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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
FAST ENOUGH.
A Russian's Plan for Crossing the At
lantic In Twenty-Eight Hours.

a hussian's Plan for Crossing the At
lantic In Twenty-Eight Hours.
IL is said that new maritime inyen-
ZION, intended to reyolutionize the nres-
ent system of marine locomotion. is be-
ing perfected by Lieut.. Apostolow, of
the Russian navy. The other day a.
private exposition was given of the in
genious models before Admiral Van der
fleet, Baron Bistrom, Capt. Pereleschin
and other naval officers, in the directors,
room OF the Russian company's estab-
hshment at Odessa. Sufficient informa-
tlon has been collected by the London
transcript to show that Lieut.. Apostle
lows new ship has neither screw nor
paddle. There is, instead, kind of
running electrical gear right round the
Vessels null, under the water line, and
d revolving mechanism, which will pro-
PEI the ship from Liverpool to New
York In twenty-eight hours. This how
ever, Is but one part of the Russians
Some unreasonably timid per-
sons, Lieut.. Apostolow imacines. might
'oleet to the discomfort of being
'Wlshed through the Atlantic pillows
~ the rate OF one hundred and thirty
Ilots an hour. To these he offers the
.ieernatlve OF submarine passage
wienout rock, roll or vibration, and
vlsh a good supply of oxygen and
y, during the short voyage"
wat the cars officers think OF the
lPostoiow plans is not recorded. All
nat is known is that the lieutenant has
uitted Odessa for Moscow and st.
.eVersourg, where he intends to exhibit
Is models before he embarks with
ZEN tor that valhalla of invention
lie worlds fair.
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A HAVEN FOR TOURISTS.
The Beauties Of Bermuda as q
Winter Resort
Many Americans Spend the Indictment
Season Among tho Fruits and
Flowers OF the Delight
full Islands.

w. q. Whitney, ex-consul to Bermuda,
said at the Palmer house the other day,
according to the Chicago Inter Ocean:
! AT this season of the year many
Americans are visiting the Bermuda
islands, The hotel at Hamilton is
I crowded, and several people from Chi
eago are spending the winter in the
Bermudas. Although an English pos
session the Bermuda islands are es-
sentially American in the tastes and re
quirements of the populace and COM
mercial pursuits Situated seven hun
dred miles from New York, they pre-
sent to the American tourist delight
full haven far out at sea, where he can
recuperate in the pure and exhiIarating
ocean air
'sThe existence of these little islands,
three hundred and sixty-five in number
a mere speck as they appear almost in
midocean, has puzzled many biologists.
The largest island in the group is only
thirteen miles in length, yet it has
large population and produces all kinds
of semi-tropical fruits and flowers
abundantly. Much of the soil is planted
in onions, which are our principal prod
uct for export. The United States is
a ready m arlet for us, and our rela-
tions with this country are exceedingly
pleasant.
The formation of the Bermuda is
lands is calcareous. being a disintegra-
ton of shells and coral reefs. 1t is
probable that some time, centuries ago,
perhaps, the whole mass was produced |
by a volcanic upheaval of the ocean
bed. This theory is supported by the
great Washington caves, which lead for
miles under the bottom of the ocean,
and the stalactites suspended from the
roof are of volcanic formation.
Aside from the native and white
population Bermuda has two regiments
OF English soldiers at the forts who
garrison the islands. A notable point
OF interest is q dry dock capable of
taking the largest man-of- war in the
English navy. This immense structure
was built in England and lowed the en-
ire distance to Bermuda by seven yes
'els.
Curious as it may seem, there is not
/ well or drop of fresh water to be OBJ
aimed on the islands. Ali the houses
re made from soft white stone, which
S carved into square blocks. Even the
'oofs are of this material. Large caves
re constructed and rain is caught and
onveyed to tanks built in each house
on its reception. This rain water is
Ised for all purposes, and enough is Sc
ured in the rainy season to last all
ummer.
There is not spot in the world
There the ocean is SO transparent as
round the Rermudas. Objects on the
ottom can be seen thirty feet below
be surface, and thousands of deep sea
sh in all their varied phases are no
ceable, the whole picture forming a
and aquarium upon which the eye
N rest for hours without fear of sa- :
ety.
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old oolns from old Mind.

The 'smint house" in Boston existed
about thirty-four years. All the coins
issued from it bore the dates 1852 or
1862, the same dies being used, probably,
throughout the thirty-four years of
coinage. Some coins had been made in
Bermuda for the use of the Virginia
colony as early as 1914. Copper coins
bearing the figure of an elephant were
struck in England for the Carolinas and.
New England in 1894. Coins were also
struck for Maryland bearing the efigy'
of Lord Baltimore. A mint was estab-
lished in Rupert, Vt, by Legislative
authority in 17s5, whence copper cents
were issued, bearing on one side plow
and sun rising from behind hills, and
on the other radiated eye surrounded
by thirteen stars.
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DANGER OF FOOTBALL.

Muscular and Nervous Stamina Needed in
the Game, and Plenty of Each.
Few except those who have been
| through the experience are aware what
exertion and strain and exhaustion a
hotly contested football match in
wolves. 1t is all a great deal more than
appears on the surface, and the self
control required in the midst of great
excitement adds to the nervous tension
besides the physical fatigue This OF
itself is enough to try an average man,
but when to it is added the struggles,
the sllls, the grapplings, the blows
flor, according to the Philadelphia
Times, there are blows once in awhile),
it requires stamina and real endurance
as well as strength to stand it Be
cause the men on the opposite sides in
the field are not seen squaring off and
striking at each other in regular Sulli-
yan-Corbett style, it does not follow
that there are not scientific ways in
which in the tussels man can be ma
terially weakened, or some particularly |
aggressive member of it disabled. Let |
any man in fair condition be suddenly |
thrown to the ground and then have |
one or two heavy men, or it may be |
seven or eight, fall and throw their
weight on him. Possibly his hand may
be under one of their feet, or in the fall
one of their forearms may have choked
him across the neck. How much wind
Ind energy will an average man have
litter one such experience as that? And
yet it is a common football experience.
Many man is hurt more in football
light than he cares to admit, and so he
makes light OF it and plays on for the
AXE of the college or team and from
elf-pride. But games appear to be
rowing rougher, and there are great
many accidents and injuries, and,
ahing all the teams in and around
it would be astonishing ii
he extent of the injuries received in
ootball were known. There is one doc
or in Philadelphia who has on his list
hirty cases of injury at football, and \
hey are nearly all cases requiring sur Il
ical treatment.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
The Bitter Bitten.

A Jewish junk dealer in Winnipeg
imposed an old muzzle-loading musket
on green English immigrant a few
days ago, along with thrilling anec-'
dotes about Injun incidents. The
greenhorn found the barrel plugged up,
with what seemed to be wads. He
took it to a gunsmith to be cleaned,
and the smith poked out OF the barrel
seven hundred and five dollars in good
Canadian bank notes. At latest ac-.
counts the junlsman was being closely
watched by his friends.
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rnhealthv Chnrohes.

The medical officer of health for the
city of London has started movement
to compel all the churches Of the city to
remove the dead that are buried
beneath their floors, and bury them al
Ilford, 1t is said that the condition of
many of these churches Is frightfully
unhealthy, as they literally stand over
a mass of dead bodies in various stages
of decay, from which it is wondes
that pestilence has not resulted lonu
ago The move has created great cons
formation among the vestrymen of the
churches, as the process of exhumation
will be expensive as well as dangerous.
the average cost per church being esti-
mated at ten thousand dollars. One
warden positively refused to allow any
with the dead, but when
the health officer had the flooring of his
pew taken up, and showed him what
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
swAeGER is OUT OF STYLE.
Even the High and Mighty MI Admirari
Air Is Considered Bad Form.

| Even the High and Mighty MI Admirari
Air Is Considered Bad Form.
| For the moment, at any rate, swag-
| ger is not the fashion, says the London
| Spectator. The most obvious and disa-
greeable form of self-assertion, which
consists in making other people con-
scious OF their inferiority by intensely
unpleasant and supercilious behavior
has, of course, been dead and done with.
as social claim, for half generation.
The high-born and wealthy heroes of
the old novelists, who were too great To
speak at the breakfast table, and
turned to fling morsel to their dogs
with an air of high-bred nonchalance.
exist no longer in fiction, and very rare
~ in life. Mr.. Grandcourt was. per-
haps, the last of them. But swapper in
its minor and more amusing manifesto
tions is also dying.
One of the later forms of swagoer
much affected by men of the bachelor
leisure class, and especially by the
much-abused "lotus-eaters" of club
land, was the nil admirari attitude. II
had quite vogue for time, and in
addition to conveying an impression of
superiority, it saved great deal of
trouble Older men who had seen life
we're spared the effort of hearing about
t again, and young men who had not
we're enabled to convey the impression
nat they had. This form of swagger
sun IN use as weapon against the j
ore Dut as fashionable cult it exists
10 longer. The leisure class, as sucb
oes not assert itself by any explicit
orm of swagger, and would seem for }
he moment to get before it the ideal Of \
he plain man. in its dealings with
ne world. Probably the strongest t
uarantee for the continued decline of a
wager is the growth of frankness. +
ormerly, to refer to money as a con- h
aeration in action was considered i'll b
red That form of swagger is certain Il
a thing OF the past. Nothing is more
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The Lie of Nlarnra.

Concerning the wearing away of Nj
agara Falls, Prof. LIE Comic says: The
upper stratum of rock is Niagara lime
stone, hard rock, but beneath It is a
stratum of shale. 1t is the slow UNDER
mining of this shale that causes the lime
stone to break off from year to wear
and the falls to recede. They are rcccd-
ing now at the rate of three or four
feet a year What will be the final re-
suit? They may go back to the lake.
but the limestone is growing thicker
and thicker and may finally extend to
the bottom of the falls In that case
the rock would not break Off but would
wear away and form rapids In any
case, if the falls should recede to Lake
Erie, at the present rate it would take
at least twenty thousand years "
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
PICTURE ON A COFFIN LID.
The Terrifying Sight Which Confronted
an Eastern Grave Digger.

Aho 1tTTtASiHB StEhC hnlcn CONFRONTED
an Eastern Grave Digger.
! James Clareback, about forty-five
( years of age, was recently engaged at
| Harrington Corners, ten miles from Ell
mira. N. Y, in resurrecting the remains
of Mrs M. c. Harrington in order to
bury them in another place. The body
had been under ground for thirty-fve
years, and in digging for it Clareback
struck great deal of water. He
reached the remnants of the outer box
surrounding the coffin, and when he
pulled them out of the way he was
greatly astonished to see what appeared
to be Mrs. Herrington's body, apparent
ly undisturbed and SO lifelille as to con-
vey to his mind the belief that living,
breathing woman was before him.
81 tell you I was scared, ;, said Clare
back to a New York Sun correspondent,
land nearly fell over IN a faint in the
grave. When l made an examination,
however, | discovered that it was not
the body saw before me. but an exact
photograph of it on the top of the cof-
fin lid. 1 then raised the coffin and
opened it. With the exception of the
head, it contained only few cruInbling
bones. The head, however, was per-
fectly preserved. The bones were Gov
cred with flesh which had petrifed, the
whole being as hard as stone, while
the hair had grown to an unusual |
length and was very abundant
The coffin lid was exhibited to num-
Der of people 1t was made of cedar
and contained an exact and perfectly
lear representation of the deceased
woman as she appeared when she died
thirty five years ago. Just how to ac-
,ount for this no one knows, but in lieu
# any better explanation that made by
he grave-digger is accepted. 1t is to
he effect that water flowing through
he grave must have raised the body so
hat it was pressed against the coffin
id and the action of the gases arising
rom the body, in conjunction with the
nature of the wood, forced the picture
0 appear as it did on the outer side of
he coffin lid.
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lnent building. The case is finished in
the natural wood white oakland
highly polished. 1t is seventy feet
long, eight feet deep and twelve feet
high. Not far from it lie the carload
Of exhibits which are to go in it, CON
sisting of stuffed walrus, stuffed
lizards, sharks, starfsh, electric fish.
devil fish, etc. Where the display is
not complete, models of the fish in
plaster and clay, so ingeniously colored
as to defy discovery of the sham, will be
r1sad
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
AT THE WoELD's FAIR.
Electrical Exhibits Are Nearly Ready for
Installation.

| Installation.
| The electrical exhibit will cover in
round numbers 20O,0 600 square feet on
the main floor and galleries OF the cleo
tricity building. The offices of the de-
partment chief are in the gallery at the
south end and the two bays in the north
restaurants. The remainder of the $780,
600 square feet of flooring in the build
ing will be taken up by aisles. The
work of installing exhibits will begin
Immediately Some exhibits are already
on the ground and others are arriving.
1t is expected that during the week
fifty exhibitors will arrive to look after
the installation of their displays.
Of foreign countries France and Ger
many will give the greatest electrical
displays, France having been assigned
%, 100 square feet on the main floor, and
Germany 1882 square feet on the main
floor and galleries. France will occupy
the entire northwestern bay part
of section P, just south of the bay, and
the greater part of section K, which lies
east of section P. Germany's exhibit
will occupy 1884 square feet on the
ground floor east of the French display
and 5,99S feet in the galleries.
England will have 1880 square feet
in the western part of the building adj
joining the French territory, and to-
yether with Canada will occupy 5,99S
feet in the galleries Just north of the
center of the building an area of 4,471
square feet has been allotted to Thomas
Edison, and in the center of the
building is circular plat 80 feet in di-
lmeter which will be occupied by the
'henix Glass company of New York.
The southern half of the ground floor
las been allotted to large electric firms
t this country, the Bell telephone com
any, Brush company, Westinghouse
Detroit Electrical works. and
theirs, each having large space as
gned to it. In the galleries will be
nown monographs, scientific instru-
tents and specialties Here also will
the exhibit of Insulation and wire
eople and small exhibits of foreign
atoms.
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PERSIA IN a. BAD WAY.


Priestly Oligarchy.
The internal affairs of Persia seem to
be proceeding steadily from bad to
worse. A correspondent of the London
Times, who declares that he has the
highest authority for his statements,
writes: The priestly caste. which has
always enjoyed greater authority in
Persia than in Mussulman countries of
bled by the present ruling dynasty,
has exploited to the utmost the prevail
ing discomfort for the furtherance of
its own ends and the revival of its own
prestige. Mahdist doctrines. e., the
belief in the speedy advent to the
twelfth Imam, who is to sweep the I'M
believers off the face of the earth-have
always had strong hold upon Shiitc
Mohammedans. During the last Muhar-
rem festivals the priesthood announced
in many mosques that mahdi and
savior unto Persia had risen at Samara
near Bagdad, in the person of Mollah
Hail Mira Hassan Shirazi and that
he was predestined to rule over the
land. This ominous announcement was
rendered still more significant by the
omission of the khutbeh. the prayer for |
the shah, which throughout Islam is tn.
most ancient and sacred privilege o.
royalty. These incidents acquire all the |
more gravity that the shah feels him
self helpless to cope with the impend
ing crisis. Treachery is rampant with
in the palace itself, and the shah's third
son, Prince Naib-es-Sultaneh who is at
the same time minister of war; is known
to be in secret sympathy with the NAL
content leaders. 1t is no exaggeratior
to say that the shah rules in little NOR
than name, and. as it were, on suffer
ance. The power both in the capita
and the provinces. almost throughout
his empire, has passed out of his hands
into those of the priestly oligarchy.
who are the masters of the situation
Fhe grand vizier himself-Emin-es-S
been compelled to enter into
secret negotiations with the most infiu-
initial of these holy agitators, NOLAN
Mira Hassan Ashtiany, in the hope,
t is alleged, of persuading him
hat the deposition of the shah would /
INVOLVE the occupation and possible par '
ition of the last great shah kingdom a
" the very Europeans whose presence '
$ SO loathful to every right-thinking i
dussul1nan.'' i
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lay beneath him every Sunday, he
quickly changed his mind, One man
tried to block the proceedings by
claiming the body of mis- grandfather,
which was buried in one of the aisles
OF the church some fifty years ago. He
was told that he could have it, Of
course, all that was necessary was for
him to identify it,,
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UncIe Sam First on 1land.

Uncle Sam, as usual first in all
things, is the first exhibitor at the
worlds fair to put in a showcase for
his display. The showcase is that for
the stuffed specimens of aquatic ami
mails shown by the fish commission
and has been built in the space allotted
for it on the first floor of the govern
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-18
The stranger,s sheaf.

An old custom still prevails m va.
western parts of France during the har-
vest season. On the edge of a field bor-
dering the highway a sheaf of grain is
left standing, to which all the peasants
of the village contribute, and which is
called 'sthe strangers sheaf," as it is
the property of the first tramp or other
homeless wayfarer who may care to
carry it away and profit by its price.
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10 you ever see one without them"
SURVIVORS OF BALAkLAVA.
Twenty-Seven of the Veterans Gathered
at Banquet In London.

|
The survivors of the immortal charge
in the valley of death" thirty-eight
years ago sat down together the other
afternoon, small company of grizzled,
bemedaled veterans, to banquet in
the banqueting room of st. James hall,
says London paper of recent date In
the chair was Sergt. Herbert of the
Fourth Light dragons, while Lieut..
Wightman of the Seventeenth lancers
occupied the vice chair. The commit
tee by whom the banquet was organ
lied searched the United Kingdom for
survivors, and the result was the APP
pearance of twenty-seven men only. AS
they met hearty grasps were given,
and the old familiar names called out
Jimmy" Pete" Harry BILL
answered to the old call, and as hands
were wrung one gray-haired veteran
would say to another: "Good old chum,
we managed to wriggle together for
many year" The medals which were
worn spoke of service in India during
themutlny as well as in the Crimea, and
though the veterans, with one excep-
ton, wore plain clothes, on every breast
the medals were conspicuously dis
played. There were over thirty guests
present, noncommissioned officers in |
the old regiments, so that the old and |
the new life mingled together and COM
radeship was cemented in good nut
brown ale
OF those present in the charge there
were nine of the Eleventh hussars. nine
OF the Seventeenth lancers, eight of the
Fourth light dragons, one of the
Scots Greys and two of the Eighth
Royal Irish hussars. The single sur
Vlvor who wore his uniform, and prob
ably the finest man in the company,
was Sergt. Fawke, who stood six feet
n height and measured forty-four
inches around the chest He was TWEEN
,y-two years of age when he rode with
he Scots Greys in the famous charge
by the dead laureate.
There is not white hair to be sem in
lis closely cut black crop; his cheeks
re clean shaven, and his black mus
ache is pointed la militaire. This
nan of sixty not only stands erect and
rm upon his legs, but rejoices in his
trength, and in proof thereof he cut a
ars of lead through with one sweep of
is sword, and played with forty i
ound club in way to astonish every j
ne. The gallant sergeant wears upon G
is breast the Crimean medal. with f
lree clasps for Balaklava, Inker1nan c.
nd Sevastopol, and also the Turkish 81
ledal, and his forehead and cheeks A
low now the marks of sword cut and b
lllet wounds. There were seven a
ounds in all received by FawlSe on the ?
yentful day, three of which were on i
S legs. Sergt. Fawlze rode in the b;
rd mayors show last year and earns a OF
yelihood as teacher of physical ex- pr
'cises in colleges and schools. &C
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An Even Thing.

On the steeple of an old Universalist
church in Bath, Me-, there is wooden
figure Of an angel. 1t is not remark
ably fine specimen of art, and has
always been somewhat laughed about,
especially because of its high-heeled
shoes, The Bath Enterprise recalls the
sorry that former pastor of the North
Congregational church once accosted
devoted Universalist with the question:
Mr.. Raymond, did you ever see an
NIGEL with high-heeled shoes on it's
eet?" why, no. answered Mr.. Ray
lond, II can't say that ever did; but
ID you ever see one without them?''
SURVIVORS OF BALAkLAVA.
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common than to hear the remark: II
wish l could afford it," or II can't NJ
ford it.n
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-28
administrators Sale of VaIu.
able Real Estate.

TIME undersigned offers at Private Sale the
Il following valuable real estate property
belonging to the estlte Of the late John G..
Schwartz:
In the city of Portland:
LAND lover 1000 feet)and buildings there
&; on. on the northerly side of Newbury st.
2-Land. westerly side of Pearl ST.
s3-Land, cor. Pearl and Newbury Sts
LAND and dwelling house, south side Federal
st
5-Land and dwelling houses, Lower Cove ST.
6-Land and dwelling houses, cor. Hammond
ST., and Potters Court.
7-Land and dwelling house, Gould st.
Stand and 2 dwelling houses, east side
Washington st.
9-Land and small dwelling, East Cove st.
In the city of Westbrook:
10-Land, lover 10000 teet,) frame stable and
store thereon, south side OF Main St.,
Saccarappa, on line of electric road
Centrally situated and well adapted for a
large business block
12-Laud and dwelling house on Brown st.
Inquire for further particulars and prices of
F. M. RAY, Admir-,
80 Exchange ST., Portland.
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