The Nome nugget., 1901-12-14

stairs, not waiting for the elevator. A breathless boy rushed into the room "What do you want?' he queried. McQuesten, taken completely by sur prise, looked up from his examination. oi the bell and said simply:
 "Bring me some straw for my muk- luks."
 / ~tHE following, addressed to the ~ NUGGET, comes all the way from
 Alabama, and bears the inscrip- tiou: "The Modern Fable of an Ancient Belle, by Geo. Wade:" Once there was . young smart Alec, goo-goo- eyed, giddy, gaddy, egiggling sort of D girl, who started to take in all the hops. All the young men Spotted her right away and asked for a Dance. This gave her the Swelled Head. She began to Snub right and left. If you weren't . Top Notcher, you couldn't look at her. She cut. She cut pale miner from Topkok so bad it made him cry. By and by her tony ducks began to | prospect and do assessment work on other ground. So the Smarty had to fall back on the common young fel- lows. But they gave her the Marble Heart. Now she spends most of the evening talking to the old back num- Der Masculines, who just go to look on and keep an eye on the young folks. Moral: If you don't want to be an ex, get next.
 ~HE guilelessness of the old Yukoner ~, is proverbial. If you don't be-
 lieve it, ask Bob English, Jack McQuesten, Hank Summers or any of the old sour doughs. Bob English was ten years bn the upper Yukon without once Seeing the outside, and when he did go out he was lost. However, Bob though isolated for ten years in coun- try where there was only a handful of white men, never lost his bearings, and when he got to Frisco he didn't blow out the gas, as did Old Man Kok- srine, of Kokrine's station. Kokrine went to his room in the hotel, and the last thing he did was to blow out the F gaslight. Then he went to bed. The . odor soon penetrated the building and /! its source was located. Kokrine was aroused, and complained at being dis tturbed. '.That's nothing," he said. "You fellers never lived among the Yukon siwashes."
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 .AHARLEY THORN tells good 'A story at the expense ofaa St.
 Michael doctor and Count Jacques Des Garets, who was in Nome in the summer of 1900. sCount Jacques was taken ill at St. Michael, and adoc- tor residing there at the time called upon him, The count took it for a ' friendly visit, but was later very much pained when the disciple of Esculapius sent him bill for $40, which he paid. When the count was leaving Nome ip the fall of 1900 the same doctor called it his rooms to bid him goodbye. As the physician entered the room Count : Jacques straightened himself to his full height and cried: "Hold on, doc taire. Vat you sharge for thees visit:" .AAPT. HANSEN, of the Northern . Commercial Company, has as his
 chef . very intelligent Chinsmsn : called Gee. Some time ago some friends called upon the captain, and he found that he needed some sherry. He therefore dispatched Gee to secure a bottle, giving him two dollars to pay for it. Presently Gee returned with two bottles, saying that he had found : some "velly good shelly for one dollar !, ,b6ttie." It is needless to say that 'while Gees economy was appreciated. as sherry purveyor he is not consid- : cred success.
 IKE most sailor men, Capt. Han- sen is fond of a boiled dinner. So
 the other day he instructed Gee to have boiled beef and cabbage for the : eteHing repast. When the dinner was ! plsced on the table the beef was there, but no cabbage. ''Where's the cab bage?" asked the captain. 'Is none," Gee replied; ''him too dear.' And ! then he explained how he had seen | litsle cabbage about as big as his fist ; sold for dollar, and that settled it. :" "'Thank you, Geo." said the captain, ; As he applied himself to the beef.
 At the Nome Razaar
 Doll from 25c. up, brass lanterns 5Oc. ' eoch. Also Christmas candles and . decorations, crepe paper. cellulOid.