Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-26

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which Is the legal legislature and DE-
. ly constituted Government OF the
State Tue question. /, j. canned,
can he brought before him very Tea l.
lily by call from tue D.vi, ly-i,l4-
.ure tar national All to suppress re-
>i>,ance TO ~ authority, 4 not IL
some oiher way within the purpose
or tie act f Feb. -. lc7j. IlIs
act, accJrlu-to tho famous supreme
CouI; DECISION IN tie case 81 Luther
- Border. pronounced 10y Chef
Justice IaEev IL ISIS. delegated -
the President " the Iower t. declare
for purpos., Of that a.; whether 1
Government orgaLizel IL q STAT :
tie duly instituted government II
that STATE. N after lie has decided
the question the courts 81 the JuitCd
States are bound to follow hi decI,-
ION.
Edi.an'. Gr-aI Achievement.
NV IoLk. Dec. u The H.rGii
dcvote> "a PAGE to l. l.SJn' triumph
IN electric illumination, giving full
and accurate account of Ia, work
frOn 1t, fir, inception To lis cOmp!,-
ton, with illustrated diagrams. The
| H,ud SAYS tLa. the first public eX-
Libition Of Edison long looked for
electric hight Will take place On New
Year Eve at Mcnlo Park.
The new light, incredible as it
rnny appear, is produced from Il lit
tie piece of paper, tiny strip that a
breath would blow away. Throu I'll
this little strip of papcr is passed an
electric current, and the result is Il
bright mellow light.
But paper instantly burns even
under the trifiing neat of tallo W
candle" exclaimed the sceptic, and
how then can it withstand the fierce
heat of an electric current?
every true; but Edison makes
the little piece of paper more infus-
able than platinum, more durable
than granite, and this involves no
complicated process. The paper is
merely baked in III oven until all its
elements have passed away except
its carbon framework. The latter is
then placed in glass globe con-
nected with wires leading to an cleo
tricity-producing machine. and the
air exhausted from, the globe. Then
the apparatus is ready to give out a
light that produces 10 delerious
gases, no smoke, no offensive odors;
a light without flame, without dan
ger, requiring no matches to ignite,
giving out but little, vitiating no air
and free from all Pickering, light
that is a little globe of sunshine;
and this light the inventor claims
can be produced cheaper than that
from the cheapest oil. The inventor
finds that the electricity can be reg
ulated with entire reliability at a
central station just as the pressure
of gas is now regulated. The entire
coast of constructing the lamp is
not more than rs cents.
Cold Weather
VIcroa1A, Dec. 21.--The weather
has been intensely cold since Friday.
Two steamers are reported frozen in
near Yale, on the Frazer river, with
200 head of beef cattle on board.
The sky is clear and the wind is
from the north. Very little snow
has fallen. There is excellnet skat-
ing.
| Interrupted by the Cold.
san FRANCS co, Dec 81 The ovel-
land lines are interrupted by cold
weather east of the Sierras, the Their
monster ranging to 800 below zero.
Advices from various points in Cali
fornia also report an unusual degree
of cold. Ice is forming as far south
as San Benito county.
The cold snap continues. Ice
formed in the western addition this
morning strong enough to bear a
PERSONS weight and some instances
are reported of water pipes freezing
up.
Dispatches received to-day from
all parts of the State show almost
unprecedented cold weather for the
last two days. Some damage to
fruit and vegetables is reported from
a few localities, but ca the whole the
injury is but slight and crop pros
poets are generally excellent.
The Storm on the Isthmus.
BY the storm ut Aspinwall, the
damage to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Co. S wharf is Sl00, 900, and that
of the Panama r.. II. Co., $4,000.
Thirteen hundred and twenty-nine
tons of coal were lost by vessels sink
ing. Some idea of the violence If
the sea may be gathered from the
fact that the Il. j. Bonacr lost her
rudder 10y striking the bottom in
six fathoms of water. The cap
tain of the Bonner says that it was
HEAVIER than any he had ever seen on
the banks of Newfoundland. 1t is
expected that it will be fully 30
days before traffic can be fully re-
summed on the railroad. The tele-
praph lines are still jnferrunted