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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
a NAP0IEoNIC FAINTER

He Was a Lithographer and lie hne"
Character Like Moliere.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
WHAT Ais GROVER?
Report That the President has Been
Suffering From Cancer.

Boston, July lit may be an nm
founded rumor, but the assertion Is
made upon the authority of a nefghbo,
of President Cleveland at Buzzard's
Bay that the Presidents illness which
confines him to his cottage is due IN
an operation performed by DR.. Bryant
last Saturday to remove cancer.
The report first came from Buzzar1's
Bay yesterday morning, and later in
formation was received from Washing.
ton before the Buzz lrd's Bay report was
received there. How much truth there
is in the startling assertion cannot be
learned, because DR. Bryant, Col. La
mont and other persons near the presi-
dent will not discuss the presidents
indisposition, otherwise than to declare
that he is suffering from a slight attack
of rheumtism, which viii keep him con-
fined to his room for some time.
In the light of circumstances preyi-
ously declared trivial, however, the re-
port is accepted as having some basis
Of truth.
The cancerous growth which Dr. Bry.
ant is said to have removed from the
mouth of the president last Saturday
was first noticed, according to reptrt,
more than a year ago, but did not cause
him any Inconvenience until a few
weeks ago, when prominent New
York specialist and DR. Bryant made
an examination of the formation, and
decided that it should be removed The
cancer, if report be true, was a very
small affair under the tongue and was
removed without difficulty, although the
operation must necessarily have been
very painful one, and as a conse-
quence the president is suffering from
the effects Of it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

London, July S.-A yacht having on
board thirty excdrsionists capsized off
Skegness this afternoon and twenty
seven people We're drowned.
All the persons drowned were railway
builders who, with thousands of other
eXcursionists, had gone to a little water
ing place for a days sport.
The yacht Shannon took out a party
of thirty, When well out the yacht
was oYertaken by thunder storm.
Alter the air cleared the yacht was
seen bottom upwards with three men
clinging to her. The others were
drowned
A boat was launched and the three
survivors were brought to shore.
Twelve bodies have been recovered.
The three survivors agree that nobody
is to blame for the accident, as the
suddenness Of the squall could not be
anticipated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
MORSE NOTES.

Items Of Interest Cleaned from Scandi-
navian Exchanges.
Iavina Hollaasplads a widow living
in Ogndalen, Norway, died recently at
the age of 1O5 % years. p to within
five days of her death she was com
paratively active.
The women Of Finland are crowding
the men in all lines. Not being salts
fled with conQuests as doctors lawyers
and dentists they are becoming bank
cashiers and house builders.
NY little boy was very bad of for
two months with diarrhoea. We used
various medicines. called in two doc
tors but nothing done him any good
until we used Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which
gave immediate relief and soon cured
him. I consider it the best medicine
made and can conscientiously recon-
mend it to all who need a diarrhoea or
collie medicine. ]. T.. Hare, Trenton,
Tex" % and 50 cent bottles for sale
hy Dunning & Sumner, druggists.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
NINE HORROR IN ENGLAND.
Over one Hundred Men Imprisoned II

over one Hundred Men Imprisoned In
CollieIy.
London, July 5.-One hundred and
forty-fve miners We're entombed yes
terday at Thorn Hil Yorkshire. The
day shift went to work as usual early
in the morning.
All went well until noon, when the
workers at the pits mouth were star
tied by a muttied explosion and by
clouds of dense smoke rolling up the
main shaft They tried to communi-
cate with the workingmen, but found
hat the interior had been cut off from
shaft.
The pit managers organized an ex-
ploIdng party and descended slowly
through the smoke. They were driy-
en- back repeatedly, and eventually
gave up their purpose Of penetrating TO
the working forces before the gas could
be cleared away.
The cause of the explosion has not
been ascertained. There were terrible
scenes Of grief at the pits mouth when
the manager announced that more than
one hundred miners We're lost One
woman fell dead when she learned that
her husband had been killed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

of dark red wine. The body is wrann..a
in thick and downy feathers Of ~
purest white, from which the soft la-,s
and feet emerge, stained TO match no
claret edging Of the wing. Across tho
head and lying back against the dars
shoulders, are fern-shaped antennae Of
pale green.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
LOST On The DEEP
YACHT WITH THIRTY on BOARD
CAPSIZES.
TWENTY-SEV ENCCRSIONISTS
DROWNED OFF SKEGNESS.

All Were Railway Builders, Who Wit
Thousands of Others Were Enjoying
an Outng-Su1den Squat Strikes
the NeSsel-0nly Three Survivors
Twelve Bodies Recovered.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

WATERFOWL Gazette: Come, Join me
H paying my taxes" is the present
south Carolina style Of asking man TO
take a little pisen" into his system
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

John Wood. a Neenah young -. W..
paid SIS line on charge OF assn '-'--''-
a young girl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15
A SCENE OF HORROR
TERRIBLE RESULTS OF THE
DEADLY IOWA CYCLONE.
SEVENTY -FOUR PEOPLE NOW
KNOWN TO BE KILLED.

Considerably over a Hundred Badly
Injured, Some Fatally Forty Eight
Dead at Pomeroy and That Town
Frightfully Demolished Urgent Call
for -Sickening Scenes.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
NEW AND NOVEL.

TRAVELLING bank is projected in
Idaho, to accommodate few towns on
Kootenai lake, neither of which can
support bank of its own. The bank
is to be on boat, which will travel
from town to town.
MAYOR GRANGER, of Fort Dodge, Ia,
recently ordered that all drinking sa-
looms should have their windows free
from curtains and screens on Sundays
1t had this effect: not glass of liquor
was sold on the first Sabbath the order
went into effect.
FRENCH ingenuity has contrived an
improved stone-cutting saw of remark
able efficiency-a circular saw having
its edge set with black diamonds in
the same way as the straight blades;
but, as the strain on the diamond is all
in one direction, the setting can be
made much hrmer
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
ART ETcHINGs.

EDWIN A. ABBEY's frieze in the new
Boston public library has for its sub
ject the search for the Holy Grail
GREEK paintings were executed in
distemper with glue, milk or white of
eggs and on wood, clay, plaster, stone,
parchment and canvas.
A GERMAN artist has finished paint
ing representing Prince Bismarck and
ex-Minister William Walter Phelps
discussing the Samoan conference.
The .or4l is to be sent to New York
for exhibition in due time.
ALMA TADEMA says in the Studio
that 1.-THE camera has had most
healthful and useful influence on art
and is of the greatest use to painters. -
This high opinion will be Of unusual
interest to those persons who have
contended that photography has done
irreparable damage to real art.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
INDUSTRIAL AND STAT TIcAL

1T is estimated, from the census of
1890, that the insect pests cost the
fruit growers of the United States
about &4,000,o00 a year.
AT the maple sugar laboratory at
Montpelier, VT, during the past sea
son 4,759.762 pounds of sugar were
tested. The bounty on this output will
amount to about S72, 500.
In the central part of the state Of
New York over $1,000 people are en-
gagged IN the cultivation Of more than
10000 acres of grapes, which produce
annually from 49, 900 to $4,000 tons.
The average wage per week for
women in Kansas and Wisconsin is
1927; in Minnesota, $780, In Indian
apolis the sum paid for shirt-lnaklne
ranges from thirty cents to sixty cents
a dozen.
THE total receipts at the New York
custom house for the fiscal year that
ended June 80 were $13s, 099, OPS. "a COM
pared with S12O, 1872, 613.9o for the pre-
vious fiscal year, or an increase of
nearly SIT, 300, 900.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
A COLLECTION. OF LAUGHS.

THE mosquito gives you some music
and then takes up collection for it.
Galveston News.
FIRST FLooR-''How many servants
do you keep" High Flat-''None; but
we have no end of 'em as casual visit
ors. Puck
KINDLY VIsIToR-'sWhy are YOU in
prison, my poor fellow?'' Convict No.
Excuse me, but I'm not at lib
erty to say, mum. Troy Press.
YOUNG MR. SAPLEy-'I wish I could
get me hat that was suited to nv
head" Miss Palisade ''yvhy don't
you try soft t?"-Clothier and Fur-
nisher.
WAS Tennerton much damaged by
that wheat deal that he got caught in
awhile back?" Damaged? Why, man,
he is utterly unrecognizablc. '-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Mr. SUDDENLY GooD-'I dropped a
ten-dollar bill in the contribution box
in church last Sunday" His Friend
Cynlc-"Did you, indeed? What was
the matter with it?n-N. Y. Times.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
FASHIONS QUEER FANCiES.

HELIoTRoPE and black are one of the
favorite combinations.
GREEN, in all shades and tints, re-
mains one of the leading colors.
TUCKED yokes, with big frills of the
material, are seen on dresses of cam
brio, lawn and null.
DRESSES of white serge, duck, mo-
hair and cashmere are trimmed with
passementerie and large crochet but
tons.
LITTLE girls dresses have waists
made of straight widths of the materi-
al shirred into band about three
inches, with standing ruche above,
A KEW waist trimming is made of a
straight piece of material about four
teen inches long. This is gathered in
very full at the collar and droops of it's
own free will over shoulders and bust.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
HORSES WITH Wells.
A Necessary Protection from the Flies of
Colorado.


The oldest things to be seen in the
streets of Colorado Springs are horses
declsed with wells. We have grown ac-
customed to the jaunty little hats worn
by many horses in our towns to protect
them from the heat of the sun, says
the National Issue. We can even see
an umbrella fastened over their heads
without surprise, but veil gives to
the noble beast dandyish look that is
very droll. Some of these wells, belong
ing to fine saddles, are mere fringes of
fine strips of leather that hang before
the eyes; others are pieces of mosquito
netting drawn tightly back and
fastened like q wonnan's nose veil; but
the most stylish and altogether eff
fective are of netting drawn over
hoop which holds it away from the
eyes, yet completely protects them.
These exaggerated goggles give the
gravest horse a waggish look
The yeils are not worn for fashions
sake. They are, indeed, stern neces-
sity, and the comfort, if not even tho
life, Of the horse demands it. Colo
RADIO, with all its great attractions, has
one plague-the plague of flies. Flies
of all sizes, from the least up to the
enormous blue bottle, are everywhere.
Most parts Of his body the horse can
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
chools near St. Petersburg.


The car on his annual visit OF in
spection OF the school was taken into
the hospital where the boy lay suffer
ing from severe sore throat. Noticing
the bright, attentive face his majesty
approached the bedside, and placing
his hand in q kindly way on the boys
feverish forehead, turned and inquired
of his escort who he was;
''The son Of Gen. R., your maj
esty."
The boy raised himself on his elbow
with some effort, and said eagerly in
the Russian tongue;
eyes, your majesty, but my grand
father is an officer in the United States
navy"
So pleased was the car with the
boys reply he gave orders to have the
lad transferred as soon as he could be
moved to the royal military school,
where he is now receiving the best
education possible at his majesty's per-
sonal expense.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
MANY MILES OF CORAL REEF.
Rocks from Which 100000 Worth of
Raw Material Is Taken Annually.


The largest coral reef in the world,
the great Barrier reef. is twelve hun
dred and fifty miles long and it consti-
tutes one of the most valuable posses
sions of the Queensland government.
1t stretches from Torres strait (closc to
New Guinea) down to the southern
part of a promontory known as Bus
tard Head, opposite Lady Elliot island.
Raw material to the value of five hun
drcd thousand dollars is annually OBJ
tanned from the reef, and, according to
the Jewellers Weekly this amount
could be enormously increased if some
one with enterprise would inauguratc
a more systematic and scientific method
of carrying on the work, as the forma-
ton is infinitely more valuable from a
commercial than a scientific point of
view. Various theories have been adj
vanced at different times as to the
origin of this and other reefs of sim
liar nature, and it is interesting to
note that competent authorities are, to
large extent, united in assuming
probable connection at one time be-
tween Australia, New Zealand and
New Guinea, and in favor of the sub
sidence of the original mainland and
gradual upbuilding of the reef from be-
low, according to the accepted IDEAS of
the origin of these appropriately
named barriers" Capt Cook, to
whom lies the credit of discovering
the islands in the south seas, first made
known to civilization the existence of
the great Barrier reef, but there is no
doubt that he had no knowledge of the
value of his discovery beyond what at
tached to it from geographical stand
point.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09

men who live there appear to be as fal
| from the madding crowd as though
they were alone on the prairie The
tall cliffs and Jagged rocks about Their
cut them off from the rest Of the
world, and they have few visitors
There is not horse or wagon among
them and no road to drive on. Al
present the pretty white cottages, EN-.
powered in fresh green and cherry
and apple blossoms, have an idyllic
charm. Springs of good water are found
within a rod or two OF the salt Hud-
son, but beer and groceries are long
way off, unless one takes boat and
crosses the river to the metropolis that
swirls and roars or the other hank
MARRYING HIS OWN WIFE.
Che Didn't Know That She Was Rewed-
ding Her own Husband.
did you ever hear of man marry
ing his own wife?'' asked a st, Louis
man of a Globe Democrat reporter. II
don't mean divorced couple getting
remarked, but a couple really going
through the marriage ceremony a sec
ond time with one of the two entirely
ignorant of the fact. l met case of
that kind last year and am thinking of
selling the idea to some novelist to
build plot on. 1t was in a small
Ohio town, and the bride had been
deserted by her husband twenty years
before She had long ago come to the
conclusion that he was dead, and had
been looked upon as an eligible widow
who was fair and forty, if not fat,
when a stranger came to town, got him
self introduced to her, and finally per-
suaded her to try the matrimonial ex-
pertinent second time. They we're
after short courtship, and
few weeks after the honeymoon the
husband gave away his story, and told
his wife that she had married him
twice without knowing it. His ex-
PLANTATION was that on leaving her
twenty years before he had gone on
protracted spree and had finally got
himself sent to the penitentiary of
distant state for long term. After
being liberated he was ashamed to
look up his old friends, and took it for
granted that his wife had forgotten
LII about him by that time. He accord
ngly went abroad, and it was only on
lis return after a long period that he
leard accidentally that his wife was
till living at the old home. Rather
han run the risk of being spurned for
lis heartlessness, and relying on his
'nSire change in personal appearance,
le conceived the daring plot of win
ling and remarryi-g his own wife. I
lon't know what the lady said when
he was undecieved, but that is one of
he details the novelist sell the story
0 can supply for himself
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
Former worlds Fairs.

The first great international exposi-
ton was that held at London, in the
Crystal Palace, in 1851. The next SINH
lar undertaking was the exhibition of
the industry of all nations, . held at
New Yorl in 1858. This was held in
Crystal Palace, which was afterward
destroyed by fire. A similar exhibit
ton was also held in Dublin in the
same year. In 1854 an exhibition was
held in Munich, which was at first very
successful, but cholera appeared and
caused such fright that the enter
prise was abandoned. The first great
Paris international exposition was
held in 1855. The second English in
ternational exhibition was held in Lon
don in 1852. Next in order were those
held at Constantinople in 1868; Bay
onne. 1864; Dublin, 1865; Cologne.
Oporto and Stockholm in 1865; Mel
bourne, 1866; Agra, 1867. Then came
the great Paris exposition of 1867 fol-
lowed by several smaller ones at vari-
GUS places, until 1873, when a very
fine one was held in Vienna. The
next important display was the PhiIa-
delphia centennial Again number
Of smaller ones, then the great Paris
exposition of 1889. and now the Worlds
Columbian exposition in Chicago. the
greatest of all.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
FOR THE THOUGHTFUL.

He that rebukes private fault open
ly, betrays it rather than reproves it.
-Quarles.
HUNDREDS of people can talk for one
who can think, but thousands can think
for one who can see.-Ruskin.
WHAT are we but coaches? Some of
us slow coaches; some of us fast
coaches Our passions are the horses,
and rampant animals, too.
Tine is opportunity; and it is be-
cause time is opportunity that time is
precious Time is opportunity i'm
proved or opportunity wasted.
Now ABIDETH faith, hope, love, these
three; but the greatest of these is love;
for love is the seraph, and faith and
hope are but the wings by which it
flies.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
DEEP IN THE CORAL SEA.
Fairy Forest of Wondrous Shapes and
Colors In Sea of Emerald.

Fairy Forest of Wondrous Shapes and
Colors in a Sea of Emerald.
| In no part of the world are the part
| ly-buried ocean wonders more lavishly
displayed in all their endless variety
than off this northeastern coast of
Terra Australis, within the Great Bar
rier reef In the Coral sea- As the boat
is launched to take us ashore, says a
writer in Good Words, the wonders
commence at once. It is surely some
fairy forest where elfin kings court
princesses in fshly guise, or water
babies sit and pout on some coral
bowlder Or is it a submarine flower
garden where the mermaids dwell?
Deep down in clear, bright water
wondrous shapes and colors are seen,
at first indistinctly, like tinted pho
tograph out of focus; then, as the
water gets shallower and shallo1er.
more and more distinctly flash the Jew
ell fires, and the picture is complete.
Large fat bowls of milk-white coral
first attract the eye. Then others with
branching antlers like a fallen deer,
only the fairy herd there are lying
buried in a huge, confused mass. Some.
are covered with ten thousand sharp
pinnacles of light purply color. each
pinnacle having a bright blue eye Tor
what looks like an eye) at the extrem-
ity.
All in sea of-emerald, this dream Of
enchantment. We fear before we see
half the glory of it we might awake
and, alas! forget too soon. There light
and feathery branches of fern-like
coral are blushing soft pink or pale
nasturtium yellow. Here large solid
masses of brain coral, round and white,
the surface incrusted or engraved with
the most delicate lace tracings; and
others green and shaped like coarse
NOES
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
wELL-kNowN People

Mrs. ULYSSES S. GRANT is to reside in
Washington, and it is said that she is
negotiating for the purchase of the old
Blaine mansion.
JAMES SHEAInEY, the newly-appoint-
ed governor of Alaska, formerly lived
at Greenville, Mercer county, Pa. He
went to Alaska as a government com
missioner
Col. FRED GRANT is said to grow
more and more like his father, the re-
semblance having particularly struck
some OF his friends who have seen him
since his return from Vienna.
Ex-Goy. BURAE R. SHERMAN, SO well
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-09
THE DEADLY sHRAPhEL.


Recent experiences in little wars in
the far east and in peaceful practising
have caused military experts to class
the shrapnel as the gunner's most
deadly weapon. There have been
many improvements in the shell and
the manner of using it in recent
years. It consists of hollow cylinder
OF steel filled with charge of powder
just sufficient to break the cylinder
when desired. The charge is fred by
time fuse, which lights itself after a
flash in the gun and fires the charge
after fixed number of seconds, or by
. percussion fuse which explodes the
charge whenever the shell strikes the
object aimed at. The time fuse makes
the shrapnel do its deadliest work
Firing at a target three thousand yards
away the gunner will time the fuse to
explode the shell one hundred yards
short of the target, when about fifteen
feet from the ground. The one hun
dred and fifty bullets rush on, spread
ing as they go, and carry destruction
to as many points over an area twenty
yards wide and three hundred yards
long. ''One such crash of bullets"
says an expert who has lately been
studying the effects of the shrapnel
fire in actual warfare and in artillery
experimenting, would produce a ter
rible effect upon. any body of troops
within its area. Fifty or hundred
such showers falling within few min
utes In the same area would utterly de-
stroy all living things upon the ground
they swept. The modern gunner's OBJ
ject is accordingly to cover with
quick succession of shrapnel-bullet
hurricanes the region where his enemy
is to be attacked