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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
JAPANESE STATISTICS.
The Population of Japan Is Rapidly In
creasing.

The Population of Japan Is Rapidly IN
creasing.
Mr.. Ono. Japanese statistician. has
just published some interesting figures
concerning the remarkable increase of
population in that country during the
present reign, and especially since 1872.
IN January, 1872, the population was
SO, Ill 600; in December 1889, it had in
creased to 40, O70, 600. Since 1887 the an
nual rate of increase has been thirteen
in every 1000, SO that, if this date is
preserved, the population viii double
itself in So years. In England the rate
of increase is 1879 per 1000, while in
most European countries it is between
six and nine, and in France and Spain
much lower. Mr.. Ono points out that
the number Of births in Japan is lower
than in most civilized countries, except
France, and that the number of illegici-
mate children is smaller there than in
European states. He therefore at
tributes the great increase of the popu-
lation to the development of wealth
since the restoration and to decrease
IN the death-rate among children.
From the tables which he gives, he in
fers that the national wealth has
doubled in Japan in the last ten years
nd he shows that the increase in the
population has been greatest in the
northern and southern part of the eIn-
pirc, and least in the central part-a
phenomenon due to migration from the
central provinces.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
A PLEA FOR " HARVEST"
"Fau" Not an Americanism, But an old
! English Term.

"Fall" Not an Americauism, But an old
! English Term.
I have been reminded by several
friends that the word fall is not exclu-
sively American, but that it is used
for autumn in some parts of the coun-
try to this day, says a writer in the
Queen.
had learned this fact before, though
l cannot remember ever to have heard
the word used by any country people.
Like most so-called Americanisms, it
was doubtless taken over by emigrants
and spread. ! think that most Amefi-
canisms come from the strong New
England stock. They were the stout
fst and sturdiest of the English race,
therefore the stoutest and sturdiest
people in the world. (Let us always,
ny friends, when we can, be patriotic.)
1t is a pretty word; but those who use
contemplate, as we said before, the
.eason as a time of decay and decline
ma approaching death. Those who
peak of autumn think of full barns and
raparies OVERLOOKING
am sorry we have not kept our owl
d English word. Could we not revive
and speak of the season as that of
arvest? Spring, summer, harvest, win
sr- These are four names-all good
anglo-SaXon words.
Nay, the word 'harvest"-herfest--
5 actually the Anglo-Saxon for au-
umn. September is hardest monad-
he month of harvest. Let us abolish
can go back to the Latin
speak henceforth of
arvest-
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nnmnrI,nhln aremnrr.

The Toledo Blade tells of q conduc tor
on western railroad who possessed a
remarkable memory. An official of the
road, who doubted his alleged powers,
was convinced by the following feat:
Coming into his Office one day the CON
ductor said to him: "There is my train
book. Along the line have taken in
more than one hundred passengers. and
while you hold the book 1 will tell you
the station at which every passenger
got on and off, the class of ticket each
one carried, the color of the ticket,
whether the passenger was male or
female, and the destination of all pas
scngers transferred" The list was
gone over and he did not CIR in single
particular He then stated that he
could describe every one of those one
hundred passengers, giving the manner
Of dress, color of eyes and hair, and
general appearance, and could select
the lot out Of an assenblage of thou
sands.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
lefty sdountain Lakes.

The most lofty-situated lakes are
found among the Himalaya mountains
in Thibet. Their attitudes do not, how
ever, seem to have been very accurately
gagged, for different authorities give
widely different fguresregarding them.
According to some, Lake Manasarovara.
one of the sacred lakes of Thibet, is
between 1900 and 10000 feet above the
level Of the sea, and if this is SO it is IN
the loftiest in the world.
Two other Thibetan lakes, those of
Chatamoo and Surallol, arc said to be
1900 and 15,4O0 feet in altitude re-
spectively. For a long time it was sup
posed that Lake Titicaca, in South
America, was the loftiest in the world.
1t covers about $500 square miles, is
924 feet in its greatest depth and is
$4,000 feet above the sea. In spite
Of incxactitude with regard to the
Of the elevation of the
Fhibetan lakes, they are no doubt con
'iderably higher than this or any others.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
ORIGIN OF cAKE-wALIllNe.
A Pastime Formerly Confined to the
COrEfield.

COrEfield.
The practice Of calIe-wallling, or
walking for prizes, originated in the
south during the old slavery days, says
the New York World. In those days it
was called a dance and always took
place at corn-huslling or quilting
party. They used to give them in the
open air by candle Light, under the old
system Of burning fat and cotton bat
ting in a tin pan, so that everything
could go on joyfully.
This made a strange but after all
pleasant light, as it fiickered among the
cornstallls and the green trees. The
walking took place usually in a corn
field after the grain had been stripped
from The stalks. The costumes worn
were odd and very different from those
which Eay be seen at any OF the mod
ern cake-walhs in the city of New York.
The women used to wear in the corn
field bingham dresses and old clothes,
and the men wore cornsack trousers,
With one leg rolled up and the other
pulled down
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
a Singular Palm.

The Parapee palm is cultivated by
the Indian aborigines of the Guianas
for its fruit, which they use largely as
food. They plant it about their settle
ments, and where it is found apparently
wild in the forests examination will
show that such situations were former
ly occupied by the Indians. In some
seasons the fruit is produced without
seeds, while in other seasons it contains
seeds, the variation occurring in the
fruit Of the same trees from season to
season. When boiled or roasted the
fruit has something of the texture and
taste of dry, ncaly potato. 1t is pal
atable and very nutritious, The fruits.
which are individually about the size Of
a pigeons egg, are borne in punches of
from forty to sixty together. There
are two or three bearing seasons in a
year.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
A TROUBLESOME RIVER.
Destruction Caused by the yellow River
of China.

Destruction Caused by the Yellow River
of China.
The ST. Petersburg Gazette referring
to the latest inundation of the Yellow
river in northern China, which will
again bring a population of more than
million upon the point of starvation,
points out that these frequent or peri
odical calamities are the work of man
rather than of nature. Many centuries
ago the Chinese interfered so much with
the stream as to compel it to change
its course and dig new bed for itself.
But this bed the current has never
grown truly accustomed to. 1t viii de-
post its immense quantities ofsediment
carried down from the mountains in the
most unsuitable localities, forming
shadows and barriers which, when an
unusually large mass of water rolls
down, viii overflow and break through
its dykes and inundate the fertile
grounds along the river bed So it has
been for centuries past, and the living
generations are experiencing again and
again thst the sins of the fathers are
being visited with most terrible cruelty |
upon remote descendants. 1t is doubt
full whether the river could be turned |
back into its old bed, lying dry at pres /
ent. But, if it could, the old bed has
been changed so much in the course of
centuries that even there, in its old, |
natural and wonted haunts, the cur
rent of the river might not become tran
gull, but be forced to produce periodical
foundations as it does in its present
course.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
SERMONS WEAR OUT.
Even Good Ones Had Better BE Burned
After Being Preached "a Few Times.

Even Good Ones Had Better BE Burned
After Being Preached Few Times.
1T IS 3 very long time since preached
written sermon in the pulpit" saws
the bishop of London, according to the
Times of that city, ''but when l did
preach written sermons, which l did
for a considerable number of years. I
always used to find that if | had
preached the same sermon in different
places, say, five times, l had had enough
of it-whether other people had had
enough of it or not. / became thor
oughly tired of the whole thing, and
was obliged to turn my mind to some
thing altogether different; and / have
always advised preachers, after having
preached discourse certain number
OF times, without laying down how long
they might have been in doing it, to burn
such sermons. / am convinced myself
that the best way always is to write
your sermon three times over and then
to burn il and preach what Won renem,
Der of it. But even that win not do
whom you give up writing sermons. and
when yon come to speaking, not with
out previous preparation, but without
any previous writing of it. 1t will not do
simply to burn what notes you have
written, because then the words STAY in
your mind, and If you have to speal,
out, they come whether you want them
or not. They are ready and the occa- !;
sion seems to present itself, and the
words seem as if they had sort of in
dependent action of their own, and
they say: Here's my place, and out
they come"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14

line sea appeared to be transformed
into mighty meadow. bright with
flowers and musical with song of birds.
Cool springs burst from crystal rocks
and trickled over golden sands, and
men and maidens danced beneath the
trees. They seemed reckoning me to
join them, and plunged over the side
OF the boat into forty fatnoms of brine
The bath brought me to my senses, and
| reached the Cuban coast more dead
than alive. The mania is of frequent
occurrence in tropical seas and is
often referred to by The poets"
AN EXCITED LOON.
How the Distressed Mother Acted Over
Her Young.
Hon. Lewis NJ Lellan, of Gorham,
Me-, while fishing for la1 blocked
salmon in Sebago lake last May, was
surprised to see a loon with her young
one near his canoe. The anxious moth
er was employing every artifce to call
her child away, but the little one swan
SO near the fisher that be easily took
him aboard in his landing net, and hold
ing him on one knee gently strolfed his
downy coat, to the little fellows evil
dent satisfaction, says the Lewiston
Journal Meanwhile the mother was
in an agony of distress.
At first forgetting her native wild
ness and timidity in her mothers love,
she boldly approached the canoe, and
rising in the water till she appeared to
stand upon it, furiously tapped her
wings, uttering menacing cries. Find
ing this of no avail, she pretended that
She was wounded, rolling over in the
water, and finally lying still as If dead,
evidently to attract attention to her
self and from her young one. The fish
ernan, touched by these displays of |
affection, put the young loon
into the water The distressed mother
came to life and again tried |
to entice her little one TO go with her,
but he liked his new acquaintance so
ven that he remained near the boat,
until the fisherman rapidly padded
away for a considerable distance, when
he waited to see the outcome of this adj
yenture. AS he withdrew, the mother,
Nth cries of joy, swan to the little one,
lived beneath him, and taking him on
Ter back quickly bore him to a safe dis
ance, when she stopped and seemed to
'e talking to her truant child in very
liiferent tones from the wild, strange
lcarse laughter by day and the weird,
lolcfril cry at night, which John Bar
ougbs attributes to this bird. The
ishcr says he never imagined the loon
ould produce such soft, sweet, rnelodi-
us notes as he then heard.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
THE sDE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, JANUARY ID 1898.
BUILT A RAILROAD ON FAITH.
TIE PlueIsy Texan who Isulls the Arkansas

The Piucl5y Texan WHO suiit the Arkansas
Pass Il ,ad Did Good Financieriog.
From South Texas came man who
built six hundred miles of railroad with
a five-dollar bill and faith, and the bill
was borrowed one. He moved up from
Corpus Christi to San Antonio with all
OF his POSSESSIONS heaped on two
wheeled cart, according to the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He got a charter to
build railroad from San Antonio to
Arkansas Pass. he graded a mile of it,
throwing a great deal more than one
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14

TEA and tobacco are assigned as the
explanation Of the prevalence among
Russian women of crime over the won,
en- of any other nation. They smoke
cigarettes constantly, and drink enor-
nous quantities of strong tea. =
TEARS of St Lorenzo" is the poetic
name given by the Italians to falling
stars. The reason of the name is that
shooting stars are most numerous dur
ing the period when the Catholic church
celebrates the martyrdom of st. Law
renee.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
The Paradise Crago.

A man who met with shipwrecll of
the coast Of Cuba and had to take to an
open boat, tells Of the peculiar halluci-
nation, called by sailors the Paradise
craze" brought on by exposure to the
terrific heat Of the SUMS rays. He says:
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
EGYP riAN oARTooNIsT.

Comic Artist Not Modern Product,
after All.
In the museum at Turin, in Italy.
there is papyrus role which displays a
whole series of comical scenes. In the
first place lion, a crocodile and an ape
are giving vocal and Instrumental con-
cert,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11

GOVERNOR PENNoYER of Oregon. VIII
refused to travel to the border of his
state to greet President Harrison when
the latter was travelling through the west
and northwest, holding that the presi>
dent should come to him, has refused
permission 10 the sdIutant general to use
two brass cannon belonging 10 the state
forithe firing of a salute on the Fourth of
March in honor of Cleveland's Inaugural
ton. No permission" says the gov
ernor, will be given to use state cannon
for firing salute over the Inauguration
of Wall street plutocrst as president of
the United States" Whatever may be
thought of his judgment and courtesy, it
cannot be denied that Pennoyer is not
only ridiculously and unusually inde-
pendent but crank.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
ShERIFF"S SALE.

By virtue of special execution and fee bill No.
1857, issued ont of the clerks Office of the circuit
court OF Rock Island county, and state OF Illinois,
and 70 me directed, whereby am commanded to
make the amount of a certain Judgment recently
obtained against L. Crosby, in favor Of G. W
Mo9urney, out of the lands. tenements, goods and
chattels Of the said defendant, L. Crosby [
have levied upon the following property, to-wit:
Lots Four 81 Five 90 Six 90 seven a.
Eight 81 in block Twenty nine CO. IL Water
town County of ock Island and state of II inois.
Therefore, according 10 said command shall ex-
pose for sale tpublic auction all the right title
and interest OF the above named, L. Crosby,
in and the above described pro perry, On Wednes
day, the 18th day OF February, 1898, at . o'clo k
p. m, Mt the north door OF the court heuse
in the city OF Rock Island, in the county OF Rock
Island and state of Illinois, for cash in hand, 10
satisfy said execution and fee bill.
Dated at Rock island this 2ist day Ct January,
A. D. 1881
C. D. GORDON,
Sheriff of Rock Island ounty, Illinois
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
HoW'a Thiai

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF cstsrrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Ca srrh Cure.
FL Cheney & Co, Props, Toledo,O.
We the undersigned. have known FL
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in sll business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West Il Trusx, Wholesale Druggists.
Toledo, o.
Wslding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Hairs Catsrrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly 1pon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Price Use
per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Test;-
monials free.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11

Acting GOVERNOR GILL continues his
work of investigation. Yesterday he or.
dered the prosecution of all state tressur.
ers and auditors since the adoption of the
constitution Of 1870, for irregularities in
Office in pocketing the interest or public
funds, missppropriating Insurance. fees
and other perquisities which should have
been turned into the state treasury
Twelve ex-state officials and nearly 100
bondsmen, running through period of
over 90 years, are concerned in the pro-
ceedings ordered, and tonight the wires
are busy with messages to all portions of
the state notifying the parties interested
OF the legal contest that is about to be
begun. Acting Gov. Gill, in an official
communication to the attorney general,
declares that So. 900, 900 have been ille-
gslly seguestered from the public tressu-
~, and is virtually call to arms to those
who for many years have vsinly protest.
ed against the violations Of the law, and
denounced the tressurers OF Illinois for
sppropristing the interests. The pro,
ceedings are similar to those directed by
the democratic state administration OF
Wisconsin and which were sustained by
the supreme court Of that state.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
A DMINIsTRAToR's NOTICE.

Focr =. ~ :, .t dIi;s +.
- County court OF sad county TO the Decem
Der Term, A ID. 1894.
j. r., Johnston. administrator to the estate OF
Rosalia Hartnagel, deceased. vs. Thos Campbell,
Amelia Koher Theodore Hartnagel. VIM Hart
nagel and Edwin Hartnagel
Afilday il OF nun-residence Of the sad Amelia
Koher Theodore Hartnagel. VIM. Hartnagel, and
Edwin Hartnagel Iving been filed in the Office of
the Gle; L Of said county court notice Is hereby
given to the said Amelia koher, ThOs. Camp
he'll, Vim. Hsrtnagel, Theodore Hartnagel. ard
Edwin Hartnage, neirs Of the said Rosala Hart
uagel dec ensed that tie said j. r. Johnston,
administrator If The estate of Rosalia Hartnag J.
deceased fl ed in the said county court On the "a
| day of December A n 1892, his petition making
| me said Theodore Hartnayel, Emela Koher-
| Thos Campbell, VIM. Hartnagel, and Edwin
UaI-tnapel defendants and that summons there u =
onhe issued out of said court aga above nam
Cd attendants returnahle on the first day Of the
term of SAID county court TO be held at the cour
| house In said county on the first Monday of Feb
| ruary A d 1893 as is by law required, and which
| suit is still pending.
| Now unless you appear N said court on the frs
aav nj the Marc n term thereof to be held at tht
| ccurt house in the city of Rock Island in salS
! county and state on the first Monday of March A
| N 1sSra md piead, answer or demur to the peti
| ton there in filed the same will be taken ii
! confessed against you and Judgment thereof
| against Won entered accordingly.
| 7nated this 18Th. day Of January, A. ID. 1898.
| HJALMAR K0HLER, CLERK.
NcEEfRY GENTRY Solicitors.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
Sheriff of2ROch
NOTICE IN ATTACHMENT.
STATE or ILLINOIS,

STATE or ILLINOIS,
Rock ISLAND COUNTY. S.
Circuit court OF Rock Island county. May term
A. d. 1898.
The Peoples National Bank OF Rock Island. Ill.
vs. c. W. MOster, in attachment
Public notice lie hereby gwen TO the said c. W
Mosher that writ of attachment issued ont o.
the Office Of the clerk Of the circuit court of Rocb
Island county, dated the 31st dav of January, A
ID. 1893 at the suit OF the said Peoples Nation a
Rank and aranst the estate Of the said G. W
MosAer or Il 9 sam OF Ten housand $1,000 0Ol
dollars directed to the sheriff Of said Rock Island
county which said wit has been returned exc
euted,
.,.w, therefore, unless you. the said c. ".
Mosher, shall personally be and appear before the
said circuit court Of Rock Island county on the
first day OF the next term thereof, 70 be holden al
ehe court house in the city Of Rock fsianc IN I'D
county, on the fret dsy Of Msy, A. ID, 1898 sive
special ball and plead to the said plaintiff e &C.
ton, judgment viii be entered AGAINST you ard
in favor OF the said Peoples National Bank and
50 much OF the property attached as lay be sui
ncient to satisfy the said judgment and costs, will
be so d to satisfy the same.
GE rRGE ". GAMBLE, Clerk,
JAS. L. HAAS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
January 81, A. d. 1893.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
Her wit Gave Her a Seat.

One day last week large Irishwoman
got into Sixth avenue car, and the car
being full, she was obliged to stand. She
rode for many blocks quite patiently, first
resting herself on one foot and then on the
other. Still no one got out.
With face thai Harrigan would have
given fifty dollars for she exclaimed.
Well, amt none of yees going home, or
be yees all going to ride into the next
county?"
IT'S needless to say that half dozen
men bounced up and offered her their seats.
one of which she took with complacent
smile. while all present INDUCED in a broad
grin.-New York Herald.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
Catarrh in Colorado.

| used Ely's Cream Balm for DRY ca.
tarTh. 1t proved a cure. B. F. NJ Weeks,
Denver.
ElY's Cream Balm is especially adapted
as remedy Tor cstarrh which is aggra-
waited by alkaline dust and dry winds. -
w A Hover, druggis Denver.
can recommend Ely's Cream Balm to
all sufferers from dry catarrh from per-
sonal experience.-Michael herr, phsr.
mscist. Denver.
Ely's Cream Balm has cured many
cases of cstarrh. Il is in constant de-
msnd. George W Hoyt pharm scist,
Cheyenne, Wyu.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
Twice Inaugurated.

While attending the meeting of the Ma
tional Prison assoc alton at Baltimore ex-
President Hayes disclosed the fact, not gen
orally known, thai he was inaugllrated
twice. The 9Th of March, 1877, fell on Sun
day, and as there was some talk of Tilden
being inaugurated on that day in New
York, Chief Justice Waite administered
the oath to Hayes a. the White House on
Sunday, the public repetition of the cere-
mony taking place ext day.-Chicago Her
aid
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
GHANOERY NCTIOE.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, e.
ROCK ISLAND COUNTY. ss-
In the Circuit Court Of Rock Island County L
the May Term. A. d. 1898.
Mary Freeman vs.. Mar-hal freeman,
In CfauCery.
Notice is hereby given II the said Marshal
Freeman, hat the abo named complainant
h. regofore filed her bill of complaint in said court
on the chancery side thereof aud thst a summons
there upon be issued ont of ssid against the
above amed defendant returnable upon the Fl 81
day of the term of the circuit of Ro Island
county, to be helO at the court house in Rock Isl
and In said Rock lila ID county on the first Mon
day OF MSy, =. D 1898, as If required by law and
which suit il i'll pending.
Dsted this 2nd dav OF Februsry. A. D. 1898.
GEORGE ". GAMBLE,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court.
McEniry & McFniry. collectors.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-11
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1898.
THE state spportionment matter seems
to be in state of suspended animation.

NEW YORK Journal: Since Mr.. Cleve-
land has been cabinet-making. it is
astonishing how many people are anxious
to peep into his shop. But he keeps the
door closed and the ladder up. like the
old potter in "The Middlernan."