
b. G. 1000, the sports which he enumc
rates as taking place at the funeral of
Patroolus were identical, not only with
those of the olympian, Nemean and !
celebrations, but strangely |
similar to a programme of the present |
day. Chariot and footraees. boxing,
wrestling and putting the stone are
of competitive exercises Of |
the nineteenth century.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
SAoen AslVD me-.

ONLY eight of the sixty-nine Thousand
Frenchmen who fought under Napoleon
at Waterloo are now alive and in
France.
EIGHTEEN teams of British infantry,
each composed of eight men and lead
er, have had race of ffty-four miles.
Seven of the teams came in without
losing man, the first doing the dis
lance in about seventeen and half
hours.
THE duke of Connaught, who will re-
ceiye 100000 a year as commander-in-
chief of the army, gets as much more
from the civil list as royal duke and
for acting as colonel of several regi-
ments $1,000 each. His elder brother
duke of Edinburgh, does even better.
THE remains of all the French and
German soldiers who fell during the
siege of 1870 and were inferred in the
different cemeteries in and around
Kronenberg were disinterred on the I'd
inst, and deposited in single tomb in
the cemetery of ST. Urban in Stras-
burg.
OF fourteen torpedo boats ordered by
the British government four are to be
$50 feet long, of a speed of 81 knots, or
about 81 statute miles. The extreme
speed obtain ed by torpedo boat is
credited to the Adler, built at Elbing,
Germany, 274 knots. She is only 1872
feet long.-N. Y. Sun.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
ENeLAND's SOVEREIGN.

QUEEN VICTORIA has a cabinet of Rose
du Barri china which is said to be worth
S15O,0OO. The servant girl is not allowed
to dust it.
QUEEN VICTORIA has not worn corsets
for many years. Princess Beatrice fol-
lows her mother in this respect, and
has also discarded the corset.
QUEEN VICTORIA has a Swiss dessert
service which is valued at s25O,OOO. She
carries the key of the cabinet in her
pocket for fear the family cat might get
among the precious crocbery.
THE sons of the emperor of Germany
will visit England shortly and will
have to be very good boys while they are
staying with their great-grandmother,
the queen, who likes children ''to be
seen, not heard
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
WHAT is NEw9

MANY small fur cravats of the entire
animal for the neck and hat crowns.
MONT dresses of white or natural
wool taffeta trimmed with wooden lace
PERSIAN embroideries for hat and
bonnet crowns and GALLON trimming.
VIOLET velvet and silk for combining
with brown, gray, dark blue and black.
FANCY theater waists Of striped silk
trimmed with lace and bright galloon.
BLACK dresses trimmed in a color to
match the colored silk figure of the
goods.
STAMPED Persian velvet and heavy
rich cashmere or Persian silks for com
bination. Dry Goods Economist
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
A COLLECTION OF ALL KINDS

PARROTS cost but 10 cents each to the
dealers in South America.
THE discovery has been made that
india-rubber trees grow wild in Lee
county. Florida.
A LITTLE girl in Buckley, Wash, aged
fourteen. committed suicide rather than
attend school.
THE staff Of life is the staple produc-
ton of q firm named Death & Clutch,
in Franklin, o. They run flour mill.
THE Western Michigan diocese has
decided that hereafter, at all vestry
meetings, women may vote for vestry-
men.
HAIR dye is considered so detrimental
to long life that Paris insurance com
pany refuses to insure the lives of per-
sons who use it.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
FROM TEE AND RusH.

JAY GOULD will loan to the bureau OF
Horticulture Of the worlds fair plant
thirtyfour feet high.
IL certain parts of India, cocoanut
trees, once almost lifeless in appear
ance, have been made to yield abund-
antly by placing salt at the roots.
TIE largest and oldest chestnut tree
in the world stands at the foot of Mount
Etna. 1t is 213 feet in circumference
and is known to be at least 1900 years
old.
IN 1885, when the entire Dutch nation
was crazy upon the subject Of tulips, a
single bulb was sold for 81, 200. At such
prices it would pay better to raise tulips
than TO own the most valuable gold
mine in the world.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
SUNSHINE IN OFFICES.
Why Business People Prefer Typewriters
of Happy Disposition.

Why Business People Prefer Typewriters
of Happy Disposition.
Il have been reading in the daily pa
pers the complaint of typewriter girl
who was discharged because she was
homely, and her place given to "a pretty
young woman, who looked up and
smiled sweetly when anybody asked
her to turn off couple of dozen lines
for them, (" said Otto Bergman to re-
porter for the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
''Most business men prefer to have for
an amanuensis a pretty woman with a,
sunny smile to a homely one who causes
the Thermometer to fall dozen degrees
when she enters the Office Nothing
can be more disagreeable than woman
who possesses both a homely face and a
suilen disposition. A woman cannot.
well avoid being homely, but she can
avoid being sour. She can learn to
look up and smile sweetly' when asked
to perform a task. A sunny disposition
is no despicable capital. It will carry
one smoothly through the world, while
one possessing more skill or business
acumen is ever laundering in Serbonian
bogs. The girl who looks up and
smiles sweetly' is pretty apt TO crowd
her sullly sisters out Of good-paying-
positions"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER "a 1892.
FOR INFORMATION.


THE swiftest runner on earth is the
ostrich.
TOPOGRAPHY is taught in the Michi-
gan penitentiary.
EGYPTIAN mummies recently exam
ined show that the women of those days
wore corsets.
NEARLY as many people die in all the
world every year as form the popula-
ton of this country.
THE men employed in the Michigan
basket factories make a grape basket
apiece each minute.
A SUFFERER is rarely seen among
savages, 1t is certain that no record
exists of an Indian stammerer.
GOLD to the value of several thousand
dollars was found in meteorite which
recently fell on the ranch of Orley
Adams in Bruneau valley, Idaho.
A HUNTING horn in Limoges enamel,
made in 1880, and which is believed to
have formerly belonged to Horace Wal
pole, was sold recently for $500 guineas.
PHOENIX, A. T., has been properly
named. The ashes of prehistoric resi-
dents preserved in urns have just been
discovered in deep excavations made
there.
SAMUEL IRWIN, of Lake county, Ind,
has been married nine times. Two of
his wives are dead. the law annulled
the marriage of six, and he has just led
the ninth to the altar.
BY special order of President Har-
rison the widows of union soldiers and
sailors who have once been employed
by the government will not be forced to
undergo a civil service examination
when reappointed
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
SMILES.

WHEN the small boy starts early for
the pantry it isn't to avoid the JAM
Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT is probable that if the Dalton boys
had thought it over they would have
foreseen that the residents of CofGey-
vile would stand their grounds.-Buf-
falo Express.
SHE shouldn't say shoulder armsn
to those cavalrymen.' "Why not?'
''They have nothing but swords. He
ought to say shoulder bladesr IN. Y.
Sun.
"HAvE you ever crossed the ocean,"
mo, and don't think 1 ever will. +"
''Then you don't know what it is to
realize that land is out of sight, turn
in whatever direction you may" ''Yes,
1 do, though. I've been in western
town boom Chicago Inter Ocean.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
INDUSTRIAL POINTS.

THE linen manufactured yearly in
England could be wrapped round the
earth seven times.
II is estimated that last year Arizona
produced s3.o0O,o00 in gold, $4,000, coo in
silver and $500, coo in copper.
THREE HUNDRED MILLION of eggs are
used every year in this country in MAX
ing albumen paper, used in photog-
raphy.
THE largest needle mandatory in
the world is in Redditch, Worcester
shire, England. Over 7O,oOO,000 are
made weekly.
THE Patriotic association of Meclzlen-
burg-Schwerin, Germany, VIII make an
exhibit of wheat, seeds and dairy prod
ucts, on March and 5, 1892.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
In THE ORIENT.

TIE telephone has been known in In
'dia for thousands of years.
In India there is a species of crow that
laughs just like human being.
NINETEEN HUNDRED Japanese are to
establish colony in Sinaloa, Mexico.
A NATIVE newspaper at Japan Ia
ments the decay of good manners among
newly-educated Japanese girls.
THERE is tooth of Buddha. pre-
served and worshiped in an Indian
temple. which probably all the gold in
the world could not buy
STOCKINGS made from human hair are
worn by Chinese fishermen as the best
preventive of wet feet. They are drawn
over ordinary cotton stockings being
too rough for putting near the skin.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-24
STRANGE ENDS 70 LIVES.

LELY died of jealousy at the success
of Sir Godfrey Kneller.
ELPBENsToNE died of a broken heart
over the results Of the battle of Flod-
den.
EMPERoR FREDERICK III. and his son,
Maximilian l., both died of eating too
heartily of melons.
NALEYTIA, the Spanish theologian,
died Of grief because he was accused by
the pope Of having falsified passage in
st. Augustine.
ALoNzo CAYo, a French painter and
sculptor of the seventeenth century, is
said to have had such q fine sense of pre-
cision and symmetry that he refused to
kiss poorly-executed cross within less
than an hour Of tho time Of his death.