From The Klondyke Lyre

Our esteemed townsman, Bad Grave placed upon our desk yesterday a hand somely sliaped nugget. It weighei twenty-eeven pounds. We have credited liim with three months' subscrip tion to the Lyre. AA' e are pleaaed to see tliat Mr. Gravel, who is one of out best citizens, is doing well. He is one of a syndicate who expect to bu}' a quart of whiskey on Saturday uight. The high wind yesterday raised considerable dust. Jake Luckeubill, who was out on the El Dorado road with his team, says he was nearly blinded by it. AVhen he came home he coughed up $73.89. One of our greatest needs is street sprinkling. Dawson Pettibone has finished his new well in the rear of his kitchen. It now has eleven feet of ice water in, and he has over $85,000 in dust from the dirt taken out. The widow Larken yesterday tnet with a tnisfortune which will, we are sure, cali forth the synapathy of the public. During the heav}' rain storm in the afternoon a regular torreut rushed down the gully back of her house and washed so much gold dust into her pig sty that the pig was smothered. A subscription was started for her benefit. While Ike Sigtnan, the esteemed proprietor of the big strike saloon, was fishing in the river yesterday, his boat struck a snag; it proved to be a 600pound nugget. He will have it taken out and will use it as a horse block in front of his place. Ike is always bound to have the best that is going. Large nuinbers of dead catfish are seeu floatiug iu the river every day. When examined it is found that every one of them lias from six to eightouuces gold dust in its stouiach. This carelessness in allowing loose gold to escape into the river will ruin the fishing uuless stopped. Bill Jacobs made a pretty good strike ou the Little Juuiper this week. He struck plenty of gold at a depth of three feet, but as the lumps were too big to carry, he closed up the hole and has staked auo.ther claim farther up the creek. Aleck Cameron put a new fire place in his cabin this week, but he will now have to build another one. After he had cornpleted it he built a roaring fire but there was so much metal in the stone that it rnelted and ran all over the floor. He now has a gold-plated floor, but no fireplace. There was a buil movement in dog meat yesterday, the price closing at 68 cents above the opening figure. It is suppose to be due entirelv to ional