, 1876-11-11

CANINE DEMocRAcY.- Yesterday
morning workman in the employ
of Hall & Paulson, had large deg
walking up and down the street,
with the handle of a small paper
umbrella in his mouth on which was
marked "Judson for Congress. He
paraded the street for about an hour,
till another dog came along with an
orange in his mouth when the Demo
cratic dog let the umbrella drop and
walloped the packing ont of the new
conner. 1t was a remarkable coin
cidence.
No GAMBL1NG.-Va Wildman has
a sign up "No gambling allowed" in
his new saloon. He will make
money if he sticks to it. This re-
minds us of q man in an omnibus
with a cigar in his mouth who was
shown notice, mo smoking al
lowed" "Well," says Yawpey, 81
don't smoke aloud. I smoke to my
self"
RED HoT.-The political cauldron
was boiling over all day yesterday
and, while we were out on the street,
we heard "war of words more
than once. Along about dark, Fred
Dyer and Gardner Kellogg had some
hot words near the corner of the
Colman block. but it was all ''funny
business. Nothing goes.
THAT Clock. are not so sure
about that automaton clock Of jamie
sons being recent invention, ingc-
NOUS as it is. Ii our memory serves
us right, we saw twenty-seven years
ago q similar clock made by
Frenchman named Jules Lafoy, in
Newark, NJ.
VEN1soN. IS. Phillips, Robert
Russell and Jos. Surber, while hunt
ing in the woods few miles back of
Seattle, on Sunday, shot and killed
two deer, one of them a magnificent
young buck. fat and hearty, which
weighed in the neighborhood of 175
pounds, dressed. 1t was the best
venison we ever saw.
CAPT. CHAs. CLANCY. oblig-
ing young gentleman stopped off
from the North Pacific yesterday for
reasons connected with the next CEN
sus. Capt. D. G. Morrison, whose
impromptu initiation into the Ban-
fists We mentioned last week, took
the boat over from Port Townsend.
Coon MUsIc.-The Renton Brass
Band gave very good music at the
Republican meeting on Saturday
night. Their waltzes were we'll rem
dered but the" "Conspirator's Chorus"
would have been far more appropri-
ate, under the circumstances.
BUSINESS SIaSAL.-If you hear
the fire bell tap "3 times 3, you may
know there is not confagration but
a business meeting Of the company.
E. 3. MooRE.-We invite atten-
ton OF house-keepers to this gentle
mans card He is a new man to
these columns.
From tts Daily Of Ht'aneseay
FoGGY. The weather was very
thick yesterday afternoon and we
were compelled to light the gas in
our composing-room at half past
o'clock. Joggles had laid in boun-
tiful supply of cocktails on Monday
night and voted early in the morn
ing. He got pretty tired about 4 P.
NJ, when he overlook a lady walk
ing near the trestle-work. Should
lie steal a kiss? No harm in it, if
prying eyes are absent. He stepped
forward on tiptoe and, encircling
the lady's tapering waist, attempted
to snatch an osculation. A moment
later, there would have been an ex-
plosion like pulling @ horses koof
out of the black mud, but Just then
the indignant dame turned about,
exclaiming, "G'way from he'ah, yer
sassy ole ham. Eff my ole man eb-
Der cotch yer roun' our house. he
smack yer in de snoot. You har nv
gentle voice I'm a-talkin' to yew
now"
ARTIFICIAL SToNE.-Read Camp
bells new advertisement on the ar
tificial stone question. We have seen
its working and can vouch for its
elegance. Thurlow Block, the hand
somest business odifce in San Fran
cisco, is built from it. And they
do say that the Irish bricklayers Of
fered to work for half price on that
building because it was built of
sham rock.