, 1877-02-23
PUGET SOUND ABOt,
GLEANINGS.

called sheet music
The Senate has ratified the extra
dition treaty Of spain.
The New York street cars carry
l65,O0O,o0O passengers year.
Josh Billings wants 20 know who
ever heard a rich man sing.
Russia and Turkey continue TO
buy up American rifles eagerly.
Tramps beat their way TO Texas
in,freight cars and then beat Texans.
IAN Eastern paper observes that
snow-banks have gone into liquida- /
ton.
Twenty thousand new farms of l6O
acres each were started on public
lands last year.
The rich thieves of the past are
becoming the poor outcasts of the
present.
When murderers are abolished it
will be time to talk Of aboishing
hanging.
The temperature Of Walla Walla in 46
degrees, is similar to that of Washington
in 3s degrees latitude.
Potatoes sell at a cent apiece in
New York city this winter and small
potatoes at that.
Monument makers are employing
agents toreport the unmarked graves.
of distinguished. persons.
The best way to capture burglar
is to bore hole through him with a
bullet, or tie him down with club.
Five hundred families of hostile
Sioux are reported as having gone
over the border into Canada.
A brilliant ball was given in the
navy yard Of Norfolk, Va, on the
9th inst in honor of the Grand Duke
Alexis.
John wesar and family, Of Vancouver,
had a miraculous escape last week by
leaping from their wagon just as an i'm
meDse fir fell and broke the vehicle in
hundred pieces.
Portable steam sawmills, driven by
20-horse power engine, and calculated to
cct from 5000 to 10000 feet day, are
used extensively in the States and Canada
in forest regions remote from navigation.
The work Of fumigating the sew
ers in San Francisco is being active
" carried on. Most of them are
found in very foul condition. Dip
iberia has been particularly preva-
lent in the southern portion Of the
city, attributable to bad drainage
and generation of sewer gas.
A child was bitten recently in
Mississippi by large snake called
the highland moccasin, and a perfect
cure was obtained by external ap-
plications Of kerosene oil. A dog
also bitten by cottonmouth, . and
apparently dying, was instantly re-
lieved by applying kerosene.
The following premiums have been
fixed upon BY the Western Washington
Fair Association. For the best three acres
Of winter wheat, $25; spring wheat, $l5 !;
oats, $40; rye $40; barley, 50; bushel
Of late potatoes, 50 early potatoes, So !;
half bu. onions, s.; 60 lbs. carrots, $4 /;
100 bu. ruta bagas, 50. Each competitor
must furnish the Association one bushel
Of each kind OF grain.
The judiciary committee Of New
York have taken the necessary steps
to secure the passage through the
legislature of an amendment to the
constitution abolishing the office of
coroner in cities of upwards of ten
thousand inhabitants. Many abuses
have been shown in the Coroner's
Office of New York city, the last one
making as high as s50,0o0 in sin
gle year. He now stands charged
with bribery and malfeasance.
ORvILLE GRANT has sorry time
with his wicked partners. Lately he
has been suing for a share in a St.
Louis Custom House contract. As
he puts it he was to secure the ac-
ceptance Of q contract to furnish
granite for the custom house, and
then to take charge Of the outside
work and manage the financial af-
fairs, getting for bis trouble a salary
OF $1,000 per annum, and ten per
cent Of the profits on this and other
contracts be might succeed in obtain
ing. All went well till the contract
was obtained and work begun, and
then this wicked partner, Schneider
6y name went back on Orville