Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-07-25

Uncle Eliab are very near the same
hight and size. Put it on and come
along, we shall certainly be late"
&C Put it on" echoed the Major, al
most in u shout, "Put this thing on
me?"
Well, why not? It's little old
style, to be sure"
"a little! Just look at that COLLAR
and those lappels-and the brass but
tonsw
Harold." said Marcia gravely, MINI
icing to the hest of her ability he,
brothers tone and voice of the evening
before, edo you actually mean to tell
me that you would lose an evening OF
Mis- oratory just because your
coat is little out of date?"
"Wouldn't 1, though? Do you
think 1 mean to make guy of my
self?"
"Well, observed Marcia drily, "I'm
thankful l wasn't born a man! But
you told me last night that men did
not stop to consider whether their coats
or caps were according to this seasons
fashion or not"
"I won't wear such q thing as that
if l never go out again. burst forth the
Major, irefully tlinsing the respectable
butternut-colored coat upon the floor
May confusion seize Uncle Eliat
and his wardrobe. Alonby you take
Marcia to the lecture. Ill be hanged
before I'll go looking like a revolution
ary soldier" j."
But my dear fellow quoth Mr..
Alonby, nlischievously, after all that
you have said to your sister about pin
ming ones faith to reigning fashions
Major Arkwright stayed to hear nc
more, but boiling into his own room,
with a muttered sound that might have
been blessing, or might have been
something else.
And Marcia smiled roguish smile
She felt that she and Harold were
quits.
AS for the Major, he never alluded
to the slavery of fashion again
Whether he suspected Marcia of being
in the plot or not, he never said, but a
all events he was silenced. Uncle
Eliab's butternut-colored coat had done
the business for him.
A SINGULAR DIsCovERY.-The Marys
vile .ippeal Of the 9th has the follow
ing:
Considerable excitement was created
at 1uba City yesterday afternoon by
the opening of gas vein at the resi-
dencc of W. H. Perdue. The discov
cry was made by Il. Whitney, the we'll
borer. who had been engaged to sink ,
four and half-inch tube in front Of
Mr.. Purdue's residence, at the lower
end of town. The we'll had been sunl
fifty-two feet deep, when some clayisl
deposits, having the appearance of coal
were thrown out. This induced Mr.
Whitney to apply match to the moutl
of the tubing, when a large blaze OF
burning gas burst forth and continued
to burn during the afternoon, and is
still ablaze, unless put out. There is
thirty-six feet of water in the tubing
through which this gas bubbles with
sufficient force to be heard several feet
from the mouth of the pipe. The flame
shoots into the air about a foot, and
creates heat strong enough to boil q
common sized kettle of water in five
minutes. There is no perceptible smell
in the gas, and it burns clear and bright
Gas was discovered some time ago in
the we'll of EX-Justice Pearson, and
also in cracks and seams in the bank ol
the river. The source of this gas is O
matter Of considerable mcclure. Some
think there is an immense deposit Of
coal underneath the town, while Others
believe the source is in the Buttes
However this may be. surely there is O
wonderful current of gas passing ou'
through the water pipe. A large mum
Der of citizens visited the locality yes
terday afternoon.
AN INTERESTING SIGHT ON MISSISSIPPI
SoUND.-It is stated by an exchange that
a party of army officers, who have been
engaged in mounting guns and other
wise putting the Gulf forts in service
able condition, while sailing through
Mississippi Sound, since the recent
flood, encountered remarkable scene
For miles We're seen logs, driftwood and
patches of tuft and soil floating out into
the Gulf, filled with live animals, which
clung to their frail barks with the tenac
ity of ship-wrecked mariners. Among
the animals were seen rats, raccoons
possums, rabbits, alligatorS and mecca
sin snakes in uncounted numbers, all
brought down from the swamps and
marshes, perhaps from fifty to one
hundred miles inland. The novel exhi-
bition had d scientific interest, as it sus,
gested the manner in which, during
past geological periods, animals were
transported from regions far inland to
mouth of estuaries, and their bones be-
ing entombed in the salt and soft mud
furnished the organic remains which
are preserved for ages in the hardened
strata. 1t was, doubtless, by similar
means, that tho fossils now found in
tho cnltJ 1imo ctoOo yarn nnuuIfaI ana