Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-01-16
A Worthless NAN.


A San Francisco letter in ah Eastern
paper, says: asss'scssA f. itS'boh
az remember now of fellow Of early
days here. His income was thousand
dollars day. One evening, after bus
mess hours, I encountered him leaning
listlessly against post, with his hands
in his pockets, the picture of utter USE
lessness. saluted him and stopped to
have moments chat, when, after look
ing at me moment he remarked
4 !" You seem to have q pretty good
time in this world, and yet I see you
hard at work generally" He sighed
and continued, ~ can do neither" f
What's the matter, old man? ?"
You have plenty money. You are
good looking-young enough. Why
don't you enjoy yourself?" .'
Don't know how"
Nonsense! Build nice house
get nice library, books of books
fine horses, a yatcht, guns, dogs.
Shoot, fish, sail, read, drive, and Airt
with the girls. Why, man, could not
find time enough. if had nothing to
do, to enjoy all these things, I should
spend SO much of it on each"
He shook his head saying, "Don't
want house. tired of horses. Yatch-
ing? Makes me sick-cant bear wa
ter Never fred a gun in my life
hate dogs and women."5 Efr. ,. 9-y
"Well, what in the, world can you
do?' '@'s' IA p : = y 'lu
"Nothing, except drink whisky and
play cards. 7ca.sg'3 s.-
looked at him pityingly, and won-
dered that Dame Fortune could be such
stupid as to waste all the favors on
such n stick; but then recollocted that
she was female. That fellow had
nothing that envied, nothing that
wanted, except his leisure, and that
thousand dollars day. He died a
couple of years later of the three ''W's
wine, women, and whisky"
NEURALGIA.-A remedy named " aqua
puncture" has been introduced in
France for tho treatment of neuralgia.
1t may be described as force pump,
which can be carried about and placed
on table, with q small flexible tube
about two feet long. SO constructed az
to deliver thread of water from its
extremity with such force as to pierce
leather. In operating on patient
afflicted with neuralgia, it is worked a
few times to expel the air from the
tube, the point is then held about half
an inch from the painful spot, the
pump is worked and the thread of wa
ter plays on the skin. Presently white
vesicle appears on the spot where the
water strikes; and any number of punc-
lures may be made, at the direction of
the operator and in proportion to the
extent OF the pain. At first the skin
around the vesicles becomes red; but
after few hours the vesicles and red
ness disappear, leaving only small
black point, which is the crust formed
by the drying of drop of blood in the
puncture. The operation is described
as painful, but the relief it produces is
so great that patients always call for
repetition whenever their neuralgia
pains return.
Durable Soar BuBBLEs.-To obtain
soap bubbles that will show the chang
ing colors of the rainbow tho directions
are as follows: Take half pint of wa
ter that has boiled and become cold,
and put into it quarter of an ounce Of
CASTLE soap, cut up fine. Put this int
pint bottle, and set it in hot water in q
saucepan, on the fire; there let it re-
main m hour or so, now and then give
it good shaking till the soap is dis
solved. Let the fluid stand quiet for
the impurities and coloring matter Of
the soap to settle; then pour off the
fluid and add to it three or four ounces
of glycerine, and your soap-bubble So
you may blow the bubbles eas;ly with
tobacco pipe, but if you wish to attain
scientific perfection, you had better en-
ploy glass pipe. By adding larger
quantity of glycerine you may make
these bubbles so strong that you can :
play battledore with them. n lo4aisg
EDGAR A. PoE.-The grave of Edgar
Allen Poe will soon be marked by the
monument it should have had long ago. 8
OF the 81, 500 desired for the purpose,
1928 are already in the hands of the.
committee. The Baltimore Sun says
I" A design has been secured which is
chaste and appropriate. The panel on Z
each face of the die-block is designed y
for suitable inscriptions, and the face Of
the cap will be graced with q Tyre.
crowned with the bay of laurels. One
OF the panels will be ornamented w;tha
medallion Of the poet. and the others
will contain sentences from his writ
ings," .,;.. ;Ss, ia
s4r The supreme Court Of the State ]
of Indiana has rendered decision \
against the admission OF colored child
rem in her public schools, as being in
contravention of the laws OF that COM
mon wealth. ass eE:sEsi asa ~
p To promote the cause Of tenn.
perance number Of Parisians have e.