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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-15
Notary Seals.

Seals for Notaries Public Corporations Stock Com.
panies Lodges, Etc Orders filled promptly. Also
Stock Certificates for Corporations and Stock Com
panies, either printed or Autographed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-15

The Latest Dodge.-"A queer thing
happened to me the other night" said
Adolphus. Il was out in the suburbs
five miles away from home and hadn't
farthing in my pocket" Went home
on Shank's pony. eh?" observed Helm
rich. No! l pretended to have fit
and was taken home ia an ambulance. I"
-Berliner Borsen-C Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-15

The man who has character that
mud viii stick to never feels safe
hams Horn
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
ENeLlsHMEN NOT LovAgLE.
a Briton Calls Them Aggressive, Purse
Proud and Hypocritical.

Briton Calls Them Aggressive, Purse
Proud and Hypocritical.
The editor of the Times appears to
have just discovered that the French
detest the English as bitterly, if not
more SO, than they do and other neigh
boring nation, says London Truth, and
in leading article on Saturday that
paper astonished the world with la
bored attempt to account for the cause
Of this dislike to US. But the reason is
very simple one.
We English are by no means Iowa
BILE race. We have many admirable
qualities. We are hardy, practical,
persevering people; but these are not
in themselves sympathetic properties
We are aggressive, se1f-assertive,
purse-proud and hypocritical We are
apt to sing psalms and pick pockets at
one and the same time, and our neigh
bors, not altogether unjustly, there
fore, resent the heterogeneous tone
that we adopt in criticising them and
their concerns.
Wherever the Englishman goes he
has the fatal influence of spelling even
the most simple of characters. A few
British tourists will make the inhab-
itants of the most Inexperienced prov
ince shrewd, suspicious, grasping and
dishonest. This is within the common
knowledge of any who have travelled
in little-visited lands, and considera-
ton of this phenomenon will enable us
the better, perhaps, to understand why
our neighbors, and more especially the
French, SO heartily detest us.
1t is also a curious fact that whenev-
er there are any general elections to be
held in the great republics the most
popular policy is to twist the tail OF
the British lion. 1t would be instruct
i've as subject for the dull season to
discuss the question: ''Are we English
really much superior to all other ma
5ions?" think we are, but apparently |
our neighbors think otherwise; and it |
night be we'll, therefore, to discover
we are mistaken or whether
hey are stupidity prejudiced.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
TRAVELLING IN FRANCE.
a Railway Decision That Antagonizes the
English and American Practice

A Railway Decision That Antagonizes the
English and American Practice.
1t is said, with some touch of scorn
OF our insular ways, that "Things are
done differently in France, but not
always better, remarks the London II
Illustrated News. The railway passen-
ger, indeed, is better done there, but
only in the sense of more completely
done-done brown. His luggage is
stolen and he gets no compensation;
he finds the guard very different be-
ing from that pink of civility in Eng
land, and he can never get accustomed
to the customs. The last feat of a
French stationmaster has been to de-
eide that an article of luggage placed
on the seat does not keep your place in
railway carriage. This to persons
travelling alone and who have nobody
to keep their place for them must be
indeed delightful In England this
right is never questioned, though in
some instances it is abused.
1t is recorded OF certain hair-split-
ting bishop who was accustomed to
compose his charges in the train,
and whose desk was always placed OPP
posite to him, that he invariably
treated it as though it were living
vis-a-vis. The train being very full on
one occasion, would-be passenger in
CURED if this place was taken, and the
bishop, with his sunniest smile, ex-
pressed regret that there was no room.
Il don't think that was quite right,
my lord, " said one of his fellow passen-
gers, who, we may be sure, was not a
curate. "What was not right?'' in
quired his lordship urbanely. ITO say
that the place was taken pardon
me; did not say that it was taken. I
was particularly careful to use the
word occupied -
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
DEATH IS RARELY PAINFUL.
ssut Sensations OF Approaching Dissolu-
tion Are Little Known to Physicians.

| ssut Sensations OF Approaching Dissolu-
tion Are Little Known to Physicians.
Descriptions of the sensations OF
those who thought they were about to
lie, but who passed into a more or less
profound state of unconscir 4sness and
tfterward recovered, though intense
! md realistic, cannot be accepted as
authentic portrayals of the sensations
# the dying, since these persons did
cot die, says a medical writer in Kate
Fields Washington. The temporary
suspension of all the phv-ical signs of
life, as in trance or lethargy, may so
exactly simulate death that all may
agree that the person is dead, while
yet that indefnable something which
holds the soul to the body remains and
is capable of reinstatiug the common
phenomena of life. We have no reason
to assume that the sensations expo
rienced in passing into this state of
Inconsistencies resemble the sensa-
lions of those who have actually felt
the earthly houss of this tabernacle
dissolved. Inconsistencies is not
death. 1t only effectively resembles
it. Physicians at the bedside of the
dying, while holding the Pickering,
weakening pulse beneath the finger,
eagerly watch for some word or sign
expressive of the sensations of APP
preaching dissolution. Nothing, how
ever, of value ever comes to us. In
deed many a life goes out leaving be-
hind clear indications that there is no
appreciation whatever of the great
overshadowing change that is upou it.
even though the mind remains clear
and active to the last.
A mother hearing me whisper at her
beside: "She is DYING opened her
eyes and replied: ''I'l be better in
minute though when the minute had
elapsed she had given her last sigh
her last heart-throb A little girl
to her fathers hand one sunny
morning said; "Papa, light the lamp;
it is getting SO dark" and Immediately
expired. A young man asked: why
do you all cry? / shall get well soon,''
and fell back on his pillow, dead.
These expressions show clearly that
the putting on of immortality was I'M
accompanied by sensations indicative
of the change.
In great majority of cases death is
preceded by period of unconscious
ness, more or less profound and of
greater or less duration. In this state
the vital spark goes out painlessly and
without any evidence of the mind be-
ng illumined for a single instant by |
'eturning consciousness. Deathbeds |
Ire rarely painful
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
PERFuMED MlsTs.
A Natural Phenomenon That Occurs on
the Coast of France.

Natural Phenomenon That Occurs on
the Coast of France.
On certain parts of the coast of
France, including the channel, nlists
occasionally appear which are general
ly called ''perfumed mists" They come
in the morning, especially during the
spring, and, strangely enough, only
when the wind is in the northeast.
Sometimes they only last for few
minutes, at others they hang about all
day. They have characteristic smell,
similar to that of lime kiln. The
origin of these mists is mystery, says
the Paris Petite Revue. In one district
the inhabitants thought the smell
came from some lime kilns some miles
to the northeast and they may have
been right; but that was not an ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon. because
the smell from those lime kiIns could
not have been carried by northeast
wind to all the other places where the
mists were seen and the smell noticed.
In one of those places the northeast
wind comes from the sea, in another
it comes from overland; the smell does
not therefore necessarily come from
the ground.
The best explanation given is that
the clustering northeast and east
winds sweep up the dust, gases and
germs of the ground over which they
pass and drive them toward the sea.
When this wind has con tinued for
some time it contains such quantity
of these things as to affect all our or /
gans That is the cause of the com
plants which appear when the east
wind blows, and it may be the cause
of those ''perfumed mists."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
zULus ARE FATALIsTs.



Royal Servants Allowed Themselves to b
straneied on Their Masters Grave.
Kings of the Zulus must not 90 t,
j the place of the dead alonen This ha
been national saying of the Zulu
in southeastern Africa for centuries
says writer in the African News. Ant
they have seen it carried into effect
until prohibited by the British, wht
now dominate their country.
On the death of king, certain per
sons were killed, generally strangled
and those We're the immediate servants
OF his majesty. One would suppose
that individuals suspecting their prob
able fate would endeavor to escape, but
| have been told that rarely if ever was
this the case. A sort of fatalism at
taches to them, and they say, as Zulus
often do when anticipating calamities:
I'VE can't help ourselves; we are the
victims of fate" Possibly some of
them comforted themselves with the
belief that if they accompanied their
sovereign to the unknown world, they
would be supremely happy.
Their dead bodies were SO arranged
in the grave that the royal corpses ly-
ing upon them might not touch the
earth. A large fiat stone was placed
above the kings head, and into his
grave were thrown all his belongings
mats, ornaments and robes Of state,
consisting chiefly of the skins of wild
animals, of the most costly kind. Then
the national dirge, used only at royal
funerals, an exceedingly pathetic one,
was chanted by the thousands of zulus
assembled A large mound of earth
with stones and thorns upon the top
marks the place of the burial, which
is watched closely for weeks and some
times months, to keep witch doctors
from stealing any part of the body,
which is supposed to have power to
work charms and even miracles. Zulus
have a sacred regard for the graves of
their kings, and they respect also the
graves of their enemies.
During the Zulu war; those ''sav-
ages" as they are improperly called,
had frequent opportunities to desecrate
the resting place of English soldiers,
but not once did they touch one. Con-
trast that with the disgraceful pro-
cedure of some British ''red coats,''
who are said to have gone to the tomb
of Umfaude, the Zulu king who died
in 1878, and rifed it of it's bones! Men
asked: What are you going to do
with them?" the reply was: ''Take
them to England for exhibitionl''
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
A Queer Little Animal.

The meekrat of South Africa bears
a resemblance to the American prairie
dog, but is more easily domesticated
1t is tiny little creature about as big
as rat, very intelligent and affection
ate as dog when tanned. 1t banks
and chatters and purrs, is an inveter-
ate thief and spends m UGH of its time
standing upright. Its fur is gray,
marked somewhat like a tabby cat,
and it is wholly without fear. The
dog is its favorite animal, and when
tanned the meekrat invariably attaches
itself to the most good-natured dog in
the house. When wild these little an
imals live in colonies as the prairie
dogs, burrowing their homes under
ground, living on roots. They express
supreme satisfaction by lying fat
down and stretching themselves out
50 that they seem like fiat skin with
out any bones inside it. The little
creatures have black circles around
their eyes, a stripe running underneath
their bodies for It's entire length and
long, curving black claws on their lit
tie forepaws.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
ARCTIC INSECTS.
Immense Quantities of Larvae Brought
Down by Glaciers.


1t is a matter of surprise to all who.
for the first time, have any experiences
in high northern attitudes, to note
the great abundance of insect life in
Alaska. The writer of this paragraph
says Meehan's Monthly, was especially
interested in noting the large amount
of larvae and other low conditions of
animal life which was carried down
from the melting glaciers into the
rivers ard streams which flowed from
them. 1t is to this that we have to
attribute the great abundance of high
er forms of animal life which prevail.
Fish especially are in such quantities
near the coast, attracted by this
abundance, that it seems like repeat
ing the tales of Baron Munchausen to
the listener. The young son of the
writer who was with him in this ex-
petition, was, with a couple of Indians
in boat, able to drive salmon into
narrow creeks in such abundance that
the boat would be driven against the
fish in their endeavors to escape. They
could have been dragged up in shoals
by any strong and ordinary net In
the earlier history of Colorado very
much stress was laid on the fact that
Fremont saw a bee on one of the high
elevations while crossing the Rocky
mountains. Lieut.. Peary in his recent
expedition to North Greenland found
a humble bee on the north coast of
Greenland-the highest point of land
yet reached by human being SO far
as known. This explorer states that
not only bees, but other insects abound
as soon as the spring fairly opens.
Flowers of many kinds are particular
ly beautiful and abundant, afording a
good chance for honey and pollen-col-
Letting insects to lay up rich stores in
advance of their long Arctic winters.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
woaEN AS sHoEeLAcKs.

AHey IRE humorous in France and Some
Iavo EEarried Rich Customers.
A crstom is rapidly gaining ground
IN traeec, and especially in Toulon
and certain other towns, which. It NAV
safely be prophesied, will not find
much imitation in this country. This
IS the employment of women as street
shoeblacks ~ -
The French women shoeblacks arc
most coquettishly gotten up, and as to
their caps and frills have somewhat.
The appearance of hospital nurses. and
1t is surprising that though their occu-,
patton isSa tolerably dirty one, thew al
ways seem clean and tidy; some of
them are doing the polishing in gaunt-
let gloves. -
In the towns in which they are en-
ployed they certainly are a success pc
euniarily, especially where English
and American visitors, who generally
seem TO treat the whole affair as a
good joke, are numerous.
1t is said that one reason for the oc-
cuPation being popular one among
women OF a certain grade in life is that
many of the fair polishers have mar
rled opulent customers who have been
By their shining qualities.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
TIE >HARiT OF DRuDGERY.
Some Advantages and Otherwise OF Hav-
Ing a Distinguished brother.


ing Distinguished Brother
Since my brother Mundanus has be-
come rich and famous as the author
and autocrat of the bootjaclS trust, ]
have been very strongly tempted te
stop working for myself and arrangs
with him for my support, says writ.
er in Scribner's. 1t may be that shall
conclude that the habit of drudgery is
too firmly fixed on me to be thrown of
with impunity, so that perhaps shall
elect to go on working; but if l do it
will be in the nature of self-indulgence,
maintained for more personal ease.
4 against my conviction of what is just
and right
| For my argument is, and it is con-
ceived on general and impersonal
/ grounds, and founded without preju-
dice on dispassionate observation, that
comfortable maintenance without
work is very moderate set off to any
ordinary man for the inconvenience
and detriment of having an immoder-
ately successful brother. The reason
lies in the incorrigible tendency of So
ciety to measure brothers by the same
standard. When they are little society
puts them back to back and observes
which is the taller. When they are
grown it piles their achievements or
renown or incomes up side by side,
and remarks which pile is bigger.
Mr.. RoclSefeller's or Mr. Astor's in
come may run up into the millions,
without making anyone think the
worse of my capacity; but ever since it
became known that Mundanus was
getting fifty thousand dollars a year
largely payable in Bootjack stock, as
happen to know, but the public
doesn't), it has been imputed to me as
fault, and somewhat of a disgrace,
that my in-takings were not so large
However conscientiously man may
have used the talents given him, and
whatever progress he may have made
in life, if it be his misfortune to have
meteoric brother who has sailed con-
spicuous where he has had to plod, and
arrived glorious where he has sweated
in patient aspiration, the slow-gaited
man is bound to suffer as do by dis
paraging comparison with his ocupod
fellow of the same brood.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
HOW GRADUATION VARIES.
Probably Caused by subterranean Com
motions.

| AoDabiy NaubS0 pJ SuDbeTTdne2n tDOm>
motions.
That changes, involving the displace-
ment of immense masses, are going on
within the earth is one of the sug-
gested explanations of some observa-
lions recently announced in France.
1t has been found at the Pare st. Maur
observatory that the force of gravita-
ton, or the weight of bodies, under
goes daily variations. These are rem
dered sensible by placing in the earth
tube containing column of mercury
balanced by the pressure of hydrogen
contained in a, closed vessel connected
with the tube. and registering by
means OF photography the alterations
in the level of the mercury.
After all corrections have been made
for the effect of changes of tempera-
ture, it appears that certain sudden
variations in the level of the mercury
are only to be explained on the theory
that they are due to changes in CRAWL
tation. These variations last from ff.
teen minutes to an hour. They are, of
course, very small, amounting at a
maximum to only one-twentieth of
mllllmeter: but they may imply very
great displacements of matter in the
interior of the globe.
1t has been suggested that similar
experiments should be conducted in
the neighborhood of active volcanoes,
where hquefed rock is moving beneath
the surface, and other disturbances of
the strata of the earth are taking place.
Such facts as these nracant 70 tba
imagination a very formidable picture
OF the gigantic connections that ac-
company the slow cooling and contrac-
ton of the globe, on whose hardened |
crust we rear our edifces, wondering,
when some of them are occasionally
shaken down by earthquakes, at the
instability of a planet that is apparent
" so solid.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER %. 1898.
EDISON AND THE BEAR.
How tho Great Inventor Received an I'M
expected Visit.

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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
DEVOTED DOGS.
They Sacrificed Themselves for Their
Little Mistress.

They Sacrificed Themselves for Their
Little Mistress.
A writer in Our Animal Friends re-
lates story of two fox-terriers, Tan
and Tally, which belonged to physi-
clan in southern California, and were
the playmates of his little daughter
Mabel. They had been her compan-
ions from her baby hood. and she was
now five years OLD. On the day in
question she and they were frolicking
in the garden, when the little girls at
tention was attracted by peculiar
noise in bush at her elbow.
She peered into the branches to see
what had made the noise. Instantly
the head of a snake reared itself before
her, and the sound of it's rattles was
repeated. Mabel stood as if fascinated
The gardener, at work not far off,
fast as he could to her rescue. Hurry
as he might, however, he would have
been too late but for the dogs.
They saw the little girls danger, and
threw themselves between her and it,
worrying the snake till the man could
come up and kill it. They were quite
aware of their own danger; again and
again, when camping out with their
master, they had shown the greatest
terror at the sound of snakes rattles;
but they could not see the child in
jured.
When the mother came in answer to
the shouts Of the gardener, she found
Mabel safe, but both dogs were already
in the agonies of death.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
THEY HAD NEVER SEEN ROSES,
Pathetic Incident in a waifs' School at
Pittsburgh.

Pathetic Incident in a Wai5s' School at
Pittsburgh.
Two ladies, managers, came into the
school the other morning shortly after
1T had opened. One of them wore a
beautiful jacqueminot rose, on which
the eyes Of the whole school were at
once turned admiringly. Noting this,
says the Pittsburgh Chronicle. the
owner of the flower gave it to one of
the teachers for the children.
Now, children, how many of YOU
know what this is?" asked the Young
lady, holding up the flower. Nearly
every little one shook his head to indi-
cate ignorance.
One small boy and couple of little
girls piped out with great Importance:
Its posie, please ma'am.n
But no one had ever heard of a rose.
Most of the children had never seen
one before. The flower was passed
along the line and small noses fingered
longingly over its fragrance. while
dirty little palms patted its velvet.
petals caressingly. No one saw or
thought of anything that morning but
the rose The teacher put it in a glass
OF water to preserve it. and when
school was dismissed each child was
rendered supremacy blissful by the rift
OF tiny petal. AS they fled ont of
the door each little waif clutched his
treasure tightly in his small hand
while he murmured softly to himself
Che name; Pity wose, pity wose.''
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28
WOMEN WORKERS IN BRITTANY.
While the Men Idle Away Their Time
Their Wives Labor

The women of Brittany are remark
able for their individuality, industry
and strength OF character. In "Artis.
tic Travel" the author says that while
the men slumber and smoke, the
women are building little fortunes OF
propping up old ones.
Let us picture prominent person
age at the old Hotel du Lion dor. She
has beautiful name, Augustine, pro-
nounced with enviable accuracy by all
the household.
She lowered about us like fairy, at
tending to all our wants in the most
delicate way; to outward seeming q
ministering angel with pure white
wings, but in truth, drudge, q me-
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-28

of coarse felt with long, shaggy hair on
one side of it. This cloak is big enough
to cover the rider and much of the
horse. The most distinctive point in
their dress, however, is the cylindrical
hat of black astrachan which they
wear at all seasons The top is Of
cloth or velvet. They form part OF the
Russian cavalry and live principally
on plumber, stealing, during their
raids into Turkey, anything they can
find, from chicken to child.