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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18

faded out, as twilight drew on her saro
of ashen gray, and the moon in all her
loneliness came forth TO bless the scene.
1t was after dark when We reached the
city after mos. enjoyable excursion
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
are of comparatively dali interest so
far; but l lock fer decided breeze
whenever Mr. lIanford's apportion-
ment bill comes up for final considera-
ton. VI.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18
Farm for Sale !

TX ACRES OF RICH LAND ON THE NORTH
! IL side of La Conner. Well situated for
farming purposes. or for business. extending
eastward from salt water. Partly laid of Ia own
lots. Title. U. s. Patent.
kirbys Addition to La Conner is we'll ada ted
for the County Seat, we'll as depot TO, tie
shipment of the grain Of that fertile sec;i,r e
country
Busi"ess men will do well TO examine the
place and secure locations.
Two different steamers pass weekly. connecting
with Seattle and int rmed.ate ports.
For further particulars inquire of Mr.. KIRBY,
at the New Eng land Hotel.
Seattle, October 18Th. 1877. octl3dAwlm
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18

- Oliver II. Goodwin, piano max
er and tuner will visit Seattle and other
owns on the Sound again shortly.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18

\ FARMER on Fidalgo Island raised
Rye eight feet high. The Old Rye at
the CENTENNIAL SALOON is not eight
feet high. but Is way-up. Barley and
hops N fluid state can't be beat there.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
AFFLICTED.

DR.. J. NJ Hinkle. of the Natioasl
Surgical Institute, with a competent
corps of assistants will visit Portland,
Oregon, Rooms ~ -. Charles Hotel,
October 22d, t. November lst, 1917,
inclusive No CHER Institution in the
world has successfully treated SO many
cases OF Spinal Curvature. Diseases of
the Joints, Paralysis, Club Feet, Piles,
Fistula in ano, Scrofula, Nasal Catarrh,
etc. Patients from almost every Co.
in the United States have applied
to it for relief, either at the home lnsti-
tute at Ind annapolis, Indiana, or 20 one
Of its Grand Divisions at Philadelphia,
Pa, Atlanta Ga. or san Francisco,
Cal The afflicted cannot afford to miss
this Opportunity of being cured at
home. The Doctor makes no charge
for consultation and examination, and
his terms for treatmeE. arc within the
reach CT every one.
EUROPEAN DRAFTs.-Drafts issued
at lowest rates On Great Britain. Ire
land, Germany. Russia, France, Norway
and Sweden. Tickets to and from
Europe sold - lowest rates by Andrew
Chiiberg. Seattle. W. 7.
\ FARMER on Fidalgo Island raised
Rye eight feet high. The Old Rye at
the CENTENNIAL SALOON is not eight
feet high. but Is way-up. Barley and
hops N fluid state can't be beat there.
NOBODY has found Charley Ross yet.
but everybody has found the best race
in Seattle to get Oysters-at PIper's. of
course.
- Oliver H. Goodwin, piano maxi
er and tuner will visit Seattle and other
owns on the Sound again shortly
For GENUINE GERMAN Milk Bread,
go to Piper's.
NITROUS OXIDE GA> 81 :. ke's
Dental Office.
PURE Mocha Coffee for sale cheap at
Chilberg Bros.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-18

PURE Mocha Coffee for sale cheap at
Chilberg Bros.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

Gilbert, finding that the stimulants were
not having much effect, suggested that
some music should be played. Mr.. Post
accordingly sat down to the piano and
began to play one of Mr.. Bartlett's IA
vorite hymns, the tears meanwhile run
ming down his cheeks. In minute or
two the company were startled to see the
dying man rise in his bed and with great
effort sing to Posts accompaniment.
He sang" says DR.. Gilbert, "better
than ever before, three or four hymns,
his listeners looking on in amazement."
In few minutes he sank back exhausted
and fell into stupor, from which he
was again aroused at the sound of the
piano, the familiar music proving more
potent than all the other stimulants COM
bined Again he attempted to sing, but
the water which had accumulated in the
bronchial tubes overlooked into the wind
pipe, causing dropsy of the lungs OF
strangulation, and the singer fell back
dead.-N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Singing, He Died.

The circumstances attending the death
of Frank Bartlett, the well-known church
baritone, who died on Saturday last, were
particularly affecting and dramatic. He
had been suffering for days from pneu-
monia, and had endured G. eat pain. On
the eve of his death he was much better,
and his friend, Mr.. Coyle, had deter
mined to 60 to Boston to attend a bust
ness engagement. Before leaving he
went into Bartlett's room and found him
looking much worse than when he had
left him, some little time before. Fear
ing the worst, he sent for DR.. j. r. Gill
bert, who found that Mr.. Bartlett's
bronchial tubes and air cells were filling
up with watery secretion, interfering
with the absorption of oxygen and the
exhalation of carbonic acid, thus render.
ing him unconscious. Stimulants were
given in large quantities, and DR..
Guernsey was sent for, and expressed the
opinion that the patient had not more
than fifteen minutes to live. He rallied,
however, and recognized many of his
musical friends who were present. DR..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

On Thursday last a son of Christian
Hanson, about nine years of age, went
to strawstack near the stable to get
some straw for horse-bedding. He says
while pulling out the straw huge black
bear seized MIN by the hip and started
with him for the woods. The bear held
him in such a way that he could make
no resistance, but after running a con-
siderable distance, nearly half a mile,
and leaping high fence, the monster
seemed to get out of wind and let him
drop upon the ground while he stood
over him with his great red tongue hang
ing out of his mouth, painting for breath.
The boy says he seized hold of the bears
tongue with both hands, and held on I'M
til he raised upon his hind feet and
scratched him in the face with his fore
paws so hard that he let 90 and ran.
The bear did not follow, and the little
fellow made the best time possible
toward the house Mr.. Hanson was
away from home at the time. The next
day he and his neighbors followed the
bears track for some distance, and the
citizens of Helen will make it warm for
bruin if he does not return to his hole
Glencoe (Ninn.) Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Literary Enigmas.

Each of the following fifty queries or
statements, properly met, reveals the
name of an author. They are given in
the Herald of HEALTH:
l. What rough man said to his son
when he wished him to eat properly. 2.
Is a lions house dug in the side of hill
where there is no water. 3. Pilgrims
and tlatterers have knelt low to kiss him.
T. Makes and mends for first-class Gus
toners. 5. Represents the dwelling of
civilized men. 6. Is kind of linen. :.
Is worn on the head s. A name that
means such fiery things, | can't describe
their pains and stings. 8. Belongs to a
monastery. 10. Not one of the four
points of the compass, but inclining
toward one of them. IL. Is what an
oyster-heap is like to be. 10. Is chain
of hills containing dark treasure. 49,
Always youthful, as you see; hut, be-
tween you and me, he was never much
of chicken. IA. An American manu-
featuring town. Is. Hump-backed, but
not deforlhed. 16 An internal pain
II. Value of a word. IS. A ten-footer
whose name begins with fifty. 10. A
brighter and smarter than the other one.
20. A worker in precious metals. 21. A
very vital part of the body. %. A lady's
garment. %. A small talk and heavy
weight. "a. A prefix and disease 25
Comes from pig, 26. A disagreeable
fellow to have on ones foot. 81. A sick
place of worship. 2S. A mean dog It's.
30. An official dreaded by the students
of English universities, 30. His middle
name is suggestive of an Indian or a
Hottentot 81. A manufactured metal.
80. A game. and male of the human
species. 33. An answer to (Which is
the greater poet, William Shakespeare or
Martin f. Tupper?" "a. Meat What
are you doing? 35 Is very fast indeed
36. A barrier built by an edible. 81.
To agitate a weapon. 3S. Red as an
apple, black as night, a heavenly sight
or perfect fright, 80. A domestic
worker 40. A slang exclamation. Al.
Pack away closely, never scatter, and
doing 50 you'll soon get at her. 40. A
young domestic animal. 43. One that
is more than sandy shore. A. A
fraction in currency and the prevailing
fashion. 45. Mamma is in perfect
health my child; and thus he named a
poet mild. AS. A girls and a male rela-
ton. Az Take heavy fieldpiece, moth
ing 10th. 48. Put an edible grain
'twixt an ant and bee, and much
loved poet you'll see. 40. A common
domestic animal, and what it can never
do. so Each living head in time, It's
said, will turn to him though he be dead.
AnSwerS-1. Chaucer. 2. Dryden. 3.
Pope. 4. Taylor 5. Holmes. 6. Hol-
land. 7. Hood. 8. Burns. 8. Abbott.
10. Southey. H. Shelley. -. Cole
ridge. 10. Young. IA. Lowell. IS.
Campbell. IS. Akenside. II. Words
worth IS. Longfellow, 10. Whittier.
20. Goldsmith. 81. Bret Harte. %.
Spencer. %. Chatterton. "a. De
Quincy. %. Hogg, 26. Bunyan. 81.
Churchill. %. Curtis. 30 Proctor.
so. Walter Savage Landor, 81. Steele.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Short-Sightedness in School Children.

We have no doubt that reading by twi-
light, or facing the lamp or gas light,
has much to do with the common diff
culties in question; but we are convinced
by daily observation and experience that
a too constant use of the blackboard, es-
pecially at too great an altitude, is Diet
rimental to the sight and the nerves of
our pupils. Ii will be observed that in
working out examples upon the slate
which are written upon the blackboard,
the eyes of the pupils are constantly
making rapid transfer Of vision from
the near slate to the distant blackboard,
and the space thus traversed by the eye
is scores Of times as far as it would be
in following back and forth the lines
of printed page. Ordinary reading,
therefore, as a strain, can bear no com
parison with following blackboard work
and transferring it to a slate or paper.
Invaluable as the blackboa is as an adj
junct in the school-room, we are con-
WINGED that in many of our schools its
use is carried too far.-Educationat
Journal. ..-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
TalIeYrand and Arnold.

There was day when Talleyrand ar
rived in Havre, hot foot from Paris. 1t
was the darkest hour of the French rev.
olution. Pursued by the reign of terror,
stripped of every vestige of power and
property, he secured apassage to Ameri-
ca IN ship about to sail. He was going
wanderer to strange land to earn his
bread and butter.
sis there an American staying al your
hotel?" he asked the landlord of the
hotel. 81 am bound across the water,
and would like letter to person of in
fiuence in the new world"
The landlord hesitated a moment and
then replied: "There is gentleman
upstairs who is either an American or
an Englishman, but which cannot tell"
He pointed the way, and Talleyrand,
who in life was bishop, prince and prime
minister, assembled the stairs. A misera-
! bic supplicant he stood at the strangers
door-knocked and entered.
In the far corner of dimly-lighted
room sat a man of some fifty years, his
arms folded and his head bowed on his
breast. From window directly oppo-
! site flood of light poured over his fore
head. His eyes gazed into Talleyrand's
face from beneath his downcast brows
with peculiar and scare hing express
sion. His face was striking in its out
line; the mouth and chin indicative of
an iron will; his form, vigorous even
with the SHOWS of fifty winters, was clad
in a rich and distinguished costume.
Talleyrand dvanced-confessed that he
was a fugitive, and that, under the i'm
preston that the gentleman before him
was an American, he solicited his kind
and feeling offices. He poured forth his
history in eloquent French and broken
English.
II am a wanderer-an exile. I am
forced to fly to the new world, without a
friend or hope. You are an American
Give me, then, | beseech you, letter,
that may be able to earn my bread.
am willing to toll in any manner-the
scenes in Paris have filled me with such
horror that life of labor would be d
paradise to career of luxury in France
You will give me letter to one of YOU
friends. A gentleman like you has
doubtless many friends"
The strange gentleman rose. With {
look that Talleyrand never forgot, he re
treated toward the door of the mex
chamber, his head still downcast, hi
eyes still looking from behind hi!
darkened brow. He spoke as he retreat
ed backward, and his voice was full Of
meaning:
81 am the only man in the new worl(
who can raise his hand to God and say
l have not a single friend, not one, il
all America"
Talleyrand never forgot the over
whelming sadness of the look which &C
companied these words.
"Who are YOU" he cried, as thu
strange man retreated toward the mex
door. Your name?"
Ny name" said he with smil
which had more of mockery than of Joy il
its convulsive expression, is Benedic
Arnold"
He was gone. Talleyrand sank int
the chair gasping the words; Arnold
the traitOr!"
Thus he wandered over the earth-an
other Cain, with the murderer's mark OF
, his brow. The last twenty years of hi
life are covered with cloud, from who's
darkness but few CLEANS of light tlasl
out upon the page of history.-BaIti
more Sunday NeaoS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
A Knowing Horse.

On the authority of correspondent at
Harwinton, Conn, the Hartford Times
tells this story: Mr.. Walter Beach, of
this town, has a horse that is the very
incarnation of mischief Mr.. Beach
keeps the horse at present in Cotton
Hollow, and, one night recently, the
creature united itself, then united pair
of oxen in the same stable, then quietly
opened the door and walked down to
Wolcottville, a mile and half, to
stable where he had been kept, opened
the door and went in, and united another
horse and coolly turned him out of the
door and took his place in the familiar
stall. This is an unexaggerated fact.
MIR. Beach wants to sell that horse
adly" ....a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

AN article was recently published de-
scriblng the duel which took place many
years ago between Gen. Andrew Jack
son and Mr.. Charles Dickinson, in which
the General is spoken of as never ex-
hibiting the slightest compunction for
the part he took in the affair. Gen. w.
friend of Gen. jackson, being appealed
for information as to the facts, gives the
following account of an interview with
him:
On the occasion referred to, | found
Gen. jackson alone, which was not often
the case. In the course of the CONVEX
sation l asked him whether brave men
were ever frightened. Gen. jackson re-
piled: -" | do not know, sir, that am
competent to answer the question"
! answered: "The world, and especial
ly those who know you best, will accord
you as much courage as belongs to man"
Gen. jackson then replied: "If that
be so, sir, | would say that have been
as badly frightened as any man ought
! ever to be-"
| asked him on what occasion he was
frightened, supposing that he referred
to some of his Indian engagements.
The General said: 1T was, sir, when
l fought the duel with Mr.. Dickinson.
In the first place, sir, l had no unkind
feeling against MIR. Dickinson, and no
disposition to injure hair of his head.
| had gone as far as an honorable man
could go to avoid the difficulty with
Dickinson; he had not injured me, and
therefore | had no ground of complaint
against him; my quarrel had been with his
father-in-law, Col. Erwin. knew Dick
inson to be a brave, honorable gentle
man, and the best shot with the pistol
ever saw-far better than myself, for
was never an expert with that weapon
| knew that he could shoot quicker and
truer than ! could. / therefore went
upon the ground expecting to be killed,
and | owe the preservation of my life on
that occasion to the fashions of the
day, for | wore coat with rolling
collar and very full breasted; but, fortu-
nately for me, sir, was organized with
a very narrow chest. Dickinsons ball
struck very near the center of my coat,
and, while it scraped the breast-b bone, it
did not enter the cavity of the chest. In
an instant, under the impression that |
was, perhaps, MORALLY wounded, and
upon the impulse of the moment, l fred
and my antagonist fell-and no event of
my life, sir, have ! regretted so much.
My determination before and after tax
ing position was to discharge my pistol
in the air, but because felt the effect of
his shot | fired at him. Justhere, sir, let me
add that the world has done me great in
justice, for / am charged with having
brought on the difficulty, and with hav-
ing fixed the terms so as to reserve my
fire and advance; and it charges me
with having advanced upon Dickin-
son, and shot him when l was
within few feet of him-all of
which is false, sir. l fired instantly
after receiving his shot, and from my
position; and Dickinson stood in his
position and received my fire like brave
man, as he was"
The above is the conversation nearly
cerbdttm as it occurred between Gen.
Jackson and myself in reference to that
duel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
A Lure for Dollars.

The following advertisement has late
ly appeared:
NTACHINISTS AND BLACKSMITHS WANTED
vi We can furnish transportation TO and guar
antee one years employment in the Black Hills to
a limited number of first-class workmen; wages
S. to 81 a day; passage money TO be repaid in
work For particulars address WILLIAM
POWELL Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
A New York mechanic who applied
received the following answer:
"DEAR SIR-Your letter in reply to
my advertisement duly received and con-
tents noted. judge fromyour note you
can fill the bill, and would say for your
information that l have an application
for a company who intend putting up ma
chinery in the Hills for twenty machin-
lists and eight blacksmiths, and have
been unable to procure the right sort of
men in this section. Before making an
engagement with you they will require
you to sign contract to pay the cost of
transportation by installments; they
agreeing to give one years work at about
IS per day, We require the names of
two responsible men or firms as a refer
ence, which, if satisfactory, we will for
ward you the contract, upon receipt of
which, duly signed, from you we will
send the paper necessary for you to OBJ
tain your railroad tickets, with full in
formation as to the route, etc. My fees
in this business are So, 81 to be forward
ed in advance when you reply to this,
the balance, 81, to be paid out of your
first months salary.
GAS we are at considerable expense
and trouble in this matter, no notice will
be taken of any reply or further applica-
ton unless my fee, 81, accompanies such
reply. Respectfully, VIM. POWELL"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

80. Tennyson. SO. Willis. "a. Brown
ing. 35. Swift. SO. Cornwall. 81.
Shakespeare. SO. Crabbe. 80. Cooke.
40. Dickens. Al. Stowe. 40. Lamb.
43. Beecher. Al. Milton. As. Mother
well. As. Addison. AZ. Hewitt, sir.
As. Bryant. 40. Cowper. so. Gray.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

MR.. HOLDEN met mad dog in Palmer,
Mass. He had no weapon, and there
was no chance to run, sol he waited for the
dog to attack, and just at the right in
slant struck the brute a knock-down
blow on the head with his fist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

JONES, who is in Florida, telegraphs
as follows to his friend Smith; Send
me down. G. o. d., some canned peas,
case of oranges, and photograph of a
crocodile. Have not seen any of the
above, although here for that purpose at
an expense of four dollars per day at a
fourth rate hotel"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

True Artistic Refinement Hostess
:" We're going down to supper, Mr..
Mirabel, Let me introduce you to Miss
Chalmers" Mr.. Mirabel-" A-pardon
me-is that the tall young lady standing
by your husband?" Hostess" Yes.
She's the most charming girl know
Mr.. Mirabel-" I've no doubt. But--a
she affects aniline dyes, don't youknow?
/ WEAKLY couldn't go down to suppah
with a young lady who wears mauve
trimmings in her skirt and magenta
wibhons in her hairw--Punch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

The organ.grinder's life is filled with
the most turn realities.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-23

veraciously informed, I" was sent to Bis
mark, the other to the minister of agri-
culture, and the third rests IN the posses
sion of the burgomaster of Mulheim on
the Rhine" &c Mein GOtt, aber," chuckled
the rotund official IS he set down his
mug of Bairish. And you would have
mine kartofel, Ell? Sop And what
should the life of Rhinish bureomaster
be with the supply of kartofel.soup and
kartOfel salat endangered, two as vii
famous dishes as the most villainousIy
fed nation could devise from the smallest
and meanest potatoes that ever rankIed
under the sun? The American soyer-
eIgn potato bug wouldn't have lived
on them things" even if they hadn't
bottled him 1--WE refer to Mr.. Boyd's
account) Gin large-mouthed glass jar,
twelve inches deep by nine diameter"
temporarily diverted. Mr.. Boyd might
have added, from holding the noon tide
draft of beer for his excellency, the
buTgomaster Mulheim-am Rhine"
Those great glass beakers, most as big
as sap-buckets,-they come handy when
the dusty troopers ride in from the long
quadrupedante putrem of the drill field
and the tavern window goes up and the
bar-maid pOurs out one of those vessels of
brew, to be drunk in the saddle,--it Is
like hot locomotive stopping under the
water tank and taking in the whizzing
through a fOur-inch nozzle.
But to return to the bug who " took
wing" the farmer OF that innocent two
acre patch had a suspicion of it. The
burgomaster he was reused, too, his
blood was up, and the minister of agri-
culture, we presume, thought this was 8
NIT he =, 4 l.
country" They went fol" that patch.
till it was a sight to zee. They fred it
with petroleum and sawdust, and after
ward drenched it with vitrioI. Mean.
time the local entomOlOgists were making
models Of the Larvae aud of the fuII-groWn
insect,-they couldn't make them fast
enough to supply the demand. There
was a high premium on the eggs also.
BurgOmaster Steinopf (translated into
Mayor Hardhead) had some promising
lary@ which were " expected to hatch in
twelve or fifteen days" Mr.. Boyd glee.
fully promises to forward "a beetle OF
two to his London journal if they
hatch, and lest one or two should seem tC
be small stock for a great daily with
| 10000 circulation, he promises that ''sht
Is estimated to lay from seven hundred
to one thousand two hundred eggs
| What chance fer Gen. LIE Dac to throw
himself into the breach and seek foF
eign market fOrOur surplus Ifhe doesn'
believe it let him notice the following
personal from the Liverpool Morning
Post:
Will any one kindly lend a lady a liv
Colorado beetle for few days? Grea
care shall be taken of it. Payment if de
sired. Address K. L., Office of this paper