Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
Various Notes.

V@A AVuS AsVtScs
The Boston public library now has
800, 900 books.
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher has preached
sermon in favor of cremation.
After being garroted, at Madrid,
Moncasi's body was exposed on the
scaffold until nightfall.
Caleb Cushing's funeral was design
edly plain. The service was very sim
pie, consisting of reading the Scrip
lures and prayer.
During 1878. forty-eight railroads
having 1000 miles of track and repre-
senting originally $500, 600, 900 of capt.
tai, were sold under foreclosure.
Georgia has village mayor of re-
source, who, having to commit two
prisoners when there was no calaboose,
turned the box of wagon over them
upon the ground, and anchored it by
placing cotton bale on top.
81 am almost seventy-one." said Mrs.
Myra Clark Gaines to o Washington
correspondent, the other day, land I
expect to live till am hundred and
fifty. come of long.lived race. One
of my aunts lived to hundred and fif-
teen"
At last an English wife beater has met
with his deserts. Lord Justice Thesiger
has sentenced James Stanton, a laborer,
of Birkenhead, to twenty years penal
servitude for trying to brain his child,
hitting his wife with poker, kicking
her in the ear and jumping on her.
A gas clock has Just been placed on
exhibition in England, The motive
power is hydrogen gas produced by the
action of sulphurio acid and water in a
zinc globe. AS the gas is generated it
raises glass bell cover, which, as it
rises, moves q lever that controls the
hands of the clock.
A lady died in Adams, Jefferson
county, N. Y, one night last week, and
the Watertown Despatch says that the
storm was so severe at the time that
the only way the information of her
death could be given her neighbors
was by blowing horn, and it was with
the utmost difficulty that any neighbor
was able to get to the house.
A shoal OF black fish visited the har-
Dor of Hawesbury, on the Canadian
coast, the other day. Three hundred
men, women and children, armed with
axes, pitchforks, boat.hooks, scythes
and carving. knives, ran to their necks
in water and commenced the butchery.
About ono hundred fish were captured,
averaging from ten to twenty feet long.
The value Of the capture is set down at
about $1,000.
When Adelina Patti was a very little
girl she was extremely fond OF music
and acting, and would at night after
being put to bed, get up and secretly
enact for her own pleasure the scenes
which she had Witnessed at the theatre.
"a red-lined cloak Of my fathers, and
an old hat Of my mothers" she says.
"served me as costume, and thus
acted, danced and chirped --barefooted,
but with romantic drapery--all through
the operas. Applause and wreaths
were not lacking, either, for I person
ated my audiences, applauded, and
threw boquets to myself-boquets made
of old newspapers"
Colonel +. D. Curtis, OF Kirby Home.
stead Farm, New York State, has re-
Gently been making experiments with
the sugar beet at the instance of the
Agricultural Bureau of the United
States. From an average experiment,
made in each instance with ten beets,
he gives the following statement of re-
suits Weight of beets, 1888 pounds |;
percentage Of juice, 52.72 percentage
OF sugar in juice, 1880; percentage
impurities, $50. The saccharine yield
is seen to be double that of the best
beets raised in Europe, and nearly two
per cent. above those raised in the
State of Delaware. This speaks we'll
for the soil of Saratoga county, and
shows that with proper attention beets
might be rendered q valuable farm
crop. He has forwarded six barrels of
beets to the Bureau ct Washington for
experimental purposes.
The personal trials and tribulations
to which members of the dramatic pro-
fession are liable, and which the exact.
ing nature of their calling prevents re-
ceiving such attention as makes ordi-
nary ills endurable, were we'll illus
trated last week in the experience of
Miss Maud Harrison, the commedienne
of the Union Square Theatre Company.
She was suddenly seized one evening
with an attack of diphtherial tendency,
and her physician ordered her to keep
her bed. No one could be found to
play Mrs.. Bro,rn in the Bankers
Daughter" so rather than annoy her
manager and disappoint the public,
Miss Harrison pluckily fought the dis
ease, kept wrapped in flannel and band
ages all day and played bare-necked all
the evening, with doctor at hand in
case of urgent need. The company
We'd with each other in care and atten-
ton, and her manager thanked her
feelingly for her nerve and conscien-
tiousness.
The largest locomotive ever made in
this country was sent out from Phila-
delphia the other day to take its place
on long and heavy grade in the Rocky
Mountains upon the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad. It has eight
driving-wheels, each one forty-two in
ches in diameter. the cylinders meas
ure 20x26 inches. and the boiler is
ffty-eight inches in diameter. 1t has