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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-14

NrsRTY-NrSE ToSs OF GoLD.-In
the Government assay ONCE at New
York were recently $50. .0OO.O0 in
gold bullion. This sixty millions
weighs about ninety-nine tons. A man
who should own it would be able TO
wall himself up in it as in o we'll, and
the well would not be so wide or so
high but that he could stand in the
middle and touch every BRICK The
number OF gentlemen III this country
who could perform this interesting ex-
pertinent with their own gold is small.
The bricks IN the assay office average
about $4,000 apiece in value. The
most Of them ase not much TO look at
They are % black aud dull in color as
cheap quslity OF stovepipe. IT you
scfstch one with knife you make a
bright yellow mark, and this mark will
not get black again. These black
brick are composed of melted foreign
coins. containing about the right amount
Of alloy for American coinage, and so
the alloy is allowed to remain in them.
When the melted gold is poured into
the moulds the oxygen of the air at
tacks the copper of the alloy. and turns
1t black. 1t il were worth while to
protect the bricks from the air until
they got cold they would never get any
darker In color than q gold coin would.
Two-thirds Of all these bricks are made
OF French twenty franc pieces. Those
brick made OF gold directly from the
mines arc very nearly pure metal. and
are as bright as coins. The drainage
from ali this gold, II il ware put at in
terest st five per cent, would make q
golden stream Of S342 sn hour. running
day and night. The scales used in
weighing this gold are Of kind so del>
icate that when brought to balance
with two pieces of paper of equal size
in the pans. the mere writing of Q
name with lead pencil on one of the
pieces Of paper will add enough weight
10 the paper 70 turn the scales in its
tavor. This has actually been done on
on ons Of the scales in the assay room.
but that pair is protected from air cur
rents by q glass case.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-14
A HoRRlD BRuTE. = Astoria was |

A HoRRID BRuTE. Astoria was last
week treated to one Of tho-e most horri-
ly.unnatural sensations. says the 1sto-
rian, Of which our people have received
80 much In telegraphic dispatches from
almost every part OF the continent. bat
which we hoped would never fall to
our lot 10 return. This crime. COM
mitted here in Astoria IS undoubtedly
the most horrid and di-gus,ing one of
them all An inhuman wretch, by
name A Hayt. longshoreman whose
brutish propensities have made him an
obnoxious resident in every locality he
has lived since he came here. the other
night committed q rape upon q little
girl scarcely seven years old, step
daughter TO Mr. s T Cooke. the details
OF which srs too disgraceful for publ.
cation He was arrested by the police
surrounding the house where he lived.
on the beach above West Fifth Street,
at two o'clock m, yesterday. He
waived examination before Justice Fox
and uas remanded TO Jail in default of
5000 bonds. Enough of the facts are
known to entitle Us to remark that the
brute deserves 10 be hung. II he lives
10 stand at the approaching term OF the
circuit court next month. be will prsb-
ably get the full extent of the Law in
expiation OF his great crime. He is one
Of the lowe and vilest OF oil Gods
creatures. and with the public pulse
beating - il did yesterday. IL would
not have been safe 10 take the prisoner
to the county court house for examine
ton ss there would nave been most GER
tainly an attempt 10 execute b m on
the spot. At least five hundred persons
were in the vicinity OF the city jail. aad
in attendance ct the court room. at the
hour sst for the examination. but the
beast waived examination. His person
al appearance indicated that he felt
that bis days were numbered if that
crowd GOT hold Of him.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-14

DR.. Echlismsnn has lately retarned
10 Athsns frcm tour Of exploration in
the Troad. and has aimee started for
Berlin. Among other discoveries be
believes that he has ascertAined the site
Of the altar Of The Twelve Gods.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-14

The Egyptian budget for The year
1880. approved BY the Compsrollers.
shows . surplus OF abont $5.o00. .o0o.
arising from improved revenue and de-
Creased expenditure.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-14
PROF. E. STEINLE
TEACHER OF
PIANO MUSIC

Call for terms at residence corner Ylfth and
Jefferson streets seattls. ap2stf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
PARSrS SECRET.

Pansy had a secret, and nobody could
find it out. She would come down stairs
in the morning, and seat herself at the
breakfast-table, and then papa would say,
"Well, Pansy, are you going to tell us
your secret to-day ?" st
Pansy would shake her head, and re-
ply, "You must guess it, papa p Can
you not guess it?"
"Well, I guess you have new tooth
coming"
ooh, no, that is not it. Mother can
guess better than that, I think. 1t con.
Germs you, mother"
"Well, I guess" said mother, :" that
you are to have the present of kitten
from aunt Julia.
"Aud I guess" said brother John,
who was five years older than Pansy,
"I guess you are knitting pair of cuff,
for papa" a7e baa is
You are all wrong" cried Pansy,
"and I shall not tell you my secret to-
lay"
The next morning, as she was coming
Town stairs, she paused, and said to her
self, Shall tell them my secret now?
No, Pansy, let them see that you can
keep a secret.
No sooner was she seated at the table
in her high chair, than papa said, "Well,
Pansy, how much longer are you going
to keep us in the dark ? Are you going
to tell us your secret :?
mot yet, papa" said Pansy, looking
up with a roguish smile.
= l.. l.
ing down her knife and fork, and putting
her hand to her head. ...... p.
g don't believe it is any thing of any
account" cried brother John. "She
wants to keep us curious. " s..4 sts.
Well, I think Pansy must be learn
ing a new piece to recite, said her
mother.
"Thats not it." said Pansy. cts a
'portant secret; one that mother will like
to hear" .8t ae.ua
ooh, it's important is to" said papa.
81 do wonder what it can be ?"
Mother, what day was it that you
lost your wedding ring % said John.
"Don't speak of it, John. It was
more than month ago. [ have hunted
high and low, and can not find it.
would have given all my other jewelry
rather than have lost it.
Here Pansy turned red in the face, got
down from her high chair, and ran out
of the room.
odd you see that?" said papa. "The
little rogue has found the ring, and that's
her 'portant secret.
In minute Pansy came back, holding
the ring, and her face radiant with de-
light !" I found it, mother, among my
dolls things. You must have dropped
it there when you were fixing them"
And SO little Pansy's secret was out at
last.-DOr0 Burnside.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
A Vale Never Reached by Summer Heat
From the Terre Haute EXPIRES

Within two hours ride of Terre Haute
can be. found spot where the thermom-
eter never registers more than 81 de-
grees, while the heated mercury is dane
ing around hundred in this city. This
place is called the ''Shades of Death. I"
and is located in Montgomery county.
four miles north of Waveland, or forty
miles north of this city. The Shades
of Death" is canyon as wide as Ohio
street, and about three squares long.
On each side of the canyon are steep
hills rising from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred feet high. On the sides of
these hills are pine, hemlock and cedar
trees, interlockeo so closely as to prevent
the sun from ever shining into the
depths below, causing perpetual shade.
The ground everywhere abounds In
ferns from one to three feet in height.
Within this canyon are three delicious
springs, throwing volume of ice-cold
water. At the lower-part Of the canyon
there is cascade with fall Of about
torty-feet, MI
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
BeIshazzar and his Brother Bill.

Belshazzar Smith had very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during
one of his somnambulistic saunterings
he would charge out of the window and
kill himself, so they persuaded him
to sleep with his little brother William,
and to tie one end of rope around his
body and the other end around little
William.
The very first night after this arrange
ment was made, Belshazzar dreamed
that burglar was pursuing him with a
dagger. So he crept over Williams
slunbering form, jumped out on the
floor and slid under the bed. He stayed
there while, and then, his nightmare
changing, he emerged upon the other
side of the bed, and he got under the
cover in his old place.
The rope, it will be observed, was be-
meath the bed, it was pulled taut, too.
Early in the morning Belshazzer, about
half-awake, scourged over against VIII
liam; to his surprise the movement
ierked William clear out of bed. Bel
shazzer leaped out of bed to ascertain
the cause of the phenomenon, and at the
same time his brother disappeared under
the bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake,
was scared, and he dived beneath the
bedstead; as he did SO he heard William
skirmishing across the bed-clothes over
his head. Once more he sushed out,
Just In time to see William glide over
the other side. Belshazzar just then be-
came sufficiently conscious to feel the
rope pulling on him. He comprehended
the situation at once and disengaged
himself
Perhaps little William was not mad.
He was in the hospital, undergoing re-
pairs, for about three weeks, and when
he came out he had strange desire to
sleep alone.
Belshazzar now anchors himself to an
anvil.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
Is the Sun HAt2

The battery of mundane construction
Our best aid and interpreter in. the
reading of universal phenomena while
it is the developer Of heat, light and
power, is itself neither luminous. 3 hot
nor magnetic. To explain the effects Of
the sun, therefore, there is not the least
reason to infer that it is itself luminous,
or even warm. Potential action gem
Grated in dark, cold body may produce
great heat, light and attraction, at dis
lance from the seat Of activity, and what
is thus wrought artifcially. in small
way, may surely be done naturally, and
IN tremendous fashion, by the grand
forces of the sun. g re ~ 58
The same process develops sunlight
Ii lines be drawn from the sun to the
earth, tangent to both, these lines will
lnelose tapering space, the sun at the
big end and the earth at the small end.
and the space between a truncated cone.
This space may be designated the solar
cone or cone space. Within this space
incessant circulation is going on, and all
the phenomena of gravity, heat, light
are produced through their reciprocal
activity. The field of encounter be-
tween the forces of the sun and earth is
our atmosphere, and in the collision
light is generated. Being thus condi-
toned upon the atmosphere, light and
heat cannot be found in space beyond
the lines of the solar system. eW sid
1t is to be observed that light rapidly
dimlnishes in the direction Of the sun.
even as we have seen to be the case with
heat. Beyond the lower portion of the
atmospheric mass there is no dazzle
and the human eye, in looking upon the
grea! orb, is not dazed. Thus the ex-
ceeding brilliancy which characterizes
the suns rays, so far as being phe-
nomenon located in the sun itself, as is
the popular and even the scientific con-
ception, is actually confined to the lower
strata of our atmosphere.
If light were transmitted to us from
the sun in perfect intensity, the entire
vault of heaven must appear as luminous
as our sun. 4ea
The sun is, therefore, not the manu-
featuring place and distributing reser-
voir of actual light and heat tits rather
the source from whence the whole solar
system is supplied with the invisible,
potential light and heat, which become
developed where tits required. The great
central orb may, therefore, be regarded
as like unto the earth, on its surface and
its surroundings, namely, dark, cool,
habitable body.-H. R. Rogers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
THE YESTERDAYS.
Br MARY cLEmmER.


take your gifts, oh, yesterdays,
And safe from all unfriendly eyes
! set them one by one away,
Secure from change or sore surprise.
take your gifts, glad yesterdays!
And when turn from work to play,
From care to rest, they'll make me JOY,
And make my heart its holiday.
take your gifts, sad yesterday
The better deeds l might have done,
The tears might have wiped away,
The higher heights might have won.
You show, oh, fearful yesterdays,
How poor my hfe's most perfect part;
You tear the crown of pride away,
And give instead the plying heart.
see the wave Of summer woods,
| hear the lapse of far-off streams,
The murmur of the honeyed pines
Runs sweet and low along my dreams.
And still tender heart enfolds
A faded face, a haunting tone
The lingering fragrance Of a joy,
One yesterday made all its own.
take your gifts, rich yesterdaysi
Henoeforth may no soul call me poor;
Fortune may strip her gauds away,
The wealth of all the past is sure.
We Josie in the careless crowd,
We meet, we part, we go our ways;
But each, unseen, bears up to God
The sum of all his yesterdays.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
The Geese and TIE Hawk.

One day in May, as Charles walked
through the fields, he saw large hawk
lowering in the air, and heard a noise
as of geese cackling. Soon an old mother.
goose with troop of little ones, came
running toward him.
She knew that Charles would protect
her and her fedglings from the cruel
hawk and she was not mistaken. He
took up q stick, and looking up at the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04

supply of breadstuffs. Wheat was first
sown IN those colonies in 1892, Gosnold,
the traveller, scattering the first seeds on
the Elizabeth Islands, In Massachusetts,,
during his exploration of that coast.
1t is curious to reflect that it was English
energy and daring which first of all sup
piled America with the means of enter
ing, nearly three centuries later, into a
disastrous competition with the mother
country"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
A Plea for Tobacco.

Here is an eloquent plea for the use
of tobacco: "It -composes the mind,
busies the thoughts, it attracts all out
ward objects to the minds view, it set
ties and retents the senses, it cheers the
understanding, strengthens the judg-
ment, spies out errors, it exasperates
folies, it heats ambition, it comforts
SORROW, it abates passion, it excites to
noble actions, it digests conception, it
enlarges knowledge, it elevates magma
ton, it creates fancy, it quickens wit,
and it makes reason pleader and truth
Judge in all disputes and controversies
between right and wrong" So wrote
Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, some
200 years ago, and probably many wife
has Endorsed her statements since, for it
does work wonders with On irritable
man, ws all know.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
PLAYING the Chindmnn.

Franz is little boy about four years
old, who lives in Brooklyn, California.
His favorite play is to take some pieces
of cloth, fill his mouth with water, turn
his head from side to side, letting the
water squirt from the corners Of his
mouth upon them Gas he has seen the
Chinaman do at the laundry, fold them,
turn the iron-stand on its back, and
carefully smooth them. This is Foo
Lee, washing and ironing.
Sometimes the clothes are not wet
enough, and the sprinkling goes on with
the ironing.
"Your clothes will smell of tobacco
and opiarn, if you sprinkle them 10
much" says Franz's elder brother.
emo, they won't, F." says the little wash
man. {" Me do them good; me do them
cheap"
When he gets tired of this, he puts
his wash into piece Of paper, and takes
the bundle to mamma. 81 hope the
clothes are not too blue, john" says
mamma
-" No." answers Foo Lee. "They done
good this time
And did you find my stockings,
which were missing from last weeks
wash ?"
eyes, they are all here. I found
them; they all right this time-6fty
Dozen"
Chow much shall I pay you?"
"Six bits" (Seventy-five cents 81
do them velly cheap.
Mamma gives him two buttons one
large one for the four-bit piece, Gift,
cents), and a smaller one for the TIVE
bits twenty-five cents).
Thankee. Good-baah r says Foe
Lee. Good-by," returns mamma
Nursery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04

LOSS.
London, 1866, 1900 buildings burned,
covering 1876 acres, with 80 churches. $S5 600 600
Oonstantinople, 1778, l,5OO buildings
burned. 1880, 600
Constantinople, 1882, 5000 buildings
burned. =. 100000
Constantinople, 1888, 10000 buildings
constantinopie, 179i, $4,000 buildings '''''''''
burned. l15 OOO, 900
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1894. 28OOO,OOO
Smyrna, 1885, 5000 buildings burned 5OOOO,OOO
Island of st. Thomas, W. l., 1906. ..... 30OOO.OOO
Moscow, 1912, $4,000 houses, including
ROYAL palaces (rubles) ...........-.. 100 600 600
Constantinople, 1916, 1850 buildings. IOOOOOOO
Constantnople, 1918, 5000 buildings.... I5,0OOOOO
Constantlnople, 1881, $4,000 buildings. 8O,0OOOOO
New York city 1855, ,OO0 bulldings.... 2O,0OO,000
New York, 1889, 46 warehouses and build
Observation-Disclosures. ........... 100000
Smyrna, 1S4I, 10000 buildings burned. IS'OOO'00O
Hamburg, Germany, 1912, 1000 build
ings burned ...:;;:... 100000
burned. ..::.:..:.:......... 100000
Philadelphia, 1850, 400 buildings and
warehouses. .......................... 100000
San Francisco, 1851, 1880 buildings. 100000
Sacramento, 1852, $500 buildings. 10,OO0OOO
London, England, 1861 ..:......... 100000
Glarus, Switzerland, 1861, entirely de-
Port au Prince, 1865, $50 buildings. 57'G00'0O0
Valparaiso, Chill, 1866, 500 buildings. l3,OOO,OOO
Pouland, Me-, 1866, 800 buildings. ...... 100000
Constantinople, 1867, 5000 buildings. I7,500000
Charleston, s. c., 1868, l,l58 buildings. 100000
Constantinople, 1870, 600 buildings. 25,000,000
Strasbourg, $780, destroyed by Prussians 90,000O0O
Paris 1871 partially destroyed. ...... 140,OOO,O0O
Chicago, 1871, $4,000 buildings. 2OO,OOO,OOO
Yeddo, Japan, 1872, 5000 buildings. 100000
Mini, Russia, 1879. observation-disclosures. 40,OOOOOO
Boston, Mass, 1872, 74S buildings. SO,O00,0OO
London, England, Observation-Disclosures. 15,000,O00
Yeddo. Japan. 1876, 5000 buildings... 100000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
THREE LITTLE CHICKENS.


Three little chickens,
Born in shoe,
When the freshet came,
Didn't know what to do;
One went on deck,
Just to watch the weather,
While down below
The others sat together.
ooh, what shall we dol
Mother is not here;
Captain there on deckl
Oh, what cheer? what eheer7"
Water everywhere,
Far as can seel
But the wind is fair;
Let us be easy"
Oh, we want our mothern
Cried the other two;
T" Stop that" said the Captain
Captain OF the shoe:
4" " are lucky chickens
In our little boat;
Water-tight ii is,
And it keeps afioat.
hear mother calling
From the bsrn-yard wall;
Courage, little sisters!
Don't you hear her CALI"
Yes; they heard it plainly;
Oh, how glad they werei
" Now blow fair, thou gentle wind
Bear us all to herr"
And the wind kept blowing,
Fair and fair it bleE,
Bearing to the barn-Yard wall
All that little crew.
When their mother saw them,
She few down apace;
On her back she bore them
To nice dry place.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
IN the Swing.

The swing was hung from an old oak
tree in graudmother's grove. There
Mabel and fused to go every fine sum-
mer morning before breakfast, and swing
for five minutes. We did not swing
longer than that because too much Of
this kind of exercise is not healthy.
Once, when I had swung her very
high, Mabel had fall, but it did moi
hurt her, for she fell among some tufts
OF soft grass; but if her head had struck
a stone, it might have done her great
harm. After that we were both more
careful.
Five years have gone by since those
days. We both go to school, and [ dc
not think you would know us. But
next summer we hope to visit grand.
mother once more, and we shall revive
old times in the swing under the old OAK
tree.
The sly squirrels will come out and
look at US; the birds will twitter, and
try to make us think that they have no
nests in the trees and bushes therea.
bouts; but we shall say, "We shall dc
you no harm, birds, squirrels, beetles
no harm-for we love you all So play
on, and please let us play too. Edith.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04

MEN are SO fearful Of woundinga WON.
ans vanity that they rarely remember
she may, by some possibility, possess q
grain OF common sense.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04

hawk, said "Now come on if you dare
you old thief r.
The hawk made swoop down to thu
top Of tree near by, caught sight of the
gosllngs, and would, no doubt, have
hSed to clutch one of them and carry i
on but the robber-bird was not quite
bold enough to do this while Charles
stood by.
AT last the hawk few off out of sight,
and Charles called his good dog Fido,
and pointed at the geese, and said
Take care of them, sir"
So Fido sat down near by. and watched
the geese. I think if the hawk bsG
come then, Fido would have been mora
than match for him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
MabeI's Secrets.

And what were her secrets? She was
one of the children allowed to make
Christmas-gifts to their friends.
But it was hard for Mabel to keep her
secrets. When her papa came home at
night, she always climbed upon his knee
to tell him everything that had happened
in her little world during the day and
her papa always listened to her prattIe
with great deal Of interest.
Now, there was something she must
not tell and Mabel could think of moth
ing else. She climbed upon his knee,
and sat so silent, that her papa said,
well, puss, have you nothing to tel
papa tonight"
"Oh, mustn't tell you my secrets
papa" said wise little Mabel. "I've
lots of 'em, and one is for you; and, if ]
tell, you will know all about it. !"
Now that the ice was broken. Mabel
chatted on, innocently thinking that her
secrets were safe in her wise little head.
Mamma knows, she continued "bui
you mustn't know; and we are going to
have Christmas tree to put 'em on, and
everybody will be so sprised."
Sure enough, when Christmas Eve
came, everyone was surprised, but, most
of all. little Mabel; for beautiful de-
and many other pretty things hung upon
the tree for her. Why, mamma, she
exclaimed. somebody else must have
had secrets, too |"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
The WORLDS Great Fires.

The following statistics concerning
some of the great fires of the world will
be found of interest: