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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

CONNECTICUT has more college stu
dents, according to her population, than
any other state in the union.
The Mcthodists of Buffalo have or
gained for aggressive work, and re-
Gently raised $1,000 for city evangelical
ton.
a MISSIONARY society in Baltimore
first feeds its intended converts, then
washes them and then teaches them
Christianity. Its motto is: "Soup, soap
and salvation
THE educational exhibit of the
worlds fair viii be given ample space
in the manufactures and liberal arts
building. The chronological exhibit will
be moved from that building to a new
one to be erected at cost of 100000.
c. II. YATMAE, the evangelist, has
been secured by the Methodist Episco-
pal church extension society to in
auguratc a work for the masses in New
York city. 1t is proposed to open the
aters and similar places for Sunday
gospel evangelistic service
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
TIE LATEST NOTIONS.


TIE latest clock is described by the
advertisements in the jewelers. win
dows; I'VE have got you at last" This
clock keeps on ringing its alarm until
you get out of bed and remove the pin.
TIE latest dining-room extension
table has a roll top, and instead of being
extended by the addition Of new leaves,
it is wound in and out to any desired
length by means of crank in the CEN
ter of the framework.
THE latest toothpicl1s look precisely
like quill picks. but are made of sheets
of celluloid sharpcned at one end and
then rolled up into cylinder. Hotel
keepers have their advertisements
printed on them before they are rolled
into quilts.
The new hook and eye that are pc
culiar because the hook has hump on
it have been succeeded by a hook that
is peculiar for two humps between
which the eye is held in place. Thus
rapidly does invention succeed invention
in this land of novelties.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
FOR THE KITCHEN.

BAKED SMELLS. and dry the
fish thoroughly in cloth; cover them
with fine bread crumbs and place little
pieces of butter over them; season and
bake for twenty minutes. - Boston
Budget.
SUPERIOR JOHNNY CAKE.-One pint of
cream, onc-half pint of Indian meal,
two eggs, two tablcspoonfuls of flour,
onc-half teaspoonful of soda, salt to
taste. Bake in quick oyen.-Farm,
field and Fireside.
MUsH BIscUIT.-Mix enough flour
with two quarts of cold mush and half
cup of lard to make it roll nicely on a
molding board. Roll the dough about
as thick as you would for biscuits, cut
it into cakes with q biscuit cutter, and
bake rich brown color, for twenty
minutes. Detroit free Press.
CHEESE CAKES. Line patty tins with
pastry and ill with three tablespoon
fuls of butter, three tablespoonful of
sugar, one rolled biscuit, two table,
spoonfnls Of brandy, the yollzs of two
eggs, juice and rind of one-half of
lemon, two tablespoonfuls blanched,
chopped sweet almonds and one-half of
q tablespoonful of bitter almonds
mixed with it.-Good Housekeeping.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
JOLLY THOUGHTS.

A DIVORCE lawyer likes a domestic
broil done brown.-Binghamton Repub-
Gcan.
THE Office boy who was taken on trial
was let go because he proved too much
of one.-PuclS.
MANY a man has been betrayed by
kiss after taking drink of whisky
Binghamton Republican.
NUDGE hompson called me an
idiot" Yabsley-"You needn't mind
that. Thompson always does exag-
gerate more or less."-Indianapolis
Journal.
AT THE SOUTHERN WINTER RESORT
"When did you first discover that you
loved me?- when l found out that
you We're the only unmarried man in
the place Boston Transcript.
THE HARD Emancipation Did
you let the lady know it was no trouble
to show your wares?' New Clerk
eyes, sir. / told her that selling them
was where the rub came in."-Life.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
THOUGHTS READY FOR USE.

TEARS are sometimes better happi-
ness than smiles.
THE letters of propriety should be
worn as an ornament, not chain.
TINE, that writes wrinkles on the
face. smoothes away the wrinkles from
life.
We love the body for the souls sale,.
but never the soul for the sake of the
body.
Nor tout of the fullness of the heart
the mouth speaketh, for the fullness of
the heart is often silence.
THE more we study human nature the
less we know about it. Each new dis
covery is a contradiction to the last.
TIE soul has depths that JOY can
never fathon- Suffering is the lead
that sounds the deep waters Mary
Ainge De We're, in Ladies' Home Jour
nal
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LOVES TRIALS.

DAUGHTER (blushing)-''Papa, Alfred
has been with you for an hour. What
did he want?" Papa-''Ie asked me to
lend him 500 francs-the idiot lie
Figaro.
BINGo-''Twenty years ago I was
married at high noon in dress suit. .
Kinglcy-"Wcll, things are different
now" Bingo-''Not much. Istill have
the same suit. Pomona Times.
MISTRESS Ito cool)-"You know,
Marie, cannot allow you to receive
your pretended cousin in the kitchen
every evening" ''You are very kind,
mum; but he's SO very shy, mum, he
Won't step into the parlor!" -Charivari
THE GROUND OF Hrs OBJEcTIoN.-Thc
Young Man-"Gracic, what is it your
father secs in me to object to, dahling?"
The Young Woman (wiping Always tear)
-''Hc doesn't see anything in you, Al
gernon. That's why he objects. Chi
cago Tribune
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THE De LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 81 1898.
SPORT in SuMATRA.
Tigers and Bufaloes Engage in Very
Tame Battle.

Tigers and Buffaloes Engage il Very
Tame Battle.
The following particulars of an Off
cial tiger and buffalo fight that took
place at Padang Panjang, in the resi-
dency Of the west coast of Sumatra, are
given by the Batavia Nieuwsbald: The
assistant resident of the district had de-
terrnincd upon giving this performance
to the people, owing to the capture of a
large tigress in that neighborhood The
tigrcss had vainly been offered to the
geological gardens at Batavia and Ans
terdam, and by the time of the fight
had lost much of her 1erccness. The
people of the place got together stout
bamboos to fence round the arena, a
circular piece of ground more than
thirty feet broad, with galleries for
spectators, who were charged admission
fees.
A few weeks before the fight the as
sistant resident secured tiger, and the
people provided two stout butfalccs to
measure themselves in the arena with
it and the tigress. On the day of bat
tie crowds thronged the arena, into
which the tigress stepped at about ten
a. m. to meet buffalo The lattor
quietly held its own against the tigress
which, reduced by her long ilnprison-
ment, showed no inclination for further
attack. 10 stir them up both ANIMALS
were priclzed now and then with bam-
boo darts. The buffalo then got some
spear thrusts, the wounds being freely
drenched with extract of chillics. The
tigress was aroused by tho application
of burning torches and crackers, and,
the onlool1crs thofr moneys worth.
Despite all this neither buffalo nor
tigress would fight, SO that in the end |
orders were given to kill the tigrcss.
After her corpse had been removed the
second buffalo was let into the arena,
followed by the tiger. This buffalo, |
aided by its comradc, attacked the
tiger, which soon had enough of it. and
sought safety by clamberine up the
palisading until several spear thrusts
made it let 60 No amount of urging
with prielzs, thrusts and Ere proved Of
any avail in arousing tho champions to
battle until the prolonged torture of
the tiger was ended by killing it with
spears. Both corpses were taken to the
resident, but the skins proved
worthless from being scorched and
pierced The spectators left disap-
pointed at seeing a fight which they
lad paid SO high to see. What would
DC done with the balance of the fees
ifter deducting expenses was not
,nown, but it was hoped that the gov
rnment would spend it in relieving the
distress caused by recent earthquake
here
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
ON DIVERS TOPICS.

THIRTEEN hens in Niles, Mich, laid
1,150 eggs last year.
A SIGNAL passes through the At
lantic cable, 2,7oo miles, in 31-1oO of a
second.
KENTUCKY will try the experiment of
permitting three-fourths of jury in
civil cases (nine jurors) to render YER
dict.
WILLIAM L. RUTHERFORD, of Ruther-
ford Station, Va, recently found in
hickory tree a lock of red hair that had
been plugged up in the tree for one
hundred and fifty years, as shown by the
growth rings.
No RAILROAD seems to be perfectly
happy until it has nickname. Every
road out of Cincinnati has one, some
more forcibie than others. The c., P.
e V. Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Vir-
ginia) railroad is known all along the
line as the Coat, Pant & Vest road.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
HANDsHAKlNG WAS A TRIAL.
Peculiar Aversion OF Famous Scotch
Architect.

Peculiar Aversion OF Famous Scotch
Architect.
George Mcilzlc Kemp, the architect of
the Scott monument at Edinburgh, was
a man who raised himself from obscur-
ity by the sheer force of talent and de-
termination, says the Youths Compan-
ion.
He had q retiring nature and shy
and shrinking manner toward
strangers. The habit Of handshal1ing
created in him an embarrassment and
aversion which he could scarcely con
troll, and one of his friends gives an
amusing description of the manner in
which he accomplished the deed when
it became inevitable.
The two were walking along one of
the streets in Edinburgh in the full
flow of an animated conversation,
when Kemp suddenly became aware
of friend approaching them from the
opposite direction
Instantly the current of his thought
was arrested, he lest the thread of con-
versation and then became silent alto
gether. A whinsically troubled ex-
preston crcpJ over his race and nery-
Gus commotion developed itself in his
manner.
Extraordinary movements began in
his right hand and arm, which he kept
dangling and jerking backward and
forward in helpless way, as if he had
entirely lost control of them Grad
ually the hand appeared to stiffen and
rose with the arm until they were at
right angles with the body.
With powerful effort he shot ont |
his hand and grasped that of the friend /
who had approached. and then, the !
ordeal passed, with sigh OF relief, he
brislSly resumed his part Of the CONVEX
sation with the sir of u man who has
performed an unpleasant but meritori-
Gus action
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Partially.

The Bible seems to be full of strange
ly pat local illusions, and so pointed
are they that even the truly revercnt
person cannot always avoid calling at
tention to them.
Near Cheltenham. England, is q
small village named Chosen, and there
one Sunday in the little church
preached new vicar. Possibly in in
nocencc, or it may be to please the good
village folk, he gave out as his text the
words:
And make all thy chosen people
joyful
Before he had time to begin his
sermon proper, however, a yoeman
from distant parish broke out, to the
consternationo of the clergyman and the
amusement of the Chosen people them
selves:
''And Mat about we poor Huclxlecut
folk?"-Youth's Companion.
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Very Close.

In an academy in country town not
long ago q class of boys was undergo
ing an examination in natural history.
The instructor was testing the pupils
knowledge of the various races of fam
lies of animals
''You may tell me, Jones" he said,
''thc name of the animal which stands
as the type and representative of the
canine race"
All these long words bopelessly puz-
zled Jones, Who stood silent
Come" said the teacher, surely
you know that"
Jones fidgeted. but said nothing.
''Ha! What animal, now, is more
closely attached to man than any
other?"
Jones' face cleaned with intelli-
gence. lie had not been swimming in
the mill pond on summer nights ever
since his fourth year for nothing.
"Blood- sucl1ersp' he shouted.
Youths Companion.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
WRINKLES.

If an alligator could talk he would
probably declare that he had small
mouth
PEOPLE who wait for chance to do a
great deal of good before they begin
never do any.
THERE is one thing God cannot do.
He cannot make saint out of sinner
without his consent.
PERHAPS no man ever finds out just
how hard his wife is to please until he.
begins to build house.
The man who never makes any mis-
takes misses a good many splendid
chances to learn something.
IF some men were as tender in heart
as they are in pocket what great things
they would do for the Lord.
WHEN the devil sees man get re-
ligion right he tries his best to persuade
him to keep still about it.-Ram's Horn.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
IN A MINOR KEY.

A PERFORMER at New York museum
played twelve consecutive hours with
out taking his hands from the keys of
the piano.
The ashes of Emma Abbott repose in
an urn in the Pittsburgh crcnatorium,
where the body of the actress was in
cinerated.
BAePPEs are generally ascribed to
Scotland, where they have been in use
for long time, but it was an instru-
mcnt upon which the ancient Greeks
and Romans played
THERE is now playing in Paris Rus
sian horn band, each horn being capa-
BILE of producing o single note only. So
perfect is the training that the band
produces the effect of one equipped
with ordinary instruments, and even
running scales with the rapidity and
precision of violin.
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Illiterate Russians.

Russian merchants do very little adj
vertising, principally because the great
majority of the humber classes cannot
read, and this is not to be wondered at.
as there are thirty-six letters in the
Russian alphabet which seem to have
the combined difficulties of the Greek,
Chinese and Arabian characters. The
signs on the stores in Russia are most
ly pictorial; for instance, the dairy
signs arc cows; tho tea signs, Cinnamon
shipping tea; o barber sign, bare
armed man shaving another. etc.
Russia uses more candles than any
other country, Go,oOO,OOo pounds a wear
being the estimate. A large part of
these arc made in houses instead of
large factories. One estimate shows
that 5000 men make $3.50, 0oO.o of
goods in their own homes. The fine
known as ''ring shawls' are
1aadc entirely by hand by the peasants
OF Cremburg. and Russian laccs, vel
vets, carpets, bronzcs, silvcrwarc and
enamel ware are beautifully made. some
OF these things being the finest in the
world.
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Sally Vas Rearsured.

After I had bunked down on the
floor of the squatter's cabin and had
been given about quarter of an hour
to go to sleep heard the woman ask
her husband across the fireplace:
Jim, when he I'm gifts up in the
mawnin' will him ask fur soap?"
.'Of co'se not" replied the man.
EUR towels?"
"No."
Wont he un ask fur whislsy?"
NO"
Nor comb fur him's harp"
mo"
Reckon he un will look fur coffe
and taters."
''Of co'se not"
Nor fur sugar or butter?"
mo"
Reckon he an will eat pone and
bacon and say nuthin'?"
"Sartin."
Jim, wish we had towels and soap
and brush and comb fur he un," she
continued after bit.
Sally, you purity nigh blind, /
reckon" he exclaimed in reply Cant
yon see he is a gentleman and doan'
yo' own sens figger it out that no
gentleman ever uses such truck when
he kin possibly dodge it?"-N. Y. Sun.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
GATHERED ABROAD.

In the southern provinces of Russia a
drink resembling brandy is obtained by
distilling the juice of watermelons.
IT has been discovered that a manu-
factory Of relics" has been in opera
ton in Edinburgh, Scotland, for some
time Relics of Burns were the staple
product
DURING the eleventh century a fash
ion OF embroidering the initials of the
name and the family arms on the gar
ments began in Italy and spread all
over Europe.
1T is claimed for the new magnesium
flash light for lighthouses, introduced
experimentally in Germany, that its
ability to penetrate almost OPAQUE at
mosphere exceeds that of any other
known light.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
KICKED CIV A DEAD MAN.

a Government Mail Carriers Experience
with Lynched Robber.
ST had my hat kicked off one dark
night by dead man" said John A. Ed
wards to ST. Louis Globe Democrat
reporter when youngster of nine
teen was riding star mail route in
southwestern Missouri. 1t was Just
after the war, and footpads were very
plentiful
zone dark night couple of these
gentry tried to hold me up, but l was
mounted on mettlesome horse and |
soclled the spurs home and rode over
them. went plunging on through the
darkness for several hundred yards
when my horse stopped 50 suddenly
that inadvertently left the saddle and
sat astride his neck.
My roadster was trembling all over
with fright, but, to save me, could
see nothing. thought it must be more
footpads and spurrcd the horse for
ward, while I held my pistol ready for
the expected attack.
''As passed a large walnut tree that
nearly covered the road big muddy
boot struck me in the face and scraped
my hat off. 1 concluded that l did not
need hat. so did not stop to recover it. \
ION my way back next morning I
found that the kicker was dead man
who was swinging from limb with a
piece of paper pinned to his shirt, on
which was scrawled: Thou shalt not
5teel-speshally cows and mcwls.'"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21
FACTS FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

THERE are over seventy miles of tun-
nels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar.
The famous dish of Vitellius was of
Pheasants' brains, nightingales' tongues.
and fish liver.
BRITISH INDIA has 1O,417 shops
licensed for the sale of opium. They
supply population of 22s, 900, OOO
A YOUNG woman in England has been
convicted of administering pins to a
baby under her charge. The culprit,s
name was Cushion.
1T will interest some persons to
know' IN connection with the French
m operations in Dahomey, that
the language of that Countrywide Popo
OF Dohomi-has already been pressed
INTO the service of Christianity.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-21

"A WEDDING notice in a Maine paper
the other day ended with the words:
No cards, no cake, nobody's business. -
GOVERNMENT experiments at the
Watertown (AIass.) arsenal have dem
onstrated that cut nails have greater
holding power than those made of wire
ONE of the largest Eacteorites in exist
ence was found some years ago at Bacu-
birite, Mexico. Its length is 11.6a feet;
height, 5.25 feet; width, ass feet;
weight, 25 tons.
THE DOGS IDEA OF HIS f7hSTER.
BE Probably Regards Him as an Abnor-
NAL Member of His Species.
Our custom of ascribing human fac
ulties and modes of thought is an invol-
untary and invariable one when we are
dealing with the mental processes of
other beings, says DIR. Louis Robinson
in Popular Science Monthly. Even
when we speak of the supernatural the
same habit is manifest, and human pas
sions, emotions and weaknesses are
constantly aseribed to beings presumed
to be infinitely more remote from us in
power and knowledge than we are from
the dog. Thus we see in the not very
distant past roasted flesh and fruits
were thought by men to be acceptable
to the gods, doubtless because they
were pleasing to the palates of the wor-
Slippers, who reasoned by analogy from
the known to the unknown. This SHOULD
teach US to bear in mind that there IS,
affecting the dogs point of view, al
most undoubtedly such thing as cyno-
morphisrn, and that he has his peculiar
and limited ideas of life and range OF
mental vision. and therefore pcrforcc
makes his artificial surroundings square
with him. 1t has been said that man
stands to his dog il the position of
god, but when we consider that our
own conceptions of deity lead us to tie
general i.lea of an enormously power
full and cmniscient man, who loves
hates, desires, rewards and Furnishes in
fashion, it involves no strain
of imagination to conceive that from
the dogs point of view his master is an
elongated and abnormally cunning dog:
of different shape and manners certain
ly TO the common run of dogs, yet |
canine in his essential nature
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Faithful Beadle.

1t may be questioned if important
personages derive as much satisfaction
from their greatness as do some lesser
holGers of authority who magnify their
Office. Rev. L. NJ. Thornton, once pas
tor of church in Glasgow, related an
amusing story of the efficient beadle of
that church.
! his bcadle was an odd character.
Among the children he was known as
Robbie Roy, the Beadle Boy" Six
weeks after my settlement, friend of
mine, meeting him in the street one
morning inquired:
well, Robert, how is the new min
lister going to do?"
oh" was the CHEEKY reply, "we're
getting him into shape by degrees. -
Youths Companion.
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sIMCE LAST va MEr.

TIE United States chewcd eighty-aye
tons Of tobacco last year.
THEY funigate immigrants on the
Maine frontier with steam hot from the
locomotive.
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HISTORY IN BRIEF.

GLOBES and maps were the invention
OF Anaximander, COZ b. c,
PRINTING in raised characters for the
blind was invented in 1927.
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ANIMAL FREAKS.

A sNow-wHITE deer has been seen by
hunters near Caledonia, Pa.
Z. A. GROVE, Of Kings Park, L. l.,
has a lamb that was born without a
lower jaw.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-19

Another one of those delightful
musical entertainments was given by
Grace orchestra last evening in the
Sunday school room of Grace III. Il
Church corner Ninth and West streets
The program was skllfully rendered
under the able dictatorship of Prof. {,
H. Lauer The selections vera hear.
tily encored rs each numU er was given
Miss Emma Lore. cuntraito sang three
selections in her usual charming man
ner
Her ability as a singer is unques'
tlonably nearly perfect. ana the WI
mington audiences are always NOR
than pleased to listen to her when ever
they have Tho opportunity to do SO.
Her selections We're "Etsn'5 Dream
and Sweet be thy Rest "being accom-
panied by Dr. Horace ON the violin IL
the last selection. The SOLO OF Fred
Kaiser on the saxaphone, accompanies
by Victor Pyle, was very aIlloyahlo
Grace orchestra IS unique s'lpniblH
improving, and IS really the only tIr5t
class orchestra III the city.
The players show great proileiencA
under the dictatorship Of Prof laLer
Hope wo may have another opportu
nifty to listen to them again BEFORE la
snow melt5.