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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
TWENTY MILLION YEARS.
In That Time the Extinction of the Sun
Will Kill This Earth.

According to all probability, not
understanding all the circumstances
which threaten it, our planet will die,
not of an accident, but natural death,
says Camille Flammarion in T. Astron-
omie. That death will be the conse-
quence of the extinction of the sun in
twenty million years or morc-perhaps
thirty-since its condensation at rcla-
lively moderate rate will give it on one
hand seventeen million years of exist
ence, while on the other hand the in
evitable fall of meteors into the sun
may double this number. Even if you
suppose the duration of the sun to be
prolonged to forty million years, it is
still incontestablc that the radiation
from the sun cools it, and that the tenn
perature of all bodies tends to an equi-
ibriuIn The day will come when the
sun will be extinct. Then the earth
and all the other planets of our sys-
tenn will cease to be the abode of
life. They will be erased from the
great book and will revolve, black
cemeteries, around an extinguished
sun. Will these planets continue to
exist even then? Yes probably, in the
case of Jupiter, and perhaps Saturn.
No, beyond doubt, for the small
bodies, such as the earth, Venus, Mars,
Mercury and the moon. Already the
MOI appears to have preceded us to-
ward the final desert. Mars is much
farther advanced than the earth to-
ward the same destiny. Venus, young
er than US, will doubtless survive us.
These little worlds lose their clements
of vitality much faster than the sun
loses its heat. From century to CEN
fury, from year to year, from day 20
cay, from hour to hour, the surface of
the earth is transformed. On the one
hand the continents are crumbling
away and becoming covered by the sea,
which insensibly and by very slow de-
grees tends to invade and subncrre the
entire globe; on the other hand the
of water on the surface of the
globe is diminishing. A careful and
calculation shows that bv
The action of erasure alone all the
land on our planet will be covered by
water in ten million years.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
A DISASTROUS Mistake.

My grandmother had an old negro
named Charles, writes a Texas CORE
spondent. Though very old he could
make the eyenest of hills and the
straightest of rows in the garden,
which he kept as clean as parlor.
''Uncle Charles, how can you get the
hills all of the same size and SO straight
in the row?" asked the children.
''Wal," replied he, wen sees whar
wants de hills 1 jes' puts my foot
right dar; den pulls de dirt up on it
twell hits l1ivered."
One day the children heard a scream
in the garden. When they got there
they found that Uncle Charles had cut
his big toe nearly off. ATTIC it was
dressed they asked him how the acct
dent had happened.
BLAINE dat toe, onyhow," exclaimed
he, vivid hits black back an yallcr
bottom. Use allus' takin' it fur some
kline NV a varmint! Jes' now tort hit
WIZ er tarapin's head er peepin' outer
de hill, an blazed erway wild my hoe
to chop it off,"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
QUEER COLLECTIONS.
The Strange Tastes of Some People for
Odd Articles.

The Strange Tastes of Some People for
Odd Articles.
Pretty nearly every sort of odd and
interesting things, from death-maslzs
and autographs of famous men to post.
age stamps and arrow-heads, has been
collected by somebody. A Boston bar
Der has trunk full of envelopes, in
each one of which is a clipping of the
hair or beard of some patron, each be-.
ing labeled, dated and otherwise prop
erly inscribed. Books and papers about
skating are the only objects gathered
by Paris collector. The speciality of
Madrid collector is broken tiles of
Moorish origin, and he will not buy
perfect tile, but has house full OF
fragments.
In Berlin is a collector whose pet
weakness is stuffed cats, and he paws
large prices for tabbies which perish
In his neighborhood, being his own
taxidermist.
One of the largest private collections
of almanacs, ancient and modern, Is
said to belong to man in Vienna, who
makes living begging at church DOORS
A gentleman at Spanish Town,
Jamaica, has formed the most extern
sive collection of scorpions and cent?
pedes SO far reported, the specimens
over fifteen hundred, and
each having been captured by himself.
The speciality of a business man in New
York city is rattlesnalzes' tails, and
while he never saw live rattlesnalze
outside of menagerie, he buys every
set of rattles he can lay hands on and
has cabinet full of them.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
HASH AND REHAsA.

THE annual cost of fencing is $780,
10000
THERE are 100000 commercial trav-
elers in the United States.
DENVER is now in direct Geographic
communication with Pixies peak.
AMONG stevedores cotton is regarded
as the hardest to stow and railway
iron the easiest.
IN the little village of Clayton, Ind,
there are eight men whose united
weight is 1900 pounds.
A GAY.groom of seventy-eight and
clipper bride of seventy-fve were mar
ried in Pittsfleld, Me-, few days ago
A SWARM of 1eas has taken absolute
possession of farmhouse near Hinlsle-
ton, Pa, and driven the occupants
from their home. The house will prob
ably be destroyed to get rid of them.
IN one township alone in North Car
DINA there are seven men who have
passed the age of 1oS years, and local
papers say the state has probably more
old people within its borders than any
other in the union.
WILLIAM A. BOGUS was Georgia
land commissioner years, ago caught in
rascality in Office. He issued fraudu-
lent land rights. He furnished our YER
nacular with word for everything
spurious and false.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
MEN WHO WAC THEIR EARS.

Ihey Are NOT Uncommon Anywhere and
Arc Plentiful Among Hale Breeds.
Mr.. Slater is in error in thinking
that comparatively few now possess
i the power to 'wag the year, y" writes Eu-
gene M. Aaron in Science The power
is common among the West Indian
half breeds and the Maya and other
derivatives of Mexico and Central
! America, and many whites have the
power who hardly realize the fact. 1t
IS not uncommon to observe this if one
will suddenly say to a companion:
What was that noiSe?' IL bfr. Slater
will say this in q semi-startIed way. he
will notice that in no in considerable
number of cases there will be slight
instructive movement of the muscles in
question, more or loss pronounced.
Nor is the ear that Darwin illustrates
in his Descent of Man as being allied
to the pointed type belonging to our
Simian relatives as uncommon as
many may imagine. It is ny observe
ton that this popularity of the fold il
question is oftenest to be observed il
women, ard in many of these cases the
persistence of the wisdom teeth is also
4 characteristic. l have in mind two
cases of this sort, one of man. the
other of a woman, both residents OF
one of our leading cities, and their So
eial and intellectual forces The lat
ter is a remarkable reversion to an
earlier typc.in ear.inteeth in length OF
arm, in fiexibility of hand joints and Il,
other marked characteristics. It ap
pears to me that the ear. like t!lc
verniform appendix, the suspension o.
the viscera, the position of The orifcc
to the bladder and the unprotected
condition of certain main arteries, is
yet in transitional state and not
ully adapted to the newer human con
llitions imposed by the erect position
and the artifcialities of civilization.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
ais EnglIsh Betrayed Him.

The following story is told in Eng
land of Rev. John Sheepshanl1s, who
was recently made bishop of Norwich:
One evening young Cambridge man,
afterward head master of well-lsnown
grammar school, but tutor for the
nonce to Russian prince, was emol-
ing cigarette in his rooms in Ut. Pc
tersburg when servant announced
that moujils wanted to see him very
urgently. The unknown visitor was
shown up and appeared in the we'll
worn garb from which Brian O'Lynn
derived his simple but practical sar-
torial notions To his hosts utter be-
wilderment this uncouth being adj
dressed him in refined English, and
presently explained that he was a
brother Contab DESTROYS of securing
his good Offices. The man, in short,
was Rev. John Sheepshanl1s, who, hav-
ing landed some six months before
near the mouth of the Amoor river.
had made his way alone and on foot
through Tartary, Turkestan and ST.
IBERIA to the banks of the Neva.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
For Our Readers.

II Won can make eighty words from
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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
A BRIDGE oE AGATE.
Fortified Tree Spans a Chasm In Fal
Away Arizona.

Fortified Tree Spans Chasm In Far
Away Arizona.
mining expert sent to investigate
some Arizona properties for Denver
capitalists recently returned and re-
ports the finding of most remarlsa-
BILE natural bridge formed by tree OF
agatized wood spanning a CANYON
forty-fve feet in width, says the jew
eler's Circular
The tree had at some remote time
fallen when it became imbedded in
the silt of some great inland sea or
mighty water overflow
The silt became in time sandstone.
and the wood gradually passed
through the stages of naturalization
until it is now wonderful tree of
solid agate.
In after years water washed and ate
away the sandstone until a CANYON
forty-five feet in width has been
formed, the finty like substance of
the agatized wood having resisted the
erosion of the waterfowl.
Fully fifty feet of the tree rests on
one side and can be traced, but how
far its other end lies buried in the
sandstone cannot be determined with
out blasting away the rock.
The trunk visible above the canyon
varies in size from four feet to three
feet in diameter. Where the bark has
been broken and torn away the charac-
teristic colors of Jasper and agate are
seen. To the naked eye the wood is
beautiful.
Under a microscope or miners mag
nifying glass the brilliancy of the col
orings are clearly brought out in all |
their WondrouS heantv
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
BRIDGING THE COLUMBIA,
A Great Engineering Feat in the Far
Northwest.

| NORTHWEST.
| The recent completion of the great
cantalever bride over the Columbia
river at Rock Island, Wash, marks the
accomplishment of the greatest feat OF
railroad engineering in the west. The
Columbia at Wanatchee, where tho
big bridge is being built, is between
300 and 1000 yards in width and from
10 to 200 feet deep at low water. It's
channel, according to the Seattle Her
aid, is worn deep below the general
surfsce of the valley, and, though the
annual June rise is IS to so feet, it
never over1ows. After many surveys
and measurements the company de-
cided to build bridge high enough
not to interfere with navigation rather
than a drawbridge at shallower point
and support the same on piers.
At the point selected for crossing, a
basaltic butte rises 500 feet above the
valley. The butte drops down. to the
river in shelf-like terraces, and on one of
these shelves the western approach of
the bridge rests
On the opposite bank stands SINH
lar butte, 200 feet above the water, and
through this butte roadway has been
cut for the eastern approach. Two
hundred and fifty feet from the east
bank of the river is an island, or rather.
a huge rock, on which the only pier in
the river is built. Between the rock
and the west bank flows the main
stream, which is 416 feet wide and 143
feet deep.
The whole bridge is 91e1S feet long,
not counting the minor approaches,
and is 100 feet above low water mark
and 10 feet above extreme high water.
The first span reaches from the bluff
on the west side, $50 feet, to a shelf
above the water line. The second or
main span reaches 4161S feet above the
main channel to the river 1t weighs
85G tons and in the center is rs feet
from top to bottom of the structure.
The third span extends from the island
to the east bank. The entire bridge is
built of steel and wrought iron. /
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

! Mrs. JESSE GRANT has one of the
most valuable collections in the coun-
try of antique candlesticlss, some of
them of gold, some of silver and others
of rare pottery.
Mrs. LEASE says she is acquainted
with but one member of the Ingalls,
family, Ralph ingalls,, the Topeka law
yer. Young Ingalls," Mrs. Lease said,
lis very agreeable fellow"
FREDERICK WALTER, Philadelphia
lens-grinder, whose poverty-stricken
appearance appealed tothe charitable,
died recently, leaving stocks and bonds
and cash in bank of the aggregate
value of $51, 500.
Mr.. WILLIE Woo, Chinaman of
West Harrisville, Mich. has cut off his
queue, adopted the American dress,
and, as further evidence of his civiliza-
ton, has applied for the appointment
as postmaster.
Mrs DIR. CURRY, who is said to be
favorite of the infanta and has re-
ceived special recognition from her
royal highness, is Virginia lady, the
daughter of the late James Thomas,
who was a wealthy citizen of Richmond
Mrs. DELL A. MCCORMACK, of North
Dakota, who came nearer to having
been elected to the United States SEN
ate than any other woman, is only 81
years old. She is very pretty, too,
with brown hair and dark gray eyes.
She has no political aspirations except
for her husband
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
HIS COURAGE FAILED HIM.
lie Caught the Boy, But Appearances
Were Too Strong Against Him.

lie Caught the Boy, But Appearances
Were Too Strong Against Him.
He was a well-dressed, well-fed
fiorid-complexioned man, who carried a
cane and an air of self-satisfaction as
he sauntered up Sixth avenue, says the
New York Recorder
Suddenly this complacency was in
tcrrupted by stick of wood which
truck him square on the bridge Of
the nose, and emanated from larger
stick held in the hand of a street
ganin who was playing Slip" on the
sidewalk
The man made rush for the boy.
and the boy for the middle of the
street. On they flew, through slush
and debris, until the man overlook the
ganin about block and half from
where the race began.
Up to this time the boy had been
very game, turning every few jumps to
laugh in, his pursuer's face and put his
thumb to his nose in a manner most
infuriating. But when he was colIared
he changed policy and began to sob as
if he were being murdered.
CT course there was the usual crowd
of lool1ers-on, most of them women,
who, according to their proverbial
sympathy with the under dog, pelted
the man with such tongue missiles as:
"Sec the great, big, cruel-hearted
monster To beat poor, little, in
nocent child like thatl lie ought to
be tarred and featheredl" etc.
The mans courage failed him. Hold
ing The boy at arms length, he looked
at him moment. He
wanted to pummel him, but giving him
2ne feeble, perfunctory little shake he
at him gently on his legs, and, cross
ng the street, continued his way.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
lucklEsT MAN IN MAINE.
The Last of Ten Lost Fifty-Douar Bills
Almost Blown Back Into His Pocket.

The Last of Ten Lost Fifty Dollar Bills
Almost Blown Back Into His Pocket.
The Maine Farmer dominates can
didate for the distinction of being the
luckiest man in Maine, and the New
York Recorder thinks he will be elect
ed B. w. Hartman, of Readfeld,
used to drive the stage from Readfeld
depot to the seminary at Kent's Hill, a
distance of about four miles over the
hills. One clustering day of winter a
package containing five hundred dol
lars in fifty dollar bills was part of
his charge. In order to be particularly
careful of the money he put it on the
seat of the stage, and then posted him
self on it. AS he weighed about two
hundred pounds he considered the
money tolerably safe, but in some way
his weight broke the string and seal of
the package, and in a fateful instant,
when Hartman rose in his seat to
whip his horses through particularly
stubborn drift, a gust of north wind
swept under him and blew the green
backs far and wide over the snow
Hartman saw them speeding over the
field with feeling of dismay; but he
happened TO be near his own home,
and at once called on his neighbo for
help. No one was more popular in the
town than this same B. w. Hartman,
and the neighbors turned out as to a
fire. By careful searching of the
field over which the bills had blown all
the money was found but fifty dollars.
The most diligent search failed to dis
cover it, and it was given up for lost.
But they did not count on Harriman's
luck. The field where the bill was lost
was about quarter of mile from
Harriman's barn, and one day. the next
summer Hartman happened to be
standing in his barn door when heavy
wind sprang up, blowing directly from
that field. His attention was attracted |
to faded green object that looked
like leaf and was coming dancing |
across the field. Hartman watched it |
and saw it futter directly toward him,
and finally sail into the barn door like
a swallow. lie caught it and examined
it. 1t was faded and worn, but
through all the wrinkles of time he
discovered the beautiful features of the
fifty dollar bill that blew away from
him the winter before
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
GOOD, BUT NOT TRUE.


- s.ory Concerning the Early Life OF
Bishop Brooks.
story is widely quoted that Phillips
Brooks, when about to graduate, went
to the president of Harvard college for
advice regarding the choice of a pro-
fession, and that the president said.
1T is well in such case to lay aside
impossible professions. Now, on ac-
count of the impeachment in your speech,
you could never preach
This is so good story that it is a
pity to spoil it, but the Christian Union
says that after the election of Mr..
Brooks as bishop he was asked about
its truth.
81 did consult with the president"
he answered, land he encouraged me
to choose the ministry; he did not tell
me | could not preach because of nv
stammering, because / never did stam-
mer, you known
Then he spoke, with some anuse-
ment, of the permanence of such
groundless reports, and said chat he
had that very week received letter
from an English boy who was STAN
merer, and who begged to know, for
his own sake, how DR.. Brooks had
been cured.
81 shall have to tell him that l can't
help him at ALI" he concluded, with a
Iouch OF regret --.-4----..---. -
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15

''ffthly and finally" section OF the dis
course had been reached. The Indian
housekeeper, unaccustomed to such an
innovation, and being regular in her
hours of retiring, after several vigor-
GUS yawns stood up in her place in'thc
smeetin' house." and raising up her
right hand exclaimed in broken Eng
lish: ''Homel me sleepy" The effect
was electrical; the sermon was cut
short and the congregation soon dis
missed, and short sermons are said to
be in order since that day at Olney.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
a LONG DANCE.
An Olj-Time English Actor Who Skipped
from London to Norwich.


from London to Norwich.
The longest dance on record is prob
ably that of William Kemp, an actor of
some celebrity in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. He was comedian and
danced all the way from London to
Norwich. He was attended by tabor
err, a servant and an overseer, and the
Boston Globe thinks it was doubtless a
good thing for him that there were no
omnibuses or police then, for they
would probably have imposed more inn
pediments in the way of his progress
than did the country people. He start
ed with several presents of greats and
crooked sixpences for luck, and laden
with these danced to Stratford with
out rest. There many invited him to
drink, but the notes of the tabor cut
short his jocularities, and he pranced
off to Ilford, where he had to reject
another carouse that was offered to
him. From Ilford he danced in the
moonlight to a point near Romford,
and that ended his first days exploit.
subsequently he went in for early
risings to avoid market people, and
IdlouBu suffering from Spra1n OF the
hip which he received he danced it
well again, to the delight of the
crowd that accompanied him, some
two hundred in number. When he
reached Chelmsford he was so exhaust
ed that he could not dance at all for q
time, and his fourth days dance was
hard one-thick woods on each side
and lanes full of deep holes so that
sometimes, he says, he ''skipt up to the
waist, which must have placed him in
a woeful plight. He rested at Braintree
and danced three miles off his next
days journey. His next stop was at
where a butcher tried to
dance with him, but in half a mile he
was tired and had to give in. He (
danced the ten miles from Bury to
Thetford in three hours. His next
stage was to Rockland, from which ,
point his post attempted to accompany |
him, but lay down from fatigue at the
end of two fields. When he reached
Norwich he had to dance in and out of
The city twice, for his overseer missed
him in the crowd and made him do the
distance over again to avoid any posi-
oility of error
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
just Like Pnle-Face.

An incident occurred at olney pa
Methodist church, some time ago
which served to call halt on long
winded sermons. The housekeeper OF
the parsonage is an Indian woman,
who was secured through the Carlisle
training school, and who has ever been
one of most prompt attendants at all
the church services. The pulpit was
filled one Sunday evening during the
warm summer months by an old time
clergyman, whose prosy doctrinal SER
mon OF a Gull yard wide," set many in
the audience mapping long before the