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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-06-17

greatest happiness if he would consent
to make the sacrifice necessary to be-
come the husband of the Qneen OF Eng
land. For hs could De nothing more
than her husband, and would have no.
thing to do with political affairs. The
Prince was charmed and capitulased
Internationally. They were married
on the 10Th of Feburary. 1910. Their
marriage was in esery way happy one
and their welded life unslloyed uni
death seized the Prince ss hi. prev.
Caiumny and intrigue never poisoned
the sweetness Of their family life, which
stands today IS . model. not only for
crowned hesds. but also for the hum
blest Of human kind.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-06-17

The girl Of the period who love,
not wisely but too veil. is abe Who re-
jects the hand of the silver haired wid.
over at the head OF the frm. who ha,
an assured income Of fifty thousand dol.
lars per annum. and weds one of the
junior clerks Of the establishment who
is in the full enjoyment Of an uncertain
salary OF five hundred dollars Q year.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Edisnn,s Quest.

Rather d formidable obstacle seems to have been discovered by MT. Edison, which will tend at least to postpone the realization of his high expectations in regard to the electric light. This is the high price of platinum. The part ot the electric lamp which is rendered lncan- descent by resistance to the electric cur rent is made of spiral ribbon of plati- mum, and no other metal has been found which can be substituted for 1t. It has been found possible to alloy the platinum with iridium, which is also hard and in fusible at high temperature, but the cost is still so great (some SlO or p12 for each burner) as to place it far above common use. Platinum is the heaviest and most nearly infusible of metals. Cast-iron 1nelts at 2,000 degrees, gold melts at 2.282 degrees, and the best wroueht iron passes into liquid state at something like 3,200 degrees, but platinum, with it's exspensive alloys, is the only metal yet discovered capable of enduring the fervent incandescence of the electric current. It seems obvious that, leaving all other difficulties out of the question, the electric light cannot be generally introduced fer domestic use till the individual lamps can be set up for a fraction of dollar apiece, instead of costing SlO If the standard furnish ing every electric jet were worth SlO, burglars would certainly thrive for a time and the number of practicable i lights would diminish with great rapid i ity. It would be about as attractive to pilferers as a gold eagle tied to every gas | jet with a string. MT. Edison's new problem, then, is to make platinum cheap. As it will scarcely grow cheaper by the creation of new and almost in exhaustible demand for it, the only hope of the inventor is to discover some great bed or mine of it in placer or noun tain. This white precious metal has never been found in large veins and when Agassiz picked up lump as arge as pigeons egg in the Andes, it was thought. sufficiently remarkable to be placed on exhibition in European mu- scum. To find platinum in large de- posits is just what the world has hlth- erto failed to do, but as MT. Edison has accomplished several things that the most ingenious men had not succeeded in doing before, there is no saying pre- cisely what the hundred miners whom
 he has set to work may or may moi
 achieve in the effort to reduce the cost
 of platinum from the price of gold tc
 that of cast iron.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
The Fate of Arctic Explorers.

Behring's Straits derives its name from Vitus Behring, a Russian naval captain in the service of Peter the Great. who died from exposure on the Arctic coast nearly a century and half ago. Baffin, whose name is borne by the bay which he discovered, met violent death. James Hall, under whom he had previously served, met a similar fate. Still earlier in date Sir Hugh Willoughby, who sailed to discover northeast passage, was. with his whole crew, frozen to death. Sir Hendrick Hudson became famous as a discoyerer. and his voyage to the mouth of the river ! which bears his name was simply be- cause his crew would not endure the severity of the Northern climate. He 1 afterward discovered Hudson's bay. and l On his return voyage was the victim of a mutinous crew. Gosnold, who dis covered Massachusetts, and who gave | to Cape Cod its name, died miserably on the James river. Captain Cook was slain and eaten by cannibals. Sir John Ross, who many years afterward under
 took an exploring voyage, was im- prisoned in the ice for four winters, and
 was only rescued by a Russian ship which happened to learn his condition. The mysterious fate of Sir John Frank
 in hardly needs more than mere refer
 ence here, but it may be added that Dr.
 Kane, who commanded the Grinnell ex- l petition, was a martyr to his enthusi- asm. The disease which he contracted while in search of Sir John Franklin
 carried him to the grave soon after his
 return. He died early, hut had already
 won distinction and conferred honor
 upon his country
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Little Johnny's Bear Story.

And now He tell a story about a bear One day the bear he went among a flock of sheeps and picked out a nice little labm, and cot it, and the labm it said, ba-ba-bai cos it knew it was a goin to be ct every little tiny bit up. But the bear took it up in his fore poz, like it was baby, and set it up full Tenth and rocked it, and sed:
 sThere, there, never minee, my prec- ious darling, where does it hurt youpn
 But the labm kept hollerin louder and lo uder, cos vile the bear was smilin and singin hush boy, he was 8 skaweezin liter and titer all the time. Bime by the old ramb he seen wot was up, and he dropt his he'd, the old ramb did, and come like he wos shot out of a gun and let him have it in the stumack of his belley, and dubbled him up like he was rasor, and sent him rollin over and over without his preshous dar- l lin. And when the bear had puld his self together again and shuke the dust out his hair, he sed. ~
 ssI have obserfed that labms tails was 1 quickern Ightnin, but I dident kanow l thay wos powerfuller, too. ?
 Jest then he sec how it was, for there stood the old ramb holdin down his head ready for to let'him have it again and shakin it like, he sed "That little shaver wudent make more I than nouhe for feller like you. l guess you better serve up the old man.
 But the bear he wocked off shakir hisn, too, much as to say:
 II don't banker after dinner whicl l goes against my stumack like that!'
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
4 True s Airline v Dispatch.

Steam, electricity, girls, boys and ever so many other creatures-not to mention balloons, arrows, pigeons ard other birds carry the messages of the busy world from one part to another; and men have found out how to make even the air their news carrier.
 don't mean in any of the old ways. by bugles, and whistles and fog-horns, nor by the new methods of fair-telegraphs and speaking tubes; but-well, here is what I am told about it;
 Messages are written upon bits of pa per. and these are put into little box. The box is round, and covered with stuff called felt, so that it may fit snugly into long, air-tight tube The box be- ing in, a strong blast of air is turned on, and away goes the box, blown to the other end of the tube, where it strikes a bell, letting a clerk know it has arrived. To get it back to the sending office, the air is pumped away from behind, and the box is then carried on by other air which rushes in to fill the empty space.
 in New York the pneumatic" tubes, asthey are called-from a Greek words me ming '' to blow '-are not veiy long onos; but in London, England, the post off. G has in use tube nearly two miles in length, besides a good many others not quite so long.-.I. NicloIaS.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Wealth of the R0thschiIds.

A writer in Paris journal claims to be in position to know that the present capital of the different Rothschild houses is at least $500, ,OOO, ,OOO, and that they can control as much more, which may be considered a pretty penny. Stories ot the Rothschilds will always be told, as they will be about any and everybody thought to be enormously rich. After the interest man has in his own money, he seems to be most interested in some other mans money. Nathan Rothschild is reputed to have said: One great req son of our success is that we know how to hold our tongues" They are retieent as the grave touching their business. After Baron Lionel had been dead a week London wag remarked: The old baron is just as communicative as ever." The time has passed, if it. ever was. when kings had to consult the Rothschilds before they could go to war, but they are still a stupendous power, and likely to be for generations The recollection that the founder of the house, Meyer Anselm Che took the name Rothschild from the sign of a red shield placed over his small shop in Frankfort). entered Hanover in 1763 barefoot, with bundle of rags on his back. is enough to prevent any one from despair.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
King Thee Bau's Amusements." ,"

A correspondent, writing from Man dalay, Burmah, writes as follows con- corning the king of that country, who murdered some eighty of his relatives last February: Instead of getting crowned in the beginning of the Bur mese year, as had been expected, Thee Bau, being primed for something, re- solved to have some fun out of the Bur
 mese water festival. It is customary at this feast for young men and maldens ot douse one another with water, per formance accomplished with much good humor and laughter, and not little inn morality Thee Bau dressed up his Let Thou-dau, his pages of honor, in fancy costumes as lions and tigers, and bel Jews, or monsters of all sorts, and, hav- inc furnished them with plentiful chat ties of water, sent them out to souse the princesses in the palace prison. What been free proved a most dismal busl- ness. At first they thought the end had come, but when it was discovered to be only piece of pleasure, there was a scene. Half of the younger women tainted away and covered shrieking in corner, while the elder ones stormed and scolded as only Burmese women can scold. The kings little pastime, had proved a failure, and he was thrown in a corresponding bad temper. The murder of few children since then is said to be the result. Certain it is that two innocents, not more than ten years old, have been done to death, and possi- bly more may have shared their fate. Thee Bau has obliterated the one sign of human feeling he displayed in the February butchery. A little fellow, the son of Tsabin Prince-the Mad Prince, as he was called-was brought before the king to shakho to him before being | handed over to the eXecutioners. The poor boy was half dead with fear, but l when he raised his eyes to the throne and saw who was there, he clasped his hands with delight and cried, "Oh, that's Thee Bau; Thee Bau won't let them do me any harm" A murmur oi pity went round the ring of courtiers
 and Thee Bau said, after little pause
 "What has become of the pony l gave YOU oncePn "Ohr' said the child, sadly enough, i've are very poor now-we hao to sell that" So then the king motionec I with his hand, and the boy was taker
 back to jail. Ten days ago, by order of Thee Bau, blow from club on tht
 throat ended the poor things misery.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Summer Eating.

One of the things which the public does not concern itself about as much as it ought to is the kind and amount of food it shall eat during the summer. The generality of the people go on in the same way during the summer that they do in the winter with respect to the food they eat, varying it only as the seasons them selves vary it. The average man or woman is not apparently aware that the heat of the human body may be mate rially increased or decreased according to the kind and amount of food imbibed. True, most people when the hot weather comes along rush spontaneously to fruit, and cram themselves with berries, cher ries, peaches, watermelons, cantelopes, pears, and often swallow much more than is good for them. Hence cholera, diarrhea and other similar affections of the stomach. But very little or no care is taken in eating heavy beef in as great a quantity as during the coldest months in winter. It is no infrequent sight to see a man sit down, when the thermom- eter is ninety-five degrees in the shade, at table grooming with fat-forming and heat-prOducing meats. On these he gorges himself until he is as filled to re pletion as during the coldest days of De- cember or January. It takes repeated warning and long experience to teach him that it is senseiess to do this in the depressing days of July and August, as it would be for him to wear his thick win ter fiannels and overcoat. True philoso- phy would be as careful to keep the in side of the body as cool as the outside.
 A great deal of stuff has been written concerning the danger of cold drinks and eating ices and cream. There is danger under certain circumstances, as, for in stance, while large quantities are being gulped down while. the body is over heated. But when no more heat IS ex- perienced than what is inevitable in warm weather from any, even the high est exercise, draughts of water may be quaffed by mouthfuls at a time, or even the coldest creams and ices be slowly eaten with spoon, without any risk, save in exceptional cases. Of course there are many ignorant and obstinate people, who, eating and drinking habitu- ally like pigs, cannot be satisfied with this quiet and temperance mode of en ioyn1ent. They pay the penalty of their disqualiications. But for intelligent peo- pie, who will learn how to eat and drink reasonably, there is abundance of health ful pleasure for the palate even during the hottest of hot days. Eating and drinking correctly are an art, and have to be acquired. .-EGchaaage.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
wn yesterday. We expect her back

town yesterday. We expect her back by this train
 ss Here I am, Sam,' called familiar voice from the door of the ladies room and the homely young woman in plain linen, who had shared Mabeps seat, came out of her retreat inside and ap- preached them.
 "My goodness" !" was Mrs. Glennor's dismayed ejaculation, as she flushed up to the roots of her hair.
 But Mabel sprang forward with ex- tended hand.
 What, are you Henrietta HamiltonP am so glad"
 And you are Miss GIennor. l am glad too!' said the young lady, offering her hand most cordially. " l would ha made myself known in the train, but l am always too shy with strangers, and l was not sure who you were until now. Mrs. Glennor, am very glad to wei come you to Hamilton, l love your daughter already, and 1 am sure we shall have delightful visit. Let us go now Sam is waiting"
 This prompt courtesy, so delicately ignoring her own rude behavior in the train, was greater rebuke to Mrs Glennor than any show of anger could have been.
 For once her ready tongue was at a loss, and she only followed her young hostess to the carriage, silently with flushed face.
 But Henrietta's kindly spirit soon put her at her ease, except when she remem bered her mortifying blunder.
 It was a wholesome lesson, however and the next time Mrs. Glennor meets g lady in the train, whether she is robec like aqueen or in plain linen, she vii treat her as such, and never judge b1 app earances.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Huxley on the Press.

Mir. Huxley, the English scientist, in a recent lecture on the influence of the press, said: The press is an embodi- ment of 'all the wisdom and good deal of the folly, much of the goodness and a vast deal of the badness, the hatred and the iniquity which beset man." He ikened the modern press to an eruption of Vesuvius-regarding it as a sort of safety-valve, by which ideas and feelings which, if they remained imprisoned, would result in earthquake, are released. eiecting with t,iem good deal of mere steam. great quantity of ashes and a certain amount of lava, which, by its crumbling, ultimately covers the soil with smiling vineyards to mankind.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06

sweet oil. By coating the entire pipe, joints which are unlikely in appearance will be uniform and display nice uster.
 To take the brown discoloration off of cups in which custards are baked. rub with damp flannel dipped in the best whiting Silver spoons darkened by acids or from using them for boiled eggs can be frightened by taking little moist ened salt between the thumb and finger and briskly rubbing the stain, which will soon disappear.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
Household Hints.

To take fresh paint off a wooden gar ment, rub the spot with stale bread until removed.
 To make hands soft, mix honey, olive oil and almond meal use when washi ng then wear gloves.
 Carbolic acid may be used with satis- factory results during the summer months to destroy ants and as disln- fectant.
 To remove iron mold from linen, wash the spots in strong solution of cream of tartar and water. Repeat ii necessary and dry in the sun.
 To clean tinware, damp cloth and dip in common soda, and rub the ware briskly. after which wipe dry. Any blackened ware can be made to look as good as new.
 A sure cure for warts is paste ofwil- low ashes and strong vinegar Four or five applications are necessary. Apply like any other plaster, moistening occa- sionally with vinegar.
 Rusty stovepipe may be made to look nearly as good as new by simply rubbing it over with bit of cloth moistened witt
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
q JUDGING BY APPEARANCES.


 Here is nice place, Mabel" said the elder of two ladies who had just en- tered the train, and we will try and keep. it. undisturbed, too,o she added, proceeding to deposit their shawls, sachels, etc., upon the end of each seat, while the two ladies seated themselves facing each other. They were evidently mother and daughter, the daughter a slender, bright faced little thing, and ust as evidently people of position, ," aaarked by all the belongings of wealthy nayelers Elegantly braided linen nlsEers over black silk, stylish hats, Russian leather sachels, were distin- znishing marks, besides that indescrib- able air " hich stamps it's possessor as enc used to good society.
 F So very warm. Do reach my fan Mabel. We have very hot day for our 7ride.n said Mrs. Glennor.
 But there is such a nice breeze. l
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06

A English workman thus testifies in the English Mechanic to the good quality of American wares: '' But 1 speak of things which know thoroughly well when I say that in very many things our manufactures are not fit to be shown in the same street with American ones; and this is not merely in knick-knacks or little ingenuities, as to which 1t IS tolerably evident we have no pretensions to enter into any comparison. only invite any one who doubts my state ment to. compare such rough common matter as 'cut nails Our rubbish, |swith half of them split up, which tend to turn round in the wood and split 1t, and with conical heads, look very poor against the straight, clean nails, with well. formed heads. which the,Americans used to send out to Australia, and which, when had once seen them, pre- l vented me from ever buying an English
 nail again as long as l could get the l American anes."
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06

The pride of wealth is not for him, Still less the pride of fame; They are the thieves that rob the heart, w To gain an empty name. With sky above and earth beneath, His Eden floats between; And life is bliss when pride and state Are not with envy seen. Some day, ere yet the sun is up, Or ere the sun goes down, JE The crape will hang upon his door, Unnoticed by the town. like shadows will his patrons pass, And turn their gaze away, For friendship dies between our sighs, When friends once turn to clay. Eternity shall guard his dust,
 When monuments shall fall, . And clouds the language of the moon, Shall myriad time recall. A alan was he of artless ways, .. To nature always true; He ne 'el. assumed what he was not, But lived tor what he knew.
 f--Hugh F .Mc Dermott
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06

Thenewest walking boots for ladies are cut on the same principle as gentle mans shooting boot; the front of the boot and the tongue in front are cut in one and the laced pieces open out wide, SO that there is no pressure on the instep, and they are slipped on and off easily. This renders them very convenient for excursionists.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-06
The CObbler.

In cellar close and drear and dark, Beneath the sidewalk low, see the cobbler's busy hands, Isee his steady blow. His body's bent upon his last, His lamp hangs o.- ,;e wall, And in and out he whips his ends, And plies his nimble awl.
 Tip tap, from sun to sun;
 Tip tap, the nights begun, And he has work that must be done; Tip tap.
 His aprons spread across his breast, Ot leathern texture strong; His arms are bare, his sleeves rolledup; His feet brace tight the thong Which binds the last between his knees; His pull is swift and long; And now the pegs he hammers iD, Running little song.
 Tip tap, from sun to sun; Tip tap the nights begun,
 And he has work that must be done; Tip tap. - E"l. For evening chat, crony plods Adown the creaking stair. He naively cracks rustic joke, And forward draws his chair. Al vt the cobbler tries his skill, The friendly joke to floor; In sound of words he makes rctort, And both in chorus roar. The current news IS now discussed. What men have said or done; And how they er1 ed in this or that, And where they honor won. The best and fairest he will be, Of whom it can be said: He worked to give fellow-man A way to earn his bread. Much closer to the human breast Than all of glory's store, Will be the simple words: "Hefoun Employment for the poor" With elbows placed upon his knees, And fingers raised to show The nice deductions of his mind, The cobbler's glmmers flow; And then he pegs and pegs away; He knows the minutes speed; His works behind the promised time, And he has mouths to feed.
 Tip tap, from sun to sun;
 Tip tap, the nights begun,
 And he has work that must be done; Tip tap.
 Feeling pain that he has erred, He stops where pride begins, And, holding out his manly hand, He shows how goodness wins. The palms are joined in kindly grasp, Contending words are OCT, And in that lock of cordial love, True friendship they restore. Now, fumbling through his kit, he finds That solace to his care That balm between two cronies dear The pipe which both may share. The smoke now curls above his head, From smacks both loud and full; Then with bis thumb the shank he wipes, With "Jim, now take pull" He mods with pleasure to the wall, Where mended boots are hung; He points to those that great men own, Whose fame has long been sung. To vamp the boot that honor wears Is lame enough tor him; Content is he to labor on,
 Until his eyes grow dim. Despise him not, ye rich and vain; He has fathers care: les boys and girls to clothe and iced, A wife his bread to share.
 eneath his rough and homely garb, A manly heart and true -- Beats warm with all a fathers love, And all that love can do. The pride of wealth is not for him,