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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1898.
AROUND THE GLOBE.

MAY 80 was celebrated in many parts
OF Great Britain as Royal Oak day, =
1t being the anniversary Of the restora-
ton OF Charles Stuart to the throne,
A PNEUMATIC tube connects Paris
with Berlin. 1t is used for postal pur-
poses, and makes it possible for a letter
mailed in Paris to be delivered in Ber-
lin in thirty-fve minutes.
THE London Optician says that great
men are usually blue-eyed, and in
stances Shakespeare, Socrates, Locke,
poleon, Bismarck, Gladstone, Huxley,
Virchow and Renan.
THE Russians still retain their old
barbaric love of splendor, and when
the empress shows herself she is
vision of unmatched gorgeousness
She is one of the few monarchs of Eu-
rope who still make a practice of wear
ing crown on great occasions.
THERE are said to be but four hun
bred and fifty words in the Chinese
language, all monosyl1able. These,
with different accents and intonations,
are expanded into twelve hundred and
fifty words. Each word has many diff
ferent meanings, some as many as
forty.
The largest pie ever made was baked
at Denley Dale, England, for the
queens jubilee. 1t spoiled, however,
so that when it was opened the stencil
was awful. The next week another
was made, of six hundred and seventy
two pounds of flour, thirteen hundred
pounds Of potatoes, one heifer, two
calves and two sheep.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
HER FIRST TRULY BEAU.
spendthrift Youth Who Appears When
rIokrx ~,

/ Spendthrift Youth Who Appears When
| the Girl Takes to Long Dresses.
| The first beau appears along about
| when we are fourteen or fifteen. There
have been, of course, many little boy
admirers, but according to writer in
the Elmira Telegram the genuine gal
liant does not materialize until we put
on long dresses and commence making
ourselves up for young ladies, a com
prehensive phrase that all girls will
understand. He is usually the brother
of some special chum of ours, and in
this way we are enabled to see him
more often than it we had no reason
for going to his house. He is exceed
ingly bashful before people, but can
talk a blue streak when we are alone.
lie squanders his allowance on ice
cream, soda and caramels, and on rare
occasions invites us to a church sociable
or concert. He is always one of the
group Of youths who wait outside the
church or Sunday school door, and he
is the one to escort Is to our homes on.
such occasions. We are teased I'M
mercifully about him and really enjoy
1t, though pretending to be fearfuily in
dignant and provoked about it. This
sort Of thing goes on until something
happens, as some things have way of
doing, and either he goes away to col
lege or we leave for boarding. school,
or perhaps a quarrel or change of resi-
dence occurs. AT any rate years per-
haps will roll away before we see
bearded man who can bearthe slightest /
resemblance to young, rosy-cheeked
boy.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
BEFORE FADS CAME.
Interesting Facts About the old-Fash-
ioneo Village School.

romeo Sl1laSe School.
Inside it was one unbroken room,
writes Minot j. Savage in some inter-
| esting "reminiscences in the New Peter
son. In the middle of the room was
raised brick platform, on which stood
two large, old-fashioned box stoves,
with the stove pipes running for long
distance overhead, so as to carry heat
to distant parts of the room On the
side opposite the entry and in line
with the stoves was a wooden plat
form by the wall, on which stood the
masters desk. The seats ran back
from the open space across the center,
toward either end of the room. There
were only two rows of benches, with
aisles at the sides and one in the mid
die. The desks, therefore, were long,
capable of seating long row of pupils,
instead of the short ones of modern
days, with seats for one only, or two
at most. So there was a chance for
good deal of disturbance when one of
the middle boys wished to get in or
out.
The girls occupied seats at one end
of the room and the boys at the other
On either side of the masters desk
were blackboards on the wall. The /
boys brought in the big sticks of wood
to keep the fires going, and it was
piled up on the floor beside the stoves. i
On cold days we had to take turns IN
being permitted to leave our seats and /
go to the stoves to get warm.
The one teacher taught everything,
from the abe to algebra, including
writing and the making OF quill pens.
Any child might study anything, pro-
vided only that he wished it and the
MASTER knew it. The bright pupil was
lot kept back because some one else
vas lazy or stupid, but he was at liber-
" to go ahead as fast as his brains and
industry could carry him. And if thes
master happened to know the higher
or the languages, some
pupil would frequently pur-
ue one or both of these outside of or
inary school hours
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
FOR THE SOLDIER BOYS.

TURKEY has adopted the Krag-Jor-
gensen rifle.
A YOUNG soldier in California desert
ed from the United States army to ioin
the Salvation Army.
In the English army, out of many
thousands of officers who carry swords,
there are comparatively very few who
have the smallest notion of using the
weapon.
CAPT. SoUFFLoT, who died in Paris
the other day, was the nephew of the
architect who built the Pantheon, and
enlisted in 1910 atthe age of seventeen.
He was made commander of the Legion
of Honor last year.
THE French are amazed that the Eng
lish should have built the Royal Soy
ereign, their biggest ironclad, in two
and one-half years. The Neptune and
Magenta, two French ships, have been
twelve years building.
JOHN HARTMAN. of Franklin county.
Ind, who served in the war of the re-
bellion, recently discovered that he
had never been discharged, and applied
for muster-out. 1t was granted.
Now he is disposed to claim pay for
twenty-eight years of military service.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
THE GIRL or STRICT IDEAS.
She Generally Develops Into Censorious
Oh Scandai-N1onger.

/ She Generally Develops Into IL Censorious
OH candaI-Nzonger,
The extremely well-behaved young
girl who has never been tempted and
who cannot understand how another
could commit a folly is certain to be-
come the most eensorious of old worn-
en-, says Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the
| New York Press. If she does not de-
velop into cruel, malicious-to ngued
scandal-monger it will be wonder.
Nothing is SO easy as the descent from
uncharitableness to malice. AS a
young girl she prides herself upon her
love of morality and good behavior; Az
her friends speak of her as such a
strict girl in her ideas. No one would
think of appealing to her for sympathy
or advice in an hour of temptation, but
she is respected for her high ideas if
feared for her severity. As an old
woman she is simply held in abhor-
renee, and her name becomes neigh
borhood synonym for cruel Judgment.
Criticism Of our frail fellow beings is a
vice which takes possession of us like
stimulant or drug, once we encourage
it, 1t may begin in our high moral
standard and our hatred of sin, but
once it becomes a habit we indulge in
it for the pleasure it gives us. 1t is
bad habit in the young; in the old it is
intolerable; for nothing renders old
age interesting or lovable save synpa-
thy for the young and charity for the
erring. 1t is strange that we all do
not grow charitable as we grow old; as
we learn more and more of our frail-
ties and more and more of the tempta-
tions and Illusions of life we ought to
become more and more tender and
plying, One can be sympathetic with
out encouraging vice and wrong doing
Or cloaling sin.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
HORNS AND MILK.
How Veterinary Would Increase the Use-
fuIBess OF Cows.

| HOW Veterinary Would Increase the USE
fuIBess OF Cows.
The removal or suppression of the
horns of cows increases the supply Of
milk, and the animal fattens better:
the fact is a strange one, says the Bos-
ton Globe, but there is no doubt about
1t. The horns are not of much use, and,
on the other hand, are often the cause
of accidents.
The removal of the horns of Young
animals was recommended years ago
by distinguished veterinary surgeon.
and Neumann demonstrated that cows
without horns were fatter and gave
more milk than others.
He saw four Dutch cows without
horns give from eighteen to nineteen
quarts of milk a day although on in
different pastures, whereas others of
the same breed, but with horns, only
gave twelve to fifteen quarts, in spite
OF the fact that they had the ADVANTAGE
OF excellent grazing land. American
breeders have MADE experiments
which amply confirm the statements
made above.
Those in favor of the removal of
the horns do not in the least intend to
countenance any act of cruelty: the
removal would be effected in a sim
pie and easy manner, by destroying
the tissue or root of the horn, as soon
as there was the slightest sign of hard I
ening on the forehead of the young
animal.
But without entering into any dis
cussion on this head, simply note the
fact that the removal of the horns in
sreases the supply of milk.
Although strange at first sight. it
ioes not appear SO extraordinary upon
1t is known by expert
snce that the removal of an organ
which has no utility leads to beneficial
'esults in other ways.
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THEY LOST THE WRONG MEN.
1t Was Only the Good Sailors Who De-
serted the Foreign Boats.

AZ was Cniy the GOOD Sailors Who De-
serted the Foreign Boats.
The number of assertions that actu-
ally occurred while the foreign ships
of war were here has not been pub
lished, but since no complaint has been
heard from the commanders generally
the number cannot have been large.
Down at Old Point Comfort, just as
the ships were weighing anchor to
move up to this city, a reporter of the
New York Sun asked the captain of
one of the English ships how many
men he lost in Virginia
Honly four, sir" said the captain,
''but they were the wrong four.
When we dropped anchor here called
up number of men that l had had nv
eyes on for a long time, and | said to
them: Look here l said, you're q bad
lot. You're always making trouble
aboard ship. I'll tell you what I'll do
with You. I'll give you five shillings
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with the most delicate and elusive of
burdens, nothing less than the very es-
sence of the soul perishable freight,
indeed should be carefully watched
and developed to It's highest and best
capacity.
The comparative ease with which the
average individual may be taught to
express the thoughts of himself or 9TH
ers in an intelligent, ineligible, even
pleasing fashion, makes itseem almost
criminal to neglect such vast possible
addition to the general good.
In none of the arts-for reading is
not only an art, but the noblest of
them all-does general information,
education and intelligence count for so
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
MISSING LINKS.

SOUTH AMERICANS get brandy from
watermelon juice.
THERE never was such person as
Pope Joan, the so-called female pom
IHE worth of a ton of diamonds at
o me present day is estimated at $685.
LIE mountaineers of West Virginia
have superstition that to see a milk
WHITE deer is the unfailing sign of a,
speedy death.
~ CaGHALIs county, Wash, has 100000
ooo feet of standing timber, the largest
a. cunt OF any county in that heavily
timbered state.
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One of the Finest.

There was woman Of dignifed bear
ing and apparent intelligence standing
at post-box the other day. says the,
New York World She dropped in sew.
eral letters and gazed hesitatingly alta.
small package which she held. She
glanced about for assistance in her
problem, and her eyes lit upon po-1
iceman. Il beg your pardon" she
said, sweetly, holding the package up,
for his inspection. ''but do you think
that there are enough stamps on this
to carry it?" And such is the chival-
rous attitude of man toward perplexed
woman that the policeman said,
promptly, without making even an at
tempt to weigh the package in his
hand: "Oi'm shure there's enough,
ma am" Her doubts banished by this
statement, the lady dropped her bum
die and won't on her way rejoicing.
STRANGE AND CURIOUS.
DURING a cyclone in Oxford, N. c., q
two-roon dwelling was carried off 200
yards without injuring the occupants.
A TRAINED elephant in the Manches-
ter (England) 200" drops a penny in
the slot and takes out a biscuit. The
visitors supply the pennies. The ele-
plant will not accept any other coin.
ALABAMA comes to the front with
who was struck by lightning
seven years ago, has never spoken
since, and whose eyes grow sluridly
brilliant" at the approach of thunder
storm.
FRANK AUSTIN, of Eckerly, Ind, had
1 collie dog that was very fond of him.
lie was going on journey the other
lay, and the dog wanted to accompany
lin. Austin drove him from the train
md the dog was SO detected that he
ay before the engine, and the train
passed over him.
THERE is a chicken on exhibition at
galveston, Tex, that has four beaks
nd three eyes. Another freak of ma
ure was born several days ago in Ma
on, Ga. A woman purchased dozen
ggs and, shortly after returning
ONE, she found a four-legged chicken
4 one of the eggs.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
THE OFFICE OF SPEECH.
Benefits to BE Derived from a Bluent
Tongue.

N'ehon's TO ne Derived from a Fluent
Tongue.
The possession Of the marvellous and
intricate faculty of articulate speech.
says writer in Godey's, seems no
more miraculous to the unthinl.inD
than do the eternal varieties Of eating,
drinking and sleeping. Yet the for
mer IS arbitrary and conventional, the
invention OF man-perhaps not CON
lined TO him, If Prof. Garner Of monkey
speech fame is to be believed-while
the latter are natural, absolutely COM
mon, and the sine qua non of existence.
Ihe Office of speech-the celebrated
french diplomat to the contrary not
1Wi6hstanding-is to convey thought.
How important then, that this vehicle
OF thought transference, this common
carrier OF IDEAS, this carriage laden
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
WISHING ON A FALLING STAR.
A Galician Legend Which Gives the Origin
of the Custom.

A GaEcian Legend Which Gives the Origin
of the Custom.
Here and there in the highways and
byways of the world many legends and
superstitions still lingennnd continue
to retain their ancient prestige. In
Halicia, the province northeast of Hun
gary, the peasants believe that when a
star falls to earth it is at once trans
formed into a rarely beautiful woman
with long hair, blonde and glittering.
This splendid creature, miracuiously
engendered, exercises on all who come
in contact with her a magical in
fuence. Every handsome youth I'M
fortunate enough to attract her atten-
ton becomes her victim. Thus having
allured them to her, she encircles them
with her arms in an embrace that be-
comes gradually tighter and tighter
until the poor dupes are strang led to
death. If certain words are muir
INJURED the moment the star starts to
fall they cause her allurements to lose
their power From this superstition
springs the custom of wishing while a
star is seen hurry ing through the air,
a wish said surely to come true if com
pletely formulated before the light is
extinguished. The Spaniards saw in
the falling stars the souls of their {
lead friends, the thread of whose ex-
stence was cut short by destiny. The
Arabs thought these stars to be burn
ng stones thrown by the angels on to
he heads of devils who attempted to
inter paradise.
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game animals; but the antelope de,
mands the most skillful of hnntsmen
to compete with it's keen sense of sight
and smell, and also its extreme fleet
ness Of foot, The power of scent is
wonderfully acute in them, for it
seems they can unfalteringly smell a
man six h@ndred yards and beyond
with the most astonishing exactness.
Their tenacity Of life is beyond all
conception.
have frequently seen an antelope
with one leg shot away and hanging
by the tendons alone, outrun and es-
cape from the feetest plains ponies.
Their race is not a long one (seldom
beyond six or seven miles,, and it is
possible that an American horse of
good mettle might run them down, but
as rule nothing on the prairies can
catch them, and the greyhound is
about the only four-footed beast in ex
istence that can be depended upon to
keep pace with and possibly outrfn
them, No animal in the world pos
sesses a keener sight, except the gil
raffe.
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apiece If you'll cut and run when you

apiece it you'll cut and run when you
go ashore here
ssThat's what I said to them. but
they're with me yet. You can't get rid
of bad pennies like them. They'd
rather stay and stir up mischief. It's
the good men that we lost, and more
of them take French leave in New
York. It's the ambitious, push-ahead
fellows who think they'll get to be
Vanderbilts if they have half a chance
ing every time. !"
OUR SWEET NAVAL BELLS.
The Foreigners Sometimes Stopped Talk
ing to Hear Our Ships Bells Ring.
Inc best gift that any American city
has made to the cruiser named after
it was San Francisco's service of plate
to the beautiful ship of that name
There is SO much of this great and cost
~ set of plate, says the New York Sun,
that the cabinets containing it are
found above and below stairs, in the
admiral's and captains quarters and in
the wardrooms All the pieces are
large and heavy, the biggest being
huge punch bowl of great beauty and
design. Every lid in the service is sur
mounted by a solid gold bear, the sym
Dol of California, and the effect of the
bright yellow on the white silver is
very pleasing. Philadelphia did very
poorly by her ship, now the flagship OF
Rear Admiral Gherardi. This gift is a
great bronze clock that won't keep
time, indeed, it won't go. 1t bears the
name of q Philadelphia firm of jew
elers, who would be wise either to put 4
the thing in order or chisel the firm
name off. This clock is not beautiful.
Its design is artistic, but does not work
out effectively in bronze
If the silver bell that this CITY is to |
give to the new cruiser New York is as
melodicus as a silver bell should be the |
gift will be priced. Few know it, but
the bells that ring out the hours and
half hours IN our white squadron were
the delight of our foreign naval visit
ors here and in Hampton Roads. ALI
the bells OF the white ships contain a
great deal of silver, and produce clear,
sweet and extra musical notes. Sir
John 0. Hopkins, the British vice adj
nlral, would stop his own part in a
at any time on his quar-
ter deck on the Blake to listen to the
oells of our Yankee ships. He said
hat they were the sweetest bells he
lad ever heard, and he wished they
lad such ones in the British navy
u that navy the bells go from ship to
hip, as fashions in war change, and
N some ship to-day the bell that rang
nut the time for Nelson or for Bake is
olling away as it did in it's hour Of
rlory. One of Nelson's bells may be
n the Australia or the Partridge, but
lasi the British do not carve the dates :
nd names OF the ships on their beds, /
nd SO their especial merits are lost. t
he old bells are thrown in the dock !
ards and kept there until one is need I
d for new vessel They are deep /
DICED. gruff bells, whose sound soon r
les out, while the silvery peals of our n
ellis cling to the air and reach far out S
pom the waters. "
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FADs OF A GAY SEASON.

The latest craze in jeweled orna-
ments for bonnets and the hair is a
diamond bat.
Ten bridesmaids is considered the
proper numberin fashionable circles in
England this season.
HE latest parasols are made of lace
and lined with rainbow chiffon, and
have gold mountings on the handle.
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SWIFT AS AN ANTELOPE
That Is About as Rapid as Anything on
Legs Can Be.

The antelope first, last and all the
time depends upon his legs for safety,
and it is fair to say they are the feet
est, as they are the most graceful, of
quadrupeds. There is no fun in store
for the greenhorn who attempts to
hunt this animal without understand
ing its ways and habits, says the San
Francisco Chronicle. Anybody can
hunt and kill bison-that is, if there
were any left to kill; it is not difficult
to bag a bear and many other large
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-19
10 Be A CFlEF.
Mastery OF Cooking and What 1t Re-
quires to Attain 1t.

In Europe, man who begins as a
scullion may remain a scullion forever,
for all his effort, washing potatoes till
there is SO little sign of earth upon
them that they might have fallen from
1 heaven, and making salad herbs as
free from soil as if they grew in air,
unless he pays a liberal tribute in mon
ey to the cook just above him, and
when he has learned all that man
knows, pays another and larger sum
to that mans superior, and SO on
through the whole round, till nothing
remains to learn, and he has spent
far more than his wages, and some
thing like that which liberal educa-
per's Bazaar, when he has reached that
point he has mastered all points; he
knows perfectly how to cut, carve,
truss, lard, roast, boil, bake, fry, broil
and knows, moreover, all about sauces,
soups, pastries, sweets and fancy dish
es. He expects to practice no one of
these branches himself with his own
hands; he has, so to say, understudies
in them all, or representatives he him
the director of a grand orchestra.
Nor is this all he must know; usual
ly he has made himself able to speak
French, German, Spanish and English,
He has some knowledge Of the arts; he
is chemist, a modeler, a, colorist,
more or less of an artist, a designer,
man OF taste, and necessarily of more
or less reading. He must know. some
thing of natural history, the seasons
of game, the products of far countries,
the state OF the markets, and must be
acquainted with the events Of the day,
to which he is often obliged to adapt |
the names Of his dishes. He must be
IN economist, too, allowing no waste
Oy his subordinates, and in order to do
his he must know the exact amounts
required in everything; and then he
must know all that can be done with
sugar and ice, and the whole story of
vines.