Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Morning Work.

A bad custom is prevalent in many
families, especially among farmers, of
working an hour before breakfast, at
tending to Chores hoeing the gar
den, cutting wood, moving, etc. This
is convenient on many accounts, but is
not conducive to health. The preva-
lent opinion is that the morning air is
the purest and the most healthful and
bracing but the contrary is the fact.
At no hour of the day is the air more
filed with dampness, fogs, and MAS
mas than about sunrise. The heat of
the sun gradually dissipates these MAS
matte influences as day advances. An
early meal braces up the system against
these influences. Everybody knows
the languor and faintness often ex-
perienced for the first hour in the
morning, and this is increased by exer-
else and want of food. We do not
agree with the boarding-school regime,
which prescribed long walk before
breakfast as means of promoting
health. Probably the best custom
would be to furnish every member of
the family, especially those who labor
out of doors, q cup of coffee immedi-
ately after rising from bed.-Erchange.
The German government has Just ap-
propriated 1880, 900 marks to extend
its subterranean telegraphic system
along the Baltic. The first experiment
in what has proved to be safe and re-
liable means of communication be-
tween the capital and the principal
cities and towns of Prussia was made
by sinking wire between Berlin and
Halle, in 1875. When the system is
completed the empire will be crossed
by two main cables extending from
Konigsberg in the north to Strasburg
in the south, and from Hamburg in
the northwest to Ratisbon in the south
east, the intersection being at Berlin.
Metz, Cologne. Dresden, Stuttgart and
Munich will soon be brought into the
circuit, which now includes Halle,
Leipsic, Cassel, Frankfort, Mayence,
Mannheim, Carlsruhe, Rastadt, Stras-
burg, Magdeburg. Brunswick, Dussel-
dorf and Bremen. A system of COM
munication which is not liable to in
terruptions Of any kind might be in
troduced here with advantage. In
country which is constantly liable to
invasion, it will become an important
adjunct in carrying on defensive var.
Such system would have been in
valuable in our recent war.-1rdreller.
WELL AUTHENTICArED GIANTs.-We
read that the giant Ferragus, slain by
Orlando, nephew of the celebrated
Charlemagne, was Is feet high. Fan
mum, a Scotchman, who lived at the
time of Eugene H., King of Scotland,
measured liz feet, and La Mare, in
his voyage to the Straits of Magellan,
reports that ON the 18th day of Decem-
Der he found at Port Desire several
graves covered with stones, and having
the curiosity to remove them he found
human skeletons ~ and IL feet long.
Coming to more reliable evidence, it
seems certain that height of even
more than nine feet has been attained.
In the museum of Trinity College,
Dublin, there is skeleton eight feet
six inches in height. In the museum
of the Royal College OF Surgeons of
England, is another eight feet two
inches in height, and another in the
museum of Bonn eight feet. The giant
who was shown in Rouen in 1885
measured eight feet four and one-half
inches. The Emperor Maximin was
one inch shorter; Skenkips and Plat.
erus, physicians Of the last century.
saw several of that stature, and Goro-
pins saw girl, nineteen years of age,
who was ten feet high.-1Aos.. j. Bo1-
ditch, III Troy Times.
A cipher dispatch has just been inter
cepted and translated, from which it
appears that it is Mr.. Tilden's inten-
ton, if elected president, to plunge the
country into the horrors OF spelling
school again. Men and brethren, away
with this enemy to the public peace.