Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-28
w. p. FRAZIER,
Surveyor, Civil Engineer
REAL EATATR A0RNT.
ONE On oosidsnsal Squars. auae I,
CHAS. II. SENTER.
Attorney 1T Law.
NEW TACOMA. W.T..
Once opposite New Tacoma Bank.
SYEAsDw WILDE.

NYE AND WILDE.
The esthetic editor of the Boom.
erang. Bill Nye, had an interview
with Oscar Wilde, and he gives
his experience:
We went down on the overland
train Thursday evening to zee the
great esthete. We picked him
out without any trouble and
tackled him for . quiet little
talk all by ourselves.
Mr.. Wilde il very tall, with a
face like a broad-ax. We told
him that our name was Nye, the
great Wyoming esthete. He
smiled like the rolling-mill and
shook hands.
He wore . soft hat and kind of
steel-colored velvet sack coat. He
also wore his hands in his peck
cts clear up to his elbow Joint.
He wears kind of a Byron collar
and a necktie the color of q dis
eased liver. His pants were of a
gray material, and held in place
With pale pink gum suspenders.
These were shown ~ he stopped
over, his coat being cut just below
the shoulder blades. His shout
der blades are high and intellec-
tual.
He wears his hair long, with
hay and little momentoes from
the sleeping.car in it. His face
is thin, aud when buried in a
piece Of pie must be q ghastly
sight.
Mr.. Wilde's teeth are evidently
his own. Nobody conld make
teeth like them and escape the
vigilance committee. They are
broad and prominent, with a
tendency to 60 out and look for
air. He does not seem strong,
but his breath proves this impres-
sion to be erroneous. Mr.. Wilde
wore q silk handkerchief the color
of the illustrations found in public
documents describing tho cattle
plague.
He spoke Of various topics with
q seductive drawl, wiggling his
timber, angleworm legs a. he
spoke, and posing like q giraffe
with the collie, for the benefit Of
the ladies who stood near. He
wipes bis nose in . languid yet
soulful way, that makes you wish
he would do 80 again.
We asked him when he would
return to. England, and he
tossed bis name in the air and
said: :,
.esAh! I don't know whether l
shall survive or not
You get q good deal of adver-
Using, / see,' said the Boomerang
man, gnawing . little fragment
from an irregular piece Of navy,
aud thoughtlessly stepping on the
pstentleather shoes Of the great
msthete.
'Oh, yes, said Os, az he straight
ened up and extended his neck up
through his collar till you could
see the scallloped edge of his
chemise. yes, sir, most too much
of it. Still, it pays moderately
we'll He, he, be! However, it
is absolutely stupid of them to
make such beastly and peculiar
little jokes upon me, you know
We had q good deal more con-
fidential talk with him before the
train left, which We may give to
the public after a while, but 1t
presen t}space forbids.
Mr.. Wilde's complexion 10 very
pallid. with here and there . little
pimple that relieves the monctony
some. He wears no beard or
mustache at ell but makes up for
that with q large growth of hair
on his head, which falls in grace
full festoons over his shoulders
like horses tail over an Olives
green dashboard. He il Just AZ
full Of soul IS he can be, aud
walks, and breathes, and exists
like . 2>year old steer in . cab
bage grove. He smiles every lit
tie while like . collicky baby in
its sleep, and sighs and places
himself in statuesque positions,
as though something had given
away in his apparel and he VA
trying to keep his ethereal pan
falcons on till people looked the
other way.
Little boy has been swearing
and mama, to punish him, washed
thoroughly the inside of hi,