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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Curious Animal AversiOns.

Some time ago. in company with
some OF my relatives and friends, I
paid visit to the Geological Gardens
at Clifton. One lady of the party, Mrs.
M, had travelled with her husband
self very fearless about wild beasts.
Before entering the monkey. house, she
informed us there was one monkey
which had taken great dislike to her,
and however long period elapsed be.
tween her visits, its recognition of her
was almost instantaneous. The house
in which the monkeys were confined
had cages round the wall, and huge
one in the center in which were large
number of all sizes and shades. We
entered Oh the tiptoe of expectation to
see If this time it would recognize her.
We we're not long in determining which
was the enemy. One of the tribe
jumped from its perch and chung to the
bars nearest to us, chattering and grin
ming in frightful manner. Whichever
side of the cage we stood the monkey
followed, all the time intently watching
Mrs. NJ, who had with her ginger
snaps and nuts, with which she pro-
ceeded to feed the other monkeys.
Seeing this, Mrs. Ms enemy sprang
upon them, seized the food, and threw
it back angrily in her face, chattering
and screaming in great fury ; and I am
not sure if it was not the same monkey
that succeeded in tearing off some deep
lace Mrs. NJ wore round her mantle,
and climbing on to the topmost perch,
commenced tearing it in pieces. was
not sorry when we left mis- ugly grin
ming face and screechiug voice behind
us, and paid a visit to the lion and tiger
house. Here, Mrs. M informed us,
was tiger which would show its dis
like as much as the monkey had done.
On seeing her, it began to growl fierce
ly, and turning, walked slowly to the
other end of the cage then facing us
again, he threw himself with great
force against the strong bars, which,
had they yielded to the shock, would
have involved certain death to Mrs.
M, who, fixing her eyes on the
enormous beast, and shaking her UNI
brella at it, exclaimed, ct should like
to tame you A gentleman standing
near watching the proceedings said,
~ 10 youI CyC II uOCs uOt ithc. Anu
here should mention, Mrs. NJ has
very dark and prominent eyes. After
visiting other parts of the gardens, we
returned to take last farewell of the
tiger. 1t was agreed Mrs. M was
to stay outside, while some of our par
ty entered, myself among the number.
We stood before its cage and COM
menced to make remarks about it but,
beyond looking at us very quietly, no
further notice was taken. On the en-
trance of Mrs. NJ, nearly the same
'cene ensued as at the first visit at
length the huge animal gave loud
roar, in which all the other lions and
tigers joined. Nearly all rushed from
the place but Mrs. M, who stood
her ground before the cage while the
roaring continued, while the keepers
ran in haste to learn the cause of the
disturbance. We then left the gardens,
commenting on the strange conduct and
knowledge of the monkey and tiger,
which after so long period had recog-
nized and SO Enthusiastically expressed
their great dislike to Mrs. n
Chambers Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Ancient Egyptian Quarrymen.

In quarrying the enormous blocks
from which the marvellous colossi in
our museums were sculptured, the
Egyptians used a number of metal
wedges, which were struck at the same
instant along the whole length of the
stone. Sometimes the wedges employed
were of highly dried wood, which
being driven into holes previously
cut for them by chisel, and then
saturated with water, split the stone by
their expansion. This method by ex-
pansion could not we'll be adopted, ex-
cept CD the upper surface of the stone;
insomuch that the wedges driven into
the sides we're impelled by the hammer
only. To separate the lower part of
ponderous mass from the rock, the
quarrymen are supposed to have cut
under it. leaving long pieces here and
there to support it like beams, which
traversed its whole depth from front to
back; and then having introduced
wooden rafters into the open spaces
which were cleared away, they remov-
ing the remainder Of the stone, and the
block rested on the wood.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Spontaneous Generation.

"a Prof. Tyndall has made further
Communication to the Royal Society,
confirming his former observations on
the appearance of organism in vegetable
and animal infusions. Early last June
he took with him to the Alps fifty small
Theoretically sealed TASKS containing in
fusion Of cucumber, AMI fifty contain
ing turnip infusion. Before sealing
they had been boiled for five minutes in
the laboratory of the Royal Institution.
They were carefully packed in sawdust,
but when unpackei the fragile sealed
ends of about twenty of them were
found broken off. Some of these in
jured TASKS we're empty, while others
still retained their liquids. The eighty
unbroken TASKS were found pellucid,
and they continued SO throughout the
summer. All the broken ones, on the
other hand, which had retained their
liquids, were turbid with organisms.
Shaking up the sawdust, which he knew
must contain q considerable quantity
of germinal matter, he shipped off the
ends of number of TASKS in the air
above the sawdust. Exposed to II tenn
perature of seventy degrees or eighty
NeSIccS, LuuIcunSlts ZIG COutSulS va all
the TASKS became turbid in two or three
days.
The experiment was repeated, and
after the contaminated air had entered
them he exposed the TASKS to strong
sunshine for whole summers dav.
One batch, indeed, was thus exposed for
several successive days. Placed in o
room with a temperature of from 70 de-
grees to so degrees Fahrenheit, they
all, without exception, became turbid
with organisms. Another batch of
TASKS, after having their sealed ends
broken off, was infected by the water of
cascade derived from the melting of
the mountain SHOWS. They were after
$50 exposed to G days strong sunshine,
MSSubsequently removed to the warm
room. In three days they we're thickly
charged with organisms. On the same
day number of TASKS had their ends
shipped off in the open air beside the
cascade. They remained for weeks
transparent, and, for all the Professor
knows, continue so.-Loadon Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
The Telephone.

The uses of that wonderful instru-
ment, the telephone, are multiplying
constantly. In France they have APP
piled it for marine purposes. The
French war steamer Desai.c had to tow
out from Toulon the old ship Argonaute.
A conducting wire was rolled round
one of the towing cables, with an end
on board each vessel The electric cur
rent was formed by the action of the
sea on the copper sheathing OF the ships.
A telephone was introduced in the Cir
cult on each, and communication estab-
lished between them. During the
whole time of the navigation, converse
ton could be carried on as easily be-
tween the officers of the two vessels as
if they had been seated in the same
cabin. The next step was to apply the
telephone to the work of the diver.
One of the glasses of the helmet is re-
placed by copper plate, in which is
inserted telephone so that the man
has only a slight movement of the head
to make in order to receive communica-
tions or report observations. By the
use of the telephone, man at the bot
tom of the sea can remain in constant
verbal communication with those at the
surface. But, the most singular appli-
cation of the telephone comes from
New South Wales, where Mr.. Severn,
an enthusiastic experimentor. claims
that he has made the deaf to hesr with
it. After describing very simple tele-
phone which he constructed out of q
tin pot, the closed end of which he
opened, and tied over it piece of parch-
ment, passing fine string through the
centre, and making knot inside, Mr..
Severn. says: Make a loop in the
string some three feet long, put this
loop over the forehead of the listener
1.-THE deaf MANI, cause him to lay the
palms of his hands fiat and hard against
the ears, let the loop pass over the
hands, and now this listener will hear
the smallest whisper, let him be deaf or
not. This fact may appear extraordi-
nary; it is nevertheless true that deaf
man may thus be made to hear the
voice, music, etc."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Hawk Eyetens.

If this thing goes on much longer
somebody will write poem on the ci-
pher dispatches, and then this overbur-
country will rise up in revolution.
A restaurant at dining station ON
the West Wisconsin Railroad, allures,
hungry passengers to its counter by
the magic announcement of Ba-
Longs"
+, The Indians used to "bury" their
dead in the tops of high trees. This
was considered an awful joke on the
Ohio medical student, burrowing.
around in the ground beneath.
"Do Won understand the nature and
solemnity of an oath ?" the Judge OF,
Vandalia asked witness who had come
up from the lower end Of the State.
"Well. yes," the witness replied, after,
some study, IT reckon I know the ma
ture of an oath, but they never APP
peared to be no powerful amount of
solemness about swearin' to me. It
allus come kind of nat'ral like. Nam
swore little, when she was riled, dad
was born cusser, and Pars0n Bedloe
-" But the court excused him with
out further pedigree.
Mr.. Beecher, in his new. lecture on
" Amusements," says, speaking of TAX
ing long walks for amusement, Ii
You can't find o human friend to walk
with you, take your dog. Why" he
said. with that inimitable mixture of
earnestness and drollery peculiar to
himself, at would rather walk with
most dogs than half the men. I be
lieve,. he added, after a pause, that
good dogs go to heaven" The audience
very properly looked little shocked,
and he added, II good dogs don't go,
to heaven I'd like to know what is GO
ing to become of the rest of us?" And
the conscience stricken audience fell in
with him without another struggle OF
resistance.
It is the c., B. & @. train, bowling
out OF Burlington. After it speeds the
belated passenger. He flies up Market
street, the splinters fly out OF the oaken,
ties uIder his pattering feet. He loses
his hat, he slings his encumbering over
coat, he doffs his smothering neck-tie,.
and the arrowy landscape speeds away
past him. He stumbles on tie, down
he goes. he ploughs the gravel with his
bleeding nose, he splits his yielding
gripsack open across the pitiless rail.
he tears his pantaloons wide open clear
across both knees. Then he gets up
and gazes sadly after the Disappearing
train, makiag about thousand miles q
minute up the western grade, and ~
tones Of profound conviction that Heats
clear back to the Burlington depct.
says. bitterly, IL amt no dog-gened
use ~
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POisons and Antidotes.

\ The following list gives some OF the
more common poisons and the remedies
most likely to be at hand in the case of
need. The directions may he old, but
in case you get good strong dose OF
poison down you will not object to a
cure on account OF its age:
Acids-These cause great heat and
sensation of burning pain from the
month down to the stomach. Remedies,
maonesia, soda, pearlash, or soap dis
solved in water then use stomach pump
or emetic. .
Alkalies-Best remedy is vinegar.
Ammonia-Remedy, lemon'iuice, or
vinegar. =,
Alcohol - First cleanse out the
stomach by an emetic, then dash cold
water on the head and give ammonia
(spirits of hartshorn).
Arsenic-In the first place evacuate
the stomach, then givesthe white OF
eggs. lime. water, or chalk and water,
Charcoal. and the preparations of iron,
particularly hydrate.
Lead. white lead and sugar of lead -
Remedies, alum, cathartic, SUCH as cas-
tor.oil and EPSON salts especially.
Charcoal-In poisons by carbonic-
acid gas, remove the patient to open air,
dash cold water on the head and body,
and stimulate nosti lis and lungs by
hartsho.n, at the same time rubbing the
chest briskly.
Corrosive sublimate-Give white of
eggs. freshly. mixed with water, or give
wheat tiour1fhd water, or soap and water
freely.
emetics.
Belladonna night henbane--Give
: emetics, and then give plenty OF water
4 hid vinegar, or lemonade.
Mushrooms, when poisonous--Give
emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and
water, with doses of ether, ii handy.
Nitrate of silver lunar caustic) -
Give a strong solution of common salt,
and then emetics.
Snake bites, etc.-Apply Immediately
strong hartshorn, and take it internally ;
also give sweet oil and stimulants free
ly; apply q ligature right above the
part bitten, and then apply "a cupping-
glass.
Tartar emetic-Give large doses of
tea made of gals, Peruvian bark or
white oak bark.
Verdigris--Plenty OF white of eggs
and water.
White vitriol-G the patient plenty
of milk and water.
Opium First give strong emetic of
mustard and water, then strong coffee
and acid drinks dash cold water on the
head.
Nux vomica-First emetics, then
brandy.
Oxalic acid-frequently taken for
epson. salts-Remedies, chalk, magne-
STA, or soap and water and other sooth-
ing drinks.
Prussic acid-When there is time, ad-
minister chlorine in the shape of soda
or lime. Hot brandy and water harris
horn and turpentine are also useful.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11


In TIE MATTER OF VISITING CARDS.
"A very good story is told of the late
Admiral Goldsborough with regard to
the etiquette of visiting cards. He was
a bluff old sea-dog, and hated sham and
pretence. An airy young diplomat, a
great man of society and fashion, called
on the admiral, and finding him ont,
left his card with the letters E. p. pen
ciled on it. The brave salt was puz-
zled thereby, and when the young man
accosted him on the street and asked,
"Did you get my card, admiral ?" he
shouted out Yes and what's the
meaning of L. p. that you wrote omit y
sob, why that means ca personne, that
I called in person." cit does. eh "
said the admiral, and went off in a
mood of disguised meditation. In q
few days he returned the call by send
ing his card around by messenger,
first writing S. B. N. in one corner.
Again the two met. lyon received
my card, did you? ?" inquired the admit
raj. "Yes and what does s. b. N.
mean ?" asked the polite young man.
"Sent by a niger !" Numbered the
admiral.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

John Hancock is quoted as Icing
one of the most genial, most af-
fectionate Of hosts, the leader in con-
versation, the friend to diffidence, and
always master of himself his presence
of mind when his servant shivered a
beautiful epergne into atoms was mex
oeptional, "Break as many dishes as
you please, John, but don't make such
a COMPOUNDED noise about it."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

BENEFIT OF WALKING.-Every mus
Gle in the body is greatly and uniformly
brought into action by the swing of the
legs and the arms, and, consequently,
OF the trunk in a vertical direction.
The qndula,ions made by the head,
chest and abdomen, in vertical plane,
are thus not only according to Hogarth's
line of beauty, but also in that tending
to perfect health. Every internal organ
is gently stimulated to more robust ac-
ton. Never, in a common walk, does
person breathe twice the same air, be-
cause he is constantly changing his POI
sition. This fact alone is CT incalcula-
Bile advantage. Some writer's contend
that the rebreathing Of air once par
TALLY used is one of the most fertile
causes of consumption. The most
favorable time for walking is about
midday in the Winter, and in the morn
Ing and toward evening in the Summer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

For BURNs.-Strong, fresh, clear
lime.water mixed with as much linseed
oil as it will cut; shake the bottle be-
fore applying wrap the burn in cotton
wadding saturated with the lotion wet
as often as it appears dry, without re-
moving cotton from burn for nine days,
when new skin will probably have
formed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

1t is said that stains produced by cof-
fee with cream on wooden or silk goods
may be removed without iniuring the
most delicate colors by simply brushing
them with unperfumed glycerine, and
then washing them out with lukewarm
water, and ironing the fabric on the
wrong side until it is dry. The glycer-
inc absorbs the coloring matter of the
coffee as well as the fatty matter of the
milk.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

Speak gently, speak gently no m at
ter how much bigger and how much
broader across the shoulders than your
self the other man is, nor how cross he
looks, speak gently. The bigger and
broader and crosser-the gentlier.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Edison.

we TeLucmDeT mectiuS IuT. LulSOus
some years ago, when he was most
deeply absorbed in his experiments re-
lating TO the conductibility of sound
through various mediums, and had q
long and interesting conversation with
him upon that subject. We conversed
upon the well.known fact that the same
medium of transmission has different
properties at different times. We both
cited instances in which o man forty
three years old, though using his ut
most strength of lung and voice, could
not shout loud enough, at half past six
o'clock in the morning, to awaken a
boy nine years old Just on the other
side of lath and plaster partition,
while at eleven O'Clock that night the
same boy would hear low whistle on
the sidewalk, through three doors and
two flights of stairs, and would spring
instantly out OF a sourd sleep in re-
spouse to it. 1t was belief of Mr..
Edison's at Chat time, that sound could
be made to travel as rapidly as feeling,
and to test the matter he had invented
a delicate machine called the spanctro-
phone, which he was just about trying
when we met him. We were greatly
interested in the machine and readily
agreed to assist in the experiment. BY
the aid of Mr.. Edison and street car
nickel, We enticed into the laboratory
boy about seven years old. After many
times reassuring him and promising
him solemnly that he would not be
hurt, we got the machine attached to
him, and the great inventor laid the
boy across his knees in the most APP
proved, oldfashioned Solomonic
method. On disc of the machine
delicate induces were to record, one the
exact time OF the sound of the spank, the
other the exact second the boy howled.
The boy was little suspicious at this
point of the experiment, and with his
head partly turned, was glaring fear.
fully at the inventor. Mr.. Edison
raised his hand. A piercing howl rent
the air, followed by sharp conclusion
like the swapping of musket cap, and
when we examined the dial plate of the
machine. infallible science proudly
demonstrated that the boy howled
sixty-eight seconds before he was
slapped. The boy went down stairs in
three strides, with nm injured look upon
his fearful face. Mr.. Edison threw thes
machine out of the window after the
urchin, and we felt that it was no time
to iutrude upon the sorrows of great
soul, writhing under humiliating
sense of failure. We have never met
Mr.. Edison since. but we have always
thought he didn't know much about
boys, or he would know how utterly
unreliable the best of them would be
for scientific experiment.-Haukeye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

LITTLE JOHNNY ON THE PIGEON
My sister says no man wich shoots pid-
gin matches shall marry her, butno man
wude want tn marry her, I guess, as
long as the pidgin shootin' held out,
cos that wude be fun enuff. Wen she
said it her yung man got red like a
beat, but didn't say nothin'. Mex day
he asst my Uncle Ned did he kno en-
boldly which wud like to bi jam-up
good shotgun. Uncle Ned he said :
" I'd like to hi it my own self if it was
a good pidgin gun, but CESS it amt,
cos it has come nifty Ri spilina match. ="
Some pidgins carrys letters, same as
the post.office, and one time wen my
sisters yung man went away he cot one
of our pidgins and took it along for to
fetch back letter to her, jest for q
filler. Mex day wenever that girl herd
the dore bel ring she was jest wild, cos
she thot it was her letter come, for her
idee was that the pidgin wude leave it
at the post-ofice, for to be delivered bi
the letter caryers. But wen my mother
tole her the pidgin must come thru the
winder, she went and thru up evry
winder in the hous. and it was cole
day, and Frankly, that's the baby, took
cole and come miry nj peterin out.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

Borax is used in washing, but it is
also used in starch. It stiffens the
ssarch, prevents the iron sticking and
pduces finer finish. 1t should be
used by dissolving half teaspoonful in
aht'ie boiling water, and mixing it with
Three pints of starch.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

To JUDGE SILKs.-There are two
ways to judge silks. Note the closeness
and evenness of the rib, and hold it to
the light to judge the better of this.
That shows the texture. Then crush
the material in the hand and release it
suddenly. Note if it springs out quick
ly, that is the verve, and should leave
no crease behind. The quality of the.
silk is denoted by the verve. The italian
silk is the softest in the world, and often
wanting in stiffness OF appearance. The
Chinese silk is the poorest and deficient
in verve. And, again, there is a great
deal of silk manufactured which is adul-
terated with Il material called jute,
which is interviewer in the fibre of the
silk. This manufacture will be found
very deficient in verve. II is silk
which, If wetted, stiffens almost like
paper.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11

Sugar is an admirable ingredient in
curing meat or fish.