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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Who Owns the Land in England.

More than half the soil of the United
Kingdom is nominally owned by some
1000 persons. According to a valua-
BILE analysis of the very ill-arranged
and incomplete parliamentary return
Of the landowners of the United King
dom. published in the Financial Re
form Record for 1878, 42l persons are
the owners of 2,SS0,755 acres, or
nearly 5000, 900 acres more than one
fourth of the total area of the United
Kingdom. The mind is unable to grasp
what such monopoly costs the country,
but certain features of it stand forth
with prominence sufficiently notable.
In a most absolute sense, the well-be-
ing of the entire population of some
81, 600, 600 souls is placed in the power
of few thousands. For these thou
sands the multitude tolls, and it may be
on occasions starves. Hence it is that
all through rural England we have con-
tinually before lis that most saddening
of all spectacles, two or three fami-
lies living in great splenlor, and hard
by their gates the miserably poor, the
abject slaves of the soil, whose sole
hope in life is too often the workhouse
that famous device against revolu.
ton, paid for by the middle classes
and the pauper's grave. Our land
owners have not merely burdened the
land with their game preserves; they
have tied it mp, and actively conspired
to prevent its due cultivation. Instead
of rising to the true necessities of the
case, they cling to their game, make
penal enactments about it, and struggle
to augment the intensity of the evil
which it is to the people, as if the very
existence of the country depended on
harcs and rabbits. In his absolute
supremacy the land owner oyerrides
ali justice, takes precedence of all or
binary creditors on hi liz ipless tenants
estates, and controls the system of cul-
;ivation, often in utter disregard of
private rights or private Judgment. and .,
III addition secures to himself the alb
solute reversion Of every improvement
which the tenant may make Oh the land.
-.McmHlrn'S Magazine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Queen Victoria and Her Daughters

Queen Victoria and two of the Enc.
lish princesses are thus beautifully
characterized by his Excellency Vice.
Admiral Pothuan, Ambassador of the
French Republic to the Court of 81
James Youth can dissimulate. Adj.
vanced age cannot. The history of the
elderly man or woman's life is ALWAYS
written on the face, and there is no
means that know of to alternate the
record. Queen Victoria was pretty.
then comedy, and would now be de.
cidedly plain were itnot for the impress
her physiognomy bears of virtuous
and holy (sai"te) existence. She has
not the English love of action. A sense
of duty alone keeps her in the world Of
reality. To be truly happy she must
suffer herself to drift into dreamland.
A lady in her confidence told me that
beautiful scenery has the effect Oh her
Majesty's imagination which the hand
of musician has on the keyboard of a
piano. The expression of the Queens
eye is vague and dreamy, unless when
she is addressing somebody who-like
your very humble servant has been
just presented TO her. 1t then is sweet.
animated, and, above everything else.
honest. cannot think how a knuvish.
ly minded person could support her
frank, open gaze. They tell me she
has the gift of divining spirits. Asa
matter of fact she has nearly always
shown discernmeut in forming friend.
ships and in placing her cont .ence.
The Princess Beatrice is small and fair.
She gives me the idea of being IN poor
health and without stamina. Her ~
ter, the Princess Christian, wouhiN
one Of the handsome>t women in Eng
land were she little taller and much
less stout. She came up with her babies
from Frogmore when | was at the cas-
tie. Her life is placid and beautiful Us
the scenes in the midst of which she
lives. 1t has the dignity, soitness.
richucss and calm Of the Windsor land
scape. The Princess is the most skilled
needle-w oman III England. She is also
Il musician of superior excellence, and
IL wonderful housewife and farmer
Her poultry yard and dairy are models
OF excellent management. Not the least
of her talents is one for cooking. Every
day. when the Queen is Mt Windsor,
she prepares with her own hands dish
for her luncb which is sent up TO the
castle i'll II Norwegian apparatus for
keeping it hot. The children Of the
Princess are we'll grown and robust.
The Queen seems Il most loving grand
mother. She neither hides nor purades
the womanly sentiments in the exercise
of which she las found her greatest
happiness"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

CLOSING A MEETING.-A few years
ag there lived on the line OF the Hons
atomic road in Massachusetts, little boy
who was only five or six years of age
but who was natural preacher. SO
much talent in that direction did he
possess. that his friends often put him
on table and listened to his discourses.
One day he was preaching with great
power, and becoming unusually ami
mated, and swinging his little arms in
the manner of older ones, when some
thing about the platform ON which he
stood gave way, and down to the floor
the little fellow went head first. He
was considerably hurt, but controlling
himself for moment he arose, aud re-
Stunning his place, with great gravity
he said: People -meetin's out -
and then not able to control himself
any longer, he let forth the floods of his
angnish until the whole neighborhood
could hear his childish cry.-Er.
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Advantages Of Staying in Bed.

Taking an occasional day in bed,
simply on account of indisposition. is,
however, very simple and rudimentary
notion of this glorious institution. Bed
is the natural domicile of every man ::
:" In bed We laugh, in bed we cry:
And born in bed, in bed we die.
Bayard, the French psychologist. main.
tanned that man is an animal who exer-
cises the thinking faculty best in a
horizontal position. Thus, there are
high artistic, social, and intellectual
uses connected with an occasional day
in bed, which imperatively claim dis
cussiop. Brinley, the great engineer,
when he was fairly bothered and puzzled
by some tough problem, always betook
himself to bed until he had solved it..
Most people have great kindness for
Lord Melbourne, who, under the ailec
tation of frivo!ity, used to get up He
brew and the Fathers and imperturba-
bic good humor to bear with his wife,
Lady Caroline, while the pretty Byron
struck termagaut used to smash the
drawing-room furniture. His intimate
friends would find the premier calmly
taking breakfast in bed, with letters and
dispatches strewn all over the counter.
paue. The poets have been terrible
fellows to get out of bed. i suppose it
is because tie visions of the day and
the night sweetly intermingle. The
poet Thomson cultivated laziness as q
fine art. and thought out his poems in
bed. Pope was still worse fellow.
When he had n fit of inspiration on
him, he would keep the servan. run
ming about for him all through the
night. He made amends to them by
the Righteousness of his " vais.' We
take "a later instance. Bismarck says,
according to DR.. Busch. 81 was
troubled with yaricose veins in 1866.
L lay at full length on the bed and had
to answer letters of a very desperate
sort with pencil" He has given us
some Of his experiences when lying in
bed. used 10 lie awake, full OF all
sorts of thoughts and troubles. Then
Narzin would suddenly come up before
me, perfectly distinct in the III inutest
particulars. like great picture, with
even all its cOlors fresh-the green
trees, the sunshine on the stems, the
blue sky above. / saw every individual
there. L struggled TO shake Tie thing
off and when at last l ceased to see it,
other things came ln-reports, notes,
dispatches, and so on but 1 fell over
about morning." Bismarck at Versailles
used to lie in bed great deal, " be-
cause he cannot keep himself rcasona-
bly, warm in any other way" sym
pathiZe with Bismarck. Accept, prince,
the marks of my most disting uished
consideration. -- London Society.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

The recent incarceration Of the editor
of the Thomastown TMete in the in
sane asylum, hopeless maniac, has a
sad, sad history. People who saw an
article in his paper entitled, Death of
an Angle Worm,' and did not read be-
yond the heading, were not aware that
the article was au obituary of the edi
tors aunt, who had Just left him all her
money, and that AS the article went to
the printer it was headed, death of
an Aged Woman. "-Buiington Hack.
Eye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

We are firm believers in the maxim
that, for all right judgment of any man
or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to
see his good qualities before pronounc-
ing on his bad.-Carlyle.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

The uniform of the Zulu warrior co$ z
sists OF chest protector. There is a.
advantage i'll this there are no coI lo
tails to impede ones progress Willie 'l'
enemy are in pursuit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Humors Of the Time.

a crammer in grammar for small
boys" Why is the sun MASCULINE"
Zoos sons allus is" And the moon
fcmiuine?' "Cos it's so changin'."
They do things in hurry in Texas.
A man who had lost valuable mare
recently received the following dis
patch " Mare here. Come get Sssy,
Thief hung"
Too True. -Scene-An eating house.
Old Gentleman--' Waiter, how s this?
These potatoes are quite bard!' Waiter
with presence of mlnd) lizard times,
you know, sir. "--Judy.
AN INTELLIGENT JURY.--The verdict
of the coroner inquest on the death
of child was: 1.-The child wa, suifo.
Gated, but there is no evidence to show
that the suffocation was before or after
DEATH
PURELY UNsELrIsH.-Lady Of the
house." don't wish You to stay with
me, Mary, if you can better yourself
Mary, the maid" 1t amt to better
myself l care so much about, mum
it S to improve my condition. "-Fnn.
Party (who doesn't know much about
'osses) And what do you call the
horse on the left'hand side, driver? He
looks good sort Driver-"Oh. that's
the off un." Party Is it, indeed?
Dear me! Lost both his parents, l
s'pose"
ONE WAY OF DONG BUSINESS. Girl
Ito shopkeeptrl "Can ye gle me
change of s,xpence ?" Shopkeeper Ito
vanishing girl with change) -" The
sixpence, my girl-the sixpence!" Girl
-" My mither says she gle it to you i
the morning"
suppose the bells are sounding an
alarm of fire. sneeringly said n man,
as the church bells were calling the
worshipers one Sunday morning to
which clergyman who was passing
replied Yes, my friend but the fire
is not in this world"
Smith, who had always been though
one, has just died. The physician is
met coming from the house by Brown,
who asks Doctor, how is Smith?
he out of danger?' Physiciun--"N5 No
be is dead, poor fellow, but he is far
from being out of danger, fear
S,ene-A grocery store in Highland
village, kept by decent Highlander,
and his daughter. Father" Flora.
Daughter -" Yes, father" Father
It'd you'll mark doun the things the
big mason gott Daughter - Yes,
father" Father" Weel, mark them
doun again to max sure"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Ashamed.

Il is said that the once great chess
player, Paul Morphy, is in an insane
asylum. He utterly repudiates chess,
and denies having ever known anything
about it. He imagines himself great
lawyer, surrounded by clients, and is
busy at all times settling an immense
estate left him by his father. The legal
part of that information may explain
the d" insanity dodge" But the chess
reputation casts a cloud upon it. 1t
is evident that he is ashamed of making
himself professional at an amusement.
Even lawyer (much as the news
papers abuse him) is better man than
professional gamer. Mr.. Morphy has
our congratulations on having come to
his senses, and our coincidence for
having lost them. If he had attended
to his profession, in the days of his
youth, before the evil days came, or
the years drew nigh when he said,
have no pleasure in them" he might
now be useful member of society
10 neglect useful and honorable pro-
fession for the sake OF an evanescent
notoriety in calling that is utterly
useless, except as recreation, does not
show sanity.
For some years past Mr.. Morphy has
been afflicted with mental arrangement
of mild form, which has been merely
an annoyance to his friends, as they
have been compelled to keep constant
watch of him to prevent his making
himself utterly ridiculous. 1t is plain
to those who know him. that his brain
has been turned by the intense strain
which his wonderful success as a chess
player, and the great fame it brought
to him, occasioned.
This insanity is q serious thing to
him-poor fellow but it is valuable as
teaching lesson to others who are
wild about amusements when they
ought to be earnest about business. If
it required any brain to play base ball,
or croquet, or archery, it might be q
warning to those professionals and
their admirers. 1t ought to make
billiardists and poker-players somewhat
nervous-for that kind of gaming re-
quires some little intelligence. But in
its seriousness to him who was once the
king but now the victim, it breaches a
most eloquent sermon against consider
ing pleasure first and business after
ward. Eye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

DROP CAKE. Four and half tea
cups of -four. two and half cups 81.
gar, one half-cup butter, one cup SWEEP
milk, five eggs, three tea,pooniuls
baking powder, cream, butter and su.
gar beat the eggs separately bake ia
gem pans.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

That teachers are not, as IL class. self
asserting enough is the complaint OF
Barnes Educational Wonthly, which ADDS
that the calling of teachers will never
become profession until those VINO
practice it are more determinedlto make
the world respect them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

Blessed are the homesick, for they
shall come at last to the Fathers hoesu.
- Heinrich .StiHings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

Red impression paper for making
patterns on black surfaces is thus
made: Rub into suitable tissue a
mixture of six parts of lard, one part o!
leeswax, and IL sufficient quantity Oh
Venetian red, red lead, or vermilloh,
in very fine powder. The mixture
should be warm, and should not be APP
uliel III aXceSS
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

The ladies of the italian Court who
accompanied the King and Queen on
their visit to Victoria wore mourning
in compliment to the sovereign English
woman. Queen Victoria and King
Humbert. on meeting, "greeted each
other on both cheeks" Victoria seemed
pleased with her reception in Italy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

FROZEN PUDDING.-Place in q mould
slices of light cake (sponge cake is very
good), and between them any kind of
preserves. When the mould is nearly
full, cover with cold soft custard.
dissolve spoonful of gelatine in the
custard when you make it.) Cover the
mould; piece of paper should be
placed over the open end of the mould
before the cover is put on and pack
in box of salt and ice, the same as
you would in making ice-cream, using
about three'quarters of ice and one,
quarter of salt. Let this stand in the
salt and ice five hours. When you dish
it dip the mould in pail of hot wa
ter for one instant, wipe the mould,
take off the cover, and turn the pnd-
ding out. Serve Immediately. If
whipped cream is place around it, it
will improve it greatly. Be sure that
the cover of the mould is so tight that
it will not admit one drop of water.
The mould should be made of block tin
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

A French duel resulted fatally the
other day. The horses of one of the
duelists ran away as he was returning
from the frontier, and killed him. This
ought to moderate the French enthu-
siasm for dueling.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
kscpresse1 Their EisiLilify.

yankee Hill, famous actor in the
iirss half Of the present century, used tc
tell an amusing story (Which Mr.. J. b
Matthews re-tells in Scrbner's for JULY OF
the early days of the theatre in this coun-
try. Hill CHcc ''showed'' in town in the
western part of New York where no the
atrlcal performance had ever been ciyer.
He found the audience assembled with the
women seated On one side of the hall, the
men on the other. exactly as they used to
sit in church; and throughout the play the
most solemn silence was observed. They
were attentive. but gave no evidence of ap-
proval Or displeas,lre; there was no ap-
plause, no laughter; there was not even a
smile; all was solemn stiffness. Hill did
his utmost to break the ice; he did every
thing clever comedian could do, but in
vain. He flung himself against their rigid
ity; it was no use. The audience was eyi-
IDENTIFY Oh its good behavior, and the cur
tain came down at last amid silence op-
pressi7e and almost melancholy. After
the play, Hill worn out by his extra exer-
tion and mortified at his want of success.
was passing through public room of his
hotel, when he was stopped by tall coun-
tIyinan with the remark: 'Say, mister, l
was in to the play tonight" 'Were you?"
said Hill. "You must have been greatly
Well, l was! l tell you
what it is now, my mouth is all sort. IL
straining to keep my face straight. And
If it hadn't been tor the women, I'd IA
laughed right ont in meetin'.''
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
Grammar and Groceries.

! The peril of employing highly educated
young men as clerks was again illustrated
the other day. A woman stopped at a
green grocer's on Woodward avenue and
asked: us them lettuce fresh?' "You
mean that lettuce" suggested the clerk,
Sand it is tresh." sThen you'd better eat
it," she snapped IS she walked On. The
grocer rushed out and asked the clerk
what on earth had happened to anger her,
and the young man replied: s.Why, noth-
ing, only corrected her grammar ~ on
have turned away one of my best custom
ers! Only yesterday she came in and ask
ed me how sold those white sagar, and |
got an order for whole barrel. Hang
yeu, sir! but if them customers want
grammar they don't expect to find it here
in grocery! No, sir; and if YOU see she
again you want to apologize in yhe most
hIimhlest Manner
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
A Painful Scene.

| Yesterday morning while seven or eigh
old and reliable citizens were holding dow
chass and boxes in Michigan ayenu
grocery, and unanimously agreeing tha
this was the greatest country on earth,
stranger entered and said:
"Gentlemen, l suppose you arc all &C
quainted with politics.
ave are," they replied in chorus.
"And you know all about the filnda.
mental principles of liberty?"
ave dO.''
swell, I'm glad Of it, for I've made a
bet with feiler back here as to how the
reading of the Constitution begins. One
of You just write me down the first ten
words" N
While he felt for stub of a pencil every
man began scratching his head. and cau-
tiously eyeing his neighbor. One began
muttering, ''Now lay me =" and sec
ond said something about Resolved" !"
and a third wrote on the top of a cracker
box, ION motion, 1t was voted that-that
10y There was great deal of cough
ing and sneezing and nose-blowing, when
q boy came in and said the strnnger's horse
Fad run away. lie rushed out, and seven
faces frightened up and smiled, and seven
men took fresh chews OF tobacco and tried
not to look too important when the gro
GER said:
"rhe Constitution? Why, every one OF
you can repeat it by heart--Of course you
,an." "a ~
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
SuSt Osio MoNthful.

''For the sake of humanity. give me Just
one mouthitl to eat" he said as he halted
before one of the eating stands on the Cen
| tral Market yesterday.
I've nothing for tramps,' replied the
woman.
'l'n take anyth.ng-even them 'taten
parings," he continued, s'for [ haven't
tasted food in three days. If fcan't get
food shah become desperate
Il can't spare anything but this prep
IL don't care what it is,'' he interrupted. =.
''only don't be stingy with it. There
that's it-give me a heaping spoonful and
III always remember you you with grati-.
tude.'
1t was a bottle of grated horseradisb,,
strong as the grip of Il paving ring on a
city walk, and the woman lifted out a big
spoonful and deposited it in his open
mouth. ti,2 ramp must have taken it for.
some sort Of prepared infants food, for
his mouth closed with yum! yum! 1t
opened again, however, and when he start
ed to run he upset a dozen flower pots,
two boys and barrel of charcoal. Much
of the dose was blown into the eyes of q
horse hitched to vegetable wagon, and
after the man had run twice around the.
market with his mouth open wide he got
a slant fol- the Randolph street fountain,
and never took his chin out of the basin
for folfy straight minutes.-Det5o:t Free
Press.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31

phone. This means That it is not neces
sary to put the receiving tube to the ear,
but everybody in the room hears the mes
sage. The application of the photograph
principle, which will explain in my next,
actually magniiies the voice. rendering it
several times louder when delivered than
when received. That is. if the words. lit
is very rainy here,'' should be spoken to
the telephone in a faint whisper in New
Haven, they would be delivered in New
ork in a whisper SO loud that the mes
sage would be heard and distinctly under
stood in all parts of room.
The message il spoken to this new tele-
phone through rubber month-piece SIM
liar to that generally used. But it is deliv-
cred at the other end through device 4
little more complicated than the tube at
present in use in telephones. Let's see
how 1t looks: AT the terminus of the wire
there is no magnet, bat instead a little cyl
inder of chalk. about as large as spool Of
thread, turned on steel shaft by hand
When this is turned, the voice is heard
when it is still, no sound is audible. In
short, this spool of chalk performs the
Office of the magnet in the ordinary tele-
phone, of reconverting e!ectral waves into
sound-waves. Every message goes thro'
this revolving spool of chalk. being re-
ceived in the little pedestal beneath it, and
delivered to a little tongue of iron Of size
and shape of the wooden tootlpick of
commerce, which lies upon it and rubs
against its upper surface us it revolves.
One end of this tongue (or as Edison calls
it, needle J. is tree; the other terminates
in hollow sounding-c!iambcr about as
large as an orange. distant an inch or two.
This is all there is to il.
Then we had some specimens of what
The new telephone would do, and words
from distant part of the ground came in
A roar, and tie articulation was distinct all
over the spacious room where the expert
nents were held.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
Euns Against the Wrong Nan.

Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
An amusing Incident occurred at the
state department Thursday. The depart
nent is high-toned establishment. On
Thursday two gentlemen and three ladies
entered the passport bureau The clerk
with hauty air babe the visitors to take
seats. The mandate was obeycd. After a
pause the clerk asked if they wanted pass
ports. One of the gentlemen, with more
courage than his companion, responded
that his friends did. The clerk then sharp
ly scrutinized the visitors, and said that he
did not t:un them, and he should require
the guarantee of some reputable person as
to their good character. IL vouch for
this gentleman and these ladies'" modestly
said the spokesman of the party. ''And
who are you 20 demanded the clerk i'm
periously. ''My name is David NJ. Key"
was the reply. 1t is needless to say that
the Postmaster-General and his friends
were Immediately overwhelmed with OBJ
attention.