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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Jessie Benton Fremont is writing q
play for John Mccullough.
Edward S. Stokes, the slayer of
Jim Fisk, having met with great pecun-
iary success in California, is living in
very extravagant manner in New York.
Herr Bodenstedt. the German poet
who visited this country several months
ago. is bringing out a new volume. in
which are to appear poems suggested
by the New World.
Mr.. Longfellow has been forced by
illness to issue a printed circular eXcuS-
ing himself from answering the many
letters received by him. The autograph
villain pursues him remorselessly.
Mr.. Longfellow writes to u friend:
81 see the story of my having cancer
in the cheek has been revived again.
You can contradict the report whenever
you hear it. | have not, nor ever had,
a cancer in the cheek oranywhere else"
Miss Frances E. Willard, who has
taken so prominent part i'll the work
of the WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union. is about fifty Years of age. She
was born in the East, but has lived for
the most of her life in the Western
States,
The distinguished artist. Mr.. Will
lam nj. Chase. has now completed the
full-length portrait of President Hayes.
which is to be among the historic pict-
ures of Memorial Hall. Cambridge. The
picture will soon be ON exhibition in
Boston.
John j. Pi%t. the poet. prepared
himself for Kenyon College while work
ing at the printers case. He began to
write poetry for the Louisville Courier
Journal in 1857, and his work SO pleased
George ID. Prentice that he was given a
position on that newspaper.
-Tcnnyson's ''In Memoriam" was
given the world because of the sorrow
that came into his life upon losing his
cherished friend, Arthur Hallam, the
historians son. and betrothed of his
sister. Six lines in his poem of MAUD"
| occupied three whole days in their con-
StructiOn.
AT the recent London sale of the Duke
of Marlborough Sunderland Library, a
Latin Bible. being the first Bible printed
with the date of 1862, sold for the enor-
nous sum of fl,600. Various polyglot
and other Bibles were sold at very mod
crate prices. The total sum realized by
the days sale was E2,720.
Paul ii. Hayne was wealthy before
the war, but he is now very poor, and
too il to work. His residence is little
more than hut. standing alone in a
clump of scrub oak on sandy knoll,
twenty miles from Atlanta, ia. The
common necessities of life are all that he
can procure; but he goes on rhyming, in
a room papered with pictures cut from
illustrated newspapers, and on a desk
made out of an old workbench left on
the premises by carpenter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14
A Missing Man Heard From,

Thirty-one years ago William w. w.
Chambers left his young wife in Syra-
cuse, N. Y, suddenly and without no.
tice. and it was supposed went to Cali
fornia. having manifested symptoms of
the gold fever. Nothing was ever heard
from him directly. Upon the af1irma-
tion that man answering his descrip-
ton died of ship fever crossing the
Isthmus of Panama in 1864, Mr.. Gage,
of New York, his brother-in-law, sued
the British Commercial Life Insurance
Company to recover on apolicy of Sl0.-
600 which he held on Chambers life.
The jury were not satisfied with the
proof of death and found for defendant.
Mrs. Chambers married Mr.. Travis, of
Detroit, some years ago. Mayor Hen
bricks, of Syracuse, has just received
letter from Bairndale, Australia, an
nouncing the death of Chambers. and
that he has left an estate to be dis
posed of.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14
WHOLE NO. 1ll3.
Card Collectors-The Latest Crasol
Among Fashionable Ladies'.

The fashionable society Of this city,
which seems to be as fluctuating and %
variable as the grain market. has fast
ened upon new mania. and one that
appears utterly ridiculous to the aver.
age mind. This mania is for collecting,
the chromatic cards now being issued By;
almost every business house in St. LouiS.
and forming them artistically in scrap
book. 1t is probable that the idea was
directly evolved from the aesthetic craxe
developed by the production Of Patience
and the poems of Oscar Wilde. At any
rate the demand for these picture cards
has become so extended during the past
few days that the merchants are utterly
bewildered, while the clerks spend -
much time distributing small pictures -
they do in selling goods. 1t IS curious,
instructive and Interesting to examine
the various advertising cards now be-
ing issued throughout the city, and
collector of them will insist upon half
a-doze4 of every design, thus making
enormous inroads upon the stock Of
chromatic cards. Several firms have
been so persistently besieged that they
have actually placed nominal price Of
one cent card upon their own advertise
ments, and are still disposing Of them
rapidly at that rate. This is notably
true of an Olive street confectioner and
several firms on Fourth street. The
collection of these cards Is confined IL
most entirely to the fashionable ladies.
who are daily making a detour Of bust
ness houses to secure new designs. At
the leading dry goods houses yesterday
it was a curious sight to witness tho
great throngs of ladies appealing 70
statesmen and managers for gifts. Of
chromatic cards, when they were them
selves amply able to purchase every
known design at q trifiing cost. Women
in seal-skins and latest costumes are
daily to be seen carrying large packages
of comparatively worthless pictures. and
vieing with each other in the number
and variety of the designs. It
seems to be against the principle Of the
new craze to purchase card. They
must be gratuitous and contain an ID
vertisement of the houses bestoxing
them. Some collectors have even gone
so far as to employ little boys and girls
to assist in the collection. and one ckub-
by fellow stole 800 yesterday from .
prominent dry goods house. The sale
of scrap-books has materially increased
within the past few days. and fashion,
able society is spending its leisure mo-
ments in making cart souvenirs" and
getting its fingers soiled with mucilAgs.
st. Louis Globe Democrat
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14
He Paid, as Usual.

The commercial traveller of q Phila-
delphia house while III Tennessee ap-
proachedA stranger as the train was
about to start, and said:
Are You going on this train3"
81 am"
"Have you any baggage?'
mo"
"Well, my friend, you can do me a
favor, and it went cost You anything
You see, I've two rousing big trunks,
and they always make me pay extra for
one of them. You can get one checked
on your ticket, and we'll euchre them.
See?"
"Yes, l see; but l haven't any
ticket"
"But l thought you said you were
going on this train?n
$50 am. I'm the conductor"
"Ohm
He paid extra, as usual.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14
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TIE Bf' 'TCHER.

VIII Carver was butcher bold
But would go Oh spree.
And then. ,las. il must he told,
Quite butohcr-fuli was he
1t was not meet that he should drink,
Although by meat lived Will;
Bccf-hitting IS all right. | think
This did beef-ht him ILL.,.
Ho left his shop-it was not right
And Stead of selling steak,
He would he gambling half the night
And many rash stake make.
Oh. better far to be at work,
A-knocking down steer,
Than forth to steer and leave his clerk
To knock down cash. fear.
In shop, he yearnS to be away,
And weighing slrloin loathes;
He'd rather with his comrades stay
A sirloin OF his clothes.
Thus william went from bad to worse,
No cash was in his till:
He sold no chops. dri TX was his curse,
Chopfalle en quite was Will.
Upon Wills flank the landlord pressed.
And brisket-tachcd his store;
Will took ng bail, with anguished breast,
And never was seen more.
Noueod moral here to add,
To quote some old sage saw:
The drinking mans linked with the bad,
Like sausage, cooked or raw.
Boston Transcript.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

A woman calling herself Mrs. Sum
derland, and claiming to be . niece OF
Stonewall Jackson and granddaugh-
ter of Sam Houston. has been playing
a confidence game at Boston. She hired
an entire fiat on Beacon Hill, ordered
an elegant parlor suit, and after . few
days disappeared with valuables found
in the house.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

DIR. Uriel Ferrell. Of Orange. Va.
probably is the Oldest man in public life
in the United States. He Is Q member
Of the new Legislature and in his nine
tieth wear.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

Mr. Ashmead Bartlett is, according
10 Buckle, one man in thirty thousand,
for that. according to him. is the proper
ton which men marrying women old
enough TO bo their grandmothers bear
to the population.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

-SunfOwer seeds fed in small quan.
titles impart beautiful gloss to the
plumage Of poultry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

On Hospital Saturday" nearly
1000 ladies sat in the London streets in
charge of the collecting boxes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

"A man in Omaha blew on lung
tester, and broke it all to smithereens,
And the owner of the machine gazed at
him sadly and said: If I'd known YOU
We're Chicago drummer. Id have seen
you in hades before I'd have let you at
that machinei'- Boston Post.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

ALL the precious stones, except
opal can be quite successfully initiated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

The richest person to-day upon the
Sandwich Islands is Claus Spreckles, Of
Honolulu. A few years ago he was
laughed at when he purchased 10000
acres of land for ten cents an acre, as
the tract was at the foot of an extinct
volcano. and covered with a crust on
the surface like tlagstone walk. He
broke up this crust. mixed the dust with
small quantity of vegetable mould,
thoroughly irrigated the soil thus formed,
and planted sugar cane. To-day he is q
millionaire.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

from hack Of maternal instinct but because
the demands of nature have not been com
piled with BY supplying them with sals
charcoal, wood aahes and variable diek
Sows confined in pens have no opporta-
mites for gratifying themselves, and 4
vices crop out il i not always their faala
The sugar contained in milk i knows
BY chemists IS lactsse. When milk turns
sour the lactose 10 converted into lacsie
acid. This acidifcation of the milk in
duces the coagulation Of the easeine, and
the milk curdles. The ordinary soaring
Of milk is the work Of fermenk When
this ferment 10 excluded no sourinR takss
place.
IT is said that corn makes harder fas
than when ground, and meal makes dif.
ference from both. It seem curious, bas
hog-raisers affirm it.
In planting new orchards for profit -.
lect such varieties ~ are In demand or e
for family use, such win give good sue-
cession from early summer to late winter.
In arranging perches for fowls allow
six inches for each bird. The perch
should not be placed high when there is
no space for the birds to fly down with
a gradual swoop, as is natural to them
when roosting in open places. Three feet
from the ground in confined places is
high enough. The perch should be far
enough from the back wall to keep the
tail plumage clear.
IT is not desirable to breed animals that
will eat but little, as it is not reasonable
to expect such to give as large q proper
tionate return for feed consumed to those
which have efficient digestive organs of
greater capacity.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02
Extract Frem GaIGeaa's Book.
rom 81 GAkh'a " Iukerview

HAS1 Oeen AntekSleW.l
Now there" said be, " is letter from lady
in Boston, an accomplished woman. which an
swers your question as we'll % I could"
followed his thumb and read IS follows:
SO far as stalwart politicians are concerned,
think their conduct has been in the last degree
heartless and infamous. Arthur, Conkng,
Grant and others were glad, were delighted
when the news of Garfeld's fall was flashed over
the wires when it was believed he would re-
cover they prayed that he might die. When
death came they pretended to grieve, whilst
their hearts were overhowing with exultation
and by his bier wept crocodile tears There is
no one of them who does not believe that the
Republican party has been saved and the country
benefited by your act and yet not one of them
has had the heart or manlness to do one thing
TO save you from the gallows, Or insure you even
handed Justice / would not, of course, expect
them to fly openly to your assistance but they
could have aided you. and If they had grain Of
gratitude in their souls they would have done
so, stealthily but, on the contrary, they have
all of them, Senator Logan excepted. been help
ing to immediate you Should you be convicted
and sentenced, l am certain that President Ar
thur. who owes his elevation entirely to you,
will allow you to be hanged like Q dog"
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why, It b believed all over Chm shas the Unissa
esAles 81 cut just IN time 10 Rse Q sound
th<ashine- Thai her hair-hraised Secretary Al
State wss to involve her IN war, whea che wa
saved By hh removal; and We ere laughed q
and cartocued IN their papezs- A Eftie gather
Ing Of 100000 people on the west c0ast II
60uth America would have giyea IA . tcrTible
thrashiDg. So We let the dismemherment Of
Peru % on and allow England to hag the speil&
Pausing and sdding with mnch empAasis) His
tory win hold the United States responsible for
IT,"
Mr. Belmont inquired, Do you know who
were behind the Landreau claim ?"
Mr.. Blaine replied that he did not, that neither
the LAudreau claim nor the Cochet claim had
anything more to do with the policy Of this gov
ernment toward the South American republics
than did barnacle on the bottom Of ship.
Mr. Belmont had not concluded his examine
lion when the committee adjourned AT some
points sf to-days proceedings the fire of repartee
and retort was 90 sharp and rapid that It was
difhcult 10 distinguish who was examiner and
who was examined. Mr.. BelmOat kept his tenn
per throughout but Mr.. Blaine showed consider
able irritation.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

Jew York Tribune !

New York Tnbune1
Dean Swift once had q servant who, he used
to beast. was good at drawing infereDces
Assuming that the Republican leaders at Wash
ingtou and elsewhere throughout the country
are also good at that kind of drawing, we desire
to drect their attention 10 the result of the cleo
tons just held AT sundry election points in the
West. The Democrats have carried Cincinnati.
The Democrats have carried Cleveland The
Democrats have carried Columbus The Demo
crais have carried Toledo. The Democrats have
carried Dayton. The Democrats have carried
Chicago. The Democrats have carried Mlwau-
kee. The Democrats have carried Indianapolis.
The Democrats have carried Dubuque. The
Democrats have carried Minneapolis Cinein-
natl and Columbus figure, in ordinary political
calculations, as Republican strongholds. Cleve-
land elected Republican mayor last spring,
and gave him 5000 majority The present
council in Chicago is Republican. but the Demo
cratic majority in the city this spring is about
$500. In Dubuque, for the first time in twenty
years, the Democrats elected every alderman
that was voted for. In Milwaukee, "a strong
and popular Republican a. Ex Governor Lud-
ington was defeated in his canvass fer mayor.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02
CHEAP THINGS TmE MOmT
N0URAAWENR.

Professor Atwater, e ths AxricuItural
College Of C0nnecticaLniasd dedncted from
the various analyses a55 inses1igafiOns Of
chemists q table illustrating the c0mparn-
tive uutritive value Of pari0as specses Of
fsh, fesh and fowl Some of its conc1u-
SONS viii surprise many persons, inas-
much as they are directly c0ntrzry 20
generally received notions On the subiec3.
As basis, the professor takes mediam
beeEositheF fat nor Iea1-ss hnxinw .
nutritive value Of leo. He puts faf pork
~ II6, smoked beef at I4e, smoked ham
At 157, ordinary beef ztsl.s, nation g
e6-e, butter ~ 124- !, cheess, from skimmed
milk, at 15s, hens eggs Il f7.2. In frsah
ksh the highest place - givsn - snlmoz,
1919 Spanish mackerea ars estimstsa 6
1858, boned cod st 1Os (Gboxs Al fssk
fsh, save s1lmon,) canned EaImon q I07,
aad salt mackereI aa IllL Oysser1 mp-
posed by many to be 30 nnfxitious, ak
2Ls, and lohstss a. sos a very sa<is-
factory poizt IN this estimate = that wkax
i cheapest Il the most nourshing. Ths
exceptional nufrftive ehsE.c11 Of nmoksd
and dried prepsrxtieas u dss 20 thsevup-
Grafton Of moisture and enmprsssian cf
tiasue- The enormous aEounf e uu1xi-
ment IN cheese explains The vnst con-
sumption Of American cheese IN EnRlnnd.
where one sses AbOrers ez<ing Il freely.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

If Boss Cameron and President Arthur have
any regard for the future success Of the Republi-
can party, they will do well TO stop and consider
II IL Is not about time to call halt Ia the course
they are now pursuing A close inspection into
the April elections all over the country will re-
veal the fact that the Democratic party is neither
dead nor sleeping, bat that IL has been successful
10 almost every considerable city in the North BY
large majority. These Demoeratic victories
boss that II the RepQblic.n party ID 70 he kept
hand In hand 20 40 TO win the victory In the
next Presidential election. II must be through
the agency of greater hamoay than has been At
tained By the course President Arthur has been
pursuing.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

n. I. SGn1
The logic Of the position taken BY the Repub-
hcans IN the recanstructtoo laws ard the cnnsii-
tutionA amendmeats adopted Gfler the war b
reversed entire in the anti-Chinese legislation.
II shows that the negroes were not made citizens
from any love Of natural justice, but upon .
mere calculation of partisan advantages. In like
manner the Chinese bill was passed, not because
the Republicans believe that the white labor of
the country Is entitled to any protection from
Mongolian competition, but because they be-
lieved u to be absolutely necessary to save the
Pacific States to the party in the next Congress
and the next Presidential election.
But 1t 10 now very clear that many of the Re-
publican leaders are heartily sick of what they
contemptuously call the negro experiment"
1t is not at all impossible that in the course OF
. very few years the freedmen and their descend
ants to whom the elective franchise was given
to serve Republican party purpose, will be
compelled to look 10 the Democrats mainly for
protection in the exercise of that privilege L.
norant, innocent con6ding, and bewildered By
the sudden acquisition Of . great power, the
blacks listened TO the carpet-bag emissaries of
their supposed friends at Washington and now
all the crimes Of the reconstruction period are
charged up to their account.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

Madame ID Bonanza Mackay who is cult-
vated and courteous, well rs q long-headed
and long pursed lady, tells me that after trying
the police, threats and all manner of warning
traps 10 ward of wandering and persistent
princes. marquises, dukes and deputies who as
pire. nolens volensI to marry her daughter, the
only remedy now left 10 10 publish the hundreds
Of rejected addresses Of Bourbon, OrleAnist and
Republican suitors who, uninviied, prey At the
portals of her Persian mansion. approve of this,
and suggest that their photographs 90 with their
proposals. in the publication. The last persistent
parsonage is the Prince Philippe de Bourbon,
who sans cerem0nie, even quoted poetry in
Spanish, French aud Italian-(the languages of
Mademoiselle Mackay}- Ito an extent Of fourteen
foolscap pages in declaring for the daughter but
decoying for the 8 dot r. To the credit Of the
mother at least be it said princes, marquises and
dukes will have 10 stake back seat, a. this dis
ciple Of the poet Walt Whitman would say, and
retire in favor ofs Democratic American Glory,
hallelujahl have always said render unto
Americans the things and persons that are
Americana That's my matrimonial idea Of the
Monroe doctrineT
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

Az appeaances run, President Arthur win
make about the worst Chief Magistrate We have
had Ier . lang tina He lsa Frsneh harbsF sort
Of Presidenf, With small advisers and limited
neaA When Colonel Guiie4n made him pSesi-
dsnt hs a1n0uncsd thai be would carry out Gar
feds policy. The idea thas On ex- x-Collectag
could carry out tie policy Of Statesman was IN
itself somewhat Tdiculoas. bat people were VIII
Ing % hope: and hops = alwsys several lsngths
sut tie policy Of the great man h whnse shadow
he islosl He has shown himself 10 hs unable %
Fiss 10 the dignity of The poaisioa which becams
his by The tragic accident of assassinntlsn. bui.
= - ec .s,ss - sos,. = - 49, y 49,: = ~ 4.
pollcy b dflafnFine. ard breken Gith When
hs nnis6es ME Gax1eld's term hs win have n0th-
i1G "a but The plsasant msn0riss 81 the power
which Was Jgiyen him by ~ bloedy hand ol
enzxiARA
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

Ths follswing rzl.s hare besn ei-mhr
which the weight Of catals esn s. ns1sr-
tanned sppr0ximately .ky msaszfsunezfs
TAke the length Of che hsek from the
carve of the til 70 ths fdss cd &C -
shouldeF hlade, nd The eiirsh assa.1 -
breast just behind the .forsiegA Tes
dimeasions mnst be tskeR II iacheA Nal
sply the girth bY the length and divide
- ls4 n the girth - lens Eh&n ihrss
fssE, mnltiply By elsvsn ); Il bsswssn shrus
aDd Eve fsek mnlfiply hy twsukT-shrsa.
Il betwsen seven and niae FEET. nnlt;pIT
hy thirty-oBe- II The anInl b vsgy Isan,
onstwentiefh must bs n11ad Anoeher
suls ID 90 tAks 81 dimensaens as hufnEa. IN
feek md then maltipiy th9 sgnzEs &c -
Riz<k by tie I7x<h, nni - psudn1 ~
4se Ihe resnlE yin be e<zszA II -
&e1ize - know wk6l - 91zneI VI &c.
1na1tFly 90 Evs uslThs y - 1eciH@l
.8ozs 80 pEp3n1f nppa1ximaaH1 eg c.
aetnal nrt WsigAs ~ es =. I
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

There b one thing most beautiful In man.
high s1d dau1tIess nsuhood This alone
Y more tha1 al the glory of throne,
More than the might Of nation, tribe or elan
Ihls sealed him noble when his llfe beam.
In1 was the spirit Of lofty days oufgr0wu.
And straight ~ the quick course Of filling stone
IAh guides him In the old eternal plan.
New yezrs have come upon n, bolder times.
Strange hopes are bern Of our discovering tkouRAt
And hith has changed with custom like the Garb,
But manhood changes not with years or climss,
Beang oat Of the human heart dfvinely wrought
Serene a. truth and mettled like barb.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

my rssdy nonsy 70 rspair the hsilding4
build fsneee bay ssock and implemsntA
siso - pay he FORMER oeoapsnt for ths
vheas paE in'sks er5usd, con. sktsv. io@
dsx, 60 Uhs fnE2 eoasiBB sf abHt one
hundrsd acres Of cleared and . asrss .of
woodland. fpaid ez,s0oe2, 900 cash,
and nstssed ~ 9s,sDo Sn.sg GIT years
tinss comnsncing paynsat the sscosd
year, e six per cent interest," Ny hrst
years sale of wheat was sol basheis, but
since then have so5d over LOCO year,
except the last have lived easy and
eamfsstsbly. vsrking bnt Ittls compared
70 what / vould hass done North %
West. / paid the nortgags OF year be-
fore il was due, an out Of debt. my farm.
seock, implemsnts, boildines, etc, ara in
far better condiEioa thaa whes eon-
mesesd, and my rsosipss insssasiDg from
yesr TO year. HeEe = . stsEsnsns Of cash
received for prodacs, % fAr - ! have
kept Il, Independent ofliving and board Of
help, (ssasly all q wkich was raised On
ths Dlacasl fur e yeaR 1881: 4l