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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-25

3A1TB1N STATES.
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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
"OMNBS PROSINY--H FOR ALT,

The Skagit gold fields do not create
half the excitement a disovdered
bladder or painful Kidneys produce
in every 50 affected person. lnfIam.
nation Of the Bladder you have II YOU
cannot retain Urine. Your Kidneys.
ifaffected, will show IL by having pain
in the back. Excesses or indiscre.
tions-.in either sex.-WiIl always pro
the above diseases. Wipe them out.
,FUNDER'S OREGON BLOOD PURl.
q remedy Not Discovered but made
les, Good sense, and adapted to this climate
act il for YOU 1.-The Original" Insist upon having 1t!
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-25

FOURTH MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.
aioHTWo2 comIeAt III.
|0PeEeR A $
ALL in ONE EVENING!
2h1.A3Il Ts;lf9 pgQ Il.
Rare Combination of Local
+ Dramaticand Musical
! Talent. ! J -
sQUlRE's OPERA HOUSE,
Tuesday Evening june 2oth.
--se spn Egssf
This Evenings EnsertAinment IL given by MRS.
ALBERT II. SNYDER, sssistsa by her Cls.s and
others under her training and direction.
EVENING PROGRAMME:
DIAMOND. CUT DIAMOND.
OPERA IN TWO ACTS.
r. Scene laid n ITALY
b, - oHARACTxRs
CHARLES - lBasisoueI AAsumise disssiss Of
Irish osrvnut end YeDstisn 0opdolisr, With
songs: Beyond the Ban IL Shining" I'm =
Z Broth Of BOY" ''sissp on but Dream Of Ne '
81 \. ~. SNYDER, Jr.
CLARA tScpranol-Assumine disguise Of Wait.
NJ. ~stsass -. 20 sSss Ne. =. as ssey e
d Nay"
4 Miss KATE MILLS.
Duet-Chsriss and Clara. .sweet Angel"
To be followed by Operetts Extravaeanxa entitled
I MUSICAL ENTHUSIAST,
Written and Composed b. John r. Hewitt. Esa.
Prof. CROTCHET, the Musical 1nthu.
I'd. :sisaltfOis io,;; e Ip1oiits. 80
caAsIHs ii.r,ss swell. Albert ss.I !, Snyder. 'r
c.ndid.sss for The hand Of The H.,s USsis.r
Swiss sens-"I Sigh for,hs His" Charlton Tox
"oAi Tell me-, R.sH M
German Song--My Bark has
Pioved .........s....... .......N 3. SNYDER
I Italian song-"Lo whom the Eagle
rrencsmsn soSsio. I; m !. = S,5 NAH Norton
Proudly Of your Mountains" ia. snyder
& Amefican-"The Refugees song"
u. ~, Snyder. Jr.
Ippoitts, Crotchet's daughter, an Heir.
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6osdsuith. Mis- nsEy Pastse.
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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-25
TOTHEVOTERS
n ~ sksE- OF sg<
ats ~ - Is 8 ts4s ss.
KING COUNTY,.

! Believing thai party politics ought not 10 indur
enec the sdmintnrattos Of lcea1 sahirs and OWING
fssIfy TO no party. unirammeled uy personal OF
eencus dtctsttou, having no other claims tn an my
own ntness and IN equal right with others to ss-
pifo 70 ONES. hereby onsr oyself ~ .
Candidate for the Office Of Sheriff
votes q the ensuing election. E9e-e
i. II. Jordan.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-25

As the foregoing is long enough for
one cDnmueieation. an account Of the
trip up Snake river Is reserved for
another. an C. p.
PORTLAND. Juus q. 1880.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
Red River Valley.

|
The Red River Valley NorthI,is about three
hundred miles long and fifty miles wide
flat prairie, extending northward from
Lake Traverse, in Minnesota, until it passes
by gentle slope beneath the water of Lake
Winnipeg About thirty miles north of
the southern and higher extremity of the
valley the Red River comes meanderinr in
from the east. 1t is a sluggish stream,
flowing in a ditch in the mid lie of the
prairie, and is altogether inadequate in size
and force to have made the valley which
bears its name. When we seek an expla-
nation of this vast alluvial plain, We must
find much larger body of water to account
for its formation. and this is done by the
theory which connects it with the great
Mississippi system. There are many indi-
cations that the whole drainage of this re-
gion was at one time southwark. The val
ley of the Mississippi, with its true line of
continuation along the Minnesota, must
have formerly contained a vastly larger
body of water than now flows through it.
This valley, beginning at Big Stone Lake,
is separated only by slight barrier from
Lake Traverse. Now imagine that a few
thousand years ago the level of the conti-
nent was a little different from what it is
now, a few hundred feet higher at the
north, and lower at the south, then this
barrier would be overcome, and all the
waters of the Winnipeg basin would flow
southwark through the Red River and
Minnesota Valley into the Mississippi
The present northward outlet through the
Nelson River would be stopped. There
would be mighty stream draining the
whole central region of the continent into
the Gulf Of Mexico. Now imagine, again,
that the continent is gradually depressed
at the north and elevated at the south-a
change which We know from observation
is still continuing along the sea coast; the
result of such an oscillation will be to di-
minish the slope and velocity of the great
southwark river. 1t will have less and
less power to cut its way through obstacles
1t will be damned by the granite iedges
near Big Stone Lake. 1t will spread out
into a vast lake larger than Superior and
Michigan put together. The waters of this
lake will be shallow and muddy, and the
deposit of alluvium very rapid A. the
northward deTres ion continues, the outlet
toward the south will become more and
more feeble. 1t will degenerate into a
mere driblet. And at last the great
body of water will cut a new channel
northward into Hudson Bay. The Nelson
River, with its rocky channel and numer-
Gus rapids, bears all the marks of an outlet
thus recently formed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
sweet William.

On one occasion said Circus manager,
we were preparing for our promenade
through the streets, when kind of chang
er-on" to our company, who, through his
Invariable polIteness of manner, had been
nicknamed ''Sweet William, was deputed
to ride highly trained black mare, one of
whose tricks consisted in undOing her
girths with her teeth and removing her
saddle. Sweet William was the last to
leave the stables the others having passed
out before he had mounted. Suddenly
loud cries of Murder" were heard to pro-
ceed from the stable, and | shouted out as
| went toward the spot: whats the
matter1 Who Is itl' ''Irs me, replied
the agonized voice of Sweet William.
Make haste-the mares got hold of my
toe!' And sure enough found the man
on the mares back, wrthing and twisting
about, his face describing the most painful
cOntOrtiOns, and his toe in the mares
mouth The more he struggled, the harder
she pulled at what, through some miSad-
venture, she mistook for the girth-straps.
Perhaps, also, she mistcOk his shouts for
the vociferous cheers of a pleased audience,
and thought ii was ''all right and at it
again she went with redoubled yigOr. By
some means he must have made some
slight movement, which the mare thought
to be her signal TO perform the trick, and
went to work accordingly. However, the
man was speedily released from his awk
ward predicament, and the cavalcade pro-
ceeded on Its ways but it was long time
before the incident itself ceased to excite
a good-natured laugh at the expense of
Sweet William.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
A Cave Mystery.

While chasing rabbit recently near Mar
shall township, Ohio, gentleman found a
hole at the base of hill, and proceeded to
make search. Reaching in, he grssped
something in his hand which proved TO be
the long bone of human being. His Curl
osity being now very mich excited he pro-
cured assistance, and began digging. Peo-
pie flocked out from the village, and came
pouring in from the surrounding country,
as the news rapidly spread. The locality
is tut a short distance from the notorious
Bob Mckimie' 8 old headquarters, and with
in the range of his once noted gang, nearly
all Of whom are now in prison under long
sentences. In fact it was supposed that
McKimie was hid in one of the numerous
caves that exist in the eastern parts of the
county, after he had made his escape from
jail about three years ago. After digging
some distance they came to a large stone
slab on edge, closing the mouth of a cavern
about ten by twelve feet square and SIX
feet high. On the floor lay bones IN. large
number, some human, but the larger por-
tion were bones of different species of ami
mails. Some of them were in a good state
OF preservation, and could easily be named
and classified, while others crumbled to
dust on being exposed to the air. Bones
of wildcats, of rabbits and dogs were found,
while bones OF some larger animal could
not be classified, though they are supposed
to belong to the larger species of wild ami
mails, such as panthers, catamounts, bears,
etc There were also found some large
bodies of charred wood or charcoal. One
of these is as large as an ordinary base
burner stove. Close search was made for
metal ornaments, but none was found,
though several articles of flint and stone
were discovered such as are generally found
in mounds and ancient Notifications.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
The Turret Spider.

1t belongs to the genus tdraRtuld, and
is as large as the tiger, but quite different
in color. The male is a soft velvety black,
while the female is grayish brown, or like
faded velvet. She has light gray spot on
top of the thorax, and on the abdomen are
three dark brown longitudinal stripes alter
mating with light gray. In young speci-
mems these markings are quite distinct, but
in old ones the clors blend somewhat. The
two sexes do not differ in size, the male
being fully as large as the female. The
body is trifie more than an inch in length,
and the legs are large and long, which gives
it quite formidable appearance, but it is
perfectly harmless. j have Professionally
named it tardntuia turricuta, reserving
further description. The name was sug-
gested from its manner Of building. 1t
digs q burrow in the earth six or seven
inches in depth, but the upper part of its
domicile is entirely unlike that of the tiger
spi,ier. This species build little round
tower above its burrow. Itprocures sticks
froia one TO two inches in length, and ar
ranges them very symmetrica.ly one above
the Other, laying them 80 as to make five.
ddsd ~su. 1t 10 usually most contsnted
species In confinement. Early IN July
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
An Obstinate hoy Overcome.

When Admiral Farragut was lieuten-
ant of the receiving ship Alert, he estab-
lished school for the boys, many of whom
did not know their letters.
One boy refused to learn. When remon-
strated with, he replied that he had run
away from home to escape going TO school,
and that he could not and would not learn
to read and write.
swell, said Farragut, ''it will cost you
much less to learn your letters than to let
them alone. For, if you don't report your
self to the school every day, and don't do
your best to learn while there, | will pun
ish you until you do"
The boy continued obstinate in mis- refu-
sal, and the lieutenant whipped him. He
took the whipping without crying, and
said, with an oath, that he would not learn
a single letter For several days whipping
followed whipping, without subduing the
boys obduracy.
Then the lieutenant, determined not to
be beaten by boy of fifteen, tried what
ridicule would do. He made the boy Sc
ashamed of himself that he took to the
primer and learned rapidly. In twelve
months he read, wrote, and was smart in
ciphering.
Seven or eight years passed away, and
Lieutenant Farragut had forgotten all about
the obstinate boy. But one day we'll
dressed young man stopped him in the
street, called him by name, and warmly
grasped his hand.
''You don't recognize me, he said, see
ing the lieutenant's puzzled look; ''Dut l
am more indebted to you than to any one in
this world. Don't you remember the boy
who gave you so much trouble on board
the Alert 2"
''Oh, yes, very well; but / should never
have recognized him in you. l would like
to hear your story
81 can tell it in few Words said the
young man. 81 left the navy after few
voyages, and shipped on board of an East
Indian. The captain died and the chief
mate was taken sick. | was good arith-
metician, thanks to you, and the mate had
taught me navigation; so / could work the
ships course. The mate died, but Just be-
fore his death he called the men aft and re-
quested them to obey me as their CON-
mander. carried the ship into New York,
and the owners, making me handsome pres
ent, sent me out as mate of another ship.
As soon as there was vacancy was made
a captain, and am now in the Charleston
trade"
swell, said the lieutenant, 81 am glad
to hear Of your success, and that you prof.
ted by the little instruction you received
from me.
But, he added, with smile, ''I think
you are as much indebted to your perverse
disposition. You were determined not to
learn, and was determined that you should.
/ want s-going to be beaten By boy o!
fifteen"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
I'll Help You.

Bill Smedley was resting his left foot or
the top of beer-keg in front of saloon in
Butte City, Montanna Territory, the las
time | saw him. On his bent left knee hi
rested an elbow, thereby arranging his arn
so as to support his chin, which rested OF
his hand His clothes were well worn,
and here and there a rent. His hair stuck
out through a hole IN the crown OF his hat
while the great toe of his right foot peeped
forth, ruddy and cheerful, from his boot.
The whitfs of smoke drawn from short,
black pipe, curled lazily from his lips.
His eyes were half closed and dreamy.
His thoughts were in dreamland. Bill had
experienced the ups and downs of Western
life; had been rich and poor by turns, and
was now very poor. lie had grown philo-
sophie, and looked at things in a way diff
ferent from what he had in his youth,
when life's pathway smiled to him, and
seemed rose garland.
'.Hello, Bill. been looking for you" said
the tax-collector, coming up.
There was no reponse. He repeated:
bill, hello."
'.Well?"
''Want to collect your tax"
''Haint no property"
81 mean your poll-tax."
"Dont own no polen
"a poll-tax is tax on yourself, you
know"
II amt no property"
'.But the county court levied this tax on
you"
'Didn't authorize 'em to levy any tax
on me-"
''The law does, though"
"What if it does; s'pose I'm goin' ter
pay for breathin' the air:'
''Still you are one of US: you live here" "
81 didn't bring myself into the world.
'You exercise the privileges of citizen;
you vote"
'Don't want to vote if you charge for
it."
Don't you want a voice in the selection
of officersi''
mo; if there was NO officers you
wouldn't be here consumin' my time"
The schools must be supported. We
must educate the Children
IF you do they won't work.
"There are other county expenses-pau-
pers, and so or. IL you were to die with
out means you would want US to bury
you"
'.No, you needn't"
"Why, you would smell bad to other
people!'
Il kin stan it If they kin. >
81 will levy on your property" said the
officer, growing impatient; 81 will hunt it
up"
',rll help you; want to see some of
my property"
The officer moved on rather abruptly,
while Bill continued, as if musing:
''Let them fellers have their way, an
they'd make life burden. Want to assess
my existence; Want to charge me for en-
joyin' the bright sunshine; ask me to pay
for beholdin' the beautiful landscape;
charge me for lookin' at the grass grow and
the rose unfoldin'; charge me for watchln'
the birds fly, an one cloud chase t'other.
The eyes continued to blink dreamily
The whitfs of smoke reached up in grace
ful spirals toward the blue dome, The
footballs of the tax collector grew absenter
and absenter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
Dian0uti I'm ers.

Buying diamonds for retail is SAID 10 be
delicate and difficult task The buyer sits
down at table with large sheet of white
paper spread before HIM. On the paper are
poured the contents of certain packages re-
ceived by the wholesale dealer. The keen
eye of the buyer, an expert, of course, picks
out at once the shallow, flawed and all de-
fective stones, which are definitely rejected,
and swept into bag. The accepted stones
must next be paired, and to this end a tin
plate, mounted on four feet and pierced
with holes of different size, is employed.
On this the diamonds are laid, and shifted
to and fro until each diamond has been fit
ted into proportiOnate hole. Then the
gems undergo a second and final examina-
uOn, the buyer examining them most rigor-
Ously, and rejecting some which may at
first have escaped ms attention Any IL
regularity Of form, lack Of brIlliancy, dull
ness of water or yellowness of tint IS sufii-
eIent to condemn them. The matched
stones are then put up in pairs IN papers or
small cases, and the others are sold to in
ferior jewellers. In Paris the latter are rea-
dily purchased and set in the flowers, stars,
crosses and other ornaments which make
such display in the windows Of the Palais
Royal. The French, as a rule, like snowy
things, and are less fastidIous In diamonds
than Americans are They care more for
general effect than purity or perfection. and
often sell to eur people inferior gems that
will not bear resettlng. Paris IS not good
place to buy diamonds.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
Casts from Living Forms.

We were taken by friend to see the
wonderful plaster casts Of living human be-
ings which are among the curiositles of the
Russian capital. How the thing is done
is impossible TO imagine, but there the
two statues are, recumbent female figures,
undoubtedly taken from living women.
One lies slightly turned upon her side, her
lips parted in smile, as though she was
trying to suppress laugh The other, who
was much the finer form of the two, lies
face downward, her feet crossed and her
head pillowed on her folded arms, as though
she had thrown herself down to sleep. Tie
minutest detail of the texture of the skin,
nails, ETC., are very perfectly reproduced,
the ''gooseflesh" with which the skin il
covered being smusingly noticeable, and
showing that the preparation used for these
casts, the composition whereof is secret,
must be applied cold. Then all the little
indentations in the soles of the feet and the
palms of the hands, and the curve Of the
nails and their trimmings Of skin and flesh
are produced with startling accuracy. The
process by which these figures are produced
is still secret, but 1t Is certainly q wonder
full and curious discovery.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
The Signs of Springs.

''Spring is coming said the fat assem-
ger, f'see the seed onions in the baskets at
the grocer's door. That is a sure harbinger
Of spring.
YES" said the cross passenger, ''and
you can smell it in the air"
Spring, you mean," queried the sad
passenger, ''Or the Onion?"
And the roads are drying up hastily
put in the tall thin passenger, fearing a
collision, ''and the farmers are accordingly
charging more for hay, on the pretext of u
short CROP
'.And the hens begin to wear an indie
pendent, shant t-if-I-don't-want-to look, :"
sad the man on the woou-box, las though
they knew their value at this time of the
year
And you can smell the dreadful odOr of
garden fires,n said the tall, thln passenger,
"where people are burning old shoes and
pea-brush and bones and dead vines and
one thing and another, in the balmy even
tide"
''Oh, yes" we all chorused, ''spring is
right here, it isn't far away; everything
indicates its proximity"
''It will be here before sundown," said
the man on the wood-box, enthusiastical-
ly."
See" exclaimed the sad passenger, sal
eady has the young man shed his winter
ulster"
And Lent is over" shouted the man
with the sample case.
'Green leaves are peeping out through
the wIthered grass, said the sad passen-
ger.
And there Is nameless charm of April
in the sunshine, said the fat passenger.
And iI's showing, croaked the woman
who talks base.
We all looked out the windows. She
was right. That woman, | have deserved,
genera ly is right. She has not, am free
to admit, a pleasant voice, but she usually
tells the truth with it. Of Course, after her
depi essing remark, rendered still more I'M
cheerful by It's confirmation, there was no
more talk about spring. 50 We sailed on
in sociable silence, and after short stop
at some unimportant place, the name of
which has escaped me, turned out wander
ing prows toward Gallon
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12

took fine female, surrounded and almost
covered with baby spiders about ready to
leave the mother-the young can readily
run up the side of the jar and escape. As
soon as they left her, | removed the jar to
my study; did not take the nest with this
spider, as wished to see what she would
do with entirely new surroundings The
earth in the jar was about six inches in
depth, and well pressed down. gave her
sticks and moss to put around the top of
her tube. She soon began to dig a burrow,
and when it WAS about two inches in depth,
she commenced to build a tower above 1t.
She takes stick from my fingers and
places it at the edge of her tule. She works
while inside her burrow, holding the stick
with her fore-legs until it is arranged to
suit her; she then turns around and fastens
it with strong web. She takes another
continues this until she has laid the toun-
datioh of five-sided wall. She now goes
down to the bottom Of her tube and brings
up pellet of earth, which she places on
top OF the sticks; she goes all around
circle Of these pellets, which she tlattens by
pressing her body against them, and ar
ranges them in such manner as to cover
the sticks on the inside. making the walls
perfectly round and silk-lned. Now she
is ready for more sticks, which she con-
tinues to alternate with the pellets until the
tower has reached the height of two and
half inches above her burrow. some
times gave her bits OF green moss an inch
or two in length, which she would use by
fastening them to stick with web. This
makes the wall ON the outside frInged with |
moss. If she is not in mood for build |
ing, and | offer her stick, she takes it in !
her mandlbles, and with her fore-feet gives |
it quick blow, often sending it with force |
enough to hit the jar; and when she is
digging and bringing up pellets of earth !
which she does not wish to use in her tow
er, she throws them from the top Of the |
walls with sufficient fo,ce to make them !
land a foot or more from the burrow, if it |
were not for the Intervention of the glass. |
This accounted for the fact that could
never lind any fresh earth near the burrows
Of these spiders.