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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-11-17

Medicine

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-11-17

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-11-17
For consumption
For Bronchial Affections

Hoarseness, difficulty in breathing,
etc. This remedy acts ike magic.
Why risk your chiId's life?
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
CEREMONY AMONG BIRDS.
the Love of Display Among Species of
the Feathered Tribe.


The singular waited, winr-spurred
andlonG-toed jacanas have queer kind
OF meeting. They usually go singly or in.
pairs, but occasionally, in response to a
call by one of them, all who are within
hearing leave off feeding and fly to one
spot, where they walk about with their
beautiful wings erect or half open. or
waved up and down with a slow and
measured motion.
With these two species both sexes
JOIN in the display; but that of the spur
winged lapwing is altogether peculiar.
inasmuch as it takes place with three
individuals only. These birds live in
pairs, and at intervals during the day
or on moonlight nights one bird will
leave his mate and fly to another pair a
short distance away. These will re-
celve the visitor with signs of pleasure.
Ihey place themselves behind him.
first going to meet him, and all three
march rapidly, uttering special notes.
Then they stop; the leader stands erect
with elevated wings uttering loud
notes, while the other two, with pulled
out plumage, standing side bv side
SUoop forward till the tips of their beaks
touch the ground, and with a low muir
muHng sound remain for some mo-
mcnts IN this strange posture. Then
the visitor goes back to his own mound
md mate, and later on they receive a
visitor whom they treat in the same
'eremonious manner. They are said to
2e SO fond of this form of visiting that
.hey indulge in it all the year round.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
APPLES AS MEDICINE
The Phosphorus Found In Thorn Is an
Admirable Food for the Brain.

Inc PHOSPHORUS FOUND In Thorn Is an
Admirable Food for the Brain.
Chemically, the apple is composed of
vegetable fiber, albumen. sugar, gum.
chlorophyl, malic acid, gallic acid, lime
and much water, says Medical Age.
! Furthermore, the German analysts say
| that the apple contains a larger per-
centage of phosphorus than any other
fruit or vegetable The phosphorus is
admirably adapted for renewing the
essential nervous matter, leeithin, of
the brain and spinal cord.
1t is, perhaps, for the same reason,
rudely understood that old Scandinavian
traditions represent the apple as the
food of the gods, who, when they felt
themselves to be growing feeble and in
firm, resorted to this fruit for renewing
their powers of mind and body. Also
the acids of the apple are of signal use
for men of sedentary habits whose
lives are sluggish in action, those acids
serving to eliminate from the body
noxious matters which, if retained,
would make the brain heavy and dull,
or bring about jaundice or skin erup-
tions and other allied troubles.
Some such an experience must have
led to our custom of taking apple sauce |
with roast pork, rich goose and like
dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples,
either raw or cooked, will neutraIize
any excess of chall1y matter engendered
by eating too much meat. 1t is also the
fact that such fresh fruits as the apple,
the pear and the plum, when taken ripe
and without. sugar, diminish acidity in
5he stomach rather than provoke it.
Their vegetable sauces and juices are
converted into alkaline carbonates,
which tend to eounteract aciditY.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
Royal Funerals.

1t is said that the queen has recently
been concerning herself with the ar
rangement of royal funerals, and that
her majesty has caused long memo
randuln on the subject to be drawn up,
with a variety of new orders which cx-
tend to the most minute details. In
the future the body of defunct male
member of the royal family is to be
placed in the coffin in an attire of quite
different material from that worn by a
deceased female, and married people
are not to be treated the same as the
unmarried. The queens solicitude ex-
tends even to the making of the cofins,
and there are copious directions con-
corning them. Embalming is absolute
~ prohibited
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
HE HAD NERVE.
shown by the Fact That He Let n Rat
tier Wander on His Bosom.

shown by the Fact That He Let n Rat
tier Wander on His Bosom.
About two weeks ago l was stand
ing with party on the shore of Lake
Erie, not far from Ashtabula," said a
mill worker to the Syracuse Standard.
Shortly after we had retired one
evening l heard peculiar whirring
sound, which l recognized at once.
There's rattlesnake in campp / ex-
claimed. 4 am going to get up 'Hushr
came the word, slowly Kissed through
the teeth, from companion near
me. The snake has crawled into nv
shirt BOSOM This was very softly said
and we were almost paralyzed with
fright at the prospect. We were afraid
to stir for fear the reptile would take
alarm and strike its victim. 1t crawled
over his body good naturedly, evidently
enjoying the warmth, for the night was
q little raw.
AT times the snakes head was close
to his face, and he told us afterward he
feared the motion of his chest up and
down in breathing would stir up the
reptile, and tried hard to breathe as
little as possible Finally the snake
crawled toward the fire, and in an in
slant the whole camp was up. One
seized a club and broke the reptiles
back before it could make spring. 1t
nearly five feet.
The man who had the terrible ex-
collapsed like rag after it
was over. During the ordeal we were
Ill surprised at the GOODNESS and nerve
he displayed. With all danger .ssed
lie fell into faint, but he soon revived. !"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
DOGS IN THE TURKISH CAPITAL.
Have No Special Owners and Live in
Groups of SIX to Ten.

Have No Special Owners and Live In
Groups of Six to Ten.
The dogs of Constantinople form a
class of as much Importance as other
Asiatic races, says a correspondent OF
the Church Union. The Europeans
have used their influence, backed bv
money, to destroy these dogs, either by
killing or banishing them: but the
Turl1s-from the humblest servant who
divides his crust with them, to the i'm
perial sultan, who has them fed from
/ his palace-shows an affection for them
which is surprising. The dogs live in
communities of six, eight or ten, and
each set appropriates to itself certain
section of FROM one to three squares.
The most intelligent dog seems to be
the president or commander of the
group.
They are very friendly with all
the inhabitants who live IN their
special locality, while they show
no recognition to those who pass
their highway if they do not
reside there. They guard their
ground and do not allow any other dog
to intrude. | noticed one stray dog
which came around the corner, thereby
infringing on the other dogs territory;
he was attacked at once, and ba rely es-
capped with his life
These dogs have no especial owner
each block or square having its own
group of dogs. They seem to know
every man, woman and child who lives
in their neighborhood, and their tails
wag whenever any of these make their
appearance. ] remember coming
through one of the narrow streets late
one night, and as it was quite warm 1
took off my coat and hat. One
dog commenced to bark, then another
and another followed suit. The guide
told me l must put on my hat, as the +
dogs had recognized that I was for
eigner and that they were evidently dis
pleased at my attempt to go through
their principally in my shirt sleeves. L
took the advice of the guide and the
howl of the dogs ceased
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
FAMILY GRAvEYARDS.
Lonesome Sights That Are to Be. Seen on
Southern Indiana Farms.

| southern luuidua tdrinS.
'There is no place like southern Indi-
ana for graveyards," said resident of
Bloomfield, Ind, to a Chicago Globe
man recently. CHOW, that section in
Guiding Green, Monroe, Brown and Sui
Ivan counties is wonderland to trav-
erse. 1t looks as though the old settlers of
fifty years ago wanted each one to have
a graveyard of his own. Every mile or
two, often far from any roadway, total
ly inaccessible to wagons without lay
ing waste the fences, you come upon
little rock-walled or rail-bound in
closures containing the dead OF one
family. Father, mother and several
children lie there, and none others.
'These places have long been for
salen and forgotten. Weeds flourish in
profusion and hide the wind and rain
stained tombstones from view. Often
with a companion l have entered one
of those little Enclosures, trampled and
torn out the weeds and righted the Eve
or six headstones that had fallen and
buried even the inscribed virtues of the
dead into the worny earth.
"These people had no country church.
yard. No preacher except the visiting
parson who came monthly on horse
back. They had no funeral in the pres
ent sense of the word. Plain wooden
boxes were used for collins and often
the sturdy youth of the family made
the coffin for the dead parent or rela-
tive. These little spots were dear to
those families. One can see that by the
loving little inscrip tions and decora-
tons. When they were all dead no one
remained to care for them and they fell
into decay and ruin.
''They are lonesome sights, those
little groups of white pillars. In the
winter when the trees are bare and the
grass dead, have seen hocks of crows
coming and circling about the cluInp of
rees that usually cluster about those
places. The bitter wind means through
he cracking branches and those crows
Wheel about and cav and croalz until
he world seems truly place OF sorrow
nd death"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
Glass Eyes Are Cheap.

Glass eyes can now be purchased at
less than one dollar each, although at
this price there is not much choice in
the matter of shade. The cheapest
grades are manufactured in Germany.
but in some parts Of England they are
produced at very trifing expense. The
highest priced grades are made in Paris.
whittier very sensitive people who want
to avoid detection OF their loss have
been known to travel from great dis
tances in order TO insure the greatest
variety to select from. There are hun
dreds of shades, both in the white and
the dark portions, and deception is
quite easy. A costly glass eye will last
nearly lifetime, especially if it is
taken good care of and not worn day
and night.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10

On the strength of his remarkable
resemblance to ex-senator Miller, 9
Philadelphia insurance agent gained
entrance some time ago to the floor of
the senate chamber at Washington.
He was at first challenged, but when
he lignantly said to the doorlseeper:
Don't you know me?" that official
made profound obeisance and opened
the door forthwith. 1t is said that this
interesting Philadelphia was once in
PRODUCED to Gen. Grant as Senator Mil
Ter, and the general did not discover
the mistake.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
CURIOUS COURTING.
Fisher Folk Who Marry In an On-Hand
Fashion.

Fashion.
On the shores of the Moray Firth-the
spot need not be more specifically local
ized-there is o flourishing little village
of some fourteen hundred inhabitants.
consisting chiefly of fisher folk. The
young man and maiden do not court in
the orthodox fashion. Their method is
much more prosaic, and what is charac-
teristic OF one case may generally be
accepted as characteristic of them all.
There is, of course, an occasional in
stance of genuine old-fashioned court
ship, but that is rather rare excen-
ton.
Mother" said one young man on his
return from a successful herring fishing;
I'm goen to get merrid'
"Weel, Jcems, a think We sh'd iust
gang an ask yer cousin Maracls." And,
as he had no particular preference, he
went straight away to ask her.
"Wull ye tax me, Maracll?' was the
brusque and business-lille query which
he put to the young woman in the pres
ence of her sister Bella.
But Mary had promised her hand to
another that same evening. 81 Gamma
talk We, Jeems," was her reply; and then
turning to her sister: TAX we i'm, Bel
lack" And the sister took him.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
A WEED THAT EATS FISH.
a Remarkable Instance of a Plant Which
Is Carniverous.

n Remarkable Instance of Plant Which
Is Carniverous.
Commander Alfred Carpenter, writing
from Suakin, Red sea country, contrib
utes the following remarkable instance
Of plant preying upon one of the YER
tebrata. The instance noted was OBJ
served by him when surveying Paracel
islands, in the South China sea. ''* y II
AS neared a pool cut off by the tide
from the sea 1 noticed among other sub
marine plants very ordinary looking
fesh-colored weed.
Bending to inspect it closer / no
ticed numbers of small fish lying help
lessly in It's fronds, apparently with lit
tie or no life in them. Putting my hand
down to pick one of them up l found
my fingers caught by suckers on the
weed. the fronds of which had closed
tightly upon them. The fish had been
caught in every conceivable way-bv
the head, the tail, sides. ETC., and some
of them had been held until the skin
was completely maceratcd. Those of
the fish that were still living had evil
IDENTIFY been caught at different times.
they appearing in all stages of exhaus-
ton. I regret being unable to name
either the plant or the fish, but that the
cannibal really preyed upon
the fnny denizens OF the deep there
isn't the least doubt"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
GROWTH OF TIE HAIR.
How 1t Is Affected by Certain Kinds of
Food-Dict Affects the Length.

HOW 1t Is Affected by Certain Kinds of
Food-Dict Affects the Length.
The influence of diet upon the growth
of hair is the subject of paper in which
the writer says: Several cases of she'd
ding of hair after influenza have CON
firmed my opinion that diet has much
to do with the production and with the
cure of symptomatic alopecia. Hair
contains five per cent. of sulphur, and
its ash twenty per cent of silicon and
ten per cent of iron and manganese.
Solutions of beef, or rather part of it,
starchy mixture, and even milk, which
constitute the diet of patients with in
fluenza and other fevers, cannot supply
these elements, and atrophy at the
roots and falling of hair result.
The color and strength of hair in
young mammals is not attained so long
as milk is the sole food AS to drugs,
iron has prompt influence. The foods
which most abundantly contain the
above named elements are the various
and the oat, the ash of
that grain yielding twenty-five per
cent. of silicon. 1 have often found a
dietary largely composed of oatmeal
and brown bread greatly promote the
growth of hair, especially when the
was preceded by constipation
md sluggish capillary circulation.
Those races of men who consume most
neat are the most hirsute.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10

Why .the Birds" Are Not Disturbed by
the Miners.

tne hlHerS.
The miners of Colorado who have
built cabins on the mountain sides know
what a pest the small brown wood
ST Ter proves to be, says the Great Di-
vide, They throw their webs over our
best clothes, cooking utensils, in every
corner where you can get them in your
eyes and mouth. Not only that, but
they will drop into the frying pan,
water bucket or upon the table where
you are eating.
But nature furnished remedy and q
friend when she gave the spider hawk.
The name is given by miners to a small
steel-blue wasp, about three-fourths of
an inch in length. He can easily be
recognized by che quick, nervous strokes
OF his wings. They build a nest up
among the rafters of your cabin of wood
pulp or furze from the outer coating of
old dead trees Then they are ready
for business. Every few minutes You
can see your hawk climb up the rafters
with spider, sometimes CARRYING one
four or five times its own weight. Some
times they get a spider so heavy that
they will fall many times before they
succeed in reaching their nest. They
never give up, but keep on trying until
they succeed. When the spider is safe
~ placed in the nest the female hawk
deposits her egg in the dead body.
The hawks live only in pairs as far as
my observation goes. They become
rather tame and seem to be obliged to
you for building the spider trap for their
heneht
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
DOGS IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
CANNES Had Very Easy Time in Tho
Land of the Pharaohs.

| CANNES Hau very Easy Time In the
Land of the Pharaohs.
In Egypt the dog was friend and
faithful servant, says Nature He lived
in the house with his master, followed
him in his walks, attended the public
ceremonies, sometimes free, at other
times held in leash by slave or child,
or in princely families by a favorite
dwarf. At his meals he had his place
marked under the benches of the guests.
The house dog was shaved, combed
and washed He was sometimes tinted
with henna, as if he were a woman.
He wore fine collars on his neck, fur
nished sometimes with an earthenware
clasp in the shape of a bell or flower
Children played with him, became at
tached TO him, and the hero of one
story, to whom his father had predicted
at his birth that he would die of the
bite of a dog, willingly confronted
the threatening danger rather than be
separated from the dog he had raised
He, of course, had name to which
he answered-Si-toga, the ferreter;
Khaoubsen, the lamp or star; Soubon,
the strong, and Nahsi, the black
He is seen with kings as well as with
common persons. Rameses II. during
the earlier years of his reign was al
ways escorted by female dog, which
was called Anaitiennal1tou, or Brave
as the Goddess Anaitis." A petty king
of the eleventh dynasty, about $500 B. c.,
had five dogs, which he so loved that he
carved their names and engraved their
portraits on his tomb. They were, in
deed, blooded animals, whose names re
vealed their foreign origin. The finest
Of them was called Abikarou, faithful
of the word abailkour, by
which the hunting dog is designated in
many of the Berber districts.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 1892.
BEATS THE EIFFEL TOWER.
An Extraordinary Wonder Work of Ma
ture In Wyoming.

ture In Wyoming.
One of natures strangest freaks-one
OF the greatest wonders of the world
is the Devils tower, or as the Sioux In
dams call it, the Mateo tepee, or the
bears lodge, which stands on the banks
of the Belle Fourche river, in a north
eastern county of Wyoming, says the
Portland Oregonian. The country for
fifty miles around consists of high table
land, deep canyons and narrow, fertile
valleys-nothing to indicate the posi-
bic existence of any such freak of ma
ture.
The tower is gigantic column, a
monster obelisl1 of lava, which rises to
a height of seventeen hundred and
twenty-seven feet, almost twice the
height of the Eiffel tower. At the base
the huge shaft measures three hundred
and twenty-siX feet through in one di-
rection. Huge crystals of the volcanic
rock, measuring one to three feet
through, start at the base and run I'M
broken to the top, giving to the column
a peculiar fibrcus appearance, even
when viewed from the tablelands forty
miles away.
How did it get there? How was it
made? Once in awhile in the present
age we have heard how portions of the
bottom of one of the oceans have been
pushed up by volanic forces, and even
new island added to the charts Ages
on ages ago similar volcanic forces
started jet of lava up from the bot
tom of the ancient geological ocean
that covered all the northwest at that
time. The squirt of molten rock evil
IDENTIFY did not break through it into the
waters above, but froze, as an iron man
would say, in the hole it had made.
This slow cooling off, the gradual loss
OF its fiery energy, probably lasted for
many long years, and gave time for the
particles to arrange themselves in the
huge crystals that arouse all our aston
ishment to-day.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
Locomotlves Of the wor1a

One hundred and nine thousand loco
motives are at present running on the
earth. Europe hasG3, 900, America &c. 900,
Asia $500, Australia 9, 900 and Africa 700.
In Europe Great Britain and Ireland
take premier position with 1900 en-
glhes' Germany has $4,000, France, H.
wv Austria-Hungary, 5000, Italy 1000,
Russia $500, Belgium 1000, Holland
ana spain 1000 each, Switzerland 900
ana the remaining European states
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
Calculation Extraord,n,,u

Some people who are not harassed by
the daily bread" problem seem to de-
light IN researches which have no other
erect than to settle point which was
never disputed. Sir Archibald Geilsie.
OF the British association, after much
careful thought and patient investiga-
ton, together with deal of figuring.
has come to the conclusion that the.
world is between IS, 900, 900 and CSC. OOO.-
oOo years old. Rather wide margin,
it would seem.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-12-10
MOUNTAINS IN THE ATLANTIC.
Their Tops Covered with shells Miles Be-
low the Surface.

low the Surface.
-Four years ago the British govern
ment sent out an expedition to map the
| bottom of the Atlantic ocean. The
| work is now about completed and q re-
port has been issued. 1t shows that il
the water were drained away the bed of
the ocean would show Il vast plain trav-
ersed near the center by mountain
range running parallel with the Anncri-
can coast. Another range. running
almost at right angles to this. extends
from Newfoundland to Ireland. In a
general way these facts were known
before, but it is now ascertained that
the tops of these sea mountains are
about two miles below the surface and
that the basins, instead of being '.un-
fathomcd depths" are about four and
one-lialf miles below the surface. Oh
course this is far enough, but one would
Il great deal rather know that the bot
tom is five miles down than to be tola
that its location has not been aseer-
tanned. The latter is SO utterly hope
less. curious fact regarding the
mountains is that their tops are as
white as though they lay in the region
of perpetual snow. The reason for
this, according to the Rochester Post
Express, is that the mountains are
thicllly covered with a species OF pure
white shells. The legends OF Che lost /
Atlantis are borne out by the finding of
IAN elevated plateau, the shape and ex-
tent of which corresponds to the size OF
he lost Atlantis almost exactly.''